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. Chairman \<Tilson and ....bers of the Conunission .... _ . City of LaPorte ..,.. Page 13 constant touch with the City Staff, the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council to monitor the progress of the deve- lopment and the developer's desire to see the development through to completion. Any developer who is serious about developing property will find it to be in his or her economic interest to proceed with the completion of that development as quickly as possible, particularly in cases where property is lying vacant and developers are paying an interim construction financing loan. Finally, the proposed Zoning Ordinance outlines specific standards that must be met in order for a developer to obtain a conditional use permit on a particular piece of property. If the standards are met by the developer, the developer is in compliance with the ordinance,and the developer should be entitled to obtain a conditional use permit, and should also be entitled to obtain extensions and reapproval of the conditional use permit by the planning and zoning commission and city Counc il. Addi- tional effort is required by this ordinance on the part of the developer to stay in constant contact with staff in one year increments, but this would not seem to be an unreasonable require- ment in place of the alternative of letting land lie vacant with the conditional use permit for an indefinite period of time, and without Planning and Zoning Commission or City Council control of the continued changing use surrounding the propety. ANALYSIS: Leave this section as is. 23) Section 8-404 (B): Citizen comment indicates that a minor change in a major or minor development site plan should not require resubmission of a new general plan. This is in the Ordinance section that provides and indicates that if a developer1s plans change, the developer should notify City staff of the change by the filing of a new General Plan. Please recall that in the Development Ordinance that was recently passed, the General Plan deals with developments that are constructed in stages. Thus a change in the order in which the stages are constructed, or a change in the type of construction that would be utilized within a particular stage, requires under the terms of the Development Ordinance, a new General plan filing. Section 8 404 (B) correlates the approval procedure for a P. U. D. within a Planned Unit Development District with the Development Ordinance submission requirements. In order for a developer to build a P. U. D., both the Development Ordinance requirements and the Zoning Ordinance requirements must be met. In the case of IIminor change II in a Hajor or Minor Development Site Plan, resubmission requirements for a new General plan or a Major or Minor Development Site Plan is covered by the terms of the Development Ordinance, with the zoning ordinance reference being to the particulars contained wi thin the Development Ordinance.