(a) Application. An application for preliminary planned unit development shall be filed with the Chairman of the Planning Commission 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:
(1) Name, address and phone number of applicant.
(2) Name, address and phone number of registered surveyor, registered engineer and/or urban planner assisting in the preparation of the preliminary development plan.
(3) Legal description of property.
(4) Description of existing use.
(5) Zoning district(s).
(b) Material to be Submitted with Applications.
(1) 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 to provide adequate sureties for completing.
(2) A map or maps indicating the relation of the proposed district to the surrounding area. As appropriate to the development proposed, such map 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 utilities 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.
(3) Topographic data map drawn to a scale of 100 feet to one inch by a registered surveyor and/or engineer showing:
A. Boundary lines; bearings and distances,
B. Easements; location, width, and purpose,
C. Wooded areas, streams, lakes, marshes, and any other physical conditions affecting the site,
D. Ground elevations of the tract; for land that slopes less than one half percent (.5%), show one foot contours; for land that slopes more than one half percent (.5%) show two contours,
E. If deemed necessary, subsurface conditions on the tract, including the location and results of tests made to ascertain the conditions of the subsurface soil, rock and ground water, and the existing depth of the groundwater.
(c) A preliminary development plan and report, with maps at a scale of 100 feet or less to the inch, including as appropriate to the following information, presented in generalized form:
(1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) Major off-street parking areas.
(4) Proposed parks, playgrounds, 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.
(5) General location of utilities installations and easements.
(6) If development is to be in stages indication as to 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.
(7) Proposals for expediting provisions 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.
(8) The substance of 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.
(Ord. 82-1 2-16-82.)