1261.08 ZONING DISTRICT PURPOSE/INTENT STATEMENTS.
   (a)   R-1 Estate-Type Residential District.
      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the R-1 District is to provide for low density single-family residential development. Commercial and industrial development is prohibited, except for golf courses as noted in Table 6. Permitted Uses by District.
      (2)   Intent. The intent of the R-1 District is to stabilize, protect and encourage the residential character of the district and prohibit activities not compatible with a low density residential neighborhood. Development is limited to single-family dwellings plus Public Uses and Quasipublic Uses.
 
   (b)   R-2 Low Density Residential District.
      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the R-2 District is to provide for moderate density detached single-family residential development. Commercial and industrial development is prohibited, except for golf courses as noted in Table 6. Permitted Uses by District.
      (2)   Intent. The intent of the R-2 District is to stabilize, protect and encourage the residential character of the district and prohibit activities not compatible with a moderate density residential neighborhood. Development is limited to single-family dwellings plus Public Uses and Quasipublic Uses.
 
   (c)   R-3 Medium Density Residential District.
      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the R-3 District is to provide for moderate to higher density residential development. A variety of housing and building types is encouraged within this District including apartments, single-family detached homes, townhomes and other similar single and multifamily housing dwelling types. Commercial development is prohibited, except for golf courses as noted in Table 6. Permitted Uses by District.
      (2)   Intent. The intent of the R-3 District is to address the varied housing needs of City residents by providing locations for development of multiple family housing at a moderate to higher density than is permitted in lower density residential districts plus Public Uses and Quasipublic Uses.
 
   (d)   O-R Office-Residential District.
      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the O-R District is to provide for a mixture of residential uses, and small-scale professional offices.
      (2)   Intent. The intent of the O-R District is to act as a transition between established residential neighborhoods and non-residential areas. Development should reflect a residential scale and not generate or create traffic or noise detrimental to the adjoining neighborhoods.
 
   (e)   O Office District.
      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the O District is to provide for development of office uses, office sales, and basic personal services, particularly larger planned office complexes and office centers
      (2)   Intent. The intent of the O District is to accommodate office developments at a variety of sizes and intensities that are consistent with the existing and desirable future pattern of development in the city and that respect the relative proximity of surrounding residential development.
 
   (f)   ED Employment Center District.
      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the ED District is to provide for business parks that combine and integrate light industrial and/or manufacturing uses with offices and similar land uses.
      (2)   Intent. The intent of the ED District is to enhance the city's economic base by providing suitable areas to support the employment needs of the community in developments that are compatible with adjacent uses. The employment center district provides for the location of light manufacturing and product processing, research and development facilities, professional services, medical facilities and complementary educational and recreational uses which are not detrimental to the employment district. Limited retail, business and support services that serve the needs of the employment district tenants and patrons are allowed. The employment district is intended to have limited nuisance factors and hazards.
 
   (g)   LBD Local Business District.
      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the LBD Local Business District is to accommodate business uses that are smaller in scale and serve the local community.
      (2)   Intent. The intent of the LBD Local Business District is to meet the day-to-day convenience shopping and service needs of persons residing in adjacent residential areas and to permit such uses as are necessary to satisfy those limited basic shopping and/or service needs that, by their nature and size, are not related to the community-wide or regional shopping pattern.
 
   (h)   HBD Highway Business District.
      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the HBD Highway Business District is to accommodate business uses that by their nature are dependent on a high traffic, high visibility location and/or which generate substantial amounts of traffic either continuously or at peak periods.
      (2)   Intent. The intent of the HBD district to serve the needs of automobile highway traffic, and to provide for uses that draw from a regional market and whose customers or clients rely to a great extent upon the freeway system. The HBD Highway Business District is intended to be located at the interchange areas of feeder roads and freeway facilities. These uses are often large in scale, or occupy a portion of a multiple occupancy complex which includes large-scale "anchor" uses.
 
   (i)   CBD Central Business District.
      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the CBD Central Business District is to accommodate the preservation and redevelopment in the historical core of the City with a mix of residential, retail, office and community, civic, and institutional uses. Residential uses are also appropriate when provided in a mixed-use/live-work environment.
      (2)   Intent. The intent of the CBD Central Business District is to create a unique, historic, walkable mixed use district with a diversity of office, retail, institutional and residential spaces in the historic core of the community. Encourage shared parking areas dispersed throughout the district typically located behind the buildings that front on South Main Street and adjoining streets and to prohibit industrial and automotive related services and nonretail uses.
 
   (j)   UVD Urban Village District.
      (1)   Purpose and Intent. See Section 1267.01, UVD Urban Village District, Intent.
 
   (k)   M-1 Light Manufacturing District.
      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the M-1 District is to provide land for manufacturing establishments which are clean, quiet and free of hazardous or objectionable elements such as noise, odor, dust, smoke or glare, which operate within enclosed structures and which generate little industrial traffic.
      (2)   Intent. The intent of the M-1 District is to accommodate wholesale activities, warehouses, light industrial operations and limited service commercial uses that are complementary and are not detrimental to either existing or proposed industrial uses. Residential uses, uses incidental to residential development and most retail activities are prohibited from this district.
 
   (l)   M-2 Heavy Manufacturing District.
      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the M-2 District is to provide land for major manufacturing, processing, storage, warehousing, research and testing establishments which require large sites, extensive community services and facilities, ready access to regional transportation, generate heavy traffic and create no nuisance discernible beyond the District.
      (2)   Intent. The intent of the M-2 District is to provide areas for heavy manufacturing uses involving activities that do not complement the character of commercial or residential areas. M-2 zoned areas should be located so as to ensure that heavy manufacturing uses will not result in detrimental impacts to commercial or residential districts. Typical uses in this district include processing of natural and manmade materials for use in general manufacturing.
 
   (m)   PUD Planned Unit Development District. See Chapter 1266.
 
   (n)   TC Town Center Overlay District. See Chapter 1267.
 
   (o)   ADD-1 Austin Development District 1. See Chapter 1268.
 
   (p)   ADD-2 Austin Development District 2. See Chapter 1269(a).
 
   (q)   Mobile Home. See Chapter 1270.
(Ord. 0-15-4. Passed 2-19-15; Ord. O-20-2. Passed 1-2-20.)