Unless otherwise specified herein, the development of the WDM Public Services PUD shall comply with the provisions of the City Code.
Whereas, title 9 of the City Code includes chapter 9, Planned Unit Development District and establishes certain regulations and guidelines pertaining to accompanying information required on plat and site plan documents. Now, therefore, the following conditions, restrictions, and regulations are adopted as part of this approval, to wit:
In addition to the PUD sketch plan, the following general development criteria shall be integrated into and made a part of this Planned Unit Development (PUD):
A. General Conformance To Subdivision Ordinance: All subdivisions, public streets, public street rights-of-way, and general development shall adhere to the standards and design criteria set forth in the West Des Moines subdivision ordinances and the most current design standards adopted by the City of West Des Moines pertaining thereto unless otherwise stated within this ordinance.
B. General Conformance To Zoning Ordinance: Unless otherwise specified herein, the development of the PUD shall comply with title 9, "Zoning", of the City Code or any other applicable codes.
C. Flood Hazard: In all areas within a 100-year frequency flood hazard zone, or adjoining drainageways, and detention ponding areas involving potential flood hazards, no building shall be erected that has a lowest floor, including basements, less than five feet (5') above the determining level of the 100-year frequency flood event, and no building shall be located within twenty five feet (25') of any easement or property boundary of a major drainageway, stormwater detention basin, or pond, unless said location is approved as part of a development entitlement by the City Council and said building is structurally designed accordingly.
D. Improvements: The developer, its successors and/or assigns, if any, shall pay all planning, engineering, and construction costs for the development of the PUD as required by this ordinance, and shall pay all costs related to approved site plans, which may include, but are not limited to, the cost of all streets, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, water mains and service lines, drainageway improvements, detention basins, buffers, and other improvements as required. No final occupancy permits shall be issued until all necessary improvements applicable to the area/lot or structure requesting occupancy are installed and accepted by the City of West Des Moines. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to prevent the developer, its successors and/or assigns, if any, from entering into private agreement(s) as it/they may desire to share the cost of improvements.
E. Parking: Parking shall be provided according to the requirements for construction and contractor's offices and yards (SIC 15, 16 and 17) for all service uses with occupied buildings. Parking for uses with no buildings or buildings not intended for occupancy will be as required in title 9, chapter 15, section 7 of City Code or as determined by the Director of Development Services. Screening of parking lots shall abide by title 9, chapter 19 of City Code.
F. Fire Access:
1. All access drives, internal drive aisles and parking lots shall permit the travel of the Fire Department's largest vehicle, including adequate accommodation of the vehicle's turning needs. Approval of unique design solutions to accommodate fire access may be granted by the City Council if the solutions proposed are recommended by the West Des Moines Fire Department.
2. At the discretion of the City's Fire Marshal, "no parking fire lane" areas may be established as necessary to ensure efficient movement and access of the fire trucks. The developer shall be responsible for the procurement and erection of approved fire lane signage.
3. A minimum of fourteen feet (14') of vertical clearance over the travel portion of all vehicle travel ways shall be maintained at all times.
4. The property owner or its designee shall be responsible for enforcement of no parking lanes and maintaining adequate clearance of structures and vegetation along and above all vehicle travel ways regardless if public or private.
5. Adequate fire accesses as determined by the City's Fire Marshal shall be provided at all times to those areas under construction.
G. Communication Towers And Related Equipment Buildings:
1. Emergency Communications Tower: One emergency communications tower at a maximum of one hundred ninety nine feet (199') in height, to include the height of whip antennas, omni-directional antennas, and lightning rods shall be allowed as a permitted use. The emergency communications tower will be reviewed and subject to approval through the site plan application process prior to installation. The emergency communications tower shall be constructed as a monopole tower, except that an external support structure shall be allowed for the purposes of locating and affixing non-commercial omni-directional antennas, microwave antennas, and other radio antennas which operationally cannot be enclosed in a shielded tower structure. The tower will be required to follow all provisions set forth in the City Code, except as provided for in this PUD.
2. Commercial Wireless Antennas: Commercial wireless antennas may be added to the emergency communications tower through the review and approval of a Minor Modification Add Antenna - "Co-Locate" application. All commercial antennas shall be located within the monopole.
3. Prohibited: No additional communication towers will be allowed within the West Des Moines Public Services PUD.
4. Related Equipment Cabinets And Buildings: All related cabinets and buildings associated with the operation of any communication tower will either be located within a building whose construction materials will be compatible with the other buildings located on the site or be screened with opaque fencing and additional landscape materials, in accordance with provisions set forth in the City Code for screening. (Ord. 2300, 5-14-2018)