Ordinance No. 131 Consolidated Land Use Ordinance

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SECTION 13. PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT 1. Purpose. 1. The purposes of this section are: 1. To encourage a more creative and efficient development of land and its improvements through the preservation of natural features and amenities than is possible under the more restrictive application of zoning requirements. This section may allow modifications such as non-standard lot sizes, private streets and driveways, reduced rights -of -way and street widths, housing types, zero lot lines and building setbacks. These changes shall meet the standards and purposes of the City of Gem Lake Comprehensive Plan while preserving the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the city. 2. To allow for the potential mixture of uses in an integrated and well planned area. 3. To ensure concentration of open space into more usable areas, and a preservation of the natural resources of the site. 4. To facilitate the economical provision of streets and public utilities. 5. To facilitate mixed use developments, and/or affordable housing, recreational uses and institutional uses. 6. Parks and open space. The creation of public open space may be required by the city. Such park and open space shall be consistent with the comprehensive park plan and overall trail plan. 7. Energy conservation through the use of more efficient building designs and sightings and the clustering of buildings and land uses. 8. Use of traffic management and design techniques including the provision of transit and pedestrian linkages to reduce the potential for traffic conflicts. Improvements to area roads and intersections may be required as appropriate. Where appropriate, the use of transportation demand management strategies may be required within a project. 2. Permitted Uses. 1. Specific uses and performance standards for each PUD shall be delineated in a development plan. 1. Each PUD shall primarily be used for the use or uses for which the site is designated in the City of Gem Lake Comprehensive Plan. Specific uses and performance standards for each PUD shall be delineated in a PUD development plan. 2. Where the site of a proposed PUD is designated for more than one land use in the Comprehensive Plan, the city may require that the PUD include all the land uses so designated or such combination of the designated uses as the City Council shall deem appropriate to achieve the purposes of this ordinance and the Comprehensive Plan. 2. A PUD is an allowable conditional use in all zoning districts in the City of Gem Lake except for land zoned Open Space/Recreational (`OS/R"). 3. Coordination with Subdivision Regulation. 1. It is the intent of this section that subdivision review be carried out simultaneously with the review of a planned development under this section. 2. The plans required under this section must be submitted in a form, which will satisfy the requirements of the Gem Lake subdivision section of this Consolidated Land Use Ordinance for the preliminary and final plats. 3. Flexibility of design standards and criteria of the Gem Lake subdivision section may be allowed as part of a planned unit development. Updated January 2025 — Gem Lake Consolidated Land Use Ordinance No. 131 60