In addition to other applicable provisions of this Zoning Ordinance, the following standards for arrangement and development of land and buildings are required in the Planned High Density Residential District.
(a) Minimum Size of Development:
(1) A PR-18 Planned High Density Residential Development shall require a minimum tract of land of three (3) acres or more in area;
(2) There shall be no minimum site size requirement if the proposed location is restricted by nonresident use or the proposed development is in keeping with the general land use character of the adjacent lands.
(b) Intensity of Use: The maximum net density shall be eighteen (18) dwelling units per acre of area devoted to residential use as defined below.
(c) Calculation of Density: The calculation of residential density shall include all land devoted to residential use, and shall further include easements for utilities except major facilities which do not serve individual dwellings, minor surface drainage channels, recreation space and other areas provided as common open space, including land dedicated to public use except required street right-of-way.
(d) Open Space: A minimum of twenty-five percent (25%) of the area included in the calculation of residential density shall be provided as open space or public use organized, arranged and restricted by easement, covenant, deed or dedication and not included in the minimum yard space required for dwelling or used to provide the required off-street parking.
(1) Public use that will give benefit to the occupants of the dwelling units. Such public use may include but is not limited to educational and recreational facilities, flood protection, additional street rights-of-way (such additional street rights-of-way shall be defined as that which is more than sixty (60) feet in width), or other public improvements necessary to the health, safety and welfare of the people;
(2) Common use and benefit of the occupants of the dwelling units. Such common use may include but is not limited to landscaped areas, recreational facilities, or other common use as will provide amenity to the area, but does not include required yards;
(3) The required open space may be reduced to twenty percent (20%) when the proposed site is adjacent to permanent open space under public ownership.
(e) Arrangement of Areas:
(1) The location and arrangement of areas of various densities within the Planned High Density Residential District, in addition to achieving these Development Standards, shall be so arranged and distributed that development of higher density shall be appropriately balanced by open space and/or low density development;
(2) Residential development at a density higher than that permitted on land in adjacent Residential Zoning Districts, or other permitted uses shall not be located nearer than fifty (50) feet to such Zoning District boundary, except when along a street right-of-way of eighty (80) feet or more.
(f) Yards: The physical relationship of dwelling units and their minimum yard space shall be determined in accordance with one or more of the following methods:
(1) There shall be a side and rear yard for a main building of not less than one-fourth (1/4) the sum of the height of the building and the length of the wall adjacent to and most nearly parallel to the lot line, but in no case shall the rear yard be less than twenty-five (25) feet;
(3) Arrangement of structures and provision of yard space and building setback in accordance with a plan of the site and structure prepared by a team composed of an Architect licensed to practice in the state of Ohio and a Landscape Architect licensed to practice in the state of Ohio. Such plan shall be subject to approval as the Development Plan or in conjunction with the subsequent Subdivision Plat as complying with the other requirements of these Development Standards and in accord with the purpose and intent of the Planned High Density Residential District Regulations.
(g) Other Yard Space: The arrangement of other uses and associated yard space shall be determined in accordance with the Development Standards of the Zoning District in which the use is a permitted use except that arrangement may be determined as in subsection (f)(2) or (3)Thereof.
(h) Private Roads and Parking: Private roads as an easement may be used to provide access to structures provided they are approved as a part of the Subdivision Plat as the most appropriate form of access.
(1) Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with Chapter 1177 (Off-Street Parking and Loading), except residential parking may be provided in group garages or parking lots within one hundred fifty (150) feet of the dwelling served;
(2) Curb indented parking bays or courts may be provided within the street right-of-way, but in addition to the required roadway, and approved as a part of the Development Plan. Such parking shall be permitted only along streets internal to the area and not a major thoroughfare.
(Ord. 19-011. Passed 4-22-19.)