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able commercial use on the north side of the street is a significant focus of this plan. Within the remainder of the walnut Station Specific Area Plan area, the land use pattern is some- what fragmented on the north side of Franklin Boulevard, with multiple ownerships and many existing businesses. These include hospitality uses, auto - oriented uses, retail and restaurant uses, as well as some scattered residential development. On the south side of Franklin Boulevard, larger portions of property are within single ownership or development control, Between Villard Street and orchard Street on the south side of Franklin, there is a neighborhood grocery store and phar- macy (Market of Choice /Hirons). These stores are recognized as a vital component of the existing and future neighborhood. The University of Oregon owns the remaining southern frontage of Franklin Boulevard having recently purchased the former automobile dealership (Romania) and the land previously owned by the State of Oregon and occupied by a Department of Motor Ve- hicles office. Prior to adoption of this plan, all properties owned by the University of Oregon were zoned PL Public Land, The R -4 zoning on the south side of 15th Avenue between Orchard and walnut Streets is a bit of an anomoly in that there is no transition between the R -4 and the R -1 zones. Further, this is the only R -4 zoning in an area otherwise zoned for and developmed with single family reisdential dwellings. There was interest in addressing this zoneing anomoly by recommending that these parcels be re- designated to medium desnity resiedntial zoning. While the plan boundaries do not include the R -2 parcels and therefore redesignation as part of this plan is not possible, there is strong support to redesignate those R - parcels to a more appropriate medium density resi- dential zoning district. The form based code approach was used to incorporate the emerging vision and design ele- ments by developing specific building and site design standards for the different areas within Walnut Station. This allowed the areas adjacent to the neighborhood and the natural resource areas to have building and site design standards that were crafted specifically to how these ar- eas should look and feel, recognizing that their character should be different than that of Frank- lin Boulevard. Illustrative Plan a.s ��;� 1`.';'x.2.. - .: �. �xir j. •J - 1 _ F E Illustrative Plan for Walnut Station