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III. METRO PLAN AMENDMENTS MUST BE CONSISTENT wITH APPLICABLE <br />METRO PLAN POLICIES. <br />The following policies appear to be most relevant: <br />a. Policy 7 on page III-B-~ in the Economic Element calls for encouraging <br />industrial park development. Industrial parks are a permitted use in the <br />zoning district counterparts to both the existing Special Light and proposed <br />Light-Medium Industrial Plan diagram designations. <br />b. Policy 19 originally 17} on page III-B-6 in the Economic Element calls for <br />reserving areas for large-scale, campus-like, light manufacturing uses. Since <br />its adoption in 198, the Plan has included seven such sites, all designated <br />Special Light Industrial. The Stewart Road site is one of the seven. If the <br />North of Chad site is redesignated from Law and Medium Density <br />Residential to Special Light Industrial as part of this industrial land <br />replacement package, it should compensate for the lass of Special Light <br />Industrial land at the Stewart Road site. In fact, the North of Chad site is <br />less likely to be limited by high value natural resources than is the Stewart <br />Road site. <br />c. Policy 19 an page III-C-9 in the Environmental Resources Element requires <br />protection and management of wetland areas by the next Plan update. The <br />wEWSAS is addressing this matter. Direction and policies from that study <br />should be adapted by June, 1991. In the meantime, by expanding SR, Site <br />Review, subdistrict zoning to encompass the entire Stewart Road Site, that <br />portion of the Bertelsen Slough-Stewart Pond wetland system on the eastern <br />part of the site should be adequately protected. Items site review should <br />address include: <br />1. Potential impacts on wildlife from excessive noise, activity of people <br />and machinery, and unshielded night illumination. <br />2. Potential impacts on water quality from outdoor storage and parking, <br />as well as from surface runoff of oil, machinery grease, and other <br />substances, particularly toxic materials. <br />3. Potential impacts on hydrology; development should not result in <br />inadvertent changes to the seasonal fluctuation of water. <br />4. Assurances that the natural resource system will not be altered in a <br />Attachment B - 5 <br />