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15. Policies set forth in the Comprehensive Plan which are relevant to the Application <br />include: <br />• Provide a balanced land use pattern which supports a sustainable infix of jobs and <br />housing. <br />• Guide the scale of development to be consistent with the surrounding land uses and <br />general character. <br />• Guide corntnercial land use to areas that can utilize an appropriately-designed <br />transportation system without infringing upon residential neighborhoods. <br />• Allow commercial areas to develop when they can be designed to be compatible with <br />surrounding land uses. <br />• Include adequate buffering of commercial and industrial developments and adjacent <br />to non-compatible land uses. <br />• Requite adequate transition of buffers between differing, non-compatible land uses, <br />making use of natural land characteristics, whenever possible. <br />• Require development of proposals to consider the impacts on transportation and <br />natural systems beyond the boundaries of the individual projects. <br />16. Throughout the Comprehensive Plan there is an emphasis on attracting <br />conuzzercial/industrial development. This is important to the City as this type of development <br />builds a conununity's tax base and creates snore job opportunities. <br />17. Another fundamental element mentioned throughout the Comprehensive Plan is die <br />need to establish and maintain a positive community image by maintaining the edges and buffers <br />that define and protect adjacent land uses. <br />18. Preservation of open spaces is also an important policy and goal of the <br />Comprehensive Plan. <br />19. The Comprehensive Plan provides that the gravel mining area of die City, which is <br />located along both sides of North Highway 169 and includes dze SDA, be guided for future <br />development of commercial and industrial uses. This area of die City is envisioned by the City <br />Council as dze future economic engine of the City. The goal is to have this area develop with <br />corrunercial and industrial uses as die gravel is mined out. The tax base generated by commercial <br />S:\Resolutions\Resolui~in_Denyin~Application_for_Comp_Plan_funend_~nd_Rezonuig ~.DOC <br />