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4 2. Analysis The proposed amendments are intended to broaden the development options in the Buckhorn Economic Development District and other targeted areas of the County designated as Economic Development Transition Activity Node and Commercial - Industrial Transition Activity Node on the County's Future Land Use Map. The proposed amendments include modifications to the permitted uses in the EDB -1 zoning district, applicable within the Buckhorn Economic Development District. At this time, the EDBA zoning district has not been applied to the Official Zoning Atlas. The proposed changes consist primarily of adding retail and service uses to those uses permitted by right within that district, should property be rezoned to EDBA . Proposed modifications also include a reduction in the number of uses specifically excluded from the Conditional Use process within the Economic Development Transition Activity Node and Commercial - Industrial Transition Activity Node land use classifications. Section 5.1.4 currently lists a number of uses which are specifically excluded from the Conditional Use option, County -wide. The proposed changes will allow a few of those previously excluded uses to be proposed as a Conditional Use within the Economic Development Transition Activity Node and Commercial - Industrial Transition Activity Node land use classifications. The existing list of exclusions is proposed to remain in effect for all other land use classifications. 3. Comprehensive Plan Linkage (i.e. Principles, Goals and Objectives • Objective ED -1.5: Identify barriers to development of desirable businesses and local businesses, and mitigate these barriers. • Objective ED -1.8: Explore policies to use in attracting and encouraging development of companies and enterprises that will build and expand upon the County's economic base. • Objective ED -2.5: Identify lands suitable to accommodate the expansion and growth of commercial and industrial uses in the County. • Objective ED -2.6: Identify areas that are desirable and attractive to major corporate users with access to public transportation networks and possibly rail. • Objective ED -2.7: Select industrial sites in Economic Development Areas based on present and planned supporting systems, such as public water and sewer, access to adequate highway, rail, or public transportation infrastructures, and minimize detrimental environmental or negative social outcomes. (See also Water and Wastewater Objective WW -15.) • Objective ED -2.8: Adjust ongoing designation and zoning of Economic Development Districts to avoid the area designated as the Rural Buffer. (See also Land Use Objectives LU -3.1 and LU -3.3.) • Objective H -1.5: Ensure that a variety of housing types can be developed throughout the County in a sustainable manner that locates housing near employment centers and commercial centers and that efficiently uses existing and planned public services. (See also Land Use Objectives LU -1.1 and LU- 6.2, Economic Development Objective ED -3.5, and Water and Wastewater Objective WW -2.)