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<br /> <br />~~ <br /> <br />:.~. <br /> <br />Places to Live <br /> <br />Obiectives for places to live <br /> <br />Maintaining a quality stock of life-cyc1e housing will be important to the community's health. <br />The following are the City's objectives for places to live: <br /> <br />I. To provide life-cycle-housing opportunities for residents which allow them to live ill the <br />community for a lifetime. <br />2. To ensure the maintenance of quality housing at all price points. <br />3. To provide a housing stock to meet the needs of increasingly diverse family structures. <br />4. To maintain safe and connected neighborhood environments as the building blocks for the greater <br />community. <br />5. To increase the proportion of the housing stock that is owner occupied. <br /> <br />Places to live will continue to comprise the largest single category of land use in New Brighton in the <br />future. Places to live include low, medium and high-density residential. <br /> <br />Low-densitv residential. Because there is so little vacant land remaining in the City of New Brighton, <br />few new single-family homes will be built except as infill on still vacant lots. In established residential <br />areas the emphasis is intended to be on neighborhood conservation, the maintenance and upgrading of the <br />existing housing stock and the development of a framework or support system that connects <br />neighborhoods and makes them stronger and more vital. <br /> <br />Low-density residential areas are designated for detached single-family homes. Low-density residential <br />is represented by newer areas of the City which are characterized by larger lots and a density in the range <br />of approximately 2.5 to 3-units per acre and older homes where dwellings have been built on lots with a <br />40-foot minimum width and 5,OOO-square foot lot area. These latter areas have a density in the range of 3 <br />to 4-units per acre. These single-family residential areas are in very good condition and are not expected <br />to change in character or be compromised by incursions of commercial development. <br /> <br />Medium-densitv residential. Medium-density residential areas are intended to accommodate densities in <br />the range of 6 to 12-units per acre including such housing types as attached and detached townhomes, <br />rowhouses, two-family dwellings, manufactured housing and apartments. These are primarily infill areas <br />where medium-density housing already exists and more can be anticipated. The intent will be to make <br />these areas integral parts of the neighborhood rather than edges or buffers to it. <br /> <br />High-density residential. High-density residential areas are intended to be located in higher activity areas <br />where residents can partake in a life-style which is rich in convenience and accessibility and less auto- <br />dependent. These are intended to be located where convenient shopping and accessible transit is nearby <br />and/or other amenities are available. They are intended to be integral parts of neighborhoods rather than <br />freestanding or isolated elements. This housing type, consisting of apartments and condominiums, is <br />intended to exceed a density of 12-units per acre. <br /> <br />August 4, 1999 <br />New Brighton Comprehensive Plan <br /> <br />Page 5.8 <br />