Drafter
Clerk 02/21/2001 & 4/11/2002
title
AN ORDINANCE relating to zoning and comprehensive planning, revising definitions of the rural area zone and urban residential zone to be consistent with comprehensive plan policies, adding definitions for hazardous liquid and gas transmission pipelines, mixed-use development, resource land tract, rural equestrian community trail, and rural forest focus areas, and amending permitted use tables to address development standards and allowed uses in the rural area and on resource lands and apartments and townhouses in the R-1 through R-8 zones, amending density and dimensions tables to add a minimum lot area to the rural area zone and allowing a density of one dwelling unit per five acres for density transfers, clarifying the minimum density requirements to recognize that P-Suffix, Special District Overlay or Subarea Plan may alter minimum density requirements, revising the method for calculating density in the rural area, establishing setbacks from hazardous liquid and gas transmission pipelines, restricting uses within a hazardous liquid and gas transmission pipeline easement, allowing limited movement of density within a development site consisting of lots with different zoning, amending and creating new development standards relating to size of buildings, setbacks, building placement and landscaping for non-residential uses in the rural area, amending standards for cluster development in the rural area to allow creation of a tract for resource uses and requiring native landscaping along frontage of new cluster subdivisions, establishing site design standards for mixed-use developments, amending on-site recreation space requirements, changing the calculation for fee-in-lieu of recreation space to reflect market value after development, increasing landscaping of surface parking lots and requirements for street trees, strengthening requirements to place parking to the rear or side of buildings in non-residential developm...

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