(a) Purpose. The Planned Development (PD) District regulations are intended to provide flexibility and creativity in terms of the types of uses and improvements that may be developed and operated within a particular area. The purposes of the PD District regulations are to:
(1) Facilitate master planning to provide for cohesive development across multiple properties;
(2) Provide an opportunity for a mix of land uses otherwise not permitted within standard municipal zoning district classifications to facilitate the development and operation of uses in a manner that reflect modern needs, market trends, and preferences.
(3) Allow for the creation of development standards that respect the unique characteristics and qualities of a property and the immediate vicinity and protect the community's natural resources.
(4) Enable more specific reviews of certain design characteristics to ensure that a development project is properly integrated into its surroundings and is compatible with or complimentary to adjacent development.
(5) Assure compatibility between proposed land uses within and around the Planned Development District through appropriate development controls.
(6) Pursue the goals of the City as defined in the city's major policies and plans like the comprehensive land use plan. .
(7) Promote economical and efficient use of land and reduce infrastructure extension and long-term maintenance costs through unified development.
(8) Provide for supporting community amenities such as (but not limited to) parkland, paths, open spaces, and tree preservation areas.
(9) Establish objective criteria for development plan review that ensure conformity to community and district standards and allow for consistent treatment throughout.
(10) Encourage proper relationships between buildings, other developments, structures, and land, and develop in an orderly, coordinated, and comprehensive manner.
(11) Encourage unified development projects that exhibit creative, holistic, and superior planning and design in ways that cannot be achieved through a standard zoning district.
(12) Implement predictable and timely review procedures applicable to Planned Development Districts.
(b) Application. The Planned Development District regulations assist in accomplishing the above purposes by establishing review steps that combine the request for a zoning of real property with the development plan review process and, when applicable, the subdivision process.
(1) Separate Districts. Each Planned Development District shall be considered a separate and unique zoning district wherein a preliminary development plan (a "Preliminary Development Plan"), including (but not limited to) an associated written text providing the specific development standards applicable to the PD District (a "Zoning Text"), is adopted. The Preliminary Development Plan shall pertain only to the property within the particular PD District to which it applies. The approval of a Preliminary Development Plan application also shall constitute a zoning amendment to a PD zoning designation for the property that is the subject of the application.
(2) PD Supersedes Other Provisions. Planned Development Districts adopted and established in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall take precedence over any conflicting regulations contained in the City's Planning and Zoning Code and/or Subdivision Regulations.
(c) Ownership/Control. A Planned Development District shall be an integrated, unified development project wherein the entire project area that is the subject of a single application shall be in common or shared ownership and/or control at the time the application for Preliminary Development Plan approval is filed. Any transfer of land within the Planned Development District resulting in ownership within the development by additional or other parties after an application has been filed shall not alter the applicability of the regulations contained herein. An approved Preliminary Development Plan shall be binding upon property owners and their successors and assigns.
(d) Eligibility. For property to be eligible to be classified with the PD designation, it must be included within a Preliminary Development Plan application pertaining to a minimum of three hundred fifty (350) acres, which must be contiguous to one another. Properties separated by a public right-of-way shall be contiguous for purposes of this provision.
(e) Additions. At any time after a Preliminary Development Plan application containing a minimum of three hundred fifty (350) acres has been approved so as to apply the PD designation thereto, separate property will be eligible, but not guaranteed, to be zoned as an addition to the same PD, regardless of whether or not it is contiguous to any of the acreage contained within that PD, if (i) the separate property is owned or controlled by the same applicant that filed the original PD application, or (ii) the separate property is under common ownership with a portion of other real property that is already zoned with that PD designation. In addition, non-contiguous separate real property that is not contiguous with a boundary of an existing PD shall be eligible to be added to the existing PD only if any portion of the boundary of the separate property to be added is located within one half mile of a boundary of the existing PD.
(Ord. 10-2023. Passed 6-20-23.)