7740 Jack Rabbit, Highland, CA 92346

Planned Development

The general plan outlines the goals, objectives and policies establishing the character and location of land uses throughout the city. It is the purpose of this section to establish regulations which implement those goals, objectives and policies which provides for superior development by allowing a greater degree of design and land use flexibility within the framework of a site specific development plan.; The provisions of this section establish procedures which provide for large scaled, multiphased residential, commercial or industrial mixed use developments. These provisions permit the clustering of units, the mixing of land use and building types, and the formulation of specific development standards and design criteria which respond to the particular features or conditions affecting a site.Applicability. The Planned Development District is intended to be applied when: The physical characteristics of a site necessitate restricting conventional development opportunities to preserve a significant amenity or natural feature or mitigate a manmade or natural hazard, or; The objectives of the general plan would be more effectively achieved through the design flexibility of the development plan procedures, or; It is necessary to ensure land use compatibility and appropriate design by requiring the merging of areas or parcels into a single overall land use plan and site design which might otherwise be developed separately.