State ex rel. Committee for Referendum of Ordinance No. 3844-02 v. Norris

{¶ 1} In 1999, respondent North Ridgeville City Council enacted Chapter 1279 of the North Ridgeville Codified Ordinances, which established a new zoning classification known as Planned Community Development (“PCD”) District. The-specified purposes of the PCD classification were “[t]o encourage skillful planning of parts of the community in accordance with the objectives of the Master Plan; to provide for the utilization of design criteria in the arrangements of buildings related to open spaces, * * * to utilize topography and other site features to their best advantage to obtain creative and…