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16 <br />District 9 <br />In the southeast quadrant of the I-35E/I-694 interchange area,District 9 includes a highly varied mix of land uses <br />including single-family neighborhoods of varying age,townhouse development along the City’s largest active <br />park complex,a multiple family complex,and office-warehouse uses in the area most exposed to the <br />freeways.The City has taken an active role in upgrading multiple family housing standards due to concerns <br />over public safety issues in this neighborhood and expects to continue to do so.Resolving these issues will <br />continue to be key in preserving property values and minimizing the costs of services that impact the <br />community at large. <br />In the north portion of this district,an undeveloped area of nearly twenty acres is divided by a power company <br />transmission line.The land use plan proposes to use this line as a separation between a continuation of <br />residential patterns to the south,and office or limited industrial uses to the north,facing I-694.Consideration <br />of industrial uses will likely depend again on development quality and traffic generation issues.As a part of the <br />residential area south of the transmission line,some limited attached housing at medium density will be <br />considered adjacent to the existing warehousing and townhouse neighborhood. <br />District 10 <br />This district consists exclusively of low density neighborhoods adjacent or very near to Gervais Lake,and <br />includes some of the highest value housing in the community.There is very little developable land in this <br />district,with a few limited parcels containing the potential for an occasional lot split.The primary objective in <br />this area will be to maintain the existing land use pattern,and continue to seek opportunities for <br />environmental improvements to protect the Lake.Many of these improvements may be private initiatives, <br />such as lake-side buffer strips and minimization of impervious surfaces where possible.The City has recently <br />adopted some zoning regulations that will complement these private efforts. <br />District 11 <br />The north and east portion of Little Canada is exclusively single-family residential,much of which has <br />developed within the past 20 years.This district has just a few areas of potential development apart from the <br />scattered division of larger acreage lots.For residential development in these remaining areas,the City will <br />require that the development fits within the land use context of the existing development,meaning that single- <br />family development is only likely land use pattern.Moreover,the City will require that new subdivision is done <br />in such a way as to respect the existing neighboring single-family areas. <br />To accomplish this objective,the City has recently adopted revised single-family development standards, <br />including stronger environmental protection requirements for tree preservation,impervious surface coverage, <br />building setbacks,lot sizes,and similar regulations.Full compliance with these goals and regulations will be <br />expected as new development is fitted into the last remaining undeveloped areas of the community.