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• • • Public, Educational, Religious in GB and LB page 11 10. Ensure that all service and commercial uses are adequately screened or buffered from any adjacent residential development. 17. 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. In addition, the Land Use Plan chapter of the 2002 Comprehensive Plan lists the following strategies to be implemented to promote quality commercial areas. These strategies further support consistent requirements for similar uses in business zones. 1. The City will utilize its zoning regulations to define the range of commercial land use that may be appropriate for each proposed commercial location. Through its commercial site planning, the City will require new commercial development to be compatibly designed with surrounding land uses through the use of transitional land uses, proper setbacks, building orientation, screening and landscaping. 2. Site access will be controlled to provide safe traffic movement and to reduce the commercial traffic impacts on residential neighborhoods. 3. The City will promote commercial site designs that emphasize pedestrian accessibility, shared parking, and green space in an effort to create a customer friendly environment and promote a high level of business interchange among local businesses when feasible. 4. Architectural and site standards will be developed and applied to City commercial development in an effort to establish aesthetic pleasing, high quality commercial buildings and streetscapes where they apply. 5. Commercial development will be required to be responsive to the environmental concerns of the City with regard to site planning, landscaping, impervious surfacing, and storm water management. 3. The proposed use conforms with all performance standards contained herein. Section 2, Subd. 1 includes criteria that must be met by all conditional uses. These will continue to apply equally to all conditional uses as will all other requirements in official controls that apply equally to all uses. Each zoning district includes specific conditional uses with conditions specific to the uses. With the amendments described herein, the standards in the zoning ordinance will address similar uses equally. 4. The proposed use can be accommodated with existing public services and will not overburden the City's service capacity. 5. Traffic generation by the proposed use is within capabilities of streets serving the property. Utility demand and traffic generation will continue to be addressed with new and existing uses, as required by the subdivision, zoning, and other chapters of the city code and official controls.