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2. Promote and secure additional employment opportunities within the Development District and the City for residents of the City and the surrounding area, thereby improving living standards, reducing unemployment and the loss of skilled and unskilled labor and other human resources in the City. 3. Secure the increased valuation of property subject to taxation by the City, the school district, Ramsey County and other taxing jurisdictions in order to better enable such entities to pay for governmental services and programs required to be provided by them. 4. Provide for the financing and construction of public improvements in and adjacent to the Development District necessary for the orderly and beneficial development or redevelopment of the Development District and adjacent areas of the City. 5. Promote the concentration of new desirable residential, commercial, office, and other appropriate development or redevelopment in the Development District so as to develop and maintain the area in a manner compatible with its accessibility and prominence in the City. 6. Encourage local business expansion, improvement, development and redevelopment whenever possible. 7. Create a desirable and unique character within the Development District through quality land use alternatives and design quality in new and remodeled buildings. 8. Encourage and provide maximum opportunity for private development or redevelopment of existing areas and structures which are compatible with the Program. 9. Create viable environments which will facilitate and enable the construction, upgrading and maintaining of housing stock, maintaining housing health and safety quality standards, and maintaining and strengthening individual neighborhoods. 10. Stimulate private activity and investment to stabilize, enhance and balance the City's housing supply. 11. Eliminate code violations, remediate environmental contamination and eliminate nuisance and other negative conditions that adversely affect neighborhoods or are obstacles to the objectives of the Program. 12. Revitalize property to create a safe, attractive, comfortable, convenient and efficient area for residential use. 13. Create and reinforce a sense of residential place and security which creates neighborhood cohesiveness through City investment in neighborhood infrastructure and public improvements, including landscaping, park improvements, local street modifications to reduce traffic impacts, street construction or repaving, curb and gutter construction or replacement and streetlight installation or updating.