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MAY 2 11980 BQ It 43 WE 5% May 20, 1980 MEMO TO: W. W. Siebert, Jr., Chairman Board of County Commissioners FROM: David M. Rever, Director Planning and Zoning Department �. SUBJECT: Development of County Comprehensive Plan I think you will agree that as a result of our meeting earlier this afternoon with Richard Bird, Joe Collins, Jack Jennings and ourselves, some very positive understanding and direction was gained with regard to the content and scope of the Comprehensive Plan as well as the implemen- tation instruments to be utilized. I personally feel that it was one of the most constructive meetings to date concerning the subject. In keeping with the spirit of this meeting, `a -synopsis of the material covered is presented here for the benefit and approval of the County Commissioners and members of the Planning and Zoning Commission. First,'it was agreed that in order to produce the Plan and associated documents of implementation within the time frame proposed that two forms of help would be desirable. 1) That another staff person be sought as a permanent addition to the Planning staff, adding more capability to work on the Plan documents while maintaining the present ability to handle ongoing departmental responsibilities. 2) That a capable consultant be hired to assist the department in producing the planning elements and primarily in revising and reviewing all documents for implementation so as to be consis- tent with the Plan elements. This is most necessary in order to meet the proposed deadline for adoption of the entire package. Secondly, the Comprehensive Plan for the County would address the various functions in terms of density land use management in order to establish a better long term management perspective for County development. This would be accomplished through the use of existing documents which would be modified or revised as needed to best meet policies of the planning document. This would include a Future Land Use Map to be contained in the appropriate section of the County Plan, as well as ordinancesfor Zoning, Site Plans, Subdivisions, Mining and others presently used by the County to manage and enhance the quality of land use. Primary among the modifications and addi- tions to the ordinances would be one which would allow and manage development through the concept known as Planned Unit Development (P.U.D.). Under a P.U.D. concept, a proposal would be required to meet specific standards; while being allowed some degree of flexibility in development design and housing types employed. The following is a partial list of considerationswhich should be considered for incorporation into this portion of the Zoning Ordinance. 1) Should be handled as a zone change making conditions agreed to applicable to all future owners and major modification subject to entire process of review and approval. 2) There should be a minimum acreage of contiguous land required, in order to be considered for P.U.D. 3) The uses proposed would maintain the integrity of the zone in which P.U.D. was granted. Thus the majority of the development in the P.U.D. would be of a type or types allowed in the existing zone.