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SEC. 10.33 RPUD RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT. <br />P <br />Subd. 1.Purpose. The purpose of the Residential Planned Unit Development (RPUD) <br />district is to provide a district which will encourage the following: <br />A.fle,xibility in land development and redevelopment in order to utilize new <br />techniques of building design, construction and land development; <br />B.provision of housing to meet lifecycle, and low affordable and moderate cost <br />housing needs; <br />C.energy conservation through the use of more efficient building designs and <br />sitings and the clustering of buildings and land uses; <br />D.preservation of desirable site characteristics and open space and protection <br />of sensitive environmental features, including steep slopes, poor soils and <br />trees; <br />E.high quality of design and design compatible with surrounding land uses, <br />including both existing and planned; <br />F.sensitive development in transitional areas located between different land <br />uses and along significant corridors within the city; and <br />G.development which is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. <br />Subd. 2.Permitted Uses. Within the RPUD District, no land or structures shall be used <br />except for one or more of the following uses: <br />A.Anv ‘Permitted Use’ as regulated in the R-IA District (Ed. Notes this <br />includes one-family single dwellings; public owned parks and <br />playgrounds; and municipal buildings). <br />B.Multi-family attached dwellings. <br />Subd. 3. Conditional Uses. Within the RPUD district, no land or structure shall be used for <br />the following uses except by conditional use permit: <br />(Ed Note: Conditional Uses listed in the R-IA District include Schools; Churches; <br />Clubs, Camps, etc.; Public Ser\ ice Structures; Greenhouses; Private Recreation Areas; <br />Guest Houses & Guest Apartments; PRD’s; Duplex credit; Farms; Animak; Stables <br />and Barns; Riding Academy; Plumbing in Accessory Buildings. None of the <br />conditional uses listed in the R-IA District conceptually fit into the RPUD District, <br />except perhaps Public Service Structures). <br />C.Public Ser\ ice Structures. Public service structures, including but not limited <br />to electric transmission lines, buildings such as telephone e.xchange stations, <br />booster or pressure regulating stations, wells, and plumbing stations, elevated <br />tanks, lift stations and electrical power substations, provided no building shall <br />be located within 50' from any lot line of an abutting lot in an "R" District.