For the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, morals and general welfare of the City of Bellevue, the City is hereby divided into the following Zoning Districts:
C Conservancy District. The purpose of the Conservancy District is to preserve areas of open space. This zoning district generally applies to areas of public and private outdoor recreation and places where the physical characteristics of the land are such that little or no development should take place. These areas include floodplains, wetlands and areas of unique natural features.
R-S Residential Suburban. The purpose of the Residential Suburban District is to provide for areas of very low density residential development.
R-1 Single-Family Residential. The purpose of the R-1 District is to provide an area for low to medium density residential development.
R-2 Mixed Residential District. The purpose of the R-2 District is to permit a variety of residential development, i.e. single family, two families, and by conditional use permit three family dwellings, in areas that can accommodate them without disturbing the character of surrounding areas.
R-H Residential Historic District. The purpose of the R-H District is to allow the introduction of professional offices and other low impact, compatible uses into an otherwise residential district, allowing the adaptive re-use of existing structures, or replacing same, within such district while, at the same time preserving the architecture and residential character of the neighborhood.
R-3 Multiple-Family Residential District. The purpose of the R-3 District is to provide areas for the introduction of multiple-family residential development including apartment buildings, condominiums, manufactured home parks and other similar developments.
B-1 Central Business District. The purpose of the B-1 District is to encourage the viability of the commercial core of the City by locating more intensive commercial uses in close proximity to each other.
B-2 General Commercial District. The purpose of the B-2 District is to accommodate commercial uses that require large lots and or highway oriented businesses that require highway or thoroughfare frontage for visibility and ready accessibility.
I-1 Wholesale and Light Industry District. The purpose of the I-1 District is to allow for wholesale operations, warehousing, and limited impact industry.
I-2 Heavy Industrial District. The purpose of the I-2 District is to provide for large scale manufacturing and industrial development on those lands that have the best industrial development potential by virtue of good access to state highway routes and which are somewhat removed from adjacent residential housing and development.
PUD (Planned Unit Development) District. The purpose of the PUD District is to establish a permissive zoning procedure for the development of new tracts of residential development on a planned unit basis in accordance with an approved, overall development plan. The intent is to be flexible in the regulation of the basic land planning and to encourage imaginative site planning that provides both a variety of dwelling types and lot sizes and usable common open space as an integral part of the development.
(Ord. 1-15. Passed 2-23-15.)