7.1. 7.2. 7.3. 7.4. SR 09-19-2011

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14. Throughout the Comprehensive Plan there is an emphasis on attracting commercial/industrial development. This is important to the City as this type of development builds a community's tax base and creates more job opportunities. 15. Another fundamental element mentioned throughout the Comprehensive Plan is the need to establish and maintain a positive community image by maintaining the edges and buffers that define and protect adjacent land uses. 16. Preservation of open spaces is also an important policy and goal of the Comprehensive Plan. 17. The Comprehensive Plan provides that the gravel mining area of the City, which is located along both sides of North Highway 169 and includes the Tiller Property, be guided for future development of commercial and industrial uses. This area of the City is envisioned by the City Council as the future economic engine of the City. The goal is to have this area develop with commercial and industrial uses as the gravel is mined out. The tax base generated by commercial and industrial development in this area is intended to support the financial viability of residential development throughout the City by making it possible to maintain municipal services without increasing taxes. Although this is very long range planning, and there are not yet timetables for extending public utilities into this area to serve those future uses, this is the vision of the Comprehensive Plan and the City Council for this area of the City. The Tiller Property is also located adjacent to the future Highway 169/221st Avenue Interchange, which has great potential for future commercial/industrial development. 18. The 2004 Comprehensive Plan was prepared with the assistance of the planning firm of Hoisington Koegler Group, Inc. (HKGi). In anticipation of the proposed expansion of the Landfill the City retained HKGi to take a closer look at the potential impacts of an expansion -6-