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City Council Staff Report 2/23/2026 – Future Land Use Amendment, Rezoning, and Preliminary Plat 7687 Long Lake Road Page 3 The Mounds View Vision A Thriving Desirable Community Evaluation: Comprehensive Plan The Comprehensive Plan serves as a blueprint for development within the city. Land use decisions (such as rezonings, text amendments, subdivision approvals, variances, etc.) must be consistent with the adopted Comprehensive Plan. The city’s current Comprehensive Plan (the 2040 Comprehensive Plan) contains a future land use map, which guides development or redevelopment of parcels by designating what use(s) are to be allowed in the future. The applicant’s site is guided in the future land use map (Figure 2-2 in the plan) ‘public / semi-public’. The plan states that this designation is to be used for parcels containing uses that are typically owned by tax-exempt entities, such as ‘governmental, educational, religious, social or health care facilities excluding clinics.’ Current properties in the city with this future land use designation include parcels owned by the city (such as the city hall property), schools, and religious institutions. With the applicant’s proposal to split the property into two, the designation for the newly proposed parcel should be amended. Given the proposed use of the new parcel would be a senior living facility that is privately owned (making the site no longer a tax-exempt property), a future land use designation of ‘mixed-use’ is proposed. The 2040 Plan encourages development on sites designated/guided as ‘mixed-use’ to be done through the planned unit development (PUD) process – which the applicant is proposing to do for this site. The ‘mixed-use’ designation is found on parcels located along and in close proximity to Mounds View Boulevard. Said parcels in this designation include apartments, commercial businesses, and single-family residences. The proposed amendment would appear to meet the following policies from the 2040 Plan: • Land Use Policy 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. • Housing Policy Goal 3 - Support a mix of housing types reflective of the needs and desires of the community. The requested ‘mixed-use’ future land use designation is also consistent with the city’s Mounds View Square Redevelopment Study (2023), which calls for guiding the parcels within the study area (which included the subject parcel) as ‘mixed-use’ to allow for a variety of uses and development options. The study found support for senior housing being added to the study area, with one of the preferred concepts proposing up to 90 units of senior housing be constructed on the subject parcel. Rezoning Request The property is currently zoned R-1 (Single-Family Residential). With the proposed preliminary plat splitting the property into two parcels, both parcels by default would retain the existing zoning designation of R-1. The applicant is requesting to rezone their proposed parcel to ‘PUD - Planned Unit Development’ to allow for the creation of a PUD. Per Section 160.315, PUDs allow