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9) Provide a flexible land use plan 10) Locate uses in areas where they can best take advantage of necessary market forces In addition, the Plan embodies the following policies: 1) The City encourages office and office-high tech assembly, and medical and biotech uses where they have immediate access to County Roads and the freeway. 2) The City encourages limited, integrated or mixed-use "support" retail, restaurant and lodging uses in appropriate locations, where customers will have easy access from their job locations in Twin Lakes Business Park and from the Rosedale area. 3) The City encourages a mix of office and high-tech uses with multiple residential uses where they can take advantage of the amenities offered by the parks west and south of Oasis Park, and in a mixed Office/Residential area on the west and southeast sides of Langton Lake. In effect the multiple residence areas become the "new edge" to the existing adjoining residential areas. 4� The City allows existing non-conforming uses, most notably the trucking operations, to remain as pre-existing, nonconforming uses until a more compatible, permitted business park use succeeds the trucking use. If the City should decide to rezone, the City will adopt zoning or a planned unit development in which these non-conforming uses may remain, but will be encouraged to move to newer, more environmentally compatible areas specifically designed and supported by roads and infrastructure for such uses, consistent with this Plan or in other approved metropolitan areas. 5) The City encourages quality site design in new developments, to include landscaping, signage, berming, lighting, location of multi-story buildings with buildings, parking and access, and other elements which will ensure compatibility with adjacent land uses, and with their own internal functioning. It will be the responsibility of new development to ensure compatibility with existing uses, not vice versa. The City encourages the use of shared parking, ramped parking and a regional water retention plan or use of new technologies where appropriate to reduce impervious surfaces and increase green space. The Twin Lakes Design Guidelines (1988) are the current Design Guidelines until superceded by amendments or "parcel specific" planned unit development ordinances. 6) To ensure orderly, fair, efficient and cost-effective redevelopment, the City will use eminent domain — condemnation — in cases where acquisition of the land area and construction of public roads and parks, utilities and/or storm sewer are deemed in the public's interest by the City CounciL In addition, to induce further new private investment that is in the public's best interest and ensure that the City is not overpaying for speculative development, condemnation will be used as a last option in redevelopment negotiation process to determine a fair market value of the