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General Land Use Goals and Policies Goal 1: Maintain and improve Roseville as an attractive place to live, work, and play by promoting sustainable land-use patterns, land-use changes, and new developments that contribute to the preservation and enhancement of the community's vitality and sense of identity. Policy 1.1: Promote and provide for informed and meaningful citizen participation in planning and review processes. Policy 1.2: Ensure that the City's official controls are maintained to be consistent with the 2030 Land Use Plan. Policy 1.3: Ensure high-quality design, innovation, sustainability, and aesthetic appeal in private and public development and redevelopment, with emphasis on efficient site access, appropriately sized parking areas, and overall beautification through the adoption and utilization of year-round landscaping and site design standards, guidelines, principles, and other criteria. Policy 1.4: Maintain orderly transitions between different land uses in accord with the general land- use guidance of the Comprehensive Plan by establishing or strengthening development design standards. Policy 1.5: Promote well-planned and coordinated development. Policy 1.6: Encourage improvements to the connectivity and walkability between and within the community's neighborhoods, gathering places and commercial areas through new development, redevelopment, and infrastructure projects. Policy 1.7: Create a higher aesthetic level for the community through use of redevelopment and infrastructure improvements to reduce or eliminate visual pollutants such as overhead power, cable, and telephone lines, traffic controllers,junction boxes, and inappropriate signage. Goal 2: Maintain and improve the mix of residential, commercial, employment, parks, and civic land uses throughout the community to promote a balanced tax base and to anticipate long-term economic and social changes. Policy 2.1: Review the Land Use Plan regularly to ensure its usefulness as a practical guide to current and future development. Whenever practicable, coordinate the Plan with the plans of neighboring communities, the county, school districts, and the most current Metropolitan Council system plans. Policy 2.2: Promote and support transit-oriented development and redevelopment near existing and future transit corridors. Goal 3: Identify underutilized, deteriorated, or blighted properties and guide them toward revitalization, reinvestment, or redevelopment consistent with community goals and good planning and development principles. Policy 3.2: Promote redevelopment that reduces blight, expands the tax base, enhances the mix of land uses in the community, and achieves other community objectives. Goal 4: Protect, improve, and expand the community's natural amenities and environmental quality.