Within certain districts now existing or which may hereafter be created, it is intended
to permit, on application and on approval of detailed site and building plans, planned
unit developments, primarily for housing, where tracts suitable in location and character
for the uses and structures proposed are to be planned and developed as units. Within
such planned unit developments, regulations adapted to such unified planning and development
are intended to accomplish the purposes of zoning and subdivision regulation to the
same degree as in districts in which regulations are desired to control development
which is not on a similarly unified basis. However, it is expressly intended that
the planned unit developments provide a method of development for land that permits
variation in lot sizes without an increase in the density of population or development,
that allows subdivisions with varying lot sizes so as to allow home buyers a choice
of lot sizes according to their needs, that preserves open space, tree, cover, scenic
vistas, natural drainageways and outstanding natural topography, that prevents soil
erosion by permitting lot sizes according to the nature of the terrain within the
development, that provides larger open areas with greater utility for open space and
recreation and that encourages the development of more attractive and economic and
less monotonous building forms, by providing freedom of architectural and site design.
(Code 1991, § 1373.01; Ord. of 10-3-1977)
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