§ 1-2. Purpose of districts.

Collectively, these districts are intended to advance the purposes of this ordinance, as stated in the preamble. Individually, each district is designed and intended to accomplish the following more specific objectives:

RS, Single-family residential district. The RS district is intended to foster, preserve, and protect areas of the community in which the principal use of land is for detached, single-family dwellings, and limited residential support facilities at low densities.

RG, General residential district. The RG district is intended to accommodate higher density residential development and a variety of housing types on small lots or in project settings, in areas accessible by major streets.

CO, Office - Commercial district. The CO district is intended to accommodate office, selected service, institutional, and residential uses. It is designed principally for use along major streets and subdivision borders to help ameliorate the consequences of change impacting these areas.

CN, Neighborhood - Commercial district. The CN district is intended to meet the commercial and service needs generated by nearby residential areas. Goods and services normally available in these districts are of the "convenience variety". The size of these districts should relate to surrounding residential markets and the locations should be at or near major intersections, in proximity to residential areas and/or on the periphery of residential areas, moderating transition between residential and potentially incompatible commercial uses.

CG, General - Commercial district. The CG district is intended to provide for the development and maintenance of commercial and business uses strategically located to serve the community and the larger region of which it is a part. Toward this end, a wide range of business and commercial uses are permitted herein.

LM, Light manufacturing district. The intent of the LM district is to accommodate wholesaling, distribution, storage, processing, and light manufacturing uses in an environment suited to such uses and operations while promoting land use compatibility through the application of performance standards, and prohibition of certain potentially incompatible manufacturing plants.

FA, Fringe agricultural district. The intentions of the fringe agricultural district are (1) to retain and support agricultural operations within the fringe areas of the town, between the open countryside and the built-up suburbs, and (2) to provide for both rural and urban lifestyles within the town.

PDD, Planned development district. The intent of the planned development district is to encourage flexibility in the development of land in order to promote its most appropriate use; and to do so in a manner that will enhance public health, safety, morals, and general welfare.

Within the PDD, regulations adapted to unified planning and development are intended to accomplish the purpose of zoning and other applicable regulations to an equivalent or higher degree than where such regulations are designed to control unscheduled development on individual lots or tracts, promote economical and efficient land use, provide an improved level of amenities, foster a harmonious variety of uses, encourage creative design, and produce a better environment.

In view of the substantial public advantage of "planned development", it is the intent of these regulations to promote and encourage or require development in this form where appropriate in character, timing, and location, particularly in large undeveloped tracts.

(Ord. No. 07-37, 2-5-2008)