This chapter shall be called "PC-1 Parks and Conservation Zone."
(Ord. 1933 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023)
The PC-1 zone is intended to implement the PC comprehensive plan designation by identifying and protecting environmentally sensitive lands, lands needed for conservation, restoration, or natural resource functions, and recognizing parcels subject to public or private development restrictions. The uses and developments permitted in this zone are related to, or compatible with, environmental restoration, passive recreation, natural stormwater management, or flood control. In addition, above or below ground utilities, agricultural uses, and transportation improvements may be acceptable in limited circumstances. The regulations of this chapter are intended to provide opportunities for the public to interact with nature, protect important habitat blocks and corridors, allow for the maintenance and restoration of natural hydrologic functions, limit exposure to natural hazards, and to facilitate the construction of flood protection measures and environmental restoration projects.
The PC-1 zoning designation should be applied to areas that are largely undeveloped and extensively constrained by natural hazards or critical areas. This zoning designation is generally applied to publicly owned land, but may also be applied to privately owned land when the land is restricted by conservation or open space easement, notes or restrictions on a recorded plat, or where the widespread presence of severe natural hazards or critical areas makes development extremely hazardous or infeasible.
(Ord. 1933 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023)
Buildings, structures, and parcels of land shall only be used for the following uses, unless otherwise provided for in this title. In order to be considered a permitted use projects initiated by a government agency shall be listed below and must also be clearly identified in, and consistent with, the city's adopted capital improvement plan or the capital facilities element of the comprehensive plan.
A. 
Agriculture, urban;
B. 
Passive recreation;
C. 
Flood control improvements;
D. 
Stormwater and sewer outfalls;
E. 
Commercial wetland mitigation banks;
F. 
Underground and overhead utilities;
G. 
Natural stormwater management.
(Ord. 1933 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023)
The following uses and developments may be authorized as accessory uses. Accessory uses shall only be permitted when incidental and subordinate to a legally established primary use.
A. 
Restrooms;
B. 
Storage buildings;
C. 
Automobile parking facilities and charging stations;
D. 
Interpretive or directional signs;
E. 
Picnic tables, benches, and other similar improvements.
(Ord. 1933 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023)
A. 
Outdoor storage shall be prohibited;
B. 
Parking areas shall be limited to the absolute minimum necessary to support an allowed use;
C. 
Land divisions shall be prohibited except when necessary to accommodate a permitted or conditional use identified in this chapter. When authorized, land divisions shall be subject to title restrictions or restrictive plat notes that limit the allowed uses to those authorized by this chapter. Under no circumstances shall a land division be authorized to facilitate, or allow, new residential, commercial, or industrial development;
D. 
No buildings shall be permitted in conjunction with an urban agricultural use;
E. 
If surfaced, walking paths should be constructed of gravel or wood chips. Paved paths shall not be permitted in the PC-1 zone except as part of a regional or citywide trail network;
F. 
Utilities, other than those minimally necessary to support a use authorized by this chapter, shall be subject to the following:
1. 
There is no reasonable or practicable alternative that avoids land zoned PC-1;
2. 
All reasonable methods have been taken to avoid disturbing critical areas and critical area buffers, such as underground boring;
3. 
The location and construction of the project is designed to minimize critical area impacts and maintain the physical and aesthetic characteristics of the property and will not interfere with any existing or planned public park improvements;
4. 
The project fully complies with the critical area standards in BMC Title 14.
(Ord. 1933 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023)