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• • STAFF ORIGINATOR: C. C. MEETING DATE: TOPIC: BACKGROUND AGENDA ITEM 6 E Jeff Smyser July 27, 2009 Ordinance No. 05 -09: Amending Planned Unit Development Section of Zoning Ordinance to Remove Six - Month Limit on Extensions for Submitting Final Development Plan A Planned Unit Development (PUD) is a means of designing development as an integrated, coordinated unit as opposed to a parcel by parcel, piecemeal, approach. The zoning ordinance includes requirements for a PUD in Section 2, Subdivision 10. The "development stage plan" includes a preliminary plat. The final plat and other more defined elements of a PUD are included in the "final plan ". The ordinance currently requires submittal of the final plan within one year of approval of the development stage plan. Beyond this, the ordinance limits an extension of time to six months. The proposed ordinance amendment would eliminate this six - month limit on the extension beyond the initial one year period. ANALYSIS Section 2, Subd. 10.F.8.g. includes the time frame requirements for submittal of the final plan. This paragraph is shown below, with the subject limitation shown in boldface: Limitation on Development Plan Approval. Unless a Final Plan covering the area designated in the Development Stage Plan as the first stage of the PUD has been filed within one (1) year from the date the City Council grants Development Stage Plan approval, or in any case where the applicant fails to file Final Plans and to proceed with development in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and/or an approved Development Stage Plan, the approval shall expire. The City Council may at its discretion, extend for not more than six months, the filing deadline for any Final Plan when, for good cause shown, such extension is necessary. In any case where Development Plan approval expires, the City Council may adopt a resolution repealing the Development Stage Plan approval for that portion of the PUD that has not received Final Plan approval and re- establishing the zoning and other Code provisions that would otherwise be applicable. The intent of this limit on the extension is to ensure that the project does not languish too long after approval of the development stage plan with its preliminary plat However, the current