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Rock Island City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XXVII

C-2 NATURE CONSERVATION DISTRICT

27.1 General Description:

The C-2 District is intended for environmental protection and preservation. Land parcels within this District will include wetland, marshes, swamps, scenic areas, hillsides of excessive slopes, watercourses, aquifer recharge areas, watershed protection areas, wildlife habitat, rough terrain, and areas subject to siltation and erosion.

27.2 Permitted Principal Uses:

27.2a Open space.
27.2b Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent.

27.3 When Authorized by Board of Zoning Appeals:

27.3a Agriculture and commercial summer gardens including agricultural buildings but not permanent dwellings not to exceed seven hundred fifty (750) square feet and no more than one (1) building per five (5) acre tract but not the raising of livestock.
27.3b Campgrounds, wilderness.
27.3c Forestry activities and nurseries.
27.3d Public parks, passive.
27.3e Inns or other dining places on and within five hundred feet (500') of a highway or primary thoroughfare and with any structure at least four hundred feet (400') from any residentially zoned private property, church, school, or human care institution.
27.3f Outdoor rifle, trap or skeet shooting range at least six hundred feet (600') from any residentially zoned private property, church, school or human care institution subject to other state and federal guidelines.
27.3g Parking areas and equipment and materials storage yards accessory to principal uses in adjoining districts within one thousand feet (1,000') of a railroad, highway or primary thoroughfare and at least six hundred feet (600') from any residentially zoned private property, church, school, or human care institution.
27.3h Recreation vehicle parks on and within five hundred feet (500') of a highway or primary thoroughfare and with any structure at least four hundred feet (400') from residentially zoned private property, church, school, or human care institution.
27.3i Any other use deemed to be consistent by the Board of Zoning Appeals. (Ord. 070-2020, 12-21-2020)