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City of Mounds View | 2040 Comprehensive Plan DRAFT November 26, 2019 Chapter 2: Land Use | 2-7 FUTURE LAND USE Mounds View is a developed suburb. Updates to the land use map are more detailed and less radical in nature. Updates to the future land use plan include: • Consolidation of land use guide categories • Development of the definition, and expansion of Mixed-Use districts Because Mounds View is developed from edge-to-edge, new land uses will occur through redevelopment. No significant impacts to infrastructure or a need for additional services provided by the City – including sewage flow – are expected as a result of population growth. RESIDENTIAL This comprehensive plan update comes with a simplified list of residential land use categories compared to the previous update. The purpose of this simplification is for easier compatibility of the zoning code and realization of the City’s vision. The 2030 Update had four residential categories: single-family, detached; single family, attached; Multi-family; and Manufactured Housing Park. Each of those categories was compatible with numerous zoning categories which stifled the ability of the Comprehensive Plan to guide toward a defined vision. The 2040 Update simplifies the guide categories and establishes a clearer path for the application of the zoning code. The new designations are as follows: • Single-Family Residential: 0 to 5 units per acre 1 • Multi-Family Residential: 5 to 15 units per acre 2 • Manufactured Home Park: 0 to 8 units per acre 3 1 In R-1 zoning district (2018), the minimum lot size is 11,000 sf (12,000 sf if corner lot). Subtracting ROW, the density = 2.83 units per acre. In R-2 district (e.g. two-family townhomes), the density = 5 units per acre. 2 In R-3 zoning district (e.g. 4+ unit townhomes) (2018), the density = 10.6 units per acre (e.g. Pleasant View Townhomes, SW corner of Mounds View Blvd & Groveland Rd). 3 There are three manufactured home parks. Colonel Village is 7.66 units per acre; Mounds View Manufactured Home Park is 7.78 units per acre, and Towns Edge Manufactured Home Park is 6.92 units per acre. New Neighbors Mounds View Township was settled in the early 1940’s with small homes built on large wooded lots along dirt roads. When regional sewer was extended into town in the 1960’s, many of these large lots were re-platted. As time passed, many of the original 1940’s homes have aged poorly. For those still on larger lots, if the property value was less than the retail value of two lots minus home demolition costs (e.g. less than $180,000), the large lot becomes a target for developers as a tear-down and re-plat. In Mounds View, there are about two or three teardowns per year, often including subdividing the large lot into two. There are only a handful of these large lots left, which can be subdivided, and still meet the minimum lot dimensions required in the Zoning Code.