Comprehensive Planning For Fridley

WHAT WE RECOMMEND

1.     Fridley should take great pains to insure that it remains a middle class, working community and a great place to raise a family. Preservation and revitalization, of existing R1 housing, should occur with incentives for remodeling and maintenance. The city should investigate every means possible to encourage young families to buy existing homes in Fridley, as over the next 20 years a great number of them will become available.

2.     Zoning should be an acknowledgment of a long-term contract with residents and only for the most critical reason should that contract be broken.

3.     Re-zoning for housing should be rare and never done to achieve higher density of housing.

4.     The housing diversity in Fridley, at the present time, is satisfactory.

5.     Any housing that is demolished should be replaced with the same zoning and type of housing. (Single family detached with single family detached, etc.)

6.     Re-zoning for redevelopment into mixed housing and commerce (S2) should occur rarely, if at all.

7.     The universal non-partisan goal in America is to increase home ownership. In Fridley the single family detached home ownership stands at 70% and rental housing at 30%. Fridley should maintain or increase that ownership percentage.

8.     Fridley should expend no capital, nor human resources to further the “social engineering” schemes of the Metropolitan Council that would change housing patterns and neighborhoods in Fridley