1397 Dunnavant Valley Rd, Birmingham, AL 35242

Holding Zone-Special District

H-Z: The regulations set forth in this article or set forth elsewhere in this ordinance, when referred to in this article, are the regulations in the H-Z Holding Zone District. This district is intended to provide for the preservation of environmentally sensitive areas including flood plains and ridge tops and to provide for the proper timing, phasing and transitioning of growth within areas of undeveloped and/or environmentally sensitive areas including flood plains and ridge tops property for which the Planning Commission's zoning authority encompasses. The Holding Zone District may be applied to any lands for which the Planning Commission finds should be held in a primarily undeveloped state for an interim period of time pending development and/or completion of the comprehensive land use plan for the respective zoning jurisdiction.; SD: Special districts are hereby authorized for the purpose of providing optional methods of land development, which encourages imaginative solutions to environmental design problems. Areas so established shall be characterized by a unified building and site development program providing for coordinated open space and architectural treatment. The special districts authorized by this Article are also intended to provide means for the establishment of uses, which are generally considered to be incompatible with most other land usage.