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S+T.t .a The neighborhood would continue to mature on the same grid framework.While a small town context would preclude the construction of skyscrapers and other very intense development, mature small-town neighborhoods have a mix of uses (residential and commercial)that together create places of high value. These neighborhoods would surround a central core whose value was based on its proximity and access to the surrounding neighborhoods. In Pequot Lakes, as in most small towns in the United States that were founded in the railroad era, the natural evolution of places on the traditional development pattern has been disrupted by the great American experiment of suburbanization. Financially,this has left both the traditional neighborhoods and the new areas of suburban development financially fragile, in need of ever-increasing amounts of new growth to maintain long-term infrastructure commitments. That model is financially unsustainable.To reach a stable economic situation, Pequot Lakes needs to reactivate the natural evolutionary processes that will allow these neighborhoods to grow and mature over time on their historic framework. Pequot Lakes Downtown Plan—Updated November 2014 8