The regulations contained in this Chapter are established to encourage imaginative design and to provide relief from zoning requirements which were devised for conventional developments and which may inhibit innovation. Additionally, each of the individual types of planned development regulations were created for the purposes stated in subsections (a) through (d), both inclusive.
(a) Planned Apartment Development. The Planned Apartment Development regulations are established to provide a safe and desirable living environment characterized by a unified building and site development plan, to preserve natural features of the site, and to provide adequate open space for recreation and other outdoor living purposes.
(b) Planned Commercial Development. The Planned Commercial Development regulations are established to strengthen the economic viability and to enhance the aesthetic qualities of the commercial district through the promotion of larger scale developments of unified design; and to increase the total value of commercial property for the benefit of the owner and the community.
(c) Planned Cluster Development. The Planned Cluster Development regulations are established to permit the clustering of single-family dwellings on reduced size lots to achieve more desirable developments by the creation of common open space equal in area to the reduction in lot size and thereby increase the total value of the development for the benefit of the property owner and the community. Cluster Developments are intended to encourage a break from monotonous rectilinear and curvilinear lot and street patterns that are common subdivision practices.
(d) Planned Residential Development (PRD). The Planned Residential Development regulations are established to permit developments constructed on a tract of land at least five (5) acres under single ownership, planned and developed as an integral unit, and consisting of single-family detached dwellings combined with either two family dwellings or multi-family dwellings, or both.
(Ord. 074-10. Passed 12-20-10.)