HIGHWAY MIXED-USE/BUSINESS PARK PLANNING AREA

Highway Mixed-Use/Business Park

The Highway Mixed-Use/Business Park contains 88 acres along State Highway 16 and is planned to be developed as a Community Center site with retail and mixed-use office, a fire station, and an existing cellular tower site. 290 residential units may also be developed into this Planning Area as well as a hotel. The Maximum Planning Area Density is 5.68 units/acre or 500 dwelling units. This area may be expanded in the future to include the adjacent 815-acre BLM parcel. This would create a commercial and employment center at the primary entry to the community and provide easy access and visibility from the highway corridor. Topographically, over 93% of the Planning Area is less than 25% slope. Uses planned for this area will require the support of a larger population base in the foothills, higher traffic on State Highway 16 and the development of a substantial residential base in M3 Eagle.

Highway Mixed-Use/Business Park is located along State Highway 16 on the western boundary of M3 Eagle.

Uses/Design

This area will combine highway-oriented commercial, retail, office and business park uses to capitalize on its adjacency and visibility from the regional transportation corridor, the planned interchange on State Highway 16, and the State Highway 16 to State Highway 55 arterial roadway. The site may also include a maximum of 290 high density single- and multi-family homes as well as hotel uses. Eventually, this area will be the gateway to M3 Eagle with appropriate landscape, entry and place-making features integrated into the design of the area.

This area may be expanded in the future to include the adjacent 815-acre BLM parcel provided the land exchange between M3 Eagle and BLM occurs. This parcel is envisioned to contain mixed-use development (up to 50% of the land area), civic and educational uses, parks, and residential uses (at 2 units per gross acre).

Highway Mixed-Use/Business Park.

Access and Circulation

Access to this area will be by a future grade-separated interchange on State Highway 16 which will be two miles north of a future interchange on State Highway 16 and Beacon Light Road. This access will also serve as a primary entry into the community as well as connect to the primary five-lane arterial that is proposed to serve as a connection between State Highway 16 and State Highway 55.