It is the intent of these regulations to encourage variety and flexibility in land development and land use for residential and commercial areas, subject to the purpose of zoning and the conditions and safeguards which will promote the land development plan; to provide a harmonious relationship with surrounding development, minimizing the influences as land use incompatibilities, heavy traffic and congestion, and excessive demands on existing and planned public facilities, to provide a means of developing areas of physiographic and other physical features to enhance natural beauty and other attributes, and in so doing, to provide for the use of the lands as recreational space for the residents of the developments; to encourage the efficient use of those public facilities required in connection with new residential and commercial development; and to encourage innovative design techniques to utilize the environment as a guide to development such as, but not limited to, zero lot lines, party walls, site location with regard to energy conservation, and other concepts. The cluster development regulations shall only be applied upon determination by the Planning Commission that the proposed development is in harmony with the purpose and intent as stipulated above.
(1985 Code, § 9-136)