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Page 4 4 • Landscape plan and exceeds ordinance standards • Design standards and architecture that exceeds ordinance standards • Creating a main street atmosphere in the Central Business District • Public access to Egg Lake Staff believes that the layout of the proposed PUD general plan exceeds the City’s standards for commercial developments. The applicant has offered a more creative and efficient approach to the master plan which could not be achieved without the flexibility. The plan also meets the downtown plan and design guidelines. In order to approve a PUD, the City must find that the applicant has demonstrated compliance with the following criteria: 1. Provide for the establishment of PUD zoning districts in appropriate setting and situations, to create and maintain a development pattern that complies with the City’s Comprehensive Plan. 2. Allow for the mixing of land uses within a development when such mixing of land uses could not otherwise be accomplished. 3. Provide for variations to the strict application of the land use regulations in order to improve site design and operation, while at the same time incorporating design elements that exceed the City’s standards to offset the effect of any variations. 4. Promote a more creative and efficient approach to land use within the City, while at the same time protecting and promoting the health, safety, comfort, aesthetics, economic viability and general welfare of the City. 5. Preserve and enhance natural features and open spaces including but not limited to the width expansion of greenway corridors, conservation of wooded areas, development of buffer areas, reduction of impervious surface, and utilization of joint facilities and utilities. 6. Maintain or improve the efficiency of public streets and utilities. 7. Ensure the establishment of appropriate transitions between differing land uses. The 2040 Comprehensive Plan shows the land use being Mixed-Use (MIX). The rezoning/PUD is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan in terms of land use. It is in staff’s opinion that the PUD general plan has offered a creative and efficient method to planning the site, all which meets the intent of the PUD ordinance.