754 Hunter Rd, Palatka, FL 32177

Planned Unit Development District

The PUD zoning district is established by Policy A.1.9.3.C of the Putnam County Comprehensive Plan. It is the purpose of this district to provide a method for landowners or developers to submit unique proposals which may not be provided for or allowed in the other zoning districts otherwise established by this Code. The PUD zoning district allows a mix of residential and nonresidential uses and/or unique design features which might otherwise not be allowed in one of the other listed districts, but that otherwise conform to the Putnam County Comprehensive Plan.; These PUD provisions are intended to promote flexibility of design and integration of uses and structures, while at the same time retaining in the board of county commissioners (hereinafter county commission) the absolute authority to establish limitations and regulations thereon for the benefit of the public health, welfare and safety. By encouraging flexibility while retaining control by the county commission, the PUD is designed to accomplish one or more of the following: Permit innovative residential, nonresidential, and mixed-use developments provide for an integration of housing types and accommodation of changing lifestyles within neighborhoods; and provide for design that encourages internal and external convenient and comfortable travel by foot, bicycle, and transit through such strategies as various street widths compatible with the type of development project proposed, modest setbacks, front porches, connected streets, multiple connections to nearby land uses, and mixed uses.; Provide flexibility to meet changing needs, technologies, economics and consumer preferences.; Preserve to the greatest extent possible, and utilize in a harmonious fashion, existing and outstanding landscape features and scenic vistas.; Lower development and building costs by permitting smaller networks of utilities, and the use of more economical development patterns and shared facilities.; Achieve overall coordinated building and facility relationships and infill development, and eliminate the negative impacts of unplanned and piecemeal development.; Enhance the combination and coordination of architectural styles, building forms and building relationships within the development.; Promote the use of traditional, quality-of-life design features, such as pedestrian scale, parking located to the side or rear of buildings, connected streets, terminated vistas, front porches, recessed garages, alleys, aligned building facades that face the street, and formal landscaping along streets and sidewalks.; Provide an efficient public process for considering large scale, complex developments where the proposed development is of such size, scale, complexity, and/or unique design that it would be inconvenient and inefficient to process such a proposal outside the PUD process.