(A) Initial development plan. When a petitioner wants to request rezoning to the Planned Development District, he or she shall submit his or her request to the Planning Department, showing the information specified in § 155.160, a minimum of 20 days prior to the Planning Commission meeting at which consideration is desired. After the planned development request has been reviewed, the Planning Commission shall make a recommendation to the Board of Commissioners on the requested rezoning. The Board of Commissioners shall then act to approve or deny said request. This request for rezoning is subject to the requirements for amendment of the ordinance specified in § 155.358. No building permit shall be issued within the development until the final development plan is approved and the plat is filed.
(B) Final development plan.
(1) Prior to construction on any lots in the planned development, the petitioner shall present a final development plan showing the information specified in § 155.161 below to the Planning Commission, who shall make a recommendation to the Board of Commissioners on the requested rezoning. The Board of Commissioners shall then act to approve or deny said request. This request for rezoning is subject to the requirements for amendment of § 155.358.
(2) The final development plan may be submitted in conjunction with the initial development plan for concurrent approval on any subareas the developer is ready to commit to a final plan. All the information required for both an initial and final development plan must be shown for the area submitted for concurrent approval, except that the developer may reference the requirements of one of the traditional zoning districts as the development standard for a particular subarea.
(3) Signs shall be posted on the property for a continuous period of seven days immediately prior to any public hearing held by the Planning Commission or Board of Commissioners to consider any final development plan. Said signs shall be furnished by the city and posted by the applicant in the numbers and locations prescribed by the Administrator.
(C) Amendments.
(1) Major amendments. Major amendments to the initial and/or final development plan shall be required to be approved with a public hearing in the same manner as provided for in § 155.357.
(2) Minor amendments.
(a) Minor amendments to the initial and/or final development plan shall be required to be approved by the Planning Commission. Notice of such hearing shall be given by the posting of not less than four signs provided by the city.
(b) Minor amendments to the initial development plan may also be made by the submission and approval of a final development plan which is changed from the approved initial development plan. Any such amendments shall be shown as a change from the initial development plan on the final development plan.
(3) Minimal amendments. Minimal amendments to the final development plan shall be submitted to the Administrator on a reproducible development plan showing the requested changes. The Planning Director may then approve such change in writing if she or he deems it appropriate.
(Ord. passed 2-3-2011, § 2.24.050)