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Retail / Office Industrial
1. Neighborhood retail and service uses should 1. Industrial development should not be directly
be located at intersections of thoroughfares adjacent to residential areas.
or collector streets and mixed throughout 2. Industrial uses should be located in dedicated
neighborhood areas. industrial development areas.
2. Retail development should be clustered 3. Industrial development should be separated
throughout the County and convenient to from other uses by buffers.
residential areas.
4. Industrial development should have good
3. Buffers should separate retail/office uses and access to major thoroughfares and highways.
residential areas when needed, depending on
the use. 5. Industrial development involving trucking
operations should have good access to truck
4. Office and professional uses should be routes, designated hazardous material routes,
compatible with nearby residential areas and railroads.
and other uses through appropriate building
height limitations and adequate buffering and
landscaping. Parks and Open Space
5. Low-intensity office and professional uses 1. Parks are a desirable use for floodplain areas.
should provide a transition between more 2. Parks and open space should be used to
intense uses and residential areas. buffer incompatible land uses.
3. Natural features should be used as buffers
Heavy Commercial or preserved open space between or around
1. Commercial uses with more intensive developed areas.
operational or traffic characteristics should be 4. Community attractions that draw many
located away from most residential areas. external visitors should be in locations with
good regional transportation access and
2. Heavy commercial development should be
concentrated in nodes at intersections and visibility.
along major thoroughfares that are designed
and constructed to accommodate higher County Facilities
traffic volumes. 1. County facilities should be located in easily
3. Buffers should separate heavy commercial uses accessible areas within the County.
from any adjacent residential areas, especially 2. County facilities, depending on their scale
where the commercial use involves visible and level of activity, should be located
display or outdoor storage of merchandise adjacent to thoroughfares or collector streets
or materials. Where possible, natural buffers to accommodate traffic.
should be utilized to provide a more substantial
buffer between industrial and other uses. 3. County facilities should be well buffered from
nearby residential areas.
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PLAN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY 2040