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Draft Land Use Plan-March 27, 2003 Medium Industrial Land Use Objectives The planning process has led to the following objectives for the Medium Industrial area: • Provide access to highway system to support businesses and minimizes adverse traffic impacts. • Plan community and site development to prevent conflicts between industrial and non- industrial land uses. • Provide opportunities for local businesses to grow and expand. • Provide locations for a variety of services that may be needed in the community. • Plan and manage surrounding land uses to accommodate potential future industrial use in Gravel Mining District. Proposed Medium Industrial Land Use Description Medium Industry land uses are intended for businesses with more land intensive uses. Examples of Medium Industry uses include contracting yards, grain and feed elevators, lumber yards, concrete products processing, processing of natural resources, and truck terminals. The Gravel Mining District provides the best location for new uses of this nature. Gravel Mining District Gravel Mining District Area Overview This area encompasses the Gravel Mining District as shown in the current plan. This area consists of lands that are currently owned by entities that are actively mining the area. Gravel Mining District Land Use Objective The planning process has led to the following objectives for the Gravel Mining District: • Facilitate the active mining of this area in a manner that minimizes conflicts with adjacent land uses. • Limit non-mining related uses until the capacity to service the area with municipal sewer and water is known. Proposed Gravel Mining District Land Use Description In evaluating the land use alternatives for the Gravel Mining area, it became apparent that the timing of development and capacity of the City's sanitary sewer system present significant challenges and unknowns to establishing a specific land use pattern. The Land Use Plan designates the gravel mining area as "Gravel Mining". This designation seeks to preserve the mining function for the next 20 years. A logical pattern of land use for future development in the gravel mining area suggests a combination of commercial and industrial uses near major roadways and the edges, residential uses moving north and west of Highway 169 and CR 33, and an open space corridor adjacent to the railroad trail corridor. The eventual land use pattern in this area will be determined by the capacity and financial implications of extending municipal sewer and water into this area. Municipal utilities will shape the type, form and location of development. An implementation strategy is to create a special land use plan for this area and amend the Comprehensive Plan after related engineering studies have been performed. 14