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2008 Mounds View Comprehensive Plan ______________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 3: Land Use 3-22 In all cases, the City should ensure that residential development is adequately buffered from adjacent commercial development. This does not preclude the possible removal of a limited number of existing residential uses that are inconsistent with the adopted future land use plan to provide for better transitions between residential and commercial uses. Mounds View should strictly enforce development standards for all land use types to help ensure the creation of a satisfactory environment. Commercial Uses Mounds View has a relatively low percentage of land uses in commercial development. The City should strive to expand the commercial tax base. Such expansion would be to provide additional desirable commercial uses in Mounds View and to provide products and services to Mounds View citizens. The County Highway 10 corridor is the best place for the expansion of the commercial tax base in Mounds View. The City should consider establishing a City Center or “core area” that incorporates a mix of commercial, office, medium and high-density housing, and green space uses to serve as the central identifying focal point for the city. The Mounds View land use plan establishes a hierarchy of four commercial land use types. The lowest intensity commercial land use designation is neighborhood commercial. The City intends the neighborhood commercial uses to serve the daily convenience shopping needs of individual neighborhoods. These types of uses should be located on the periphery of neighborhoods along collector and arterial roadways. The City also should require careful buffering of these land uses from adjacent residential uses. Mounds View anticipates there will be little expansion of neighborhood commercial uses. The next level of commercial land use is community commercial. Community commercial uses provide products and services to the community as a whole. The City should locate these types of commercial uses along collector and arterial roadways. Regional commercial uses provide products and services to customers beyond the city’s boundaries as well as to the city as a whole. Because of the intensity of these types of land uses, the City should only allow these types of commercial uses on arterial roadways. The fourth commercial land use type is the highway commercial land use designation. These land uses are primarily oriented to the motor vehicle user and include fast food restaurants, large gas stations, and auto accessory stores. They typically generate relatively high traffic levels and should be located along arterial roadways.