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Chapter 20 — Planned Unit Developments, Article 2 — USES PERMITTED WITHIN PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS

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§ 20-2.1

Generally.

It is the intent of the Planned Unit Development District to provide maximum flexibility with regard to the mixture of land uses. Within a Planned Unit Development District, any land use, may be permitted if such use or uses can be shown to provide an orderly relation and function to other uses in the development and to existing land uses, as well as with due regard to the Comprehensive Plan of Forsyth County.

The permitted use or uses of property located in the planned unit development shall be determined at the time the zoning district and development plan is approved, and development within the district shall be limited to those uses specifically requested as part of the application and approved by the Board of Commissioners, unless otherwise specifically noted in the Board’s approval of the planned unit development zoning district.

§ 20-2.2

Recommendations.

The following principles for proposing and mixing land uses are recommended:

(A)Uses should be predominantly residential in accordance with the use recommendations of the Comprehensive Plan;

(B)Where appropriate, the planned unit development should provide for more than just one type of dwelling unit, such as townhouses, duplexes, and multi-family dwellings;

(C)Multi-family dwellings should not comprise more than twenty-five (25) percent of the total dwelling units within the proposed development;

(D)Sites for places of worship, schools, community or club buildings, and similar civic or semi-public facilities are encouraged to be provided, where appropriate;

(E)Commercial and offices uses, if proposed, should be located in careful relation to other land uses within and outside of the development; they should be scaled so that they primarily serve the occupants of the planned unit development; they should be designed and oriented to face the interior of the planned unit development rather than oriented toward passer-by traffic exterior to the planned unit development; In residential districts, the amount of land in a planned unit development devoted to commercial and office uses should not exceed fifteen (15) percent of the unit of land within the planned unit development unless it can be shown that a greater percentage of land devoted to such uses is more conducive to the mix of uses.

(F)Industrial uses are not typically considered to be appropriate for inclusion within planned unit developments; however, such uses are not prohibited and may be proposed and approved in larger (e.g., twenty acres or more) planned unit developments where living and working areas need to be proximate to one another, subject to separation and screening requirements to avoid nuisances.

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