Volume 2: Draft Gorst Planned Action Environmental Impact Statement

GORST PLANNED ACTION EIS | ALTERNATIVESAlternative 3 Future Land UseAlternative 3 proposes a vision of Gorst as a community offering homes, jobs, and recreation in an environmentallysustainable setting. The alternative promotes a mix of uses and a wider range of residential dwelling options:As the SKIA grows as an employment center, and demand increases for housing such as alongSherman Heights Road, Gorst evolves into a complete community with places to live, play, shop,and work, in a waterfront setting. Gorst also serves as a community-wide demonstration of lowimpactdevelopment techniques to create a sustainable, compact and enduring place. Views,cultural resources, critical areas are protected and enhanced through a coordinated watersheddevelopment, restoration, and protection plan and BMPs. Along the waterfront a lower intensityland use pattern emerges with commercial uses occurring on smaller impervious footprintsinterspersed by trails, parks, and reclaimed shoreline habitat. A secondary circulation networkimproves business access, creates a pedestrian scale, and provides non-motorized access towaterfront properties. Central Gorst allows more intensive regional commercial, office, hotel, andmixed use residential developments. Small-scale mixed use neighborhoods along West BelfairRoad and West Frone Road provide gathering places and daily conveniences for Gorst residentsas well as medium density housing as part of horizontal and vertical mixed use developmentpatterns. Along Gorst Creek, a restored riparian corridor is created, made possible in part bydevelopment incentives such as cottages, small lot single family, medium density residential andmixed use development. A residential neighborhood along Sherman Heights Road provides arange of detached and attached residential choices in clustered patterns and small-scale,neighborhood-serving commercial uses.The future land use map is shown in Figure 2-8 Gorst UGA Land Use: Alternative 3 and accompanying designationsare shown in Table 2-5 Alternative 3 Future Land Use Designation Descriptions. Figure 2-9 Alternative 3 Percentageof Land Use/Zoning Designations shows the percentage of each land use/zoning designation associated withAlternative 3.Draft | June 2013 2-24