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Chapter 2
RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS
Sec. 2-1:
Purpose
Sec. 2-2:
Agriculture/Forestry Zoning
District (AF)
Sec. 2-3:
Farm, Ranch, and Outdoor
Recreation Zoning District (FR)
Sec. 2-4:
Suburban Residential Zoning
District (SR)
Sec. 2-5:
Low Density, Single Family
Residential Zoning District
(R-1)
Sec. 2-6:
Moderate Density, Single
Family Residential Zoning
District (R-2)
Sec. 2-7:
Medium Density Residential
Zoning District (R-3)
Sec. 2-8:
Multiple Family Residential
Zoning District (R-4)
Sec. 2-1. Purpose.
The residential zoning districts created
by this Chapter are established to promote
the orderly development and maintenance of
livable and attractive neighborhoods where
residents can live their home life with
minimal disturbance and disruption. The
residential zoning districts established
herein vary in the intensity of development
allowed and level of activity accommodated.
Application of each particular residential
zoning district will be determined by
consideration of a number of factors
including but not limited to: physical
character of the land, availability of public
services and utilities, current land use in the
area, access via the transportation network
of the community, and community
development policies as stated in the Plan.
Sec. 2-2. Agriculture/Forestry Zoning
District (AF).
A. Intent: The purpose of the
Agriculture/Forestry (AF) zoning
district is to foster agriculture and
forestry land uses while providing for
limited, low-density residential land
uses which will not conflict with farm
and forest practices nor place
inappropriate demands on rural public
services nor promote the indiscriminate
conversion of farm and forest land to
other uses.
B. Permitted Principal Uses and Structures:
1. Agriculture, including the raising,
harvesting, and selling of crops; on-site
storage of grain and seed; the raising
and sale of livestock or poultry; dairying
and sale of dairy products; and other
similar agricultural, horticultural, or
animal husbandry uses, excluding
feedlots with more than twenty (20)
animals.
2. Accessory building and uses
normal and incidental to the buildings
and uses permitted, including dwellings
for persons engaged for farm or forestry
labor provided such dwelling units are
located on the farm owned or operated
by the employer.
3. Forestry, including the raising,
harvesting, and sale of timber and other
forest products.
4. Small sawmills operated as a short-
term or subsidiary use on farms or
woodlots.
5. Home occupations.
6. Single family dwelling.
7. Family day care facility and group
day care facility.
8. Bed and breakfast inn.
9. Boarding house.
10. Residential Rental Unit, with the
conditions that adequate off-street
parking be provided and that the use
will not change the character of the
neighborhood.
11. Type I Accessory Home
Occupations.
C. Permitted Accessory Uses and
Structures:
Accessory Dwelling Unit, subject to the
Specific Use Standards of this Code.
D. Conditional Uses:
1. Self-service Storage Facility.
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2. Commercial stables, golf courses,
parks and gun clubs, and recreational
resorts.
3. Antenna towers.
4. Airports, landing fields, and
heliports.
5. Carnivals and circuses, except
those in conjunction with a county fair
or other governmentally -sponsored
outdoor event.
6. Wastewater treatment plants.
7. Churches, convents, monasteries,
synagogues, mosques and other similar
places of worship and religious practice.
8. Schools, commercial schools and
educational institutions.
9. Meeting halls, community and
neighborhood center, grange halls, and
similar gathering places not for
commercial use.
10. Small and large day care facility.
11. Feedlots with twenty to two
hundred (20 to 200) animals shall be
permitted only after issuance of a
conditional use permit by the Board of
Adjustment. Feedlots with more than
two hundred (200) animals shall not be
allowed in this district.
12. Rural Businesses, subject to the
following limitations:
a. No retail sales shall be
permitted on site, except as permitted by
other provisions of the AF zoning
district.
b. The number of on-site
employees shall be limited to four (4).
C. All material related to the
business shall be stored indoors with the
exception of a maximum of four (4)
business-related vehicles.
d. The area within a building
devoted to the business use shall be
limited to a maximum of two thousand
four hundred (2,400) square feet.
13. Type II Accessory Home
Occupations.
E. Special Uses:
1. Recreational vehicle parks and
campgrounds subject to the
development standards of City Code
Title 6, Chapter 4.
2. Public service and utility facilities
not listed as permitted uses in this
zoning district, such as fire stations,
police stations, telephone switching
facilities, fairgrounds, cemeteries,
national guard armories, fire training
facilities, pumping stations, electric
substations, and similar public service
facilities necessary to the neighborhood
or community, including signage and
other necessary accessory structures.
3. Cemeteries.
F. Minimum Lot Area Requirements:
Forty (40) Acres.
1. Exception to minimum forty (40)
acre lot size: No more than one (1)
parcel of land less than forty (40) acres
may be divided from an existing parcel
of forty (40) acres or more in the AF
zoning district (a 1/4-1/4 section or full
Government Lot shall be treated as a
forty (40) acre parcel for the purposes of
this Zoning Code). The small parcel
shall be at least one (1) acre in area and
must be registered with the Office of the
Latah County Clerk and the City
Community Development Department.
Such exceptions must be reviewed and
approved by the Council and the Board
of Latah County Commissioners.
2. No parcel shall be eligible for a
building permit unless the owner
demonstrates that:
a. Adequate access is provided
by parcel frontage to a public road. If
either parcel does not front a public
road, the parcel must contain a recorded
easement of at least thirty feet (30') in
width which connects to a public road.
Access to a public road, either direct or
by easement, will require written
approval from the jurisdiction
maintaining the accessed public road.
b. Adequate sewage disposal
facilities can be located on the parcel as
evidenced by written approval from the
North Central District Health
Department.
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c. A legal description and map
have been prepared by the applicant and
reviewed by the Latah County Surveyor.
The map should contain a vicinity map,
dimensions of the boundary and
proposed lot lines, north arrow, scale,
adjacent property owners and width of
any easements.
G. Minimum Yard Requirements:
1. Front yard: Twenty feet (20') from
the public right-of-way.
2. Rear yard: Thirty-five feet (35')
for a principal building; ten feet (10')
for a detached accessory building.
3. Side yard: Thirty-five feet (35')
for a principal building; ten feet (10')
for a detached accessory building.
4. Street Side Yard: Twenty feet
(20')•
H. Signs: Pursuant to the Moscow Sign
Code.
(Ord. 2007.11, 09/17/2007; 2008-22,
10/20/2008; 2015-06, 04/06/2015)
Sec. 2-3. Farm, Ranch, and Outdoor
Recreation Zoning District
(FR).
A. Intent: This classification is intended to
permit current agricultural, outdoor
recreation and other open land uses to
be maintained and at the same time to
set minimum standards for the
development of similar new uses in
order that this open zoning district be
protected against spasmodic, disorderly
and indiscriminate development until
such time as another appropriate use of
the land in this zoning district has been
determined. It is also intended that
newly annexed areas of the City be
placed in this classification until land
use studies determine the character and
appropriate use of such areas.
B. Permitted Principal Uses and Structures:
1. One (1) single family dwelling per
lot.
2. Market Gardens, Community
Gardens and Accessory Gardens,
including on-site retail sales.
3. Public parks and public recreation
facilities.
4. Group day care facility.
5. Keeping of animals and fowl as
permitted by this Code.
C. Permitted Accessory Uses and
Structures:
1. Barns and other accessory
structures commonly associated with
farming, ranching or outdoor recreation.
2. Attached or detached private
garages and workshops not to exceed
one thousand (1,000) square feet.
3. Parking lots for uses permitted in
the FR zoning district.
4. Family day care facility.
5. Uses, buildings and structures that
utilize electricity and/or water and are
accessory to a single family or duplex
residence shall be serviced by the same
electrical and/or water meter as the
single family or duplex residence.
6. Type I Accessory Home
Occupations.
7. Accessory Dwelling Unit, subject
to the Specific Use Standards of this
Code.
D. Conditional Uses:
1. Type II Accessory Home
Occupations.
2. Churches, convents, monasteries,
synagogues, mosques and other similar
places of worship and religious practice.
3. Schools, commercial schools and
educational institutions.
4. Small day care facility.
5. Veterinary offices, kennels, animal
training centers, and animal, hospitals.
6. Feed lots for horses, cattle, goats
and sheep, provided that such activities
are on a parcel of land of not less than
twenty (20) acres, and provided that
buildings of feed lots are no closer than
five hundred feet (500') from the
nearest property line.
7. Driving tees and ranges and
miniature golf courses.
8. Barbed wire and other fences
constructed in a manner that, without