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Public Hearing <br />4-21-03 <br />Page 3 <br />certainly what's happening throughout the area and also throughout the country. Many of these <br />types of developments are popping up all over. They are seeming to be well received by most <br />communities and seem to be selling quite rapidly. I think part of the reason Planning proceeded <br />forward to Council for this zone classification is simply the fact that it would be better to be <br />prepared and have an ordinance that is going to regulate this type of development that is prepared <br />and enacted by us rather than through some other means. <br />Mr. Samac said on the second page, we talk about the permitted uses in this Residential <br />Development District. They're limited to: <br />¦ residential, single-family detached dwellings, <br />¦ cluster single-family dwellings, and <br />¦ attached single-family dwellings <br />with no more than 3 units attached to each other, thereby eliminating any "row house" type of <br />effect in any one development no more than 3 units attached in each cluster. The <br />development regulations at the bottom of page 2 speak about the minimum project size. It was <br />determined that our minimum size would be 4 contiguous acres for development as a minimum <br />and that the maximum density--the number of units permitted to be placed--would be <br />limited to 4 dwelling units per acre. <br />The building setbacks for this type of development provide for side and rear yards to be a <br />minimum of 30' but in no case less than the height of the structure; separation between the <br />buildirigs or clusters would be 20' for facing sidewalls; 40' with the main wall facing a sidewall <br />and 60' between buildings where 2 main walls or 2 rear walls are adjacent to each other. So at <br />the minimum, you'd have 30' between--much of an invisible property line for the residents' uses. <br />The minimum setback from private streets (the streets that these units would be built on <br />would be either 25 or 35'; that would be the distance from the street to either a front or side <br />entrance garage (a side entrance garage being 25'; front entrance having a minimum of 35' <br />setback to the proposed street.) <br />The minimum living area of these units will not be very small. We pretty much followed our <br />residential dwelling requirements in our single-family regulations limiting a one-story dwelling <br />to no less than 1800 square feet in area; (this is exclusive of a basement, utility and/or garage <br />space.) Family units of 1-%2 stories need to have a minimum of 1,400 square feet on the first <br />floor but not less than 2,200 square feet total (again, that is exclusive of basement, utility and <br />garage space.) If they are two-story units, no less than 1,400 square feet on the first floor with a <br />total of not less than 2,500 square feet (again, exclusive of basement, utility or garage space.) <br />Assuming (and not necessarily that it would be so) accessways are the private streets for these <br />developments and will have a minimum pavement width of 24' (which would enable a crossing <br />vehicle or passing vehicles, trucks to a certain extent (for movers, deliveries, etc.) so it wouldn't <br />be a very narrow roadway and also provide additional room during inclement weather (when we <br />have snow on the streets, that seems to reduce the width of our streets to some extent.) <br />The next several pages of this ordinance cover pretty much boilerplate requirements for <br />submittals, legal documents, engineering documents, approvals by Planning Commission, that <br />sort of thing.