5272 Longrifle Rd, Westerville, OH 43081

Planned Community District

When large tracts of land are developed under a unified control, many of the regulations relating to the mixing of uses and proximity of buildings, which are otherwise necessary to protect individual landowners, become unnecessary, or may not apply. The environment of large unified developments can be made more pleasant for the residents, and the cost of providing municipal services can be substantially reduced, if these developments are regulated according to standards established specifically for such developments rather than according to standards created for buildings on individual lots. The Planned Community District establishes such standards; the standards are designed for development of 200 acres or more which will contain a mixture of land uses and which will be developed in stages normally over a period of time (or planning period) of six to 20 years. The application for a Planned Community District is, in effect, a comprehensive plan for a development of such size and scope to be considered a new town or neighborhood requiring a complete range of urban services; further development or implementation of this comprehensive plan is accommodated in successive stages of development over the planning period.