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<br />City of Mounds View | 2040 Comprehensive Plan <br />DRAFT September 21, 2020 <br /> <br /> <br />Chapter 2: Land Use | 2-17 <br /> <br />Table 2-4: 2040 Employment Intensity <br />APPLICABLE <br />DISTRICTS <br />Acres Mean <br />FAR <br />Working <br />acres <br />Working sqft Sqft/worker Workers <br />Neighborhood <br />Commercial <br />3.7 0.28 1.036 45128.16 1200 37 <br />General <br />Commercial <br />68.8 0.28 19.264 839139.84 920 912 <br />Office 52.4 0.64 33.536 1460828.16 600 2434 <br />Mixed Use <br />(40% Com.) <br />15.6 0.28 4.368 190270.08 1200 158 <br />Industrial/Utility 174 0.32 55.68 2425420.8 1500 1616 <br />PROTECTING SPECIAL RESOURCES <br />As required by state statute, a municipality’s comprehensive plan must include <br />strategies for protection of special resources including solar access, historic <br />preservation, aggregate resources, and natural resources. <br />SOLAR ACCESS <br />Minnesota Statutes require an element for the protection and development <br />of access to direct sunlight for solar energy systems. The purpose of this <br />legislation is to prevent solar collectors from being shaded by adjacent <br />structures or vegetation and to ensure the availability of solar access. The City <br />of Mounds View will whenever possible protect access to direct sunlight for <br />solar energy systems on principal structures. The City will consider solar <br />access in the review of site plans and planning decisions. <br />The Metropolitan Council has calculated the gross and rooftop solar potential <br />for the City to identify how much electricity could be generated using existing <br />technology. The gross solar potential and gross solar rooftop potential are <br />expressed in megawatt hours per year (Mwh/yr) and these estimates are <br />based on the solar map for each community. Developed areas with low <br />building heights and open space areas have the highest potential for solar <br />development within the City. Many of the developed neighborhoods and some <br />natural areas in Mounds View have low gross solar potential due to existing <br />tree cover. Solar suitability is mapped in Figure 2-4 and calculated in Table 2- <br />5: Solar Suitability. <br />Table 2-5: Solar Suitability in Mounds View <br /> Gross Gross Generation Rooftop Rooftop Generation <br />Megawatt hours per year <br />(Mwh/yr) <br />3,970,368 397,036 543,963 54,396 <br />Mounds View Community Center