9924 E Rotation Dr, Mesa, AZ 85212

Planned Community District

The purposes of the Planned Community (PC) District are to: Accommodate large-scale, unified and comprehensively planned developments that encourage and promote innovative and sustainable residential and non-residential land uses; Allow flexibility for innovative and high quality development while meeting the goals of the Mesa General Plan and establishing planning and development control parameters tailored to the opportunities and constraints of the property; Conserve scarce energy resources, using technologies, materials and designs that are sustainable; Provide for creative and high quality design and materials, for buildings and landscape, to accomplish efficient, aesthetic, sustainable, and desirable development that highlights special features of the geography, topography, size, or shape of a particular property and that include exceptional public amenities and facilities; Provide environmental improvements that mitigate air and storm water pollution. Provide shade and reduce the effects of the urban heat island.; Ensure that areas designated mixed use/community in the Mesa General Plan develop with one or more villages or urban cores that contain an appropriate variety and mix of employment, office, retail, medical, educational, community service, tourism, entertainment, open space, recreational, and residential uses to provide center(s) with a sense of place within the community; Ensure that residential neighborhoods utilize a variety of housing types and densities that contain parks and schools that are located within convenient walking or bicycling distance from all homes, and neighborhood village centers with shops, restaurants, service uses, schools, and other civic uses that provide each neighborhood an individual identity and foster community interaction; Ensure that demands on streets, utilities and other public infrastructure do not exceed the capacity of existing or planned facilities, and ensure that the development will accommodate new and future technologies for utilities and other public infrastructure; Provide reasonable assurances to the City and land developer that the proposed development may be planned and carried out in one or more phases over an extended period, in accord with an approved Community Plan; and Provide for cohesive development patterns that integrate well with surrounding development; and encourage a variety of transportation options.