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City of Mounds View | 2040 Comprehensive Plan Chapter 3: Housing | 3-1 Chapter 3: Housing INTRODUCTION Mounds View is a suburb in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area. A variety of forces affect housing including demographic, regional, and local trends, the economic climate, the availability of land, government controls and the real estate market. A key factor in the City’s ability to provide a livable community has been the development and maintenance of strong neighborhoods, which consist of a variety of housing styles and types, ownership and rental options, and range of costs. The housing element of the Plan reviews the current housing situation and establishes a plan to meet the city’s future housing needs. In addition, this element reports on four areas that the Metropolitan Council requires study including housing goals and policies, analysis of housing supply, anticipating future housing needs, and outlining programs that the City plans or currently utilizes to achieve housing goals. HOUSING GOALS AND POLICIES The City has developed goals and policies related to housing in order to grow and adapt to changing conditions. The goals and policies of this chapter are critical to guide housing that supports the community as it evolves and to support projected growth. The following are the housing goals and policies for Mounds View: Goal 1: Support development and redevelopment which accomplishes 2040 forecasted population growth and the supportive land use designations identified in this plan. Goal 2: Maintain the residential character of Mounds View. • Preserve single-family neighborhoods. • Reinvest in multi-family properties. • Redevelop the Mounds View Boulevard corridor. Goal 3: Support a mix of housing types reflective of the needs and desires of the community. • Preserve affordable housing while encouraging redevelopment of multi-family properties, including manufactured home parks, such that if publicly subsidized redevelopment occurs , there is no net-loss of affordable housing units. • Support Home Improvement programs and encourage their use by residential property owners. Opinion Survey It is clear that there is public opposition to affordable housing, and apartments. Many of the concerns may be attributed to the age of apartments, many of which were built in the 1960’s and 1970’s, have been minimally improved, and lack modern amenities. The Comprehensive Plan seeks a mix of housing types, supporting existing single-family neighborhoods, stabilizing the County Road I corridor, and manufactured home communities, as well as redevelopment of the Mounds View Boulevard Corridor.