This district provides for residential areas which can offer a variety of housing types and site layouts. It encourages a flexibility in design to create a sound living environment which can contain living areas, neighborhood shopping or services, outdoor recreation and leisure areas and public facilities.
Planned residential areas encourage the use of building forms and lot layout which maximize open and recreation areas, neighborhood communication and access, use of neighborhood facilities, neighborhood views and vistas, etc. Devices to accomplish these objectives include super blocks, cluster housing, attached single-family dwellings or common parkland.
Planned residential districts are to be established for specific projects or for an area for which a unique character is desired. Approval of a planned residential district consists of two elements. First, approval of the R-4 District zoning, and second, approval of a site plan as provided for in Chapter 1151. Final approval of an R-4 District is not complete until the site plan, or a general development guide as provided for in Section 1131.02(b), has been approved by Council. Because the R-4 District is established to create a specific project or to establish a unique character for an area, approval for such districts shall terminate at three years after approval of the site plan by Council, unless a building permit has been issued for construction in conformance with the approved plans. Upon approval by Council, the term of an R-4 District may be extended for individual periods of up to three years.
(Ord. 164-1984. Passed 1-28-85; Ord. 056-2011. Passed 6-13-11.)