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Show j Planning and Zoning in Cedar City ; cial and service buildings sit-' sit-' uated in restful, landscaped settings surrounded by expan-; expan-; sive lawns, well maintained trees, shrubs, and other plantings, plant-ings, and open off-street parking park-ing areas. Representative of the uses of this zone are mo-j mo-j tels, cafes, tourist courts and trailer courts. Signs, which seem to be a major eyesore in city beautification, must be set back not less than 30 feet from the streets in this zone. The highway service zone is in the process of being re- vamped. The Planning Com-I Com-I mission has made recommendations recommen-dations to the City Council to specify rigid setback regulations, regula-tions, lot depth, and 20-foot j buffer zones between highway I service facilities and residencies residenc-ies immediately adjacent. This (Editor's Note: The following J is the" fifth in a series of i stories dealing with planning and zoning as it relates par- ticularly to Cedar City. The j series has been developed out i of a study by the Cedar City 1 League of Women Voters and has been prepared by Mrs. Ray Juvelin, a member of the league.) PLANNING AND ZONING IN CEDAR CITY Article 5 Before one buys a house, it would be useful to know something some-thing about the zone in which it is located. It should not be surprising if a home located in an R-l residential bone is higher priced than an equivalent equiv-alent one in an R-2 or R-3 zone. R-l residential zoning means that great stress has been placed upon the importance import-ance of preserving top environmental envir-onmental situation large lots (at least V acre), single sin-gle family dwellings only, surrounded sur-rounded by well kept lawns, trees, and other plantings. Traffic is kept at a minimum both for the safety of children and to preserve a quiet atmosphere. atmos-phere. R-2 zoning allows for greater great-er density and two-family dwellings, while R-3 contains varieties of dwelling types, through primacy to multiple dwellings is reserved for this latter zone. Buying a home in R-3 zoning, one would wish to hn o vara ta rf tria nAcc h 1 1 ii-r rf latter provision is intender to allow adequate protection to residences that might be subjected sub-jected to unusual noise, odors, etc. because of the adjoining highway service area. Hearings Hear-ings on these proposed changes chang-es will be called in the near future. In addition, there is a special spe-cial office zone of fairly recent origin. This zone Is conceived to promote an orderly development devel-opment of an "industrial park." The final article next week will deal with special problems prob-lems that Cedar City must wrestle with in Its efforts to keerj the ritv a htcrhlw rtocim. ble place in which to live. VV. M T ti V- Ui tilt pUUUllllllJ -SX. an apartment building materializing ma-terializing next door. Multiple dwellings are given giv-en precedence in the area immediately, im-mediately, adjacent to the College Col-lege of Southern Utah, which is zoned R-3. Obviously, this is necessary to provide housing hous-ing for college students. Residential zoning regulations regula-tions seek to keep the residential resi-dential character of the zone. Commercial storage of automobiles auto-mobiles or construction equipment, equip-ment, such as bulldozers, cement ce-ment mixers, grades, compressors, compres-sors, dump trucks, etc. are not permitted in any residential zone. Other areas have been designated des-ignated primarily for commercial commer-cial and industrial purposes. I In addition there Is a highway service zone in which the primary pri-mary use of the land is for establishments which serve ' the traveling public. This zone, according to our present' ordinance, is characterized by attractive highway commer- |