(a) This section is intended to encourage innovations through regulations that will:
(1) Allow greater flexibility in the application of land use and development regulations;
(2) Encourage the assembly and integrated development of parcels that might otherwise be developed in unrelated increments to the detriment of surrounding neighborhoods;
(3) Promote a more economic and efficient use of land by allowing a variety of commercial and industrial activities, a high level of urban amenities, and the preservation of open space.
(b) While use of the Overlay District is an effective planning tool to achieve the above purposes, it is not the City's intent to confer special privileges to any land owner or compensate a land owner for areas of a property that are otherwise unbuildable due to existing features or constraints on the property. (Ord. 310. Passed 9-16-96.)