A. Purpose: The SPUD (Simplified Planned Unit Development) District is a special zoning district category required for all rezoning applications within the boundaries of the TC-CC Town Center Community Conservation Overlay District that are five (5) net acres or less in size. Properties over five (5) net acres in size are required to use the Planned Unit Development District for rezoning. The purpose of the SPUD is to provide an alternative approach to traditional land use controls in order to promote creative design and development solutions. In all cases the uses and structures proposed by the SPUD must be in conformance with the Warr Acres Comprehensive Plan and the TC-CC Overlay Zoning District regulations; and the record of Planning Commission and City Council actions related to a SPUD application should so verify.
B. SPUD Characteristics:
1. The SPUD site shall consist of one or more tracts or parcels of land that have a combined total size of five (5) net acres or less, exclusive of any street or alley right-of-way; are under common ownership or control at time of application; and are to be developed as one unit according to a design statement and Master Development Plan Map.
2. The SPUD is subject to special review procedures and, once approved by the City Council, becomes a special zoning classification for the property it represents.
3. A SPUD plan shall contain no more than two (2) development tracts that can be regulated under different base zoning districts, and shall be limited in the number and complexity of modifications to conventional zoning and land use regulations.
4. Required SPUD documentation is a design statement and a Master Development Plan Map which are included in the ordinance of rezoning and regulate future land use and improvements. (Ord. 1169, 2016)