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Ignition Park PUD Zoning Ordinance Preliminary Plan Date: September 27, 2010 Petitioner: City of South Bend Redevelopment Commission Introduction Petitioner. City of South Bend Redevelopment Commission. requests the rezoning of approximately 84 acres from the CI - Ceneral Industrial District to the PUD -Planned Unit Development District to provide for a hi~~h tech industrial park to be known as Ignition Park. Ignition Park is intended to be a launching pad for technological innovation. Ignition Park. in combination with Innovation Park. creates atwo-site, single. State Certitied Technology Park within the City of South Bend. It is anticipated that development within Ignition Park may include. but not be limited to: research and development facilities; education: office; prototyping facilities; and. support uses. The land uses to be contained within l~nition Park shall be those set forth below for each catego-y identified on the Master Plan filed with this PUD petition. It is acknowledged that the Master Plan filed with this PUD petition for I~~nition Park recommends general land uses for real estate which is not subject to rezoning at this time and that the tinal development of Ignition Park in substantial compliance with the Master Plan will be subject to Petitioner's ability to obtain zoning and development rights to such additional real estate in the firture. The Master Plan does. however. provide a framework from which to review the land use pattern p-•oposed for l~nition Park in -nuch the same way as a Comprehensive Plan identities land use patterns for a community as a whole. The Master Plan vision for Ignition Park is to provide for acampus-like setting within a single multi-use PUD District. The primary objective of this PUD District is to encow•age development which achieves a hi~~h degree of: (i) excellence in overall site design: (ii) integration of individual parcel site design within the overall development: and. (iii) innovation. creativity and quality in building design. The PUD District provides flexibility and procedural economy by permitting a broad ranee of high-tech industrial land uses and related support uses in a sin~~le district. ~yhile maintainingr adequate land use controls to protect adjoining properties. In order to encourage innovative building and site designs capable of enhancing the duality of the Ignition Park built environment. an applicant may propose alternate development standards for: yards and bt-ildin~~ setbacks: use of minimwl~ yards and residential buf~eryards: maximum building hei~~ht: minimum buildin~~ hei~~ht: maximum gross tloor area: parking_ loading: outdoor operations: architecture: landscaping: lightin~~_ or. si~~ns. subject to approval by an l~~nition Park Architectural Revie~~ Board and the Area Plan Commission. Architectural Review Board and Executive Directo-- approval is required to establish any land use or development within the lanition Park PUD. 13DDBOl ~,~39oes~-I Draft Date: September 27. ?010