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15 <br />of uses that are applied to each of these categories. <br />5. State precisely how the non-residential use acreage limits are calculated in <br />Section 4.2.6. <br />The last category of amendment types are substantive in nature and, if adopted, will <br />change some of the standards and processes for non-residential development in <br />designated growth areas (i.e., Economic Development Districts, Commercial Transition. <br />Activity PJodes, Industrial transition Activity Nodes, Commercial-Industrial Activity Nodes, <br />and Rural Activity Nodes). The proposed amendments are intended to more strongly <br />encourage non-residential development in designated areas while balancing any <br />adverse impacts to adjacent properties and the environment. Examples of-the more <br />substantive amendments staff intends to bring forward to the November quarterly public <br />hearing are: <br />6. Collapsing Table 6.8.12.C (Land Use -Buffer Schedule for the Economic <br />Development Districts) into fewer categories. <br />7. Removing the requirement in Section 6.2.5 (and referred to in various Article 3 <br />Zoning District Charts) that does not allow more than one principal use on any <br />zoning lot unless approved as a Conditional _Use District or a Conditional Zoning <br />District or if the parcel is less than two acres in size and the non-residential <br />multiple uses within a single principal structure. Staff intends to propose that this <br />requirement be removed for properties in designated growth areas. <br />8. Removing the requirement in Section 6.2.6 (and referred to in various Article 3 <br />Zoning District Charts) that-non-residential uses in more than one principal <br />structure on anon-residential zoning lot greater than two acres of size can be <br />permitted only as a Conditional Use District or a Conditional Zoning District. Staff <br />intends to propose that this requirement be removed for properties in designated <br />growth areas. <br />9. Changing the way Land Use Intensity Measures are administered in the <br />Economic Development Districts. Rather than using Building Volume Ratios <br />(BVR), Landscape Volume Ratios (LVR) and Site Volume Ratios (SVR), staff will <br />propose- that the Economic Development Districts instead be subject to the same <br />types of ratios used in other zoning districts, namely Floor Area Ratios (FAR), <br />Open Space Ratios (OSR), and Pedestrian/Landscape Ratios (PLR). <br />The list above is not an exhaustive list of the proposed amendments but highlights the <br />more substantive proposed changes and gives examples of the types of lesser changes <br />staff is working on. When the amendment packet comes forward, staff will somehow <br />differentiate the types of changes (clean-up, minor, substantive), likely by using color <br />coding. __ __ __ - -_ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ <br />