The following land use districts are hereby established:
A. Agricultural (A): The purpose of this district is to provide for orderly transition of farmlands, by limiting their use to low density residential neighborhoods until such time as other uses, consistent with the comprehensive plan, become appropriate.
B. Single-family residential (R-1): The purpose of this district is to provide for neighborhoods of single household dwellings and class I production buildings. Major home occupations may be allowed as defined in section 18.08.040 of this chapter and section 18.12.032 of this title or conditionally permitted.
C. Limited residential (R-2): The purpose of this district is to provide for neighborhoods of single household dwellings, class I production buildings, and abutting zero lot line residences. An abutting zero lot line residence may be conditionally permitted in an existing R-2 development and is permitted in a proposed R-2 subdivision if each lot upon which a zero lot line residence would be constructed is disclosed on the preliminary and final plats. Duplexes may be conditionally permitted.
D. Limited residential P (R-2P): The purpose of this district is the same as limited residential (R-2) and any amendments to limited residential (R-2) shall apply to the limited residential P (R-2P) zone; provided however the lot sizes for single-family homes shall be reduced to allow for smaller lots to accommodate either zero lot line residences or to allow a single-family home to be built on one-half (1/2) of a zero lot line residence but with setbacks for a single-family home.
E. General residential (R-3): The purpose of this district is to provide for diversity in the arrangement and density of residential uses. Duplexes, abutting zero lot line residences, threeplexes and fourplexes shall be allowed, but in order to maintain an appropriate mixture of single household dwellings, duplexes, abutting zero lot line residences, threeplexes and fourplexes, shall not compose more than twenty five percent (25%) of the structures in any subdivision, unless an exception is granted to allow a larger percentage of such structures by the land use and development commission. Class III residential production buildings are allowed only in clustered arrangements as provided elsewhere in this title.
F. Dense residential (R-4): The purpose of this district is to provide for the development of dense residential districts, including apartment buildings and apartment complexes composed of clusters of abutting zero lot line residences, duplexes, threeplexes and fourplexes. Single household dwellings, abutting zero lot line residences, duplexes, threeplexes, fourplexes and apartments are permitted. Class III residential production buildings are allowed only in clustered arrangements as provided elsewhere in this title.
G. Limited commercial (C-1): The purpose of this district is to provide for small office uses and neighborhood scaled convenience business uses which serve nearby residential areas. The goal of this district is to integrate limited commercial activity and professional offices with residential land uses in a climate favorable to both. Particular attention is to be paid to the interface between commercial and professional uses and the residential uses within the same neighborhood. Such a designation is appropriate where commercial activities are to be provided in the midst of a neighborhood for the benefit of the residents thereof. Such benefits may include convenience, energy conservation or related factors. Such a designation may properly apply to a limited area located in a convenient place relative to the circulation pattern for both vehicles and pedestrians within a neighborhood. Some larger establishments may be conditionally permitted if compatible with adjoining uses. Application of this district would also be appropriate where its permitted or conditionally permitted uses might serve as an effective buffer between a residential neighborhood and nearby commercial or industrial uses.
H. General Commercial (C-2): The purpose of this district is to provide for a broad variety of business establishments serving Municipal or regional markets. These uses buffer against industrial area, and may include compatible light industrial uses when conditionally permitted.
I. Industrial (I): The purpose of this district is to provide for light industry not absorbed by general commercial areas and for heavier industrial uses when conditionally permitted.
J. Planned Unit Development (PUD): The purpose of this district is to encourage innovation and special features in development by embracing and promoting: development patterns in harmony with community objectives, a maximum choice of living environments, a more useful pattern of open space and recreation areas, enhanced design standards and architectural features, conservation of energy and efficient design, and a-development patterns which preserves and employ the natural setting of the site.
K. Creative Community (CC): The purpose of this district is to provide a greenfield planned unit development approval process, to provide for a zone with a mix of land uses that range in intensity than are typically found separately in mutually exclusive, traditional zoning districts and to provide for a departure from traditional zoning to the extent that it encourages a combination of land uses which may be compatible, but have traditionally been separated. This district shall be governed by the provisions of chapter 18.21 of this title. (Ord. 778, 2018: Ord. 755, 2016; Ord. 825, 2021)