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Smart Residential Development Combining Zone

The purpose of the smart residential development (SD) combining zone is to promote development designs that respond to significant planning-related issues facing the San Joaquin Valley, including urbanization of agricultural land, air pollution, housing affordability, traffic, aesthetics, and neighborhood deterioration. This new approach to development design has been popularized by the term smart growth and its purpose is to achieve the average density goals set forth by each zone.; The SD combining zone is structured to encourage a comprehensive development that is superior to traditional development of the recent past by increasing walkability and connectivity while achieving the higher net density and preservation of open space goals set forth by the general plan. To the greatest extent possible, attention shall be given to greater design details and the average density set forth by each individual zone shall be achieved through a mix of residential housing types and sizes. The SD combining zone implements the low density residential (LDR), medium density residential (MDR), high density residential (HDR), quasi-public (QP), and schools (S) land use designations in the general plan.