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Pima County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 18

41 RVC RURAL VILLAGE CENTER ZONE

18.41.010 Purpose.

   A.   The purpose of this zone is to provide a mixed-use village center including commercial and residential uses planned and designed for the convenience and necessity of a suburban or rural area. To ensure compatibility and mitigate potential impacts of uses, all uses are conditional uses with the exception of a single family dwelling.
   B.   The regulations are designed to maintain the suburban character of duly designated commercial areas located along scenic routes as designated, and to provide safe ingress and egress to and from the village center.
(Ord 2003-72 3 (part), 2003; Ord. 1985-82 (part), 1985)

18.41.020 Performance standards.

   A.   All Section 18.41.040A uses shall be conducted within a building and adjacent patio areas, and all products produced on the premises shall be sold at retail on the premises.
   B.   Architectural Review. Each development, building, addition and alteration within this zone shall be subject to review by the design review committee with regard to the architectural design in accordance with Section 18.71.060 (Development Plan Standards). Detached dwelling units shall be exempt from architectural review.
(Ord. 2003-118 § 1, 2003; Ord 2003-72 3 (part), 2003; Ord. 1985-82 (part), 1985)

18.41.030 Permitted uses.

   A.   The following uses, as restricted in Section 18.41.020A:
      1.   A single family dwelling.
      2.   A nonconforming use in existence prior to June 19, 2003, may be issued a building permit subject to applicable standards. Nonconforming commercial uses are subject to the review and approval of a development plan in accordance with Section 18.71.060.
      3.   Temporary mobile home: For one year during construction of a residence on the same property.
         a.   For purposes of this section, mobile home refers to a mobile home, manufactured home and recreational vehicle.
         b.   Upon application, this period may be extended for an additional one hundred eighty days, after the property owner provides the zoning inspector with a valid building permit for the construction of a residence on the same property. The zoning inspector shall notify adjoining property owners within one hundred feet of the subject property. If a written protest to the issuance of the one hundred eighty-day extension is received within fifteen days of the date of mailing of notice, the board of adjustment shall hear the case in accordance with Section 18.93.040. If no written protest is received at the end of fifteen days, the zoning inspector shall issue the one hundred eighty-day extension.
(Ord 2003-72 3 (part), 2003; Ord. 2001-165 § 1 (part), 2001; Ord. 1985-82 (part), 1985)

18.41.040 Conditional uses.

   A.   The following uses, as restricted in Section 18.41.020A, are permitted as conditional Type II uses, except as otherwise specified, subject to the procedures as set forth in Chapter 18.97 (Conditional Use Procedures):
      1.   Antique store;
      2.   Apparel store;
      3.   Apartments: density not to exceed one dwelling unit per 2,000 square feet;
      4.   Art needlework or hand-weaving establishment;
      5.   Art store or gallery: The "patio" architectural design concept is allowed;
      6.   Automobile accessories, parts and supplies: Provided that there is no installation, repair, rebuilding, modification, or outside storage of parts on the premises;
      7.   Bakery;
      8.   Bank, (except non-chartered financial institutions);
      9.   Barber;
      10.   Beauty shop;
      11.   Bed and breakfast establishment, subject to the provisions of Section 18.09.020L, including applicable Type I or Type II conditional use procedures;
      12.   Bicycle shop: No sales or servicing of motor scooters or motorcycles;
      13.   Book store;
      14.   Cafe or lunchroom:
         a.   Provided no dancing is allowed and no alcoholic beverages sold except beer and wine,
         b.   The "patio" architectural design concept is allowed;
      15.   Catering service;
      16.   Child care center, including outdoor playground;
      17.   Church;
      18.   Cigar store;
      19.   Cleaning, dyeing, laundry collection agency;
      20.   Clinic;
      21.   Confectionery store;
      22.   Custom dressmaking, millinery, hemstitching or pleating;
      23.   Custom weaving or mending;
      24.   Dealers in coins, stamps or similar collector's items;
      25.   Delicatessen store: The "patio" architectural design concept is allowed;
      26.   Dental laboratory;
      27.   Department store;
      28.   Drug store;
      29.   Dry goods or notions store;
      30.   Electrical appliance store;
      31.   Florist shop;
      32.   Furniture store;
      33.   Gift, curio or novelty shop;
      34.   Grocery market;
      35.   Hardware store;
      36.   Hotel;
      37.   House furnishing store;
      38.   Ice cream store: The "patio" architectural design concept is allowed;
      39.   Ice station: For packaged sales only;
      40.   Interior decorator;
      41.   Jewelry and watch repair;
      42.   Jewelry store;
      43.   Leather goods store;
      44.   Library: Rental or public;
      45.   Liquor store: For package sales only, including wine tasting;
      46.   Meat, fish or poultry market;
      47.   Medical laboratory;
      48.   Museum;
      49.   Music, phonograph, radio or television store;
      50.   Nursery: For the sale of flowers, plants, trees or shrubs, within a building or enclosure;
      51.   Office: Business, professional or semi-professional;
      52.   Photograph studio;
      53.   Photographic supply store;
      54.   Picture frame shop: The "patio" architectural design concept is allowed;
      55.   Postal station;
      56.   Restaurant or tea room; including a cocktail lounge or bar in connection therewith:
         a.   Subject to the provisions of Section 18.43.030F (CB-1 Local Business Zone); and
         b.   But not to include drive-in restaurants.
      57.   Safe depository;
      58.   Self-service carwash; provided, that neither steam cleaning nor engine repair shall be allowed on the premises;
      59.   Self-service laundry or coin-operated dry cleaning establishment, provided:
         a.   An attendant be on the premises during all open hours,
         b.   For not more than twenty-four dry cleaning units, and
         c.   Occupying not more than three thousand square feet of floor area for such use;
      60.   Shoe repair shop;
      61.   Shoe store;
      62.   Shopping center, neighborhood: In accordance with Chapter 18.39;
      63.   Shopping center, small: In accordance with Chapter 18.39;
      64.   Sporting goods, hunting and fishing equipment store;
      65.   Tailor shop;
      66.   Toy or hobby shop;
      67.   Trust company;
      68.   Variety store.
   B.   A conditional use permit is not required for a property that is approved for a rezoning to the RVC zone with a list of use limitations.
(Ord. 2005-105 § 4, 2005; Ord. 2003-72 § 3 (part) 2003)

18.41.050 Development standards - General.

   A.   Area:
      1.   The maximum area of each RVC zone shall not exceed twenty acres excluding public rights of way.
      2.   This area shall be apportioned as evenly as consideration of streets, topography and other unique factors affecting individual sites will permit.
   B.   Site coverage: All buildings within a site as shown on the development plan shall not cover more than seventy-five percent of the area of such site.
   C.   Minimum setback requirements:
      1.   No building shall be erected within twenty feet of a front property line or twenty feet of the pavement edge of a scenic route as designated on the Major Streets and Scenic Routes Plan when the property is adjacent to the ML zone;
      2.   Nonresidential buildings shall not be constructed within:
         a.   Twenty-five feet of any district zoned TR, nor
         b.   Twenty-five feet of any residential district.
         c.   The rear and side setbacks may be reduced to ten feet in accordance with the standards of 18.07.070D when the building adjoins a residential property and if the design review committee approves the reduction as not creating adverse impacts on surrounding residential properties. Notice shall be given to the design review committee hearing to all property owners within one hundred feet.
      3.   Residential buildings at a minimum shall be set back ten feet from the side and rear property lines.
      4.   There are no other setback requirements except as may be required in Title 15 of the Pima County Code.
   D.   Building height limitations:
      1.   Maximum height: Thirty-four feet;
      2.   A building adjacent to both a scenic route and a property in the ML zone is not required to perform a viewshed analysis as noted in Chapter 18.77 (Roadway Frontage Standards).
   E.   Screening: Bufferyards, landscaping, and screening are required except on property adjacent to the ML zone. Refer to Section 18.73.100 (Landscaping Standards). Bufferyards, landscaping and screening for development adjacent to the ML zone may be required as part of any conditional use permit.
   F.   Parking and loading requirements: Plans for parking and loading, including joint use public and private parking areas, are required and are subject to approval by the county engineer. The county engineer shall review such plans for parking and loading to ensure adequate parking is available either on site or off site so as to protect the public safety, minimize traffic congestion, permit safe passage of pedestrians to and from parked vehicles and to expedite the safe passage of moving traffic.
   G.   Signs: Refer to Chapter 18.79 (Sign Standards).
   H.   Design Manual. In addition to the provision of this section, all development adjacent to the ML zone shall conform to the Mount Lemmon Design Standards Manual.
(Ord. 2004-9 § 1, 2004; Ord. 2003-72 § 3 (part) 2003; Ord. 1996-58 § 4 (part), 1996; Ord. 1985-82 (part), 1985)

18.41.060 Development standards - Accessory buildings and accessory structures.

   Reserved.

18.41.070 Exceptions:

   A.   The following provisions of Chapter 18.61 (Hillside Development Overlay Zone) do not apply to RVC zoned sites adjacent to the ML zone:
      1.   Sections 18.61.030B (Prohibited development).
      2.   Section 18.61.040 (Protected peaks).
      3.   Section 18.61.051 (Average cross slope calculations).
      4.   Section 18.61.052 (Slope density requirements).
      5.   Section 18.61.053 (Natural areas).
      6.   Section 18.61.054C, E, and H (Grading table, stockpiling fill, mass graded subdivisions).
      7.   Section 18.61.055D.1 - 4 (Vegetation retention and revegetation).
      8.   Section 18.61.056 (Color requirements).
      9.   Section 18.61.080B and C (Special use permits for protected peaks and slope density requirements).
   B.   Chapter 18.67, Buffer Overlay Zone, Chapter 18.72, Native Plant Preservation Standards, Chapter 18.73, Landscaping, Buffering and Screening Standards, and Chapter 18.75, Off Street Parking Standards do not apply to RVC zoned sites adjacent to the ML zone.
(Ord. 2003-72 § 3 (part) 2003)