(a) The purpose of the Planned Development District (PD) is to permit the greatest possible flexibility in order to stimulate creativity and to allow for a mixture of a wide variety of land use types within one planned district in order to:
(1) Respect the unique characteristics of the site and surrounding uses.
(2) Encourage imaginative arrangements of land use types and recognize the need to mitigate the impacts of incompatible land uses.
(3) Allow a development pattern which preserves and utilizes the natural topography, geologic features, vegetation and drainage.
(4) Encourage provision of site amenities to serve the immediate development and surrounding community.
(5) Allow the potential for a self-sufficient development area, thus reducing the requirement for non-essential vehicular trips.
(b) The intent of this chapter is to allow the applicant to lessen the development standards in some areas in exchange for an increase in development standards in another. The process for achieving the stated purposes 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 standard that is less restrictive than the standards set forth in this chapter or other referenced chapters. 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 had been followed. As part of the final development plan, the applicant must verify that the previously approved development standards text is being used or submit as part of the final development plan a modified development standards text for approval by Planning and Zoning Commission.
(Ord. 2014-27. Passed 8-5-14.)