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602K Future Land Use Policy 1.15 This policy defines the areas that are suitable for a commercial/industrial land use designation. Suitable areas must be within the urban service area and near existing urban centers. The subject property meets these criteria because it is within the urban service area and is near an existing urban center. The subject property is in Gifford, an urban area that could be serviced by various commercial/industrial uses that might locate on the subject property. P. Future Land Use Policy 1.18 Policy 1.18 requires that commercial/industrial nodes be located along roads with functional classifications appropriate to the level of activity. Being bordered on the north by 45' Street, an urban collector roadway, the site will have adequate access for any commercial/industrial uses that may locate on the subject property. Future Land Use Objective 4 Redesignating the subject property to a commercial/industrial land use may reduce the length of daily automobile trips on county roadways. A reduction in trip length is the purpose of objective 4 of the Future Land Use Element. A commercial/industrial use on the subject property may eliminate the need for residents to travel to a similar use that is located further from their home. This will reduce the length of daily automobile trips generated by those residents and in turn will contribute to attaining objective 4 of the Future Land Use Element. While the referenced objectives and policies are particularly applicable to this request, other Comprehensive Plan policies and objectives also have relevance. For that reason, staff evaluated the subject request for consistency with all plan policies and objectives. Based upon that analysis, staff determined that the request is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. Staffs position is that a commercial/industrial land use designation and CG, General Commercial, zoning are appropriate for the site and that such development would be compatible with surrounding land uses. Since properties to the north and east of the subject property have the same land use designation as is being requested for the subject property, the request is for a continuation of an existing land use designation pattern. With the FEC railway bordering the subject property along the east property line, the proposed amendment would eliminate potential incompatibilities associated with small residential lots being located adjacent to railroad tracks. Given that a train's sound and vibration are less intrusive on commercial or industrial uses than on residential uses, a commercial/industrial land use designation for the subject property would be more compatible with the FEC railway than the current residential land use designation. In certain circumstances, land that abuts railroad tracks can be designated for residential uses. Those circumstances usually occur only with large tracts of residentially designated land. Such large tracts have the necessary area to mitigate the effects of railroad tracks through various buffering and site design techniques. Small tracts such as the subject property, however, have insufficient area to do SO. A commercial/industrial land use designation and a CG zoning district designation for the subject property will also be compatible with the agricultural packing houses located on the east side of Old ApAI 28, 1998