11-07-2022 Council Work Session Packet

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3 Chapter 12 of the 2040 Comprehensive Plan includes the following implementation strategies: 1. “Review and update the zoning map as needed to eliminate any inconsistencies with the Comprehensive Plan. 3. Consider creating new zoning districts: a. As “holding zones” for urban development. Holding zones would provide a zoning classification appropriate to land planned for future urban development but where municipal services are not yet available. The holding zone would apply until a landowner/ developer makes application for development, at which time the city may rezone the property consistent with its designation on the future land use plan map, provided that the development does not result in the premature extension of public utilities, facilities or services.” The zoning map has been revised to be consistent with the future land use of the 2040 Comprehensive Plan, creates a holding zone for urban development and corrects existing errors in the zoning map. There are 1,965 parcels that will be rezoned as part of this effort; however, the number of substantive changes is far fewer. The zoning map changes fall into four main categories: 1. Planned Unit Development (PUD) District. The City changed Planned Development Overlay (PDO) to Planned Unit Development (PUD) with the zoning ordinance update in 2003. The City is rezoning all properties previously shown as a PDO to a PUD to reflect that change. This change represents 1,225 of the 1,965 properties proposed to be changed with the zoning map updates. Other than the name of the zoning district there is no regulatory change to these parcels. 2. Future Urban Development (FUD) District. The FUD zoning map changes reflect a change planned as part of the 2040 Comprehensive Plan implementation. The change applies to parcels, currently zoned R-Rural, that are located within the planned 2040 Utility Staging Area. The only change from R to FUD is that the FUD zone has a higher minimum lot size of 20 acres to preserve the land for development. The permitted, conditional and accessory uses allowed in the FUD zone will remain the same as the Rural (R) zone. The zoning change will not result in any currently allowed uses to become nonconforming. This change to the zoning map represents 640 of the 1,965 properties proposed to be changed with the zoning map updates. 3. Land Use Consistency. There are a number of parcels which have been rezoned to be consistent with the 2040 future land use for the property. State law required zoning to be brought into compliance with the adopted land use designation. This represents 60 of 1,965 properties being rezoned. If an existing legally established use is inconsistent with the new zoning, the use will become legal non-conforming and may continue, as legally established, until such time as the use ceases or the property is redeveloped.