Amendments to the Unified Land Development Code Section Multifamily Residential Requirements Section (d) – Planned Developments with Transfer of Development Rights (PD-TDR)

Comprehensive Plan Amendments  Text amendments for multifamily access (CPA-04-07)and PD-TDR (CPA-11-07) adopted on November 13,  Amendments went into effect January 18, 2008

CPA – Multifamily Access  Text amendment to FLU Policies and to allow multifamily developments that do not have direct access to a collector or arterial street to occur in the medium and medium-high density land use categories

Multifamily Residential Requirements  Planned Development approval  Limited number of existing SF driveways, based on: design of roadway traffic counts size of proposed development  Sidewalks must be provided

Collector Road Design Elements – Potential Conditions  Curb and gutter  pedestrian-scale street lighting  Shade trees  Transit stops with benches  Pedestrian activated crossing signals  Bicycle lanes  Access road shall meet minimum street design specs based on projected ADT

CPA – PD-TDR  Text amendment to FLUE Policy to allow a noncontiguous cluster development by utilizing a planned development with transfer of development rights from regulated conservation areas to less environmentally sensitive properties in the Rural/Agriculture land use

PD-TDR  Planned Developments with Transfer of Development Rights Two or more noncontiguous tracts of land in the Rural/Agriculture land use Transfers to less environmentally sensitive land Receiving parcel density may exceed that allowed by Rural/Agriculture land use

GENERAL CONCEPT of PD-TDR

Process and Standards  Planned Developments – Article 2 of Chapter 402  Rural Clustered Subdivisions – Section and  Planned Development – rezoning to PD- TDR-S and PD-TDR-R  Unified development plan that includes both sending and receiving parcels

Sending Parcel  Must be at least 50% field verified conservation areas  Maximum number of units transferred, lesser of: Number of units allowed by land use plus bonus units (Policy ) Number of upland acres, excluding wetlands and wetland buffers

Sending Parcel  Units not transferred may be retained on sending parcel for transfer later  Parcel to be designated as conservation management area  Densities of up to one unit per 200 acres may be retained  Up to 1 unit per 40 acres may be retained if it can be demonstrated that no impact to resource protection will occur

Receiving Parcel  Maximum density will be the number of units based on Rural/Ag land use plus additional units transferred, subject to lot size requirements for Rural Clustered Subdivisions (Policy )  Maximum density subject to analysis of: Availability and capacity of infrastructure Environmental suitability Land uses and development patterns of surrounding properties

Additional Requirements  Minimum of 50 % of the combined acreage of sending and receiving parcels shall be permanently set aside as open space on the sending parcel  Minimum of 20 % of receiving parcel shall be designated as open space  Receiving parcel shall be developed consistent with COSE Policies and Objective 3.6

Recommendation  Conduct public hearing and direct staff to prepare for second hearing.