§ 2001. Purpose and intent.

The Planned Unit Development District is intended to provide flexibility in the application of area, height, bulk, placement, and other zoning controls; provide for mixing a wide variety of residential housing types and arrangements; provide for the mixing of compatible residential, office, commercial and industrial land uses; encourage imaginative and innovative design for the unified development of tracts of land; provide an alternative for more efficient use of land, resulting in smaller networks of utilities and streets, thereby resulting in lower construction and maintenance costs to the public; preserve the natural amenities of the land by encouraging scenic and functional open areas within the development; and to promote land development in proper relation to the surrounding neighborhood; provide a more desirable living environment than would be possible through the strict application of conventional requirements; and to ensure that the design of the building forms are interrelated and architecturally harmonious.

This district is to be utilized as a "floating zone" which shall mean that areas will not be pre-designated as planned unit development districts, but rather each such designation shall result from a specific and separate application for amendment. Planned Unit Development Districts are separate zoning districts and shall follow the same amendment procedures as other districts. Unless otherwise stated in this section, the development standards and the land uses which are presented with the application for amendment shall, if approved, become the standards for the subject property and shall become a part of the zoning regulations.

Any request pertaining to the establishment of a Planned Unit Development District shall be considered an amendment to the zoning regulations and shall be administered and processed in accordance with Section 1103 of the Zoning Ordinance of Banks County, Georgia.

(Ord. No. 2006-33, § 1, 9-12-2006)