Title 18 - Unified Development Ordinance

18.150.060 Planned Zoning Districts; Statement of Objectives

The zoning of land to one of the planned zoning districts designated in subsection B of Section 18.150.010 shall be for the purpose of encouraging and requiring orderly development at a quality level generally equal to or exceeding that commonly found in projects developed under conventional zoning, but permitting deviations from the normal and established development techniques. The use of planned zoning procedures is intended to encourage large-scale developments, efficient development of small tracts, innovative and imaginative site planning, conservation of natural resources and minimum waste of land. The following are specific objectives of the planned zoning districts:

1. A.
   The conventional zoning districts should generally not be applied to the improvement of land by other than lot-by-lot development. Consequently, with the exception of standard single-family and two-family residential subdivisions, development proposals which are intended to be subdivided into multiple lots should generally be rezoned to one or more planned zoning districts to ensure the compatibility, coordination, timing and sequencing of development.
2. B.
   Planned developments are groupings of buildings or building sites that are planned as an integrated unit or cluster on property under unified control or ownership at the time the zoning was approved by the City. The sale, subdivision or other partition of the site after zoning approval does not exempt the project or portions thereof from complying with the development standards, architectural quality, sign concepts and other conditions that were committed to at the time of the rezoning. The submittal by the developer and the approval by the City of development plans represents a firm commitment by the developer that development will indeed follow the approved plans in concept, intensity of use, aesthetic levels and quantities of open space.
3. C.
   Planned residential developments should be designed in a manner that will produce more usable open space, better recreational opportunities, and safer and more attractive neighborhoods than under conventional zoning and development techniques.
4. D.
   Planned commercial developments should be designed so as to result in attractive, viable and safe centers and clusters, as opposed to strip patterns of developments. Control of vehicular access, architectural quality, landscaping and signs will be exercised to soften the impact on nearby residential neighborhoods, and to assure minimum adverse affects on the street system and other services of the community.
5. E.
   The developer will be given latitude in using innovative techniques in the development of land not feasible under application of conventional zoning requirements.
6. F.
   Deviations from development requirements as provided for in Section 18.150.070 may be approved if it is deemed that other amenities or conditions will be gained to the extent that an equal or higher quality development is produced.

(History: Ord. ZRR-2698 §3, 2007; ZRR-1725; ZRR-1637; ZRR-1217; ZRR-1117; ZRR-889 §18.04)

Effective on: 1/1/1901