(a) Preliminary Plan Stage.
(1) Application. An application for a preliminary planned unit development shall be filed with the Zoning Inspector by at least one owner or lessee of property for which the planned unit development is proposed. At a minimum, the application shall contain the following information filed in triplicate:
A. Name, address, and phone number of registered surveyor, registered engineer, and/or urban planner assisting in the preparation of the preliminary development plan.
B. Name, address, and phone number of applicant.
C. Legal description of property.
D. Description of existing use.
E. Zoning district(s).
(2) Material to be submitted with applications.
A. Identification of all property owners within the proposed district, evidence of unified control of the entire area of the district, tentative agreement of all owners to proceed with development according to plans, and timing schedule approved if the proposed amendment is passed, and to bind their successors in title to abide by any final commitments made, and evidence of financial capability to complete the development according to plan or the provide adequate sureties for completing.
B. A map or maps indicating the relation of the proposed district to the surrounding area. As appropriate to the development proposed, such maps or maps shall demonstrate access to major streets, and show the approximate location and sizes of existing public sewers, water lines and storm drainage systems and other utility systems and installations which will be expected to serve the development. In the case of planned developments, to contain housing; location of schools and nearby commercial facilities shall be indicated.
C. Topographic data map drawn to a scale of 100 feet to one inch by a registered survey or and/or engineer showing:
1. Boundary lines - bearings and distances,
2. Easements - location, width, and purpose,
3. Wooded areas, streams, lakes, marshes, and any other physical conditions affecting the site,
4. Ground elevations on the tract for land that slopes less than one-half (1/2) percent, show one (1) foot contours; for land that slopes more than one-half percent (.05%), show two (2) foot contours,
5. If deemed necessary, subsurface conditions on the tract, including the location and results of tests made to ascertain the conditions of subsurface soil, rock and groundwater, and the existing depth of groundwater.
(3) A preliminary development plan and report, with maps at a scale of 100 feet or less to the inch, including as appropriate to the proposed development, the following information, presented in generalized form:
A. Proposed land uses and appropriate height, bulk and location of principal structures sufficient to permit an understanding of the style of the development. Proposals containing residential units shall specify the number of housing units by size and type proposed within the initial phase of the proposal or within the overall development if the development is not to be staged.
B. Proposed automotive and pedestrian circulation patterns, including streets by type (major, collector, or minor) width, public or private, and pedestrian ways. Existing or plotted streets proposed to be vacated.
C. Major off-street parking areas.
D. Proposed parks, playground school sites, pedestrian parkways and other major open spaces as well as the general form of organization proposed to own and maintain any common open space.
E. General location of utilities, installations and easements.
F. If development is to be in stages, indication as to the order and timing of development, and demonstration that each stage, when completed, would compliment any completed earlier, and would form a reasonably independent unit even though succeeding stages were delayed.
G. Proposals for expediting provision of public facilities, utilities or services where lacking or unlikely to be available when needed for the planned development, or for providing suitable private facilities, utilities or services. A report shall be provided, if appropriate, in a particular development containing proposals for improvement and continuing maintenance and management of any private streets.
(Ord. 1987-05. Passed 8-4-87.)
H. The covenants, grants and easements or other restrictions proposed to be imposed upon the use of the land, buildings and structures including proposed easements or grants for public utilities, and the method of assuring perpetual maintenance of land to be used for common purposes.
I. Proposed building designs for buildings in the planned development, including elevations of all four sides of the structure, basic floor plan, and proposed exterior building materials.
(Ord. 2006-10. Passed 2-20-07.)
(b) Final Plan Stage.
(1) Final Development plans and reports shall include:
A. A map or maps in the form required by the Subdivision Regulations, with such modifications and additions as required concerning such items as building sites when used as a substitute for lots, common open space not dedicated for public use, and other matters as appropriate to planned developments generally or to the specific planned development.
Similar modifications of standards contained in the Subdivision Regulations or in other regulations or policies applying generally may be reflected in such maps and report if the Planning Commission shall find and shall certify, after consultations with other agencies of government as appropriate in the specific case, that the public purposes of such regulations or policies are as well or better served by specific proposals of the final plan and reports.
B. A general site and land use plan for the planned development as a whole, indicating sub-areas for phased development if any, and showing location and use of structures and portions of structures in relation to building site lines, building sites reserved for future use and uses for which sites are reserved, automotive and pedestrian circulatory networks, principal parking areas, open space not in building sites and use for which it is intended, and such other matters as are required to establish a clear pattern of the relationships to exist between structures, uses, circulation and land.
(2) Agreements, contracts, deed restrictions, and sureties. The applicant shall guarantee the installation of the public improvements specified in the Final Development Plan through one of the following methods:
A. Filing a performance and labor and material payment bond in the amount of 110% of the estimated construction cost as determined by the Municipality.
B. Depositing or placing in escrow or certified check, cash, or other acceptable pledge, in the amount of 110% of the construction cost as approved by the Municipality.
(c) Subdivision Plat Required. No zoning certificate shall be issued for any structure in any portion of a Planned Development unless and until the final subdivision plat for that portion has been approved by the proper planning authority and recorded in the public record of the County.
This requirement may be waived by the Planning Commission when it is deemed that a subdivision plat is not required.
(Ord. 1987-05. Passed 8-4-87; Ord. 2006-05. Passed 9-19-06.)