33.15.067 Tourist Rural (TR) | Clallam County Code

33.15.067 Tourist Rural (TR).

The purpose of this zoning designation is to provide for small-scale recreational or tourist uses, including commercial facilities to serve those recreational or tourist uses that rely on a rural location and setting, but that do not include new residential development.

(1) Allowed Land Uses. The following land uses should be allowed outright in the Tourist Rural zoning district:

•Agricultural activities

•Bed and breakfast inns

•Commercial greenhouses

•Commercial horse facility

•Outdoor-oriented recreational activity

•Primitive campgrounds

•Restaurants

•RV parks

•Timber harvesting

•Tourist shops

(2) The following land uses should be permitted in the Tourist Rural zoning district through a special permitting process with public input and a determination that the proposed use is consistent with applicable land use regulations and the character of the neighborhood.

•Cemeteries

•Child daycare center

•Churches

•Grocery stores

•Lodges

•Planned unit developments

•Private schools with less than 50 students

•Research facilities

(3) Prohibited Land Uses. The following land uses should be prohibited in the Tourist Rural zoning district:

•Airports

•Asphalt plants

•Business parks

•Commercial storage

•Duplexes

•Family daycare providers

•Gas stations

•Home-based industries

•Home enterprises

•Indoor shooting range

•Industrial uses

•Lodges

•Medical service facilities

•Mineral extraction

•Mobile home parks

•Motels

•Multiple-family dwellings

•Professional offices

•Race tracks

•Retail stores

•Schools

•Shooting ranges

•Single-family dwellings

•Taverns

•Timber labor camps

•Veterinarian clinics/kennels

•Vehicular repair

•Wood manufacturing

•Wrecking yards

(4) Minimum Lot Size. The minimum lot area for all uses is one acre or the minimum necessary to provide adequate potable water and sewage disposal for the proposed use, whichever is larger.

(5) Minimum Lot Width: 50 feet.

(6) Maximum Width to Depth Ratio: 1:5 (0.20).

(7) Setbacks. The setbacks are those required by the International Building Code, except that no structure shall be located closer than 50 feet from the centerline of a fronting, side, or rear street, or 60 feet from a highway.

(a) In keeping with their rural location, bed and breakfast inns, commercial greenhouses, tourist shops, and restaurants shall be no larger than 6,500 square feet.

(b) Access to uses should be from frontage roads to limit traffic impacts to Scenic Highway 101 or Scenic Byway 112.

(9) Maximum Height. The maximum height is 40 feet.