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City Council Meeting <br />March 21, 2023 Page 3 <br /> <br /> <br />PUD Minimum Requirements. <br />The development is being proposed as a PUD because the developer proposes deviation from the <br />zoning standards for such units. The developer also proposes to deviate from certain standards in <br />the City’s Engineering Design Standards Manual regulating public improvements in Lake Elmo. <br /> <br />A PUD is a negotiated zoning district, and according to the Lake Elmo Zoning Code Article 18, <br />Planned Unit Development Regulations, zoning flexibility can be granted in order to better <br />utilize site features and to obtain a higher quality of development. <br /> <br />City Code establishes minimum thresholds a project must meet in order to qualify as a PUD. <br />Staff has found that the proposed development does meet the following minimum requirements <br />of a PUD: <br />a. Lot Area: The site area exceeds the minimum lot area for of five acres for a PUD <br />development. Requirement met. <br />b. Open Space: The PUD ordinance indicates that at least 20% of the development area not <br />within rights-of-way is to be reserved as open space. Requirement met. <br />c. Street Layout: In existing developed area, the PUD should maintain the existing street <br />grid, where present, and restore the street grid where it has been disrupted. In newly <br />developing areas, streets shall be designed to maximize connectivity in each cardinal <br />direction, except where environmental or physical constraints make this infeasible. All <br />streets shall terminate at other streets, at public land, or at a park or other community <br />facility, except that local streets may terminate in stub streets when those will be <br />connected to other streets in future phases of the development or adjacent developments. <br />Requirement met. <br />PUD Identified Objectives. <br />When evaluating a PUD proposal, the Planning Commission and City Council must find a PUD <br />meets one or more objectives contained in Article 18 and meet the minimum requirements for a <br />PUD. The Applicant has, though their narrative, suggested that the development meets criteria g <br />and h. Staff review of conformance with identified objectives, in bold, is below each relevant <br />criterion: <br />a. Innovation in land development techniques that may be more suitable for a given parcel <br />than conventional approaches. <br />b. Promotion of integrated land uses, allowing for a mixture of residential, commercial, and <br />public facilities. <br />c. Establishment of appropriate transitions between differing land uses. <br />This site and use provide for an appropriate transition between residential uses <br />to the north and mixed uses to the south. <br />d. Provision of more adequate, usable, and suitably located open space, recreational <br />amenities, natural resource protection and other public facilities than would otherwise be <br />provided under conventional land development techniques. <br />e. Accommodation of housing of all types with convenient access to employment <br />opportunities and/or commercial facilities; and especially to create additional <br />opportunities for lifecycle housing to all income and age groups.