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Draft Goals <br />April 26, 2007 Revised June 8, 2007 <br />operations may expand. <br />• Provide areas where businesses with outside storage are encouraged to <br />locate. <br />• Promote commercial development along Highway 61 and CSAH 8. <br />• Encourage commercial development that supports the small town quality of <br />Huqo. <br />• Create ordinances to limit building size. <br />• Strengthen commercial and industrial design standard ordinances to <br />ensure that new development reflects the character of the communitv. <br />'1-1,10. Provide quality development that will insure an expanded tax base <br />and employment opportunities for residents. <br />Strategies: <br />• Provide opportunities for local residents to be employed at home or <br />within the community. <br />• Promote local business and industry in order to increase the local tax <br />base and increase local employment. <br />NATURAL RESOURCES <br />'1-3,11. Protect and enhance the natural environment through sound <br />land stewardship practices. <br />Strategies: <br />• Maintain ordinances to protect shoreland, floodplain and wetland <br />areas. <br />Encourage buffers around wetland and shoreland areas. <br />Explore tools to encourage preservation of trees and other significant <br />natural resources. <br />14.12. Preserve significant open spaces and natural systems. <br />Strategies: <br />• Identify key viewsheds and natural resource corridors and consider <br />methods to encourage their preservation. <br />• Provide cluster housing ordinance or similar tools to permanently <br />preserve open space in rural Hugo. <br />• Strengthen ordinances to protect natural resources. <br />• Provide education about natural resource preservation to increase <br />