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• • • Millers Crossroads Shopping Center page 6 A decorative iron fence around the seating area ensures it is accessible only from within the building. • Standards and Requirements for All Conditional Use Permits The zoning ordinance includes overall standards that apply to all CUPs (Sec. 2, Subd. 2). There also are specific requirements for each CUP for a specific use. General Standards: The Planning and Zoning Board shall recommend a conditional use permit and the Council shall order the issuance of such pennit only if it finds the following criteria have been met: a. The proposed development application has been found to be consistent with the policies and recommendations of the Lino Lakes Comprehensive Plan including: 1) Land Use Plan. 2) Transportation Plan. 3) Utility (Sewer and Water) Plans. 4) Local Water Management Plan. 5) Capital Improvement Plan. 6) Policy Plan. 7) Natural Environment Plan. The Commercial section of the Land Use Plan chapter of the Comprehensive plan states that several "strategies will be implemented to promote quality commercial areas" (page 88) , one of which is Site access will be controlled to provide safe traffic movement and to reduce the commercial traffic impacts on residential neighborhoods. Creating the second commercial site driveway that is offset from a street intersection, as is the first driveway, creates two offset driveways and additional traffic movement conflicts, which raises safety concerns. In the Land Use section of the Policy Plan chapter of the Comprehensive Plan, there is a list of goals and policies for commercial development. Policy number 17 (page 34) is: In evaluating commercial sites, factors will be the physical implication of the commercial land use related to traffic generation, sewer and water demands, environmental issues and compatibility with neighboring land uses. Increasing the early morning traffic raises concerns about the compatibility of a drive through facility with the residential neighborhood.