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COUNCIL MINUTES MARCH 10, 2003 DRAFT S23 Community Development Director Grochala noted the problem with removing `only' is then it states 624 it `shall be', meaning everything would have to go through PUD. By changing this, you would not 625 need a PUD district, because you have set the standard within this wording that everything would be. 626 627 Mr. Kukonen commented that it already says `shall be'. Community Development Director Grochala 628 indicated that removing the word `only' would make it mandatory rather than saying these are the 629 only districts you can use it in. 630 631 City Administrator Waite -Smith indicated that what Mr. Kukonen is suggesting is could this be 632 applied to R-1 and R -1X. Community Development Director Grochala stated it could, but in a 633 different way. City Administrator Waite -Smith indicated it does not sound that way from the 634 wording. Community Development Director Grochala advised that they wanted to make the process 635 easier. He noted CUP is not available under R-1 or R -1X districts, but they would still allow 636 someone to rezone. He indicated that by making this change they would have to modify the other 637 residential district wording. He added this changes the intent, whereas now it says you can only do it 638 in these districts, the change would make it say you must do it in these districts. He clarified how this 639 could be applied to R-1 and R -1X districts through rezoning, indicating there were two processes set 640 up now for PUD, one through a CUP and one through rezoning. 641 642 Mr. Kukonen demonstrated an example concerning page 6-11, items C.1. and 2. Using a ten -acre 643 parcel, he calculated the amount of open space that would be dedicated if 30 percent of the lots .44 remained at 15,000 square feet, which was 84,600 square feet of open space. Demonstrating what 645 would happen if all the lots remained at 15,000 square feet, he calculated that only 600 square feet 646 would remain to be dedicated. He stated that the Environmental Board had suggested that it read 25- 647 30% of lots, rather than no fewer than 30%, to alleviate the fear of maxing out the lots to 15,000 648 square feet, defeating the purpose of the conservation district. 649 650 Mayor Bergeson noted that with the last scenario you really do not end up with a conservation district, 651 but an R -1X with good sized lots. Community Development Director Grochala agreed, stating a PUD 652 is meant to have a benefit to the developer, some type of incentive. He indicated in R -EC you can 653 have 15,000 square foot lots, so the city is getting larger lots but it is private open space, not 654 preserved land. He stated the intention was to establish the 15,000 square foot limit and make it 655 worth it for the developer to go down to 10,800 square foot lots. In this way, they receive the same 656 number of lots, but hopefully lower their costs with the need for less infrastructure, etc. He indicated 657 that was the intent, but it is possible a developer could come in and build all 15,000 square foot lots. 658 He feels that by limiting it to 25-30 percent you are not achieving anything, or providing an incentive 659 to the developers. He stated that right now the developers can have 30 to 100 percent of their lots at 660 15,000 square feet, and to go to 25 to 30 percent is very restrictive. The idea is to entice them to use 661 it for open space. 662 663 Councilmember Carlson noted that the Environmental Board did pass, as did the Planning and Zoning 664 Board, the recommendation to remove motor fuel stations from the Neighborhood Business Districts. �665 She asked how areas would be zoned Neighborhood Business when the requests they receive are 66 always for General Business. 667 15