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Preliminary Planned Residential Development Planning Commission Report; 5-21-19 Page 12 (cont.) o …the plan calls for providing land uses that promote quality life-cycle housing that is affordable to households at different stages of life and income levels. To accomplish this goal, the City intends to mix densities and housing types within identified opportunity areas in an effort to improve housing diversity (3-16). o …the plan calls for providing opportunities for redevelopment, reinvestment, and infill to support expanded employment throughout the city, particularly within identified opportunity areas. To that end, the City intends to actively encourage redevelopment of blighted properties, brownfields, and marginally used industrial areas; and to actively participate in the redevelopment of the Old Highway 8 Corridor south of I-694 (3-17). o …the plan calls for focusing on redevelopment, reinvestment, and infill opportunities that provide high quality design, an appropriate mix of uses, shared parking facilities, and levels of access for all users. This will entail ensuring the residential infill development is compatible in architectural character and scale with adjacent housing, requiring a high-level of aesthetic quality in design, and promoting Traditional Neighborhood Design principles (i.e. on-street parking, pedestrian friendly streetscapes, or multi-story mixed use developments (3-17).  Language specific to the Old Highway 8 corridor specifically calls out that residential development is an important use in the corridor (3-23).  Regarding Mixed Use—Neighborhood Node development, the plan indicates that such areas are to lean residential with stacked housing (i.e. multifamily) and townhomes being used. It is suggested that multifamily buildings be located along major roadways with townhomes or villa homes being used to transition into surrounding areas. Density of these developments is anticipated to be between 8 and 40 units per acre (3-28).  Regarding this land in particular, the plan specifically identifies this land as an area with redevelopment potential, and calls for development under the mixed use neighborhood node designation (3-31).  The plan states that “the future of the City of New Brighton relies heavily on a diverse supply of high-quality housing that is available to residents at multiple income levels” (4-39).  Main housing goals of the City include providing a wide variety of housing types to meet the needs of a diverse community at all stages of life; promoting neighborhoods that are walkable, safe, and connected to amenities; and ensuring an adequate supply of quality affordable housing exists (4-40).