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Existing Land Uses The Closed Dodge Site directly abuts single-story single-family homes along the southwestern property line. In addition, there are multi-family residential buildings on Samson Street and Alden Street. This area, referred to as both Mezesville and the Centennial neighborhood (see previous discussion above), includes the Mezesville Historic District, which contains many nineteenth and early twentieth century residences. Northwest of the site, along Veterans Boulevard, are several auto-related uses, including a vacant used car dealership, an auto body repair shop, and a towing yard. Between the Dodge Site and Whipple Avenue, most of the businesses consist of light industrial uses and auto-related uses. Across from Veterans Boulevard, northeast and southeast of the site, properties are largely developed with professional office uses. A few industrial and similar businesses are located along Price Avenue between Brewster Avenue and Convention Way. General Plan Land Use Designations The New General Plan designates the south side of Veterans Boulevard between Brewster Avenue and Whipple Avenue as Mixed Use-Corridor. Some of the properties along Winslow Street have been re- designated as Mixed Use- Live/Work to reflect the industrial uses located along the block. The New General Plan describes Mixed Use-Corridor as follows: General Plan Land Use Designation: Mixed Use - Corridor The Mixed Use-Corridor category allows for the reinvention of key corridors to support major transit and support complementary commercial and residential uses, encouraging transit use and pedestrian activity. Development approaches allow for both horizontal and vertical mixed use, with ground-floor retail/service storefronts and offices required at designated nodes. Design considerations should include sensitivity to lower-intensity residential neighborhoods behind sections of the corridor, public and private amenities, and transit accessibility features. The height of single use commercial and residential structures is limited to four stories. Combined use commercial-residential structures can extend in height up to six stories, provided privacy concerns of established neighborhoods are adequately addressed through setbacks of upper stories or other design approaches. Structured parking is allowed, provided no parking levels front directly on EI Camino Real, Broadway, or Veterans Boulevard. Structures that exceed the applicable height restrictions may be permitted on Broadway or Veterans Boulevards to accentuate City gateways, provided that any such project respects surrounding development and includes signature design quality. The residential uses abutting the Mixed Use-Corridor designation (and the Dodge Site) are designated Residential-High, allowing for higher-density, multi-story residential uses. The General Plan describes Residential-High as follows: Site I nformation for Alternative Locations for the Proposed Replacement Jail September 2, 2009 29