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Section 10.53 is the Code section that defines the standards and review process for a Highway 12 PUD and Section 10.52 defines the special requirements for rezoning along the I lighway 12 corridor and study area. Those Code sections have been attached as exhibits to this report. General Concept Approval The General Concept Approval is required as part of the Highway 12 PUD rezoning and development plans. A General Concept Approval would be similar to a Preliminary Plat approval without actually giving the Preliminaiy Plat until other issues have been resolved. A resolution could be adopted by the Council for the Concept Approval with all conditions that must be met by the developer for the Plat approval. The City is noj in a position to approve the rezoning or plat until a TIF option is approved by the Council. State laws require notification and public hearing for a Til* that would not be hearf by the Council until this Spring. Conditions of the General Concept Approval would include that the financing be approved and the Council adopt the RPLD zoning district with the final development plans. Review of Issues Discussed Previously bv the Planning Commission and City Council The Orono Council did recommend the applicant proceed with the request to the Planning Commission for General Concept Plan approval. 1 he primary cliangcs to the proposal since the November review are the total units in the senior building have been reduced from 70 to 62 a trail connection has been added to the plans to provide connections to the regional trail s\stern, the senior building has been relocated further to south to minimize impacts to the residential properties he north, and the through street has had the tsvo sided parking aretu relocated to avoid hacking out into through traffic. Idle applicant has provided site plans for Knh properties. A commercial site plan review for the office and senior housing properties and buildings will include a full review of the following items: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) Landscaping Traffic Flow/Road System Parking Arrangement Building I leight/Setbacks Review of Architectural Materials^uilding Design I.ighting Screening I. PrcUniaary Subdtviskm/KrzoiiiBg/CoBprchrnsivc Pbn Amcadmeni Uses within the PUD may include only those uses designated by the official Comprehensiv e Land Use Plan. The 1989 Comprehensive Plan Amendment had guided the property for commercial use. The Comprehensive Plan (CMP) as preliminarily approved by the City Council in Scpiemlvr designated several Orono properties as areas that would allow medium density. The density proposed in the CMP does not have an existing zoning district that would allow the types of housing that would be offered by as proposed in this application. The proposed CMP did not include this property as a residential site. In fact it has been guided for commercial use as was the case with 1989 Orono Kmkm. LLC :060 V»i>/au Boulevard »364ai264l r^3or 7 J