In order for Council to adopt an SPD, it must first make written findings that one or more of the following conditions exist, or will exist within the proposed SPD.
(a) A concentration of retail and service oriented commercial establishments serving as a principal business activity center for the community.
(b) An area recommended in the Comprehensive Plan for special zoning regulations.
(c) A property located in a transition area where there is a need to provide for a greater mixture of uses than would be permitted in standard zones of this Ordinance.
(d) Lands which permit for ingenuity, imagination and design efforts on the part of builders, architects, site planners, and developers that can produce residential developments which are in keeping with overall land use intensity and open space objectives while departing from the strict application of use setback, height and minimum lot size requirements contained in this Ordinance.
(e) Land that is occupied by substantial natural characteristics worthy of preservation or which are historic aids to the identification of residential communities which help residents relate to their communities and to relate the social organization of communities to their physical environments.
(Ord. 109-14. Passed 6-23-14.)