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o Objective: . To ensure that land use controls (subdivision regulations and zoning ordinance provisions) facilitate the creation of mixed use areas. • • Goal#2: Highway 10 is a highly visible corridor; and, as such, the City will strive to achieve the highest and best land uses for properties within Section 9. o Objective: To target those commercial uses that provide needed services and products for Mounds View residents and that attend to the needs of the motoring public. o Objective: To identify those residential uses that would enhance life-cycle housing opportunities within Mounds View and that would furnish residents with safe, affordable and livable shelter. o Objective: To target uses that are compatible with surrounding land uses. DESIGN • Goal #1: Section 9 will serve as an area for the implementation of creative techniques for achieving functional as well as aesthetic excellence in design. o Objective: To create or integrate facilities that enable or enhance pedestrian and bicycle circulation and provide connections to existing and proposed trail facilities beyond • Section 9. o Objective: To utilize those standards and elements of design that generate interest, express vitality, lend character and help to define a "sense of place" for the neighborhood and the corp idor. o Objective: To incorporate design elements within Section 9 that will be of a scale and character practical for adoption throughout the Highway 10 corridor in order to create a single design character. • Goal #2: Planning for the redevelopment of Section 9 will afford the City an opportunity to address city policy and regulatory standards that can promote thoughtful and responsible site design methods and property maintenance issues. o Objective: To promote the use of contemporary standards in the design and construction of parking facilities that are environmentally sensitive and aesthetically pleasing. o Objective: To ensure that the City has landscaping standards that require andior encourage the planting of trees and shrubs along major roadways, within parking lots and public open spaces, and as buffers between land uses. • ° Objective: To support positive sign regulations that facilitate advertising while avoiding deterioration of the visual environment. 19