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<br />City of Gem Lake Comprehensive Plan GEMLK 140643 <br />Page 86 <br />9.3 Housing Goals and Policies <br />The following goals and policies have been established by the municipal government of <br />Gem Lake with regard to housing: <br />Goal: Maintain and improve existing housing in the city. <br />• Continue to encourage low, to very low, density residential development <br />within the existing core area of the City. <br />• Encourage the rehabilitation and continuous maintenance of existing <br />housing. <br />• Preserve the identity and improve the quality and appearance of existing <br />residential neighborhoods. <br />• Examine alternative transportation services that relate to life-cycle housing <br />opportunities. <br />Goal: Provide the required affordable housing and access to funds. <br />• Encourage the construction of more dense housing along the transit corridors <br />of County Road E and Highway 61. This is where all of the mixed use plan <br />areas are identified. <br />• Encourage the development of life-cycle housing opportunities. <br />• Encourage the preservation of owner-type housing for low and moderate <br />income households. <br />• Consider working with the Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment <br />Authority (HRA) in the development of a housing strategy for the City of Gem <br />Lake. <br />• Explore the possibility of participating in region-wide efforts to develop a wide <br />variety of housing types. <br />Goal: Encourage the development of new housing consistent with this plan. <br />• Encourage a better variety of housing by adopting wording in the zoning <br />ordinance allowing for different types of housing (townhomes, villas, row <br />houses etc.) as redevelopment occurs, and in the mixed use areas. <br />• Help ensure that all new housing, including affordable housing, adheres to <br />the highest community design, planning and construction standards. <br />• Protect residential neighborhoods adjacent to commercial developments <br />through physical and/or vegetative buffering, and through the placement of <br />‘transitional” land uses on the periphery. Adequate buffering should be an <br />explicit objective of site plan review and approval. <br />• Consider adapting the current Gem Lake Planned Unit Development and <br />Cluster Development Standards to allow for more creativity and flexibility with <br />regard to life-cycle housing opportunities.