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Districts and Land Use The plan recommends locating civic districts close to the center of the Old Village, to provide equally good access form existing and developing portions of the community. North of Stillwater Boulevard, the plan calls for a new City Hall and Library complex in the Municipal District, fronted on the road by a symbolic "village Green" and on axis with Lake Elmo Avenue as one approaches from the south. . Abutting the Municipal District immediately to the west is the proposed Institutional District, encompassing the existing school site with potential expansion room to the west or north. The long-range realignment of Lake Elmo Avenue will allow western expansion of this precinct. To the east of the core, south of Stillwater Boulevard, the plan proposes a new Family/Recreational District, which would include and new Service Center and YMCA. Easily accessed from larger communities to the east, such as Stillwater and Oak Park Heights, the suggested site would front onto Stillwater Boulevard and extend to the south, connection to existing city parks. The Historic District includes Lake Elmo Avenue south of Stillwater Boulevard and the buildings in the immediate vicinity. A mix of uses and building types characterizes the street, but with sensitive restoration and infiil strategies, it has the potential to become a memorable urban space that would reinforce new mixed -use development along Stillwater Boulevard. Beyond the proposed civic districts are the proposed new neighborhoods, each with .a focal point or neighborhood amenity that ties directly back into the Old Village via "green streets" or other pedestrian and bicycle -friendly routes. While the new neighborhoods will be developed privately, guidelines will promote a development pattern that strongly recalls the scale and texture of the historic core. ➢11A.Z]