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RECOMMENDATIONS The end result of the area plan study, the community meetings and the issues and goals derived from both is the recommendations section. These recommendations in combination with the Future Land Use Map will be the guide for effective management of growth and development in the North Central Area. The recommendation and the Future Land Use Map were formulated based on three underlying assumptions. These assumptions are (1) that development should be supported by adequate public facilities and services, (2) that the design and type of development Will meet current and future needs of residents and businesses, and (3) that quality of life issues should not be compromised, but improved. There are three parts to this section of the plan, and they must be used together to be used properly. The three sections are the Future Land Use Map, the accompanying text and the recommendations table. A more in depth discussion of the land use map will follow, but in general it is a representation of how the area should look in twenty years. The text is a discussion of the map and details the specific issues and growth factors that were used to formulate the land use map. It also is a discussion of the recommendations. The final section is the recommendations table which provides specific actions for each recommendation, a list of the parties responsible for action on each action and a time frame in which that action should take place. In the process of determining future land use and preparing a land use map, general categories were devised to encompass potential land uses. These categories include low density residential/agricultural, medium density residential, high density residential, commercial, industrial, future employment, institutional, and recreational. The titles of the residential categories are relative in nature. For example, the high density category, at the minimum density of four units per acre with appropriate utilities, would actually be low or medium density in an urban setting, depending on the corresponding zoning classifications. The density specified does not guarantee that individual projects will automatically qualify for the maximum density nor does it require that development occur at the minimum density. However, it represents a general range with maximum density appropriate under certain conditions. 14