501 Ridge Rd, Golden, CO 80403

Planned Unit Development District

The PUD district permits the community and economic development of land which is suitable in location and character for the uses proposed as unified and integrated developments in accordance with detailed development plans. The PUD district also provides for specific land uses not permitted in other zone districts. The PUD district is intended to provide a means of accomplishing the following objectives: To provide for development concepts not otherwise permitted within standard zone districts.; To provide flexibility, unity and diversity in land community and economic development, resulting in convenient and harmonious groupings of uses, structures and common facilities; varied type design and layout of housing and other buildings and appropriate relationships of open spaces to intended uses and structures.; To provide for the public health, safety, integrity and general welfare, and otherwise achieve the purposes as provided for within the Planned Unit Development Act of 1972, Title 24, Article 67, Colorado Revised Statutes 1973, as amended.; To provide for phased development, the more efficient use of land and the public and private services needed therefor, and reflect changes in the technology of land development; To provide for land development flexibility in dwelling type, bulk, density, intensity and open space, as a policy which Golden wishes to encourage and, as a corollary, regulate certain proposed land development which would distort the objective of Golden's zoning.; To encourage integrated planning in order to achieve the above purposes.