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Little Canada Planning Commission 1 May W78 Page Two At this point, it should be mentioned that the City has recently passed a resolution creating a moratorium on any rezoning within Little Canada, until the Planning Commission and City Council have reviewed the forthcoming Comprehensive Plan being prepared by Midwest Planning. This review is written, therefore, as a response to the advisability of accepting the proposed concept. ISSUES AND ANALYSIS Preliminary Policy Plan The Preliminary Policy Plan has recently been reviewed and generally accepted by the City of Little Canada. In analyzing the issues which arise with regard to the proposed industrial park, these policies should be carefully considered in order to formulate a logical and viable response. The following are policies which specifically relate to both the rezoning request as well as the preliminary plat. • Provide transitional zones between distinctly differing and incompatible land use activities. • Accomplish transitions between distinctly differing types of land uses in an orderly fashion which does not create a negative (economic, social or physical) impact on adjoining developments. • Wherever possible, ensure that changes in types of land use occur either at center, mid -block points so that similar uses front on the same street, or at borders, or areas separated by major man -made or natural barriers. • Minimize and reduce the amount of land devoted to streets. • Preserve the character of low and medium density neighborhoods by preventing encroachment from higher use types and by buffering these neighborhoods from other types of land use. • Encourage the development of three bedroom rental units, primarily in the form of duplexes and townhouses. • Relate existing industrial uses. Introduce buffering to better protect adjacent residential neighborhoods. • Require new industrial development to locate in the existing industrial park. • Prohibit penetration of residential neighborhoods by traffic generated by industrial activity.