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I'l ^04-2974 Stoncbay Outlet A CMP Amendment Text April 15,2004 Page S The third of the four parcels is Outlot D of Stonebav. a 3.5 acre parcel likewise euided for office use and anticipated to be developed for office use during the period 2004-2006. These three abutting parcels are located across Highway 12 from the Orono Industrial Park which in the past has been used for processing and manufacturing. The industrial park has potential for redevelopment and is guided to encourage conversion to light industnal high tech uses, as well as oflice-showroom. The City does not intend to allow commercial retail or service uses within the industrial park. The fourth parcel. Outlot A. Stonebav. 3.5 acres in area, is located at the northwest quadrant of the signalized Highway 12 / Willow Drive intersection. Outlot A is remotely located from the first three parcels, separated from them bv a regional stormwater pond. The opposite three quadrants of the 12AVillcw intersection are developed with retail uses: the NE quadrant is a garden center with adjoining retail shops; the SE quadrant is an off-sale liquor store and coffee drive-thru: and the SW quadrant is a convenience store / service station. Outlot A and the three other parcels between Kelley Parkway and Highway 12 are currently guided for office use with minor retail accessory to the office use. The purpose of this guiding was to avoid creatine a substantial retail center with its attendant traffic and visual impacts, and to avoid the expansion of retail substantially westward from its current terminus at the intersection of 12AVillow. This goal has been to a great extent met bv the office developments completed, underway and anticipated west of the regional storm water pond. The Stonebav residential development immediately north ofKellevParkwav will eventually include approximately 160 residential units. That development was approved with the concept of walkabilitv in mind, including ample sidewalk and trail connections to the commercial areas to the southeast as well as to the City facilities and Orono Schools campus to the west. The Stonebav residential development will result in a mixed use neighborhood, with residential, office and institutional uses. This mixed use neighborhood would benefit from nearby neighborhood-scale retail uses that would serve the neighborhood. The retail uses that would most benefit the mix of residential and non-residential uses in the neighborhood, would be a neighborhood-scale pharmacv/convefiience store and neighborhood-scale food-oriented uses. This amendment to the 2000-2020 Community Management Plan re-guides Outlot A of Stonebav to additionally allow for neighborhood-scale retail uses, as an alternative to the office use for which it is Ci.'.rrently guided. The definition of “neighborhood-scale retail uses" for Outlot A includes the following parameters which must be adhered to for anv retail use developed and maintained on the property: ! i ......AHilialMi t