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_________________________________________________________________________________________ City of Arden Hills Planning Commission Meeting for March 8, 2017 P:\Planning\Planning Cases\2017\PC 17-006 - Higher Education Study\Memos_Reports_17-006 Page 4 of 10 and Professional Programs enrollment to 4,000 students. Northwestern plans on growing their total enrollment to 7,000 students while they have room for only about 2,500 full time traditional students on campus. Both universities plan on adding enrollment through increasing the number of programs that they offer. These new programs are expected to include a significant amount of online instruction. In addition to the mathematic, science, and engineering courses, Bethel plans on adding physical therapy, occupational therapy, athletic training and doctorate of nursing programs at the Anderson Center within the next five years. Northwestern plans on adding bachelor of science in data analytics, master of biology, master of data analytics, master of nursing, engineering, physical therapy, occupational therapy, physician’s assistant and nurse practitioner programs and hopes to eventually have a medical college. Northwestern does not currently have facilities for these new programs and there is not enough room to accommodate all of the new programs on their campus. CURRENT STUDENT POPULATION BETHEL UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN POST SECONDARY 21 1,290 TRADITIONAL UNDERGRADUATE 2,548 1,556 ADULT UNDERGRADUATE 172 GRADUATE 1,153 213 SEMINARY 545 N/A TOTAL 4,267 3,231 Due to the desire of both universities to grow their programs and enrollment, and the cost savings from converting existing building into higher education facilities, Arden Hills should continue to expect requests from both Bethel and Northwestern to expand their facilities into the existing business and industrial zones. Commercial and Industrial Zones For the purposes of this study, all applicable land uses within the City were assigned a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code. The NAICS is used by businesses and governments throughout North America, and is also used for industry information in the United States Census. It is being used for this study so that the land uses within districts correlate and can be evaluated in the same manner as employment and income by industry. The following discussion will center on the two tables below. The first table is an evaluation of the Purpose Statements for each individual district. The statements were grouped by topic to show the intended purpose or areas of emphasis of each zoning district. The complete list of