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ADMINISTRATION
NOTICE OF CITY COUNCIL MEETING
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to be held in the Council Chambers
CITY OF COLUMBIA HEIGHTS
as follo~ars:
Meeting of: Joint Meeting/Work Session
City Council and Planning & Zoning Commission
Date of Meeting: Monclay, June 16, 2008
Time of Meeting: 7:00 P.M.
Location of Meeting: Council Chambers
Purpose of Meeting: To Discuss the 2008 Comprehensive Plan Update
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Bruce KeLer,ber8
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1;'alrar R. Fehsr
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CITY OF COLUMBIA HEIGHTS
590 40th Avenue N.E ., Columbia Heights, MN 55421-3878 (763) 706-3600 TDD (763) 706-3692
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Gary L. Peterson
Councilmembers:
Bobby R~illiams
Tanunera Ericson
Bruce Kelzenberg
Bnlce Nawrocl:i
City \ianagcr:
Walter R. Pehst
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS COn~IMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
DATE: June 11, 2008
TO: Columbia Heights City Council, Planning Commission, Mayor
Peterson
FROM: Jeff Sargent, City Planner
RE: Comprehensive Plan Update
Meeting of June 16, 2008
On June 16, 2008, the City will hold a joint City Council and Plamling Commission meeting to
discuss the 2008 Comprehensive Plan Update. Staff has been working with Bonestroo in
preparing the neat phases of the update, and would like to present three aspects of plan at the
meeting.
The first is a presentation of the draft goals. The overarching goal and vision statement for the
Comprehensive Plan is that "The City will support public and private reinvestment opportututies
resulting in increased neighborhood and community strength." The goals and implementation
strategies suggested within the Comprehensive Plan will help the City achieve this vision.
The second aspect is a presentation of fuhu~e and possible redevelopment sites tlu~oughout the City
of Columbia Heights. Staff has identified six specif c areas within the City for future
redevelopment, with the seventh area focusing on the housing stock and neighborhood strength.
Staff would like City Council feedback as to whether these areas should be focused on if
redevelopment opporhulities present themselves.
The final aspect of the meeting will be a comparison between the future land use map and the
zoning map for Columbia Heights. Staff has noticed some discrepancies that need to be
addressed and would like to make the City Council and Planning Commission aware of these.
Enclosed, please find tlu•ee maps. The first depicts the six specif c areas for fithtre redevelopment
as determined by City Staff. The second is the Cit~~'s current future land use map, and the third is
the City's current zoning map. Also included in this packet is a set of the draft goals.
THE CITY OF COLUMBIA HEIGHTS DOES NOT DISCRIIv1INATE ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY IN EMPLOYMENT OR -rHE PROVISION OF SERVICES
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Comprehensive Plan Goals and Policies
Revised June 3, 2008
COMMUNITY IMAGE
Goal: Establish and maintain a strong sense of community.
1. Encourage public involvement by creating identifiable neighborhood
representation and city initiatives.
2. Enhance the social fabric of the community through city-wide events and
programs.
3. Continue to support the development of a mixed-use downtown/civic core along
Central Ave to provide a focal point for the community.
4. Create innovative ways to advertise public events and notices to residents of all
ages.
Goal: Strengthen the identity and image of the community as a desirable place to
live and work.
1. Enhance the physical appearance of the community through clean-up initiatives,
redevelopment, and housing maintenance programs.
2. Identify themes that will give the city a unified expression and statement.
3. Create opportunities for and encourage the establishment of a positive media
campaign to promote the City.
4. Establish design requirements for all public facilities including buildings,
streetscape, landscaping and park facilities.
5. Enhance the City's gateways by developing a plan to install signage, features,
and landscaping at City entrances.
Goal: Promote activities and provide opportunities that encourage social
interaction among diverse groups of city residents.
LAND USE & REDEVELOPMENT
Goal: Preserve and enhance the exisfing viable commercial areas within the
community.
1. Facilitate the enhancement and redevelopment of major streets and commercial
districts.
2. Develop a redevelopment plan for the 40`h Avenue Corridor.
3. Update zoning regulations that more accurately reflect existing commercial
conditions by focusing on increasing performance standards needed for
redevelopment.
Goal: Provide mechanisms for successful redevelopment of vacant lands and
targeted areas within the community.
1. Enhance the image and viability of the Central Avenue corridor, while protecting
and enhancing adjacent residential uses.
2. Create a unified downtown/civic core that provides a focal point for the City along
Central Avenue, recognizing the need to modify existing standards in order for
redevelopment to occur.
3. Continue to work with the City of Hilltop in an effort to establish a common
redevelopment plan for Central Avenue.
4. Enhance the image and viability of the University Avenue corridor, while
providing opportunities for transit-related uses.
5. Prepare a master redevelopment plan for the City with identified funding sources.
6. Modify the Design Guidelines that would better reflect the physical conditions of
the redevelopment parcels.
7. Encourage infill development that demonstrates compatibility with existing
neighborhood characteristics, in terms of quality, design, building height,
placement, scale and architectural quality.
Goal: Promote the safety of residents and ensure a safe environment for
pedestrians.
1. Create a lighting plan that will increase visibility and public safety among
residential and commercial areas.
2. Provide accessible and safe pedestrian connections to destination points among
the community.
Goal: Provide convenient access to mixed land use developments to encourage
more trips via non-motorized modes of travel and less by automobile.
Goal: Provide a natural buffer between housing and industrial zones to promote
community health.
HOUSING
Goal: Provide a variety of life cycle housing opportunities within the community.
1. Encourage development and redevelopment with a mix of housing choices in
appropriate areas that protect single-family neighborhoods.
2. Ensure that the community's senior residents and residents with special needs
have safe and accessible affordable housing.
3. Implement, continuously evaluate and modify the City's 10-year housing plan.
4. Evaluate a program for the conversion of rental duplexes to for-sale single family
dwellings.
5. In redevelopment areas of the City, incorporate, when appropriate, options for
housing that is affordable at 60% of the most recent area median income to help
achieve the Metropolitan Council Livable Communities housing goals identified
for 2011-2020.
Goal: Advocate housing efforts that attract and retain residents, especially young
families,
1. Increase the knowledge of residents regarding available housing programs for
home renovation and purchase assistance
2. Provide opportunities for first time homebuyers to purchase existing single family
homes.
3. Partner with employers and the school district to attract workers to live in the city.
Goal: Preserve and reinvest in fhe housing stock to protect values and investment
in the City.
1. Implement a Residential Inspection Before Sale program to ensure the City's
housing stock remains viable and livable.
2. Monitor the effects of foreclosures on the health of residential neighborhoods.
3. Continue to offer programs that provide financial assistance and education to the
improvement of housing within the community.
4. Reinvest in older ownership multifamily complexes through the use of Housing
Improvement Areas or other innovative financing methods.
5. Encourage energy efficiency and sustainability in renovation and new
construction
Goal: Preserve and expand fhe single-family neighborhoods as the community's
strongest asset.
1. Assess the community health of neighborhoods through a neighborhood health
monitoring report.
2. Hold quarterly meetings with City department leaders to review the status of the
City's housing conditions.
3. Enhance and maintain the quality and appearance of single-family
neighborhoods and the housing stock through code enforcement and clean-up
efforts.
4. Identify, monitor and ensure the quality condition of rented homes to promote the
integrity and livability of single family neighborhoods.
5. Reduce the potential adverse impacts of adjacent commercial or industrial land
uses on single-family residential areas.
6. Identify redevelopment areas that could support new single-family housing.
7. Evaluate new higher valued housing opportunities to provide move-up housing
for existing and new residents.
8. Encourage the development of a homeowner's maintenance association to target
older resident needs in single family neighborhoods.
9. Identify neighborhoods and promote neighborhood liaisons to work with the city
on housing and community goals.
Goal: Promote the redevelopment and reinvestment of rental housing properties
to provide for safe, quality housing for resident renters.
1. Strengthen the rental housing license program to ensure that all rental housing
properties meet the city maintenance codes..
2. Establish a Crime Free Multi-Family Housing Network as a forum for landlords to
communicate with each other and the city
3. Encourage the development or redevelopment of multi-unit senior housing rental
units.
Goal: Strengthen areas of commercial and civic activity by introducing
complementary housing development.
1. Support the inclusion of appropriate housing alternatives during redevelopment
in mixed-use districts.
2. Create pedestrian accessibility between housing and multi-use districts.
WATER SUPPLY AND WASTEWATER
Goal: Maintain a high quality and reliable water supply and distribution system.
1. Maintain existing distribution system and plan to protect the City's infrastructure
investment.
2. Periodically assess system costs and adjust user rates to meet system needs.
3. Explore an alternative supply of water for the community for emergency needs.
4. Maintain and update a Capital Improvement Plan to address system needs.
5. Replace or rehabilitate water mains throughout the City at specific sites to
address system needs and improve water quality.
Goal: Maintain a high quality and reliable sanitary sewer collection system.
1. Maintain existing collection system and plan to protect the City's infrastructure
investment.
2. Continue the systematic program of cleaning and televising sanitary sewer lines
to maintain and identify system needs.
3. Maintain and update a Capital Improvement Plan to address system needs.
4. Reduce and/or eliminate Inflow and Infiltration throughout the system.
a. Continue infrastructure improvements such a manhole cover
replacements, sanitary sewer lining and structure replacement in a
systematic manner.
b. Continue cross-connection elimination program to eliminate clear water
flows.
5. Maintain and update a Capital Improvement Plan to address system needs.
6. Systematically replace or rehabilitate sanitary sewer lines and structures
throughout the City at specific site to address system needs.
SURFACE WATER MANAGEMENT
Goal: Maintain a high quality and reliable conveyance system.
1. Maintain existing collection system and plan to protect the City's infrastructure
investment
2. Implement a systematic program of cleaning and televising storm sewer lines to
maintain and identify system needs.
3. Maintain and update a Capital Improvement Plan to address system needs.
Goal: Reduce flooding and minimize public capital expenditures.
Goal: Achieve Water Quality Standards consistent with the intended use and
classification.
Goal: Promote ground water recharge and prevent contamination of aquifers.
Goal: Continue the City's collaboration with Rice Creek Watershed District.
1. Require rate control, water quality treatment, and runoff volume reduction for
development and redevelopment projects to meet Rice Creek Watershed District
standards and improve the quality of the City's stormwater discharges.
2. Update the City's Water Resources Management Plan after Rice Creek
Watershed District has completed their current update to their Watershed Plan.
3. Partner with Rice Creek Watershed District to implement, as opportunities arise,
water quality improvements beyond those required by watershed rules and City
ordinance.
AVIATION AND AIRPORTS
Goal: Ensure that land uses do not conflict with the operation of aviation
facilities.
TRANSPORTATION
Goal: Manage and maintain the roadway systems within the community in a
manner that supports regional transportation objectives and enhances community
growth and redevelopment.
Goal: Increase and promote safe and efficient alternative modes of
transportation.
1. Support the creation of opportunities for pedestrian, bicycle and transit routes
and access for primary destination points within the City.
2. Identify and establish safe transportation routes to public schools.
Goal: Manage and maintain the investment in the existing local roadway systems.
Goal: Embrace transit as a means fo improve the livability and diversity of the
community.
Goal: Provide for safe and efficient transit transportation.
1. Review and analyze high traffic crash locations on a quarterly basis.
2. Work with MnDOT and Anoka County to provide means for low-cost traffic
congestion mitigation.
PARKS, TRAILS, AND OPEN SPACE
Goal: Maintain, improve, and redevelop fhe system of parks within the
Community.
1. Utilize Master Planning for park redevelopment projects.
2. Develop a comprehensive parks improvement program, maintenance standards,
and life cycle replacement costs to adequately plan for future needs.
Goal: Develop a system of trails within the community.
1. Work to implement the City Bike/Trail Loop Plan prioritizing major trail
connections that could be completed in conjunction with street reconstruction
projects.
Goal: Maintain and improve current standards for all parks to provide safe,
accessible, and attracfive facilities for all residents.
Goal: Provide a park and open space system that serves fhe wide-ranging
recreation, health, and leisure needs of the community.
1. Integrate community characteristics and trends when developing park facilities
and recreation programs.
Goal: Preserve and protect natural feafures and resources in existing parks and
when planning and redeveloping park and recreational facilities.
Goal: Develop financing strategies to maintain and improve the park and trail
system.
1. Promote alternative funding sources for park and recreational facilities and
programs in the community.
2. Pursue appropriate grant opportunities
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Goal: Enhance the economic viability of the community.
1. Encourage the continuation and enhancement of existing industries within the
community.
2. Rehabilitate, or where necessary, redevelop substandard and/or functionally
obsolete commercial development through private means or, if necessary, public
assistance.
Goal: Promote reinvestment in properties by the commercial and industrial
sectors.
1. Work with the Chamber of Commerce and other merchant and civic
organizations to stimulate and maintain commercial interest in the community.
2. Encourage existing industries and businesses to expand within the community.
3. Develop a marketing plan and strategy aimed at creating a commercial and
industrial identity that will help recruit business and industry to Columbia Heights.
4. Promote high quality development and redevelopment opportunities within the
community.
5. Solicit business that fill voids in the current range of retail and business services
offered in Columbia Heights.
Goal: Provide a wide variety of employment opportunities within fhe community
1. Improve the quality and quantity of local employment opportunities.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION
Goal: Support intergovernmental efforts thaf benefit the community.
1. Continue participation in organizations that promote intergovernmental
cooperation and maintain communication with other governmental agencies.
2. Promote efforts to increase efficiency in the provision of municipal services.
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