What is a Planned Area Development (PAD) in Buckeye?

A large share of Buckeye's land, including its major master-planned communities, is zoned PAD or carries the older, obsolete Planned Community (PC) designation rather than a standard base district. A PAD has its own uses, densities, and dimensional standards set out in its individual adopting ordinance and Development Agreement, approved under Sec. 8.6, and does not follow the citywide dimensional tables in Article 4 unless the PAD ordinance says so. Property with an existing approved PAD or CMP (Community Master Plan) Overlay District continues developing under that approval so long as its entitlements have not been terminated or extinguished (Sec. 2.7.1.B). On the City's own zoning GIS layer, PC is the single most common zoning code citywide, and RR and PR (also obsolete, pre-2025-rewrite codes) are close behind; confirm the specific PAD ordinance number, Development Agreement, or Appendix B/C standard that applies to a given parcel with Planning and Zoning at 623-349-6200 before relying on any base district assumption. This pack covers incorporated Buckeye only.