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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes December 18, 1997 Page l9 this-is not the location. He said they urge the Planning Board to further evaluate the scope of this rezoning. The general use special district as proposed, has made no effort to comply with the Western Area Plan. The area plan identified major industrial development sites as being directly along 1-85, N.C. 73, U.S. 29, and N.C. 49. The plan further states nonresidential growth should be encouraged on those corridors and discouraged in areas not in close proximity to the major roads, page 8. The plan noted that there was less agreement about King's Grant and Speedway Boulevard but that nonresidential was probably a good idea, page 9. As the plan looked at the impacts, of a then unopened airport,. few people could agree on its impact or how the surrounding area should be developed. The plan did note however, and they think that this is very important, that a separate study should be conducted to evaluate the airport's effects on surrounding land uses, height restrictions, access to the terminal, and just better understand its use and operation, pages 10 and 24. The recommendation sections goes on to note that there are potential areas of conflict, and in those areas mixed use development should be strongly considered. The staff report looked at the site that ended up being approved by the Planning Board as a mixed use development in which a high density special use rezoning was the buffering between an industrial area. Such mixed use development provides, quoting out of the Western Area Plan on page 12, "a method by which they may comply with the goals of the plan without strict adherence to the projected land use map." Mr. Newton said that is rather important. He said when they looked at this area plan, Mr. Marshall was the Senior Planner who authored the majority, in fact, all of the plan at the time he was the director. They were looking at what was happening in Mecklenburg County where they were doing area plans that were parcel specific. We decided not to do that but, had a difficulty in addressing how do we put together an area plan without being parcel specific. This issue was added in saying that if you are meeting the intent of the area plan, you do not have to be parcel specific. Mixed use developments that integrate the components of the recommendations provided that opportunity. It further states as discussed previously, potential conflict exists where the plan indicates future employment and residential abutting. The transition from vacant land to an employment area will include an