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CHAPTER 2 LAND USE 14 - 6. Maintain the current balance of varied housing types and affordability. 7. Maintain the present high standard of maintenance in single family and multiple family housing. 8. Continue the present active housing maintenance code enforcement program. 9. Encourage use of the planned residential development (PRD) procedure for the remaining large undeveloped residential parcels to preserve natural features, provide a variety of housing types and costs, and create usable open space. 10. In general, create transitions between commercial and residential uses through use of limited business developments as transition uses, rather than locating medium density areas adjacent to general commercial areas. ' 11. Medium density area should be located adjacent to minor arterial or collector streets and developments should be designed to channel traffic onto these streets rather than local streets. BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LAND USES Commercial land uses presently occupy about 130 acres or,about 3.5% of the City's total area. This percentage is typical of the amount of commercial use in-most communities and is, in fact, smaller than in many. Commercial development in the City reflects the pre- existing traffic patterns. Continuous traffic movement is limited to County Road D and I-694 in an east-west direction, and Silver Lake, Old Highway 8 and I-35W in a north-south direction. Understandably, it is on these roads that the,bulk of the City's commercial development is found. Development of major regional shopping centers such as Brookdale, Rosedale and Northtown as well as Apache Plaza and the Central Avenue commercial strip have limited the opportunity for such development in New Brighton. Commercial development has been and likely will continue to consist primarily of neighborhood or community retail and service businesses. However, office development has increased in the City and likely will continue to expand. This plan reflects these factors in providing for only a modest amount of commercial land use. SHOPPING CENTERS The plan provides for three community business districts, one at Mississippi Street and Silver Lake Road, a second at Silver Lake Road and I-694, and a third at 10th Street and 5th Avenue, the old downtown area. Significant amounts of general business development, including shopping facilities, either exist or are contemplated at each of these locations.