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12 <br /> ENVIRONMENT POLICIES <br /> URBAN ENVIRONMENT <br /> Statement of Intent <br /> The objective of the Urban Environment is to insure optimum utilization <br /> of shorelines- within urbanized areas by providing for intensive public <br /> use and by managing development so that it enhances and maintains shore- <br /> lines for a multiplicity of urban uses. <br /> Designation Criteria <br /> The Urban Environment is an area of high-intensity land use. This <br /> environment does not necessarily include all shorelines within an <br /> incorporated city, but is particularly suitable to those areas presently <br /> subjected to extremely intensive-use pressure, as well as to areas <br /> planned to accommodate urban expansion. Shoreline areas to be desig- <br /> nated in the Urban Environment should possess one or more of the <br /> following criteria: <br /> 1. Areas of high-intensity land use including recreation, residential, <br /> public facility, commercial, industrial development and intensive <br /> port activities. <br /> 2. Areas designated in the adopted plans of public agencies for expan- <br /> sion of urban uses. <br /> 3. Areas possessing few biophysical limitations for urban development. <br /> 4. Areas which can provide the necessary infrastructure of public <br /> services, utilities and access to accommodate urban development. <br /> Management Policies <br /> 1. Because shorelines suitable for urban uses are a limited resource, <br /> emphasis should be given to directing new development into already <br /> developed, but underutilized areas. <br /> 2. Give priority in Urban Environments to water dependent, industrial <br /> and commercial uses requiring frontage on navigable waters. <br /> 3. Give priority to planning for and developing public visual and <br /> physical access tc the shoreline in the Urban Environment. <br /> F-3 <br /> EXHIBIT 3a / of 3 <br /> URBAN POLICIES 5 9 <br />