The PUD Planned Unit Development District is
established to encourage and promote improved environmental design
in the City of Manawa by allowing for greater freedom, imagination
and flexibility in the development of land while ensuring substantial
compliance with the basic intent of the Zoning Code 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
residential, commercial and industrial planned unit developments 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 City, 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 City when such division is contemplated.
As a basis for determining the acceptability
of a Planned Unit Development District application to the Plan Commission
and 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 Development 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) 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
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 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 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
considerations 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 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 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 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
Common Council 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 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 District 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 an adverse effect upon the community as a result of termination
at that point.