521 STERN Way, Carlsbad, CA 92011

Planned Community Zone

The intent and purpose of the P-C, planned community zone, is to: Provide a method for and to encourage the orderly implementation of the general plan and any applicable specific plans by the comprehensive planning and development of large tracts of land under unified ownership or developmental control so that the entire tract will be developed in accord with an adopted master plan to provide an environment of stable and desirable character; Provide a flexible regulatory procedure to encourage creative and imaginative planning of coordinated communities involving a mixture of residential densities and housing types, open space, community facilities, both public and private and, where appropriate, commercial and industrial areas; Allow for the coordination of planning efforts between developer and city to provide for the orderly development of all necessary public facilities to insure their availability concurrent with need; Provide a framework for the phased development of an approved master planned area to provide some assurance to the developer that later development will be acceptable to the city; provided such plans are in accordance with the approved planned community master plan; and Ensure that all new and, as appropriate, existing master plans reserve a site or sites for community facilities uses which benefit the community as a whole by satisfying social/religious/human service needs pursuant to Chapter 21.25 of the code.