Item 1: Ordinance on Oregon West Management

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);- Include in our refinement plan application before you, we have voluntarilv restricted the size and height of any building to be built within the community center to insure no "Big Box" stores can be placed here or have building heights out of scale with the abutting neighbors. );- We have incorporated within our development, a gathering area for visitors to the center that will memorialize the history of the school and surrounding area. The school district salvaged various architectural elements off the old school and has made them available to us to include in this area. >- We are incorporation pedestrian friendly shopping streets within our development to create a sense of community with our buildings and to get away from a "Strip Mall" look with a sea of asphalt before it. )- In conjunction with our designers, we have developed an attractive landscape design the will create tree lined shopping streets, landscape zones within the parking areas to soften and shade these areas and design features to hide some of the "behind the scene" elements common to retail centers. );- Our housing element is part and parcel to our application. We plan to construct these units to add to the existing higher density housing on Green Lane that will benefit by its close proximity to this shopping area. y The city staff was very up front about the traffic concerns in and around this site. Prior to acquiring the site, we knew the City would require us to dedicate land along Hunsaker Lane, require us to do improvements to Hansaker Lane and improve the signalization at River Road and Hunsaker. We were also told that access to River Road would be restricted; minimize any traffic impact there. Although the City had no requirements concerning improvements to Green Lane, we see a benefit to improving our portions of this street into the same shopping street design, if allowed.