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S. LAND USE PLAN The policies as established. for the land use component of the Comprehensive Municipal Plan are based. principally on three community goals: (1) The. residents of Gem Lake desire to preserve and maintain. s "rustic" environment in a naturai setting, (2) The residents of Gem Lake desire to create and maintain a high quality man-made environment, and (3) The residents of Gem Lake wish to contain future commercial development within the community. Land Committed to Urban Development The generalized characteristics of existing land development as it currently exists. in Gem Lake are described in Chapter 2 of this plan report. These developed land uses comprise approximately 1/4 of the total land acreage within Gem Lake. This would :suggest that the City is largely undeveloped and that a substantial change in the existing character of the. City can be expected. In actuality, over half of the City is .already committed to. a certain type of urban development (see .Figure 5).. Bevond existing land .development, substantial acreage is already committed to its "ultimate" or 'long-term" use of the form of (a) roads, (b) undevelopable lakes, ponds, and wetlands., and (c) substantial acreage of platted (but undeveloped) residential land. With the exception of "in -filling'° or redevelopment within the developed portions of the community, most of the new growth within Gem Lake. will necessarily take place in the central portion of the City. Most of the development in this area is. low density residential of high quality in a setting of very high natural environmental character. Recognizing this, many of the land development policies of the City are directed toward insuring appropriate development in this uncommitted area, while at the same time. setting appropriate guidelines for these portions of the community already committed to a particular type of urban development. General Land Development Policies The following policies are intended to augment the previously stated community goals which. specifically referred to land development. These policies are, in turn, intended to be considered as taking precedence over policies listed in. the next section of this chapter which. detail desired development objectives within prescribed "development areas" of the community. 1. The dominant share of total land within Gem Lake should be residential property at the community's ultimate deve will constitute approximately E0 percent o l_oment stage. Residential uses all. land in the community, and W