The Town Board may approve a planned development
(creating a PDD District) upon a finding that the PDD meets the following
standards:
A. General standards:
(1)
The PDD is consistent with the Town of Grand
Island Comprehensive Plan.
(2)
The PDD provides for the preservation of scenic
features and natural features such as streams and shorelines, ponds,
lakes, trees, grasses, wooded cover and rough terrain.
(3)
The PDD is compatible with existing development
in the surrounding area and does not unduly burden existing Town infrastructure
or services.
(4)
The developer has sufficient financing and capabilities
to complete the project as presented.
(5)
The PDD provides all necessary water, sewer,
and stormwater management facilities, storm drainage, highway access,
paved surface streets, parking and loading facilities, and off-street
lighting, and the developer has made reasonable provisions for utility
service connections with adjoining properties and other ownerships.
[Amended 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 5-2007]
(6)
The developer will provide all necessary water
and sewer facilities, storm drainage, highway access, paved service
streets, parking and loading facilities, off-street lighting and make
reasonable provisions for utility service connections with adjoining
properties and other ownerships.
(7)
All electric, telephone, cable television and
similar equipment will be installed underground in accordance with
the New York State Public Service Commission standards.
(8)
The right-of-way and pavement width for internal
roads serving all development are adequate and sufficient in size,
location and design to accommodate the maximum traffic, parking and
loading needs of the development; the pavement meets all applicable
Town standards.
(9)
There is adequate access for fire-fighting equipment,
police and other emergency vehicles.
(10)
The gross residential density, measured over
the entire tract, but exclusive of any land to be occupied by nonresidential
uses or public or quasi-public institutional or recreational facilities
open to the general public, does not exceed the density set forth
in the underlying district and is consistent with the Comprehensive
Plan. Bonus density may be considered for outstanding development
as deemed appropriate by the Town Board.
B. Design standards:
(1)
All buildings in the layout and design are an
integral part of the development and have convenient access to and
from adjacent uses and blocks.
(2)
Individual buildings relate to each other in
design, masses, materials, placement, and connections to provide a
visually and physically integrated development.
(3)
The sides and rear of all buildings within the
planned development group receive comparable treatment to the treatment
given to street frontage of these same buildings.
(4)
The design of buildings and the parking facilities
take advantage of the topography of the project site, where appropriate,
to provide separate levels of access.
(5)
All building walls are oriented as to ensure
adequate light and air exposure to the rooms within.
(6)
All buildings are arranged to avoid undue exposure
to concentrated loading or parking facilities wherever possible and
are oriented to preserve visual and audible privacy between adjacent
buildings.
C. Landscaping design standards:
(1)
Landscape treatment for plazas, roads, paths,
service and parking areas is an integral part of a coordinated landscape
design for the entire project area.
(2)
Primary landscape treatment consists of shrubs,
ground cover and street trees, and shall combine with appropriate
walkways and paving surfaces to provide an attractive development
pattern. Landscape materials are appropriate to the growing conditions
in the Town.
(3)
Whenever appropriate, existing trees are conserved
and integrated into the landscape design plan.
(4)
All streets bordering the project area are planted
at appropriate intervals with street trees.
(5) Landscape treatment shall comply with any SWPPP submitted in accordance with §
407-121 of this chapter.
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D. Circulation system design standards:
(1)
There is adequate, safe, and convenient arrangement
of pedestrian circulation facilities, roadways, driveways, off-street
parking and loading space.
(2)
Roads, pedestrian walks and open space are appropriately
landscaped and relate to existing and proposed buildings.
(3)
Buildings and vehicular circulation open spaces
are arranged to prevent unnecessarily pedestrian exposure to vehicular
traffic.
(4)
Landscaped, paved and appropriately graded pedestrian
walks are provided along the lines of the most intense use, particularly
from building entrances to streets, parking areas and adjacent buildings.
E. Parking and loading design standards:
(1)
Parking facilities shall be landscaped and screened
from public view.
(2)
Pedestrian walkways are provided between parking
areas and buildings.
(3)
Parking facilities shall be designed with careful
regard to orderly arrangement, topography, landscaping, ease of access,
and stormwater pollution prevention, and shall be developed as an
integral part of an overall site design.
[Amended 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 5-2007]
(4)
Any above-grade loading facilities shall be
screened from public view to the extent necessary to eliminate unsightliness.