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City of (Rosemount
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Mailing Address:
Vernon Napper
P. O. Box 510, Rosemount, Minnesota 55068-0510
COUNCILMEMBERS
Sheila Klassen
TO:
City Council
John Oxborough
Planning Commission
Harry Willcox
Dennis Wippermann
Economic Development Authority
ADMINISTRATOR
Parks and Recreation Committee
Stephan Jilk
Utilities Commission
FROM:
Lisa Freese, Director of Planning 611f
DATE:
October 4, 1991
SUBJ:
Joint Meeting on the Comprehensive Guide Plan Revision
As scheduled at the last meeting, there will be an additional Comprehensive Guide Plan
Joint Meeting on Tuesday, October 8, 1991 at 6:34 p.m.
This meeting is being held to finish discussion of the policies being drafted for the
Comprehensive Guide Plan update. We completed the review of the Commercial Areas
Policies at the September 6th meeting. On Tuesday, discussion will begin with the
Industrial Policies. It is really important that we wrap up the policy discussion at this
meeting, so that we can proceed with pulling together a draft plan.
I would ask that you carefully review the policies prior to the meeting and focus your
discussion on the items that you feel need substantial changes. On those items that you
feel need minor clarifications, I would appreciate it if you would submit those ideas to
me in writing (just mark up your copy).
Because of budgetary constraints, it is imperative that we move this process along to the
next step - - - completing a draft plan for public review.
Thanks for your participation.
Enclosure
cc: Stephan Jilk, City Administrator
Sue VanderHeyden, Assistant Administrator
Department Heads
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CITY OF ROSEMOUNT
POLICY PLAN
LAND USE ELEMENT
AGRICULTURAL AREAS
Objectives
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1. Continuation of long term agriculture on lands having commercial
agricultural production capabilities.
2. Continuation of agricultural preserves in areas beyond the 2010
Urban Service Area.
3 Continuation of agricultural production, experimentation and
research at the University of Minnesota Experiment Station for the
sake of agricultural preservation and maintenance of the rural
character and appearance of Rosemount.
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The City intends to continue to perpetuate the long term agricultural use of
land in areas that are intrinsically best suited for agriculture which are
beyond urban service areas and meet the eligibility requirements of the
Metropolitan Agricultural Preserves Act (Chapter 473H.03). It is, however,
the intent of the City that such participation be at the discretion of the
property owner rather than be imposed by the City.
It is- the City's intent to designate lands beyond urban service areas for
agriultural use having a maximum density of four units per 40 acres.
Clustering is intended to be permitted in accordance with City policy
provided overall densities are not exceeded and clustering criteria is met
Within any agricultural area landowners may voluntarily initiate long term
agricultural preservation certification including rezoning of the land by the
City for agricultural preservation. Such designation shall require a
maximum residential density of one unit per 40 acres. Minimum lot size is
intended to be determined by the capability of soils to accommodate on-
site waste water systems.
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Typical uses within agricultural areas include those customarily associated
with crop production, the raising, keeping and breeding of animals and
residency. Compatible parks, recreation and open space uses are also
intended to be accommodated in agricultural areas.
The following are the City's policies for Agricultural areas:
1. To support state-wide property tax strategies/reforms which
will encourage the continuation of long-term agricultural activities
and curtail the premature loss of agricultural lands to urban
development.
2. To avoid development in locations where public services cannot be
efficiently delivered (fire, police, street maintenance).
3. To support residential clustering in areas that can be readily
serviced, offer residential amenities that are not suitable for farming
(trees, surface waters), allow for the continuing use of suitable
agricultural lands and will not create land use conflicts
(residential/industrial, agriculture/residential).
4. To support voluntary landowner enrollment in agricultural
preservation programs.
5. To maintain existing public roads, but construct no new public
roads (with the exception of major streets) in agricultural areas.
6. To coordinate planning and development activities with the
University of Minnesota to avoid conflicts and ensure
compatibility.
7. To support only agricultural experimentation, education and
research at the University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment
Station.
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HOUSING. AND NEIGHBORHOODS
1. Provide housing in appropriate proportions, based on need, for
people of all income, age and life style.
2. Create and maintain quality living environments that are in tune
with the natural environment and the rural character of Rosemount.
3. Upgrade and maintain the existing housing stock.
4. Strengthen neighborhoods and protect them from adverse influences
(excessive traffic, junk cars, nuisances).
Plan Elements
The plan establishes four categories of residential land use termed High
Density Residential (HR), Urban Residential (UR), Low Density Residential
(LR) and Rural Residential (RR). Each is intended to offer a distinctly
different lifestyle to satisfy the needs and desires of a diverse population.
Each is intended to be planned to create neighborhood cohesiveness and
identity, to promote neighborhood conservation and long term residency,
and to protect the natural environment and incorporate it as an element of
human habitation.
High Density Residential (HR). High Density Residential development
is intended to be permitted only within MUSA. It has a maximum density
of 18 units per acre (except within the CBD) and will include the full range
of attached multi -family rental and owner occupied housing ranging from
townhouses to apartments. While the City has a rather substantial amount
of land already used and/or zoned for multi -family housing, some of which
is designated on the land use plan, it is the City's intent to be circumspect
about where and under what circumstances it will approve additional
higher density housing.
The City currently has 12.7% or 364 units of its housing stock in multi-
family housing exceeding a density of six units per acre. Saturation use of
currently zoned but vacant R-3 land (29 acres) at 18 u/a would produce a
multi -family ratio of 17.5% or 885 units by year 2000.
It is the City's intent to limit multi -family housing to 20% of its future
housing stock. This will require the rezoning of approximately 46 acres of
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land by year 2010 for up to 550 additional units. Areas for these units are
not designated on the land use plan. Their location will be based on the
degree to which individual projects meet adopted locational criteria.
It is the City's intent to discourage large multi -family concentrations and
large projects and to encourage projects that are unique, properly located,
fill market niches, entail a higher level of amenity and/or satisfy a need
for affordable housing.
Multi -family housing exceeding a density of six units per acre will be
considered with a density not to exceed 12 units per gross acre only if it
meets all of the following locational criteria:
1) Located within MUSA,
2) Does not require the use of existing local residential streets for
access, and
3) Is compatible with adjoining uses and represents a logical transition
from higher to lower intensity land uses or provides sufficient on-
site open space to effectively buffer dissimilar uses or is adjacent to
a permanent open space that buffers dissimilar uses or is adjacent to
the CBD or represents a logical extension of existing multi -family
zoning.
Density bonuses are intended to be considered for up to 18 units per gross
acre outside of the CBD for noncontiguous projects, the provision of
extraordinary landscaping, outdoor group open space, indoor and outdoor
recreational amenities, high quality design standards, energy conservation
and the satisfying of unique and special market niches and needs for
affordable housing. Within the CBD densities up to 40 u/a are intended to
be considered for seniors housing with such amenities.
Urban Residential (UR). Urban Residential is located entirely within
MUSA and is serviced by public sewer and water utilities. This designation
correlates with the already established urban neighborhoods of western
Rosemount plus lands that are currently vacant but are easily served by
public utilities. The full range of single-family housing is intended to be
accommodated at modest densities (two to six units per gross acre).
Housing types intended to be accommodated include single-family
detached (traditional and zero -lot line), single-family attached
(townhouses and duplexes) and manufactured housing. Multi -family
housing is also intended to be accommodated but only upon satisfying the
qualifying locational criteria described above (HR).
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Clustering and density transfers are encouraged where steep slopes (12%
and up), undevelopable soils, surface water and wetlands and quality
vegetation can be avoided and protected. Clustering is encouraged where
it is desirable to avoid such potentially adverse influences as major streets,
railroad lines and nonresidential uses and as a means to reduce land
development costs (grading and utilities). Permanent usable open space
and natural resource preservation are intended to be the products of
clustering.
The clustering of single-family housing is intended to be permitted only by
Planned Unit Development (PUD). Densities of up to six units per gross
acre will be considered, provided the overall PUD density is no greater
than three units per gross acre. Density bonuses will be considered for a
PUD to a maximum overall density of four units per gross acre where the
PUD offers such things as extraordinary landscaping, outdoor group open
space, indoor and outdoor recreational amenities, high quality design
standards, energy conservation or satisfies unique and special market
niches and the need for affordable housing.
Attached single-family projects in UR are intended to be relatively small
(not exceeding a size of 80 units). It is intended that a range of housing
styles and designs be employed ranging from contemporary to traditional
and that maximum consideration be given to the creation of neighborhoods
that are safe, healthful and enjoyable places to live.
Low Density Residential (LR). Low Density Residential areas serve as
the mid -density component of the density gradient between Urban
Residential and Rural Residential areas. They are intended to
accommodate single-family housing at densities up to two units per gross
acre with public utilities available. Clustering is encouraged to protect
unique natural features that might be lost if developed in rigid lot and
block fashion with lot size requirements. It is also intended to be used to
minimize public utility costs. Maximum protection of environmental
features including the preservation of hills and trees is required and
permanent open space buffers are intended to be established to balance
residential and environmental values.
Rural Residential (RR). Rural Residential areas are characterized by
natural features which are unique in Rosemount. They have rolling
topography and excellent stands of upland hardwoods, features that are
supportive of a single-family estate lifestyle and without which rural
residential development is not viable or sustainable. In Rural Residential
areas the development pattern is already established at a density of one
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unit per five acres with a minimum lot size of 2.5 acres. Rural Residential
areas are intended to be developed with utmost attention given to the
preservation of natural features and the continuation of this unique
Rosemount lifestyle.
TABLE
DENSITY SUMMARY
HR -
High Density Residential
6-12
u/a 1 >
UR -
Urban Residential
2-6
u/a 2>
LR -
Low Density Residential
2
u/a
RR -
Rural Residential
1
u/5 a
1 > To 18 u/a with bonuses and 40 u/a with bonuses and
seniors housing in the CBD.
2> Overall density average 3 u/a; to 4 u/a with bonuses.
General Ho ing Policies
The following are the City's Housing and Neighborhood Policies as they
apply to all housing in Rosemount:
1. To eliminate code violations that threaten life and safety and
nuisance conditions that adversely affect neighborhoods.
2. To monitor the housing stock to determine the need for a
mandatory housing maintenance program.
3. To participate in programs to meet the City's low and moderate
income housing needs.
4. To cooperate with Federal, State and County agencies to make
affordable housing available and to redevelop and rehabilitate older
homes in the City.
5. To disperse affordable housing, multi -family housing and group
homes throughout the City rather than concentrate them in large
projects or in close proximity to one another.
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6. To encourage clustering and/or extraordinary setbacks at
neighborhood edges to minimize the impact of major streets and
conflicting land uses.
7. To require residences to back or side to major streets.
8. To facilitate neighborhood planning for improvements which
create/reinforce neighborhood unity, safety and identity and
increase home ownership potential on a cost-sharing basis with
neighborhoods. Improvements may include landscaping, parks, and
local street modifications to reduce traffic impacts.
9. To formulate an ongoing policy and funding program for the
reconstruction of local residential streets.
10. To reconstruct local neighborhood streets (not MSA streets) to a
standard that is in tune with neighborhood scale and character with
emphases on preserving healthy significant street trees.
11. To formulate a funding policy and conduct an ongoing residential
street tree maintenance and replacement program.
12. To encourage innovative housing developments which are targeted at
filling market niches.
13. To allow manufactured homes and clustering only by PUD in
numbers that represent an appropriate balance with other housing
opportunities.
14. To require the use of PUD for all developments proposing to utilize
density transfers.
15. To encourage the use of PUD to protect/enhance natural features,
open space, and provide neighborhood transitions.
Agriculture Rural Residential and Low Density Housing Policies
In order to protect the rural character of Rosemount, the following policies
shall apply:
1. To discourage the placement of structures in open fields and on
the top of exposed ridge lines.
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2. To locate houses adjacent to tree lines and wooded field edges.
3. To utilize clustering where open space and active agriculture can
be retained.
4. To preserve and incorporate stone rows, tree lines, existing
agricultural structures and usable farm roads with site plans,
wherever possible.
5. To require that roads follow existing contours to minimize
grading, where practicable.
6. To maximize the retention of vegetation and maintain natural
landforms.
7. To maintain vegetation along ridge lines.
8. To discourage excessive lawn areas in general and maintain natural
habitat areas.
9. To define, during the platting process, building envelopes which
avoid the location of structures in areas needing to be preserved.
10. To give consideration, at the time of subdivision approval, to the
resubdivision of lots, including ghost -plats, should public utilities
become a necessity at a later date.
11. To protect open space or conservation areas with conservation
easements, deed restrictions and scenic easements. These tools are
intended to be used for environmental and scenic resource
protection, not public access.
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TABLE _
1990 HOUSING UNIT MIX
HOUSING TYPE NUMBER % AVERAGE
UNITS DENSITY
Single -Family 1)
2,291
79.9
Multi -Family
364
12.7
Mobile Homes/Other
211
7.4
1,068
12.0
75 2)
TOTAL
2,866
100.0
TABLE _
2010 HOUSING UNIT MIX
HOUSING TYPE % NUMBER ADDITIONAL AVERAGE ACRES
UNITS UNITS DENSITY NEEDED
Single -Family 1)
72.6
5,198
2,907
2.5
1,163
Multi -Family
20.0
1,432
1,068
12.0
75 2)
Mobile Homes/Other
7.4
530
319
3.0
106
TOTALS 100.0 7,160 4,294 1,344
1) Includes single-family detached, two-family and single-family attached having
densities of less than six units per acre.
2) 29 vacant acres are already zoned R-3.
COMMERCIAL AREA
1. Satisfy the weekly convenience shopping and service needs of
market area residents.
2. Maintain the Town Center as the historical retail/governmental
center of Rosemount and the remainder of the CBD for highway
service and support commercial activity.
3. Provide for revitalization of the CBD as a means to maintain its
viability and competitiveness in the market place.
4. Build on the historical values of the Town Center by maintaining its
mainstreet (U shopping center) character.
5. Maximize the efficiency and synergy of retail/service developments
within the CBD.
Plan Elements
The Rosemount Central Business District (CBD) consists of two rather
distinctly different sub -elements: the Town Center which generally lies
north of lower 147th Street and the remainder which extends south along
South Robert Trail beyond County Road 42. The CBD as 'a whole has a
sufficient supply of vacant land and redevelopment capacity to satisfy the
needs of its retail market area until at least year 2000. It is for this reason
that the City intends to concentrate all commercial development in this
single contiguous area.
The Town Center exemplifies the City's small town character and serves as
the center for civic interaction. It is intended that the Town Center
continue to accommodate a mixture of non -auto oriented retail, office,
governmental, religious and educational facilities and function in an
historical or traditional fashion with buildings oriented to the street,
sidewalks, on -street parking, parking lots behind or between buildings and
small vestpocket park or pedestrian scale open spaces. It is intended that
the Town Center be redeveloped with buildings of an appropriate massing,
scale and size to create a pedestrian friendly environment.
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The remainder of the CBD is intended to accommodate freestanding
destination -type retail and service establishments including auto -oriented
uses that may be of more contemporary design. These uses generally
benefit from arterial access and high visibility. They include auto service,
fast food, convenience retail and other uses of a one-stop nature.
The following are the City's policies for Commercial areas:
1. To consider commercial development beyond the CBD only
when contiguous, the site is five acres or larger in size, a viable plan
is submitted, a market study is presented which establishes market
absorption compatibilities and the proposed development is
acceptably preleased in accordance with prevailing financial
standards.
2. To facilitate the rehabilitation of sound structures and the
redevelopment of unsafe, blighted or obsolete structures where
consistent with the City's Redevelopment and Comprehensive Plans.
3. To facilitate CBD planning and redevelopment and the
implementation of parking and landscaping improvements.
4. To assume responsibility for the development of all Town Center
parking and streetscape improvements and assess landowners
for improvements based on benefits received.
S. To assist with the relocation of inappropriate businesses away from
the CBD as part of the City's redevelopment program.
6. To encourage land use arrangements which improve retail mix and
maximize land use/parking efficiencies in the Town Center.
7. To provide convenient parking in appropriate locations and in
sufficient amounts to satisfy parking demands.
8. To encourage shared parking, wherever practicable, to minimize
excessive hard surface land coverage.
9. To discourage strip commercial and spot zoning patterns that
are not in conformance with the Comprehensive Plan.
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10. To minimize the number and maximize the spacing of street and
driveway accesses to major streets from business areas.
11. To maximize land use compatibility between commercial and
residential uses by proper design, land use transitions and
extraordinary buffering, landscaping and screening at neighborhood
edges.
12. To encourage a unified management structure and the collective
promotion of business in the CBD. ,
13. To ensure safe and convenient pedestrian access and maintain a
pedestrian scale within the Town Center.
14. To establish a design concept with design guidelines for the CBD
which will unify it as a center of retail activity.
15. To generally upgrade business signage throughout the City and
continue to prohibit off-site advertising signs.
16. To minimize commercial traffic impacts on residential streets.
17. To carefully control offensive commercial uses by requiring that
they be concentrated away from residential areas, churches, schools,
parks and other public facilities.
18. To rezone properties that are not in conformance with the
Comprehensive Plan to bring them into compliance with public land
use policy.
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INDUSTRIAL AREAS
1. Provide the full range of opportunities for industrial development in
Rosemount. -
2. Ensure that conflicts with the natural environment and other land
uses are minimized.
3. Expansion of the Pine Bend Industrial Area in a logical, orderly and
sequential fashion in coordination with waste processing/
management plans.
Rosemount presently has a significant amount of heavy industrial
development in the Pine Bend area and only limited light industrial
development near the old Village. The east end of the City is to be the
future home of the Dakota County Waste Incinerator and a number of
other waste processing/management uses. Koch refinery is one of only
two such facilities in the entire State of Minnesota. These factors suggest
that more heavy industrial development may be forthcoming, that
alternative uses will be increasingly unlikely in this area and that public
utilities will be needed to service this collection of regional and larger scale
land uses. Two types of industrial development are proposed as follows:
Industrial Park (I -P). Industrial park areas are intended to serve light
industrial uses as well as general office development and supporting
commercial service uses. Generally, industrial parks are developed under
one single ownership, but, in any event, development must occur in a
coordinated fashion that demonstrates future phasing capability (if
applicable); an internal circulation system with limited access to collectors
and streets); high standards of planning, architectural and landscaping
design which remain consistent throughout the park; adequate buffering
(through the use of extra -ordinary setbacks and/or effective screening)
from adjacent residential uses; and no outdoor storage. Typical industrial
park uses include warehousing, distribution, light assembly, and
wholesaling as well as office uses and commercial uses that clearly
support, are incidental to, or complement the industrial park (e.g. office
supplies and services or restaurants that serve employees). Industrial
parks are intended to be developed within the Urban Service Area,
adjacent to an arterial or collector street.
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General Industrial (G -I1. General industrial areas are those reserved
exclusively for industries requiring large sites and/or exterior storage.
The general industrial areas are located so asby
minimize
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on adjacent land uses and to be well -served y a
as barge and rail transportation systems. filar large-scale industrial transhipment eand
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distribution centers, outdoor storage yards and mining.
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commercial uses are permitted only where clearly Y
to industrial activities.
The following are the City's policies for Industrial areas:
1. To create an Urban Service Area for east Rosemount to service
regional -scale industrial and waste management/processing land
uses.
2. To allow for the expansion of industrial development in the on d be Bend area where land is unsuitable for other uses could
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adversely influenced by adjoining uses (incinerator) p
development is within the Urban Service Area, will not adversely
impact long-term agricultural activities, is serviceable by public
utilities in sequential fashion (is contiguous to already served accessed where services can be readily extended) and is able to be
via public streets without public assistance.
3. To require that all industrial developments comply with U.S. EPA and
MPCA standards for effluent emissions per NPDES permit
procedures.
4. To require that all on-site industrial waste water treatment
systems be maintained and inspected according to the requirements
of the City's Subdivision Ordinance, Building Code and Chapter 70-80,
MPCA Rules.
5. To require that all industrial uses within Urban Service such Areas services
connected to public sewer and water services
as become available.
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6. To require that planning for industrial developments minimize
environmental impacts, land use conflicts and visual accessibility
from surrounding properties and public streets and highways.
7. To initiate the development of an industrial park for low impact
light industries in western Rosemount and consider the use of
economic incentives as means to stimulate tax base enhancement and
job creation.
8. To maximize land use compatibility by requiring extraordinary
standards for setbacks, buffering, screening and landscaping at the
edges of industrial areas and along major streets and highways.
9. To encourage the provision of small green
industrial areas for use by employees and
the City's trail system.
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spaces and trails within
to tie industrial areas into
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CONSERVANCY AREAS
Obiectives
1. Creation of a buffer to minimize conflicts between heavy industrial
and residential land uses.
2. Allowance for very low intensity land uses that are not likely to be
impacted by or have an impact on the existing Pine Bend heavy
industrial development.
3. Protection and limited public use of the existing natural landscape.
Conservancy areas are those where development is intended to be
carefully controlled in the interests of precluding urban land use
encroachments which might conflict with heavy industrial and waste
management uses and/or protecting natural environmental features is
slopes, surface waters, wetlands, etc.). Within conservancy areas
.intent of the City to prohibit the construction of new continue topal structures
use. lands for
while allowing existing land owners the right t
present uses, expand principal structures and add accessory structures and
uses as appropriate.
Policies
The following are the City's policies for Conservancy Areas:
1. To maintain all tree stands and natural topographic landforms
(hills, slopes, etc.).
2. To prohibit all new development other than as accessory to an
existing use.
3. To allow owners to improve existing properties and maintain
their status as legally conforming land uses per the City's Zoning
Ordinance.
4. To disallow the extension of public utilities to any part of a
Conservancy Area.
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5. To allow only such low intensity uses within Conservancy Areas as
parks, recreation, open space and trails; agriculture and already
existing residences.
6. To permit interim uses such as sand and gravel mining only in
areas where they do not disturb unique natural landforms (wetlands,
hills, slopes and trees).
7. To acquire, whenever possible, conservation easements and deed
restrictions to protect valuable natural features and allow for their
use by the public.
8. To assist, as appropriate, with the acquisition of land to
implement the conservancy area concept.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ELEMENT
1. Provide opportunities for the attraction of new business and the
retention of existing business as means to expand employment
opportunities and increase/diversify the City's tax base.
2. Stimulate the redevelopment of blighted or obsolete land uses.
3. Insure that publicly assisted economic development projects meet
established criteria that guarantee public benefit.
4. Coordinate economic development activities/programs with other
public agencies.
The following are the City's policies for Economic Development:
1. To make public financial assistance/incentives and/or
infrastructure available only for projects that eliminate blight,
increase or retain predominantly full-time professional, technical and
managerial employment or retain existing viable businesses.
2. To avoid public financial assistance for any business where the
assistance alone makes the business viable.
3. To make public financial assistance available for redevelopment
only when it can be demonstrated that the project would not be
feasible without public assistance.
4. To make public assistance available only when a project can be
proven to be feasible and will produce tax base benefits which
exceed public costs.
5. To require developer financial guarantees as part of
redevelopment agreements as the first line of defence against project
failure. In other words, the developer should guarantee that
payments in lieu of tax increments will be made by the developer in
the event of a shortfall.
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6. To actively identify redevelopment needs and initiate projects
which meet the City's qualifying criteria.
7. To communicate .regularly and effectively with Dakota County and
the Rosemount School District whenever tax increment financing .is to
be used.
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TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT
EXISTING TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Major Thoroughfares. The City is traversed by only one Metropolitan System Highway;
State Trunk Highway 52 which is located in eastern Rosemount. This is a four -lane
expressway facility with at -grade intersections (except at County Road 42) that carries
approximately 23,300 and 16,000 vehicles per average day north and south of Highway
55 respectively (1991). According to the Metropolitan Council's Transportation
Development Guide, no improvements are scheduled for Trunk Highway 52 prior to
2010. it will become .an extremely important roadway necessitating substantial
improvements if MSP International Airport is relocated south of Rosemount.
Other existing arterial streets include County Road 42 and State Trunk Highways 3 and
55. The entire system of State, County, and Municipal State Aid (MSA) streets is
operating at a favorable traffic volume to capacity ration except for State Trunk
Highway 3 where current capacity is deficient. Trunk Highway 3 is a two-lane street,
currently carrying approximately 8,500 ADT (average daily traffic), which bisects
downtown Rosemount. Any efforts to increase its capacity would be in direct conflict
with the redevelopment of this center as the City's primary shopping district.
Public Transit. The City of Rosemount, along with Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan,
Prior Lake and Savage, is a member of the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority. This
opt out authority provides a work commute express bus service to and from downtown
St. Paul and Minneapolis. The City has one park and ride lot located near the
intersection of 143rd Street West and South Robert Trail (TH 3) from which the Green
Line Shuttle currently provides a feeder route through Rosemount, east Apple Valley
and Eagan connecting with the express buses. The MVTA, which is overseen by the
Regional Transit Board (RTB), is also responsible for monitoring and meeting transit
needs throughout the six city member region.
Aviation. The City currently has no airport or heliport facilities within its jurisdiction.
It is, however, within a Critical Airspace Policy Area which must be protected from the
encroachment of obstructions to air navigation (structures over 500 feet tall). Southern
and eastern Rosemount are also included within the Dakota Candidate Search Area for
a new hub or major airport, an area that seems to be the preferred area.should MSP be
relocated. If the decision is made to relocate MSP, actual construction will not occur
until after the turn of the century. The nearest reliever airports are South St. Paul and
Airlake, both of which are six or more miles from Rosemount.
Rail Service.
Barge Facilities.
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TRANSPORTATION PLAN
Objectives
Z. Development of a safe and efficient hierarchy of public streets and highways
that provides for the movement of large volumes of long distance traffic on
major streets and minimizes traffic on local streets within neighborhoods.
2. Optimum accessibility throughout the City and to major regional activity centers
via systems that are coordinated with neighboring communities, the County, and
the State.
3. Reduction in single occupant automobile travel to diminish the growing demand
for street capacity.
4. Provision of greater transit choice and improved mobility for all City residents,
especially the transit dependent.
5. Continuing improvements to public streets to protect the public's investment in
infrastructure.
6. Protection of airspace throughout the City from vertical obstructions to aviation.
Major Thoroughfare Plan Elements
Until substantial increases in the cost of parking at the work destination, gasoline and
commuting in general occur, or stronger efforts by transportation agencies are made to
promote public transit, the automobile will be the primary mode of transportation for
City residents until well into the next century. For this reason, this plan will primarily
focus on major thoroughfares. Most of the major street system is already in place with
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the exception of County Road 46 (160th Street), the relocation of Trunk
Highway 3 and needed collector streets in the Pine Bend area.
The proposed Major Thoroughfare Functional Classification System
correlates with that of Dakota County with the exception of Trunk Highway
3 north of County Road 42 and County Road 42 where both are classified as
principal arterials by the County. Based on the County's projected 2010
traffic volumes, an arterial classification is warranted but high 2010 traffic
volumes on Trunk Highway 3 (16,000 to 20,000 ADT) will be totally
inconsistent with the City's intent to redevelop its historical Town Center.
At best, on -street parking will have to be removed to accommodate such
traffic, an act that is inconsistent with the Town Center's intended
mainstreet concept. In the case of County Road 42, at -grade intersections
warrant its designation as a minor arterial.
A potentially significant departure from the Dakota County Transportation
Plan includes the relocation of Trunk Highway 3 easterly of the old Village
after year 2000 and its classification as a minor arterial. To avoid the
relocation of Trunk Highway 3, if at all possible, the City prefers that
excess traffic be assigned, by design, to Diamond Path and Pilot Knob
Roads, an action that may require the redesignation of Diamond Path to
minor arterial status. If that is not anticipated to produce the desired
result, the new alignment for Trunk Highway 3 should be established and
protected so that construction can be commenced when traffic volumes on
existing Trunk Highway 3 approach its current capacity threshhold,
warranting the removal of on -street parking or widening. The movement
Of MSP International south of Rosemount, will almost certainly require the
relocation of TH 3. If relocated, existing Trunk Highway 3 is intended to
function as a collector street, providing direct access to the Town Center
from all residential areas without having to utilize the arterial street
system.
Other lesser changes in the thoroughfare plan include a system of collector
streets which service the proposed industrial areas at Pine Bend.
Providing access to adjacent properties via local streets, this will allow for
the eventual upgrading of Trunk Highway 52 to meet freeway standards.
All streets
for
not shown
as major thoroughfares are classified
as local streets
which
the City has exclusive responsibility. Most major
streets are
under the
jurisdiction
of the State of Minnesota and Dakota
County.
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1. To require the dedication of all rights-of-way for collector and
local streets.
2. To require adequately spaced driveways and street intersections
along major streets to maintain maximum efficiency and capacity
and minimize vehicular conflicts.
3. To require the elimination or reduction in the number of direct
driveway accesses to the arterial street system as redevelopment
occurs and prohibit any new direct accesses to Trunk Highway 52.
4. To establish and enforce minimum setback distances between
intersections and driveways to accommodate queuing and avoid
traffic conflicts at street intersections.
5. To require expanded setbacks for land uses adjacent to major
streets between major intersections where accessibility is not
available or desirable but consider reduced setbacks along frontage
roads and at intersections to accommodate public transit
accessibility.
6. To use signage, traffic diverters, and other appropriate measures to
minimize traffic volumes and through traffic on local residential
streets (not MSA streets) but avoid the use of stop signs for such
purposes unless warranted by cross traffic volumes.
7. To protect rights-of-way for future collector and arterial streets
from land use encroachments.
8. To require the protection of sight lines at street intersections.
9. To require that accepted standards (ITE) for sight distances based
on speed are -met at intersections and driveway entrances to major
streets.
10. To require residences to back or side to major streets.
11. To build sidewalks and, where practicable, bikeways/trails as
integral parts of the upgrading of major streets and coordinate
pedestrian and nonmotorized systems with the Parks Master Plan.
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avoi
12. To permit the use of cul-de-sacs only as means
tol void onment or
street
extensions that would be detrimental to th
where, due to topographic change, such extensions cannot feasibility
be made.
13. To approve streets only where every effort has been made to fit the
natural contour and avoid landform disruption.
q
14. To require traffic impact studies for larger residential,
commercial or industrial developments or where projects are unable
to meet the minimum standards set forth in this
with the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority, Dakota
15. To cooperate lann g
County, MnDOT, and neighboring counland transit planning
implementation of mayor street,highway
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FUNCTIONAL THOROUGHFARE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
PRINCIPAL MINOR COLLECTOR LOCAL
ARTERIAL ARTERIAL STREET STREET
Spacing
3-6 miles
1-2 miles
0.5-1 mile
1 block - urban
1 mile - rural
Location
On edges of developmen
On edges of development
On edges or
Within neighborhoods
and neighborhoods.
and neighborhoods.
within neighborhoods.
and other homogeneous
land use areas.
Intersection
Grade separated.
Traffic signals and
4 -way stops and
As required.
Characteristics
cross street stops.
some signals.
Local street stops.
Volumes Carried
5,000-50,000
1,000-10,000
250-2,500
Less than 1,000
Posted Speed
Legal limit.
50
35-45
Maximum 30
Parking
None
Restricted as
Restricted as
Restricted if MSA.
necessary.
necessary.
Management Tools
Ramp metering with
Signal timing with
Number of lanes.
Intersection control.
preferential treatment
preferential treatment
Signal timing.
Cut -de -sacs.
for transit.
for transit.
Access control.
Diverters.
System Access
To interstate freeways,
To interstate freeways,
To minor arterials,
To collectors and
other arterials.
other arterials and
other collectors.
other locals.
collectors.
Trip -making
Trips greater than
Medium to short trips
Short trips
Short trips
Service Performed
8 miles at moderately
(2-6 miles) at
(1-4 miles) at
at low speeds.
high speed. Express
moderate speeds.
low speeds.
transit trips.
Local transit trips.
Local transit trips.
Source: Metropolitan Council
THOROUGHFARE STANDARDS
DESIGN ELEMENT
PRINCIPAL
MINOR
COLLECTOR
STREET
LOCAL
STREET
ARTERIAL
ARTERIAL
Number of traffic lanes
4-6
4
2-4
2
Traffic lane width (ft)
12-14
12-14
12
10-12
Curb parking or
parking
No arkin
No parking
B-10
8
shoulder width (ft)
Minimum pavement
52
52
36
28
width (ft)
Minimum R -O -W
300
100-120
80
50
width (ft)
Design speed (mph)
55
50
40
30
ACCESS CONTROL STANDARDS
PRINCIPAL MINOR COLLECTOR LOCAL
ARTERIAL ARTERIAL STREET STREET
Rural
Minimum
Limited access carefully planned
Access carefully planned
Entrances combined where posslble
Entrances
General type of
Desirable
Access only at Principal and Minor
Access only at Pr, Min and Coll
Access carefully planned
combined
acess control.
Urban
Minimum
Access only at Principal and Minor
Some access at major generators
Access carefully planned
where
Desirable
No access between interchanges
No access between public streets
No access between public streets
possible
Rural
Principal
s miles
- -
- -
Minor
3 miles
3 miles
- -
-
Desirable spacing
Collector
1 mile
2 miles
z mites
-
of intersections of
Local
None
1 mile
1 mile
Carefully planned
crossing public
Urban
Principal
3 miles
- -
- -
-
roadways.
Minor
1 mile
1 mile
- -
-
Collector
None
.5 mile
.5 mile
Local
None
None
.25 mile
Carefully planned
Rural
Minimum
1,250 feet
500 feet
300 feet
100 feet
Non-public
Desirable
None
1,250 feet
1,000 feet
300 feet
entrance spacing
Urban
Minimum
1 mile
200 feet
100 feet
50 feet
Desirable
None
500 feet
300 feet
100 feet
Corner clearance
Rural
Minimum
300 feet, If any
50 feet
50 feet
50 feet
to non-public
Desirable
No access permitted
100 feet
100 feet
100 feet
entrance.
Urban
Minimum
No access permitted
50 feet
30 feet
30 feet
Desirable
No access permitted
100 feet
100 feet
100 feet
ACCESS CONTROL STANDARDS
PRINCIPAL MINOR COLLECTOR LOCAL
ARTERIAL ARTERIAL STREET STREET
Rural
Minimum
Limited access carefully planned
Access carefully planned
Entrances combined where possible
Entrances
General type of
Desirable
Access only at Principal and Minor
Access only at Pr, Min and Coll
Access carefully planned
combined
acess control.
Urban
Minimum
Access only at Principal and Minor
Some access at major generators
Access carefully planned
where
Desirable
No access between Interchanges
No access between public streets
No access between public streets
possible
Rural
Principal
6 miles
Minor
3 miles
3 miles
Desirable spacing
Collector
1 mile
2 miles
2 miles
of intersections of
Local
None
1 mile
1 mile
Carefully planned
crossing public
Urban
Principal
3 miles
roadways.
Minor
1 mile
1 mile
Collector
None
.5 mile
.5 mile
- -
Local
None
None
.25 mile
Carefully planned
Rural
Minimum
1,250 feet
500 feet
300 feet
100 feet
Non-public
Desirable
None
1,250 feet
1,000 feet
300 feet
entrance spacing
Urban
Minimum
1 mile
200 feet
100 feet
50 feet
Desirable
None
500 feet
300 feet
100 feet
Corner clearance
Rural
Minimum
300 feet, If any
50 feet
50 feet
50 feet
to non-public
Desirable
No access permitted
100 feet
100 feet
100 feet
entrance.
Urban
Minimum
No access permitted
50 feet
30 feet
30 feet
Desirable
No access permitted
100 feet
100 feet
100 feet
(Major Thoroughfare Plan)
(with 2010 volumes)
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Public Transit Plan Elements
For reasons primarily related to the lack of financing public usage, transit service to
Rosemount is very limited, consisting of a feeder bus service connecting with express
buses to downtown St. Paul and Minneapolis from a park and ride lot located just north
of downtown Rosemount. According to the Community Survey (1989) only 17% of
Rosemount's residents are employed in Minneapolis and St. Paul while a substantial
percent (34%) are employed in Eagan, Burnsville, Apple Valley and Bloomington/South
Hennepin County to which no service is available. According to the March, 1986
Transit Service needs Assessment prepared by the RTB, transit dependency is low in
Rosemount with primary work trip attractions being Bloomington, Eagan and Apple
Valley. Public transit is and will continue to be a very minor need for Rosemount,
except for the truly dependent rider, until congestion increases, parking fees are initiated
or spaces taxed and fuel costs increase dramatically. It is the City's intent to explore
with the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority (MVTA), as opportunities arise, para -
transit, flexroute circulator service, park and pool service and to continually monitor and
meet the transit needs of the City.
Another facet of public transit is the possible implementation of Light Rail Transit
(LRT). This possibility is currently being studied by several agencies. Rosemount's
participation is through the Southern Dakota County Light Rail Committee. As
planning of the LRT progresses and as the need for public transit becomes more
apparent it will be necessary for the many agencies involved in transportation issues to
coordinate their efforts and finances.
Public Transit Policies
1. Encourage state and federal transportation dollars to be used more toward
public transit and less toward freeway construction to increase patronage of
transit and decrease traffic congestion.
2. To encourage larger employers to participate in Minnesota Rideshare.
3. To promote and encourage the increased use of public transit and ride -sharing
as means to reduce single occupant automobile travel demand.
4. Through participation in the MVTA, work with the RTB to ensure Rosemount's
bus service needs are met and appropriate dollars made available.
5. Through participation in the MVTA, work with the other opt -out authorities and
the RTB to change policies regulating transit tax dollars and bus ownership in
order to create a more favorable market for competition among transit
operators.
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6. As the need arises for moving or increasing the number of park and ride lots,
the location of such should be in the CBD or near other retail/commercial and
higher density residential areas.
7. To exercise local development controls and financing mechanisms to protect
needed park and ride sites from urban development.
8. To establish appropriate and supportive land uses in the vicinity of park and
ride lots to maximize compatibility and shared parking.
9. To locate higher density developments appropriately to take into account the
future availability of public transit services.
10. To encourage developers with transit corridors to design for public transit
including the orientation of building entrances to streets, reductions in setbacks,
provision of transit stops and walkways and the provision of preferential parking
opportunities to those who car and van pool.
11. To participate with MVTA, RTB, and MnDOT to ensure that transit facility
needs are coordinated with highway planning.
12. Through participation in the Southern Dakota County Light Rail Committee,
ensure Rosemount's interests are represented.
13. Encourage coordination of bus service and LRT service by working with all
involved transportation agencies, such as MnDOT, RTB, LRT committees, and
other opt -outs.
Aviation Plan Elements
It is the City's intent to continue to participate in the process of selecting a search area
for a new major replacement airport for Minneapolis St. Paul International to protect
critical airspace and to require that heliports be subject to IUP approval.
Aviation Policies
1. To require that tall towers having a height of 200 feet or more above ground
level be subject to interim use permit (IUP) requirements and procedures.
Also, to include notification of MnDOT and the FAA in said procedure.
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2. To require that heliports comply with the licensing requirements of MnDOT,
the approach and altitude standards of the FAA and the noise standards of the
MPCA as requirements of IUP approval.
3. To prohibit the use of seaplanes in the City.
4. In the event a new international airport is developed near Rosemount (beyond
year 2000), to protect all airspace zones from vertical intrusions and prohibit
general obstructions to air navigation per Minnesota Department of
Transportation Rule 14 MCAR 1.3015, Subdivisions C and D.
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PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SERVICES ELEMENT
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1. Provide public utilities and the full range of urban services within
Urban Service Areas to maintain the health, welfare and safety of the
public.
2. Provide limited urban services to Rural Service Areas.
3. Provide safeguards to insure against the disruption of essential
public services.
4. Expand the capacity of the Rosemount wastewater treatment plant
and/or explore alternative ways of increasing capacity in a timely
fashion so that development within Urban Service Areas is not
restricted.
S. Explore service sharing and alternative methods of providing public
services which will maintain levels without substantial cost
increases.
6. Communicate often and effectively with constituents to facilitate
their understanding of the essential relationship between servicing
costs and demands.
7. Continue to monitor and maintain the public infrastructure to protect
the public's investment and minimize service failures.
Public Utilitv Policies
1. To provide public sewer service to and replace the existing rural
water system in east Rosemount to service regional -scale industrial
and waste management/processing land uses.
2. To support the expansion of the Rosemount waste water
treatment facility to satisfy the growing need for capacity
throughout the City.
3. To extend public utility systems in a logical, sequential fashion,
concurrent with development, not in advance of development.
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4. To define and protect potential public utility rights-of-way that
may eventually be needed to extend service to rural residential
areas.
5. To require soil testing and establish minimum lot sizes on a case-by-
case basis for all on-site waste treatment systems.
6. To maintain an inventory and conduct an ongoing biennial inspection
program for on-site septic systems.
7. To prohibit the development and use of new private waste water
treatment plants in the City.
8. To reduce inflow and infiltration to the sanitary sewer system
and thereby increase wastewater treatment plant capacity by
continuing to upgrade the present system and requiring the
termination of the pumping of storm water from basement sumps
directly into the sanitary sewer system.
9. To require that the release of stormwater from a developed site
comply with the City's stormwater management plans or be retained
to the extent that its release rate is no greater than the pre -
.development ten year peak discharge.
10. To explore with surrounding cities the potential benefits that may
accrue to interconnecting public water supply systems in
conjunction with appropriate conservation measures to insure a
minimum level of service in case of service disruption.
11. To cooperate with the MWCC and the Vermillion Watershed
Management Organization in providing sufficient waste water
treatment capacity and maintaining surface waters- quality for a
growing population.
Other ublic Facility and Services Policies
1. To provide fire and rescue services to all the areas of the
western Urban Service Area within a six to seven minute response
time.
2. To site fire stations in locations that offer the best potential
accessibility by volunteer fire fighters and especially recruit
daytime volunteers within a two minute turnout time from stations.
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3. To continue to cooperate with Koch Refinery and the University of
Minnesota to improve fire protection services to the more remote
areas of the City.
4. To evaluate the need and feasibility of providing public water
service to northwest Rosemount as a means to improve fire
protection services.
5. To continue to upgrade fire fighting and emergency rescue
equipment and water service as needed to maintain present levels
of service and improve insurance ratings.
6. To continue to explore cooperative
mutual aid fire departments to
fire service and training.
cost-sharing arrangements with
increase efficiency and improve
7. To continue to promote cooperative arrangements between the
Dakota County Sheriff and the City Police Departments to improve
services and optimize costs.
8. To maintain all public administration functions in a single
centrally located City Administration Center.
9. To maintain the City's government center in size and quality to
meet acceptable employee workspace standards.
10. To evaluate/explore service sharing opportunities with other
municipalities ranging from cost-sharing to consolidation.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ELEMENT
1. Conservation of unique and essential natural resources.
2. Integration of urban development with the natural environment in a
environmentally responsible manner.
3. Protection of people and property from natural and manmade
hazards.
4. Conservation of energy resources.
5. Protection and preservation of scenic and historical resources.
1. To prohibit the alteration of all wetlands which are identified by
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Natural Wetlands Inventory unless
replacement/mitigation is provided in the ratio of two acres of
mitigated wetlands for each acre of drained or filled wetland.
2. To require that any wetland mitigation comply with U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service Criteria for wetland quantity, character and
diversity.
3. To prohibit the use of any Type 3, 4 or 5 wetland as a primary
sediment trap during or after construction.
4. To protect designated Recreational Development, General
Development and Natural Environment Waters per the City's
Shoreland Overlay Regulations.
5. To protect areas susceptible to flooding from encroachments which
could result in property damage or impede the hydraulic efficiency
of the water body in accordance with State and Federal floodway
standards.
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1. To prohibit any development of slopes in excess of 18% except as
allowed by the Mississippi River Corridor Ordinance.
2. To require site plan review and strict erosion control measures for
any development of slopes in excess of 12%.
3. To promote agriculture in designated areas which contain prime
agricultural soils.
4. To prohibit the construction of on-site sewer systems in areas
having severe or very severe soil limitations for such systems except
where alternative systems can be designed and maintained.
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1. To identify and minimize the loss of significant trees on public and
developable lands and where loss is unavoidable, require
replacement with acceptable substitute plant materials.
2. To minimize the loss of significant trees on private property.
3. To encourage a City-wide tree planting program for the
purposes of City beautification and facilitating air exchange and
thermal balances.
4. To preserve remnants of the three major natural plant
communities (oak/savannah, short grass prairie and upland
hardwoods/ bottomland shrubs and brush) which historically
prevailed in Rosemount.
5. To require, as an element of site plan review, the identification of
significant trees and tree stands and proposals for tree
preservation/replacement.
6. To require screening, landscaping and tree replacement as an
element of development plans.
7. To require that protected trees be marked and fenced prior to the
start of construction to minimize damage and future loss.
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1. To consider energy conservation during site plan review including
solar access protection and the use of vegetation to facilitate
summer shading and winter solar gain.
2. To prohibit nonresidential developments from shading residential
structures during the winter heating season (10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.).
3. To encourage the use of available grant and loan programs to provide
for the increased energy efficiency of the City's housing stock.
4. To promote and encourage the increased use of public and
nonmotorized transit and ridesharing as means to reduce energy
consumption.
1. To prohibit the use of groundwater for once -through heating and
cooling.
2. To promote water conservation programs to diminish the public
and private use of water for nonessential purposes.
3. To investigate methods and programs which will minimize the use of
applied chemicals for lawn care and public street maintenance.
4. To require land alteration and erosion control plans for all
developments during construction.
5. To require the maintenance of natural vegetation, shorelines
and wetland fringes of and require minimum setbacks from
protected waters as means to protect water quality and wildlife
habitat.
6. To encourage a dual pond concept per U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service guidelines to buffer protected waters from sediment and
chemical incursions.
7. To continue to work with the MPCA and the University of Minnesota
to remediate hazardous waste contamination.
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8. To protect groundwaters by insuring that water wells are capped in
accordance with State regulations.
9. To establish a City-wide water quality management plan to
protect surface and ground waters.
1. To protect the existing wildlife habitat in the Mississippi River
Valley and the northwest area of the City through protective
easements or open space protection.
2. To support the preservation and management of rare, unique,
endangered and threatened plants and animals and prohibit
any action that would reduce or degrade the habitat supporting such
species.
3. To encourage the protection of natural wildlife habitat corridors
which link major habitat areas.
4. To encourage the use of yard plantings which also serve as wildlife
habitat.
Historical. Scenic and Landmark Policies
1. To protect historic, scenic and landmark features, wherever
practicable.
2. To incorporate known historical, scenic and landmark resources, as
identified by the City or other agencies, with proposed development
and redevelopment projects and, where loss is unavoidable, to
mitigate losses.
3. To cooperate with and assist the State Historical Society in locating,
evaluating and, where appropriate, preserving historical sites and
structures having significant historical or architectural values.
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WASTE MANAGEMENT LAND USE ELEMENT
1. Promotion of the effective regulation of waste management activities
2. Supplement and enhance environmental protection policies.
3. Establishment of appropriate, compatible locations for waste
management activities.
Public attitudes and technology involving waste management continue to
evolve. Singular approaches to waste management have given way to
integrated systems including waste reduction, reuse, recycling, resource
recovery and disposal. Waste related industries are going to continue to
develop and environmental awareness creates increasing demands for
responsible waste management.
A waste management land use element serves several functions. It allows
for the proper identification of a special use district. It allows the City to
proactively determine where waste related activities may be compatible
with other uses and should be located. It allows the City to protect waste
management activities from infringement by incompatible uses. It also
provides the City the vehicle to establish proper regulations and
responsible management for waste related activities.
Policy review and analysis is an on-going requirement in any growth
management plan. The need for continual policy analysis in waste
management planning is particularly vital due to the rapid changes in
waste management technology, regulatory direction and public sentiment.
The following are the City's policies for Waste Management land uses:
1. To permit waste related activities only when the public health, safety
and welfare is ensured.
2. To require that waste related activities occur in locations that
minimize or eliminate conflicts with other uses.
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3. To locate waste related activities in areas in which long term land
use compatibility and protection from other conflicting uses may be
maximized.
4. To permit waste related activities only when any potential or known
conflicts or impacts are eliminated or properly mitigated.
5. To require that any waste related facility employ the best available
technology in any aspect of the facility regarding environmental
protection controls.
6. To ensure that the design, construction and operation of waste
related facilities minimize any negative environmental impacts and
mitigate them to the fullest extent possible.
7. To allow waste disposal to occur only when efforts to reuse and
recycle wastes have been exhausted.
8. To consider waste related facilities only when the economic benefits,
incentives and other advantages to the City and community clearly
outweigh any known or potential negative aspects of a facility.
9. To permit waste related facilities only when the proper
infrastructure exists to serve facilities or when proper improvements
can be made without expense or burden on the City.
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