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Commission held a series of work sessions to discuss modifications to the overall program. Those discussions, held between November 2003 and June 2004, were wide ranging and covered many topics including: · Public perception of nodal development and marketing the idea so that the public better understands the concept; · The variability of conditions within each of the identified nodal development areas; · The differences in types of nodal development areas; · Public reactions to the names: "nodal development" and "node." · Housing and whether all nodes should be required to have housing within them and, if so, how would that be achieved in the "employment" nodes like Willow Creek and Riverfront Research Park. · Has the opportunity for development or redevelopment, consistent with nodal development principles, been lost in some areas? Should all of the "potential nodal development areas" identified on the TransPlan map remain on the map? · Should we have targeted tools for the different kinds of nodal development areas; i.e. infill and redevelopment sites or 'greenfield' sites? · The status of potential nodal development areas that were not designated as "high- priority" by the Council. Questions arose about how those areas should be ranked for attention and work or whether they should be ranked at all. · The necessity for specific plans for all areas. Do all nodes require a full-blown specific plan to address the problems that need to be remedied? Which nodes are more likely to need a specific planning process and which might not? · How should we address requests (from public and private interests) that new areas be planned for nodal development? · How will we know when we've accomplished nodal development objectives in any given area? Based on the Planning Commission's discussions and input from the public at those meetings, staff prepared a Draft Two Year Work Program for Nodal Development Implementation that presented a methodical approach to resolving the many issues raised in those meetings. The Draft Two Year Work Program was a primary topic of discussion at the 2004 Joint City Council Planning Commission Meeting held in October 2004. The Nodal Development Implementation Two Year Work Program is included here as Exhibit H. Policy Framework TransPlan Policies. It has been established that the policy basis for the nodal (mixed use) development program is contained in the adopted Growth Management Policies as well as the 2001 TransPlan. In a recent Council meeting where the policy consistency issue was raised, the concern was focused on Growth Management Policies, rather than TransPlan policies. Even so, a description of the five land use policies in TransPlan is necessary if one is to fully evaluate how the mixed use program is carrying out City policy. Those policies include the following: