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CLEAR & OBJECTIVE HOUSING: APPROVAL C RITERIA UPDATE <br />November 13, 2018 DRAFT Preferred Concepts Report: Significant Issues Page 24 of 59 <br />COS-02 (30-FOOT B UFFER R EQUIREMENT FOR PUDS) <br />Description : The clear and objective approval criteria for planned unit developments require a 30-foot wide <br />landscape buffer between a new planned unit development and surrounding properties. This may not be a <br />preferred strategy to enhance compatibility between properties, or an efficient use of land. Where a planned <br />unit development for single-family housing provides a buffer from existing single-family housing properties, it is <br />not clear that there are significant differences between residential development within the planned unit <br />development and the surrounding residential area to warrant buffering over and above the typical setbacks for <br />the residential zones (typically 5 feet). The 30-foot buffer may instead isolate the planned unit development, <br />making it less compatible and less integrated into the neighborhood. Dedication of a 30-foot perimeter buffer <br />requires a large amount of land, and a disproportionate amount of land on smaller and/or narrow sites, <br />significantly decreasing development potential by putting land into a buffer that could otherwise be developed <br />with housing. <br />Applies To : Planned Unit Development <br />Existing Code Section(s): EC 9.8325(3) <br />Existing Code Language : <br />(3) The PUD provides a buffer area between the proposed development and surrounding properties by <br />providing at least a 30 foot wide landscape area along the perimeter of the PUD according to EC <br />9.6210(7). <br />A. No Change – o + – + o – <br />B. Reduce the required landscape buffer to a lower <br />set amount (such as 10 feet) and clarify where <br />buffer is required (such as not along a street) <br />+o+o+o– <br />C. Require scalable buffer--smaller buffer for smaller <br />development sites and clarify where buffer is <br />required (such as not along a street) <br />+++++o o <br />D. Require buffer (30 foot or smaller) only to <br />separate uses of different intensities (e.g., multi- <br />family next to single -family) and clarify where <br />buffer is required (such as not along a street) <br />+++++o + <br />E. Eliminate and rely on new compatibility criteria <br />(transition buffer) implemented by COS -01 +++++o+ <br />+ promotes o neutral –inhibits <br />Possible Concepts <br />November 26, 2018, Work Session – Item 2