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Zoning laws dictate how real property can and cannot be used in certain areas. Zoning laws are established in order to divide the of Bend into districts of such number, shape and area as may be deemed best suited to promote the public health, safety and general welfare while carrying out the goals set by the Comprehensive Plan.

The table below is a summary of the zoning code and is not comprehensive. The examples of permitted uses list are meant to serve as example and are not complete lists. Excluded from this table are examples of allowed conditional uses, which can in the use charts of each zoning found within the Bend Development Code. Additionally, there are a number of Special Planned Districts whose regulations may supersede those of the underlying zone. These districts are listed at the bottom of this table and are explained fully within Chapter 2.7 of the Bend Development Code.

Standard Zoning Districts Zone Purpose Examples of Permitted Use UAR- To serve as a holding category as urban • Single family dwellings Reserve growth takes place elsewhere in the • Home occupations planning area, and to be preserved as long as possible as useful open space until needed for orderly growth. CB- Central Business This zone is intended to serve as the • Bank or other financial Zone central trading area for the City and institution. surrounding urbanized areas. • Business or professional office. • Retail store. CC- Commercial This zone is intended to provide locations • Food and health food Convenience for a relatively wide range of small store. businesses and services which fit into the • Medical and dental clinic residential development pattern as a and office. convenience to residents in that part of • Restaurant. the City and to recognize existing uses of this type within the City. CG- Commercial This zone is intended to provide for a • Wholesale business, General broad mixing of commercial uses and for storage, warehousing, wholesale and heavier commercial uses transfer company and in older, close-in sections of the trucking company. community. • Auto and Truck sales, new or used, service and repair. • Contractor's office and equipment storage yard or storage and rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.

Updated 8/30/17 • Major automotive repair and towing services CL- Commercial This zone is intended to establish • Bicycle shop. Limited locations for the development of • Confectionery or commercial centers to provide for the delicatessen. shopping and service requirements for • Medical and dental clinic large sections of the community and to and office. recognize existing uses both in centers • Office - business or and as parts of commercial strips. professional. CN- Commercial This zone is intended to provide for the • Grocery stores or Neighborhood location of small businesses and services specialty food store. in residential section of the City for the • Barber and/or beauty convenience of nearby residents; also to shop. recognize existing uses of this type within • Coffee shop, cafe, or the City. delicatessen not to exceed 2,000 square feet of gross floor area. • Pharmacy. IG- Industrial General This zone is intended to provide for the • Any manufacturing, establishment of light and heavier processing, repairing, industrial uses essential to the research, assembling, development of a balanced economic wholesale or storage base in an industrial environment with a uses, excepting the minimum conflict between industrial uses manufacturing of and residential and light commercial uses. explosives and the slaughtering of animals. • Public buildings and public utility structures and yards, including railroad yards. • Commercial lot. IL- Industrial Light This zone is intended to provide for those • Fuel oil distributors. heavier commercial and light industrial • Printing, publishing and uses located in existing built-up areas of book binding. the City. • Public utility buildings ME- Mixed The zone is designed to provide for a mix • Retail stores and shops of uses such as office, retail, services, not to exceed 20,000 light manufacturing and warehousing that square feet in gross floor offer a variety of employment area. opportunities in an aesthetic environment • Restaurants, and having a minimal impact on delicatessens, coffee surrounding uses. shops, taverns without drive-up window service. • Wholesale and retail sales of lumber, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and other construction materials. MR- Mixed Riverfront The purpose of this zone is to implement • Branch banks and other the General Plan policies for the creative financial institutions

Updated 8/30/17 of mill site properties designed to serve the adjacent to the Deschutes River. area businesses and adjacent neighborhoods. • Motel, hotel or similar lodging facilities. • Offices. PF- Public Facilities The PF Zone is intended to provide area • Public buildings such as for buildings and facilities that are owned city hall, and operated by federal, state, or local courthouse, governments, public utilities, special administrative buildings, districts, or nonprofit organizations, and • Public parks, which are occupied to provide playgrounds, swimming governmental or public services. pool, skateboard park, This zone is also intended to provide for pedestrian/bicycle trails school sites, public park and recreational and similar public facilities, natural areas, trails, wetlands, recreation facilities. and similar types of open space owned and managed by a local government or special district. PO- Professional Office The Professional Office zone is intended • Offices and studios of to provide for professional offices in accountants, architects, locations near arterial or collector artists, attorneys, and to provide a transitional use area authors, consultants, between residential areas and other more counseling services, intensive zones. Through design designers, dentists, standards, the Professional Office zone is engineers, insurance intended to create mixed use and office agents, physicians or developments that are pedestrian other practitioners of the oriented and provide a positive healing arts, contribution to the streetscape. photographers, and surveyors. RH- Residential Urban This zone is intended to provide for high • Duplexes. High Density density multiple-family developments in • Offices for: architect or locations close to shopping and services, designer, accountant, transportation or public open space, and, attorney, dentist, in appropriate locations to provide a physician or other transitional use area between residential practitioner of the healing areas and other less restrictive zones. arts, engineer, insurance The professional and office uses included agent or adjustor, in this zone are intended to enhance the investment or function of this zone in transitional areas management counselor, and to encourage this transition in a more surveyor, wholesale residential character. lumber broker and real estate broker. RL- Residential Urban The RL zone is intended to provide large • Single-family dwelling. Low Density urban lots for development with a • Home occupations community water system and DEQ permitted community or municipal sewer systems. RM- Residential Urban This zone is intended to provide for the • Two-family dwelling or Medium Density development of medium density multiple duplex. Updated 8/30/17 family residential structures where such • Home occupations in a buildings are reasonably spaced on the detached single-family lot to provide for light, air, privacy, safety dwelling unit or duplex and insulation against transmission of sound in areas with sewer and water services

RM-10- 10 Residential This zone is intended to provide for the • Mobile home park Urban Medium development of manufactured home • Home occupations in a parks and low density multiple family detached single-family residential structures where such dwelling unit or duplex buildings are reasonably spaced on the lot to provide for light, air, privacy, safety and insulation against transmission of sound in areas with sewer and water services. RS- Residential Urban The RS Zone is intended to provide for • Single-family dwelling. Standard Density the most common urban residential • Home occupations densities in places where community sewer services are or will be available and to encourage, accommodate, maintain and protect a suitable environment for family living. SM- Surface Mining The purpose of the Surface Mining Zone • Extraction of all materials, is to allow the extraction of surface mining sand, gravel, rock, materials needed by the community while cinders, pumice, topsoil, protecting the health and safety of fill material (including adjoining residents and uses. select fill) and any other mineral or aggregate material. SR2- ½- Residential To accommodate existing SR 2½ zoned • Single-family dwelling Suburban Low Density lands within the Urban Growth • Home occupations Boundary until these lands are annexed to the City or until sewer service is available, and such lands are rezoned consistent with the planned densities and uses in the Bend Area General Plan.

Special Planned Districts Lava Ridge Refinement Plan, NorthWest Crossing Overlay Zone, Dean Swift Refinement Plan, Medical Overlay Zone, Water Overlay Zone, Flood Plain Combing Zone, Murphy Crossing Refinement Plan, Manufactured Home Park Redevelopment Overlay, Farmington Reserve Master Plan, COCC Overlay Zone, Juniper Ridge Overlay Zone, Stone Creek Master Plan, Wildflower Mater Plan

Updated 8/30/17