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Industrial - The industrial category includes areas currently being used as manufacturing or other industrial uses and those for which an industrial or manufacturing use is planned. Future Employment - Future employment includes any potential uses which provide jobs for residents. These uses include retail, office, light manufacturing and industrial, as well as some public and quasi-public uses. Classification as future employment does not qualify all parcels for the highest intensity uses. Each property should be evaluated on an individual basis. Planned developments which are sympathetic with surrounding land uses, which provide buffers and preserve natural landscaping and which utilize integrated architectural features are expected within this area. Institutional - This category includes existing public and quasi-public uses such as schools and churches. Future institutional uses may also be appropriate for some locations within the residential and future employment categories. Recreational - Like institutional, the recreational uses shown are existing, and some sites in other classifications may be appropriate for development of recreational uses. Further development of these uses, particularly those integrated in and serving new residential developments, are to be encouraged. A final land use type that is not shown on the "Future Land Use Map", but which can be an alternative, is the mixed use development. Often referred to as planned unit developments, including in the city and county ordinances, these are different types of land uses that are tied together by common development themes and planned transitions. A mixed use development may contain components of residential, institutional, office, commercial, industrial and recreational land uses. Typically these coexist through strict design standards, well planned transitions and designed pedestrian/vehicular networks. A mixed development may have a stronger emphasis on either residential or non-residential uses, but it can be a complete mix. Mixed use developments are promoted by the city and county zoning ordinances as desirable and they offer landowners in the County a method by which they may comply with the goals of the plan without strict adherence to the projected land use map. The ordinance introduces the purpose of planned developments by stating that they are desirable in promoting public health, safety and welfare. This is true for properly accomplished developments because they allow a resident the possibility of living, working, shopping, playing, and being educated all in a single area. This is in turn beneficial in its allowance of common development themes in areas such as landscaping, architecture, signage and networks among other things. It also allows development flexibility and innovativeness, both of which address the quality of life. Areas that are prime locations for mixed use developments are those that already indicate a transition of uses. The discussion that follows later in this section includes one on possible conflict between unlike land uses. A mixed development, in which this conflict is eliminated by gradual and planned transition, is possibly the best way to address the problem. Further, it is also an advantage to landowners that they may show how a specific land use not shown in this plan may be incorporated into the area. LAND USE MAP The land use map of the study area has been divided into three subareas, with the future land use designated with the categories described above. The boundaries of each land use are not fixed, they are only meant to represent a general area covered by a particular land use. Adjustments to the boundaries may be made to ensure more effective site planning and/or when the impact of the development will not negatively effect surrounding properties. Zoning districts may not completely match the land use classifications, since a variety of uses are permitted in each district, and the land use map is not necessarily a zoning plan. Zoning districts also differ between City and County jurisdictions in the types of permitted uses, and minimum area regulations such as lot size. The text is to be used in coordination with the land use map to provide information on why the land use is envisioned as shown on the map, and how the land use will ultimately occur. Information and recommendations on the land use are provided by subarea. Recommendations on utilities, transportation, WESTERN AREA PLAN DRAFT 4 PAGE 12