General Plan Peripheral Areas C And D PDF Download

"The purpose of the Desert Ridge Specific Plan is to establish an effective, regulatory development control mechanism guiding development of the Desert Ridge planned community. The Specific Plan, with its ... plan elements, will provide for sensible, logical growth of the City of Phoenix.... This Specific Plan will serve to implement the development of Desert Ridge within the bounds of the regulations provided herein and will be adopted by ordinance as a regulatory document.... The Desert Ridge Specific Plan is based on the recommendations, guidelines and development strategies identified in the City of Phoenix Peripheral Areas C and D General Plan. This regulatory Specific Plan is the device that will facilitate implementation of goals, objectives and policies proposed by the City of Phoenix for development of the northern fringes of the City of Phoenix The Specific Plan for Desert Ridge will establish the types of uses, locational criteria, intensity ranges, linkage requirements and design character for the mix of uses and activities planned within Desert Ridge. The Specific Plan will identify the design character for the "urban design" infrastructure, which is the visible, public infrastructure such as vehicular, pedestrian and equestrian linkages, signage, landscaping and riparian and hydrological areas. Furthermore, the Specific Plan will prescribe the measures needed to initiate and facilitate implementation of Desert Ridge, such as site plan and subdivision review procedures, plan amendment procedures, development monitoring and phasing. The Desert Ridge Specific Plan is the synthesis of numerous concepts, procedures, goals and regulations affecting all aspects of development of Desert Ridge.... [I]t is the basic document which will legally guide, control and regulate development of this very important project within the City of Phoenix"--Page 2-1.