The PUD Planned Unit Development District is established to
encourage and promote improved environmental design in the Village
of Kimberly by allowing for greater freedom, imagination and flexibility
in the development of land while ensuring substantial compliance with
the basic intent of the zoning ordinance and the general plan for
community development. The district allows diversification and variation
in the relationship of uses, structures, open spaces and heights of
structures in developments conceived and implemented as comprehensive
and cohesive unified projects. It is further intended to encourage
more rational and economic development in regard to public services
and encourage and facilitate preservation of open land.
This article contemplates that there may be a residential, commercial
or industrial planned unit development and mixed-compatible-use developments.
In the planned unit development district, signs shall be permitted
in accordance with the requirements of the sign regulations of the
Village, and such requirements as are made a part of an approved recorded
precise development plan shall be, along with the recorded plan itself,
construed to be and enforced as a part of this chapter.
In the PUD district, off-street parking facilities shall be
provided as set forth in an approved recorded precise development
plan, which shall be, along with the recorded plan itself, construed
to be and enforced as a part of this chapter.
The division of any land or lands within a planned unit development
for the purpose of change or conveyance of ownership may be accomplished
pursuant to the land division/subdivision regulations of the Village when such division is contemplated.
As a basis for determining the acceptability of a planned unit
development district application to the Plan Commission and Village
Board, the following criteria shall be applied to the application
for such district with specific consideration as to whether or not
it is consistent with the spirit and intent of this chapter, is consistent
with the policies of the Village Comprehensive Plan, has been prepared
with professional advice and guidance, and produces significant benefits
in terms of environmental design:
A. Character and intensity of land use. In a planned unit development
district, the uses proposed and their intensity and arrangement on
the site shall be of a visual and operational character, which:
(1) Are compatible with the physical nature of the site with particular
concern for preservation of natural features, tree growth and open
space.
(2) Would produce an attractive environment of sustained aesthetic and
ecologic desirability, economic stability and functional practicality
compatible with the general development plans for the area as established
by the community.
(3) Would not adversely affect the anticipated provision for school or
other municipal services.
(4) Would not create a traffic or parking demand incompatible with the
existing or proposed facilities to serve it.
B. Economic feasibility and impact. The proponents of a planned unit
development district application shall provide evidence satisfactory
to the Plan Commission and Village Board of its economic feasibility,
of available adequate financing, and that it would not adversely affect
the economic prosperity of the Village or the values of surrounding
properties.
C. Engineering design standards. The width of street rights-of-way,
width of paving, width and location of street or other paving, outdoor
lighting, location of sewer lines and waterlines, provision for stormwater
drainage or other similar environmental engineering consideration
shall be based on standards necessary to implement the specific function
in the specific situation; provided, however, in no case shall standards
be less than those necessary to ensure the public safety and welfare
as determined by the Village designated engineer.
D. Preservation and maintenance of open space. In a planned unit development
district, adequate provisions shall be made for the permanent preservation
and maintenance of open space either by private reservation or dedication
to the public.
(1) In the case of private reservation, the open area to be reserved
shall be protected against building development by conveying to the
Village as part of the conditions for project approval an open space
easement over such open areas, restricting the area against any future
building or use except as consistent with that of providing landscaped
open space for the aesthetic and recreational satisfaction of the
surrounding residences. Buildings or uses for noncommercial, recreational
or cultural purposes compatible with the open space objective may
be permitted only where specifically authorized as part of the development
plan or, subsequently, with the express approval of the Village Board
following approval of building, site and operational plans by the
Plan Commission.
(2) The care and maintenance of such open space reservations shall be
assured by establishment of appropriate management organization for
the project. The manner of assuring maintenance and assessing such
cost to individual properties shall be included in any contractual
agreement with the Village and shall be included in the title to each
property.
(3) Ownership and tax liability of private open space reservations shall
be established in a manner acceptable to the Village and made a part
of the conditions of the plan approval.
E. Implementation schedule. The proponents of a planned unit development
district shall submit a reasonable schedule for the implementation
of the development to the satisfaction of the Village Board, including
suitable provisions for assurance that each phase could be brought
to completion in a manner which would not result in an adverse effect
upon the community as a result of termination at that point.