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AttachmentD Community Business (CB) Community Business uses are commercial areas oriented toward businesses involved with the sale of goods and services to a local market area. Community business areas include shopping centers and freestanding businesses that promote community orientation and scale. To provide access and manage traffic, community business areas are located on streets designated as A Minor Augmentor or A Minor Reliever in the Transportation Plan. Community Business areas should have a strong orientation to pedestrian and bicycle access to the area and movement within the area. Residential uses, generally with a density greater than 12 units per acre, may be located in Community Business areas only as part of mixed-use buildings with allowable business uses on the ground floor. The Community Development Department finds that the Wal-Mart project is allowed since the Community Business description neither restricts nor limits specific uses or sizes and further finds that the zoning code has incorporated design standards that promote community orientation and scale through the Twin Lake Regulating Plan contained in Chapter 1005.07 (E) of City Code in compliance with the Comprehensive Plan. It should be noted that the Wal-Mart project Area has frontage on Cleveland Ave. and County Road C, both classified as A Minor Reliever, consistent with the Comprehensive Plan for Community Business uses. C.CPG OMPREHENSIVE LANOALS AND POLICIES The next area analyzed by the Community Development Department is the Goals and Policies sections of the Comprehensive Plan. These sections include words such as “facilitate”, “encourage”, “promote”, “seek”, “emphasize”, “ensure”, “maintain”, and “establish”, which do not provide strict limits, thresholds, or prohibitions and are not by themselves regulations. They are, in fact, part of a broader paragraph or statement that directs the creation of the Zoning Ordinance and other requirements and programs. The Community Development Department would like to stress that projects that walk in the door are not to be reviewed against each goal and/or policy stated in the Comprehensive Plan, since the goals and policies are a collection of broad based desires of the community and no one project can meet or achieve each and every general goal or policy statement. The Community Development Department has however prepared a concise analysis of all goals and policies contained in the Land Use, Economic Development and Redevelopment, and Environmental Protection chapters of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. The analysis focuses on how or whether the goal and/or policy is advanced via the use or size of the proposed Wal-Mart and whether the goal or policy has been addressed in the zoning ordinance to achieve consistency between the two documents as required by law. Based on that analysis, the Community Development Department finds that the Roseville Zoning Ordinance is consistent with and has incorporated the goals and policies identified in the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. 7 Page7of27