Objective 2.6.1. - Compatibility through Screening, Buffering, Setbacks, and Other Mitigative Measures.
Require suitable separation between adjacent incompatible land uses to reduce the possibility of adverse impacts to residents and visitors, to protect the public health, and to provide for strong communities.
Policy 2.6.1.1. An application for a development order that proposes a use, intensity, height, and/or density that could be found incompatible with the use on the adjacent site shall utilize techniques to mitigate potential incompatible characteristics of the proposed use. Such techniques shall include but not be limited to:
• Use of undisturbed or undeveloped and landscaped buffers;
• Use of increased size and opacity of screening;
• Building setbacks;
• Innovative site design (which may include planned development review);
• Appropriate building design;
• Operational restrictions on the proposed use;
• Noise attenuation techniques; and
• A density and/or intensity below the maximum allowed.
Implementation Mechanism(s):
(a)
Maintain setback, screening, buffering, and other appropriate mitigation requirements in the land development regulations.
(b)
County review of development approvals to ensure policy compliance.
Policy 2.6.1.2. Developments that propose a use, intensity, height, and/or density that could be found incompatible with the use on the adjacent site shall meet, at minimum, the buffer and screening standards requirements of the Land Development Code. Projects reviewed through the Planned Development or Special Permit approval processes may result in additional mitigation technique requirements in order to achieve compatibility between typically incompatible land uses.
Implementation Mechanism:
(a)
Adopt or maintain land development regulations consistent with this policy as necessary.
Policy 2.6.1.3. Require appropriate limits on net residential density to achieve compatibility between adjacent residential land uses. Limits on net density may reduce net density on a project, or part thereof, into less than the maximum net density associated with the future land use category or categories on the project site (see also Policy 2.6.1.1).
(Ord. No. 16-07, § 5(Exh. C), 9-19-16; Ord. No. 16-23, § 6(Exh. D), 9-19-16; Ord. No. 18-04 , § 6(Exh. D), 8-23-18)