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Co +ire ensive +Ian text a en ent DRAFT • Take advantage of river views. • Provide a separation from the traffic along arterial, reliever, connector expander or collector roadways, and the Rum River and minimize traffic congestion and the impacts of high traffic volumes. • Organize surface parking between building and roadway with a street -like character with sidewalks leading to the primary entry of the building and connecting to the surrounding trail network. • Provide a landscape buffer between the surface parking and trail corridors. • Screen underground parking access points. • Use high quality building materials to allow for a lasting development and be aesthetically appealing. Official Controls: Zoning Ordinance Initiation The land use plan must provide guidelines for the timing and sequence of the adoption of official controls to ensure planned, orderly, and staged development and redevelopment consistent with the land use plan. In order to plan for staged redevelopment in an orderly manner, rezoning shall occur when 60% of the area north of Martin Street or 60% of the area south of Martin Street is ready for redevelopment, consistent with the comprehensive plan. The area north of Martin Street and the area south of Martin Street may be redeveloped separately and may be rezoned separately as redevelopment occurs. For the purposes of this section, redevelopment shall be defined as the removal and replacement of an existing structure or structures, or of land from which previous improvements have been removed, to rebuild an area, to develop for a second time or to rebuild a residential area in decline.