City of Newport
§ 17.52.020

Use regulations

  • A. The following uses are permitted by right:

    • 1. Single-family dwellings;

    • 2. Two-family dwellings;

    • 3. Reserved;

    • 4. Home occupations;

    • 5. Churches and places of worship;

    • 6. Schools of limited instruction;

    • 7. Parks, playgrounds and playing fields;

    • 8. Standard restaurants;

    • 9. Professional and business offices;

    • 10. Banks and other financial institutions;

    • 11. Stores where goods are sold or service is rendered primarily at retail;

    • 12. Community residences;

    • 13. Family day care homes;

    • 14. 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;

    • 15. Accessory uses with respect to the foregoing.

    • 16. Decks, following dimensional standards described in Section 17.04.050(K).

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

    • 1. Conversions to a multifamily dwelling;

    • 2. Schools, colleges and universities, including fraternity or sorority houses or dormitories for faculty or students;

    • 3. Libraries;

    • 4. Museums;

    • 5. Cemeteries;

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

    • 7. Agricultural and horticultural societies;

    • 8. Fast-food restaurants;

    • 9. Gasoline filling stations (with minor repairing);

    • 10. Commercial parking lots;

    • 11. Taverns;

    • 12. Commercial indoor recreation facilities;

    • 13. Historic guest house;

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

    • 15. Guest houses.

(Ord. 2000-4 (part), 2000: Ord. 65-94 (part), 1994: prior code § 1260.06.102)

(Ord. No. 2021-02, § 1, 1-13-2021; Ord. No. 2022-01, § 1, 1-12-2022; Ord. No. 2022-11, § 5, 3-23-2022; Ord. No. 2025-22, § 1, 3-26-2025)