Group development. Description: a group development is any development containing two or more structures containing principal land uses on the same lot; any single structure on a single lot which contains two or more nonresidential uses; and/or any single structure devoted to institutional, commercial or mixed use land uses containing more than 10,000 gross square feet of floor area, or any single structure devoted to office land uses containing more than 20,000 square feet of floor area. Common examples of group developments include apartment complexes, condominium complexes, strip centers, shopping centers, and office centers. (A one-tenant commercial building containing less than 10,000 square feet of gross floor area, a one-tenant office building containing less than 20,000 square feet of gross floor area, and industrial developments, are not group developments.) The following standards shall apply to all new institutional, commercial, and multiuse buildings in excess of 10,000 gross square feet and to all multibuilding developments in which the combined total of all structures on a site, regardless of diverse ownership, use or tenancy, combine to exceed 10,000 gross square feet. These conditions shall also be applied to the addition to the building and area of the site requiring improvements because of the addition in instances where building additions bring the total building size to over 10,000 gross square feet. Such conditions shall apply to the building additions only and the site that is changed because of the addition. This 10,000-gross-square-foot limit shall apply to individual freestanding buildings and to group developments in which the combined total of all structures on a site, regardless of diverse use or tenancy, combine to more than 10,000 gross square feet. For buildings containing only office land uses, the trigger size shall be 20,000 gross square feet. Any land use that is permitted as a permitted-by-right land use, a permitted by right with special requirements, or as a conditional land use within the applicable zoning district(s) is permitted to locate within a group development. The detailed land use regulations of this section that pertain to individual land uses shall also apply to individual land uses within a group development, as will all other applicable provisions of this chapter. Therefore, land uses permitted by right in the zoning district shall be permitted by right within an approved group development (unless otherwise restricted by the conditions of approval imposed during the conditional use approval for the group development as a whole), and land uses permitted as a conditional use in the zoning district shall be permitted within the group development only with conditional use approval for the specific use.
(b)
Permitted by right with additional special requirements: multibuilding developments in which the combined total of all structures on a site, regardless of diverse ownership, use or tenancy, combine to 10,000 gross square feet or less that comply with § 450-33D(17)(c)[1][b].
(c)
Conditional use regulations: all districts.
(d)
Rules applicable to all group developments: In all cases, the following conditional use conditions shall be applied to the group development as a whole, as well as to individual uses within the group development:
[1]
Subject to conditional use and design review processes. All group developments shall be subject to § 450-23. The application shall demonstrate how the proposed development relates to each of the following criteria:
[a]
Is consistent with the recommendations, and forwards the objectives, of adopted planning documents.
[b]
Is complementary with the design and layout of nearby buildings and developments.
[c]
Enhances, rather than detracts from, the desired City character of Edgerton.
[2]
General layout and future divisibility. Unless a deed restriction is recorded with the Register of Deeds prohibiting the division of the parcel, all development located within a group development shall be located so as to comply with the intent of this chapter regarding setbacks of structures and buildings from lot lines. As such, individual principal and accessory structures and buildings located within group developments shall be situated within building envelopes that serve to demonstrate complete compliance with said intent. Said building envelopes shall be depicted on the site plan required for review of group developments. The use of this approach to designing group developments will also ensure the facilitation of subdividing group developments in the future (if such action is so desired). Structures created as part of a group development cannot be separated by a land division unless the structure complies with the bulk requirements of the district.