In “R” Districts, a planned unit development may be permitted as follows:
(a) The lot area per family may be reduced, but such reduction shall not exceed twenty percent of the area required in Section 1118.01.
(b) Sixty percent of the lot area reduction, or not less than ten percent of the total project area, shall be devoted to open space and recreational facilities for the residents of the area being developed. Such open space land or recreational facilities shall be held in corporate ownership by the owners of the project area building sites, and the developer shall incorporate into the protective covenants and/or deed restrictions a clause giving an interest in such land to each owner who buys property within the development. As an alternative to a property owners’ association, the developer may deed the land to a public agency, which shall maintain the open space in lieu of a property owners’ association.
(c) In no case shall the density of families per net residential acre be greater than twelve percent more than that which would be permitted in “A” or “R” Districts under the requirements of Section 1178.01.
(d) The lot width and required yards may be reduced by not more than a ten percent reduction of the requirements of Section 1178.01.
(e) The design of single and two-family residential structures to be erected in a planned unit development shall be so varied in placement of windows, entranceways, roof design, coloring and height that no structure shall be closer than five lots to another structure substantially similar in design. The lot width may be varied due to the variety of structural designs, and it is recommended that setbacks be varied, but in no case shall a structure be closer to the street than is permitted by the front yard requirements as modified in this section. If lot widths for single or two-family residential lots are varied by the developer, he or she shall enter into an agreement with the County that the property owners within a planned unit development of this nature shall be assessed equally for any improvements which may be by assessment, rather than by a front-footage basis.
(f) Every property shall be designed to abut upon the open space or recreation facilities required by division (b) hereof.
(Ord. 1466. Passed 4-11-94; Am. Ord. 1905. Passed 12-13-11.)