14706 SE May Valley Rd, Newcastle, WA 98059

Single-Family 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 residential land, public services and energy. These purposes are accomplished by: Providing, in the R-1 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 residential communities; and Establishing density designations to facilitate advanced area-wide planning for public facilities and services, and to protect environmentally sensitive sites from overdevelopment.; Use of this zone is appropriate in residential areas designated by the comprehensive plan as follows: The R-1 zone on or adjacent to lands with area-wide environmental constraints, or in well-established subdivisions of the same density, which are served at the time of development by public or private facilities and services adequate to support planned densities;