YAVAPAI COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING ORDINANCE Page 54 PLANNED AREA DEVELOPMENTS A. Purpose: A Planned Area Development (PAD) is intended: 1. To provide for various types and combinations of land uses (such as commercial centers, single and multi-family housing, golf course developments, industrial complexes, and public spaces) through the adoption of a development plan. 2. To establish planning and development control parameters while allowing sufficient flexibility to permit final detailed planning at the time of actual development, and to permit flexibility in design, placement of buildings, use of open spaces, etc. 3. To encourage and permit unified planning to achieve a compatible mixture and variety of land uses within the PAD District and with the existing and anticipated development in the surrounding area. 4. To accomplish the purpose of zoning and other regulations to an equivalent or higher degree than where such regulations are designed to control development on individual lots. 5. To promote economical and efficient land use, an improved level of amenities, appropriate and harmonious variety, creative design, and a better environment. PAD Districts may be established where tracts suitable in location, area, and character for the uses and structures proposed will be planned and developed on a unified basis. Suitability of tracts for the development proposed shall be determined with reference to the General Plan and to the existing and prospective character of surrounding development. B. Scope: 1. The development of a PAD may proceed by increments to be called "development units". 2. The PAD District is intended to be overlaid onto any combination of the specified Zoning Districts included within the County Planning and Zoning Ordinance, and the PAD designation shall control the land use regulations otherwise permitted within the Districts, as set forth herein. The permitted uses allowed, the yard, height, and area requirements, and other requirements within the District shall be those permitted or required within the appropriate Zoning District with which the PAD District is combined, except where modified. For example, if the PAD allows for multiple family dwellings then yards, fences, storage, etc. shall follow the regulations of the applicable Zoning District, which is R2. Where there are conflicts between special PAD regulations and the general zoning or other regulations, these PAD regulations shall apply in the PAD District unless the Commission shall find, in the particular case, at the time of rezoning application, that these provisions do not serve the public to a degree at least equivalent to such general zoning, or other regulations. 3. Where actions, designs or solutions are not literally in accord with applicable PAD or general regulations, but the Commission makes a finding in the particular case that the public is served to an equivalent or greater degree, the Commission may recommend specific modification of the regulations. SECTION 440 PAD DISTRICT