§ 2.04.06. RR residential rural.

These districts provide for activities with small-scale agricultural orientation but where such activity is not the principal or sole means of livelihood for the occupants of a premises. These districts are intended to be a combination of residential and agricultural activity. Normally, urban-type services cannot be efficiently or economically supplied to these districts in the foreseeable future. It is not intended that these districts be utilized for the purpose of avoiding or evading County subdivision regulations or that they be used as RSF, Single Family Residential, districts.

A.

Permitted principal uses and structures.

1.

Single family dwellings and manufactured homes subject to the maximum densities for each rural activity center (RAC) future land use designation as established in the Okeechobee County Comprehensive Plan and as referenced in section 2.01.04 of this Code.

2.

Schools with conventional academic curriculums.

3.

Public parks, playgrounds, playfield and county buildings; public libraries.

4.

Existing cemetery, columbarium or mausoleum with boundaries existing at the date of this Code.

5.

Railroad right-of-way, utilities rights-of-way.

6.

Home occupations.

7.

Agricultural uses and the keeping of animals as strictly incidental or accessory thereto on any parcel of one and one-half acres or greater.

8.

Publicly owned and operated parks, campgrounds, recreation areas and uses and structures appropriate to such activities.

9.

Water conservation areas, water reservoirs and control structures, water and drainage wells.

10.

Golf course and country club when developed as part of and in association with a subdivision.

B.

Prohibited uses and structures. Any use or structure not specifically or provisionally permitted herein.

C.

Accessory uses and structures. Uses and structures which:

1.

Are customarily accessory and clearly incidental and subordinate to permitted or permissible uses and structures.

2.

Do not involve the conduct of business (except home occupation on the premises.)

3.

Are located on the same lot as the permitted or permissible principal use or structure or on a contiguous lot in the same ownership.

4.

Are not of a nature likely to attract visitors in larger numbers than would normally be expected in a residential neighborhood.

5.

Do not involve operations or structures not in keeping with the character of a rural residential development.

6.

Non-commercial plant nurseries and green-houses, gardens, servants' quarters, private garages, tool houses and garden shed, garden work centers, children's play areas and play equipment, private barbecue pits, private swimming pools, docks and wharves, and the like are permitted as accessory uses in these districts.

(Ord. No. 93-10, § 6, 7-22-93; Ord. No. 99-09, 8-12-99; Ord. No. 2005-12, 1(Exh. A), 7-28-05)