208 Michaels Way, Bainbridge, GA 39819

Planned Unit Development

The Planned Unit Development District is intended to meet the following objectives: (a) Allow and encourage more unique, flexible, creative, and imaginative arrangements and mixes of land uses in site planning and development than are permitted through conventional land use requirements. (b) Encourage a broader mix of residential housing types (not including mobile or manufactured homes), including detached and attached dwellings, than would normally be constructed in conventional subdivisions. (c) Allow and encourage the development of tracts of land as single developments that are planned neighborhoods or communities, including civic and semi-public uses (e.g., schools, playgrounds, meeting halls, etc.) that help to make up a community. (d) Preserve the natural amenities of the land through maintenance of conservation areas and open spaces within developments. (e) Provide for the more efficient use of land through clustering and other flexible, innovative development arrangements that will result in smaller networks of utilities and streets and thereby lower development and housing costs. (f) Provide a more desirable living environment than would be possible through the strict application of conventional zoning requirements. (g) Establish application requirements that are more rigorous than rezoning applications and conditional use permits but no more onerous than necessary to enable thorough analyses. (h) Ensure that the design of building forms is interrelated and architecturally harmonious. Design of detached single-family neighborhoods and residential communities in the PUD district may follow principles of conventional suburban subdivision design which typically include curvilinear streets with some cul-de-sacs. However, PUD districts are intended to differ from conventional subdivisions in that they provide greater pedestrian access and interconnections between and among units of the neighborhood. In addition, neotraditional development design principles are particularly encouraged when this district is applied to suburban/urban areas.