(a) The Planned Mixed-Use Development (PM-UD) District is established to encourage the comprehensive design and integrated development of large tracts of land suitable for a variety of mutually supportive office, commercial and transient residential uses.
(b) The general purposes of this District are served by the following basic principles:
(1) Comprehensive planning of large tracts promotes more ordered urban growth, providing opportunities for the integration of various development projects in clearly identifiable growth centers throughout the region.
(2) With comprehensive planning, different uses can be successfully integrated to provide functional convenience, efficiencies in the provision of public services and infrastructure and more consistent levels of activity in an area throughout the day, at night and on weekends.
(3) With comprehensive planning and integrated design, higher densities of development can be accommodated while maintaining environmental quality. The general benefits of density include greater productivity of land; more efficient utilization of transportation and utilities systems; more convenient access between developments; the provision of a higher level of pedestrian and open space amenities; and the concentration within a limited area of people necessary to support retail, convenience service and entertainment functions.
(4) Comprehensive planning and design of large tracts provides for the more detailed definition and administration of architectural and landscape design controls, producing a visually harmonious and pleasing development environment.
(c) These various advantages of comprehensively planned and designed mixed-use developments cannot be achieved by application of existing standards for individual use types. The PM-UD District, therefore, is a special zoning classification, providing for a variety of development types under special development standards that are only appropriate to the uses in planned combination.
(Ord. 1989-23. Passed 8-9-89.)