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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 3, 2019 Page 22 highest intensity of use. There have been many instances, some which were brought up, where there is a little more immediate adjacency of not the same level of intensity of use. What the City attempts to do in those cases is on each of those properties, determine how close the types of activities on that property can be to the adjacent type of property. For instance, the City has a height requirement that was recently added to the code within the last couple of years where if putting high density residential or a commercial property next to a single family residen- tial, the setback from that single-family lot line for the building is a function of the height of the building. That is one of the ways that the City attempts to ad- dress the notion of the transition between the intensity of use. Mayor Roe stated it was also mentioned the City has property standards which are in the Zoning Code which relate to fences and plantings and ways to screen activi- ties, maybe as it relates to headlights in a drive-through activity. The City, in the Zoning Code, tries not to locate incompatible uses next to each other. It gets to be a challenge in these types of situations where it is not black and white that some- thing is incompatible as it might be with an industrial facility and single family residential. That is an attempt to answer that question and may not be a complete answer. The City does have a number of requirements in Code as it relates to set- backs, screening and the types of uses that can be adjacent to each other but all of those situations can come into play in different scenarios across the City depend- ing on what has already been done or what is being proposed. Mayor Roe stated the question about the Rice Street Corridor study is something that has been talked about and there is no current plan to undertake that at this time and since he participated on the 2030 Comp. Plan process back in 2010, nothing has been done since then to initiate the study other than perhaps some conversations with Little Canada about that at this point. Mayor Roe asked if staff could respond to the question about the amount of traffic in the traffic study versus the Comp. Plan. Mr. Trudgeon stated he took a quick look at the 2030 Comp. Plan and there were certain intersections in the corridor, Rice Street at Larpenteur, Rice Street at County Road C that were levels C, D, E and F but nothing up at this particular end of the corridor or at Rice and Owasso. Those were referencing things that were south. Mayor Roe stated each intersection is analyzed in traffic studies as to the level of service and that has to do with the wait times at the different adjacent corners or the intersection. The traffic study indicated at this particular intersection the cur- rent level of service is A and actually the level of service D is considered accepta- ble in most scenarios. There is a long way to go in terms of wait time from Level A, where it is now at this intersection to get to Level D or F.