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Home My WebLink About09.03 Public Facilities City of Rexburg Development Code: PF SECTION 9.3: PUBLIC FACILITIES (PF) *All Zoning Standards apply. (See 3.01-3.06) 9.03.010. Purpose and Objectives 9.03.080. Projections into Yards 9.03.020. Permitted Uses 9.03.090. Transitional Development Standards 9.03.025. Conditional Uses 9.03.100. Building Height 9.03.030. Lot Area 9.03.110. Distance Between Buildings 9.03.040. Lot Width 9.03.120. Permissible Lot Coverage 9.03.050. Lot Frontage 9.03.130. Parking, Loading and Access 9.03.060. Prior Created Lots 9.03.140. Project Plan Approval 9.03.070. Yard Requirements 9.03.150. Other Requirements 9.03.010. Purpose and Objectives a. This zone is intended to reduce the affect which the location of these facilities may have upon zoning statistics in residential, commercial, or industrial areas. b. Typical uses will be allowed in other zones to initially accommodate public facilities in appropriate areas without undue difficulty, however, it is intended that the PF zone would then be applied to all such facilities for ease of recognition and accurate statistical indexing. 9.03.020. Permitted Uses The following principal uses and structures indicated as “P”, and no others, shall be permitted in the PF zones. The following uses and structures indicated as “CUP” may be permitted in the PF zones only after a Conditional Use Permit has been approved and subject to the terms and conditions thereof. PUBLIC FACILITIES Accessory Accessory Building P Resource Production Mining and quarrying CUP Residential - Group Housing Group Home (Disabled & Elderly) CUP Care Facilities Behavior, drug and alcohol treatment CUP Hospitals CUP Operation centers CUP Place of Worship Religious activities CUP Schools, public or Military academies CUP private Schools P Outdoor Recreation Airports and flying fields CUP Parks P Fairgrounds P Fishing activities CUP Forest Reserves P Golf Course P Group or organized camps CUP Nature Exhibits P Recreational activities P Sports Fields P Swimming Pools P Entertainment Cultural activities P Dance halls CUP Public assembly CUP Theatres P Food - Page 231 of 362 City of Rexburg Development Code: PF Manufacturing Active slag dumps and mineral waste disposals CUP Aircraft manufacturing and assembling (in or adjacent to an airport) CUP Central garbage grinding stations and composting plants CUP Electric generation plants (conventional fuel including hydroelectric, solar, CUP etc.) Small generation CUP Retail Aircraft engines and engine parts (in or adjacent to an airport) CUP Aircraft parts other than engines (in or adjacent to an airport) CUP Services Ambulance services CUP Combination utilities company storage yards and equipment storage CUP Governmental services (except Management Investment Offices, Open-End) P Office Only Electric utility company office P Gas utility company office P Housing Authority offices and administration P Police protection and related activities, branch P Refuse disposal company office P Sewage company office P Water utilities or irrigation company office P Funeral parlor, cemetery, and crematory services CUP Heliports and general aircraft CUP Highways and street rights-of-way P Parking lot – automobile parking lot and garagesCUP Railroad, rapid transit (public or private) CUP Utilities Combination utilities, NEC P Communications P Debris basin (A dam and basin for intercepting debris) P Electricity regulating substations CUP Right-of-way (combo, electric transmission, gas pipeline, sewage pipeline, P water pipeline, storm drain*) Gas pressure control stations P Irrigation distribution channels P Other gas utilities, NEC CUP Other sewage disposal, NEC CUP Other utilities CUP Other water utilities or irrigation, NEC P Sewage pumping stations P Spreading grounds (Area for percolating water into under-ground) P Water pressure control stations and pumping plants P Water reclamation plants, sludge drying beds, etc. CUP Water storage as part of a utility system P Water treatment plants (purification) CUP * Storm drain (Predominantly covered pipes or boxes) a. Permitted Accessory Uses. (See 3.02.070.)Accessory uses and structures are permitted provided they are incidental to, and do not substantially alter the character of, the permitted principal use or structure. 1. Swimming pools and incidental bath houses subject to the standards of Rexburg City Code; 2. A detached single-family residence used only for the use of a caretaker, watchman, or similar employee of a permitted use, when located upon the same site as said permitted use; 3. Nothing herein shall be construed to permit the open storage of materials or equipment used in conjunction with permitted uses, or shall be concealed from view from public or private streets. 9.03.030. Lot Area a. No minimum lot size. b. Any caretaker dwelling established in conjunction with a permitted use in the PF zone shall have a land area of at least five thousand (5,000) square feet devoted exclusively to the use of the inhabitants of said residential unit. Page 232 of 362 City of Rexburg Development Code: PF 9.03.040. Lot Width No minimum lot width. 9.03.050. Lot Frontage No minimum lot frontage. 9.03.060. Prior Created Lots (See 3.03.070.c.) 9.03.070. Yard Requirements The following minimum yard requirements shall apply to the PF zone: a. Front Yard. Each lot or parcel of land in the PF zone shall have a front yard of not less than ten (10’) feet from the right-of-way. Adjacent to Residential. 1. Lots or parcels lying adjacent to a residential zone along the same street frontage shall have a front yard equal to that required by the provisions of the most restrictive residential zone which it abuts along said street frontage. b. Side & Rear Yard. Adjacent to Residential. 1. When the parcel of property in the PF zone abuts the side or rear yard of a lot or parcel lying within a residential zone, the yard width shall be equal to that required by the provisions of the residential zone established on the abutting property. 2. Otherwise, no setback requirement. 9.03.080. Projections into Yards (See 3.02.090.) 9.03.090. Transitional Development Standards. (See 3.02.080.) 9.03.100. Building Height a. Permitted Building Height with Conditions. No lot or parcel of land in the PF Zone shall have a building or structure which exceeds a height of fifty-five (55’) feet, measured at the top of building’s horizontal wall, unless one of the following conditions exists: 1. The horizontal setback of the building from the nearest residential zone boundary is equal to the building's height; or 2. A Conditional Use Permit has been granted by the Planning and Zoning Commission in accordance with the provisions of Rexburg City Code. Unique characteristics of a particular building site (such as significant topographic differences between the building site and adjoining residential properties) may justify the Zoning Administrator to require the project to undergo Conditional Use Review, even though the condition outlined in (1) above is satisfied. A Conditional Use Permit may allow heights greater than fifty-five (55’) feet. 3. Height restrictions within this district are determined by the Federal Aviation Administration regulating the approach zone of the airport under FAR part 77, Airspace and as listed above. 9.03.110. Distance Between Buildings Accessory Building. (See 3.02.060.) The accessory building shall be under ten (10’) feet in height and less than two hundred (200) square feet in area. 9.03.120. Permissible Lot Coverage In a PF Zone, all buildings and structures shall not cover more than sixty (60%) percent of the lot or parcel of land upon which they are placed. 9.03.130. Parking, Loading, and Access (See 3.4.) Page 233 of 362 City of Rexburg Development Code: PF 9.03.140Plan Approval . (See 3.02.130.) 9.03.150. Other Requirements a. Highway 20 Corridor. (See 3.02.100.e.) b. Landscaping. A minimum of ten (10%) percent of the site shall be landscaped. c. Trash Storage. (See 3.02.120.) d. Mitigating Land Use Impacts. (See 1.03.020.c.) Any change of use that creates more intense impacts may be denied if the Planning and Zoning Commission finds that such impacts cannot be mitigated by the imposition of conditions. e. Signs. (See 3.5.) f. Other Requirements . Public facilities, public schools and parks which are currently in existence by legal process, may modify for continued use, provided any changes are submitted to the City for administrative review and approval. g. Lighting Standards (See 3.6.) Page 234 of 362