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<br />New Brighton <br />Comprehensive Plan <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Vision Plan Goals <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Have a diverse population <br /> <br />The City wishes to embrace people of all socio-economic, age, ethnic, race and religious backgrounds. In <br />diversity lies the strength and richness of a healthy community. <br /> <br /> <br />Provide a diverse stock of well maintained housing <br /> <br />Since people’s lives change as they age, so do their housing needs. The opportunity to live in New <br />Brighton for a lifetime will require a diverse stock of housing that satisfies the lifestyle changes that will <br />confront every resident. Housing diversity must also answer the question “Where will our children live?” <br />If they would prefer to live in New Brighton there must be affordable housing of good quality to <br />accommodate them. <br /> <br /> <br />Maintain a healthy business environment <br /> <br />While primarily a place to live, good jobs and a diversified tax base are important to the community’s <br />health. To have jobs in close proximity to homes also provides some residents the opportunity to both <br />live and work in New Brighton and thereby minimize commute time and costs. Quality places to work <br />and do business support quality places to live while providing residents with convenient shops and <br />services. <br /> <br /> <br />Maintain/create connections which correlate with natural patterns and <br />interconnect neighborhoods and adjacent cities <br /> <br />It is the City’s intent that the natural patterns established by the drainage systems that connect Rice Creek <br />to Jones Lake and Lake Johanna be reestablished. <br /> <br />Though separated from its eastern neighbors by I-35W, the vision plan intends to reconnect the east and <br />west sides of the freeway via trails and create almost seamless linkages to New Brighton’s other <br />municipal neighbors. The intent is to help the City operate, function, and cooperate as part of the larger <br />North Metro community. <br /> <br />2-1