Planning Process
County Zoning Districts
A Agriculture DistrictA-1 Suburban Home District
R-1 Single Family Residential District
B-1 Neighborhood Business District
B-2 General Business District
B-3 Limited Business District
I-1 Limited Industrial District
I-2 Light Industrial District
I-3 Heavy Industrial District
I-4 Heavy Industrial District
V-C Valley Channel District
F-W Floodway Overlay District
F-F Floodway Fringe Overlay District
Descriptions: (refer to the Douglas County Zoning Regulations for conditions and restrictions).
A Agriculture District
The purpose of this district is to provide for a full range of agricultural activities, including processing and sale of agricultural products raised on the premises, and at the same time, to offer protection to agricultural land from the depreciating effect of objectionable, hazardous and unsightly uses. The district is also intended for purposes of protecting watersheds and water supplies to provide for spacious development, to protect forest areas, and scenic areas, and to conserve fish and wildlife, to promote forestry, the growing of natural crops and grazing, and to prevent untimely scattering of more dense urban development. For the purpose of restricting outdoor advertising signs, the area within this district shall be considered as defined for residential purposes only.A-1 Suburban Home District
The purpose of this district is to provide for single family residential development of a suburban character together with appropriate public and semi-public buildings, public recreational facilities and accessory uses normally compatible with residential development of this type, where due to a lack of readily accessible municipal service facilities it is desirable to prevent premature uncontrolled residential development. This district is located to insure development of land not served by approved public sewer facilities will be on a low density basis.R-1 Single-Family Residential District
The purpose of this district is to provide for single-family residential development of relatively more spacious character together with such public buildings, schools, churches, public recreational facilities accessory uses, as may be necessary or are normally compatible with residential surroundings. The district is located to protect existing development of high character and contains vacant land considered appropriate for such development in the future.B-1 Neighborhood Business District
This district provides primarily for retail shopping and personal service uses to be developed either as a unit or in individual parcels to serve the needs of nearby residential neighborhoods.B-2 General Business District
The purpose of this district is to provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for a wide variety of business, commercial, and miscellaneous service activities, particularly along certain existing major thoroughfares where a general mixture of commercial and service activity now exists, but which uses are not characterized by extensive warehousing, frequent heavy trucking activity, open storage of material, or the nuisance factors of dust, odor, and noise associated with manufacturing.B-3 Limited Business District
This district provides primarily for retail shopping and personal service uses to be developed either as a unit or in individual parcels to serve the needs of nearby residential neighborhoods.I-1 Limited Industrial District
the purpose of this district is to provide sufficient space in appropriate locations, usually in planned industrial subdivisions, for certain types of business and manufacturing, relatively free from offense, in modern, landscaped buildings, to make available more attractive locations for these businesses and factories, and to provide opportunities for employment closer to residence with corresponding reduction of travel time from home to work.I-2 Light Industrial District
This district is intended primarily for light manufacturing, fabricating, warehousing, and wholesale distributing in low buildings with off-street loading and off-street parking for employees and with access by major thoroughfares or railroads in either central or outlying locations.I-3 & I-4 Heavy Industrial District
These districts provide for industrial operations of all types. The districts in general would be protected from intrusion by commercial uses, signs, and dwellings.V-C Valley Channel District
The purpose of this district is to prevent, in those areas subject to periodic or potential flooding, such development as would result in a hazard to health or safety, and to insure the general public will not be forced to expend exorbitant funds to remedy flood problems.Flood Plain Management Districts
F-W Floodway Overlay DistrictF-F Floodway Fringe Overlay District
The purpose of these districts is to protect individuals and property from flood hazards or flooding by providing for the orderly and safe development of the regulatory flood plain for the most advantageous uses which are consistent with the health, safety, and welfare of the general public and which are also consistent with sound practices for utilizing those areas required for the conveyance of specified stream flows in the regulatory floodway.
