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~'Pub~.ic and private facilities shall be designed and located in a manner that preserves and enhances desireable features of local and neighborhood areas and ,.. ~ ~.. promotes their sense of identity." Conditions have been ~impased herein to particularly address the desi n of this public facility to cause it to appropriately relate q to the historic buildings in the immediate vicinity consistent with this policy. Pvlic 33 of the Environmental Resources Element of the Metro Plan Y states a standard far design of transit facilities: "Desi n of new street, highway, and transit facilities g shall consider noise mitigation measures where appropriate," Oise miti ation measures were considered in the design of this N q facilit and conditions imposed requiring implementation of Y mitigation measures. The remainin language of the Metro Plan cited in apposition to the g re ested conditional use permit involves goals, objectives and ~ ~ in nature. These Include policies which are aspirational objectives and policies of the Residential Land Use and Housing J Element of the Metro Plan that are cited as being contrary to a royal of this use. These generally are objectives,-palicies,ar pp Dols of an as irational nature intended tv encourage residential g p develo went. Obje-dive 5, included in those cited, does state a P poss~.ble standard. That objective provides: "Protect existing and proposed residential areas from conflicting nonresidential land uses while providing far com atible and functional mixed~-use development p . ~ t~ ~ resldent~,al and nonres~.dentlal } . As with other onions of the Residential Element of the Metro Flan P cited b v Qnents, the opponents raa~e the assumption that the ~', pp or conf 1 icts with the. lacatlon of the use is ~.nconsistent with residential use. The findings herein are to the contrary. Also, ' t is noted that the area proposed for this development is not 14 a residential area's within the normal meaning of that term and as that term is construed here. The policy, therefore, is not applicable. a licant's initial statement contains a number of goals and The, pp olicles of the Metro Plan with which the location of this use P under the conditions im osed and at this site is consistent. I do p of construe those statements of policy to be criteria or standards n for approval here, however. 19 -- FINDINGS OF HEARINGS OFFICIAL CCU 94--3 } --