The Residential Planned Community District is designed to permit a more intensive residential use of land than would be permitted in a single-family district. Development forms would primarily include various types of attached single-family homes, townhouses, row houses, and garden apartments on large tracts of land. It is the intent to locate districts where they have access to major or secondary thoroughfares and where the uses would provide a transition between nonresidential uses, railways, or high traffic areas and single-family homes. Various sizes of residential accommodations, for ownership or rental, would be accommodated to meet the housing needs of residents of varying age and lifestyle in the city.

(Code 2002, § 220-22)

In a Residential Planned Community District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this chapter:

(1)

All uses as permitted and as regulated in the R-LD and R-MD Single-Family Districts unless otherwise provided under this article.

(2)

Single-family development within the R-PC District shall meet all requirements of this chapter pertaining to single-family development. Height, bulk, and area requirements of the single-family residential district having the greatest common linear boundary with the R-PC District shall apply.

(3)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above permitted uses.

(Code 2002, § 220-23)

The following uses shall be permitted, subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use:

(1)

Multiple-family dwellings when the following conditions are met:

a.

Suitable passive or active recreation space shall be provided at a ratio of 1,000 square feet per unit. Plans shall be submitted which illustrate in detail the design and landscape of such recreation spaces.

b.

All buildings shall have a minimum setback of 20 feet from interior drives and parking areas. Such areas shall be landscaped in accordance with section 46-7.

c.

Covered parking areas shall be a minimum of ten feet from any lot line abutting a single-family district. Such space shall be planted with large deciduous trees placed, 30 feet on center. Such trees shall meet any applicable requirements of section 46-7.

(2)

Hospitals when the following conditions are met:

a.

All such facilities shall be developed only on sites consisting of at least ten acres in area.

b.

The minimum distance of any main or accessory building from bounding lot lines or streets shall be at least 100 feet.

(3)

Large and small adult foster care group homes, congregate facilities, convalescent centers, or nursing homes as defined in 46-67, when the following conditions are met:

a.

The use shall be registered with the city and documentation of a valid license as required by the state shall continuously be on file with the city.

b.

Signage shall be in compliance with article XXI of this chapter.

c.

Access shall be directly from a major or secondary thoroughfare.

(4)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above permitted uses.

(Code 2002, § 220-24)

(a)

All permitted uses shall be subject to article XVIII of this chapter and other applicable sections of this chapter.

(b)

The building shall have an appearance which is nonobtrusive and consistent in color, materials, roofline, and architecture with the residential district in which it is located, as determined by the planning commission.

(c)

Access shall be in accordance with section 46-18.

(d)

See article XVI of this chapter, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lot by permitted land use, maximum density permitted, and minimum yard setback requirements.

(Code 2002, § 220-25)