653 Cactus St, Imperial, CA 92251

Specific Plan Overlay Zone

The Specific Plan Overlay Zone is included in the Zoning Regulations to achieve the following purposes.: To promote and protect the public health, safety, and welfare.; To implement the objectives and policies of the General Plan.; To safeguard and enhance environmental amenities and the quality of development.; To attain the physical, social, and economic advantage resulting from comprehensive and orderly planned use of land resources.; To lessen congestion and assure convenience of access; to secure safety from fire, flood, and other dangers; to provide for adequate light, air, sunlight, and open space; to promote and encourage conservation of scarce resources; to prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of population; to facilitate the creation of a convenient, attractive, and harmonious community; to attain a desirable balance of residential and employment opportunities; and to expedite the provision of adequate and essential public services.; To facilitate development within the City in accordance with the General Plan by permitting greater flexibility and encouraging more creative and imaginative designs for major development projects subject to large-scale community planning.; To promote more economical and efficient use of the land while providing a harmonious variety of housing choices and commercial and industrial activities, a high level of urban amenities, and preservation of natural and scenic qualities of open space.; To provide a process for initiation, review, and regulation of large-scale comprehensively planned communities that affords the maximum flexibility to the developer within the context of an over-all development program and specific, phased development plans coordinated with the provision of necessary public services and facilities.