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• 8-45 - ItYCBNTIVE ZONING 8.02[31 4. P, The city of Madison, Wisconsin, encourages subdividers and de- velopers to provide open spaces by means of flexible minimum. lot requirements.63 . In Lexington, Kentucky,builders of Planned Unit Developments (PUDs)who provide extra recreation areas are entitled to floor area. • bonuses." Developers of PUDs in New Castle, Delaware, are en- See also the following ordinances which offer bonus floor area for setbacks at upper floor levels in order to provide more light and air at street level: Baltimore Zoning Ord § 6.4-2(c). Seattle Zoning Ord §§ 26.32.80,26.32.90. • Denver Zoning Ord § 10-4(3Xb)- See also Boston Zoning Ord § 15-2, which allows a floor area bonus if extra parking spaces are provided. ' 63 Madison Zoning Code-§26.06(1XcXI), (2).The section states: "1.Subdivisions Containing Qualifying Permanent Open Spares In the RI and 1 . R2 districts, where a land owner, developer or subdivider provides qualifying permanent open spaces as a part of a recorded subdivision containing lots for single-family detached dwellings, the lots within'such subdivision may have a minimum lot area and minimum lot width twenty percent(20%)less than herein otherwise required for the district or districts in which subdivision is located. _ Provided,however,in no case shall the total area of lot area reduction be more i __ than the total area of the qualifying permanent open spaces.Qualifying per?na- neat open space shall be land located within a subdivision at a location,size and shape as specifically approved by the Plan Commission and shall have an area of not less than four(4)acres or ten percent(l0%)•of the subdivision,exclusive- of street and alleys, whichever is the greater. Further, a qualifying permanent open space shall be a private recreation area where the ownership and mainte- nance responsibilities for such open space shall be assumed by the property owners with the necessary legal authority to discharge said responsibilities and where the use of such area for open space use shall be perpetuated by recorded covenants running with the land for the benefit of the owners within such subdivi- sion. "2.No use shall be established or hereafter maintained on a lot recorded after the effective date of this ordinance, which is of less area or less width than prescribed-herein for such use in the zoning district in which it is to be located. However,in the R5 and R6 districts,where the owner or owners of a zoning lot agree by a recorded covenant in favor of the City that the building coverage on a zoning lot shall not exceed 0.3,the lot area requirements for dwelling units and lodging rooms for the district in which such lot is located may be decreased by twenty percent(20%)." c 64 See Lexington, Ky.-Fayette County Zoning Ord. §§ 13.527, 13.522. Section 13.527, which pertains to useable open space and screening, states: (Zoning 1_1w, ~ ''... T'wMhG .0._ Y :7 III