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KCC Chapter 16.09 PERFORMANCE BASED CLUSTER PLATTING 16.09.010 Purpose and Intent 16.09.020 Uses Permitted 16.09.030 Criteria 16.09.040 Development Regulations 16.09.060 Minimum Lot Size 16.09.080 Process for Approval 16.09.090 Public Benefit Rating System 16.09.100 Definitions KCC 16.09.010 Purpose and intent. With the recognition of the value of retention of rural densities in rural lands, while protecting our critical areas, water resources and resource lands, and recognition that urban densities belong in urban designated lands, Kittitas County also recognizes the need for innovative planning tools to achieve these goals. Encouraged by the Growth Management Act (GMA), Kittitas County may provide for clustering, planned unit developments, density transfer, design guidelines, conservation easements and other innovative techniques that will accommodate appropriate rural and urban densities and uses at levels that are consistent with the preservation of rural character and that provide a public benefit. To assist in the implementation of Kittitas County's policy to provide tools to foster appropriate densities, while making development economically feasible, benefits to the greater community through an effort to conserve water resources by minimizing the development of exempt wells by encouraging group water systems, to protect public health by reducing the number of septic drain fields, by concentrating urban densities in urban growth areas and by minimizing the impact of "Rural Sprawl" in rural lands, as designated in the Kittitas County Comprehensive Plan, Kittitas County finds that this "Performance Based Cluster Platting" technique would foster the development of urban and rural designated lands at appropriate densities, while protecting the environment and maintaining a high quality of life in Kittitas County . 16.09.020 Uses permitted. The permitted uses of the clustered area shall be those of the underlying zone. Those uses specifically identified for the recreation categories in KCC 16.09.090 can be found in KCC 17.14 performance based cluster plat uses. Other uses not specifically identified may apply if determined a similar use as provided in Title 15A. 16.09.030 Criteria. Public Benefit Rating System (PBRS) elements are items that are not already required by code. When a public benefit is demonstrated then bonus density points will apply. An element that may have a high value in an urban designation may have a very low value in a rural designation. It is necessary, therefore, to have a separate set of criteria and outcomes depending on the land use designation. The density bonus is limited to use in the rural designations with a 100% bonus in the Rural -3, Agriculture -3, Rural -5 and Agriculture - 5 zones and 200% in the Agriculture 20 and the Forest and Range 20 zones. There is no limit to density bonus within the Urban Growth Areas and the Urban Growth Nodes. A minimum of twenty five percent (25%) of the area within the project boundary must be set aside in open space prior to application of the Public Benefit Rating System contained in KCC 16.09.090 of this chapter. 050113