Title
Zoning Code Text Amendment
Co8-13-02, BARRIER REDUCTIONS FOR GREEN BUILDING
An ordinance of the Pima County Board of Supervisors relating to zoning; amending the Pima County Zoning Code Title 18 by amending Chapter 18.01 (General Provisions), Section 18.01.030 (application of Zoning Code) to allow exceptions for green building structural alterations for nonconforming buildings and buildings housing nonconforming uses; amending Chapter 18.03 (General Definitions), Section 18.03.020 (Definitions) to add definitions for cistern, green building, rain barrel, rainwater harvesting system, and vegetated roof and to add underground cisterns and certain clothes lines to exclusions to the definition of structure to exclude them from zoning regulation; amending Chapter 18.07 (General Regulations and Exceptions), Section 18.07.030 (Land Use Regulations) to add rainwater harvesting system as a permitted use in all zones subject to requirements and exceptions, and Section 18.07.050 (Development Standards Exceptions) to modify and add to development standards exceptions for projections into yards and for height limits; and amending Chapter 18.73 (Landscaping, Buffering and Screening Standards), Section 18.73.050 (Amenity Landscaping Requirements) to add vegetated roofs as an amenity landscape requirement option. On motion, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 8-0 (Commissioners Mangold and Johns absent) to recommend APPROVAL. Staff recommends APPROVAL. (All Districts)
If approved, pass and adopt: ORDINANCE NO. 2013 - 42