8510 W Utopia Rd, Peoria, AZ 85382

Planned Area Development District

The Planned Area Development District (P.A.D.) is intended to provide an alternative zoning district to the conventional zoning and development approaches and processes in the City of Peoria, Arizona in order that within this designated District the following goals may be achieved: To enhance the City's development growth in order that the public health, safety, and general welfare be enhanced as Peoria increasingly urbanizes; To encourage innovations in residential, commercial, and industrial development so that greater opportunities for better housing, recreation, shopping and employment, may extend to all citizens and residents of Peoria; To reflect changes in the technology of land development; To encourage a more creative approach in the utilization of land in order to accomplish a more efficient, aesthetic, and desirable development which may be characterized by special features of the geography, topography, size or shape of a particular property; and, To provide a compatible and stable developed environment, in harmony with that of the surrounding area. The P.A.D. may include any development having one or more principal uses or structures on a single parcel of ground or contiguous parcels. The P.A.D. shall consist of a compatible selection of uses and groupings of buildings, parking areas, circulation and open spaces, and shall be designed as an integrated unit, in such manner as to constitute a safe, efficient, and convenient urban area development.