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View citizens. The County Highway 10 corridor is the most appropriate place for commercial tax base expansion to occur. The Mounds View land use plan establishes a hierarchy of four commercial land use types. The lowest intensity commercial land use designation is neighborhood commercial which would allow for uses intended to serve the daily convenience shopping needs of individual neighborhoods. The next level of commercial land use is community commercial. Community commercial uses provide products and services to the community as a whole. Regional commercial uses provide products and services to customers beyond the City’s boundaries as well as to the community as a whole. The fourth and most intensive commercial land use type is the highway commercial land use designation. These uses are primarily oriented to the pass-through auto user and include fast food restaurants, gas stations, and auto accessory stores. They typically generate relatively high traffic levels and should be located along arterial roadways. There is a very limited number of pure office uses in Mounds View. Office uses are typically found in light industrial business park buildings. Existing office uses are small one story professional buildings. Additional office buildings could be an important way to expand the City’s tax base and provide additional high quality jobs with potentially less impact on adjacent neighborhoods and roadways than with commercial uses. Goal 1: Commercial development along County Highway 10 shall be considered in order to provide a broad tax base and expanded employment base in Mounds View. Goal 2: Provide safe, convenient, attractive, and accessible commercial development within Mounds View. Goal 3: Major retail sales and services will be developed in planned and concentrated centers. Goal 4: Maintain small neighborhood commercial areas, located in accordance with the comprehensive plan in locations that will best serve residential areas. Industrial Land Use & Goals The primary industrial area in Mounds View is located in the southeast corner of the City generally in the area of the intersection of County Highway 10 and Interstate 35W. The Mounds View Business Park provides a major portion of the industrial uses in the community. The business park is developed with the exception of a site on County Highway 10 at the west end of the business park which is projected for a future building expansion. In addition there are vacant sites and single family residential uses at the southwest quadrant of the intersection of County Highway 10 and Woodale Drive where future business park expansion could occur. Redevelopment of older industrial and commercial buildings along the north side of County Road H west of County Highway 10 for light industrial use should also be considered. Long term future industrial expansion should also be considered for the current Townsedge Terrace Manufactured Home Park and the adjacent Skyline Motel site along Old Highway 8. Goal 1: Industrial development shall be considered in order to provide a broad tax base and an expanded employment base within Mounds View. Goal 2: Ensure that industrial development is compatible with adjacent land uses and is accommodated without destroying desirable environmental features and natural amenities. Existing Future Change Land Use Category Acres Percent Acres Percent Acres Percent Residential 1,327.87 50.36% 1318.86 50.01% -9.01 -0.34%