9 Red Maple Trl, Madison, WI 53717

Planned Development District

The Planned Development (PD) District is established to provide a voluntary regulatory framework as a means to facilitate the unique development of land in an integrated and innovative fashion, to allow for flexibility in site design, and to encourage development that is sensitive to environmental, cultural, and economic considerations, and that features high-quality architecture and building materials. In addition, the Planned Development District is intended to achieve one or more of the following objectives: Promotion of green building technologies, low-impact development techniques for stormwater management, and other innovative measures that encourage sustainable development; Promotion of integrated land uses allowing for a mixture of residential, commercial, and public facilities along corridors and in transitional areas, with enhanced pedestrian, bicycle and transit connections and amenities; Preservation and enhancement of important environmental features through careful and sensitive placement of buildings and facilities; Preservation of historic buildings, structures, or landscape features through adaptive reuse of public or private preservation of land; Provision of more adequate, usable, and suitably located open space, recreational amenities, and other public facilities than would otherwise be provided under conventional land development techniques; Facilitation of high-quality development that is consistent with the goals, objectives, policies, and recommendations of the Comprehensive Plan and adopted neighborhood, corridor or special area plans.