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■ ■ CHAPTER 1 ■ CONSISTENCY WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN • The development maximizes the potential of existing ■ infrastructure, buildings, facilities and development The City's Comprehensive Plan identifies the Apache Plaza centers, particularly along existing transportation area as a commercial redevelopment opportunity and states corridors. ■ that the City desires to take an active role in guiding its de- . The development expands housing choices to increase sign. The Comprehensive Plan was recently amended to in- life-cycle and affordable housing options, especially ■ clude a new Commercial Mixed Use land use plan category. close to jobs. ■ This new designation allows for retail uses as well as light . The development fosters distinctive community places industrial, office, warehouse, and residential uses and main- and promotes community identity. ■ tains the maximum amount of flexibility that an outmoded • The development considers the natural environment, site such as Apache Plaza requires for redevelopment. The including restoring natural features and managing ■ new land use designation has been applied to all property in stormwater. the study area south of Silver Lane (Silver Lane to 37th Ave., ■ Silver Lake Rd. to Stinson Blvd.). SMART GROWTH OPPORTUNITY SITE ■ The City has also revised the Planned Unit Development section of the Zoning Ordinance that can be applied to some The study area was selected as one of the six Opportunity ■ or all of the study area to allow for the implementation of a Sites for the Metropolitan Council's Smart Growth Twin Cit- ■ flexible development program. ies, an initiative to promote a new and sustainable model for growth in the metropolitan area. The principles upon which ■ the smart growth initiative are based include planning for LIVABLE COMMUNITIES OBJECTIVES compact and mixed land use patterns that are sensitive to ■ the environment and that offer greater transportation choices, This project directly complies with the following Livable designing human scale communities with people's needs and ■ Communities objectives: preferences foremost in mind,and creating community-based plans and designs using innovative public involvement meth- ■ • The development creates connected places that sup- ods. ■ port auto, pedestrian, and bike travel, are linked to transit, and will build capacity for future transit. The City of St.Anthony Village opportunity site was selected ■ • The development balances residential, commercial, because it offers the potential to develop a mixed use com- workplace, and public/green spaces within and adja- munity of neighborhood scale and to serve as a regional ■ cent to the site. model for redirecting obsolete retail sites to meet contempo- rary needs. ■ 4 Village at St. Anthony Framework Manual ■ ■ ■