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