540 S Maricopa Rd, Florence, AZ 85132

Planned Unit Development

The purpose of the PUD district is intended to accommodate, encourage and promote developments with innovative design involving residential and nonresidential land uses, which together form an attractive, harmonious unit in the community. Such a planned unit development may be designed as a large-scale separate entity, able to function as an individual community or neighborhood, as a small-scale project which requires flexibility because of unique circumstances or design characteristics or as a transitional area between dissimilar land uses. The planned unit development, if so specified at the time of zoning approval, may include standards or criteria that differ from those regulations pertaining to other districts when warranted by circumstances such as but not limited to, alternative residential lot design, innovative architectural or subdivision design features, retirement housing, in-fill development involving a small or irregularly shaped parcel or other circumstances found by the town through the PUD approval to merit departure from the regulations pertaining to other districts. The PUD may be used either as an overlay district to provide flexibility in an otherwise established land use district, or it can be used as an independent district. This district, which may only be developed in accordance with an approved development plan is further established to provide both the developer and the town with reasonable assurances that specific, proposed uses, intensities and phasing are consistent with the adopted general plan.