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City of Mounds View Comprehensive Plan ________________________________________________________________________ 38 All new larger scale residential development should be undertaken on a planned unit development basis. This should be done not only to help ensure that the type of high quality development desired by the community occurs, but to take maximum advantage of the limited amount of vacant land remaining in the community. In areas that contain land of marginal development quality, cluster type development should be utilized to reduce site work and prevent destruction of sensitive areas. In all cases, residential development should be adequately buffered from adjacent commercial development. This does not preclude the possible removal of a limited number of existing residential uses which are inconsistent with the adopted future land use plan to provide for better transitions between residential and commercial uses. Development standards should be strictly enforced for all use types to ensure that a satisfactory environment is created. Commercial Uses Mounds View has a relatively low percentage of commercial development. The commercial tax base of the city should be expanded to provide additional desirable commercial uses in Mounds View to provide products and services to Mounds View citizens. The County Highway 10 corridor is the most appropriate place for commercial tax base expansion to occur. A City Center should be established which incorporates a mix of commercial, public, medium and high-density housing, and open space uses to serve as the central identifying focal point for the community. The Mounds View land use plan establishes a hierarchy of four commercial land use types. The lowest intensity commercial land use designation is neighborhood commercial. Neighborhood commercial uses are intended to serve the daily convenience shopping needs of individual neighborhoods. These types of uses should be located on the periphery of neighborhoods along collector and arterial roadways. They should also be carefully buffered from adjacent residential uses. It is anticipated that there will be little expansion of neighborhood commercial uses in Mounds View. The next level of commercial land use is community commercial. Community commercial uses provide products and services to the community as a whole. Again these types of commercial uses should be located along collector and arterial roadways. Regional commercial uses provide products and services to customers beyond the City’s boundaries as well as to the community as a whole. These types of commercial uses should be located on arterial roadways. The fourth commercial land use type is the highway commercial land use designation. These uses are primarily oriented to the auto user and include fast food restaurants, gas stations, and auto accessory stores. They typically generate relatively high traffic levels and should be located along arterial roadways.