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20) Ensure that essential services are aesthetically pleasing and harmonious with adjacent uses. a) Require that utility str�uctures and essential services not negatively impactsurrounding uses by careful placement on sites of landscaping and screening, parking, and implementing adequate noise and odor control devices. 21) Reduce light, air, noise and visual pollution. a) Provide adequate lighting for streets and parking areas but withoutcreating a hazard for motorists or a nuisance for adjacent residential property owners. Require direct or directly reflected light be conftned to the property. Lights must be equipped with hoods or louvers to direct light downward and prevent glare from crossing property boundaries. 22) Address highway-generated noise. a) Developnoise-mitigatingfeatures,especiallyforresidentialareasthatareadjacentto the two lakes and on Fairview Avenue. This should include gr�eater setbacksfrom the road, additional buffer or screening requirements and constr�uction techniques such as fewer windows on the highway side of the house, acoustical design, quieter air handling equipment, and additional insulation, as well as improved siting of new commerciaUindustrial buildings to act as buffers for highway noise. 23) Revise the standards to include site design and review standards that encourage innovative on-site management of storm water where possible, and storm water conveyance to regional ponds where necessary. Fore�mple, some temporary(12-hour)storage could be done in and under parking lots to control flow fi�om parking lots to pond. Work with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and US Environmental Protection Agency to implement a regional water quality system. 24) Protect, preserve and restore features, on both public and private property, which sign�cantly contribute to the character and appearance of the natural environment of Twin Lakes. a) Utilize dedication of easements, outrightpurchase, and purchase of developmentrights to preserve open space near or adjacent to lakes and shore land. b) Use decked parking and shared parking easements to mcr�imize use of existing parking and driveways. Retain a minimum of 15% of each site in gr�een space and/or ponding. c) Plantstreetboulevard and median areas, consistentwith the CityMasterTree Plan, as part of each redevelopment project and especially in parking areas. d) Require newly developed parcels to incorporate year round aesthetically pleasing native plantings as part of the landscape plan, where possible. Source: 2001 Twin Lakes Master Plan, pages 5-9. PF3595_RCA_Twin_I.akes_General_Concept_122004 Page 17