979.06 MINIMUM DEVELOPMENT AREA.
   (a)   Except as provided in Section 979.06(b), the minimum development area for the submission of a Preliminary Development Plan shall be not less than an aggregate of thirty-five (35) acres of contiguous land located within the Rockside Road South PUD District. Such development area may be bisected by publicly dedicated rights-of-way, private streets, or green spaces as long as all parcels within the development area are controlled or owned by a person, an entity, or group of persons or entities acting individually or jointly, and is to be developed under a common plan in accordance with this Chapter.
   
   (b)   Except as provided in Section 979.06(c), any person or entity, or group of persons or entities acting individually or jointly, owning or controlling land in the Rockside Road South PUD District that consists of fewer than an aggregate of thirty-five (35) contiguous acres (a “Supplemental Plan Area”) may only submit a Preliminary Development Plan for such Supplemental Plan Area after a Preliminary Development Plan for thirty-five (35) or more acres contiguous to such Supplemental plan Area is approved in accordance with this Chapter, and approval of that Preliminary Development Plan for the Supplemental Plan Area shall not be affected by the subsequent expiration, withdrawal or amendment of the Preliminary Development Plan for thirty-five (35) acres. If the approval for a Preliminary Development Plan for thirty-five (35) acre requirement upon which a Preliminary Development Plan relating to a Supplemental Plan Area may be based has expired in accordance with this Chapter, then no Preliminary Development Plan for a Supplemental Plan Area may be submitted after such expiration.
   (c)   A Preliminary Development Plan may be submitted for Permanent Parcel Nos. 551-19-025, 551-19-026 and 551-12-027 prior to the approval of a Preliminary Development Plan meeting the thirty-five (35) acre requirement, in order to permit the development of said Parcels in accordance with the 2020 amendment to Article XIV, Section 7 of the City Charter to proceed without delay. (Ord. 90-2021. Passed 11-4-21.)