This district is intended to provide for recreational and tourism development and essential recreation oriented services in areas of high recreational value where soil, topography and other physical features will support development without depleting or destroying natural resources.
(A) Permitted uses.
(1) Golf courses;
(2) Hotels, motels;
(4) Lodges and cabins;
(5) Bed and breakfast;
(6) Convention facilities;
(7) Retreat centers;
(8) Boat sales and service, boat storage;
(10) Sit-down restaurants, excluding fast food chain-type commercial establishments;
(11) Camping areas/facilities;
(12) Equestrian riding and stable facilities;
(13) Skeet shooting and gun clubs;
(14) Sportsman’s clubs, hunting lodges;
(15) Sporting goods and bait shop retail establishments;
(16) Indoor and outdoor recreational facilities, including, but not limited to, soccer fields, football fields, swimming pools, baseball fields, putting courses, skating rinks and bowling alleys;
(17) Taxidermy;
(18) Historical sites and attractions;
(19) Arts and crafts facilities, including sale of items on premises;
(20) Customary accessory uses provided such uses are clearly incidental to the principal permitted use; and
(B) Conditional uses.
(1) Private or wholesale carpentry or woodworking shop, limited to the property owner;
(2) Professional offices and studios;
(3) Real estate office;
(4) Day care, childcare center, play school;
(5) Shrub, tree nursery;
(6) Hair salon and barber shop; and
(7) Arts and crafts retail shops.
(C) Prohibited uses.
(1) Any commercial uses that would detract from the intent of this zone;
(2) Any land uses that would negatively impact the water quality of the Cedar Creek Watershed or Lake;
(3) Automobile dealerships; used car lots; manufactured home sales lots; towers, including, but not limited to, cellular or PCS, radio, television, short wave or any tower used to transmit or receive; satellite dishes in excess of four-foot diameter; and other uses the Planning Commission determines would detract from the recreational-oriented and tourism intent of this zone; and
(4) Exploration or removal of any natural resources, including, but not limited to, oil, gas and coal.
(E) Development plan required. All development proposals require a development plan and an Environmental Quality Inventory (EQI) to be submitted by the applicant. Such development plan shall be prepared by professional engineers, planners, architects or landscape architects. See §§ 154.225 through 154.231.
(F) Pre-application meeting documentation. All parties concerned with a Development Plan will benefit from a discussion during the pre-application meeting at which time the applicant(s) should present the following information to staff and to the Planning Commission if deemed necessary by the Administrative Officer.
(1) Vicinity map. A vicinity map shall be prepared at a scale of 2,000 feet to an inch, indicating the relationship of the proposed development to existing land use and facilities which serve it, such as roads and utilities. A U.S.G.S. map may be used with a sketch of the proposed area to be developed on it.
(2) Sketch plan. On a topographic survey map of the area proposed for development, a simple plan in sketch form shall show the proposed general layout of streets, buildings and other significant features.
(3) General information. Any additional information to explain and/or supplement the vicinity map and sketch plan shall be submitted.
(G) Development standards (R-R).
Minimum lot area | 5 acres |
Minimum lot frontage | 175 feet |
Min. width at building line | 100 feet |
Minimum front yard | 80 feet |
Minimum side yard (each side) | 75 feet |
Minimum rear yard | 50 feet |
Maximum building height | NA |
(Ord. passed 1-11-2005)