3-1-020 Zone Purposes

In addition to the general purposes of this Code as set forth in Section 1-1-030, the various zones each serve more specific purposes as set forth below. A. Agricultural Zones. Agricultural zones promote and preserve in appropriate areas conditions favorable to agriculture and to maintain greenbelt spaces. This district is intended to include activities normally and necessarily related to the conduct of agriculture and to protect the district from the intrusion of uses inimical to the continuance of agricultural activity. 1. A-20. Minimum Lot Size: 20 acres B. Minimal Use. Minimal Use zones provide a district to establish areas in mountain, hillside, canyon mountain valley, desert and other open and generally undeveloped lands where human habitation should be limited in order to protect land and other open space resources; to reduce unreasonable requirements for public utility and service expenditures through uneconomic and unwise dispersal and scattering of population; to encourage use of the land, where appropriate, for forestry, grazing, agriculture, wildlife habitat, and recreation; to avoid excessive damage to watersheds, water pollution, soil erosion, danger from brushland fires, damage to grazing and livestock raising, and to wildlife values; to avoid the premature development of lands by discouraging intensive development until the ultimate best use of the land can be recommended by the Planning Commission to the County Commission; and to promote the health, safety, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the inhabitants of the community. 1. MU-160. Minimum Lot Size: 160 acres or quarter section 2. MU-80. Minimum Lot Size: 80 acres 3. MU-40. Minimum Lot Size: 40 acres C. Rural Residential Zones. The purposes of providing a rural residential district are to promote and preserve in appropriate areas conditions favorable to large-lot family life; to maintain a rural atmosphere, to provide for the keeping of limited numbers of animals and fowl and to reduce requirements for public utilities, services, and infrastructure. 1. RR-10. Minimum Lot Size: 10 acres 2. RR-5. Minimum Lot Size: 5 acres 3. RR-2. Minimum Lot Size: 2 acres 4. RR-1. Minimum Lot Size: 1 acre 5. RR-20. Minimum Lot Size: 20,000 square feet D. Residential zone. This zone is intended to protect the stability of neighborhoods and encourage, collectively, different kinds of compatible residential development. 1. R-1-20: Minimum Lot Size: 20,000 sq. ft. E. Commercial Zones. Commercial zones provide areas where a combination of business, commercial, entertainment, office, and related activities may be established, maintained and protected. Commercial zones are intended to provide a suitable environment for those commercial and service uses vital to the economic base of the County. 1. Neighborhood Commercial District (C-N) 2. Commercial Shopping District (C-S) 3. Highway Commercial District (C-H) 4. General Commercial District (C-G) 5. South Willard Neighborhood Commercial (SW-NC) F. Manufacturing Zones. Industrial zones provide areas for conducting business, manufacturing and industrial activities. 1. Manufacturing-Food Products District (M-FP) 2. General Industrial District (M-G) G. Special Purpose and Overlay Zones. Special purpose zones are intended to accomplish objectives unique to the particular zone. Overlay zones implement supplemental regulations that apply geographically, regardless of the underlying base zone. Whenever the regulations of a district and an overlay zone conflict, overlay zone regulations shall apply. 1. Airport Overlay 2. Sensitive Area Overlay (SA) 3. Landfill and Land Excavation