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(9 ' INTRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT PRESSURES, CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES Mounds View, a mature suburban community rapidly approaching full development, enjoys a beneficial location in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Located a short distance North of Interstate 694 and adjacent to Interstate 35W, Mounds View's accessibility to the entire metropolitan region makes it attractive to both commercial and residential development. The primary element that affects all potential development within the City is Highway 10. This limited access freeway bisects the City and creates two very distinct subareas . The heavy use of Highway 10 and a series of very poor intersections make crossing it a difficult task for vehicular traffic and, a nearly impossible one for pedestrian or bicycle traffic. On the periphery, the City is bounded by two major freeway branches: New Highway 10 and Interstate 35W. Both of these roadways have controlled access points which benefits the City by providing fast and orderly movement of traffic to all areas of the community. Negative effects of these two major arterials are .that they tend to create barriers to free movement by pedestrians to adjacent communities and, a tremendous amount of noise is generated by each. Residential neighborhoods, by nature, require a certain degree of privacy and isolation. In the past, Mounds View has been very responsive to the needs of these residential areas and took steps to prevent the location of uses of a higher intensity which would tend to depreciate the value of the neighborhood unit as a whole. The established low density character of these residential neighborhoods should be maintained through the introduction of transitional zones between uses which are not compatible. Other considerations to the overall development of the community should include defining industrial activity areas, protection of environmentally sensitive lands adjacent to commercial and industrial uses, and, when possible, the preservation of valuable wetland area at the time of any "fill-in" development.