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1998 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE COMMUNITY FORUMS <br />To assist in the updating of the comprehensive plan, the Mounds View Planning Commission <br />conducted three community forums. The. Planning Commission conducted these forums to help <br />Mounds View citizens understand what the comprehensive plan is and most importantly to give <br />citizens a chance to talk about what Mounds View should be like in the future. Forums were held <br />on February 11, 1998 for people who live north of Highway 10, on March 11, 1998 for the <br />Highway 10 corridor, and on April 8, 1998 for people who live south of Highway 10. <br />Notices of the forums were mailed to all property owners in the in the City. Notices were <br />distributed to apartments and to mobile home parks. Additional notice was provided through <br />articles in newspapers and in the Mounds View Matters. Nineteen citizens attended the first <br />forum, thirty eight citizens attended the second forum, and twenty eight citizens attended the <br />third forum. <br />During the forums city staff presented information on what a comprehensive plan is, what the <br />required elements of the comprehensive plan are, what the current comprehensive plan and <br />zoning designations are, what some of the housing and other issues are, and what the process for <br />updating the comprehensive plan will be. Following the staff presentations, small group <br />discussions were held to hear citizen concerns, comments, issues, etc. A Planning Commission <br />member was present in each of the small groups to listen and to facilitate the discussions. At the <br />end of the forums, each Planning Commission member summarized the discussions in their <br />groups. <br />The following is a summary of the citizen concerns and comments grouped by major area: <br />Forum No. 1 <br />Housing <br />1. Improve housing stock without subdividing large lots. Provide incentives to maintain <br />large lots especially for those with outdated homes. <br />2. Additional information on the condition of housing stock needed. <br />3. Low cost remodeling loans are needed to encourage housing maintenance and <br />improvement. <br />4. Citizens need information on remodeling possibilities. <br />5. Homeowners need to know how to protect their properties from neighborhood blight. <br />6. Code enforcement is necessary. <br />7. Truth - in-housing regulations are needed to require houses to be brought up to code. <br />Land Use <br />1. Expansion of commercial along Highway 10 will add problems for Mounds View. <br />1 <br />