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Draft 9/29/14 shall be designedto protect and enhance the site for special heavy industrial users requiring a campus-like setting and rail access. Uses in this area shall be limited to industries which are rail dependent or require a minimum site of 100 acres. Small-Scale Light Industry (not shown on Metro PlanDiagram) This category is characterized by industrial uses that emit no smoke, noise, glare, heat, dust, objectionable odors, or vibrations beyond property boundaries; pursue their activities within buildings; and do not generate a large amount of vehicular trips for employees, customers, or freight movements. Depending on the local situation, in some instances such industrial uses may be incorporated into mixed use areas. To enhance compatibility with adjacent non- industrial areas, local governments should apply development standards to specific proposals. Such standards should address building height, setbacks, adequate off-street parking areas, landscaping, and safe and efficient access. The determination of the appropriateness of specific sites and uses or additional development standards is left to the local jurisdictions. Minimum locational standards and site criteria include: 1.Access to arterial streets, normally without use of residential streets. 2. Up to five acres, with sufficient parking areas and frontage to accommodate structures, parking areas, and access in character with adjacent non-industrial properties. Nodal Development Area (Node) Areas identified as nodal development areas in TransPlanare considered to have potential for this type of land use pattern. Other areas, not proposed for nodal development in TransPlan, may be determined to have potential for nodal development. Nodal development is a mixed-use pedestrian-friendly land use pattern that seeks to increase concentrations of population and employment in well-defined areas with good transit service, a mix of diverse and compatible land uses, and public and private improvements designed to be pedestrian and transit oriented. Fundamental characteristics of nodal development require: Design elements that support pedestrian environments and encourage transit use, walking and bicycling; A transit stop which is within walking distance (generally ¼ mile) of anywhere in the node; Mixed uses so that services are available within walking distance; Public spaces, such as parks, public and private open space, and public facilities, that can be reached without driving; and A mix of housing types and residential densities that achieve an overall net density of at least 12 units per net acre. II-G-9