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site inventory map showing slopes, natural features, and existing public facilities. The development plan must show how natural features will be modified by construction activity, shaving building footprints and elevations as well as parking and circulation, public improvements, drainage, and landscaping. Site review approval of a specific development proposal an this site will require that the applicable resource protection policies of the Metro Plan be addressed, and that appropriate protection be afforded. Accordingly, the site can only be developed after implementation of the plan's acknowledged program to achieve the purposes of Goal 5. In addition, ail wetlands failing under the jurisdiction of the Division of State Lands and/or the Corps of Engineers will be protected as required by applicable state and federal laws and regulations. The forested wetland, drainage ditch, and wet meadow area identified in the EDA Study as "the most significant wetland resource area" on the site has been identified on the applicant's conceptual plan ~capy attached} as 'enhanced VL~etland" and shall be fully protected under any development plan that is approved. Goal b -Air, Water and Land Resources Quality. This goal requires that local comprehensive plans and implementing measures be consistent with state and federal regulations governing air, water, and land resources quality. An LRAPA analysis of emissions from the nearby industrial area confirms that those industries are operating within existing safety standards and that exposures on the site are well below those standards. In addition, the application, as modified, calls for an industrial buffer area east of the only existing heavy industrial facility near the site, the Neste resin plant. This area will be designated for General Commercial use, excluding all residential uses and permitting only general commercial uses, providing both a buffer and a logical transition. Based upon the models which LRAPA has developed, the proposed buffer will provide far more protection to the residents of Springwood than is required by any applicable statute or regula~on. It will provide many times the protection afforded to plant workers under federal law. And it will provide substantially more protection to Springwood residents than is currently enjoyed by residents of the large existing.neighborhood just east of the Neste Plant and the trailer park just north of the plant. The matrices and printouts that LRAPA has provided pro jest potential concentrations of formaldehyde in the air at vanaus distances to the east of the plant when the wind is blowing from the west. The matrix species 14 wind speeds and b air stability levels. At any specific distance and direction, the projected concentration would exist only when the wind was blowing in that direction at the specified speed under the specified air stability conditions. An onsite air-quality test, in which measurements were taken for six hours a day under variable and uncontrolled weather conditions on four consecutive weekdays Friday, March 1, and Monday-Wednesday, March 4-~~, from two sites, one due east of the Neste plant at the eastern edge of the proposed industrial buffer, and the other in the residential area just north of the buffer area, detected no more than .oU1 ppm. average exposures on any day, using the most sensitive testing methodology available. Springwoad Plan Amendment Application Applicant's Proposed Findings March X4,1991 Draft Page 3