05-15-14 Regular Meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission

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MunicodePage 3of 5 area. 5. "P-R I" Planned Residential District I. The purpose of this district is to encourage planned developments as a means of creating a superior living environment through unified planning and building operations at lower residential densities. The regulations of the district are designed to encourage variety in housing needed to meet changing housing demands and to provide adequate community facilities well-located with respect to needs; to protect the natural beauty of the landscape; to encourage preservation and more efficient use of open space; and to offer an opportunity for design flexibility and encourage innovations which may result in improved relationships between uses of different types and between land uses and transportation facilities. 6. "P-R II" Planned Residential District II. The purpose of this district is to encourage planned developments as a means of creating a superior living environment through unified planning and building operations at higher residential densities. The regulations of the district are designed to encourage variety in housing needed to meet changing housing demands and to provide adequate community facilities well- located with respect to needs; to protect the natural beauty of the landscape; to encourage preservation and more efficient use of open space; to offer an opportunity for design flexibility; and encourage innovations which may result in improved relationships between uses of different types and between land uses and transportation facilities. 7. "P-C" Planned Commercial District. The purpose of this district is to provide for attractive and efficient retail shopping and personal service facilities of integrated design in appropriate locations to serve residential neighborhoods. It is intended that the district shall be laid out and developed as a unit according to an approved plan so that the purpose of the district may be accomplished. The district is adaptable to shopping centers of various sizes, as well as development of general business properties where the use of shared parking and access, together with careful site planning, will produce a stronger commercial area. 8. "P-I" Planned Industrial District. The purpose of this district is to establish an industrial environment for certain types of manufacturing, business or industrial uses which are compatible with any adjacent land use by performance, appearance, and general operating characteristics. The regulations of the district are designed so that all operations and activities, specifically including but not limited to, the storage of materials of all kinds are conducted within a building or appropriately screened. 9. "SRR" Special Residential Revitalization District. The special residential revitalization district (SRR) is established in recognition that developments containing both residential and commercial uses can create an appealing and vital urban environment when carefully designed. Developments approved for this district shall be designed to eliminate potential use conflicts through creative design methods. The SRR district allows for mixing residential environments with workplaces and services. Development in the SRR district must accommodate transportation systems, surrounding environments and pedestrian movements. 10. "R-MU" Mixed Use Residential District. The purpose of this district is to accommodate, ose of this district is to accommodate, "R-MU" Mixed Use Residential District. The purp encourage and promote innovatively designed developments involving neighborhood- encourage and promote innovatively designed developments involving neighborhood- serving residential and commercial land uses, which together form an attractive and serving residential and commercial land uses, which together form an attractive and harmonious unit of the city. The regulations of this district are intended to allow for harmonious unit of the city. The regulations of this district are intended to allow for harmonious unit of the city. The regulations of developments that are intended by their size and nature of operation to provide ze and nature of operation to provide developments that are intended by their si service to a neighborhood. It is intended that the district regulations permit uses that service to a neighborhood. It is intended that the district regulations permit uses that htts://librar.municode.com/rint.asx?h=&clientID=16180&HTMReuest=htts%3a%2f...57201 pyppqp//4