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PLAN - c. Commercial Land Use • Locational Criteria: - Must abut and have reasonably direct access to minor, inter- mediate, and principal arterials. - Must be situated on the fringes of neighborhoods and in some cases on the fringes of sub - neighborhoods. - Near large public open space. - Near neighborhood shopping facilities. - Sites where natural characteristics would make development of a lower density unfeasible. - Near the periphery of the CBD so that people may walk to work. . Facilities: - Local private,recreational facilities provided by the developer during the first stage of occupancy, neighborhood park and playgrounds for general neighborhood use should be provided at acceptable ratios of residence to land area. Rezone much of the commercial land in the vicinity of TH 47 and Nowthen Boulevard for multiple- family housing with commercial allowed in those areas only as part of a Planned Unit Development. 2) Pull back the commercial zone from the Mississippi River, as suggested during the Critical Area planning process. Provide for neighborhood convenience centers in the trans- itional and rural areas. Additional neighborhood centers, beyond what is shown on the proposed zoning map, should be accommodated only as part of a PUD. 4) Adopt three commercial land use categories which distin- guish between two types of shopping centers (IJB and UB -C), and highway oriented business uses (B -1). The reason for doing this is to identify where these specific activities should occur in the community, a) Commercial Retail - Shopping Center It is expected that most retail facilities developed in Ramsey will be of the Shopping Center type. Of the three generally accepted classifications of Shopping Centers - neighborhood, community and regional - it is likely that only the smaller neighborhood types will be developed in Ramsey. The shopping center is a response to our increased use of automobiles and the inefficiencies of the tradi- tional "Downtown Business District ". Centers are character- ized by excellent accessibility, extensive parking areas, 46