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City of Arden Hills – 20430 Comprehensive Plan <br /> <br /> <br />Approved: September 28, 201809 Amended: December 12, 2016 <br />6-13 <br /> <br />6.4.46.4.3 Red Fox/Grey Fox/Lexington Avenue <br />Business Area Guiding Plan <br /> <br />Immediately north of the B2B-2 District is a significant industrial, office, and retail <br />area for the City. This area includes Red Fox and Grey Fox roads and is <br />bounded by Lexington Avenue, Highway 51, Interstate 694, and the Canadian <br />Pacific railway (Figure 6.4). This area is used by a number of small and large <br />businesses for a variety of retail, manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, and <br />office uses. This area was largely developed between the 1950s and 1970s, <br />though the retail area along Lexington Avenue has had some new development <br />and redevelopment in the last 10 15 years. <br /> <br />While good access to regional transportation has helped to continue to make this <br />area viable, some of the buildings are becoming functionally obsolete for modern <br />manufacturing, warehousing, and business uses. As redevelopment pressure <br />increases, a more detailed guiding plan is required to comprehensively address <br />the overall redevelopment and transportation needs in this area of the City. <br />6.4.4 B-4: Retail Center Zoning District <br /> <br />The B-4 Zoning District is comprised of the properties with frontage on Dunlap <br />Street between Grey Fox Road and Red Fox Road. There are no undeveloped <br />parcels in the B-4 District and all the buildings are currently occupied. The <br />properties are not generally retail in nature and therefore do not achieve the <br />purpose statements of the B-4 District. The businesses are mostly wholesale <br />sales, office/warehouse, light manufacturing, or repair orientated that are more <br />typically industrial uses. The City should consider whether zoning changes in <br />this area of the City would be appropriate in order to achieve the City’s vision for <br />the district and to support existing businesses in the area. <br /> <br />5.3.46.4.5 Neighborhood Business <br /> <br />The neighborhood business land use concept was developed in the 1998 <br />Comprehensive Plan (Figure 6.1). The purpose of the Neighborhood Business <br />land use concept was is to promote the development of commercial nodes that <br />were compatible with the surrounding residential uses and provided services to <br />residential areas. Commercial uses that would generate high traffic, noise, or <br />other negative impacts were considered undesirable. Neighborhood business <br />areas were are located at intersections or nodes at the edge of residential areas, <br />on properties not considered desirable for housing, or properties that have <br />Dr <br />a <br />f <br />t <br /> <br />11 <br />/ <br />0 <br />1 <br />/ <br />2 <br />0 <br />1 <br />7