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City of Mounds View | 2040 Comprehensive Plan <br />DRAFT September 21, 2020 <br />Chapter 2: Land Use | 2-2 <br />LAND USE PLAN PURPOSE <br />The land use plan is interrelated with all other elements, goals, and objectives <br />of the Comprehensive Plan. The purpose of the land use element is to <br />designate the type, location, and density of land uses in Mounds View. In doing <br />so, the City will consider the following: <br />• City goals and policies <br />•Natural resources <br />• Supportive elements, such as transportation, utilities, and drainage <br />• Existing and future problems <br />• Coordination with surrounding cities and metropolitan systems and <br />facilities <br />LAND USE GOALS AND POLICIES <br />The City has developed land use goals and policies which function as the <br />foundation of the plan as they define what the city should look like in the future. <br />Mounds View has based the future land use plan on these goals and policies. <br />The following are the land use goals and policies for Mounds View: <br />Goal 1: Stabilize and strengthen neighborhoods <br />• Establish and preserve neighborhood character through public <br />investments identified in the Capital Improvement Program (CIP). <br />• Stabilize neighborhoods through citizen-initiated and proactive <br />zoning code enforcement. <br />• Require impact studies to be completed when considering <br />developments which may significantly affect a surrounding <br />neighborhood. <br />• Ensure redevelopment complements adjacent land uses and <br />character. When considering development, preserve vegetative <br />buffers between different land uses when possible and establish <br />vegetative buffers when none exist. <br />Goal 2: Enhance the appearance of properties along Mounds View Boulevard <br />and establish a physical focal center for the city. <br />• Conduct proactive code enforcement of properties along the Mounds <br />View Blvd corridor. <br />• Complete pedestrian trails with connections to trail systems in <br />adjacent communities. <br />• Create a place that represents a unique and attractive destination. <br />• Ensure redevelopment and landscaping along the Mounds View <br />Boulevard Corridor enhances the corridor’s urbanizing character <br />while maintaining physical buffers from the motoring public. <br />• Develop a model for mixed-use districts along Mounds View <br />Boulevard. <br />Opinion Survey <br />The top three factors residents <br />like most about Mounds View are <br />(1) access to highways; (2, tied) <br />schools; and neighborhood or my <br />neighbors; and (3) my house. <br />Survey respondents commented <br />about the city’s large wooded lots, <br />quiet neighborhoods, and <br />proximity to services and <br />amenities. <br />General comments about what <br />respondents liked most about <br />Mounds View: <br />“Proximity to needed services & <br />businesses”. <br />“Proximity to Unity Hospital and <br />Cub”. <br />“Old trees, large lots. I like the <br />variety of dwellings. This is not <br />cookie-cutter suburbia.” <br />“Compost and organics recycling”. <br />“Large lots for a close suburb”. <br />“New roads”. <br />“Location close to town but yet not <br />too far north”. <br />“People need to be able to get <br />around when they have no car; <br />the walking and bike paths are <br />great to have. Thank you”.