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I just want to highlight a few or talk about what a PUD is and highlight a few important notes for <br />you to take away. A PUD is a land use planning and design process which is intended to <br />encourage the comprehensive planning of a site. So, instead of a specific parcel or a specific use, <br />we're looking at the whole type of site. It needs to be compatible with the surrounding <br />community, so it should be pretty consistent with the character and the nature of the surrounding <br />community. It should adapt the design of development to the land, so if there are geographical <br />issues like drainage or slopes or things, a PUD can help kind of work around some of those <br />issues. <br />And, then, it's intended to diversify the relationships of various uses, buildings, structures, open <br />spaces and yards, building heights, and lot sizes in planned building groups. <br />PUD requests generally are, include a set of requested deviations or exceptions from our Zoning <br />and Subdivision Codes. I talked with the planners who used to do this under, when they were <br />being approved by the Director, and they said mostly, they were residential developments in <br />nature and the main types of deviations that were requested were exceptions or deviations from <br />minimum lot size requirements. You have an agricultural lot that has a minimum lot size <br />requirement of five acres. This process would allow you to go under that. <br />Setback requirements so you wouldn't be stuck with the Zoning Code says in terms of what your <br />setbacks are. Again, that would help make it consistent with yards for the surrounding <br />community. <br />Building height requirements and then from the Subdivision Code is exceptions from the <br />subdivision roadway standards and exceptions from requiring provision of roadway <br />improvements like curb, gutter, sidewalk. <br />The PUD process, just in a nutshell, is very similar to other processes that we go through <br />permits. The applicant submits an application form and a $500 processing fee along with <br />descriptive narrative of the entire project. Again, this is a comprehensive developmental project. <br />How it complies with criteria for approval which is laid out in the rule, requested deviations and <br />exceptions from Zoning and Subdivision Codes, a development timeline, how long it's going to <br />take them to commence and complete development, and how the request conforms with the <br />General Plan, any applicable community development plan, any design guidelines or master <br />plans—those types of things. <br />Along with that descriptive narrative, they need to submit to us a comprehensive site plan which <br />clearly outlines the types of buildings, uses, any proposed or existing roadways or easements, <br />proposed subdivision of land, any on-site or off-site parking, public areas and uses, landscaping <br />and open space. So, again, the idea that this is comprehensive. We're now having a visual idea <br />of what this is all going to be looking like. <br />We also require architectural drawings for all buildings, demonstrating that the design character. <br />A visual depiction of all the requested deviations from the Zoning and Subdivision Codes. And, <br />this is important so that if a PUD is approved and the applicant then goes to go to start getting <br />building permits and planning permits, that the planners, the land use plan checkers up front can <br />EXHIBIT C <br />6 <br />