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Bverest Development, Case 50. 2366 Page .& such as multi-story office buildings, hotels, restaurants, and other intensive uses. 2. Imcact on Ðarks. streets. and other cublic facilities. The proposed use is not expected to have 'an adverse impact on any of these facilities, since it meets all applicable design and engineering standards and is less intense than many permitted uses. 3. Comcatibility of the site Ðlan. internal traffic circulation. landscacinq and structures with contiauous procerties. The plans meet all city design standards and are compatible with adjacent properties, which include railroad tracks and the petroleum tank farm to the south, vacant Amoco property to the west, the I-35W freeway to the east, and Everest's 'own corporate headquarters and lease holdings to the north. 4. Imcact of the use on the market value of contiauous procerties. As noted above, the proposed buildings will be nicer than many of the adjacent properties in the neighborhood, and will likely increase the value of surrounding property. The Ruan site, the proposed site of Building G, was the subject of an interim use application earlier this year for a truck repair operation. The Everest proposal is a vast improvement. 5. Imcact on welfare. No proposed use. the qeneral cublic adverse impact is health. safety. anticipated from and the 6. Compatibility with the city's Comcrehensive Plan. The Plan has shown the sites as Business, which was further defined by the B-4 District, the purpose of which is described in the Code: "The purpose of the Retail Office service District is to provide for a limited mixture of land uses, made mutually compatible through controls and high quality standards: to facilitate more intensive and higher valued development and redevelopment of areas convenient to the Metropolitan market area. This district shall allow opportunities to integrate high quality office structures, hotels, restaurants, retail uses, and selected office service and quaiity manufacturing uses, providing the opportunity to benefit from excellent visibility from maj~r arterial routes in conjunction with major local thoroughfares." The proposed use is consistent with this statement of purpose and with the details of the design standards. We recommend approval of the Special Use Permit.