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4} Industrial Policy 1.0 provides for improved appearance of the Shelley Street and *~"Ilaura Street industrial areas. 5~ Industrial Policy 7.0 provides assurances that the McKenzie-Gateway SLI site will achieve a high level of aesthetics and amenity, through the application of site development standards. 6} l~atural Assets, Open SpacelScenic areas, and Recreation policies require protection of waterside {riparian} corridors, and the natural vegetative fringes, and pravide for enhancement of the scenic and open space amenity values in the Refinement Plan area. Policy !1f-E-3 {?}: The development of urban design elements as part of local and refinement plans shaft be encouraged. Findings: 1} Environmental design considerations and policies are incorporated into each element of the Gateway Refinement Plan. {See findings 2 through 6 under Metro Plan Policy Trans ortation 111-F Policy 111-F-5 ~2}: The following recommendations are, from a transportation standpoint, geared toward reducing transportation energy demand and improving opportunities for using alternative modes, such as urban public transit, bicycle, pedestrian, and paratransit. These recommendations stress the need to increase residential densities and to locate places of employment and residences in proximity to one another...,{c} Medium- and high-density residential development shall be encouraged within one-half mile of transit transfer stations. {d} Existing employment centers shall be encouraged to grow and diversify by allowing and concentrating new commercial, governmental, and light industrial uses, where appropriate, in those centers. {e}Medium-and high-density residentialdeoelopment shall be encouraged within one-half mile of existing and future employment centers. Where appropriate, such centers shall include urban public transit transfer stations. {f1 Development and redevelopment shall be encouraged in designated areas which are relatively well served by the existing ar planned urban public transit system, {g} An active program to develop pedestrian pathways; e.g., sidewalks shall be encouraged, especially in proximity to major activity centers or in conjunction with other modes of travel. Findings: ~} Undeveloped and underdeveloped Land east of Game Farm Road South is designated and zoned MDR, consistent with Metro Plan designation criteria for locating medium and high density residential development in proximity to transit stations {one is located in the Gateway Mall development} and to existing and future employment centers, 2} Transportation Policies fi.0, 7.0, 9.0, ~ 3.0, and 23.0 provide for the development of bicycle, pedestrian, and transit facilities in newly developing areas, and for prevision of pedestrian and bike facilities through developed areas in conjunction with road improvement projects. Policy fll-F-fi i3}: Local governments and the lane Transit District shall cooperate in the timely identification and acquisition of transit stations in nev~rly developed areas. 9