Development Standards | Transfer of Development Rights
ownership, unless such land division allocates the reserved development rights between the divided parcels of property in a manner consistent with the terms of the conservation easement. 5. Use of a sending site subject to a conservation easement shall be limited to uses consistent with the purpose and intent of this chapter and with the criteria originally used to establish the sending site. 6. Once an undeveloped or partially developed sending site has been encumbered by a conservation easement, additional development potential within the sending site area constrained by the conservation easement cannot be created by means of a rezone of the property.
RECEIVING SITE INCENTIVE TABLE Sending Zones R-1 R-4 R-6
KC Lands
Commercial 7,716 sq. ft.
3,560 sq. ft.
2,600 sq. ft.
3,560 sq. ft.
Zone C 4 du 2 du 1 du 2 du Zone B 7 du 3 du 2 du 3 du Zone A 5 du
Receiving Zones
Note: Dwelling units may be transferred from the TC-D zone into the TC-A zones, subject to the provisions of SDC 21.07.050D.2.d.
b. [Placeholder for future receiving sites].
3. Modification of Receiving Site Incentives.
Receiving site incentives
I.
a. The director is authorized to recommend that the City council adopt a revised incentive table to address changing economic conditions or to further refine the receiving site incentives. The director is also authorized to recommend that the City council adopt receiving site incentives for sending sites not currently identified in subsection 2. of this section. The incentive table shall not be revised more than once in a calendar year. The director shall base the recommendation of a revised incentive table on the following economic analysis: i. The expected marginal value of the receiving site incentives; and ii. The prevailing cost of per square foot commercial or residential development and the impact of the
1. Development rights may be purchased to achieve TDR-based incentive densities allowed by Sammamish development regulations on receiving sites identified in SDC 21.06.070D.
2. Receiving Site Incentives.
a. Town Center. The following table outlines TDR-based incentives for eligible receiving sites with the purchase of a development right. (For example, a sending site in the R-1 zone that generates one TDR will allow for the creation of four dwelling units at a receiving in the TC-C zone of the Town Center. Alternatively, the same site in the R-1 zone that generates one TDR will allow 7,716 square feet of additional commercial development in the Town Center):
382 | Title 21: Sammamish Development Code
Effective | January 1, 2022
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