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Policy UD-1.1: Design Quality: Ensure all developments feature high quality <br />design, materials, finishes, and construction. <br />Policy UD-1.5: Attractive Public Spaces. Encourage community interaction <br />through the development and enhancement of plazas, open space, people <br />places, and pedestrian connections with the public realm. <br />The project is consistent with these General Plan Urban Design Element goals and <br />policies as the goal for the site would be to develop with high -quality industrial <br />buildings that would feature high -quality materials and finishes that would improve the <br />physical character of the area. Additionally, the proposed passive park would create <br />a space for community interaction and encourage community interaction and <br />pedestrian connection to the public realm. <br />Economic Prosperity (EP) Element <br />Goal EP-1: Job Creation and Retention: Foster a dynamic local economy that provides <br />and creates employment opportunities for all residents in the city. <br />Policy EP-1.1: Protect Industrial: Protect industrial uses that provide quality job <br />opportunities, including middle -income jobs; provide for secondary <br />employment and supporting uses; and maintain areas where smaller emerging <br />industrial uses can locate in a multitenant setting. <br />Policy EP-1.2: Attract Business: Promote new and retain existing job -producing <br />businesses that provide living -wage employment opportunities. <br />The project is consistent with these General Plan Economic Prosperity Element goals <br />and policies, as the request would allow the ownership to transition from a land use <br />that is not attracting businesses or jobs to one that would, thereby benefiting the city's <br />economic prosperity. Furthermore, the request would reintroduce industrial land uses <br />to a site previously rezoned to accommodate only office or commercial uses, which <br />would support industrial land uses Citywide that would provide for employment <br />opportunity. <br />Ordinance No. NS-XXXX <br />Page 22 of 22 <br />