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~~ <br />ARTICLE 7 -SPECIFIC STANDARDS FOR EVALUATION/PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS (continued) <br />("Yes" indicates compliance; "No" indicates non-compliance) <br /> PLANNING STAFF PLANNING BOARD <br /> RECOMMENDED EVIDENCE SUBMITTED RECOMMENDED <br /> FINDINGS TO SUPPORT FINDINGS FINDINGS <br />7.4.1 Relation to Maior X Yes No Yes No <br />Transportation Facilities The project is approximately <br /> 2,200 feet north of US 70 <br />PD districts shall be so located West, a major arterial. <br />with respect to Interstate Tinnin Road is a major local <br />highways, arterial and street leading directly to US <br />collector streets or mass 70 West. Projected traffic <br />transit facilities, and shall be volumes of approximately <br />so designed as to provide 400 trips daily, are not <br />direct access to such districts anticipated to change the <br />without creating traffic along nature of street, which will <br />minor streets in residential continue to function as a <br />neighborhoods outside the major local street. <br />district. <br />7.4.2 Relation to Public <br />Utilities, Facilities and Services <br />PD districts shall be so located <br />in relation to sanitary sewers, <br />water lines, storm and surface <br />drainage systems and other <br />utility systems and <br />installations that neither <br />extension nor enlargement of <br />such systems will be required <br />in manner, form, character, The Planned Development is <br />location, degree, scale or adjacent to public sewer and <br />timing in a manner resulting in private water lines installed <br />higher net public cost or in nearby areas. Storm <br />earlier incursion of public cost water and surface water will <br />than would development in be handled on site via <br />forms generally permitted surface drainage devices. <br />under current zoning and There is no cost to the public <br />development policies for the for construction of water, <br />area. sewer, storm water facilities <br />X Yes _ No or utilities. Yes • No <br />PD districts shall be so located <br />with respect to necessary <br />public services and facilities <br />(as for example, fire, police, <br />rescue services, schools, and <br />parks, in the case of PD-H <br />Planned Development Housing <br />districts) as to have access to <br />such facilities in the same <br />degree as would development <br />permitted under existing <br />zoning and shall be so located, <br />designed and scaled that <br />access to public services is <br />equivalent to, and net cost for <br />such services for development <br />as permitted under existing <br />development controls. <br />The Efland Fire Department is <br />located approximately 1 mile <br />from the proposal. Efland <br />Cheeks Elementary adjacent <br />to the subdivision, Middle <br />School #3 is located within 5 <br />mites and Cedar Ridge High <br />School is located within 10 <br />miles. There is a public park <br />within ~/a mile of the Planned <br />Development. <br />C:\DOCUments and SettingslRdavislDesktop\Efland Commons\Staff Findings for Efland Commons PD.doc <br />