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~~ ~ ~ Laura Dxey page 2 <br />Botanical Gardens and Arboretums. <br />Public and Non-Profit Parks (Zoning book 4-13), <br />Governmental Facilities and Governmental Dffice Buildings, <br />Water and Sanitary Sewex Pumping 5tatians, <br />Nan-Profit Research Lands and Installations (Zoning 4-14) and <br />Public Utility Stations end Sub-stations, Sketching 5tatians, <br />Telephone Exchanges, Water end Sewage Treatment plants (4-13) <br />How does the Public Interest District zone compare to Rural Buffer and R-1, <br />the existing zgnesT For one thing the let size is larger. The souare faatage <br />in a PID is about 2 times the permissible size as in a Rural Buffer exec, The PID <br />is about 10 times the minimum dimensions of Rural Residential (hereto refered to <br />as R-1) <br />What uses ere permited in Rural F~uffer? Rural Buffer allows sinale family '~ , <br />end mule-family dwellings as well as temporary mobile homes (4-11).In addition RB _.':;~~ <br />areas can include bus passenger shelters, churches, Governmental prptective services <br />(4-13), and achgals, universities, and colleges and institutes (4-14). <br />Rural Residntiel and Law Intensity Residential ellaw for even greater develap- <br />went (R-1J• R-1 permits single and 2-family dws'_linas, mobile homes, family care <br />homes, and temporary mobile homes (d-11), bus passenger shelter, churches, <br />governmenzel pratectlVe services (4-13), sirparts, land fills (~-13),.day care <br />centers, croup acre facilities (a-11), pg=table buildings, cemeteries, community <br />centers (4-13), za~io and television transmitting and recieving tawer5 and CleVated <br />water stowage tanks, and tranamissian lures (4-14) in their baundar~es. <br />Rural Buffer and Rural Resientiel include all of the uses allowed in the PiD <br />except for Non-Pzafit Research lands and Installations. <br />Ygut awn Land Use Pian offers bases tg justify wezgning the Auke Forest land <br />in Gznage flaunty to Public ;nterest District. This Plan says that "the natural <br />