§ 17.38

The purpose of the Open Space (O) district is to provide appropriate locations in the community for a wide range of open space uses, such as parks and playgrounds, cultural and educational facilities, public infrastructure systems and environmentally sensitive areas and agriculture. The O district will be matched with the “open space” designation detailed in the Land Use Element of Exeter’s General Plan to ensure consistency between Exeter’s zoning ordinance and general plan.

• A. Parks, playgrounds, and botanical gardens

• B. Cemeteries

• C. Drainage basins

• D. Environmentally sensitive lands, including wetlands, reservoirs, and floodplains

• E. Golf courses

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• F. Growing and harvesting of agricultural crops

Those uses and structures incidental to the open space use of the land, including trash storage areas and bins; required loading and unloading facilities; parking lots; the storage and use of fuels; agricultural accessory buildings and other uses and structures that are determined by the Planning Director to be incidental to the open space use of the land.

• A. Public and quasi-public uses of an educational or religious type, including public and parochial elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, nursery schools; private nonprofit schools and colleges; churches, parsonages, parish houses, monasteries, convents and other religious institutions.

• B. Public uses of an administrative, recreational public service, or cultural type, including city, county, state or Federal administrative centers, libraries, museums, art galleries, police and fire stations, and other public buildings, structures and facilities.

No development shall be constructed on any lot or site in this district until a site plan has been submitted and approved consistent with Chapter 17.54 Site Plan Review.

• A. Site Area

The minimum site area shall be 10,000 square feet.

• B. Lot Frontage and Depth

No requirement.

• C. Building Height

The maximum height shall be 35 feet. The maximum height of accessory structures shall be 15 feet.

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• D. Yards

  1. Front: 25 feet

  2. Side: except where the O district abuts an R district, in which case the side yard requirement shall be 10 feet.

  3. Rear: No requirement, except where the O district abuts an R district, in which case the rear yard requirement shall be 10 feet.

Exhibit 38-1: Zoning Standards

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Min Parcel Size: 10,000 square feet Rear Yard
Lot Frontage and Depth : No requirement None, except that a 10 foot setback is
required when the site abuts a
residentially zoned parcel.
Side Yards
None, except that a 10 foot
setback is required when the Max. Building Height
site abuts a residentially
zoned parcel.
35' Max
Accessory structures
may be up to 15 feet
high.
Fencing
Front Yard: - Fences, walls and hedges may not exceed
25 feet, minimum. 7 feet in height along side and rear property
lines.
- Front yard fencing may not exceed 3 feet
in height, except that a 4-foot high fence is
permitted where the top one foot is 50%
open.
Parking shall be provided according to standards in Chapter 17.76
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• A. Front Yards: Fences, walls and hedges shall not exceed three feet in height. A fence or wall may be four feet in height if more than 50 percent of the structure is see-through.

• B. Rear and Side Yards: Fences, walls, and hedges shall not exceed seven feet in height along any side or rear property line.

Off-street parking shall comply with the standards contained in Chapter 17.68 Parking and Loading.

Signage shall comply with the standards contained in Chapter 17.69 Signs.

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PF Zone (Public Facilities)

Sections

• 17.40.01 Purpose 17.40.02 Permitted Uses 17.40.03 Conditional Uses 17.40.04 Site Plan Review 17.40.05 Development Standards 17.40.06 Fences, Walls and Hedges 17.40.07 Off-Street Parking 17.40.08 Signs