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It should also contain an infrastructure needs analysis, redevelopment strategies, and <br />recommendations for changes and incentives to encourage TOD. The TOD plan allows a <br />municipality to address the individual characteristics and market opportunities and constraints of <br />individual station locations and settings. <br />Application to Northstar Corridor <br />The Northstar Corridor stations have a wide range of land use and development conditions. At <br />greenfield station locations, the land use development opportunities are constrained primarily by <br />the depth of the market for higher density development uses, whether residential or employment. <br />How close development takes place to the station will be a factor or the intensity of train activity <br />and the tolerance of the market for living or working next to these uses. In general, urban <br />populations have a higher tolerance for "all things urban," mixed uses, densities, and noise. <br />At commuter rail stations where existing industrial uses prevail, the community needs to <br />consider a number of additional factors when implementing a TOD plan. Most industrial uses <br />are not considered ideal TOD uses because the employment density (number of employees per <br />acre or per square foot) is not very high, resulting in little impact on transit demand and usage. <br />However, these industries are often important to the city's employment base; hence it makes <br />little sense to try to relocate them at least until there is a land constraint in the area. The cities <br />should apply the same principles that it would in any other redevelopment setting by <br />concentrating on parcels that have a potential to be redeveloped to higher value uses including <br />vacant land and buildings and other outmoded space. <br />Short of a land constraint for imminent development, the plan should prioritize redeveloping or <br />removing the most incompatible land uses and developing vacant land. The plan should also <br />prioritize public investments on addressing infrastructure deficiencies and urban design <br />improvements to improve the public realm to attract TOD. <br />1-6 <br />