A Site Plan submitted for approval as a PUD project shall be reviewed in accordance with the following approval criteria, in addition to other standards established in this chapter.
(a) Site Plan Requirements. The Site Plan shall meet all requirements for PUD projects set forth in this chapter. No modifications to any applicable Code regulations are allowed, other than those permitted herein.
(b) Consistency with City Plan. The Site Plan shall be generally consistent with Cleveland’s Comprehensive Plan as adopted by the City Planning Commission.
(c) Public Welfare. The Site Plan shall not jeopardize the public health, safety, or welfare.
(d) Compatibility with Surroundings. Neither the Site Plan nor any portion thereof shall be unduly injurious to the use and enjoyment of properties within the Plan or in its vicinity; nor shall the Site Plan, or any portion of it, seriously impair property values or environmental quality or significantly impede the development, redevelopment, or conservation of properties within the surrounding area.
(e) Circulation and Parking. The Site Plan shall provide for safe and efficient circulation of motor vehicles, pedestrians, and, where applicable, marine or bicycle traffic into, within, and out of the property. The Site Plan shall also provide for adequate access by service and emergency vehicles. It shall provide off- street parking and loading areas appropriate in size and location to planned land uses and to the location of the site. Circulation, parking, and loading facilities shall be adequate in location, size, capacity, and design to ensure safe and efficient circulation of automobiles, trucks, buses, bicycles, pedestrians, fire trucks, garbage trucks, boats, and snow plows, as appropriate, without creating unnecessary traffic hazards, blocking traffic, attracting congestion, creating excessive pedestrian- vehicular conflict, generating unnecessary through- traffic within the site, or unduly interfering with the safety or capacity of adjacent streets, sidewalks, or waterways.
(f) Open Spaces and Buffering. Open space between all buildings shall be adequate to allow for light and air, access by fire-fighting equipment, and privacy where walls have windows, terraces, or adjoining patios. Open space or buffering through landscaping or screening along the perimeter of the Site Plan shall be sufficient to reasonably protect existing and permitted future uses of adjacent property from adverse effects. The size, shape, and location of a substantial portion of any public or common open space provided in residential areas shall be useable for recreation purposes.
(g) Public Services. The land uses, intensities, and phasing of the Site Plan shall be consistent with the anticipated ability of the City, the school system, and other public bodies to provide and economically support police and fire protection, water supply, sewage disposal, schools, and other public facilities and services required by the development, without placing undue burden on existing residents and businesses. The Site Plan shall not unnecessarily require excessive public investment in installation or maintenance of facilities or services to serve the property but shall be reasonably efficient in its use of public services.
(h) Environment. The Site Plan shall not create, or fail to adequately mitigate, adverse environmental effects, such as harmful blockage of light and air, excessive street-level wind currents, glare, noise, or vibration. The Site Plan shall provide for effective storm drainage with minimum ponding, erosion, sedimentation, and discharge of runoff onto abutting lots.
(i) Security. The Site Plan shall minimize physical features that provide opportunities for anti- social or criminal behavior or that unduly threaten personal safety either on the site or on adjacent streets or abutting lots.
(j) Phasing. Each development phase shown in the Site Plan may, together with any phases that preceded it, exist as an independent unit that meets all of the foregoing criteria and all other applicable regulations herein, even if no subsequent phase is ever completed.
(Ord. No. 2093-93. Passed 11-29-93, eff. 12-7-93)