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(1) 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:

(a) Providing, in the R-1 (urban separator) through R-12 zones, for a mix of predominantly single detached dwelling units and other development types, with a variety of densities and sizes;

(b) Providing, in the R-18 (multifamily) zone, a mix of higher densities and greater variety of housing uses;

(c) Allowing only those accessory and complementary nonresidential uses that are compatible with urban residential communities;

(d) Establishing density designations to facilitate advanced area-wide planning for public facilities and services, and to protect environmentally sensitive sites from overdevelopment; and

(e) Providing, in the MR (mixed residential) zone, a variety of housing types at a range of densities not provided by the other urban residential zoning districts. These purposes are accomplished by allowing a mixture of residential uses while limiting nonresidential uses to neighborhood-serving commercial uses that are complementary and supportive of mixed density housing development.

(2) Use of this zone is appropriate as follows:

(a) The urban separator (R-1) zone on or adjacent to lands with area-wide environmental constraints where development is required to cluster away from sensitive areas, on lands designated urban separators or wildlife habitat network where development is required to cluster away from the axis of the corridor on critical aquifer recharge areas, and on regionally and locally significant resource areas (RSRAs/LSRAs) 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; and

(b) The R-4 through R-18 zones and the MR zone on 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. (Ord. 03-14 § 1; Ord. 01-14 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 10-10 § 3 (Exh. C); Ord. 42-02 § 2 (21A.04.080))