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Commercial (COM) <br />The Commercial designation provides areas for service retail, highway, and neighborhood - <br />oriented retail establishments to develop. This designation includes commercial, office, and retail <br />uses and is generally concentrated along key transportation corridors. This designation does not <br />include residential development. <br />Mixed -Use (MIX) <br />The Mixed -Use designation provides opportunities for multiple compatible uses on a single site. <br />These uses can include residential, commercial, office, retail, and public/quasi-public uses. The <br />MIX land use designation allows residential development at a minimum density of 10 units per <br />net acre and maximum density of 60 units per net acre. <br />General Layout <br />The applicant is showing development of 8 parcels of land into separate residential and <br />commercial lots, to be developed separately. The uses proposed are single family homes, multi- <br />family townhomes, apartments, senior housing and various commercial business. In discussions <br />with the applicant the proposed residential lots (DR Horton) and the apartments, would be the <br />first phase. The sketch plan is proposing different zoning districts and land use than what is <br />guided and required for the properties. The total number of proposed units and total buildable <br />acreage of the development is not clear and is not consistent between the proposed sketch plans <br />provided. <br />The plan shows access to the sites from the extension of Victor Path, crossing Oneka Parkway, <br />and connecting to the proposed extension of Fenway Boulevard from the south to the north <br />connecting to Frenchman Road/CSAH 8. The frontage road is intended to relieve traffic and <br />reduce the number of access points along Frenchman Road/CSAH 8. <br />The properties are guided Low Density Residential (LD), Commercial (COM), and Mixed -Use <br />(MIX). The developer has stated that they would like to increase the amount of residential and <br />decrease the amount of commercial. The developer stated that this is necessary due to "balance <br />of use, absorption demand and return on investment". The developer has also stated that the <br />existing market for residential is greater than the commercial market. Staff understands the <br />residential market has been on the raise. The City's zoning districts and comprehensive plan <br />includes several acres of property to accommodate residential development throughout the City. <br />The applicant has not clarified if they will be applying for a Planned Unit Development (PUD), <br />but it is likely. PUDs offer flexibility to develop a site through the relaxation of most normal <br />zoning district standards. The use of PUD zoning can allow for a greater variety of uses, internal <br />transfers of density, construction phasing and a potential for lower development costs. In <br />exchange for this flexibility, the City has the expectation that the development plan will result in <br />a significantly higher quality and more sensitive proposal than would have been the case with the <br />use of other, more standard zoning districts. PUD approval may be granted if the applicant can <br />demonstrate compliance with the following criteria: <br />Oneka Commons Sketch Plan <br />