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Premium Stop Redevelopment Area Study 16 City of Mounds View Commercial Development The desired outcome for the commercial development on the Premium Stop Redevelopment Area is to maintain and improve the commercial area as a vital retail and service location along County Road 10. The main objectives for the commercial development are as follows: 1. Identify and recruit business types that will be successful in this location and support land use densities and values that make redevelopment financially feasible. This may require authorization of some Redevelopment Project Staging The redevelopment master plan for the Premium Stop Redevelopment Area has been designed in a way to be phased in over time as parcels located in the redevelopment site become available. The master plan has been defined as short-, mid- and long-term redevelopment potential, which will allow the plan to be flexible and redevelopment to occur regardless of which parcels become available for development. In addition, the master plan will allow for existing buildings to remain as part of the overall redevelopment of the Premium Stop Redevelopment site as long as these buildings were altered in their location and their exterior appearance to be in keeping with the site plan and design guidelines articulated in the master plan. Implementation Strategy: Planned Unit Development Overlay District To accomplish the goals of the Premium Stop Redevelopment Study, the city will consider an overlay zoning district that would provide standards and procedures beyond what is contained in the zoning ordinance for the underlying districts along the Highway 10 corridor. This Planned Unit Development Overlay District, to be developed in detail by city staff and consultants in conjunction with the Planning Commission and City Council, could include the following: 1) All projects on property within a certain defined area along the corridor - perhaps 300 feet from the right- of-way, or another distance to be determined - would be approved only upon application for a planned unit development (PUD) in accordance with the standards for PUDs in the Mounds View zoning code, the additional standards of the overlay district, and the goals of the corridor study. 2) The uses allowed within the overlay will include all permitted, conditional, and accessory uses in the underlying district, plus other uses integrated into the project, upon a finding by the City Council that such uses within the overall project further the goals of the corridor study. Specifically, mixed use projects, integrating retail, office, and residential uses both horizontally and vertically will be encouraged. 3) Site planning standards within the overlay district will include requirements for building placement close to the street, parking to the side and rear, maintenance of a street edge by means of a fence, railing, or hedge, and screening of loading areas and trash receptacles from view of public streets, the front yard of neighboring properties, and adjacent residential areas. Setbacks within the overlay district will be modified from the standards in the underlying district to encourage this building placement through the use of build-to lines, reduced or zero side setbacks where appropriate, and other considerations to implement the overall intent of the corridor study. 4) Architectural standards within the overlay district will be more rigorous than in the underlying district, including increased use of durable building materials such as brick, stone, and glass, and reduced use or prohibition of wood, sheet metal, and plain concrete block