(A) Planned unit as a combining district. The PUD district shall act as a combining district primarily for, but not limited to, use with the Single Family Residential (R-1) or Residential Mixed (RM) District as the base zoning district. The following regulations shall modify the regulations of the base zone with which the PUD district is combined. Except as modified herein, the base zone regulations apply.
(B) Purpose. The purposes of a PUD district are as follows:
(1) To further the public health, safety and general welfare in a time of increasing urbanization and of growing demand for housing of a variety of types and design;
(2) To encourage innovations in residential and mixed-use development so that the growing demands for housing may be met by a greater variety in type, design and layout of dwellings and by the more efficient use of open space ancillary to the dwellings;
(3) To create greater opportunities for better housing, more housing options, increased diversity of housing, commercial activities and recreation;
(4) To encourage more efficient use of land, public services and to safeguard open space;
(5) To provide an alternative procedure which can relate the type, design and layout of residential and mixed-use development to the particular site and the particular demand for housing at the time of development in a manner consistent with the preservation of the property values within established residential areas; and
(6) To provide an alternative procedure under which a developer of real property may elect to proceed to develop his or her property by transfer of permitted dwelling units to contiguous or noncontiguous locations which are appropriate to carry out the purposes of this section.
(C) Planned developments shown on zoning map. A PUD District Zone shall be noted on the County’s zoning map.
(Ord. 1043 § 3 (part), 2022)