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Chapter 20 — Planned Unit Developments, Article 1 — PURPOSE AND INTENT AND APPLICABILITY
§ 20-1.1
Purpose and Intent.
The provisions of this Chapter are intended to establish a zoning district that will:
(A)Encourage and allow the development of tracts of land as planned neighborhoods or communities according to designs that coordinate building forms that are interrelated and architecturally harmonious;
(B)Encourage and allow unique, flexible, creative, and imaginative arrangements and mixes of land use in site planning and development, consistent with the Comprehensive Plan of Forsyth County;
(C)Encourage a broader mix of residential housing types, including detached and attached dwellings, than would normally be constructed in conventional subdivisions;
(D)Preserve the natural amenities of the land through maintenance of conservation areas and open spaces within developments, provide amenities, and provide where needed the civic and semi-public uses (e.g., schools, playgrounds, meeting halls, etc.) that help to make up a community;
(E)Provide for an efficient use of land resulting in smaller networks of utilities and streets and thereby lower development and housing costs; and
(F)Provide an environment of stable character compatible with surrounding residential areas;
(G)Establish application requirements that are more rigorous than the requirements for rezoning to other zoning districts but no more onerous than is necessary to enable thorough analyses;
(H)Provide for slightly higher gross and net development densities and intensities as an inducement to develop in a manner consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
§ 20-1.2
Development as a Unit.
The land within an approved Planned Unit Development District is intended to be planned and developed by a single developer or group as a single, entire unit of land. Land within a Planned Unit Development District shall not be subdivided and sold to others prior to completion of the installation of required improvements.
ARTICLE II, USES PERMITTED WITHIN PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS: