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PRD #27 VN-206 Page #3 The Community Facilities section of the proposed Comprehensive Plan adds the following: "The northwest corner of the City bounded by Stinson Boulevard, County Road H, Silver Lake Road and Rice Creek Road, and divided by Rice Creek and railroad tracks. is the only remaining neighborhood not served by a neighborhood park." PRD PROVISIONS While the PRD provisions or requirements are generally well under- stood I think it is good to note that the PRD ordinance recognizes that in a PRD variations in density, bulk, height:, setback and other regulations may occur. Further that the stated purpose of the PRD section of the zoning ordinance is to provide for and encourage advances'in housing-design; changes in„types of dwellings; :more flexibility in layout and site planning; the development of the life-cycle environment; and the more efficient use of land, open space and public facilities." The PRD's approved and completed to date have generally bee n, for a single type of development, like a71 single=family homes or all townhouses. In a few cases there has been a combination of two.. uses such as single family and townhouses. The previous PRD's are also generally characterized by having some amount of.private open space and a homeowners association to provide for the maintenance and regulation of the development and private open space. To my knowledge, public open space fias never been proposed in any previous PRD application. The propo-sal in this case to dedicate land for a public. park has given cause for the variance application VN-206 since the applicants are seeking, in essence, a credit for the donated land. The reason for this situation is that once the parkland is given to the City it becomes unusable in terms of density calculations, the same as in the case of public streets. In PRD's where theopen space is to be private the~open space land is permitted to be "counted" toward the density calculations. ZONING & DENSITY In this section we will review the density calculations in regard to the various rezoning cases. The calculations vary slightly -from the previously received reports. The reason for this is that the applicant has revised the p-tans along the lines of the Planning Commission recommendation and the cul-de-sacs have been shortened somewhat. The unchanging characteristics are as follows: - _ ~ __