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It is the purpose of this zone to provide a classification which will permit development of or additions to planned new towns or additions to existing urban developments. Such towns shall contain, insofar as possible, all of the residential, commercial, community and industrial facilities needed to make possible a town that is reasonably self-sufficient for all purposes, except major employment and central business district shopping. Adequate provision shall be made for the maintenance of open space and the location of streets and highways to assure orderly traffic circulation. Provision shall be made for the inclusion of housing for families of low and moderate incomes. Physical planning within the town shall be such as to assure that these uses, including a wide variety of types of housing accommodations, shall be placed in efficient and orderly relationship.
A new town is further described, for the purposes of this chapter, as being located on a substantially undeveloped site and meeting the following mutually interdependent requirements:
(a) Self-Sufficiency. Containing as nearly as possible all of the commercial, employment, cultural and recreational facilities desirable and necessary for the satisfaction of the needs of its residents.
(b) Diversity. Containing a wide variety of residential facilities, so as to offer a wide range of structural types, site planning layouts and arrangements, and rental and purchase prices.
(c) Density. Urban rather than rural, in order to facilitate travel between residential, commercial, employment and other types of areas and to make the most efficient use of public utilities, but low enough to permit the incorporation of large amounts of open land within the town for recreational and scenic purposes.
(d) Transportation Facilities. Transportation facilities adequate to serve the anticipated total population shall be either in existence or planned for future construction.
(e) Public Utilities. Public sewer and water shall be available at the site or planned for construction.
Land lying principally within a corridor city as defined in section 59-A-2.1, title "Definitions," may be considered for classification in the town sector zone.
In order to encourage and facilitate desirable development of this kind, it is further the purpose to eliminate, in the town sector zone, some of the specific restrictions which regulate, in other zoning categories, the height, bulk and arrangement of buildings and the location of the various land uses; to provide for more flexibility in development; and to require that all development be in accordance with a plan meeting the requirements of this section, and the development plan provisions of division 59-D-1. It is the intent of this zone to achieve flexibility of design, integration of mutually compatible uses and optimum land planning with greater efficiency, convenience and amenity than the standards permitted by right and required in conventional zoning categories.
In addition, it is the purpose of this zone to preserve and take the greatest possible aesthetic advantage of trees; and, in order to do so, minimize the amount of grading necessary for construction of a development.
The fact that an application complies with all specific requirements and purposes set forth herein shall not be deemed to create a presumption that the application is, in fact, compatible with surrounding land uses and, in itself, shall not be sufficient to require the granting of any application.