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City of Mounds View Staff Report • May 9, 1997 Page 7 • Attachment 2 Existing Wording for Text for District 1 Mounds View Comprehensive Plan District 1, generally referred to as City Center, currently encompasses the Civic Center, the Mounds View square Shopping Center, several isolated commercial uses, high density residential development and a vast amount of yet undeveloped land. Mounds View is somewhat unique in that approximately one-quarter of its land area remains undeveloped, a significant proportion of this land lies within the central core of the community, offering Mounds View the valuable opportunity of creating a strong, vital, identifying community focal point, which can potentially serve to integrate and better relate the two sections of the City fragmented by Highway 10. In order to serve this function, District 1 should contain a mix of commercial, public, low, medium and high density residential and open space uses. To help ensure that future development is consistent with community goals, the remaining undeveloped land should be developed on a stage, planned unit basis. Development of the are defined by Silver Lake Road, Highway 10 and County Road H-2 should respect the existing natural amenities (vegetative cover) and low land (swamp) areas. Development should also include provisions for dedication of land to a pedestrian/bicycle trail system which can tie the various elements of the Center together and provide connection to a community-wide system of trails. Vehicular circulation should be • developed according to a ring road concept to keep major traffic flow on the periphery of the City Center. Access to Highway 10 should be limited and concentrated. Relative to general use patterns, commercial and medium density residential development should be located in proximity to Highway 10, with a decrease in intensity of use occurring outward from the highway toward the lower density residential neighborhoods to the south and west. The service station to the north of Highway 10 and east of Long Lake Road should be considered for park land to restore peripheral continuity to the present Civic Center site. The presently vacant parcel between Greenfield Avenue and Jackson Street should be developed as high density residential. As part of the development of this parcel, adequate open space and landscaping should be an integral part of the development scheme. While some commercial development can and should occur south of Highway 10, the major commercial focus should be the existing shopping center. The primary focus of public use should be the Civic Center, with a secondary focus provided by Silver View Park located south of old Highway 10, east of Silver Lake Road. The mixed PUD and medium density PUD properties are constrained with attractive natural features and access limitations to old Highway 10, yet generally undisturbed relative to existing development patterns. The PUD approach was utilized in attempting to resolve land use and circulation questions. The conceptual circulation system as indicated on page 96, does provide additional access to old Highway 10, though is generally designed to funnel traffic to major streets and does not permit any direct land access to Highway 10 characteristics of strip commercial. • This design is intended to permit Highway 10 to function like a"main street" without the inherent congestion and traffic circulation conflicts. Land uses proposed for these areas include commercial adjacent to Highway 10 and county road intersections and generally low to medium