Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2008 06 12

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Opportunity Area # 3 Opportunity Area # 3 is a strategic area which should continue to be a key employment center for the City of Louisville. This area will provide adequate land supply for the development of light to medium industrial and business park uses. Key policy direction for the area reinforces the need to have strong urban design standards to maintain and promote the employment park as an attractive and positive business environment. Also, there should be a range of professional and retail services that are complimentary to and support the employees of the park. Policy LU-4.3: Opportunity Area # 3 should continue to be a key employment center for the City of Louisville. Consideration should be given to: • An adequate supply of land should be maintained within this opportunity area for the development of light to medium industrial and business park uses. Such uses should be designed comprehensively under unified development control with an emphasis on compatibility in building design and landscaping. • Maintain a high quality employment center that responds to the need of businesses to retain and attract industry. • Maintain appropriate urban design standards to maintain and promote the employment park as an attractive and positive business environment. • Promote a range of professional and retail services that are complimentary to and support the employees of the park. • Implement appropriate design standards and guidelines to buffer land uses of different intensities. • Development proposals located north of Dillon Road and immediately adjacent to and east of 96th Street shall establish a gateway to the City of Louisville that retains an appropriate scale of development and provides a clear sense of transition from the open space to the west and the employment park to the east. • Commercial development at the intersection of 96th Street and Dillon Road should be developed at an intensity that is appropriate to its location and adjacent land uses. Site design shall include intensive landscaping, berms and buffers. Opportunity Area #3 2008 Comp Plan Update: Staff would recommend limiting review of this Opportunity Area to: Economic Development Update policy formulation to include current and future economic development efforts. 7