The following general requirements and special regulations shall apply to all planned unit developments:

(1)

Minimum area. No site shall qualify for a planned unit development unless the development consists of a contiguous area of at least one acre or more, except in the downtown mixed use future land use category, which has no minimum area.

(2)

Unified control. All land included for purposes of development within a planned unit development shall be owned or under control of the petitioner for such zoning designation, whether that petitioner is an individual, partnership or corporation. The petitioner shall present firm evidence of the unified control of the entire area within the proposed planned unit development and shall state agreement that, if the petitioner proceeds with the proposed development, petitioner shall:

a.

Do so in accord with the officially approved final master land use plan of the development, and such other conditions or modifications as may be attached to the special regulations.

b.

Provide agreements, covenants, contracts, deed restrictions, improvements or sureties acceptable to the city council for completion of the undertaking in accordance with the formally approved final master land use plan, as well as for the continuing operation and maintenance of such areas, functions, facilities and improvements as are not to be provided, operated and maintained at general public expense.

c.

Bind all development successors in title to any commitments made under subsections (2)a and b of this section.

(3)

Development approval. Formal approval of all planned unit developments shall be granted according to comprehensive and detailed plans satisfactory to the city council. Such approval shall be contingent upon specific evaluation of project concept, uses, density or intensity, location, and recreation and open space areas. Items required for such analysis and approval may include, but are not limited to:

a.

Plans detailing streets, utilities, lot or building sites, setbacks, impervious surface ratio, landscaping and the like for the overall project; and site plans, floor plans and elevations for all buildings as intended to be located, constructed or used, as related to each other, and detailed for other uses and improvements on the land as related to the buildings and structures.

b.

A program for provision, operation and maintenance of such areas, improvements, facilities and services as will be for common use by some or all of the occupants of the planned unit development, but will not be provided, operated or maintained at general public expense.

c.

Pertinent research studies, analysis or calculations that satisfactorily identify infrastructure impacts and indicate means for concurrency with warranted improvements.

(Code 1998, § 122-313; Code 2008, § 122-313; Ord. No. 281-C, § 1(ch. 6, art. II, § 2(A)), 11-8-1994; Ord. No. 2015-75, § 2, 10-27-2015; Ord. No. 2018-01, § 2, 1-23-2018)