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Surrounding Land Uses: North: Commercial (office & animal hospital) South: Retail (Cub Foods) East: Retail (multi-tenant strip) West: Park&Residential (townhomes) AMENDMENT ANALYSIS Zoning Code Section 7-110 outlines a procedure for considering amendments to a previously approved Planned Residential Development (PRD). The applicant proposed to erect a 33 SF wall sign on the east façade of the building. No other improvements/changes to the site are proposed. Section 7-110 identifies two types of amendments: minor and major. Minor amendments to do require review by the Planning Commission or City Council, but major amendments do. Major amendments include any changes to the building. Signs are not specifically mentioned as either minor or major. Staff felt it was better to require review of the proposed sign as a major amendment than to misinterpret the proposed amendment as minor, which only entrails a staff level review. Section 7-110(4) states that all PRD amendments must be considered against the PRD standards of Section 7-060. Those standards are as follows: (1)The plan shall be consistent with the stated purposes and intent of the Zoning Code. (2) A planned residential development shall conform with Chapter 26 of the City Code and the Zoning Code except as hereinafter modified or exempted and any amendments as will be adopted from time to time to better meet the stated purposes of this Chapter. (3) No amendments to this Chapter shall be enacted that may apply to any proposal for a planned residential development for which an application has been received by the City and upon which action is still pending. (4)A planned residential development that which shall include only a single type of dwelling unit, such as all detached or all semi-detached shall not be deemed inconsistent with the stated purposes of this Chapter because it contains only a single type of dwelling unit. (5)Architectural styling shall not be the sole basis for denial of a planned residential development. (6)The maximum ground floor area for the sum of all buildings in the project shall not exceed 25 percent of total land area in the planned residential development. (7) There shall be no height limitation for any buildings in a planned residential development except that all buildings and dwelling units shall observe the following setbacks and densities: A. There shall be a minimum setback of the height of the building or 25 feet, whichever is less, from all property lines that form the perimeter of the entire plan of the planned residential development. Subject to approval of the City Council, building setbacks may be decreased from the perimeter setback requirement for any new planned residential development if pedestrian linkages to neighboring developments for residents, employees, or shoppers is provided along with an approved streetscape plan with enhanced landscaping. B. When any property line forming the perimeter of the plan for a planned residential development is in, abuts, or is less than seventy feet from an R-1 or R-2 district, the setback for each building in the planned residential development shall be at least its building height away from said line except where said abutting or adjacent property is publicly owned and is seventy feet or more in width,then the setback shall be a minimum of 25 feet. C. In accordance with, and to better meet the stated purpose of the Planned Residential Dvelopment Article of the Zoning Code, the dwelling unit density for a planned residential development within an R- 1, R-2, R-3A or R-3B district may be computed on a basis of eighty percent of the required minimum lot area per unit as stipulated for the respective districts in the