Cowlitz County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

Farming, truck gardening, orchards and nurseries are permitted in residential land use districts provided that no retail or wholesale business sales office is maintained on the premises and provided no poultry or livestock other than normal household pets shall be housed within 100 feet of any residence other than the dwelling on the same lot.

The following types of structures or structural parts are not subject to the building height limitations of this chapter: chimneys, belfries, church spires, cupolas, domes, elevator shafts, fire and hose towers, monuments, observations towers, radio station towers, smoke stacks, transmission towers, water towers, windmills and other similar projections.

Cornices, eaves, gutters, sunshades, and other similar architectural features may not project more than two feet into a required yard.

All lots or parcels of land less than five acres in area shall abut upon a publicly developed and maintained road, or on a private roadway that was permitted by the county beginning October 25, 1999, or on a road thereafter regulated or permitted by the county, for a minimum distance of 25 feet; except as otherwise provided by this title.

The Hearing Examiner may rule that a use not specifically named in the allowed uses of the district shall be included among the allowed uses if it is of the same general type and is similar to the allowed uses. However, this section does not authorize the inclusion of a use in a district where it is not listed when the use is specifically listed in another district.