31-2 Purpose

(1) The purpose of the Planned Community (P-C) Zone is to provide a regulatory tool which allows large properties in Tooele County to be developed in accordance with a specific plan designed to achieve the following purposes: (a) To promote and protect the public health, safety, and welfare; (b) To implement the objectives and policies of the general plan; (c) To safeguard and enhance environmental amenities and the quality of development; (d) To attain the physical, social, and economic advantages resulting from comprehensive and orderly planned use of land resources; (e) To lessen congestion and assure convenience of access; (f) To secure safety from fire, flood, and other dangers; (g) To provide for adequate light, air, sunlight, and open space; (h) To promote and encourage conservation of scarce resources; (i) To prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of population; (j) To facilitate the creation of a convenient, attractive, and harmonious community with a desirable living and working environment with unique identity and character; (k) To attain a desirable balance of residential and employment opportunities; (l) To promote a pedestrian friendly environment that encourages transit and bicycle use; (m) To expedite the provision of adequate and essential public services; (n) To facilitate development within Tooele County in accordance with 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 full life cycle of housing needs of Tooele County residents, a harmonious variety of industrial and commercial uses, a high level of amenities, and preservation of open space; TOOELE COUNTY LAND USE ORDINANCE – CHAPTER 31 (o) To promote more economical and efficient use of the land; and, (p) 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. (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, business, research, technology or educational campuses, and open space with convenient pedestrian access among 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. (Ord. 2018-07, 6/19/18)