(a) Intent. It is intended that this district provide areas within the city for habitat protection and wildlife management. The Conservation District may be applied to either public or private land where preservation of natural resources is appropriate. The designation of a Conservation District not only will regulate land use within its boundaries, but will assure that adjacent land in other districts will not significantly impact the natural areas it is designed to protect.
(b) Permitted principal uses.
(1) Public and private natural areas, conservation areas and wildlife management areas;
(2) Public recreation uses;
(3) The following
accessory uses
:
(i) Uses customarily incidental and clearly subordinate to permitted principal uses.
(ii) Beekeeping.
(4) Transient merchant sales as an accessory use in a park or government building interior, where incidental and clearly subordinate to a special event;
(5) Entertainment and recreation special events;
(6) Farmers market subject to standards set forth in Chapter 14, Article IX;
(7) Arts and crafts festival subject to standards set forth in Chapter 14, Article X; and
(8) Mobile food units pursuant to standards set forth in Chapter 14, Article V and § 21.302.18.
(c) Provisional uses. Single-family dwelling uses in existence at the time of application of this zoning district to the property.
(d) Conditional uses.
(1) Nature centers and administrative buildings;
(2) Utility uses;
(3) Quarrying of sand, gravel, soil or minerals;
(4) Other public uses;
(5) Parking lots serving public and quasi-public recreation or conservation uses;
(6) Reserved; and
(7) Reserved.
(e) Interim uses.
(1) Temporary Pandemic, Epidemic, or Emergency Service Facility.
(f) Dimensional requirements.
Minimum district area | 40 acres |
Minimum district width | 200 feet |
(g) Minimum off-street parking. As specified in § 21.301.06 of this code.
(h) Special provisions.
(1) Reserved.
(2) In the review of final site and building plans in the SC District, or in any district bordering the SC District in instances in which the City Council determines that protection of natural features warrants additional protection over the applicable setback, buffering and development standards; the City Council may, by motion and majority vote, require that structures, parking areas or storage areas be set back up to 100 feet from the SC District boundary, that landscaping be provided for habitat protection and wildlife management, and that additional development standards be applied to assure that proposed development is appropriately related to the natural environment and meets the intent of the SC District.
(3) Public recreation uses shall constitute no more than 20% of the land area of any unit of land zoned SC.
(i) Sign regulations. Refer to Chapter 21, Article III, Division D, the sign code.
(Ord. 81-16, passed 5-4-1981; Ord. 88-43, passed 6-13-1988; Ord. 93-3, passed 1-11-1993; Ord. 97-36, passed 8-18-1997; Ord. 2006-54, passed 12-18-2006; Ord. 2008-1, passed 1-14-2008; Ord. 2009-33, passed 11-2-2009; Ord. 2009-34, passed 11-2-2009; Ord. 2015-18, passed 6-22-2015; Ord. 2016-3, passed 2-22-2016; Ord. 2017-17, passed 6-5-2017; Ord. 2019-4, passed 1-7-2019; Ord. 2022-1, passed 1-10-2022; Ord. 2022-12, passed 4-25-2022; Ord. 2024-4, passed 2-26-2024)