4020 Montevallo Rd, Mountain Brk, AL 35213

Planned Unit Development District

The Planned Unit Development District is designed to permit flexible development of projects which are comprehensively planned as a single development with a functional master development plan which fully considers the entire site as an integrated project and gives broad consideration to impacts and relationships to surrounding areas. The PUD District permits flexibility in locating buildings, mixtures of building types and land uses, and open spaces. In permitting such flexibility, the city council should consider policies or goals in the city master plan and any village master plan approved by the planning commission, and other broad public benefits demonstrated in a master development plan. The planning commission or city council may attach conditions to a master development plan proposed for a PUD to safeguard the public health, safety, morals and general welfare; Specific purposes. Each master development plan for a proposed PUD District shall advance the following specific planning purposes: The plan should take into consideration policy statements identified in association with use of the PUD District as a future land use policy in an officially approved village master plan; and; The plan shall encourage more efficient development and use of land which results in one or more of the following benefits to the general public that could not be gained under standard zoning districts, such as: Reduced negative aesthetic and environmental impacts from buildings and site development facilities, including better management of or reduction in the environmental impacts of development on the surrounding community; A better relationship between buildings, streetscapes, and public or common open spaces, resulting in an integrated community character that considers extensions and transitions to adjacent areas, as well as relationships to the particular characteristics of the site.