(a) Planned districts shall include residential, commercial, and mixed-use subdistricts: Planned Residential District (PRD), Planned Commercial District (PCD), Planned Unit District (PUD), and Planned Conservation District (PCND).
(b) It is the intent of the Planned Districts to promote the progressive development of land and construction thereon and to encourage imaginative architectural design and layout, flexibility in building styles and types, and sensitivity to the natural environment.
(c) The Planned Districts are designed to guide development in an orderly, coordinated and comprehensive manner that preserves natural quality and beauty and provides supporting community facilities in the development of diverse, sound urban environments consistent with accepted land planning, landscape architecture practices and engineering principals. Such developments should:
(1) Provide a more useful pattern of open space and recreation areas.
(2) Preserve and utilize natural topography and geologic features, scenic vistas, trees and other vegetation, while preventing disruption of normal drainage patterns.
(3) Provide a more efficient pattern of development that reduces investments in utility lines, streets, and similar infrastructure.
(4) Promotes a development pattern in harmony with the Municipal land use objectives and priorities.