City of Newport
§ 17.24.020

Use regulations

  • A. The following uses are permitted by right:

    • 1. Single-family dwellings;

    • 2. Home occupations;

    • 3. Churches and places of worship;

    • 4. Parks, playgrounds and playing fields;

    • 5. Community residences;

    • 6. Family day care homes;

    • 7. Municipal and public service corporation buildings and facilities; community water supply reservoirs; community well houses; water towers, water and sewage treatment facilities, water and sewage pumping stations;

    • 8. Accessory uses with respect to the foregoing;

    • 9. Residential scale wind energy system.

  • B. The following uses require a special use permit from the zoning board of review:

    • 1. Conversions to a two-family dwelling;

    • 2. Libraries;

    • 3. Museums;

    • 4. Cemeteries;

    • 5. Religious, philanthropic, scientific, literary, historical, fraternal, and charitable institutions;

    • 6. Agricultural and horticultural societies;

    • 7. Federal, state and municipal buildings, excluding correctional institutions and hospitals for the mentally ill;

    • 8. Neighborhood parking lots.

(Ord. 2000-4 (part), 2000: Ord. 65-94 (part), 1994: prior code § 1260.06.032)

(Ord. No. 2012-019, § 3, 12-12-2012)