(a) The Municipal officials concerned with property development shall take into account that it is increasingly difficult to forecast the various conditions and factors that may be encountered in sizable developments, and that certain latitude, flexibility, and freedom in the execution of the design and layout of a project shall be suggested or otherwise permitted by the Municipality so as to encourage the developer to adjust the streets to irregular topography; to take advantage of topography in order to utilize the natural surface drainage; to economize in the construction of sewers and storm drainage facilities; to reduce the amount of grading and thus minimize destruction of trees and topsoil; to adjust the layout to geographical and cultural limitations such as property ownership lines; and, among other things, to create architectural variation in the development as well as attractive and usable buildings and building sites; and further, such developments shall be designed so as to enhance the community or neighborhood in general by providing amenities which are unique to the area.
(b) Planned unit developments may be residential, commercial or industrial developments, or they may be combinations of uses, such as residential and commercial, or commercial and industrial. The minimum site area for a residential development shall be ten acres; for a mobile home park, five acres; for a commercial development, five acres; and for an industrial development, fifteen acres. If a combination of uses is proposed, a residential-commercial development shall have a minimum of twenty acres and a commercial-industrial development shall have a minimum of twenty acres. In combination developments, the amount of land devoted to commercial usage shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) of the total land area of the development.
(c) Plans for a planned unit development shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for study and approval, in accordance with the procedures prescribed in Chapter 1109 of these Subdivision Regulations.
(Ord. 1389. Passed 1-10-80.)