STAFF REPORT CAROLINA PARK DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT & PLANNED DEVELOMENT AMENDMENT

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1 STAFF REPORT CAROLINA PARK DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT & PLANNED DEVELOMENT AMENDMENT For reference, the Zoning Code and Land Development Regulations are available online. AGENDA ITEM: 6.a. Request: Location: Type of Request: Public Hearing: Applicant: Application Link: To make technical amendments to the Carolina Park DA, Development Agreement document, by deleting in its entirety Exhibit C (Governing Regulations) of the Development Agreement, including all exhibits to the same, and to supplement with a new Exhibit C with all of the exhibits. Also request to amend the PD, Planned Development District Ordinance, Ordinance No , and subsequent amendments thereto, identified by Ordinance No s , 13017, and 15045, by deleting them in their entirety, including all exhibits, and supplementing with new Planned Development District Development Standards, including the exhibits. Carolina Park (north side of US Highway 17 between the Park West and Pepper Plantation developments) DA & PD Amendment Required; PD hearing to be held by Planning Commission & DA hearing to be held by Town Council at their March 13th and April 10th meetings. Betsy Ellingson/ Seamon, Whiteside and Associates SUBJECT PARCELS The entire Carolina Park Planned Development area Property Owner: CDM of Charleston, LLC Approximate Acreage: 1,608.5 acres Plat Book & Page: N/A Current Zoning: PD, Planned Development District MEETING SCHEDULE Body Meeting Date Action Planning Commission Planning Commission recommended approval (9-0) with staff comments. Planning & Development Planning Committee recommended approval (3-0) Committee of Council Town Council 1 st reading of Town Council approved first reading (8-0: Mr. Bustos ordinance was not available to vote) Town Council final reading Town Council approved final reading (9-0) of ordinance Staff Report Carolina Park DA and PD Amendment Page 1 of 5

2 HISTORY Carolina Park was originally annexed into the Town in The PD (Planned Development) and DA (Development Agreement) were repealed and readopted in Since that time, there have been four amendments to the PD and DA pertaining to such items as signage and development standards. PROJECT SUMMARY 1. The current proposal includes two components. One is a Development Agreement (DA) amendment and the other is a Planned Development (PD) District ordinance amendment. Since the PD District Development Standards are included as an exhibit to the Development Agreement (Exhibit C: Governing Regulations), each time the PD is amended, the DA must be amended as well; however, the Planning Commission does not review or make recommendations on Development Agreement amendments. 2. The intent of this request is to recodify previously approved amendments that were inadvertently omitted from the fourth (and last) amendment to the DA & PD in Below is a timeline of previously approved amendments and what they encompassed: A. September 13, 2011: Town of Mount Pleasant entered into a Development Agreement (Ord. No ) with Carolina Park that included Exhibit C, Governing Regulations, otherwise known as the PD District Development Standards (Ord. No ). Staff Report Carolina Park DA and PD Amendment Page 2 of 5

3 B. March 13, 2012: First Amendment to the DA (Ord. No ) and PD (Ord. No ) was approved pertaining to monument parks and project signage. C. April 9, 2013: Second Amendment to the DA (Ord. No ) and PD (Ord. No ) was approved pertaining to permitted uses and development standards. This included revising the Land Use Master Plan relocating the Library and Fire/EMS sites. D. December 10, 2013: Third Amendment to the DA (Ord. No ) and PD (Ord. No ) was approved pertaining to development standards. E. July 14, 2015: Fourth Amendment to the DA (Ord. No ) and PD (Ord. No 15045) was approved pertaining to rezoning a portion of a parcel to Passive Park for the eagle s nest and to allow townhouses as an additional use on another parcel. 3. The events necessitating the current request are summarized below: In 2015, during the course of the Fourth Amendment request, Staff asked the developer to supply a new PD document encompassing all previously approved amendments so as to have one comprehensive document to administer the PD standards. At that time the developer did such, but inadvertently inserted the sections establishing Setbacks and Lot Criteria and the Land Use Table in effect prior to the 2013 approved amendment. This omission not only inserted antiquated development standards for various land use categories and original signage requirements, but it also made the current site of the EMS/Fire Station non-compliant. See example below: Ex: Original PD Staff Report Carolina Park DA and PD Amendment Page 3 of 5

4 Ex: 2013 Amendment Ex: 2015 Amendment 4. The maximum number of dwelling units which may be developed within Carolina Park totals 2,030, creating a density of 1.26 units per acre over the entire 1, acres. This is not proposed to change. Additionally, there are no new permitted uses or changes to development standards, other than those reflecting what was previously adopted in Staff Report Carolina Park DA and PD Amendment Page 4 of 5

5 STAFF COMMENTS 1. Page 3 Section B: references Exhibit B, Land Use Table. This should be modified to say Exhibit C. 2. Page 5 top paragraph references acreage transferred: acreages should be modified as follows: Library site is 5.91 acres; Fire Station is 1.36 acres and the elementary school is acres. 3. Page 5 Section E.1.a.: need to delete the strikethrough 7 4. Page 16 third paragraph: references exhibit C Commercial Development Application for Town Compliance Review this should be changed to Exhibit D. 5. Staff recommends removing Land Use Master Plan Current under Exhibit A and Exhibit A-1 CPCR Site Plan. All that is necessary is Exhibit A Land Use Master Plan Revised and it needs to be titled Land Use Master Plan with the date of this ordinance. Also on this Current Land Use Master Plan need to call out the location of CPC If approved, Staff would ask for discretion to further reconcile exhibit references in the Development Agreement to ensure the components of both documents accurately reflect one another. Staff Report Carolina Park DA and PD Amendment Page 5 of 5