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use. He indicated that these would primarily be business uses as well as a park and a school area. He stated that APA deals with noise and single - family residences and people sleeping at night. Continuing down the proposed extension of El Charro Road, Mr. Rasmussen noted a community park site to the east that is shown on all the plans. He indicated that a leisure park site is currently proposed and has great views on out toward the lakes. He added that it is a fairly rich habitat area from the standpoint of existing vegetation and provides some really good opportunities for trails and vistas and such. He added that also to the east of El Charro Road, all the plans show industrial land because it really does not provide an opportunity for residential, and there is not a demand for retail or more demand for office; additionally, right next to it is the Vulcan quarry plant that has some fairly substantial impacts on the surrounding areas. Mr. Rasmussen stated that the rest of the site narrowed down quite a bit to the southern end of the area west of the proposed El Charro Road extension. He noted that within that area, all the plans call for an extension of Busch Road through to connect to the new El Charro Road. He noted that there was a lot of concern by the neighbors, the Task Force, staff, and consultants about the amount of traffic that could potentially come through Busch Road, so fortunately, there is an opportunity for a connection down at Boulder Street with an existing traffic signal at its intersection with Valley Avenue. He indicated that on this plan, Boulder Street extends through and connects up to Busch Road so that it could bring in traffic from take it on out without having to go down Busch Road next to the existing neighborhoods.. He noted that this is a good opportunity to help out with the traffic situation. Mr. Rasmussen stated that the unique characteristics of the Preferred Plan that sets it apart from the other plans is that it has a "dispersed multi - family" where there are several areas of multi - family dwellings at both 30 units per acre and at 23 units per acre; and a variation of single - family development at 4 units per acre in the outlying areas, next to the existing residential neighborhood, and extending over into another area lower down, some at 8 dwelling units per acre above and tending to surround the multi - family area and all through down to the south of the project, and some at 11 units per acre immediately next to the multi - family. He noted that the low- density units are fanned out to keep the densities as low as possible next to the residential areas. Mr. Rasmussen stated that in most of the plans, the Operations Services Center (OSC) site is no longer shown as "Residential" but is being left alone and is shown either as "Industrial" or as "Public & Institutional" use. He then showed a slide of the Preferred Plan's Land Use Inventory, which includes the breakdown of the 1,759 housing units into the different density categories. Mr. Rasmussen then displayed the Option 1 Plan, which is quite similar to the Option 1 that was presented to the Commission once before. He indicated that this Plan allows for the least of all the Options at 1,000 housing units with a housing mix of 50- percent single - family and 50- percent multi - family. He stated that this Plan is distinguished primarily by a private green belt that extends to the middle of the site, with the multi - family housing located to the far edges of the site. He noted that one of the PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, September 25, 2013 Page 21 of 45