EXHIBIT R Page 65 <br />• Design elements that support pedestrian environments and encourage transit use, <br />walking and bicycling; <br />• A transit stop which is within walking distance (generally'/ mile) of anywhere in the <br />node; <br />• Mixed uses so that services are available within walking distance; <br />• Public spaces, such as parks, public and private open space, and public facilities, that <br />can be reached without driving; and <br />• A mix of housing types and residential densities that achieve an overall net density of <br />at least 12 units per net acre. <br />Willamette River Greenway <br />The Willamette River_Greenwa""_Bound-.___. is shown on the Metro_Plan_Da_ am_as_an overlay <br />Refer_to Chapter III-D for information_findiugs,"_and_policies related to the Greenway <br />Public and Semi-Public <br />This designation contains three categories: <br />Government (includes major office complexes and facilities and lodges) <br />Education (includes high schools and colleges) <br />Parks and Open Space <br />This designation includes existing publicly owned metropolitan and regional scale parks and <br />publicly and privately owned golf courses and cemeteries in recognition of their role as visual <br />open space. This designation also includes other privately owned lands in response to Metro <br />Plan policies, such as alang the Willamette Rivef , the South Hills ridgeline, the <br />Amazon corridor, the "Q" Street Ditch, and buffers separating sand and gravel designations from <br />residential lands. <br />Where park and open space is designated on privately owned agricultural land, those lands shall <br />be protected for agricultural use in accordance with Metro Plan policies. <br />Where park and open space is designated on forest lands inside the UGB, other values have <br />primary importance over commercial forest values and those park and open space areas shall <br />protected for those primary values. <br />Where park and open space is designated on forest lands outside the UGB, commercial forest <br />values shall be considered as one of many primary values. <br />In addition to those not shown at a neighborhood scale but automatically included in the gross <br />allocation of residential acres, there is a need for public facilities and open space at a non-local <br />level, such as regional/metropolitan parks. Several are shown on the Metro Plan Diagram. <br />Those not yet in public ownership are based on environmental constraints, such as excessive <br />11-G-9 63 <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 384 <br />