What is a Planned Area Development (PAD) and does it affect my property in Maricopa?

A Planned Area Development (PAD) is a zoning district that replaces the standard Title 18 base district rules with a custom set of standards adopted for one specific development (MCC 18.60.010). PADs let a developer combine residential and nonresidential uses in ways the standard districts do not prescribe, and each PAD is evaluated and adopted individually, so one PAD's rules can look very different from another's. A large share of Maricopa's land, including major master-planned communities such as Province, Rancho El Dorado, Glennwilde, Homestead, and Tortosa, is zoned PAD. If your property is in a PAD, none of the base-district dimensional or use rules in this pack apply directly; the adopted PAD ordinance and its design guidelines control instead. Check the Planning & Zoning approved-PADs list or the city's PAD GIS layer, or call Development Services (520-568-9098), to get the specific PAD document for your property before relying on any general zoning rule.