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A. The General Plan establishes the concept for Urban Villages as one of the Major Strategies for achieving active, dense, mixed use growth areas and for identifying locations for public open spaces within the city. The Urban Village and Mixed Use zoning districts (UVC, UV, MUC, MUN, UR, and TR) will be applied to and conform to their respective General Plan Land Use Designations throughout the Urban Villages. B. Urban Village Planning Process. The Urban Village planning process (as described in General Plan Appendix 6) is an intensive community outreach process to adopt policies, standards, and guidelines for development in a specific area. Once the planning process is completed, the Urban Village plans are then heard by the Planning Commission in a public hearing which makes a recommendation to City Council before the plan is voted on and approved by the City Council in a public hearing. Once approved, the plans become official policy documents which are specific to their respective areas. 1. Approved Urban Village Plans. For development projects located in an approved Urban Village area, the standards for development provided by the Urban Village Plan shall prevail over the standards in this Chapter. However, when a plan does not contain a regulation which is detailed in this Chapter, the zoning standard of development shall be applied. For residential or mixed use development in approved Urban Village Plan areas where there are no objective standards, the Zoning Districts and Citywide Design Standards and Guidelines shall prevail. 2. Unplanned, Urban Village Planning Areas. Urban Villages that have been designated but have not completed the Urban Village planning process are considered to be unplanned. For those Urban Villages that are unplanned, the development regulations in this Chapter shall prevail. C. Mixed Use zoning outside of Urban Villages. The MUC, MUN, UR and TR zoning districts may also be applied to properties that exist outside of identified Urban Villages. D. Development in the Urban Village and Mixed Use Zoning Districts is subject to a variety of policies and standards, the following is a list of policy documents with standards for development: 1. The General Plan 2. Approved Urban Village Plans 3. Urban Village and Mixed Use Zoning Districts 4. Citywide Design Standards and Guidelines (Ord. 30603.)