Planned unit developments are intended to provide for greater
flexibility in design and to provide for a combination of uses in
a manner compatible to each and to the surrounding environment. A
planned unit development (PUD) is any development to be constructed
and maintained by a single owner or group of owners acting through
a corporation located on a single tract, planned as an entity and,
therefore, acceptable for development and regulation as one land unit.
Planned unit developments are established to encourage and promote
improved environmental design in the City of Glenwood City by allowing
for greater freedom, imagination and flexibility in the development
of land while ensuring substantial compliance with the basic intent
of this chapter and the general plan for community development. The
PUD concept 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.
As a basis for determining the acceptability of a planned unit
development application to the Common Council, 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
City 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,
the uses proposed and their intensity and arrangement on the site
shall be of a visual and operational character which:
(1) Is 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 practicability
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 application shall provide evidence satisfactory to the
Common Council of its economic feasibility, of available adequate
financing, and that it would not adversely affect the economic prosperity
of the City or the values of surrounding properties.
C. Engineering and 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 and water lines, 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, that in no case shall
standards be less than those necessary to ensure the public safety
and welfare as determined by the City-designated engineer.
D. Preservation and maintenance of open space. In a planned unit development,
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
City 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 benefit of the PUD.
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 Common Council.
(2) The care and maintenance of such open space reservations shall be
assured by establishment of an 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 City 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 City and made a part
of the conditions of the plan approval.
E. Implementation schedule. The proponents of a planned unit development
shall submit a reasonable schedule for the implementation of the development
to the satisfaction of the Common Council, including suitable provisions
for assurance that each phase could be brought to completion in a
manner which would not result in adverse effect upon the community
as a result of termination at that point.