07-10-25: PURPOSES OF ZONES:

   (1)   The purposes of the A (Agricultural) Zone are to:

      A.    Promote the public health, safety, and welfare of the people of the County by encouraging the protection of viable farmland and farming operations;

      B.    Limit urban density development to Areas of City Impact in accordance with the comprehensive plan;

      C.    Protect fish, wildlife, and recreation resources, consistent with the purposes of the "Local Land Use Planning Act", Idaho Code title 67, chapter 65;

      D.    Protect agricultural land uses, and rangeland uses, and wildlife management areas from unreasonable adverse impacts from development; and

      E.    Provide for the development of schools, churches, and other public and quasi-public uses consistent with the comprehensive plan.

   (2)   The purpose of the R-R (Rural Residential) Zone is to encourage and guide growth in areas where a rural lifestyle may be determined to be suitable.

   (3)   The purpose of the R-1 (Single-Family Residential) Zone is to promote and enhance predominantly single-family living areas at a low density standard.

   (4)   The purpose of the R-2 (Combined Medium-Density Residential) Zone is to provide medium-density residential development areas. Medium-density development concentrations should have a full range of community services and facilities available or projected for establishment.

   (5)   The purpose of the C-1 (Neighborhood Commercial) Zone is to provide for local commercial service needs and to restrict incompatible uses.

   (6)   The purpose of the C-2 (Service Commercial) Zone is to provide areas where activities of a service nature, which are more intensive in character than in other Commercial Zones, may be carried out.

   (7)   The purpose of the M-1 (Light Industrial) Zone is to provide for and encourage the grouping together of light industrial uses capable of being operated under such standards as to location and appearance of buildings and the treatment of the land about them so that they will be unobtrusive and not detrimental to surrounding commercial or residential uses.

   (8)   The purpose of the M-2 (Heavy Industrial) Zone is to encourage industries to locate in and provide for suitable areas in which heavy industrial uses may be established, substantially free from residential, light industrial or commercial activities which could interfere with heavy industrial development and operations.

   (9)   The purpose of the MU-A (Mixed Use - Arterial) Zone is to encourage a mix of residential, commercial and industrial uses along principal arterials within Areas of City Impact which are designed in accord with adopted access management standards for State highways or arterials under the control of a local highway agency. (Ord. 19-038, 8-30-2019)