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The applicant has stated the intention of redeveloping the area with a mix of educational, research, and residential uses. Re-designation of the area to Government and Education~ followed by re-zoning to the PL Public Land zoning district which provides for development of those uses, is consistent with Housing Policy A-22. (c) Metro Plan Housing Policy A-25 Conserve the metropolita?t area's supply of exzsting affordable housi~g and increase the stab~hly a~d quahty of older residential neighborhoods through measures such as revitalization, code enforcement, appropriate zomng, rehabilitation programs, and relocation of existing structures, traffic calming, parking requireme;tts, or public safety considerations. These actions should support planned densities in these areas. The University (State Board of Higher Education) owns all but nine of the 122 tax lots within the East Campus area. The applicants state their intention of redeveloping the site, over time, with a mixture of educational, research and residential uses and of selling existing houses on future development sites to local house movers for relocation to other sites. The application proposes retaining R-1 Low Density Residential zoning along Villard Street to ~buffer" adjacent low- density development from future institutional developmenL The application contains no proposals for rehabilitation programs, traffic calming projects, new parking requirements or public safety initiatives. The proposed zoning and plans to relocate existing structures are consistent with Housing Policy A-25. (d) Metro Plan Housin~ Policy A-35 Coordinate local residential land use and housing planning with other elements of this plan, including public fi~c~lities and services, and other local plans, to ensure co~sistency among pohcies. The proposal, if adopted, would clarify the Metro Plan Diagram, and, by extension, Metro Plan policies related to the arrangement of land uses in the region~ by applying the Government and Education designation to parcels owned by the University (State Board of Higher Education). The Government and Education designations represent two of three categories described, in the Metro Plan, as Public and Semi-Public. As the Metro Plan provides for designation of publicly- owned land as Government and Education, the change from High Density Residential and Medium Density Residential to Government and Education represents a clarification of intent that furthers policy consistency and supports Housing Policy A-35. (e) Metro Plan Environmental Design Policy E-4 Pubhc and pr~vate fac, lities shall be designed and located in a manner that preserves and enhances desirable features of local neighborhood areas and promotes their sense of identi~. The proposed amendments include several policies and other elements intended to Exhibit D - Page 11