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<br />The Commercial Policies Section of the 1994 Comprehensive Plan (Source: Goals, <br />pages 10-11) provided the following direction: <br /> <br />1. Encourage the development of a wide range of retail sales and services in the <br />community. Concentrate these uses in existing retail/service areas. <br /> <br />2. (not applicable) <br /> <br />3. Restrict commercial development to specific areas in accord with the <br />Comprehensive Plan and avoid strip commercial development. Restrict further <br />commercial/industrial land expansion, encourage concentrated medium size <br />office development in areas currently designated for such uses. <br /> <br />4. Discourage development of spot commercial areas at major intersections already <br />surrounded with residential development. <br /> <br />5. Encourage orderly transition of areas from residential to commercial in accord <br />with the Comprehensive Plan, <br /> <br />The Economic Development Policies of the 1994 Comprehensive Plan (Source: <br />Goals, pages 16-17) provide the following direction: <br /> <br />1. (Not Applicable) <br /> <br />2. Create new opportunities to offer high quality of life by offering a job and tax base <br />within the community. <br /> <br />3. Maintain a positive balance between the living and working environment with <br />appropriate mix and distribution of uses. <br /> <br />4. Revise land use plan to utilize innovative land use approaches through mixed use <br />commercial developments. <br /> <br />3.4 Applicable Land Use Designation. Within the review of the Planning District Land <br />Use designations for District 13 (the district in which the subject property is located), <br />the Plan noted that, "A major issue in District 13 is the buffering between the solid <br />single family areas in the eastern portion of the district and the major retail users <br />and office users in the west and north portion of the district" (Source: Land Use, <br />pages 23-24). The Commission and Council agreed that Site 13-3, which includes <br />the subject parcels owned by Everest, should be changed in designation from low <br />density residential to medium density residential (10 units per acre maximum), with <br />site design to be reviewed through a residential planned unit re-development <br />approach. The Council indicated that the medium density residential use should not <br />extend eastward of the lots which abut and front on Hamline Avenue. The Vault <br />Company to the north was not changed from the existing industrial use designation. <br /> <br />PF#2978 - (01/14/98) - Page 6 of 11 <br />