We Need Your Input!

The City of Foley is seeking your input on the draft Future Land Use Plan.  The Future Land Use Plan is intended to balance residential and non-residential growth for the next 20 years. Using this Plan, the City will determine how best to balance and link all the necessary land uses including housing, commerce, industry, parks, public uses, and open spaces. It should be used to help facilitate development projects and to ensure that resources will be available to provide a consistent level of public services (roads, utilities, and parks) to the community. 

Future Land Use Plan Map

The Future Land Use Plan map gives people a visual representation of what the community might look like in the future (year 2050). The Future Land Use Plan designations depicted on the map help articulate the City’s expectations for future land use patterns and uses throughout the community.  

We want to know what you like or dislike about the proposed land uses for Foley.

Please use the interactive map to leave comments about the Future Land Use Plan map. Select an icon and drag it onto the map to where you want to leave a comment.

 

More information about this study can be found at https://ci.foley.mn.us/future-...

The Future Land Use Plan map designations are summarized below:

• Urban Reserve (UR): The Urban Reserve (UR) land use designation is intended to maintain existing rural and agricultural uses on land not served by urban services (water, sewer, etc.). Rural residential uses are also permitted to continue, but new rural residential neighborhoods, with lots averaging larger than 1 acre and not serviced by city services are discouraged. The Urban Reserve areas act as an agricultural preserve, until such a time that the city and land owners decide to extend city services to pursue development. Maximum density for these areas are 1 unit per 10 acres.

• Low Density Residential (LDR): The Low Density Residential (LDR) designation captures the traditional forms of single family housing found in Foley and most rural cities. The average density ranges from 2.0 to 6.0 units per acre. The LDR typology includes predominantly single family detached homes with limited opportunities for two- to four-unit dwellings, as well as attached housing types such as duplexes or twinhomes. Existing neighborhoods within the city-center have potential for conversion of individual lots from one-unit dwellings to two-unit, three-unit, and four-unit dwellings, while new neighborhoods are encouraged to provide various options of low density housing beyond single family detached.

• Low-Medium Density Residential (LMDR): The Low-Medium Density Residential (LMDR) designation represents greater density residential development than LDR, consisting of more attached housing products. This land use pattern would include small-lot single family detached housing, typically clustered together, as well as some more moderate density housing consisting of attached side-by-side products such as townhomes or condos. Density in this land use pattern would fall in the 4.0 to 10.0 units per acre range. 

• Medium-High Density Residential (MHDR): The Medium-High Density Residential (MHDR) designation includes a variety of unit types including townhomes, patio homes, apartments, condominiums, and various forms of senior housing. The predominant form of housing is attached side-by-side products, as well as vertical stacked orientation (e.g., two to four stories). Generally, this land use category would not include single family detached homes and would exceed 8.0+ units per acre. This land use designation also allows for some flexibility to integrate commercial/office uses as part of an MHDR development, as long as it is not the predominant use. This approach helps create “live-work” housing and “placing making” features and provides added patronage to maintain economic vitality. Commercial uses should be complementary to the residential uses. Potential uses may include a restaurant, coffee shop, office space, pharmacy, or medical. 

• Downtown (D): The Downtown (D) designation encompass the existing Downtown Foley district. This designation envisions a continuation of walkable, mixed-use development in the district, including smaller scale retail or office buildings, vertical mixed use buildings with retail or office uses on the ground floor and other uses (including office or residential) on upper floors of buildings. Residential developments in the Downtown district should achieve a minimum of 24 units per acre. The community’s vision for the downtown has been documented in the City’s Community Vision Plan for Downtown Redevelopment and Pedestrian Connections (2015). 

• Commercial (C): Areas designated as Commercial (C) are typically located along collectors or arterial road corridors, or near key intersections. They are intended to serve the retail and service needs of Foley residents and employees, as well as the needs of the community in the surrounding townships. Many of these areas will primarily be oriented toward vehicle access, but connections to pedestrian and trail networks are encouraged and highly desired. This land use designation will also allow for some flexibility to integrate residential uses (attached or detached) as part of a commercial development, as long as it is not the predominate use. This approach helps create “live-work” housing and “placing making” features and provides added patronage to maintain economic vitality.  

• Business Park (BP): The primary intent of the Business Park (BP) designation is to enable and promote development of high paying and high quality jobs within Foley. This designation primarily includes office or light industrial uses, focusing primarily on the Foley Industrial Park, or as individual uses such as a variety of showroom, flex space, data center, and manufacturing space, of varying square footages.  Proximity to major road corridors is an important locational factor. Site amenities such as trails, open space, and architectural detail are supportive of higher level employment and business opportunities.

• Public/Institutional (P/I): The Public/Institutional (P/I) designation includes uses such as government facilities, public and private schools, fire stations, libraries, water-system facilities, religious institutions, and cemeteries.

• Park and Open Space (POS): Foley intends the Parks and Open Space (POS) designation to represent active or passive recreation areas. Some uses are informal recreation areas, while others are more formal with groomed fields. This designation includes Community Parks, Neighborhood Parks, Private Parks, and Golf Courses as well as trails, habitat restoration, or preserves. Areas unsuitable for development due to floodplain, steep slopes, or significant ecological impact may also fit within this designation.