In granting or withholding approval of the sketch development plan, preliminary development plan or final development plan, the planning commission and the village board shall be guided by the requirements of this chapter and the following standards:
(A) Public Good: All plans shall be so designed that the public health, welfare, and safety will be protected.
(B) Property Value: The proposed development shall be such that it does not cause substantial injury to the value of other property in the immediate area.
(C) Protection Of Conditions: All plans shall provide for protection of both aesthetics and function of the natural environment, which shall include, but not be limited to, conditions pertaining to floodplains, soil, and geologic characteristics, air quality, and preservation of vegetation.
(D) Common Open Space: All plans shall provide for and ensure the preservation of adequate recreational facilities and common open space.
(E) Balanced Neighborhood: Residential use areas shall have a variety of housing types and densities necessary to achieve a balanced neighborhood.
(F) Public Activities: The planned development shall include land area necessary to accommodate cultural, educational, recreational, and other public and quasi-public activities necessary to serve the needs of the residents thereof.
(G) Creative Land Uses: The proposed development shall provide for the orderly and creative arrangement of all land uses with respect to each other and to the entire village.
(H) Ways For Pedestrians and Cyclists: Walkways shall form a logical, safe and convenient system for pedestrian access to all dwelling units and to all project facilities and off-site destinations likely to attract substantial pedestrian traffic. Walkways to be used by substantial numbers of children as play areas or routes to schools or other principal destinations shall be so located and safeguarded as to minimize contacts with normal automobile traffic. Street crossings shall be held to a minimum on such walkways, located and designed to promote safety, appropriately marked and otherwise safeguarded. If substantial bicycle traffic is anticipated, bicycle paths shall be incorporated in the walkway system. Pedestrian ways appropriately located, designed, and constructed may be combined with other easements and uses by emergency or service vehicles, but shall not be used by other automotive traffic.
1. Access: Access for pedestrians and cyclists shall be arranged to provide safe, convenient routes, and need not be limited to the vehicular access points. When pedestrian access points do not occur at street intersections, they shall be marked and controlled, and when such ways are exposed to substantial vehicular traffic at the edges of a district, fences or other barriers shall be erected and maintained to prevent crossings except at designated points. Bicycle paths, if provided, shall be so related to the pedestrian way system that street crossings are combined.
2. Screening at Edges of The Planned Unit Development: Fences, walls or vegetation screening shall be provided along the edges of the planned development where needed to protect residents from undesirable views, lighting, noise, or other off-site influences or to protect occupants of adjoining residential districts from similar adverse influences within the planned development. In both cases, screening shall be designed to control the existing or potential first floor residential windows in the planned development or other residential district. Screening requirements may be waived where terrain makes protection overview impractical. (Ord. 99-06, 6-21-1999; amd. Ord. 22-01, 5-2-2022; Ord. passed 9-19-2022)