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f C. Statement of Objectives <br />The Council determines that the establishment of the Development District <br />will provide the City with the ability to achieve certain public purpose goals <br />not otherwise obtainable in the foreseeable future without City intervention <br />in the normal development proress. The public purpose goals include: <br />restore and improve the tax base and tax revenue generating capacity of the <br />Development District; Increase employment opportunities; realize <br />? <br />comprehensive planning goals; remove blighted soil conditions; revitalize the <br />t <br />property within the Development District to create an attractive, <br />comfortable, convenient, and efficient area for Industrial, commercial, <br />recreational, guvernmental, and related uses. <br />The City and Council seek to achieve the following Development District <br />program objectives: <br />1. Promote and secure the prompt development of certain *property in <br />the Development District, which property Is not now in productive <br />use or in its highest and best use, in a manner consistent with the <br />City's Comprehensive Plan and with a minimum adverse impact on <br />the environment, and thereby promote and secure the development of <br />project la:.d In the City. <br />2. Promote and secure additional employment opportunities within the <br />Development District and the City for residents of the City and the <br />surrounding area, thereby improving living standards, reducing <br />unemployment and the loss of skilled and unskilled labor and other <br />— <br />human resources in the City. <br />3. <br />Secure the increase of commercial/recreational/iadus•-ial property <br />subject to taxation by the City, Independent School Districts, Ramsey <br />County, and other taxing jurisdictions In order to better enable such <br />entities to pay for governmental services and programs required to be <br />provided by them. <br />4. <br />Provide for the financing and construction of public improvements <br />and soil correction in the Development District, necessary for the <br />orderly and beneficial development of the Development District and <br />nrliAeenr Ar2AA of the. City. <br />5. <br />Promote the concentration of recreational, commercial, office, and <br />other appropriate development in the Development District so as to <br />maintain the area In a manner compatible with its accessibility and <br />prominence in the City. <br />6. <br />Encourage local business expansion, improvement, and development, <br />whenever possible. <br />7 <br />Create a desirable and unique character within the Development <br />District through quality land use alternatives and design quality in <br />new buildings. <br />i <br />U <br />