06-09-2025 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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PUD — PRD — RPUD The terms Planned Unit Developments (PUDs), Planned Residential Developments (PRDs), and Residential Planned Unit Developments (RPUDs) are often used interchangeably. PUDs offer flexibility from zoning standards to achieve consistent site design, while PRDs and RPUDs are specific types of PUDs, typically focused on specific residential uses. ✓ Planned Unit Development (PUD): A PUD is a type of development where regulations are relaxed to allow for flexible site and building design, potentially including mixed residential and non-residential uses, different housing types, and densities. Utilization of the PUD zoning district within Orono is limited to the Highway 12 Corridor and the Navarre Area. Comment: The property is not located within the Highway 12 corridor or the Navarre area. The property is not eligible to be developed as a PUD. ✓ Planned Residential Development (PRD): A PRD is a specific type of PUD that, through a CUP process, is limited to residential uses which emphasize flexibility in design and layout. The purpose of a PRD is to enhance the appearance of neighborhoods through preservation of natural open spaces, to counteract the effects of urban congestion and monotony, to provide cohesive structure to neighborhood design, to offer recreation opportunities close to home, and to aid in improving the welfare in general of city residents. A proposal for PRD is not required to adhere to minimum lot size requirements to be eligible, provided that the total number of building lots or dwelling units shall not exceed the number of units allowed under the minimum lot size requirements of the zoning district in which such land is situated and should contain an open space preservation component. For the subject property, located within the R-1A district (1 unit/acre), a PRD is allowed by CUP but is limited to detached single-family dwellings, and only where the total number of building lots or dwelling units does not exceed the number of lots permitted under the minimum lot size requirements of the zoning district. Comment: The 3-lot proposal exceeds the number of lots permitted under the R-1A zoning district. The property is not eligible to be developed under a PRD. ✓ Residential Planned Unit Development (RPUD): Similar to PRDs, RPUDs are also residential -focused PUDs, but specifically encourage innovative and creative designs for mixed residential uses. The purpose of RPUDs within Orono is to accommodate the densities and types of residential development contemplated in the Comprehensive Plan by incorporating the principles of the PUD concept. City Code Section 78-621 outlines the RPUD process to create a development which will encourage some or all of the following: 1. Flexibility in land development and redevelopment in order to utilize new techniques of building design, construction and land development; 2. Provision of housing to meet lifecycle, and affordable and moderate cost housing needs; 3. Energy conservation through the use of more efficient building designs and sitings and the clustering of buildings and land uses; 4. Preservation of desirable site characteristics and open space and protection of sensitive environmental features, including steep slopes, poor soils and trees; 5. High quality of design and design compatible with surrounding land uses, including both existing and planned; 6. Sensitive development in transitional areas located between different land uses and along significant corridors within the city; and 7. Development which is consistent with the comprehensive plan. The total number of units for RPUD must fall within the density guidelines for the property identified in the 2040 Comp Plan, and shall not exceed the number of units permissible under the minimum lot size requirements of the zoning district in which the land is situated. Each site proposed for rezoning to RPUD must be at least five acres (excluding wetlands, floodplain, right-of-way, or shoreland district) or it must meet one of the criteria listed in Section 78-626 1 . Comment: The subject property is only 1.0 acre in area. However, based on its proximity to Northgate Two it may be eligible for RPUD development through the exception under5ection 78-626(1)(b) which states a property not meeting the minimum 5.0-acre requirement may be eligible if it is "directly adjacent to or across a public street from property which has been developed previously as a RPUD ... and will be perceived as and will function as an extension of that ... development". If the project is developed to mimic Northgate Two, it may be eligible if the City allows flexibility from the single-family lot dimensional standards. 314