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5.6 Ros�ville's Mi�eci Use B�.tsiness Park land use designatzoz� is defin�d as ".. . a hyb�id of a moYe typical industrial pa�k with office park uses and a rnix of se�vice �etail and housing t�iat tivould seYVe as a nzaYe livable campus setting. It is defined as a geographically identifiable a�ea which contains an architectuYally eonsistent mix of offtce, offtce- l�borato�y, nffice-showYOam--wcrr�housing, �iiotechnical, bio�nedical, high-tech softwcsre and hardwa�e praductian uses with suppo�i service� such as limited �etail, health, fitness, l�dging and fnultifanaily housing. Tl�e Business PrYk has well planned Yoc�ds, utilities, ponding and comnzunication systems. Pa�^cels �vithin a Business Park have acce�s to an inteYnal parkway and/or exte�nal County minoN arte�ials as well as access to the Inte�state ,�lighway Syste�n. Emphasis is plrxced on c�eating a unique, safe and high�quality �vork and play environrneni by installation of extv�aordina�y, a�chitectu�ally distinct buiddings, tran�it and transportation services, sit� planning, envir�onmentally sensitive landscaping, paYks, tYails and lighting." Source: Adopted T�vin Lakes Master. Plan (Tune 2001), �'age 1. 5.7 It shnuld I�e noted that staff �raws a distinction between t�xs p�aperty and othex praperties t�at a�e naore i�teriar to t�e Twin Lakes Rede�veloprx�en� Area fnr several reasons: 5.7.1 Whi�e t�ae Twin La�es Master Plaza calls for a znix�ure of uses thraugl�out t�e area (as evidenced by rnaps cnntained within the Master Plan showing a nuznber of permutations of uses oz� tnost individual si�es) - a�Z of th.e maps and descrip�ions contazned withi�� the Twin Lakes Business Park Master Plan, identi�y the s�bject properiy soie�v as "Tn�zl�i-£a�ni�y hausing;" 5.7.2 The subject property is physically sepaz�ated fra�a the rezxaainc�er of t�e Twin La�es area by rr�ore th� 250 �'eet ni�ark land; 5.7.3 Du� to this isalation, the subject property is more abie to rely an single-siie ariented public iz�prove�z�ze�ts (such as roads, water, sanitary s�wer, etc.} rather than being fully inte�rated inta the public ir�provements assoczated with i�e Twin Lal�es Masier �'la� area; 5.7.� T�e subject property, in the opin�on of sta�Ff, �as aiways been �viewed as a "trar�sitional" area betr�een the high intensity Twin Lakes area and t�e Iow- der�siiy sin�le-farnzl� residen�ial area to iY�e nort�i. 5.$ �pr the reaso�as listed above (in S.7), staff has not r�vievved the application in the sarne con�ext nor io tl�e same standards as we might review applications faar properties znorS i�ter�al ta the Twin Lakes area. As azz �xa:�x�ple, therc is as much {or �er�iaps more) of a need for the site design to provide a transitioi� from �he single-�a�raily neighbar�ood thaz�: to �ollaw strict design �uide�i�es irztez�ded to zza��grate it with the fi.�tr.�e high-intensity uses antieipated in the Twin Lakes area. 5.9 Wl�ile fihere is a"Langton Lalce �ar�C Mas�er �'laan" (which includes the subjeci property} that wa� ofi"icially adopted by the Gity Cauncil in 1986, �hat plan is not included in PF07-0{?6_IZCA_�6 i 807 Page 3 of 9