Terminal Park's comprehensive land use

The City of Auburn's Comprehensive Land Use Plan {Comp Plan} is the City's long range (twenty year) policy document. It guides the city's future development. It tries to create or maintain the charac-ter of a community and assure its sustainability.

A variety of factors are taken into consideration when developing a comprehensive land use plan. These factors include traffic patterns, economic value of land, natural and manmade resources combined with a vision of residents what their community or neighbor-hood to be in the future.

The relationship between the comprehensive plan, zoning designations and the decision-making process of city officials that implement the land use system is circular. The comprehensive plan establishes the objectives that the community wants to achieve. The zoning law sets forth the regulations designed to achieve the objectives of the comprehensive plan. City officials implement the zoning law and oversee the administration of the land use system designed to accomplish the objectives in the comprehensive plan.

Land use designations in the Comprehensive Plan are intentionally mapped with general boundaries. This tactic provides some flexibility in applying zoning for properties, especially in transition areas between comprehensive plan designations.

In the Terminal Park neighborhood, the following Comprehensive Plan Land Use designations exist:

• Single Family Residential: 4-6 dwellings per acre
• Moderate Density Residential: 6-10 dwellings per acre
• High Density Residential: 10-20 units per acre
• Light Commercial: small to moderate scale commercial activities consistent with pedestrian oriented activities
• Heavy Commercial: commercial activities where automobiles are the main mode of transportation for the consumers of the land use activity.
• Public & Quasi Public: churches, schools park

Comprehensive Plan Map