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Policies:
1. The City will provide appropriate sites for additional commercial and industrial development near Interstate 94 and other major transportation corridors that maximize the benefit of the City’s location within the region and minimize the impact of traffic and other externalities on residential and natural resource areas of the community in accordance with recommendations of this Plan.
2. The City will provide opportunities for neighborhood scale shopping and services that can serve the local needs of future residents and neighborhoods.
3. The City will maintain and develop necessary utilities and other services to support increased economic development.
4. The City will continue to use TIF, State and Federal grant programs and other economic development tools to provide incentives and assistance with redevelopment of blighted, abandoned or underutilized commercial and industrial property.
5. The City will work to ensure that development within TIF districts provide above average returns to the City in the form of increased property tax revenues and employment.
6. The City will establish and enforce minimum design standards for all commercial and industrial development within the City in accordance with the recommendations in this Plan, the Northside Neighborhood Plan, the City of Lake Mills Redevelopment Opportunity Analysis, and other plans.
7. The City will refine its zoning and land division ordinances to ensure they are not in conflict with and forward the recommendations of this Plan.
8. The City will refine specific design criteria for the downtown that preserves the historic context and character of the downtown with regards to building materials, bulk, setback, exterior design, and signage in accordance with the recommendation of this Plan.
9. The City will work to improve administration, coordination, and communication of the City’s development standards and other economic development programs.
10. The City will work with local, county, regional, state, and federal entities to make Community Development Block Grant and other economic development programs more responsive to City needs.
11. The City will explore the creation of a Business Improvement Districts and other private/public economic development strategies to improve businesses and cooperative marketing of the downtown and the City as a whole.