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General Land Use & Goals The intent of Mounds View’s land use element is to show the use of land and water including lakes, wetlands, natural drainage courses, and adjoining land areas that affect natural water resources for residential, commercial, industrial, and other public and private purposes. This element describes the overall land use pattern and how it is related to the community’s future housing needs, environmental conditions and protection, surface water management and historic preservation as required by state statutes and Metropolitan Council guidelines. Goal 1: Maintain a cohesive land use pattern that ensures compatibility and functional relationships between activities and uses. Goal 2: Preserve and protect property values. Goal 3: Ensure that community development is compatible with features of the natural environment and is accommodated without destroying desirable environmental features and natural amenities. Goal 4: Prevent development that is not accompanied by a sufficient level of supportive and service facilities (utilities, parking, access, etc.). Residential Land Use & Goals Residential development will continue to be the primary type of land use in Mounds View. The established residential land use pattern should be maintained and enhanced to provide a quality environment for all density conditions and for all housing types. Within this context, low-density single-family detached neighborhoods are to be preserved. However, in order to provide additional housing opportunities and to ensure environmental quality, medium-density single-family attached housing should be introduced to provide a transition between these neighborhoods and existing or new higher intensity multifamily or commercial uses. This should be done in appropriate areas through redevelopment of individual parcels or through larger mixed use planned unit developments. All new larger scale residential development should be undertaken on a planned unit development basis. This should be done not only to help ensure that the type of high quality development desired by the community occurs, but to take maximum advantage of the limited amount of vacant land remaining in the community. In areas that contain land of marginal development quality, cluster type development should be utilized to reduce site work and prevent destruction of sensitive areas. In all cases, residential development should be adequately buffered from adjacent commercial development. This does not preclude the possible removal of a limited number of existing residential uses which are inconsistent with the adopted future land use plan to provide for better transitions between residential and commercial uses. Development standards should be strictly enforced for all use types to ensure that a satisfactory environment is created. Goal 1: Preserve the identity and improve the quality and appearance of existing neighborhoods. Goal 2: Provide safe, healthy, and attractive residential environments that offer a broad and full choice of housing opportunities to meet the needs of all segments of the population. Goal 3: Encourage a creative approach to the use of land and related residential development. Goal 4: Protect residential land uses that are impacted by noise in the vicinity of the Anoka County-Blaine Airport. Commercial Land Use & Goals Mounds View has a relatively low percentage of commercial development. The commercial tax base of the city should be expanded to provide additional desirable commercial uses in Mounds View to provide products and services to Mounds