2002-07 GRANTING SPECIAL PERMIT PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT - NEAR NORTH REDEVELOPMENT AREA EAST OF NORTH WARREN STREET

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� Page 4 of 5 Near North Rezoning and Planned Unit Development January 3, 2002 14. The Guidelines require a variety of open space areas that allow different forms of active and passive recreation. All of the residential lots are required to front upon or be within 500 feet of an open space.area. In addition, an open-space buffer along the ICG tracks will be required. This buffer may be provided in the rear of extra-deep lots that back up to the tracks, or it may be a public space. 15. The Guidelines also note that there is to be an area or areas on the plan designated as the "mixed use area." This is intended to be a"downtown" for the neighborhood that would combine commercial uses with upper-floor residences. A list of permitted commercial uses is included. This list conforms for the most part with the B-1 Permitted Uses approved by the Plan Commission in the new Zoning Ordinance (the new Ordinance is expected to be reviewed by the Council beginning in late January or early February). The mixed use area will serve the neighborhood as well as provide goods and services to the community at large. 16. Included with the Development Guidelines is a set of development standards that set minimum lot widths, area, setback, etc. The standards are more permissive than allowed with straight R-6 zoning. Within the mixed use area, there are no setback requirements. The standards also allow for zero lot line styles of development, such as townhouses or rowhouses. 17. In order to make the development pedestrian friendly, sidewalks are mandated on all streets and private sidewalks to houses and businesses from the public sidewalk are required. Bicycle lanes are encouraged as are shelters for public transit stops. Curb cuts to private lots from public streets are to be kept at a minimum, thus encouraging the use of alleys. 18. Parking on both sides of the street is required except on the two major collector streets (Grand and MLK). Off-street parking requirements are less stringent than those required by the Zoning Ordinance. For instance, commercial uses are required only one space per each 500 square feet of floor area(as opposed to one space per each 200 s.f. of area for retail uses in the Zoning Ordinance). Parking spaces located on the street are allowed to be counted towards the parking requirement. Parking lots must be located behind the buildings rather than in the front. 19. The Development Guidelines also include a set of design standards. A"pattern book"for building design is required to be adopted along with the final site plan. All buildings within the development will be required to conform to the pattern book. In addition, signage in the mixed use area will be limited to wall and projecting signs; however, one freestanding"town center"style sign shall be permitted. Finally, standards for lighting and landscaping are listed, with landscape emphasis on street trees and parking lot perimeter landscaping. STAFF ANALYSIS 20. As noted above, this PUD request departs from the norm in that there is not a complete site plan for the development of the property. However, this approach does set standazds which can be incorporated into the final plan. Before development can begin, a final site plan and pattern book must be submitted and approved. The approval process will be via an amendment to this original PUD. 21. The Zoning Ordinance, in Section XXI.C, lists six considerations on which the Plan Commission should base its recommendations on a PUD. The PUD as proposed meets these