19.07.01 Purpose

1. In General. a. The purpose of the Planned Unit Development (“PUD”) Overlay zone is to encourage imaginative and efficient utilization of land by providing greater flexibility in the location of structures on the land, the consolidation of open spaces, and the clustering of dwellings. b. These provisions are intended to create more attractive and more desirable environments within residential and mixed use areas. c. A PUD development is intended to allow for diversification in the relationship of various uses and structures to their sites and to encourage new and imaginative concepts in the design of neighborhood and housing projects within the City of Saratoga Springs. 2. Discontinuation of PUDs. a. Effective July 18, 2013, it is the intent of the City Council to discontinue the granting of Planned Unit Developments or the Planned Unit Development Overlay Zone. b. This Chapter shall remain a part of the Land Development Code solely for the purpose of governing properties that have vested rights to develop as PUDs in the PUD Overlay Zone. Such vested properties shall only include: i. (a) properties granted PUD status in a development agreement that has not expired; ii. (b) properties with a recorded plat; and iii. (c) properties developed as a PUD. c. City Staff is directed to remove the PUD Overlay Zone, in accordance with state law, from the official Zoning Map except for those properties listed as vested. Also, if a development agreement expires and the property owner has not recorded a plat on all or a portion of his or her property, the City Council will rezone the property to remove the PUD Overlay Zone.