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8-2-6: RURAL RESIDENTIAL (RR):
A. Purpose: The Rural Residential (RR) District promotes the public health, safety, and welfare of the people of Ada County by encouraging the protection of prime agricultural lands; ensuring the important environmental features of the state and Ada County are protected and enhanced; and protecting fish, wildlife, and recreation resources, consistent with the purposes of the "Local Land Use Planning Act," Idaho Code Section 67-6501 et seq., by:
1. Implementing the Ada County Comprehensive Plan goal to protect prime agricultural land and to maximize opportunities for agricultural activities and an agricultural lifestyle in areas designated as rural areas on the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map;
2. Allowing the development of agricultural industries and agriculture service establishments when such uses do not take prime agricultural land out of crop production;
3. Protecting agricultural and rangeland uses and wildlife management areas from undue adverse impacts from adjacent development;
4. Permitting the development of schools, churches, and other public and quasi-public uses in rural areas consistent with the applicable Comprehensive Plan;
5. Directing more intense development to occur within residential, transitional, commercial, and industrial base districts, as defined in Table 8-2-3-1
, and the planned community base district; and
6. Permitting low density residential uses that would provide a rural lifestyle, and that do not require excessive expansion of public services.
B. Development And Dimensional Standards:
1. All development shall be in accord with the regulations in Chapter 3 of this Title.
C. Permitted Uses: Refer to Section 8-2-23 of this Chapter (Use Table):
Density and Development | Base | Rural Residence | |
1 | Lot Size (min) | 10 acres | 1 acre (min) to 2.5 acres (max) |
2 | Building Height (max) | 35' | 35' |
3 | Lot Coverage (max) | 10% | 20% |
4 | Street Frontage (min) | 100' | 100' |
Setbacks | Base | Rural Residence | |
5 | Front Yard Setback (min) | ||
Arterial, collector, or section line street | 50' | 50' | |
Other roadway | 30' | 30' | |
Property line not fronting a roadway | 25' | 25' | |
6 | Side Street Setback (min) | 30' | 25' |
7 | Interior Side Setback (min) (for rural residences, side property line setback of 10' is allowed adjacent to other rural residences) | 25' | 25' |
8 | Rear Setback (min) | 25' | 25' |
NOTES: Only one dwelling unit is allowed per property, with the exception of an approved additional dwelling in the form of a Duplex, Secondary Dwelling, Additional Farm Dwelling, Caretaker Dwelling, or Temporary Living Quarters. No more than two dwelling units total are allowed on a single property or as allowed per Table 8-2-23-2. See Section 8-2-2
C, Table 8-2-2-1 (Summary / Description of Dimensional Standards). See Chapter 4 (Use Standards) for additional or supplemental standards for use types, such as Secondary Dwellings. | |||
(Ord. 1002, 10-28-2025)
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