07-25-12 Special Called Meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission

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eating places, and grocery stores with limitations of scale or other design parameters to ensure a character that is compatible with the adjacent neighborhood. 5)Consider adopting Adopt a housing palette that includes dimensional standards for each of several housing types. The purpose of the palette is to ensure the character (size, spacing, scale) of each housing type in a neighborhood or mixed housing development, such as a mixed use center or traditional neighborhood development (THD). The Rationale of Character-Based Land Use Districts A character--based system in that each of the above developments may be permitted in the same land use (or zoning) district. A use-based land use and zoning system would require each of these to be in separate districts even though their relative densities and thus, impacts (e.g. traffic, utility demands, etc.) are the same. In this way, while the form of development or type of house may be different the character remains the same. This is so as a character-based system uses density and open space measures to control and ensure the intended character. The density and open space controls may hold the density constant (density neutral) or may allow a bonus as means to provide incentive to preserve open space and resources or to achieve other community objectives. Source: Kendig Keast Collaborative. 6)For the purposes of procedural streamlining and to better focus the appropriate locations of uses, consider restricting the types and numbers of allowable conditional uses. For those uses with performance standards, make them a limited use whereby they are administratively permitted subject to written standards. 7)Consider amending Amend the ordinance to include bufferyard provisions for ensuring improved compatibility between adjacent areas of different character. The bufferyards must vary according to the intensity of abutting development, with a range of options (including combinations of buffer width, plant density, earthen berms, and fencing) to meet a specified standard of opacity. This would provide adequate buggering of adjacent uses as well as street corridors. The existing provisions only specify a 25 foot buffer between multi-family and single family residential developments without any specification as to the type of density of landscaping. 8)Consider establishing Establish a minimum open space ratio (OSR) within residential development and landscape surface ration (LSR) within nonresidential development. The ratios will vary according to the 2.35 LAND USE & DEVELOPMENT 2.řś Adopted July 20, 2009