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Balanced Development & Growth: Respondents were split as to whether the City should take a more proactive approach to economic development in Lake Elmo. Many felt that the City's leaders and staff should be proactive to identify the types of growth and development it wants and may even go as far as supporting that effort with financial resources. Financial commitments aside, overwhelmingly people felt that the City should at a minimum be prepared to respond to development pressure through establishing appropriate zoning, design guideline and policies that support the desired development and growth patterns in the City. Additionally, respondents stated that it was important to create a more streamlined, easy to understand development review process, and to make sure details such as architecture/design standards, setbacks and landscape requirements were established within ordinances to reduce ambiguity. • Housing: Opinions on the top priorities related to housing were more distributed than any other question, and there was less consensus on who and what types of housing would be most needed through this planning period. Generally, people continue to see the owner -occupied single-family detached housing type as important to the future of Lake Elmo. However, a significant number of people 10-2 also identified the need for owner -occupied town homes and condominiums in the City. With respect to demographic trends, people believe the future needs in the City will continue to be households with young children, and empty -nesters looking to downsize but also recognized that there may be other demographics that may lack options within Lake Elmo. • Parks, Trails 6- Open Space (PTOS): Respondents generally agreed on their top priorities for the PTOS system; they prioritized the desire to create more local trail connections into Lake Elmo Park Reserve (north and west), to improve and restore the quality of natural resources (lakes, wetland, woodlands, etc.) in the City, and finally identified the desire to make sure new developments (residential and commercial) are required to incorporate a public trail or sidewalk in development plans that provide connections to the larger city-wide planned trail network. • Transportation: People generally rely on the City's existing roadway network as the primary mode of transportation and identified their top priority as maintenance and management of the existing roadway system. Ranked closely behind, respondents were interested in creating more dedicated bike lanes and pedestrian safety improvements on local roadways. THE CITY OF IMPLEMENTATION LAKE O City of Lake Elmo Comprehensive Plan 2040