Spokane Valley City Zoning Code

R-1 – Single-Family Residential Estate. Preserves the distinct character of existing single-family large lot development, while allowing for a limited number of large animals.

R-2 – Single-Family Residential Suburban. Preserves existing single-family development patterns, while allowing for development that is similar in size and scale to the surrounding neighborhood.

R-3 – Single-Family Residential. Allows for single-family residential development that provides flexibility and promotes reinvestment in existing single-family neighborhoods.

R-4 – Single-Family Residential Urban. Allows for single-family residential development at an urban density that provides flexibility and promotes reinvestment in existing single-family neighborhoods.

MFR – Multifamily Residential. Allows for multifamily housing located near business and commercial centers, the arterial street system, and public transit. Adjacent single-family zones are protected through transitional standards.

MU – Mixed Use. Allows for two or more different land uses within developments. Mixed-use developments can be either vertical or horizontally mixed, and could include employment uses such as office, retail, and/or lodging along with higher-density residential uses, and in some cases, community or cultural facilities. Adjacent residential zones are protected through transitional standards.

CMU – Corridor Mixed Use. Allows for light manufacturing, retail, multifamily, and offices along major transportation corridors. Adjacent residential zones are protected through transitional standards.

NC – Neighborhood Commercial. Allows for small-scale neighborhood retail and office uses while allowing for single-family development.

RC – Regional Commercial. Allows a broad range of retail, wholesale, service, and other compatible uses, with a wide range of development types. Adjacent residential zones are protected through transitional standards.

I – Industrial. Allows all types of industrial development such as manufacturing, processing, fabrication, assembly, disassembly, and freight handling. Transitional standards protect adjacent nonindustrial zones from industrial uses that have significant noise, odor, or aesthetic impacts.

IMU – Industrial Mixed Use. Allows retail, office, light manufacturing, and other light industrial uses such as contractor yards. Transitional standards protect adjacent nonindustrial zones from industrial uses that have significant noise, odor, or aesthetic impacts.

P/OS – Parks/Open Space. Protects and provides for parks, open space, and other natural physical assets of the community.

When following the features below, zoning boundaries shall be construed as following:

When public right-of-way is vacated by official action of the city council, the zoning district adjoining each side of such public right-of-way shall be automatically extended to its midpoint and all area included in the vacation shall then and henceforth be subject to all regulations of the extended districts;

Where the location of streets or alleys on the ground differ from the streets or alleys as shown on the zoning map, the location of the streets or alleys on the ground shall control;

Zoning map distances shall be determined by the scale of the map;

The zoning district applied to property adjacent to the right-of-way shall extend to the centerline of the right-of-way; and

When there is a question as to how or whether property is zoned that cannot be resolved by SVMC § 19.20.030(A) through (E), the property shall be evaluated pursuant to Chapter 19.180 SVMC, Newly Annexed Areas.