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• • • shopping center uses. Planning for the site assumed half of the site would accommodate residential development at 8 units per acre. Lake Drive and Main Street Intersection The Mixed Use area includes the northwest and southeast corners of the intersection of two arterial roads. The northwest area is approximately eleven acres that include numerous unrelated uses. On the southeast corner, the Mixed Use designation comprises approximately six acres of residential properties with a commercial site. The northeast corner is vacant and the southwest corner includes a small strip commercial building. This intersection should be the focus of a special planning study to establish a guiding plan for development and redevelopment. The study area should extend south to include the Vicky Lane intersection area. The goal of the study would be a plan to facilitate economically viable redevelopment, needed transportation improvements, and sound access management. Municipal water and sanitary sewer runs up Lake Drive from the south and west in Main Street. No pipes currently extend north or east of the intersection. Such extension will be a necessary part of new development. Existing residences all around this future study area will be an important planning element. Lake Drive and Main Street are arterial roads. Signalization of the intersection is necessary, and access management will be a vital element for public safety and a successful development design. No significant ecological features are known to exist in the area. However, it is unknown if past uses created environmental clean up issues. It is estimated that approximately half the Mixed Use area —the northwest and southeast quadrants of the intersection —would accommodate residential development at 8 units per acre. Southwest Corner of Lake Drive and Vicky Lane Intersection This area comprises one vacant parcel of approximately five acres. Several local streets intersect Lake Drive in a short stretch of Lake Drive south of Main Street. Access to Lake Drive should be improved in this area, and the planning study of the Lake Drive /Main Street area should extend south to address this issue. It would be desirable to move the Vicky Lane intersection south to align with Kelly Street, eliminating the short James Street /Vicky Lane offset. This not only would be a public safety improvement, but a planned intersection would provide better access for development on this Mixed Use site. The five -acre site could serve as a good site for multifamily residences in a building with commercial uses at street level. This might accommodate the equivalent of 8 units per acre over half the site. Existing residences all around this site will be an important planning consideration. Main Street and Future Collector (200 Block) This Mixed Use area is envisioned as a development node at a future, full- access intersection. Development of the sod farm area will require a new Main Street access. The large agricultural area offers the possibility for large scale planning that can include environmental resource management that would not be possible with piecemeal development in this part of the community. The sod farm development planning can include a wide variety of housing and commercial uses. Higher intensity uses would be created closer to the intersection and the higher traffic roads. While significant attention to stormwater management will be necessary, such attention facilitates creative design that can support permanent environmental preservation and management. In order to serve this area with sanitary sewer, a new trunk line is needed to connect to the regional interceptor on the west side of Lino Lakes in or near North Road. 10 -13