Topic #14: Design Requirements of Specific Places in Towns & Cities: Cluster Housing & Planned Unit Development (PUD)

A subdivision technique where dwellings are grouped closed together with a common area left for recreation. In effect residents have extremely small yards but can enjoy the large common space.

Cluster Housing

1. Presence of Green / Public Spaces

2. Closer Community

3. Optical Storm Water Management

Advantages of Cluster Housing

• Author of “Cluster Development”

• An American urbanist, sociologist and people-watcher. He identified the elements that create vibrant public spaces within the city and filmed a variety of urban plazas in New York City.

William H. Whyte

1. Town House Development

2. Supper Development

Two Types of Cluster Development:

A type of medium density in cities, usually but not necessarily terraced (row housing) or semi-detached

Town House Development

Influenced by the Garden City Movement that emphasized planned, self-contained communities that intermingled green spaces, residential neighborhoods and commercial development.

Supper Development

Refers to a controlled-growth land use development that adopts the principle for allowing limited sustainable development while protecting the areas’ natural environment features in perpetuity, including preserving open space landscape and vistas, protecting farmland or minimal habitats for wildlife, and maintaining the character of rural communities

Conservation Development

Refers to a type of flexible, non-Euclidean zoning device that redefines the land uses allowed within a stated land area.

Planned Unit Development (PUD)

• Convenience

• Social Consequences

Advantages of Planned Unit Development (PUD)

Are set and enforced by the homeowner’s association and they vary from one PUD to another and these ____ enhance security and protect residents

Regulations

• PUD’s amenities may make it more attractive to some buyers, a PUD with multiple available units can drive down the price and market it harder to sell.

• Buying PUD can also be a problem, treating units in a PUD differently for mortgage purposes. This may complicate the buying process or reduce a buyer’s access to low mortgage rate.

Buying and Selling

• Houses and Placement of Houses

• Streets

• Sidewalks and Pedestrian Ways

• Combining Design Features

4 Principles of PUD:

_____ of an equivalent site requires considerations of these factors not usually encountered in ordinary appraisals.

Estimate of Market Price

1. Pre Application Conference

2. Site Review

3. Preliminary Development Plan

4. Final Development Plan

Four (4) General Steps to Developing PUD

Refers to those areas declared as such under existing statutes and pertinent executive issuances.

Areas for Priority Development (APDs)

Refers to a piece of legislation that institutes the Urban Land Reform Program of the Government.

Urban Land Reform Zone

PD. 1517 issued on June 11, 1978, is what known as the Urban Land Reform Law.

Urban Land Reform Law

It aims to rationalized-with due process and through equitable means-the existing pattern of land use and ownership in urban land use and ownership in urban and urbanized areas. As such, it involves the imposition of certain limitations on the use by the owner of this property.

Urban Land Reform Law

1. Executive Order No. 72

2. Memorandum Circular No. 5

3. Executive Order No. 124

4. Presidential decree 1517

Laws that ensure Rational Land Use and Sustainable Urban & Regional Development

Providing for the preparation and implementation of Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUPs) of local government units pursuant to the Local Government Code of 1991 and other pertinent laws.

Executive Order No. 72

Prescribing the Guidelines of Section 20, RA.7160, authorizing cities/municipalities to re-classify lands into non-agricultural uses.

Memorandum Circular No. 5

Establishing priorities and procedures in evaluating areas for land conservation in regional agricultural / industrial centers, tourism development areas and sites for socialized housing.

Executive Order No. 124

Protects the right of tenants and occupants of lands within Urban Reform Zones / Areas for Priority Development (ULRZs / APDs)

Presidential decree 1517