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Approved 2/2/11 487 488 Craig Benedict: They can say it is not a good idea. It is legislative and the standards for denial of a legislative decision are not 489 as finite. 490 491 Judith Wegner: Conditional Use rezoning of any type. 492 493 Alan Campbell: Are you talking about a Planned Development? 494 495 Craig Benedict: First rezoning and then meshed with an SUP. 496 497 Alan Campbell: Is the big picture that planned development still requires, at some level, Conditional? 498 499 Craig Benedict: Certain kinds of planned development. It is called your basic, smaller scale planned development that might ask 500 for some unique setbacks, etc. That will come in with an SUP and specific site plan. 501 502 Tommy McNeill: Can you give an example on the ground? 503 504 Craig Benedict: The only on the ground example I know is the Piedmont Electric Tower. They have their offices there. It was a 505 multiple use project with a telecommunications tower, their offices, a storage yard. They knew everything they wanted to do. 506 They brought in what the towers would look like and we went through a planned development process with the site plan and that 507 was the more smaller scale PD. That is when you have the site plan and an SUP that comes with the rezoning process. 508 509 May Becker: Could you summarize which cases don't need a site plan? 510 511 Craig Benedict: The third category is Conditional Zoning Districts. You still have the rezoning with conditions. People still ask for 512 a MPD, a conditional zoning district but I want to have a Churton Grove type of arrangement. I don't know what the store is going 513 to look like but this is where it will be, here is the road plan, the stream plan,. the drainage. They approve the rezoning with some 514 conditions. At that time there was a Master Concept Plan, not the final site plan. This is where the Master Plan differs from an 515 SUP that has a specific site plan. 516 517 Larry Wright: Do you have elevation? 518 519 Craig Benedict: It can be a conceptual elevation. How much of the land will be preserved as open space? This is more of a 520 Southern Vllage type of plan. That master concept plan is part of their rezoning petition so it becomes a guideline. They cannot 521 waiver from that Master Concept Plan. 522 523 Samantha Cabe: The 33% can be rearranged? 524 525 Craig Benedict: A little. There are two types of PDs. One you know what it is and one you don't. The second is more 526 speculative and that is what I think we would expect more of a Master Concept Plan with some of our Economic Development 527 Districts. It is not likely that someone will come in with a 20 acre Economic Development proposal and know the exact building 528 shape. The Master Concept says in pod A you can put 100,000 square foot, in pod B 50,000 square feet, and in pod C 25,000. 529 You can set all those parameters and you can max the entire project to 200,000 square feet of a certain use because you can 530 link that to how much traffic comes ftom office or retail, etc. After that Master Concept Plan comes, you do not have that specific 531 site plan. It comes through later and approved by staff looking at the standards that were created in the Master Concept Plan. 532 This is what is in our present code under the Mixed Use Planned Development. They can set all conditions and parameters to 533 make sure it is a good project. That is the difference and what we would expect is that even though Churton Grove did have a 534 SUP process with it, it actually used a Master Concept Plan that gave the latitude to not know exactly what the house looked like, 535 it didn't set the amount of square foot of the house but enough parameters that we could guide the developer. 536 537 Judith Wegner: Both gives more flexibility and also more control. 538 539 Larry Wright: Is there any time restriction between the concept plan and the site plan? 540 541 Craig Benedict: Yes it is in here. ff they know they want to break ground on the infrastructure in one year, then they say they 542 want break ground in one year, etc. You can set all the reasonable conditions on the timing and the phasing within the rezoning 543 process. 544 545 Larry Wright: Is there wiggle room if Hillsborough doesn't get the water in? 546 547 Craig Benedict: In the case of Scottswood, they were waiting to get the new reservoir going. 13 9