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Item No: 6B Meeting Date: March 20, 2013 Type of Business: Other Planning Activity City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Planning Commission From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: County Road 10 Corridor Discussion In 2012, the City Council started talking about various ways to improve the County Road 10 corridor - everything from landscaping to renaming the road to Northtown Boulevard. Mounds View banners were hung on the trail light poles around City Hall last spring as a first step toward beautification, and other landscaping ideas are being discussed. The corridor is the City Council’s priority this year and they are asking the Planning Commission to start the process of reviewing the Zoning Code in regards to redevelopment. They are also interested in updating the Code to embraced sustainable and green building and technologies (e.g. windmills, turbines, solar energy, etc.). The Council wants to discuss the consideration of creating a “Corridor Overlay Zoning District” to better promote and accommodate redevelopment along County Road 10. A few of the objectives for the overlay district would be to reduce front building setbacks, require parking in the rear, encourage vertical development and mixed uses, consider density bonuses and reductions in parking counts, promotion of creative stormwater management, etc. Please try to watch the video that I previously emailed a link to – “Land Matters: Reinventing Main Street.” The Council and staff have watched this video, and while we remain realistic as to what’s possible, the City Council is motivated to do what they can to affect positive change in the City. I have included a redevelopment study that the City had done in 2006 for the “Premium Stop” area (south side of County Road 10 from County Road H2 to Woodale). The City purchased the small parcel at 2390 County Road 10 that had a deteriorated Premium Stop gas station, and demolished the buildings in order to make the parcel more attractive for redevelopment. The City then hired a planning firm (DSU/Bonestroo) to do a market review and provide redevelopment ideas for the area surrounding the gas station parcel since the entire block was available for redevelopment. This study is for a specific area, but ideas and strategies from the study and market overview can be used all along the corridor. The section of the Redevelopment Study starting on page 16, Implementation Strategy, talks about creating overlay districts. The Planning Commission is invited to the Monday, April 1st City Council Worksession to have a joint discussion about the future of the County Road 10 Corridor. Sincerely, Heidi Heller Planning Associate Attachments: 1. Premium Stop Redevelopment Area Study – December 2006 2. Market Overview – October 2006