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Chapter 3 Zoning Districts
CHAPTER 3 ZONING DISTRICTS
A. Purpose of Residential Districts
1. The established residential districts promote and protect the health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity, and other aspects of the general welfare. These general goals include, among others, the following more specific purposes:
- To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for residential developments to adequately meet the housing needs of the present and expected future population of the urban area, with due allowance for the need for a variety of choices in site selection.
- To permit improved movement on public rights-of-way and effectively utilize existing public ways, and as far as possible
2. To protect residential areas against flood, fire, explosions, toxic and noxious matter, radiation, and other dangers, and against offensive matter, heat, glare, humidity, and other objectionable influences.
3. To provide shade, regulate privacy where desirable, and promote community to the extent possible through controls on the height of buildings and structures.
4. To provide appropriate space for public and private educational, religious, recreational, and similar facilities and public utilities which serve the needs of nearby residents, which generally perform their own activities more effectively in a residential environment, and which do not create objectionable influences; and to coordinate the intensity of residential land use with the appropriate community facilities.
5. To promote the most desirable use of land and direction of building development in accordance with a well-considered general plan to promote stability of residential development, to protect the character of the district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses, to conserve the value of land and buildings, and to protect the community’s tax revenues.
B. To exclude from these districts all buildings and other structures and uses having commercial characteristics whether operated for profit or otherwise, except that conditional uses and home occupations specifically provided for in these regulations for these districts shall be considered as not having such characteristics if they otherwise conform to the provisions of this title.
- A. RPO – Rural Preservation/Open Space
- B. RS20 – Single-Family Residential 20,000
- C. RS12 – Single-Family Residential 12,000
- D. RS9 – Single-Family Residential 9,000
- E. RS6 – Single-Family Residential 6,000
- F. RD9 – Duplex Residential 9,000
- G. RXH – Mixed Housing
- H. RM6 – Multifamily Residential 6,000
- I. RMH – Mobile Home Park Residential
14-304. Mixed Use District Regulations
- A. RPI – Residential, Public, Institutional
- B. UC – University/Campus
- C. TOD – Transit Oriented Development
- D. DXU – Downtown Mixed Use
- E. CXU – Commercial Mixed Use