Community Design and Planning
Minnesota Prepares for the "Age Wave" Print E-mail
One of the most ambitious efforts at comprehensive planning for aging in the country has recently been undertaken by the State of Minnesota.
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Planning for, and with, older adults Print E-mail

St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a post–World War II suburb to the west of Minneapolis, sponsored a visioning exercise in 1994 that produced a consensus vision of “a community so special that people will consciously choose to make St. Louis Park their lifelong home.” The city revised its comprehensive plan to incorporate long-range policies that support land use changes allowing more mixed use and public works investments facilitating walking. Zoning and development standards were amended to allow higher densities and mixed uses.

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