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❑ Work with the local business community to ensure their needs are being adequately addressed by a chamber presence within the city. ❑ Establish a simple,branded web presence that lists and promotes the festivals and events happening in Pequot Lakes. Previously Completed Actions ❑ Provide opportunities for local businesses to leverage capital through the use of public funds such as through tax increment financing(TIF), revolving loans,or the installation of community development corporations. ❑ Require extractive use companies to restore the natural and scenic conditions of the land back to its original form prior to extraction. ❑ Provide incentives for infill and redevelopment of local businesses in the downtown area. Recreation Short-Term Actions (within 1 year): ❑ Identify and establish well-marked routes that more directly connect snowmobile and bicycle traffic from the regional trail system into the city. ❑ Seek to build partnerships and establish the feasibility of constructing a grade-separated bicycle trail between the downtown area and Eagle View Elementary School along the County Highway 11 corridor. Mid-Term Actions (1-5 years): ❑ Investigate options for creating a municipal dock on Sibley Lake. Lease a small number of seasonal mooring sites to property owners living in the downtown neighborhoods. ❑ Explore alternatives for low-cost hiking trails through the woods that could be accessed by walking from the downtown. ❑ Establish an outdoor skating rink in the Grow Zone or the surrounding neighborhoods for use during winter months. ❑ Establish a splash pad or other water-based recreational amenity in the Grow Zone or the surrounding neighborhoods for use during the summer months. ❑ Construct a grade-separated bicycle trail between the downtown area and Eagle View Elementary School along the Highway 11 corridor. Transportation Short-Term Actions (within 1 year): ❑ Perform an inventory and life-cycle analysis of all public infrastructure maintained by the City. Use this to create a capital improvements plan that provides for ongoing maintenance of public infrastructure. ❑ Adopt new standard street sections that reduce long-term costs by narrowing lane widths to appropriate neighborhood scale,accommodate sidewalks,and provide safe pedestrian mobility throughout the city. ❑ Adopt new standard road sections that reduce long-term costs by narrowing lane widths on local roads to a rustic,low volume,low speed scale. ❑ Ensure that improvements to Government Drive provide a platform for growth. ❑ Provide bike racks to encourage bike usage and storage lockers for roller blades. ❑ Create a city policy establishing when newly constructed roads will be accepted by the City for long-term maintenance.The policy should be based on reasonable assurance that the long-term maintenance costs will be sufficiently balanced by the additional tax revenue generated. Mid-Term Actions (1-5 years): ❑ Work with Crow Wing County to properly-scale the TH 371 and CSAH 11 corridors through the Grow Zone area following the construction of the TH 371 Alternate Alignment. Ensure that these corridors maintain a character that encourages pedestrian activity throughout the Grow Zone. Infrastructure Pequot Lakes Staff Report October 16,2014 2