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The proposed
Subdivision Ordinance text amendment primarily addresses the
Board of Supervisors’ request to facilitate subdivision of
commercial and industrially zoned properties. The balance
of the amendment clarifies and follows more closely the
actual review process. As proposed, the Planning Office
staff would review and approve commercial and industrial
subdivisions that are subject to an approved rezoning’s
concept development plan with no review by the Planning
Commission or Board of Supervisors. For these divisions,
there will be no referral agency review, including
Engineering, except on a case-by-case basis as requested by
the Planning Office. Any development on these parcels will
require either site plan or construction/infrastructure plan
approval.
With the
proposed text amendment, industrially or commercially zoned
parcels without an approved concept development plan will be
required to submit a Plan of Development. As proposed, the
Plan of Development process would produce agreement and
consensus on the design, size, access, layout, extent, and
location and degree of improvements necessary or proposed in
conjunction with a proposed development. This Plan is not
an engineering drawing; rather it is a sketch plan layout of
overall development layout.
The Plan of
Development would be reviewed by the Planning Commission on
its consent agenda. Prior to action by the full Commission,
the referral agencies as well as the Planning Commissioner
in whose district the proposed development is located will
review the Plan of Development. If consensus on the
development design is not reached with the Planning
Commission, the applicant will be required to proceed with
the conventional Preliminary Plat subdivision process. |