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4) Develop walkable neighborhoods with commercial nodes and amenities for residents. 5) Integrate into neighborhoods those retail and service commercial activities that serve the neighborhood. Goal 2: Work with developers to identify innovative strategies for attracting entry level and smaller entrepreneurial businesses to Lino Lakes. Rationale: The City of Lino Lakes requires a wide variety of business options to meet the diverse needs of residents. Policies: 1) Encourage new business owners and expanding entrepreneurial businesses to locate here by offering available financial incentives when consistent with city policy. 2) Work with the current business community, the Chamber of Commerce and the city's Economic Development Advisory Committee to attract new businesses and expand the economic success of existing businesses. 3) Promote Lino Lakes' identity as a business friendly city. Goal 3: Attract and encourage new light industrial, high tech, business and professional services enterprises and maintain and expand existing businesses in Lino Lakes Rationale: Lino Lakes' industrial and commercial development will be concentrated primarily along its existing business corridors. This provides opportunities for a diversified economic base, expanded employment opportunities and maintaining conformity with the existing commercial and light industrial land use patterns. Policies: 1) Protect designated industrial areas from residential encroachment and marginal land uses that will preclude the highest economic use of land available for commercial and light industrial development. 2) Develop strategies and programs to attract high tech and high value industrial and business and professional services enterprises that have an emphasis on job creation. 3) Encourage high -end business park development designed to attract medical, technology, and similar industries, which provide quality employment opportunities and have low service demand for municipal services. 4) Encourage a comprehensive business center with services such as wi -fi access, office space, copy services, postal and overnight delivery pick up, and telephone services to small and start-up entrepreneurial business owners and telecommuters who are able to share space and costs. 5) Continue to support local business retention and expansion initiatives. 6) Recognize the fundamental linkage between housing and economic development and work to match housing availability with community employment. 7) Promote the Anoka County Airport as an asset to corporate users. 5 -2 • • •