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Preliminary Planned Residential Development <br />Planning Commission Report; 2-19-19 <br /> <br /> <br />Page 7 <br />Comp Plan <br />Consistency: <br /> General goals of the 2040 Comprehensive Plan include… <br />o …supporting a diverse population, <br />o …providing a diverse housing stock of well-maintained housing, <br />o …establishing a sense of place/feel of the community; and <br />o …creating streets that are safe, comfortable, and attractive to all users. <br />The plan currently before the City appears to achieve these goals by: <br />o Providing a much needed and diverse mix of senior housing types which can <br />allow seniors to age in place regardless of health status; <br />o Transforming the look of this property by introducing a modern residential <br />structure; <br />o Relocates the facility’s main entrance off of Black Oak Drive which should <br />encourage most traffic to access the site via the I-694 frontage road, thereby <br />improving the safety and attractiveness of other local roads (i.e. Linden <br />Drive). <br /> The land in question is guided by the 2040 Comp Plan as a “Mixed Use Regional <br />Node.” These are areas of the City intended to accommodate a mix of uses <br />including high density residential development at 12 to 50 units per acre. The <br />property’s location (at the periphery of the I-694 & Silver Lake Road mixed use <br />node) surrounded by existing residential uses justifies an exclusively residential <br />use on this land, and the density at 32 units per acre is within the targeted density <br />range. <br /> The land in question is identified by the 2040 Comprehensive Plan as an area for <br />redevelopment potential, and the new land use guidance was specifically intended <br />to incentivize improvements like the ones being requested. <br /> Mixed Use Regional intends for uses to be combined vertically in the same <br />building with retail, service, and civic uses focused on the ground floor, and <br />residential & offices on the upper floors. <br /> <br />PRD Standards: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> PRDs in New Brighton are granted their flexibility by Section 7-020 which clearly <br />states that Council “…recognizes that in the creation of planned residential <br />development, variations in density, bulk, height, setback, and other <br />regulations…may occur that are not in strict accordance with other provisions of <br />the Zoning Code or any other ordinance of the City.” Typically PRDs will still be <br />held to a general framework of flexibility as outlined in code, but Section 7- <br />060(11) provides further flexibility in stating that “all or any of the foregoing <br />[referencing PRD standards] may be modified as deemed necessary by the City <br />Council for the preservation of the public health, safety, morals, and general <br />welfare of the residents of the planned residential development and the City”