The following definitions shall be applicable to this Chapter, unless a contrary meaning is indicated by the text:
(a) Applicant. An applicant is a person who files a petition for a zoning amendment to establish a PD district under this Chapter. A person who holds a contractual right to become the owner of a freehold estate in land proposed to be made subject to a PD Ordinance adopted under this Chapter may be an applicant. All owners of freehold estates in the lands proposed to be made subject to the PD Ordinance adopted under this Chapter must be co-applicant parties to the application made under this Chapter.
(b) Buffer. A buffer is a landscaped area, fence, wall or other barrier along the perimeter of a PD district boundary, between land use categories within a PD district, or between incompatible uses within a PD district.
(c) Common Open Space. Common open space is an area of land, an area of water, or a combination of land and water within a PD district which is for the benefit of or open to use by multiple occupants of the PD district.
(d) Compatibility. The ability of land a use to coexist with surrounding land uses in a stable fashion over time such that none of the uses are subjected to substantially adverse effects which outweigh the benefits to the community derived from the uses being permitted to exist in proximity to each other and which will not result in an existing lawful use becoming impractical as a result of its proximity to the proposed new use.
(e) Gross Density. Gross Density for residential uses is the total number of dwelling units divided by the total number of acres designated for residential uses within the perimeter boundaries of a PD district. Gross density for non-residential uses is determined by the floor area ratio.
(f) Master Development Plan. A Master Development Plan is the set of documents describing the attributes of a Planned Development, including:
(1) The PD Ordinance to govern the Planned Development, which shall include the zoning regulations to govern the Planned Development, which shall include standards by which the Planning Board will administer the PD Ordinance, which may include subdivision regulations which, as to the Planned Development, will be in addition to and which, to the extent they vary from the subdivision regulations in Part Twelve of the Codified Ordinances, shall supersede the subdivision regulations in Part Twelve of the Codified Ordinances and which shall include an amendment to the Zoning Map of Springfield, Ohio;
(2) A plot plan of subdivision characteristics and other attributes of the Planned development (the Master Development Plan plat map is not the same as the plat submitted for subdivision approval);
(3) Any declaration of land covenants required to accomplish the purposes of this Chapter as pertaining to the Planned Development;
(4) Any conveyance of easements or other interests in real estate required to accomplish the purposes of this Chapter as pertaining to the Planned development;
(5) Any financial assurances and security or other mechanisms required to accomplish the purposes of this Chapter as pertaining to the Planned Development; and
(6) Any other required conditions relating to use, location and bulk of building, density of development, common open space, and public facilities within the Planned Development.
(g) Net Commercial Acreage. Net Commercial Acreage is the total number of acres within the perimeter boundaries of a PD district, excluding areas devoted to streets, rights-of-way, easements, lakes, public, private and common open space, recreation, and other permitted non-commercial and office uses.
(h) Net Office Acreage. Net Office Acreage is the total number of acres within the perimeter boundaries of a PD district, excluding areas devoted to streets, rights-of-way, easements, lakes, public, private and common open space, recreation, and other permitted non-office uses.
(i) Net Industrial Acreage. Net Commercial Acreage is the total number of acres within the perimeter boundaries of a PD district, excluding areas devoted to streets, rights-of-way, easements, lakes, public, private and common open space, recreation, and other permitted non-industrial uses.
(j) Net Residential Acreage. Net Residential Acreage is the total number of acres within the perimeter boundaries of a PD district, excluding areas devoted to streets, rights-of-way, easements, lakes, public, private and common open space, recreation, and other permitted non-residential uses.
(k) Preliminary Master Development Plan. A Preliminary Master Development Plan is a Master Development Plan proposed by the applicant and made a part of the application, as required by this Chapter, to be submitted to the Planning Board for their consideration.
(l) Substantial Construction. Substantial construction is achieved at the point in development when all required permits necessary to build a Planned Development phase have been obtained and actual construction of public improvements, or stormwater management systems on the Planned Development phase is either complete or in active progress.
(m) Undeveloped Area. Undeveloped area is the area within a PD district where agriculture or recreation uses in open areas may be continued.