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<br /> <br />DRAFT FEBRUARY 7, 2012 <br />friendliness and contribute to the City’s ability to facilitate economic <br />development. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Key Planning Considerations <br />Key planning considerations improve the business friendliness of the City <br />include: <br />1)Analyzing the City’s permitting process to determine where processes <br />can be streamlined. <br />2)Updating the City’s zoning and development codes in conformance with <br />the actions identified throughout this plan. <br />3)Increasing communication with the development community to <br />determine and solve impediments to development. <br />4)Providing the necessary online and other resources needed to <br />successfully navigate the development process. <br /> <br />Goal 5.2: Update the City’s zoning and <br />development codes to implement the regulatory <br /> <br />Benefits of a Unified Development Code (UDC) <br />improvements as a means to aid economic <br /> <br />development. <br />A UDC offers procedural consistency and a <br /> <br />single source of standards and definitions. <br />Actions and Initiatives <br />It greatly simplifies the amendment process, <br />1)Update the City’s zoning and development <br />helping to ensure consistency among the <br />regulations to provide for greater predictability in <br />different codes. <br />land use decisions while ensuring land use <br />It makes the regulations more user-friendly for <br />compatibility and enhancing community character. <br />the development, real estate, and consultant Further, consider consolidating all development- <br />related provisions into a comprehensive Unified <br />communities. <br />Development Code (UDC) that makes the regulatory <br />There can be better cross-referencing to ensure <br />specifics easier to navigate and comprehend (i.e., <br />that all related provisions are taken into account <br />more “user-friendliness”) for the development, real <br />pertaining to any particular development <br />estate, and consultant communities (see inset). <br />proposal. <br />Developers and the businesses that finance them <br />The administration of the codes is consolidated <br />want timeliness and certainty. Developers will <br />into one section, thereby simplifying the roles <br />almost always prefer to be held to a higher standard <br />and responsibilities of each official and body. <br />than to be subjected to an arbitrary, lengthy, and <br />unpredictable approval process. The former allows <br />The applications and procedures for all <br />the developer to “pencil out” the project to see if it <br />development processes can be clearly defined, <br />is financially feasible. The latter (e.g., a typical <br />including use of a flow diagram to illustrate the <br />Planned Unit Development process) requires a very <br />submission and review process. <br />high tolerance for risk. Consequently, undefined <br />It allows application of subdivision requirements <br />development approval provisions force potential <br />to “zoning-only” projects, such as driveway <br />developers to jump through many regulatory <br />access and site circulation review for a single- <br />“hoops” to get a project approved, which may <br />user site plan when subdivision is not required. <br />discourage development when the profitability of <br /> <br />5.12 <br />Source: Kendig Keast Collaborative. <br /> <br />Chapter 5 <br /> <br />