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Goals and Policies Community Goals The purpose of this Comprehensive Plan is essentially the same as that of the municipal government itself: to provide a living and working environ- ment which is safe, orderly, and attractive; to provide needed public ser- vices, and to allow individual initiative to find fulfillment. Physical improvements and municipal services are the principal means through which the City of St. Anthony may move toward its -service goals. Within this framework, the general goals which the City of St. Anthony should work towards in the coming years are as follows: 1 . Continue to ensure the public health, safety, and welfare of the com- munity while maintaining maximum individual choice. Explanation: The provision of health, safety, and welfare are three legitimate objectives of municipal government. While working to further these, individual property rights and freedom of decision must be respected. 2. Provide a full range of equal opportunity, choice, and accessibility for each person in their respective living and working environments. Explanation: Within the broad categories of housing, employment, .goods and services, transportation, and life-sustaining functions, the community should ensure that each citizen has equal rights and oppor- tunity and is protected. The community has an obligation to try to maintain and improve life for all of its citizens. 3. Complete the process of community development, and encourage orderly and beneficial redevelopment where needed. Explanation: The City of St. Anthony has little remaining buildable land. The remaining development opportunities that do exist will certainly be encouraged, but as existing development deteriorates or becomes economically obsolete, it' will need to be rejuvenated through stabilization, rehabilitation and modernization or be replaced by newer, more compatible development. 26