The purpose of this Chapter is to provide a process for approving a Planned Development Permit that is intended to:
A. Achieve Greater Flexibility. Provide a method to achieve greater flexibility than may be available through compliance with conventional Zoning Code standards and regulations.
B. Ensure Efficient Use of Land and Better Living Environment. Provide a method whereby land may be designed and developed as a single unit by taking advantage of modern site planning techniques thereby resulting in a more efficient use of land, a better living environment, a better site plan and overall design than is otherwise possible through strict application of the development standards identified in Article 2 (Zones, Allowable Uses, and Development and Design Standards).
C. Encourage More Creativity. Encourage more creativity than may be available through compliance with conventional Zoning Code standards and regulations.
D. Encourage Various Types of Development. Encourage the incorporation of various types of development into the project’s design that might not be available through conventional development regulations.
E. Ensure High Standards of Environmental Quality. Ensure development that meets high standards of environmental quality, public health and safety, the efficient use of the City’s resources, and the purpose, intent, goals, policies, actions, and land use designations of the General Plan and any applicable specific plan; and
F. Provide for Enhanced Amenities. Incorporate a program of enhanced amenities (e.g., enhanced landscaping, LEED related standards, additional and enhanced open space, additional public art, improvements to an existing public facility [e.g., park or trail, etc.]) than typically required by this Zoning Code. (Ord. 935 § 3 (part), 2015)