1423 Rook Dr, Port Angeles, WA 98362

Planned Residential Development Overlay Zone

This overlay zone is to provide alternative zoning regulations that permit and encourage design flexibility, conservation and protection of natural critical area amenities, and innovation in residential developments to those regulations found in the underlying zone. It is intended that a Planned Residential Development PRD will result in a more fully designed residential development than traditional subdivision development. The resulting development shall be done in a manner consonant with the public health, safety, and welfare illustrated in the specifically approved site design that provides all of the components of a fully developed residential neighborhood, such as open space, circulation, pre-determined building types and locations, natural feature protection, and utility services. A PRD application may combine a number of land use decisions such as critical areas protection, conditional use permits, rezones, and subdivisions into a single project review process to encourage timely public hearings and decisions and to provide for more open space and transitional housing densities than is required or may be permitted between single-family and multi-family zones. The consolidation of permit reviews does not exempt applicant s from meeting the regulations and submitting the fees and applications normally required for the underlying permit processes. Few nonresidential uses are allowed in this overlay zone and then only conditionally, because of land use impacts associated with nonresidential uses. This overlay zone provides for the opportunity to create self-contained residential neighborhoods with a pre-determined variety of housing choices and without following a standard system of public streets and lot design, with allowances for mixed use, residential and neighborhood commercial developments that are not usually permitted in residential zones.