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The Willow Creek area has been identified as a potential nodal development site as part of the TransPlan update process. [Pg. 262j The change in zoning will enhance the area's function as an employment node by providing a complementary commercial service adj scent to the industrial firms the commercial area is intended to serve. The concept of consolidating complementary services within convenient walking distance in this substantial employment center will promote the principles of compact and sequential growth. Although the I-2 zoning district currently permits a certain range of commercial uses, there is a distinct limit to the type and amount of commercial activity. The I-2 zone allows commercial services ~e.g., barber shops, convenience store, offices for engineers and surveyors}, but limits square footages for support services to 24°/a of the gross floor area of the industrial park. The commercial use proposed is not allowed in any industrial zone. The nearest undeveloped commercial land is located on West 1 lth Avenue, east of Beltline Highway. Given the distance from the Westec site, this area is identified as a separate and distinct nodal development area from the Willow Creek Employment Center. ~Pg. 262] Based on the information provided above, the zone change will be consistent with the above criterion. Zone Change Criterion #2: EC 9.678 b :The ro osed char a is consistent with the Metro alitan Area General Plan a licable text s ecific elements related to the uses listed in the ro osed zonin districts and a licable land use desi nations. The written text of the Plan takes recedence over the Plan dia ram where a anent conflicts or inconsistencies exist and Discussion of consistency of the zone change with the Metro Plan is provided as part of the evaluation of the Metro Plan amendment and is incorporated herein and made a part of the findings for the zone change by this reference as if fully set forth here. The zone change to C-2, General Commercial, is consistent with the amended Metro Plan land use designation of Commercial. The proposed zone change meets the above criterion because the commercial use proposed for the subject site is consistent with the speci#ic elements related to the allowable uses listed in the proposed C-2, General Commercial zoning district. Hotels are permitted only in C-2, General Commercial or C-3, Major Commercial districts, The proposal is to change zoning for the Westec site to C-2 since the proposal is to create a commercial use to serve the surrounding area, and not the metropolitan area. Hotels are not permitted in the site's existing I-2, Light Medium Industrial zoning district. Concurrent approval of the proposed Metro Plan Diagram amendment and zone change will keep the Plan designations and zoning districts for the subject site consistent. Zone Change Criterion #3: EC 9.678 c :The ro osed than a is consistent with a licable ado ted nei hborhood refinement ions. In the event of inconsistencies between these Tans or studies and the 1Z