Any person, corporation, partnership or association having an ownership interest in a proposed development, or any group of owners united in interest, acting jointly and in pursuance to an agreement to carry out the proposal in separate ownership may propose a planned development in accordance with the procedures hereinafter established, where the individual owner or group of owners in making such proposal intends to act as developer or sponsor of the development if the zoning change is adopted and indicates the requisite capabilities to carry out the proposal. A parcel, or site proposed for planned development need not be under single ownership where the proposed development consists of a group of structures or improvements capable of being developed separately but in accordance with a single, unitary plan and in which the separate owners have given their expressed intentions to enter into the private agreements between or among themselves as will facilitate their mutual enterprise, and assure its completion as planned to the satisfaction of the Plan Commission.
(Ord. 614, passed 2-22-1999)