RELATED GOALS The 2040 Comprehensive Plan will have separate chapters for Economic Development and Housing. Staff has been working with the Housing and Economic Development Commission on those chapters. Initial goals proposed in each area include:
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT • Promote the efficient retention and redevelopment of commercial and employment areas in the City as high quality and attractive developments and land uses. • Promote Maplewood as a great place for investment and employment • Encourage attractive commercial and employment developments • Attract and develop a quality labor force that meets the needs of the existing labor market and anticipates trends in business and industry
HOUSING • Provide for the maintenance of the quality of housing in residential neighborhoods • Promote efforts to upgrade, enhance, and maintain the existing housing stock • Improve the availability of affordable and life-cycle housing
Mixed Use
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A key direction for the 2040 Comprehensive Plan is the expansion of the City’s mixed-use areas. The draft Future Land Use Plan identifies three categories of mixed use. These mixed use districts are intended to support reinvestment in small, neighborhood nodes; provide flexibility for the Maplewood Mall area as it changes to respond to retail and entertainment trends; and provide opportunities to diversify and intensify land uses around the proposed transit investments in the Rush Line and Gold Line transitways. The three proposed mixed use districts are: »» The Mixed Use – Neighborhood category is the same as the current Mixed Use Category. This category is applied throughout the community at small neighborhood commercial nodes and strip centers. »» The Mixed Use – Neighborhood High Density category is similar to the existing mixed use category but incorporates higher residential density ranges to meet Met Council requirements for the Rush Line Corridor. Currently this category is only designated around in Gladstone. »» The Mixed Use – Community category is guided in multiple locations throughout the community, including the Rice and Larpenteur area, Maplewood Mall, the neighborhood to the north of 3M, and around the Interstate 94 and Century interchange to support the Gold Line. This category is intended to have higher densities of residential, as well as more regional or commercial scale retail, offices, and services.
Employment The new Employment land use category is meant to broaden the former Industrial land use category to better describe the range of uses intended for those areas. The Employment classification includes both lower- and higher- intensity manufacturing and industrial areas and major employment generators including the 3M and St. John’s Hospital campuses. Former commercially designated areas along Highways 36 and 61 were also guided for Employment. The Employment designation places a special emphasis on job retention and creation.
Draft Goals The following are initial goals for Land Use: 1. Use redevelopment and revitalization as a tool to improve the economic condition and appearance of the Maplewood Mall area and address community-wide needs. 2. Use city policies and tools to strengthen the 3M campus and the St. Johns Hospital and surrounding area as key employment centers in Maplewood and this portion of the Twin Cities metro area. 3. Promote the revitalization of neighborhood retail shopping centers and corridors and surrounding areas as mixed-use nodes that enhance the vitality of particular neighborhoods in Maplewood from the perspectives of economic development and community character. 4. Encourage residential neighborhood development and redevelopment to address gaps in the housing stock, including issues tied to style, size, character, and price. 5. Enhance existing neighborhoods and ensure the efficient use of city services and infrastructure
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