Blanding City Zoning Code

The R-1A agricultural residential district is intended as a low density residential and agriculture area of one-family dwellings on large lots (2 acre minimum) to include a rural development type; no curb and gutters or sidewalks on public rights of way are allowed. Raising and harboring of animals are subject to local and state guidelines. This is intended to be an open and spacious rural residential zone.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2008-3, 3-25-2008)

1. Permanent one-family dwellings. Minimum square footage of living space: One thousand (1,000).
2. Permitted ADU’s accessory dwelling units, allowing for one (1) of the following types: Interior, Attached, Detached.
3. Animal husbandry.
4. Public parks and recreational areas.
5. Essential public utility and public service installations for the benefit and protection of the immediate surrounding area. Such uses shall not include business offices, repair, sales, or storage facilities.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2008-3, 3-25-2008; amd. Ord. 2022-1, 1-11-2022)

Any use which complies with all of the following conditions may be operated as an accessory use to a permitted use:

1. Is clearly incidental and customary to and commonly associated with the operation of the permitted use; and
2. Is operated under the same ownership and on the same zone lot as the permitted use; and
3. Does not include structures or structural features inconsistent with the permitted use; and
4. Does not include residential occupancy; and
5. Does not include a floor area of over two hundred twenty five percent (225%) of the floor area of the permitted use.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2008-3, 3-25-2008)

Home occupations shall be allowed provided all the following conditions are met. All home occupations must have a plan review prior to obtaining a business license:

1. Such use must be conducted entirely within a dwelling; and
2. Such use must be clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and must not change the residential character thereof; and
3. The total area used for such purposes may not exceed twenty five percent (25%) of the first floor area of the user's dwelling unit; and
4.  There must be no advertising display or other indications of the home occupation on the premises, except that specifically allowed (see section 10-12-3 of this title, sign regulations in zoning districts); and
5. There shall be only limited sales of stock, supplies, or products conducted on the premises; and
6. There must be no exterior storage on the premises of material or equipment used as a part of the home occupation; and
7. There must be no extensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat or glare noticeable at or beyond the property line; and
8. A home occupation must provide adequate off street parking to accommodate all needs created by the home occupation. The parking requirements are the same as in the commercial district (see section 10-6A-7, "Off Street Parking And Loading", of this title);

I/we _____name(s)_____ have read the above listed requirements to have or maintain a home business and understand that failure to comply with one or all of these requirements will place at jeopardy my/our opportunity to operate a home business.

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HISTORY:

(Ord. 2008-3, 3-25-2008)

The following may be allowed as conditional uses in the R-1A district:

1. Historical building. The board of adjustment or building inspector may permit as a conditional use in historic buildings the following uses:
2. Offices and accessory commercial uses as deemed appropriate if designed for use by the occupants of and visitors to the offices; provided that access to such uses is only from within the building and there is no exterior evidence of such uses as sites or display windows; or
3. Limited retail businesses which do not change the basic character of the building in the district in which it is located.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2008-3, 3-25-2008)

The following may be allowed as temporary conditional uses in the R-1A district:

1. Mobile and/or modular homes:
2. A maximum of one mobile/modular home per building lot may be allowed for the use and occupancy of the owner or lessee of said lot, or agent of either, and if such occupancy is deemed necessary to provide said person and/or family a place to live while a permanent structure is being constructed on said building lot for their occupancy.
3. A maximum of one mobile home per building lot may be allowed for the use and occupancy of aged or handicapped family members of the owner or lessee of said lot or agent of either, and if such occupancy is deemed necessary to provide the needed care of said family member, and providing the following conditions are met:
4. The city council approves the issuance of the conditional use by resolution; the permit must be renewed every two (2) years; and
5. The setbacks, lot size, height and lot coverage requirements of the zone district be fully complied with; and
6. A minimum of twenty feet (20') be maintained between the mobile home and any other structure; and
7. The conditional use permit expires and the mobile home be removed when the need no longer exists. 

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2008-3, 3-25-2008)

1. Minimum lot area: Eighty seven thousand one hundred twenty (87,120) square feet (or 2 acres) minimum.
2. Minimum lot width: One hundred feet (100') at the front setback line adjoining a public street or right of way.
3. Minimum front setback for structures:
4. For properties abutting local or collector streets: Twenty five feet (25').
5. For properties abutting arterial streets: Forty feet (40').
6. Minimum rear setback for structures:
7. Structure containing a permitted use: Twenty feet (20').
8. For properties abutting arterial streets: Forty feet (40').
9. Minimum side setback for structures:
10. Side setback not abutting a street: Ten feet (10'), or one foot (1') for each three feet (3') of building height or fraction thereof, whichever is greater.
11. Side setback abutting on an arterial street: Forty feet (40').
12. Maximum building height:
13. Buildings containing a permitted use: Thirty five feet (35').
14. Buildings containing an agriculture or accessory use only: Forty feet (40').
15. Maximum lot coverage:
16. Dwelling units and their accessory uses shall cover no more than thirty percent (30%) of the total lot area.
17. All other permitted uses and their accessory uses shall cover no more than twenty five percent (25%) of the total lot area.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2008-3, 3-25-2008)

Required for each dwelling unit: One space. 

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2008-3, 3-25-2008)

1. Fences, walls and retaining walls up to sixty inches (60") in height may be erected on any part of the zone lot.
2. Fences, walls and retaining walls, on an interior lot, may be erected to a height of seventy two inches (72") on any part of the zone lot not in the front setback space. Open clear chainlink fencing with no solid blocking of any type, including trees or other landscaping, may be erected to a height of seventy two inches (72") in the front setback on an interior lot.
3. Fences, walls and retaining walls, on a corner lot, may be erected to a height of seventy two inches (72") on any part of the zone lot, except for the following:
4. Open clear chainlink with no solid blocking trees or other landscaping may be erected to a height of seventy two inches (72") in the front setback on a corner lot; and
5. "Sight triangle" areas explained as follows ¹ : A triangular area formed by the street property lines and a line connecting them at points thirty feet (30') from the intersection of such property lines. These sight triangle areas are to contain no obstructions to the view of the driver of a vehicle. Any fencing, landscaping or other improvements placed within the area of the triangle shall allow visibility across the area. Only open clear chainlink fencing with no sight obstructions, including vegetation, may be erected in the sight triangle up to a height of seventy two inches (72"). All other fencing, walls and retaining walls, shrubs, boulders, ground covers, landscaping and similar improvements shall be maintained at or below a height of forty eight inches (48") above grade (ground level).
6. Barbed wire, sharp pointed metal fences and electrically charged fences shall be permitted.
7. Fences shall be maintained in a good state of repair.
8. Open mesh fences of any height may be erected on zone lots containing public parks and playgrounds.
9. The height of fences under this section shall include combinations of walls and fences. The height allowances shall be measured from the high side of adjoining properties allowing each property the right to a six foot (6') privacy wall, fence or combination from finished grade.

NOTES:

1. See also subsection 7-7-3E of this code.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2008-3, 3-25-2008)