Strategy 1 Utilize land use tools to improve the efficiency of deliveries.

Minneapolis 2040 outlined several important freight and land use actions including:

• A production and processing policy – which aims to expand and maintain areas for production, processing, and distribution of products, services, and ideas.
   
• Action items in that policy that link to transportation include:
  • Designate Production and Processing Areas that comprise large contiguous tracts of land historically used for industrial purposes, that are well-served by transportation infrastructure for both people and freight, and that contain building stock suitable for production and processing businesses to expand access to higher wage job opportunities.
     
  • Prioritize use of land in Production and Processing Areas for production, processing and last mile distribution of products and services uses that have minimal or no air, water, or noise pollution impacts, and that provide quality living-wage jobs.
     
  • Improve transit, bicycle and pedestrian access to areas of employment, including Production and Processing Areas and Production Mixed Use Areas.
     
  • Develop guidance for future development in Production and Processing Areas and Production Mixed Use Areas served by regional transit lines in order to ensure a minimum level of development and job intensities.

The following actions further define land use tools that can be utilized to improve the efficiency of deliveries - through smaller loading zones, consolidating freight deliveries, minimizing time needed at the curb, better securing residential deliveries and linking delivery options with other transportation efforts like mobility hubs.