32905 SE 44th St, Fall City, WA 98024

Urban Residential Zone

The purpose of the urban residential zone (R) is to implement comprehensive plan goals and policies for housing quality, diversity and affordability, and to efficiently use urban residential land, public services and energy.?? These purposes are accomplished by: Providing, in the R-1 through R-8 zones, for a mix of predominantly single detached dwelling units and other development types, with a variety of densities and sizes in locations appropriate for urban densities; Allowing only those accessory and complementary nonresidential uses that are compatible with urban residential communities; and 4. Establishing density designations to facilitate advanced area-wide planning for public facilities and services, and to protect environmentally sensitive sites from over development.; Use of this zone is appropriate in urban areas, activity centers, or??Rural??Towns designated by the??Comprehensive??Plan as follows: The R-4 through R-8 zones on urban lands that are predominantly environmentally unconstrained and are served at the time of development, by adequate public sewers, water supply, roads and other needed public facilities and services.