29442 Ridge Rd, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675

Planned Community District

The purpose and intent of the Planned Community PC District is to: Encourage the use of modern land planning and design techniques to create developments integrating a mixture of different types of land uses; Realize the economic, social, and aesthetic advantages of combining different types of land uses in a coordinated community design, such developments to be of sufficient size to provide related areas for various uses, which may include varying housing types; commercial retail and service activities industrial uses; recreation, school, and other public facilities and other appropriate land uses. The regulations for the Planned Community PC District are designed to permit the adoption of a Comprehensive Development Plan CDP providing for a diversity of uses, building relationships, and open spaces within planned building groups, while insuring compliance with the General Plan and this Code; To insure, by means of land use regulations and specific conditions of approval, a more efficient use of open space, the separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, increased project amenities and compatibility with surrounding development; To achieve the coordinated planning and orderly development of different contiguous parcels of land by means of an approved Comprehensive Development Plan; and To provide open space, agricultural, and low density residential interim use of property until a Comprehensive Development Plan CDP is approved and implemented.