Land Development Ordinance - Amended 11-6-2023

Article D CONVENTIONAL ZONING DISTRICTS

§9-1150 PURPOSE & INTENT

In order that the purposes and intents of the Land Development Ordinance may be accomplished, there are hereby established within the Town’s corporate limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) the following conventional zoning districts. Conventional traditional zoning districts are established by the Official Zoning Map and are a use-based regulatory provision.

§9-1151 TRADITIONAL ZONING DISTRICTS

a. Resource Conservation (RC) Zoning District

The Resource Conservation (RC) Zoning District is intended to permit agricultural farming operations, forestry management, and farmsteads, and to protect environmentally sensitive areas including but not limited to jurisdictional wetlands, FEMA regulated floodplains, floodplains determined by a flood study, riparian buffers, steep slopes or bluffs (grade of 25% or greater), specific flora and fauna areas of indigenous plant material, historic land, features or structures, environmental or public or private parks, greenways, and other parcels or land deemed necessary by the Town and approved by the Town Board of Commissioners. This district may accommodate proposed and existing residential uses on a zoning lot at a density not to exceed one (1) single-family detached dwelling unit per three (3) acres. The Town may extend public utilities and/or the transportation system into or through this district.

b. Residential Agricultural (RA) Zoning District

The Residential Agricultural (RA) Zoning District is intended to permit proposed and existing large zoning lot single-family detached dwellings in established neighborhoods and to provide for lower density, rural residential zoning lot (stick-built or modular unit) development and agricultural farming operations, forestry management, farmsteads, public or private parks and greenways. This district may accommodate residential use on a zoning lot with a minimum size of 20,000 square feet, at a density not to exceed 2.18 single-family detached dwelling unit per gross acre with one (1) public utility, or with a community water system approved by the Wake County Health Department. If a septic tank and well for each zoning lot is proposed the minimum lot size shall be 30,000 square feet, approved by the Wake County Health Department or as amended in the future. Optional development in this district may also include household living, Article F, §9-1255, m., which requires public utilities and the thoroughfare improvements in accordance with the Community Transportation Plan. The Town may extend public utilities

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