EXHIBITS Page 55 <br />shall be designed to protect and enhance the site for special heavy industrial users <br />requiring a campus-like setting and rail access. Uses in this area shall be limited to <br />industries which are rail dependent or require a minimum site of 100 acres. <br />Small-Scale Light Industry (not shown on Metro Plan Diagram) <br />This category is characterized by industrial uses that emit no smoke, noise, glare, heat, dust, <br />objectionable odors, or vibrations beyond property boundaries; pursue their activities within <br />buildings; and do not generate a large amount of vehicular trips for employees, customers, or <br />freight movements. Depending on the local situation, in some instances such industrial uses <br />may be incorporated into mixed use areas. To enhance compatibility with adjacent non- <br />industrial areas, local governments should apply development standards to specific proposals. <br />Such standards should address building height, setbacks, adequate off-street parking areas, <br />landscaping, and safe and efficient access. The determination of the appropriateness of specific <br />sites and uses or additional development standards is left to the local jurisdictions. Minimum <br />locational standards and site criteria include: <br />Access to arterial streets, normally without use of residential streets. <br />2. Up to five acres, with sufficient parking areas and frontage to accommodate structures, <br />parking areas, and access in character with adjacent non-industrial properties. <br />Nodal Development Area (Node) <br />Areas identified as nodal development areas in TransPlan are considered to have potential for <br />this type of land use pattern. Other areas, not proposed for nodal development in TransPlan, <br />may be determined to have potential for nodal development. <br />Nodal development is a mixed-use pedestrian-friendly land use pattern that seeks to increase <br />concentrations of population and employment in well-defined areas with good transit service, a <br />mix of diverse and compatible land uses, and public and private improvements designed to be <br />pedestrian and transit oriented. <br />Fundamental characteristics of nodal development require: <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 1/4 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 />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 618 <br />