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PREFACE �f�' CITY OF ROSEVILLE CORNERSTONE GUIDELINES Roseville, Minnesota, has an opportunity to create its own future. Incorporated in 1948 with a population of 500, the City now has over 34,000 residents. In the 1960's, the City's vision of the community for the 1990's included County highways and major thoroughfares, neighbor- hoods convenience centers, a City Center, and a series of (over 3,000,000 s.f.) of regional and subregional shopping center districts. Today the shopping areas have become a hub of day-to- day commercial activity in the north metro area, with a primary and secondary market of over 120,000 households within five miles. The neighborhood convenience centers have clustered around intersections of County and State roads which provide auto oriented services for neighbors and pass through traffic. Many of the improvements on the corners are over 40 years in age and beginning to show the years of wear and deferred maintenance. Roseville's Cornerstone Program consists of 29 intersections throughout the community with over 125 businesses located in an area bounded roughly by County Road "D" on the north, Rice Street/Highway 49 on the east, Larpentuer Avenue on the south, and Cleveland Avenue on the west. The retail and office strength of the City is in or near its' shopping centers, but the neighbor- hoods are the local focus of the Cornerstone Program. The "Roseville Cornerstone" is developing an identity as a high quality mixed-use "neighborhood edge" - a gathering or meeting place - capable of providing the some of the low auto impact financial, retail, office, health services, and social functions of a suburban residential area. Roseville hopes to use its' Cornerstone Program, well kept homes and neighborhoods, excellent schools, and expansive parks to create a community image or "sense of place" that will encourage citizens and families to remain life-long residents. Directly accessible from the grid of County roads, the Cornerstone residential areas has grown to serve approximately 15,500 housing units on 3,200 residential acres,with 98% already built- up. Only 120 acres remain for further residential development. The intersections of many of the County roads handle 30,000 to 40,000 trips per day. (This compares to the major arterial intersection of Interstate 35W and Highway 36, which currently handles over 175,000 (in 1996) vehicles per day and will grow to 200,000 vehicles within 5 years.) Access to the neighborhoods and mixed use corners of the Roseville Cornerstone Program are assisted by the 3 and 4 lane County Roads, some with center turning lanes and right turn lanes. While they provide the needed local and "drive thru" traffic capacity, these roads lack the neighborly "sense of place" and parkway feel desired by the community. 2