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Southcenter Plan Book 1: Community Intent <br />10. Manage expected growth in a sustainable way, ensuring that the regional benefits of growth <br />management do not come at the expense of livability, by focusing growth and density in <br />environmentally suitable areas and adequately servicing it with improved infrastructure, <br />including non motorized facilities, transit and enhanced access to parks and natural features. <br />1.3. STARTING POINT: EXISTING CONDITIONS SUMMARY <br />The condition of the Plan Area at the time of the Subarea Plan's drafting is detailed in Appendix A, <br />documenting and describing the physical and structural conditions of the area that have informed <br />the recommendations of the Plan. As change occurs, the community intends to measure those <br />changes to monitor the Plan's success and the degree to which it remains sufficiently current. A <br />summary of conditions, challenges and opportunities is provided below: <br />Land Use <br />An economically successful regional <br />commercial, shopping and employment <br />center <br />Major contributor to City revenues local <br />services through sales property taxes <br />Suburban pattern of development <br />Very little vacant developable land <br />Low density development surrounded by <br />parking points towards redevelopment <br />opportunities <br />No residential or mixed use development <br />need more amenities to attract <br />Predominantly single -story buildings <br />New investment will increasingly entail <br />redevelopment of buildings and site <br />North <br />Auto oriented commercial, with retail, office, <br />and lodging <br />Large regional shopping Mall surrounded by <br />parking and rings of associated smaller scale, <br />low -rise, surface parked commercial <br />buildings. <br />W: \Long Range Projects \Southcenter Plan \Plan 2011 \Book 1 \FINAL Book 1_12.7.2011_PC.dou Page 4 <br />12/7/2011 <br />51 <br />Regional shopping employment center <br />