Chapter 9-39
PC PLANNED COMMUNITY DISTRICT
Sections:
9-39.020 General provisions and regulations.
9-39.030 Planned Community Program required.
9-39.010 Purpose and intent.
The purpose of this district is to provide the authority, regulations, and procedures whereby large land areas can be planned, zoned, developed, and administered as individual integrated communities. It is intended that each planned community will be planned so as to take maximum advantage of its location, environment, and physical features. Each individual planned community is expected to establish its own character in conformance with its own unique set of land use regulations, consistent with the enabling regulations and procedures set forth in this district.
The enabling regulations of this district are intended to provide the minimum regulations necessary to allow each planned community to be developed as an individual community and to provide for convenient administration of land use regulations after original development has taken place. These regulations are also intended to provide such directions and requirements as are necessary to provide assurance that planned community programs will be arranged, and language will be used, in such a manner that regulations and other information may be easily located and clearly understood, and will require a minimum amount of time to administer.
The land use regulations of each planned community shall be known as the planned community (PC) program and shall consist of the following:
A. A PC text, specifying regulations such as uses permitted and site development standards applicable to all areas of the planned community.
B. A statistical summary, regulating the maximum/minimum of certain aspects of development for the PC as a whole.
C. A PC zoning map, showing the exterior boundaries of the planned community.
D. A PC development map showing certain general and certain detailed information such as the general location of infrastructure facilities and a detailed statistical table regulating land uses in each PC planning area.
(Ord. 99-6 § 2 (part))
9-39.020 General provisions and regulations.
This section includes those general provisions and regulations that are specifically applicable to all planned communities.
A. Standard Provisions. Each planned community is subject to the following standard general provisions in addition to other provisions of the development code. For convenient reference they may be included verbatim in any PC program at the option of the preparer of the plan, but shall not be changed.
1. All construction and development within the planned community shall comply with applicable provisions of the Uniform Building Code and the various related mechanical, electrical, plumbing codes, the Grading and Excavation Code, and the Subdivision Code and Sign Code, as currently adopted by the City Council. In case of a conflict between the specific provisions of any such code and these regulations the provisions of those codes shall prevail.
2. The setback and building height requirements shall be as specified by each land use district of the PC program. The methods used for determining building setbacks and building heights shall be the same as those in the Development Code.
3. If an issue, condition, or situation arises or occurs that is not sufficiently covered or provided for in the PC program so as to be clearly understandable, the Community Development Director shall determine which regulations are applicable.
Those regulations of the Development Code that are applicable for the most similar use, issue, condition, or situation shall be used by the Director, as guidelines to resolve the unclear issue, condition, or situation.
4. All conditions, requirements, and standards, indicated graphically or in writing as part of any approved discretionary permit or detail plan granted by authority of these regulations shall have the same force and effect as these regulations.
5. If any portion of these regulations is, for any reason, declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or ineffective, in whole or in part, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof. The City Council hereby declares that it would have enacted these regulations and each portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more portions be declared invalid or ineffective.
6. The meaning and construction of words, phrases, titles, and terms used in this PC Program shall be the same as provided in Chapter 9-04 of the Development Code except as otherwise provided herein.
7. When any section of the Development Code states that the regulations of that section, or that the uses permitted by that section, are applicable to all districts or building sites, or language to that effect, those regulations are also applicable to each planned community. If any of the provisions in this planned community are in conflict with the provisions of any such Development Code section the provisions of the Development Code section shall prevail.
8. The provisions of Chapter 9-44, “Access and Parking,” are applicable to this planned community except where otherwise expressly listed as exceptions in the PC text.
9. All discretionary actions permitted or required in this planned community shall be consistent with the types of permits listed in Chapter 9-92, and all such actions shall be processed in compliance with the procedures set forth in Chapter 9-92.
B. Nonstandard Provisions. Additional provisions, designed and applied generally to an individual planned community may also be included.
C. Community Care Facilities. Community care facilities are permitted in the planned community zone subject to the requirements outlined in Chapter 9-64 of this Development Code.
(Ord. 2012-5 § 15; Ord. 99-6 § 2 (part))
9-39.030 Planned Community Program required.
Any application for a change of zone to place property in the PC planned community district shall be accompanied by a PC program for the entire property. Said PC program shall be subject to approval by the Laguna Hills City Council in accordance with Chapter 9-92 of the Development Code. (Ord. 99-6 § 2 (part))
9-39.040 Applicability
After a PC program has been adopted or amended by the City Council, it shall become effective thirty (30) days later. Then all development, redevelopment and uses within the boundaries of the planned community shall thereafter be in compliance with the regulations of this district, the adopted or amended PC program and all other applicable zoning regulations. Upon adoption, each PC program becomes a part of the Development Code. (Ord. 99-6 § 2 (part))