12429 W Bajada Rd, Peoria, AZ 85383

Planned Community District

The Planned Community (P.C.) District is intended to accommodate large-scaled, yet unified, comprehensively planned developments which conform with and enhance the policies and programs contained within the Peoria General Plan. This district is intended to provide an alternative zoning district and development process to accommodate substantial developments for residential, commercial, professional, industrial or other activities, including combinations of uses appropriately requiring flexibility under controlled conditions, not otherwise attainable under conventional zoning districts so that the following goals may be achieved: To enhance the City's development and to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare.; To provide within such areas a combination of land uses, which may include a variety of residential types, commercial, industrial, public and semi-public areas, arranged and designed in accordance with sound site planning principles and development techniques; and in such a manner as to be properly related to each other, the immediate surrounding area, the planned thoroughfare system, and other public facilities such as water and sewer systems, parks, schools and utilities.; To encourage a more creative approach in the utilization of land in order to accomplish an efficient, aesthetic, and desirable development which may be characterized by special features of the geography, topography, size or shape of a particular property.; To establish planning and development control parameters tailored to the opportunities and constraints of the property while allowing sufficient flexibility to permit final detailed planning and the precise distribution of the approved density and intensity of the project at the time of site plan or subdivision application submittal.; To 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 of time, in accordance with an approved P.C. Development Plan and Standards Report.; To assure that the P.C. District is developed in accordance with a P.C. Development Plan and Standards Report. The P.C. Development Plan and Standards Report shall be designed to fulfill the goals established by the General Plan, provide development standards promoting an appropriate balance of land uses, and promote the planning of public facilities designed to serve the projected population.