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Refinement Plan Amendment - TRS 18-03-03-2-3, Tax Lots 199, 200, 300 January 13, 2004 Page 3 Board (EWEB). That easement accommodates multiPle electric lines, supported on wooden poles, that serve areas to the north and to the south of the subject property. The southern of the two easements is a 100-foot wide easement provided to Pacific Power and Light. That easement accommodates regional high voltage electrical lines. In that easement is a steel electrical standard, approximately 20 feet by 20 feet square, located close to Laurel Hill Drive. See Exhibit B, Site Plan; Exhibit C, Photos, # 1-2. The site presently consists of undergrowth-primarily blackberry bushes, other low-lying bushes, and young trees. There are several older trees that rise above the undergrowth in the middle of the subject property. On the northeast boundary of the property, towards, 1-5, is another grouping of older trees. Across the street to the west, the land is forested and planned for residential use. To the south, the land is predominantly open grass land with clusters of trees along the roadways. That area to the south and south east is part of the Laurel Hill commercial/residential node. The areas of the node closest to the subject property will be developed commercial, with the southem areas of the node, furthest away from the subject property, developed with medium-density residential units. Directly south of the western most 90 feet of the subject property, the area is planned and zoned for low density residential use. See Exhibit C, Photos, # 3-5. The site is currently undeveloped except for the steel electrical standard. III. Background Applicants have researched the development of the plan designation for the subject property and will summarize the results of their research here. The 1982 Metro Plan Diagram appears to designate the subject property and.the entire surrounding area as commercial. Applicants attempted to obtain the original commercial and residential lands inventories used to support the acknowledged buildable lands inventories for the 1982 Metro Plan, but those materials are unavailable. Applicants did, however, examine other source materials used during the acknowledgment process that appear to show that one of the three tax lots (TL 200) that make up the subject property was initially included in the commercial lands inventory and that the other two tax lots (TLs 199 and 300) were included in the residential lands inventory. Shortly after the Metro Plan was adopted, the Laurel Hill Plan was amended to include the section on the East Laurel Hill Area. One of the primary purposes of that amendment was to provide the guidelines for development of a commercial and residential node noted in the Metro Plan. See Laurel Hill Plan, Introduction. Those amendments included a land use diagram for the refinement plan area. Although the diagram is not expressly tax lot specific, it clearly indicates that the subject property, lying on the north-east comer of the Laurel Hill Drive and Moon Mountain Drive intersection, is designated low density residential. The enacting ordinance for the Laurel Hill Plan update provides that the Laurel Hill land use diagram is adopted as a II-B-3