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CITY OF ELK RIVER MISSION STATEMENT - ELK RIVER: WHERE CITY AND COUNTRY FLOW TOGETHER Individuals involved in planning for the future of a city must lift their eyes to the horizon and create a vision of their future community. While the city on the horizon exists only in the imagination today, one day it will be inhabited by citizens who have inh~rited today's planning legacy. That we must take ownership in our responsibility to those future citizens is clear. By giving voice to our city's vision, this statement will provide planning and policy guidance as we advance toward the Elk River of the future. This visionary City of Elk River will be a place where people are proud to live; a city that respects its natural resources, celebrates its river city heritage, and blends a rural environment with city opportunities. e The facilities in which future Elk River citizens will live and work will be grouped together in comfortable environments built around its many resources. The city will be comprised of a retail and business core with small village-like settings located around permanent park areas and open spaces. These village-like settings will demonstrate a thoughtful plan for growth which shows respect and responsibility for maintaining the city's country image. Elk River will encourage and include light and medium industrial types of businesses located in specified industrial development parks. These parks will be strategically located near adequate transportation and infrastructure where they will not intrude on residential neighborhoods. This vision of Elk River will come about as a result of consistent, well-planned development with layout, design, and architecture that embraces the new while respecting the past. Achievement of our vision for Elk River will require: -enthusiastic leadership from the city council, city staff, planning commission, park and recreation commission to breathe life into the vision. -citizen participation to provide the ownership and sense of community needed to achieve the vision and keep it current. -teamwork on the part of citizens,elected and appointed officials, city staff, civic and business leaders working toward common objectives. e -commitment to an ongoing planning process which keeps the vision dynamic through time. -government which is responsive to the needs and wishes of the current citizens, while mindful of its responsibility to the citizens of the future.