Cunningham, Jackson, MI 49201-

Planned Residential District 1

This Planned Residential District PR-1 is intended to provide flexible land use and design regulations through the use of performance criteria to allow small-to-large scale neighborhoods or portions thereof to be developed within the township that permit a variety of residential types, containing both individual building sites and common property which are planned and developed as a unit. The planned residential unit should be designed to relate to the character of surrounding areas, and wherever possible should also be capable of functioning as a self-contained residential neighborhood. This district specifically encourages innovations in residential development to enable growing housing demands to be met by greater variety in type, design, and siting of dwellings, and by the conservation and more efficient use of lands in such developments.; While standard zoning and subdivision practices are appropriate for the regulation of land use in areas or neighborhoods that are already substantially developed, these controls represent a type of pre-regulation and regulatory rigidity which can hinder the creation of more attractive, safe and efficient residential areas. Therefore, this district is intended to permit enough flexibility in development design so as to allow the development of the most desirable residential amenities accruing from modern design techniques. Where these techniques are deemed appropriate through the rezoning of land for a PR-1 District, use and dimensional specifications elsewhere in this Ordinance are herein replaced by an approval process in which an approved plan becomes the basis for continuing land use controls.