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Policies: <br />1. Link trails to parks, lakes, and schools. <br />2. Ensure commercial development and mixed -use areas are appropriately dispersed <br />throughout the city. <br />Goal 5: Improve availability of affordable and life -cycle housing <br />Rationale: Lino Lakes, as a developing city, is expected to accommodate the projected housing <br />needs, entry level through retirement, of the community's population. <br />Policies: <br />1. Work with developers to identify innovative strategies for providing entry-level and life <br />cycle housing. <br />2. Use redevelopment tools to revitalize aging residential properties, made possible by <br />various federal, state, local government, and non - profit programs. <br />3. Provide expanded opportunities for housing ownership made available by various federal, <br />state, local government and non - profit agencies. <br />4. Provide for and designate appropriate areas for high - density and mixed -use <br />development. <br />Goal 6: Enhance opportunities for senior housing <br />Rationale: As Lino Lakes continues to grow and develop, it must also accommodate the <br />housing needs of a growing aging population. <br />Policies: <br />1. Develop partnerships with non - profit and private sector groups who assist in the creation <br />of senior housing. <br />2. Coordinate development of housing with retail accessibility (restaurants, shops, <br />groceries). <br />Goal 11: Maintain existing housing stock to insure a high - quality environment in all <br />residential neighborhoods. <br />Policies: <br />1. Promote the improvement of the existing housing stock, and to encourage the <br />rehabilitation or redevelopment of substandard housing <br />2. Encourage in -fill housing where appropriate. <br />Housing Profile <br />Regional Housing Market Trends <br />Housing markets can vary greatly from one community to another within a large metropolitan <br />region such as the Twin Cities. The forces that determine what type of housing gets built, how <br />much housing gets built, and where that housing gets built can change dramatically from decade <br />to decade or even year to year, often resulting in vastly different development experiences for <br />individual communities.. Nonetheless, metropolitan regions are, by definition, interconnected <br />4 -2 <br />• <br />• <br />• <br />