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City of Mounds View | 2040 Comprehensive Plan DRAFT April 17May 8, 2019 Chapter 2: Land Use | 2-3 Goal 43: Strategically invest in redevelopment opportunities. • Continue Business Retention & Expansion efforts through conducting Business Retention & Expansion (BR&E) visits, and promotion of Mounds View businesses. • Identify sites deemed blighted or detracting from the city’s character for potential façade improvements. • Include large parking lots in discussions related to potential redevelopment of underutilized lands • Map opportunities to assemble properties. • Incentivize Encourage affordable housing in redevelopment. • Meet the City’s goals of creating livable wage jobs on redeveloped sites. • Support new industrial business. Goal 54: Encourage resident participation and active citizenship within the community. • Provide accurate, complete, and timely communications with the public through official notices and social media. Goal 65: Amend the Future Land Use Map and/or Zoning Map to support changes when found that the proposed designation will not significantly create adverse impacts to the surrounding neighborhood or community. • Require supporting documentation for land use and zoning changes. • Update the zoning code to conform to the Future Land Use plan. EXISTING LAND USE There are wide varieties of land use throughout Mounds View from parks and single family residential neighborhoods to commercial and industrial nodes. The city consists mostly of single family residential neighborhoods with most other uses (e.g. multi-family, commercial, and industrial uses) clustered along and around Mounds View Boulevard. Small parks and churches are scattered throughout the quiet residential neighborhoods. The largest parks are generally closer to multi-family residential, manufactured home parks, and commercial areas. The industrial areas are clustered around freeway access- points. RESIDENTIAL Most of the land in Mounds View is used for single-family homes. The vast majority of homes were built in the latter half of the twentieth-century. Scattered throughout these tree-lined neighborhoods are small neighborhood parks, churches, and a few schools. Opinion Survey General comments about what respondents liked the least about Mounds View: “Nothing to draw outsiders, lack of restaurants or central shopping.” “Could be more walkable destinations for families.” “Mounds View is not a destination city. It is a city that commuters want to travel through, as quickly as possible, to get to their jobs in other cities. Mounds View does not do a good job of managing this traffic.” “Lack oif community center/”downtown” area for shopping. No stores and lots of vacant old buildings, dining, gathering.” “Mounds View is thoroughly bland, uninteresting, poorly landscaped, uninspired, and the government seems uninterested in making it a “home town”. It has zero character – it’s just another place.”… “Mounds View Boulevard appears quite unkempt both the land and businesses. Next, landlords should be made more responsible for upkeep of their properties. Finally, if we’re building more apartments, gear them toward a more upscale population. Mounds View has enough low income housing.” “Lack of grocery and retail. Lack of quality shopping choices. Overabundance of affordable housing.”