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DRAFT VISION STATEMENT AND GOALS
FOR SOUTH OF 10TH STREET AREA
Transportation Goals:
1. Encourage safe, efficient and environmentally sound transportation
including the extension of public transit to the area south of 10th Street.
2. Make it easy and convenient to travel in and around the area south of
10th Street.
3. Tie new development to the capacity of roadways and limit the impact of
non residential traffic in neighborhoods when possible.
4. Develop a comprehensive sidewalk, trail and bikeway system that
provides an integrated system of roads, bikeways and pedestrian paths. The
transportation system should minimize the impact of through traffic.
Housing Goals:
1. Provide a quality living environment for the residents of Lake Elmo.
2. Provide a balanced choice of housing types and densities suitable to a
wide range of demographic groups, with a focus on life cycle housing.
Where possible, distribute different housing types throughout the area south
of 10th Street.
3. Meet the Metropolitan Council's requirements for residential RECs.
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Environmental and Sustainability Goals:
1. Create a natural resource open space system that preserves, protects, or
restores environmental resources within the city.
2. Use the natural resource open space system to connect open spaces,
parks, activity centers and neighborhoods.
3. Protect and enhance Lake Rose, Kramer Lake and Goose Lake as a
natural open space system and passive recreation resource.
4. Encourage environmentally responsible building and operation practices.
Land Use Goals:
1. Utilize the future land use map as the overall land use policy statement by
designating residential, commercial, public facilities and parks and open
space lands appropriately located with adequate access and buffering from
adjacent uses.
2. Create new, interesting, quality-designed neighborhoods that relate to
their natural settings and surrounding developed areas, that protect natural
resources, and that provide central parks and open spaces that are
interconnected by trails to neighborhood community destinations.
3. Encourage businesses and housing in the area south of 10th Street to be
complementary to those of the Village Area’s downtown.
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Economic Development Goals:
1. Increase the tax base and provide opportunities for economic growth for
Lake Elmo and Lake Elmo area residents.
2. Be cognizant that businesses in the area south of 10th Street are
complementary to those of the Village Area's downtown.
3. Encourage new locations for job growth in close proximity to housing
and with convenient access while maintaining reasonable buffers between
residential and non-residential uses.
4. Meet the Metropolitan Council's requirements for non-residential RECs.
Recreation Goals:
1. Provide a variety of passive and active parks and other leisure,
recreational and cultural opportunities that are conveniently located,
accessible, affordable, safe, physically attractive and uncrowded for all Lake
Elmo residents.
2. Connect city parks to each other and to prominent destinations within and
outside of the city through a system of trails.
3. Look for creative opportunities for residents to utilize the lakes such as
through non-motorized lakeshore trails.
General Character Goals:
1. To integrate, where possible, unique characteristics of rural Lake Elmo
such as a strong sense of community with an emphasis on access to active
and passive open space.
2. To develop design guidelines which will provide creative rural style
architecture consistent with Lake Elmo’s rural heritage.
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Vision Statement:
The area south of 10th Street shall be known for safe, walkable and diverse
neighborhoods with a variety of development patterns that include with
convenient access to parks, trails and open space. Lake Elmo will encourage
a thriving business community that is as much an integral part of the city as
the residential neighborhoods. The communities created, both residential
and non-residential, will demonstrate sustainability through preservation of
natural resources and responsible environmental stewardship. This area of
Lake Elmo will continue to build upon and promote the character of Lake
Elmo.
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