Nye County COde
Property Use
A. Scope: The following regulations shall apply to the RE-1 rural estates residential zones. No new building or structure shall be erected, or parcel developed in an RE-1 zone unless in conformance with the provisions identified herein.
B. Purpose: RE-1 rural estates residential zones are intended to provide and preserve low density single-family residential living areas with minimum lot sizes of one gross acre, where livestock or other large animals may be kept as well as accessory buildings in a semirural setting. The RE-1 rural estates residential zone is transitional in relationship to more urbanized residential areas of higher density.
C. Height, Lot And Setback Requirements:
Minimum lot size | 1 | gross acres1 |
Minimum lot width | 100 |
feet |
Minimum lot depth | 100 |
feet |
Maximum building height | 35 | feet |
Note:
1Application for a planned unit development overlay can allow for minimum lot size to be reduced to 8,000 square feet (net) subject to conditions.
MINIMUM BUILDING SETBACKS
Use | Front | Side | Rear | Street Side |
Principal residential buildings | 25 feet | 10 feet | 40 feet | 25 feet |
Principal buildings for nonresidential uses1 | 25 feet | 25 feet | 40 feet | 25 feet |
Accessory buildings | 25 feet | 5 feet | 5 feet | 25 feet |
Note:
1Principal buildings include institutional uses, quasi-public, churches, etc.
D. Permissive Uses:
Accessory buildings not to be used for residential purposes, provided that the floor area of any single accessory building, or combined floor area of multiple accessory buildings, shall not exceed ten thousand (10,000) square feet.
Churches, temples, mosques and related facilities and accessory uses.
Family ranch.
Subsistence farming.
Home occupations, home based businesses and residential industry (subject to the general provisions for residential zones section).
One guest residence not to exceed one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet.
One single-family residence per lot.
Public, quasi-public and institutional uses.
Recreational vehicles or mobile homes as temporary residences subject to the issuance of a temporary use permit.
E. Uses Subject To A Conditional Use Permit: The following are subject to a conditional use permit as provided for in articles V and VIII of this chapter:
Adult daycare facilities.
Bed and breakfast inns.
Breeder, commercial establishment.
Cemeteries.
Childcare facilities.
Commercial kennel.
Intermediate care facilities.
Multipet permit.
Public or private recreation areas.
Public or private schools.
Stable, commercial (see definitions in this chapter).
Temporary living facilities. (Ord. 555, 2019: Ord. 508, 2017)
Amended by Ord. 562 on 7/21/2020
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