(a) The purpose of the PUD District is to provide an alternate subdivision and platting procedure and:
(1) To permit the creation of areas within the city that can be developed or redeveloped with maximum flexibility in design;
(2) To promote the efficient use of land and facilitate an economic arrangement of buildings, circulation systems and utilities; and to promote conformance to the city’s Land Use and Thoroughfare Plan, Landscape Ordinance, access management plan, Noise Ordinance, driveway approaches and curb cuts and any other applicable regulations;
(3) To provide for and locate suitable supporting recreation facilities, educational facilities and other public and semi-public common facilities, while preserving the existing landscape to the greatest extent possible;
(4) To encourage the most skillful planning in the arrangement of buildings, the preservation of open space, the utilization of topography and other site features;
(5) To obtain creative and coordinated architectural and site designs harmonious and compatible with surrounding uses; and
(6) To encourage a mix of land use types and densities within a development in order to establish a balanced overall development pattern.
(b) In order to carry out these purposes, procedures supplemental to those applicable in other use districts are established in this chapter, under which development plans particularly designed to meet these objectives may be prepared and submitted for approval.
(Ord. 98-104, passed 9-14-1998)