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• First Bank , N.A. • 631 Main Street Contact Person John Heim (612) 441-4500 (metro) Elk River, MN 55330 Letters confirming the willingness of these lenders to participate in the 1996 Elk River MCPP are attached to this application. III. HOUSING PLAN (a) Principal Housing Needs of Elk River: • Encourage and promote a balanced mix of housing opportunities throughout the city's urban service area. • Evaluate housing stock on a regular basis to assess the housing conditions and needs of the community. • Ensure that persons or groups of persons of similar income levels have a wide range of housing choices available to them, regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, status without regard to public assistance, or familial status. • Encourage the development of a quality residential community which retains a semi-rural atmosphere while accommodating growing housing needs. • Ensure that residential developments provide adequate facilities to maintain an efficient level of service. • Develop, preserve, and protect environmental resources such as wetlands, forests, water bodies, and their shorelines, within the city with respect to open space, recreational uses, water and air quality, and natural ecosystems. • Preserve, maintain, and/or strengthen the physical and visual qualities unique to the community. • Provide an appropriate, reasonable, and enforceable system of development controls and implementation programs for the guidance of future land use in the city. (b) Data Sources • Comprehensive Land Use Plan (adopted December, 1995) • 1994 Annual Report - Planning Department • 1994 Annual Report - Building and Zoning Department • 1995 New Residential Construction Summary (Preliminary) - Building and Zoning Department • • Regional Multiple Listing Service of Minnesota