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Walkersville City Zoning Code

ARTICLE IV

Open Space District

§ 88-20 Intent and purpose.

The Open Space District is intended to provide permanent open space for its natural beauty and recreational value. It is also intended to preserve natural resources, to prevent erosion, pollution and siltation and to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of persons and property by limiting development on excessive slopes, on floodplains, or poorly drained lands or on other areas where protection against natural dangers to life and property, or the lack of such protection, would prove costly to members of the community.

§ 88-21 Permitted uses.

The following uses are permitted in the OS District:
A. 
Farms and tree and plant nurseries.
B. 
Parks, playgrounds, golf courses, public and private recreational uses and cemeteries.
C. 
Game, wildlife and nature study preserves and reservations.
D. 
Flood control, water protection works, sewage treatment plants and other municipal public works.
E. 
Wireless telecommunication facility when sited and constructed in accordance with Chapter 86 of the Town Code.

§ 88-22 Special exception uses.

The following uses are permitted by special exception in the OS District:
A. 
Those uses considered by the Board of Appeals to be of the same character as those listed in § 88-21 above.

§ 88-23 Required lot and yard dimensions.

The required lot area and yard dimensions in the OS District are as follows:
A. 
Minimum area: not specified.
B. 
Yards.
(1) 
Front: 50 feet.
(2) 
Rear: 50 feet.
(3) 
Side: 30 feet.
C. 
For structures higher than 25 feet, the yard requirements shall be as follows for all yards: Between the foundation and the nearest lot line, a distance of 2.5 times the height of the structure shall be maintained.

§ 88-24 Accessory uses: Open Space District.

The following accessory uses are permitted in the OS District:
A. 
General signs: see Article II and § 88-14.
B. 
Outside vending machines are not permitted in the Open Space District or on "nonconforming use" property in an OS District.