31-2 PLANNED COMMUNITY ZONE (P-C): Purpose

1. The purpose of the Planned Community (P-C) Zone is to provide a regulatory tool that allows large properties in the City north of Hwy 138 (Pole Canyon Road) to be developed by a development agreement designed to achieve the following purposes: 1. To promote and protect the public health, safety, and welfare; 2. To safeguard and enhance environmental amenities and the quality of development; 3. To attain the physical, social, and economic advantages resulting from comprehensive and orderly planned use of land resources; 4. To lessen congestion and assure convenience of access; 5. To secure safety from fire, flood, and other dangers; 6. To provide for adequate light, air, sunlight, and open space; 7. To promote and encourage conservation of scarce resources; 8. To prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of population; 9. To facilitate the creation of a convenient, attractive, and harmonious community with a desirable living and working environment with a unique identity and character; 10. To attain a desirable balance of residential and employment opportunities; 11. To promote a pedestrian-friendly environment that encourages transit and bicycle use; 12. To expedite the provision of adequate and essential public services; 13. To facilitate development within the City in accordance with the objectives and policies of the general plan by promoting high quality, innovative, and creative development that includes a mixture of uses, heights and setbacks, varying densities and lot sizes, and sufficient diversity of housing types to meet the entire life cycle of housing needs of the City residents, a harmonious variety of industrial and commercial uses, a high level of amenities, and preservation of open space; 14. To promote more economical and efficient use of the land; 15. To provide a process for initiation, review, and regulation of large-scale comprehensively planned communities that affords the maximum flexibility to the developer within the context of an overall development program and specific, phased development plans coordinated with the provision of necessary public services and facilities; and 16. To establish land uses and development patterns, densities, and standards unique to the rural community of the City. 2. This chapter establishes an approval and entitlement process to promote inventive and efficient land use patterns that would otherwise be difficult under typical zoning ordinances. Districts within a P-C Zone may include neighborhoods, villages, town centers, businesses, research, technology, or educational campuses, and open spaces with convenient pedestrian access in residential, commercial, office, retail, and recreational areas. Individual structures within those districts may contain mixed uses. Permitted densities and intensity of land use in villages and town centers may be higher than those permitted in neighborhoods.