TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Jayne Bernhard, Planning Director
SUBJECT:
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Ordinance Approving the First Amendment to the Development Guidelines for the Rock Run Collection Planned Unit Development (PUD-9-26)
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BACKGROUND:
The applicant, Cullinan Joliet, LLC, wishes to amend the Development Guidelines for the Rock Run Collection Planned Unit Development (PUD) to better align Guideline criteria with the envisioned built environment for the project area. The subject properties lie within the Rock Run Crossings Redevelopment Project Area, which was designated as a Tax Increment Financing District (“TIF District”) in 2021. When it was established, it was the intention of the TIF District to include a future mixed-use development that would contain retail, restaurant, entertainment attractions, recreational amenities, and a multi-family residential neighborhood over the entire 310-acre TIF District area. In 2023, a Planned Unit Development for the Rock Run Collection Subdivision was created to help provide a unified development review process and site-specific development guidelines for the project area.
The applicant and staff have worked on several site development reviews since the PUD Development Guidelines were approved in 2023. Given the complex scale and evolving nature of development needs within the project area, both the applicant and City staff felt there was a need to update certain guidelines to help achieve a more thoughtful and efficient development review process.
The updated PUD Development Guidelines document contains several sections, most of which are similar in structure to the existing Development Guidelines document. Introduction and Applicability sections provide a contextual framework for the Development Guidelines and explain when the Development Guidelines are applicable in lieu of City of Joliet ordinances. The Applicability section clarifies the geographic scope of the PUD Guidelines, which omits the multifamily resident...
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