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• • AGENDA ITEM V. D STAFF ORIGINATOR: Jeff Smyser P & Z MEETING DATE: May 10, 2006 TOPIC: •Rezone to Planned Unit Development •Development Stage Plan/Preliminary Plat and Allocation of MUSA Reserve The Preserve Integra Homes BACKGROUND Integra Homes has requested approval of single family residential development called The Preserve. The comprehensive plan guides the site for low density residential use. The northern part of the site is within the existing MUSA and zoned R -1, but the southern part will need MUSA and rezoning. The Preserve project is the City's next opportunity to implement the Parks, Natural Open Space / Greenway and Trail System Plan through the use of a conservation development. Staff have worked with the developer to pursuit our public values and conservation development goals. The project includes restoration and preservation of quality wetlands and upland areas, and fills in one more piece of the greenway vision. A planned unit development (PUD) is being used on this project because standard zoning requirements do not accommodate the natural features and the restoration plan. As with the Foxborough (Fox Den Acres) project, the discussions have centered not on the question "what is the best design ?" rather than "does this meet all the mathematical zoning requirements ?" The project will require some MUSA, rezoning to planned unit development, and the approval of a PUD development stage plan/preliminary plat. This report discusses the submitted design. It is important to note that some specific elements of the project will change from what has been submitted. This is the nature of a PUD — especially a conservation development —as it goes through the review process. Staff has been working with this developer's team for the past year, and we now are at the point where we all needed to have plans created in order to examine the specifics. It is no surprise that changes will be needed, but the developer and his consultants have assembled what is a basically sound project. We all are now reviewing the feasibility of specific elements.