(a) Planned districts shall include residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed use subdistricts: Planned Residential District (PRD), Planned Commercial District (PCD), Planned Industrial District (PID), and Planned Unit District (PUD).
(b) It is the intent of the Planned Districts to promote the progressive development of land and construction thereon and to encourage imaginative architectural design and layout, flexibility in building styles and types, and sensitivity to the natural environment.
(c) The Planned Districts are designed to guide development in an orderly, coordinated and comprehensive manner that preserves natural quality and beauty and provides supporting community facilities in the development of diverse, sound urban environments consistent with accepted land planning, landscape architecture practices and engineering principles. Such developments should:
(1) Provide a well-designed and connected open space and recreational system that includes pedestrian and bicycle areas, play areas, and scenic areas.
(2) Preserve and utilize natural topography and geologic features, scenic vistas, trees and other vegetation, while preventing disruption of normal drainage patterns.
(3) Provide a more efficient pattern of development that reduces investments in utility lines, streets, and similar infrastructure.
(4) Promotes a development pattern in harmony with the Municipal land use objectives and priorities.
(d) In order to accomplish the above purposes, the intent of the Planned Districts is to allow the applicant to lessen the development standards in some areas in exchange for an increase in development standards in another.
(e) The process for achieving the above purpose and intent is to require the submission and approval of a preliminary plan for the total proposed development and the submission and approval of a final development plan for all or any part of the area, defined in the preliminary plan, prior to obtaining a zoning certificate as part of the approval for the construction of any portion of the area. As part of the preliminary plan, the applicant must prepare and submit a development standards text that identifies any development standards that is less restrictive than the standards set forth in this chapter or other chapters of the Codified Ordinances. As part of the development standards text, the applicant must justify the modifications of these standards based on the fact that the proposed development goes beyond minimum requirements in other areas that will result in a superior development than if the standards set forth in this chapter and the other chapters of the Codified Ordinances has been followed. As part of the final development plan, the applicant must reaffirm use of the previously approved development standards text or submit as part of the final development plan a modified development standards text for approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
(Ord. 21-07. Passed 8-13-07.)
(Ord. 21-07. Passed 8-13-07.)