4555 Ficus St, Hollywood, FL 33021

Planned Unit Development District

In the past decade, the city has experienced a phenomenal growth rate in population, housing needs, use of beaches and other natural resource systems, land development, and the need for public and private facilities of high quality. Although public facilities such as water, sewerage, drainage, schools, parks recreational facilities and roads have been and are being constructed in an attempt to meet the needs of the city's growing population, the city has been unable to provide these services and facilities at a pace which will keep abreast of the ever growing public need, and is now faced with the real possibility of a rapid dwindling in the quality of available municipal services and facilities.; Because of the physical, social and fiscal problems caused by this rapid growth, the city has adopted a comprehensive plan to guide its future development so as to provide for the maximum orderly, adequate and economical development of its future residential, commercial, industrial and public land uses and community facilities, including transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks and recreation, drainage and other public facilities.; In order to insure that the comprehensive plan is not frustrated by disorganized, unplanned and uncoordinated development, which would create an undue burden and hardship on the ability of the community to translate this plan into reality, the following objectives are established as the purpose for creating a Planned Unit Development District: To utilize land more efficiently in new developments by employing smaller networks of utilities and streets, thereby reducing costs; To permit the phasing of residential development in concert with the efficient provision of public improvements and services; To establish and maintain municipal control over the eventual character of development; To encourage and maintain a desirable degree of balance among the various uses of the land; To preserve pervious land area in order to protect the city's water supply; To prevent increases in, and to reduce existing levels of, air, water and noise pollution; To encourage a diversification in the range of types of environment and living units available to the public; To preserve to the greatest extent possible existing landscape and amenities, such as trees, natural terrain, agricultural areas, marshes, mangrove areas, water and beach areas, and other outstanding topographical and geological features; To preserve and enhance the aesthetic qualities of the city; To harmonize large scale development with adjacent uses and surrounding use districts in order to insure that such development will be in accord with the city's Comprehensive Plan, not only for the immediate areas, but for the entire city; To enable a more creative, imaginative and innovative design approach through utilization of the most advanced technological and land use planning methods available and permitting planned diversification in location and types of structures, as well as combining and coordinating architectural styles, building forms and building relationships within the PUD; To provide for adequate and suitable located open space and recreation areas of a size and type commensurate with the projected population density and nature of the development; To provide adequate transportation circulation patterns and prevent the over burdening of existing streets; To aid in the renewal of older areas in the city where new development and restoration are needed to revitalize such areas; To facilitate the administrative process relating to development proposals by providing for concurrent review of land use, subdivision, public improvement and siting considerations; To establish areas in which diverse uses may be brought together in a compatible and unified plan of development which shall be in the interest of the general welfare of the city; To promote the public health, safety and general welfare.