11 <br /> <br />• Recreational Vehicles and Heavy Truck, Sales/Rental/Service <br />• Agricultural Machinery Rental/Sales/Service <br />• Boat and Watercraft Sales/Service <br />• Equipment, Heavy, Rental/Sales/Service – includes truck and tractor sales <br />• Storage Facility, Household/Consumer goods, enclosed <br />Most of these uses are auto-oriented uses that inhibit compact development. Removing these uses is <br />consistent with the fundamental principle of compact urban growth addressed in the Metro Plan as well <br />as with policies in the Neighborhood Plan and the City’s climate goals. <br />Chapter III A. Metropolitan Residential Land Use and Housing Element <br />A. 22 Expand opportunities for a mix of uses in newly developing areas and existing neighborhoods <br />through local zoning and development regulations. <br />The Code Amendments allow for the display and sale of agricultural products grown offsite on R-1 zoned <br />properties located within the city limits and within the Neighborhood Plan Boundary. This expands <br />opportunities for an additional use within the existing neighborhood, consistent with this Metro Plan <br />policy. <br />A. 23 Reduce impacts of higher density residential and mixed-use development on surrounding uses by <br />considering site, landscape, and architectural design standards or guidelines in local zoning and <br />development regulations. <br />The Code Amendments include transition standards for C-2 development on properties located within <br />the city limits and within the Neighborhood Plan Boundary that abuts R-1 zoned land. These Code <br />Amendments are intended to provide development that is more compatible with the adjacent existing <br />neighborhood and reduce the impacts of higher density residential, mixed-use, and commercial <br />development on surrounding residential neighborhoods, consistent with this Metro Plan policy. <br />Chapter III E. Environmental Design Element <br />E.5 Carefully develop sites that provide visual diversity to the urban area and optimize their visual and <br />personal accessibility to residents. <br />These Code Amendments would require buildings fronting River Road to provide a main entrance <br />oriented to the street or the corner where River Road and another street intersect, would increase <br />building façade facing the street, require a minimum percentage of ground floor windows facing the <br />street, and require weather protection features over building entrances. All of these requirements help <br />promote walkable neighborhoods through pedestrian-friendly building design standards and would help <br />optimize the visual personal accessibility of new development in C-2 to neighborhood residents, <br />consistent with this Metro Plan policy. <br />E.6 Local jurisdictions shall carefully evaluate their development regulations to ensure that they address <br />environmental design considerations, such as, but not limited to, safety, crime prevention, aesthetics, <br />and compatibility with existing and anticipated adjacent uses (particularly considering high and medium <br />density development locating adjacent to low density residential).