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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 12,2018 Page 11 • Lake McCarron's site: the connection where Marion currently ends as an ideal location for senior housing near the lake; • Waterworks site: a unique location building off community gardens; cre- ating some farmer's market structure, so people could live, work and sell in this area; • • Crown Plaza: the concept creates smaller blocks more focused in on cre- ating more of a neighborhood scale; mixed use would be pushed out to the corner, and residential use as it gets closer to the creek; • Setzer's Site: there is a recently built commercial building on the corner; there is a lot of opportunity to work around buildings that are supportive with the overall framework; the document shows a new way to create mixed use on the site, and a new east-west green space connection; with 50% of residents owning one car and 27% not owning a car, walkability is a key priority in this area; • My.Thrift Store Site: the concept plan looks at a wholesale change, rein • - forcing the street edge, creating more activity at the street level, creating a public space in the parking lot on the Rice Street edge; another option is a greater mix of housing with enhanced connectivity; • Longs Auto Place Site: potentially a space for community gather- ing/community center; it is a strong link to Rice Street as well as the mag- net school; • Larpenteur Avenue, west of Rice: converting from four to three lanes; center medians where feasible; potentially closing driveways in certain ar- eas to create safer crossing for kids at the magnet school; • Rice and Larpenteur Avenue: the County has identified it will reconstruct south of Larpenteur, from Maryland to Larpenteur; a long-term project is the reconstruction of Rice Street north of Larpenteur; converting center turn lane into a center median, providing landscaping and public art; tak- ing the shoulder and adding that to the sidewalk area; • Rice and McCarron's Blvd: the Dairy Queen currently has 3 driveways; there is a 100-foot right-of-way, which can be transformed into a park-like setting with a median; Short-Term Plan Recommendations • Adopt this into Roseville's Comp Plan Mr. Slack noted that St. Paul will be removing certain pieces and adopting a lot of it. Maplewood will probably be adopting all of it. • Creative Rice-Larpenteur Development Collaborative The idea is this will focus on improvements along the corridor and talking to private and public funders in the area. • Develop a Public Gathering Space at the SW corner of Rice- Larpenteur In the short-term, this means activating people to get out and meet their neighbors.