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Waft 3-13-95 Opportuniti¢,-Challenges The Marketing Task Force evaluated Mounds View's opportunities and challenges by asking several questions? 1. Does Mounds View have an identity? 2. Can others identify with Mounds View? 3. What do people like about Mounds View? 4. What would people like changed about Mounds View? Task force members asked these questions to a variety of individuals including: • Mounds View residents, non-residents, employees working in Mounds View that don't live in Mounds View and friends/relatives/business associates not associated with Mounds View. Through these interviews, the task force was able to identify Mounds View's opportunities and our challenges as it pertains to people's image of the City. Opportunities • Access to freeways • Access to semi-skilled workforce • Average household incomes • Good entertainment facilities • Great police protection • Location to good shopping facilities and work • Neighborhood parks and recreation programs • Nice,large,wooded residential lots • Politically aware residents • Pro-business attitude • Quality schools • Quiet and friendly people • Relatively close to downtown yet not too close to the Cities • Safe and affordable housing opportunities • Small town community feeling,prideful community,clean neighborhoods • Streets well maintained Challenges • Lack of an identity City of Mounds View gets mixed up with City of Mound Mounds Views association is the town next to Fridley/New Brighton/Blaine or Mounds View High School No unique establishment that people can identify with • Deteriorating apartment quality • High taxes • Lack of landscaping along Highway 10 • Residents have difficulty with some City ordinances • Simply a place to drive through to get somewhere else • There is no clear definition of the boundaries of Mounds View 2