350 Highbrook Rd, Panama City, FL 32404

Planned Development District

The purpose of the planned development zoning district is to provide an alternative method of land development not available within the framework of the other zoning districts of the City. This classification may be assigned to land which is to be developed as a whole or in a single development, or programmed series of development operations, utilizing innovative design techniques not possible through the structure of other zoning districts of the City, for the purpose of achieving 1 or more of the following development objectives: To preserve or be otherwise sensitive to significant environmental or topographical features which exist on the site.; To accommodate a mixture of uses on 1 or more parcels of land with single or multiple ownerships, zoned, approved, operated and developed as a single unit and made internally and externally compatible through use limitations, sign control, cross easements for access and utilities, coordinated building orientation, design, aesthetics and buffering, with principal and accessory structures substantially related to the character of the development and the context of the neighborhood of which they are a part; To accommodate a comprehensively planned and phased redevelopment project involving multiple ownerships which provides for interrelated uses, circulation patterns both vehicular and pedestrian, building orientation, parking areas, architectural motif, signs, open space, amenity areas and like features, which positively contribute to the area being redeveloped and the City. Planned development shall be designed according to comprehensive plans which provide for interrelated uses, circulation patterns both vehicular and pedestrian, streets, utilities, lots, building orientation, parking areas, architectural motif, signs, open space, amenity areas and like features with a program to provide for the maintenance and operation of all such areas. Planned developments must also provide improvements and facilities for the common use of all or some of the occupants of the development and a provision for the maintenance and operation of all necessary services which the City of Callaway does not agree, in writing, to provide, maintain or operate.