30.31F.020 Minimum zoning criteria.
(1) The RI and RFS zones shall be applied only to properties that contain the appropriate land use designation as depicted on the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) of the General Policy Plan (GPP).
(2) The RB zone is a zoning classification which will be located within a rural residential land use designation. The RB zone, including expansions to the RB zone classification, shall be applied only to properties that meet all the following locational criteria, except as provided in SCC 30.31F.020(3) and (4):
(a) A minimum of 600 residential dwelling units shall be located within a two and one-half mile radius of the proposed site;
(b) The proposed site is located along a county road or state highway with at least 100 feet of street frontage or at an intersection of two public roads;
(c) The proposed new site shall be located no closer than two and one-half miles from an existing RB, RFS, or commercial designation in the rural area;
(d) The total area zoned RB at any given location shall not include more than five acres designated as net usable area. In calculating net usable area pursuant to this chapter, net usable area shall be the total site area less critical areas and their required buffers, pursuant to chapters 30.62A and 30.62B SCC, public rights-of-way, private roads, detention/retention areas, and biofiltration swales;
(e) The proposed site shall be located outside of an urban growth area (UGA) boundary;
(f) The proposed site shall contain a rural residential designation on the GPP FLUM, and not be designated forest lands or farmlands by the FLUM;
(g) The size and configuration of the proposed site must be capable of accommodating applicable setbacks, buffers, and critical area protection pursuant to chapters 30.62A, 30.62B and 30.62C SCC;
(h) Site information required pursuant to SCC 30.31F.200(2) shall have been submitted by the applicant. The information shall clearly demonstrate that an adequate building and development area is located on the site outside of identified critical areas and buffers pursuant to chapters 30.62A and 30.62B SCC; and
(3) Any proposed site that expands an existing RB zone shall meet the requirements of SCC 30.31F.020(2)(d) through (h) and both of the following locational criteria:
(a) The expansion area shall have a common property boundary with the existing RB zone. A common property boundary may consist of properties separated by a public right-of-way where the centerline of the right-of-way is used as their extended front property boundary; and
(b) The majority of rural residential lots within a one-quarter mile radius of the proposed expansion area are not greater than one acre in size or the majority of rural residential lots that have a common property boundary with the proposed expansion area not greater than one acre in size.
(4) For properties that contain a commercial use permitted or otherwise allowed in the RB zone that existed on or before the effective date of this section, a rezone to RB may be approved only for that portion of the site containing the existing use and may not expand beyond the location of the existing commercial use unless the locational criteria of subsection (2) of this section are met with respect to the expansion area. The locational criteria contained in subsection (2) of this section and the maximum building footprint requirements of SCC 30.31F.110 and 30.31F.120 need not be met for that portion of the site containing the existing use.
(5) Any applicant proposing a rezone to the RFS zone must:
(a) Demonstrate that the proposed site is abutting a frontage or access road of a limited access highway and is under a single ownership or unified control; and
(b) Submit a freeway interchange evaluation in accordance with the provisions of SCC 30.31B.200(3).
(6) The CRC zone shall only be applied to those properties that contain a Clearview Rural Commercial designation on the comprehensive plan future land use map. (Added by Amended Ord. 02-064, Dec. 9, 2002, Eff date Feb. 1, 2003; Amended by Ord. 03-099, Sept. 10, 2003, Eff date Oct. 6, 2003; Amended by Ord. 04-070, July 28, 2004, Eff date Aug. 23, 2004; Amended by Amended Ord. 06-061, Aug. 1, 2007, Eff date Oct. 1, 2007; Amended by Amended Ord. 13-042, July 10, 2013, Eff date July 22, 2013).