(a) All Planned Districts within the Village of West Jefferson shall be approved in accordance with the procedures and requirements set forth in this Chapter.
(b) A Planned District may only be established on the property within the Village of West Jefferson in one of the following ways:
(1) The owner[s] of the subject property, or the owner's agent, may follow the procedures set forth in this Chapter to rezone the property to a Planned District.
(2) The Planning and Zoning Commission may initiate a rezone of property to a Planned District pursuant to Chapter 1107 of this Planning and Zoning Code, without submission or adoption of a development plan. Following the rezone to the Planned District initiated by the Planning and Zoning Commission, the current or subsequent owner[s] of the property, or the owner's agent, may apply to the Village for approval of a preliminary development plan for the property pursuant to the procedures set forth in this Chapter.
(c) An applicant seeking to establish a Planned District must comply with the following general procedure, as more particularly described in this Chapter:
(1) Attend a pre-application meeting with appropriate Village staff.
(2) Apply to the Village for approval to rezone the subject property to a Planned District pursuant to Chapter 1107 of this Planning and Zoning Code. The application shall be on forms prescribed by the Village Director of Development. A preliminary development plan and governing development text shall be submitted as part of the application. If the Council grants the requested rezone, the Council shall simultaneously approve and adopt the preliminary development plan and governing development text (or a modified version thereof). The preliminary development plan and governing development text shall set forth the basic zoning regulations applicable to the subject property moving forward; and shall serve as the basis for a subsequent final development plan and the eventual development of the property.
(3) Apply to the Village for the approval of a detailed final development plan, which shall be consistent with the approved preliminary development plan and governing development text. Any modification to an approved preliminary development plan and/or governing development text shall only be approved in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 1125.09 herein.
(d) The provisions of this chapter shall apply to lands located within the incorporated limits of the Village, however, nothing in this Chapter shall preclude the initiation and processing of a Planned District rezoning under the procedures set forth in this Chapter and any other applicable Chapter[s] while a proposed annexation of a subject property to the Village in pending; however no rezoning shall occur until and unless the annexation of the subject property has been accepted by the Village. (Ord. 22-089. Passed 12-5-22.)