The purpose of the Special Planning District is to regulate the development and use of property in areas of the City that contain sensitive or unique environmental, historic, architectural, or other features which require additional protections and flexibility not provided through the application of the standard zoning district regulations, and to promote creative and sensitive site planning. It is the intent of this chapter to provide for a district which will permit a greater range or mixture of compatible uses in areas than would be allowable in the standard zoning classifications of this Zoning Ordinance while also requiring features that protect against negative impacts of incompatible land uses or harm to the environment. It is the purpose of these regulations to provide an effective method for the City to guide the development of such areas so as to preserve such unique characteristics or to provide for the greater range or mixture of land uses when appropriate.
(Ord. 109-14. Passed 6-23-14.)