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15. Policies set forth in the Comprehensive Plan which are relevant to the Application include: • Provide a balanced land use pattern which supports a sustainable mix of jobs and housing. • Guide the scale of development to be consistent with the surrounding land uses and general character. • Guide commercial land use to areas that can utilize an appropriately-designed transportation system without infringing upon residential neighborhoods. • Allow commercial areas to develop when they can be designed to be compatible with surrounding land uses. • Include adequate buffering of commercial and industrial developments and adjacent to non-compatible land uses. • Require adequate transition of buffers between differing, non-compatible land uses, making use of natural land characteristics, whenever possible. • Require development of proposals to consider the impacts on transportation and natural systems beyond the boundaries of the individual projects. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. Preservation of open spaces is also an important policy and goal of the Comprehensive Plan. 19. 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 SDA, 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 7