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ARTICLE 7: PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS
SECTION 701 PURPOSE AND GENERAL CONCEPT
Traditional zoning establishes zone boundaries and sets forth permitted uses of land within the various zones and general conditions for such uses which are intended to apply to individual lots and standard minimum-sized parcels. Acknowledging that land may be more effectively developed in planned building groups for residential, commercial, and a mixture of those uses by application of imaginative site design techniques, and recognizing the applicability of the objectives set forth in this Section, the Planning Commission intends:
A. To consider Planned Development Proposals within a framework of defined land use policies and objectives.
B. To provide flexibility in the application of the general zoning and subdivision provisions of this Ordinance.
C. To encourage developments which provide flexibility of design in the placement of buildings and open spaces, offstreet parking areas, street alignments, and other facilities.
D. To promote the economy of shared community services and facilities.
E. To ensure the creation of attractive, helpful, and efficient environments for housing and commerce.
F. To best utilize the potential of sites characterized by special features of geography, topography, size or shape.
G. To permit flexibility that will encourage a more creative approach to the development of land and will result in a more efficient, aesthetic, and desirable use of open space while at the same time harmonizing with adjoining development and maintaining population densities which are consistent with the transportation facilities and utilities available and with the public health and safety standards of the County, and which do not adversely impact neighboring development.
SECTION 702 AUTHORIZATION
A. The Planning Commission may authorize Planned Unit Developments as Conditional Uses. The Development, as authorized, shall be subject to all conditions imposed by the Planning Commission and shall be excepted from other provisions of this Ordinance only to the extent specified in the authorization. An application requiring a zoning Amendment shall be subject to the procedures of Article 9.
B. Planned Unit Residential Developments may be allowed by the Planning Commission in the Rural Residential (RR-5) and the Recreation Residential (RR-1) zones.
C. Planned Unit Commercial Development may be allowed in the Recreation Residential (RR-1) Zone.