1004 Johnson St, Merrill, WI 54452

Planned Unit Development District

Planned unit development districts are intended to provide for greater flexibility in design and to provide for a combination of uses in a manner compatible to each and to the surrounding environment. Planned unit development districts (PUDs) are any development to be constructed and maintained by a single owner or group of owners acting through a corporation located on a single tract, planned as an entity and, therefore, acceptable for development and regulation as one land unit. Planned unit development districts are established to encourage and promote improved environmental design in the city by allowing for greater freedom, imagination and flexibility in the development of land while ensuring substantial compliance to the basic intent of the zoning ordinance and the general plan for community development. The PUD concept allows diversification and variation in the relationship of uses, structures, open spaces and heights of structures in developments conceived and implemented as comprehensive and cohesive, unified projects. It is further intended to encourage more rational and economic development in regard to public services and encourage and facilitate preservation of open land.