Title 17 LAND USE

Chapter 17.126 PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT (PUD)

17.126.010 Purpose.

1. To further the public health, safety, integrity, and general welfare within Pueblo County in an era of increasing urbanization;
2. To provide for necessary commercial, recreational, and educational facilities conveniently located to residential housing;
3. To provide for well-located, clean, safe, and pleasant industrial sites involving a minimum of strain on transportation and other public facilities and services;
4. To ensure that the provisions of the zoning laws and regulations promulgated thereunder which direct the uniform treatment of dwelling type, bulk density, and open space within each zoning district will not be applied to the improvement of land by other than lot-by-lot development in a manner which would distort the objectives of the zoning laws and regulations;
5. To encourage innovations in residential, commercial, and industrial development and renewal so that the growing demands of the population may be met by greater variety in type, design, and layout of buildings and by the conservation and more efficient use of open space ancillary to said buildings;
6. To provide more flexibility and latitude of design;
7. To provide more flexibility in the development review process;
8. To provide for a greater variety of principal and accessory uses in the development of land;
9. To address the advantages resultant from technological change;
10. To encourage a more efficient use of land and of public services, or private services in lieu thereof;
11. To ensure adequate and timely public facilities and services;
12.  To lessen the burden of traffic on streets and highways;
13.  To conserve the value of the land;
14.  To provide a procedure which can relate the type, design, and layout of residential, commercial, and industrial development to the particular site, thereby encouraging preservation of the site’s natural characteristics;
15.  To encourage innovative and creative development of parks, recreation areas, and open space; and
16.  To encourage integrated planning in order to achieve the above purposes.