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<br />!I~ <br />ffi!lffA <br />:TI!' <br /> <br />Places to work are categorized as business parks, intemal industrial areas and external industrial areas. <br /> <br />Business Parks. Business parks are planned environments which require a higher standard of design and, <br />therefore, protect businesses from potentially adverse external influences. These are areas that either <br />were, or are intended to be, planned and developed as a unit, where a high standard of building and site <br />design is required. As these areas redevelop (or have recently redeveloped), common facilities and <br />amenities are provided to give the park a collective character or identity and outdoor storage and sales is <br />no longer intended to be allowed or is intended to be severely restricted. These are areas where business <br />occurs entirely inside the building, requiring little or no materials or truck storage or outdoor sales. These <br />also are intended to have loading docks which are either invisible from the street or screened from public <br />view. <br /> <br />Uses intended to be accommodated in business parks include businesses such as research laboratories, <br />light manufacturing, warehousing, offices and incidental commercial or retail uses that support the <br />business park and its employees. <br /> <br />Light and Heavv Industrial Areas. Light industrial areas are those which conduct most of their business <br />including sales, storage and processing inside the building. Heavy industries, on the other hand, conduct <br />some amount of their business outdoors in the form of materials, supplies, product and truck storage, plus <br />outdoor sales. Outdoor activities are intended to be screened from view from all public streets and other <br />areas of public use. Uses intended to be accommodated are the same for each industrial category <br />including: construction, manufacturing, warehousing, wholesaling, offices, and trucking and <br />transportation service uses. <br /> <br />Policies <br /> <br />The City's policies for places to work are to: <br /> <br />1. Actively participate in the redevelopment of blighted properties, brown fields and marginally <br />used industrial areas. <br />2. Ensure that places of employment are designed to be compatible with adjacent non-employment <br />land uses. <br />3. Participate in the creation of business park settings that have protected environments and offer <br />amenities that are attractive to large and innovative employers. <br />4. Consider provision of financial incentives to attract strong employers to New Brighton. <br />5. Encourage design that is reflective of business location (i.e. gateway design in gateway <br />locations). <br />6. Make places to work connected and integrated parts of the larger community rather than <br />freestanding islands of business activity. <br />7. Increase the intensity of development as a means to provide jobs and increase tax base. <br />8. Encourage developer and employer consistency and compliance with appropriate environmental <br />performance standards and regulations. <br />9. Encourage developments that mix employment and residential uses in the interest of reducing <br />overall Ira vel demand. <br />10. Encourage a high-level of aesthetic quality in design. <br /> <br />August 4, 1999 <br />New Brighton Comprehensive Plan <br /> <br />Page 5.13 <br />