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COMMERCIAL USES To date, Mounds View has experienced only a limited amount of commercial development. In order that a stable and functional pattern of commercial activities can be developed for the community, a hierarchy must be established relative to commercial uses. The lowest intensity commercial activityis seen as the neighborhood commercial use . These types of uses are intended to serve the daily, convenience shopping needs of individual neighborhoods. In order that they not disrupt these neighborhoods, they should be located only on the periphery of neighborhoods along collector or arterial streets. Moreover, they should be carefully buffered from adjacent residential development to protect such development from any adverse environmental effects. Neighborhood commercial use proposals should be examined with extreme care to insure that their service to the community far outweighs their inherent disruptive aspects to a neighborhood. The next order of commercial activity is the City Center. As set forth in the Concept Plan, it is proposed that this Center act.as the central, unifying focal point for the community. The two most important components of the City Center presently are the Mounds View Civic Center and the Mounds View Square Shopping Center. In addition to these two components, it is proposed that a mix of additional commercial and residential development of various densities be introduced in the undeveloped core area of the City presently zoned industrial . In order to achieve a desirable mix of • activity as well as take maximum advantage of the site attributes, it is recommended that development of this area be done omra planned unit basis. As mentioned previously, Mounds View has received development proposals which provide for integrated mixed use development, consistent with the City's policies. In terms of total functioning, the commercial and service (including the Civic Center) activities of the City Center should be surrounded by and supported by low, medium and high density housing. Within the Center, pedestrian circulation needs should receive the highest priority. In this regard, the economic feasibility of a grade- separated pedestrian crossing of Highway 10 should be investigated in order to properly integrate all the elements of the Center. Vehicular circulation on the other hand, should be facilitated by means of a ring road which penetrates the Center at the periphery. Off-street parking should be located within easy access of this ring road. Although open spaces will become a part of the overall Center development scheme by utilizing the PUD approach, Silverview Park and City Hall should be developed as the major open space elements related to the Center. Again, the details of this element will be more fully discussed in the Community Facilities Plan. S