1177 Ridge Parke, Kingsport, TN 37663

Planned Development District

The intent of this division is to allow flexibility and provide performance criteria for planned developments. This division permits design innovation, encourages a maximum choice of types of environment and living areas available to the public, provides open space and recreational areas, and optional methods of land development which encourage imaginative solutions to environmental design problems. The goal is a development in which buildings, land use, transportation facilities, utility systems and open spaces are integrated through an overall design. The total parcel, rather than a single lot, is the unit into which the public control is directed. Public regulation through a system of overall site plan review permits flexibility in building siting, a mixture of housing types and uses and the grouping of units to create more usable open spaces for the preservation of significant natural features. The planned development allows for placement of buildings on land without adherence to the conventional lot-by-lot approach common to traditional subdivisions. Such concerns as density are determined on a project basis utilizing the physical characteristics of the location allowing for the clustering of buildings which not only may create more useful open spaces but also reduce public facility cost.