Zoning Codes

Purpose. The establishment of an agricultural zone is intended to allow and protect agricultural uses within the City by controlling density and land coverage, and providing for compatible land uses. Its formulation is further intended to protect nearby residential uses from objectionable effects of certain agricultural operations.

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Purpose. The purpose of these zones is to provide permanent area for small farms, hobby farms and limited agricultural development for personal use in connection with a residential dwelling. Agricultural development and keeping of animals will be for the exclusive use and benefit of the family residing on the subject property. The RA-5 zoning district and cluster housing provisions can be used to protect environmentally sensitive areas such as steep hillsides and floodplain areas while still allowing for residential development on the least sensitive land.

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Purpose. The purpose of these zones is to provide appropriate locations where low density residential neighborhoods may be established, maintained and protected. The regulations also permit the establishment, with proper controls, of public and semi public uses such as churches, schools, libraries, parks and playgrounds which serve the requirements of families. The regulations are intended to prohibit those uses that would be harmful to a single-family neighborhood.

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Purpose

1. To establish regulations that govern the construction and use of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU's).

2. Allow opportunities for property owners to provide social or personal support for family members where independent living is desirable;

3. Provide for affordable housing opportunities;

4. Make housing units available to moderate income households who might otherwise have difficulty finding homes within the city;

5. Provide opportunities to homeowners for additional income to offset rising housing costs;

6. Develop additional housing units in single-family neighborhoods that are appropriate for people at a variety of stages in their life cycle; and

7. Preserve the character of single-family neighborhoods by providing standards governing development of ADUs.

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Purpose: The purpose of these zones is to provide well designed two-family dwellings (i.e. duplexes, twin homes) and multi-family dwellings (i.e. townhouses, apartments, etc.) at medium to high densities. Ancillary uses include churches, schools, and parks to serve neighborhood areas.

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Purpose. The purpose of this zone is to provide areas within the City which can support medium to medium-high residential densities providing areas suitable for the development tiny home subdivisions, recreational vehicle parks .

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Purpose

1. C-1 Neighborhood Convenience Commercial Zone. The C-1 neighborhood convenience commercial zone has been established for the purpose of providing shopping facilities within the various neighborhoods of the City, primarily for the convenience of people living in the neighborhood. The types of goods and services which may be offered for sale have been limited to "convenience goods", such as groceries, drugs, personal services such as haircutting and hairdressing, distinguished by the fact that the principal patronage of the establishments originates within the surrounding neighborhood. Consequently, automobiles, furniture, appliances and other stores, the principal patronage of which originates outside the surrounding neighborhood, have been excluded from the C-1 zone. The maximum size of a C-1 zone will not exceed five (5) acres.
   
   Inasmuch as this zone is usually surrounded by dwellings, it is intended that residential amenities be maintained insofar as possible. Stores, shops or businesses will be retail establishments only and will be permitted only under the following conditions:

   1. Such businesses will be conducted wholly within an enclosed building except for the parking of automobiles and service to persons in automobiles, unless otherwise permitted.

   2. No entertainment except music will be permitted in any C-1 zone.

   3. All uses will be free from objections because of odor, dust, smoke, noise, vibration or other similar offensive nuisances to adjacent neighborhood areas.

2. C-2 Highway Commercial Zone. The principal objective in establishing the C-2 highway commercial zone is to provide space within the City where facilities that serve the traveling public can be most appropriately located. Other purposes for establishing the C-2 highway commercial zone are to promote safety on the highways, to promote the convenience of the traveling public, to promote beauty in the appearance of roadsides and interchanges leading into the City and to prohibit uses which will tend to be contrary to the use of the land for its primary purposes or which would be unsightly to the traveling public.In general, this zone is located close to intersections of important transportation routes.

3. C-3 General Commercial Zone. The objective of the general commercial zone is to provide space within the City where nearly all types of commercial goods and services may be provided. Since the zone permits such a wide variety of uses, the protective features which zoning normally affords to adjacent properties are mostly nonexistent. Owners should develop and maintain their property in recognition of this.
   
   The C-3 general commercial zone is located principally along major highways for maximum visibility to the public. To maximize traffic safety, property owners should work together to provide access, parking, etc., to adjacent parcels and access should be provided in a manner that will minimize the hazard of traffic leaving and entering major highways.

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Purpose

1. I-1 Zone. The objective in establishing the light industrial zone (I-1) is to provide appropriate space for the development and operation of research and development, light manufacturing, and the fabrication of goods in a controlled and aesthetically desirable environment. The intent is that these activities may be established and operate without creating smoke, gas, odor, dust, sound, vibration or lighting to any degree which would be offensive to residents of the City or surrounding areas. The zone is characterized by attractively designed buildings, landscape areas and parking lots in a campus like setting.

2. I-2 Zone. The objective in establishing the medium industrial (I-2) zone is to provide appropriate space for the development and operation of warehousing, wholesaling, other services permitted in the I-1 zone and other similar commercial establishments, which are necessary and beneficial to the area economy, in locations where uses are compatible with one another. The intent is that these activities may be established and operate without creating smoke, gas, odor, dust, sound, vibration or lighting to any degree which would be offensive to residents of the City or surrounding areas.

3. I-3 Zone. The objective in establishing the I-3 manufacturing zone is for the purpose of providing space for light manufacturing and fabrication of goods in a controlled and aesthetically desirable environment, and to provide areas for the promotion of new industry for the City and to protect property values. The emphasis of this zone is to accommodate basic industries which tend to increase the employment and economic base of the City and which market their products on a wholesale basis, primarily outside of the local economy. The zone is characterized by attractively designed buildings, landscaping and off street parking. Developments in these areas will have a park like appearance which blends the buildings and manufacturing areas into the landscaped area.

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Purpose. The purpose of this zone is to permit the use of open space land within the City for uses compatible with the protection of the natural and scenic resources of the City for the benefit of present and future generations.

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Purpose. The purpose of this zone is to establish minimum regulations consistent with nationally recognized good practice for the safeguarding of life and property. Regulations in this zone are intended to mitigate the risk to life and structures from intrusion of fire from wildland fire exposures and fire exposures from adjacent structures and to mitigate structure fires from spreading to wildland fuels. The development and use of property in wildland-urban interface areas is a potential threat to life and property from fire and resulting effects. Safeguards to prevent the occurrence of fires and to provide adequate fire-protection facilities to control the spread of fire in wildland-urban interface areas shall be in accordance with this zone. 

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