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PAGE 16 GOP Number GOP Language Recommended Action Comments/Rationale 9. For multiple-family zoning districts: • adjacent to other multiple-family areas • adjacent to employment centers • along arterial and collector roads, particularly to buffer single-family areas • adjacent to commercial uses, particularly to buffer single-family areas • not abutting single-family areas on all sides Additionally, the Board hereby adopts the following general criteria regarding the location of residential zoning districts: 10. Where medium density residential lands abut low density residential land, the medium density land may be zoned an intermediate density. 11. Residentially designated land that is located between higher density and lower density zoned areas may be zoned an intermediate density even when the intermediate zoned area has a land use designation that allows a higher density. Policy 1.44: The county will evaluate requests to rezone CH and/or IL-zoned areas to CL or CG to ensure that sufficient CH and IL zoned land will remain if the rezoning is approved. In so doing, the county will favorably consider those types of rezonings where the subject property is located along high-volume roadways or adjacent to residential areas. The county shall maintain existing CH or IL zoning areas that are not located along high-volume roadways or not located near residential areas. No Change Policy 1.45: The Transitional Residential Land Use designation may be applied to those areas which serve as a transition area between urban and agriculturally designated land and are suitable for urban and suburban scale development. Additionally, Transitional Residential designated land must meet all of the following criteria: • it must abut an arterial road that contains county water and sewer lines within its (the road’s) right-of-way; • it must abut a commercial/industrial node where at least 70% of the subject node’s land area (less rights-of-way) is developed with non-residential and non-agricultural uses, or approved for non-residential and non-agricultural development; and • it must be at least 20 acres in size. Land that meets all of the above criteria may be included in the urban service area and may be redesignated to T, Transitional Residential. No Change Policy 1.46: Development in transitional residential areas shall be limited to the following: Single Family Residential Uses • up to 1 unit/acre; or up to 3 units/acre for Planned Development Projects Recreational Uses • up to 0.35 FAR Public Facilities • up to 0.35 FAR Institutional Uses • up to 0.35 FAR Schools (not including business and vocational schools) • up to 0.35 FAR Revise (minimal) Inconsistent capitalization of category names.