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City of Mounds View | 2040 Comprehensive Plan DRAFT September 21, 2020 Chapter 2: Land Use | 2-3 Goal 3: Strategically invest in redevelopment opportunities. • Continue Business Retention & Expansion (BR&E) efforts through conducting BR&E visits, and promotion of Mounds View businesses. • Identify sites deemed blighted or detracting from the city’s character for potential façade improvements. • When reviewing proposals to redevelop historically or culturally significant buildings or sites, consider how these icons can be repurposed or preserved as an alternative to their removal. Examples include homes or businesses built before 1940 (consider remodel & expansion before removal & replacing), and the Mermaid statue (consider public subsidies for restoration). • Include large parking lots in discussions related to potential redevelopment of underutilized lands. • Map opportunities to assemble properties. • Encourage affordable housing in redevelopment. • Meet the City’s goals of creating livable wage jobs on redeveloped sites. • Support new industrial businesses. Goal 4: 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 5: 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 is a variety 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 housing parks, and commercial areas. The industrial areas are clustered around freeway access- points. 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 of 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.”