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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLAND USE DEFINITIONS ELUPLAND USE DEFINITIONS (1-A) From: Commercial - C The commercial category includes a broad range of retail and wholesale sales of products, personal and professional services, and general business activities. Commercial activities vary in type and scale, depending on the trade area that they serve. To: Public/Institutional - PI This category includes public and quasi-public facilities that provide a variety of services to the community such as schools, libraries, fire stations, churches, utility substations, and hospitals. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (2-A) From: Mixed Use Urban - MXU This category provides for a mix of residential, office and commercial uses not only in the same block but also within the same structure. This category is intended for older "urban" areas to allow dissimilar uses to exist, which support each other to create a vital area. Development should reinforce the urban fabric cresting a 24-hour activity area. Using the Planned Zoning District or the Urban Use District, high and moderate density developments that result in a vital (dense) pedestrian oriented area are appropriate. To: Public/Institutional - PI This category includes public and quasi-public facilities that provide a variety of services to the community such as schools, libraries, fire stations, churches, utility substations, and hospitals. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (2-B) From: Mixed Use Urban - MXU This category provides for a mix of residential, office and commercial uses not only in the same block but also within the same structure. This category is intended for older "urban" areas to allow dissimilar uses to exist, which support each other to create a vital area. Development should reinforce the urban fabric cresting a 24-hour activity area. Using the Planned Zoning District or the Urban Use District, high and moderate density developments that result in a vital (dense) pedestrian oriented area are appropriate. To: Park/Open Space - PK/OS This category includes all public parks, recreation facilities, greenbelts, flood plains, and other designated open space and recreational land. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (3) From: Residential Low Density- RL This category provides for single family homes at densities not to exceed 6 units per acre. Such residential development is typically characterized by conventional single family homes, but may include patio or garden homes and cluster homes, provided that the density remain less than 6 units per acre. To: Commercial - C The commercial category includes a broad range of retail and wholesale sales of products, personal and professional services, and general business activities. Commercial activities vary in type and scale, depending on the trade area that they serve. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (4-A) From: Mixed Use - MX This category provides for a mixture of residential, office and commercial uses to occur. A Planned Zoning District is required if the use is entirely office or commercial or if the use is a mixture of the three. To: Residential Low Density- RL This category provides for single family homes at densities not to exceed 6 units per acre. Such residential development is typically characterized by conventional single family homes, but may include patio or garden homes and cluster homes, provided that the density remain less than 6 units per acre. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (4-B) From: Public/Institutional - PI This category includes public and quasi-public facilities that provide a variety of services to the community such as schools, libraries, fire stations, churches, utility substations, and hospitals. To: Mixed Use - MX This category provides for a mixture of residential, office and commercial uses to occur. A Planned Zoning District is required if the use is entirely office or commercial or if the use is a mixture of the three. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (4-C) From: Residential High Density – RH This category accommodates residential development of more than twelve (12) dwelling units per acre. To: Mixed Use - MX This category provides for a mixture of residential, office and commercial uses to occur. A Planned Zoning District is required if the use is entirely office or commercial or if the use is a mixture of the three. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (5) From: Commercial - C The commercial category includes a broad range of retail and wholesale sales of products, personal and professional services, and general business activities. Commercial activities vary in type and scale, depending on the trade area that they serve. To: Public/Institutional - PI This category includes public and quasi-public facilities that provide a variety of services to the community such as schools, libraries, fire stations, churches, utility substations, and hospitals. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (6-A) From: Agriculture - A It is the intent of this category to encourage the continuation of agricultural uses of the land. The agricultural classification also provides for a transition between rural areas and the urban fringe, where it would be appropriate to preserve existing rural land use, prior to annexation into the city. To: Public/Institutional - PI This category includes public and quasi-public facilities that provide a variety of services to the community such as schools, libraries, fire stations, churches, utility substations, and hospitals. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (6-B) From: No- Classification To: Industrial - I The industrial category encompasses a wide variety of manufacturing, warehousing research and development, processing, and industry related office and service activities. Industrial development typically occurs on an individual tract basis rather than according to an overall development plan. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (6-C) From: No- Classification To: Park/Open Space - PK/OS This category includes all public parks, recreation facilities, greenbelts, flood plains, and other designated open space and recreational land. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (6-D) From: Park/Open Space - PK/OS This category includes all public parks, recreation facilities, greenbelts, flood plains, and other designated open space and recreational land. And Agriculture - A It is the intent of this category to encourage the continuation of agricultural uses of the land. The agricultural classification also provides for a transition between rural areas and the urban fringe, where it would be appropriate to preserve existing rural land use, prior to annexation into the city. To: Industrial - I The industrial category encompasses a wide variety of manufacturing, warehousing research and development, processing, and industry related office and service activities. Industrial development typically occurs on an individual tract basis rather than according to an overall development plan. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (6-E) From: Agriculture - A It is the intent of this category to encourage the continuation of agricultural uses of the land. The agricultural classification also provides for a transition between rural areas and the urban fringe, where it would be appropriate to preserve existing rural land use, prior to annexation into the city. To: Public/Institutional - PI This category includes public and quasi-public facilities that provide a variety of services to the community such as schools, libraries, fire stations, churches, utility substations, and hospitals. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (7-A) From: Park/Open Space - PK/OS This category includes all public parks, recreation facilities, greenbelts, flood plains, and other designated open space and recreational land. To: Public/Institutional - PI This category includes public and quasi-public facilities that provide a variety of services to the community such as schools, libraries, fire stations, churches, utility substations, and hospitals. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (7-B) From: Commercial - C The commercial category includes a broad range of retail and wholesale sales of products, personal and professional services, and general business activities. Commercial activities vary in type and scale, depending on the trade area that they serve. To: Residential High Density – RH This category accommodates residential development of more than twelve (12) dwelling units per acre. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (8-A) From: Mining - M The mining category provides for the extraction of various natural resources such as bauxite, sand, gravel, limestone, granite or other. Mining uses will include assurances that these resources be properly managed so as not to create a hazard, nuisance or the disfigurement or pollution of the land. To: Park/Open Space - PK/OS This category includes all public parks, recreation facilities, greenbelts, flood plains, and other designated open space and recreational land. LAND USE DEFINITIONS (8-B) From: Residential Low Density- RL This category provides for single family homes at densities not to exceed 6 units per acre. Such residential development is typically characterized by conventional single family homes, but may include patio or garden homes and cluster homes, provided that the density remain less than 6 units per acre. To: Public/Institutional - PI This category includes public and quasi-public facilities that provide a variety of services to the community such as schools, libraries, fire stations, churches, utility substations, and hospitals.