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2 1. Eliminated the PUD by conditional use permit and requires them all to be done as a rezoning to the PUD zoning district. The rezoning to PUD creates a negotiated zoning district unique to the individual project and gives the City a higher level of discretion than a conditional use permit. The City has used this tool for mixed use projects like: a. Lyngblomsten where PUD flexibility allowed reduced structure setbacks along CSAH 49 and CR J (as envisioned by the Hodgson Road & County Road J Master Planning Study) in exchange for implementing the City’s Master Plan, redeveloping a blighted 20-acre site, and increasing buffers and separation from adjacent neighborhoods. b. Nature’s Refuge where PUD flexibility was granted for reduced right-of-way width, reduced front structure setbacks and reduced pavement width in exchange for minimizing impacts to rare and endangered species and wetlands and protections of 60% open space and wetlands. c. Watermark where PUD flexibility was granted from lot width/size standards and building design standards in exchange for upholding the City’s public values by creating a multi-functional open space greenway corridor integrated with the stormwater conveyance system, wetland management and trails when none exists today; providing life-cycle housing opportunities, creating a master planned community from 12 separate parcels, and creating a high amenity built environment. 2. Modifying the purpose and intent to be clearer and more concise. 3. Expanding the list of desired public benefits to be evaluated with PUDs. 4. Creating a table to identify base development guidelines by zoning district along with a reference to the base general provision standards. While staff historically has included this base zoning reference as part of the analysis and noted this district in the staff report, this change will provide more clarity. 5. Deleting unnecessary general requirements covered under other sections of the Zoning or Subdivision Ordinance. 6. Moving Rural Residential PUD requirements to the Subdivision Ordinance to allow it by right. These subdivisions will allow clustering of homes on smaller lots than would typically be allowed in exchange for preservation of at least 50% of the area as open space and compliance with additional conservation development standards. 7. Modifying the open space performance standards to clarify how it is calculated and designed in urban residential PUDs. 8. Creating a subsection for mixed-use PUD requirements which references the residential, commercial, and industrial PUD sections.