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Zoning Ordinance |
| City of Roswell P.O. Drawer 1838 Roswell, NM 88202-1838 (505) 624-6700 Fax: 624-6709 |
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Zoning Ordinance |
| City of Roswell P.O. Drawer 1838 Roswell, NM 88202-1838 (505) 624-6700 Fax: 624-6709 |
Section 1. Purpose
This district is intended for farming, ranching, and other agricultural uses; very low
density single family residential development; and other uses which maintain the low
density residential nature of the district.
Section 2. Use Regulations
a. Permitted Uses. In the R-S district, permitted uses are as follows:
1. Accessory uses
2. Agricultural uses
3. Animals, livestock
4. Day care homes
5. Home occupations
6. Publicly owned or operated parks or playgrounds and related buildings
7. Real estate sales office for temporary use in conjunction with the development of a
residential subdivision
8. Single family detached dwellings
9. Temporary buildings and mobile homes to be used incidental to construction work and
shall be removed upon completion or abandonment of the construction work
10. Temporary signs not exceeding six (6) square feet in area pertaining to the lease,
hire, sale of a building or premises provided, however, that there shall be no more than
one such sign on any one lot except in new or developing subdivisions; two (2) temporary
signs each not exceeding thirty-two (32) square feet in area will be allowed pertaining to
the sale of lots or buildings within the subdivision. Permits must be obtained from
the building inspector who will determine the location of the signs such that they will
not be a traffic hazard. These permits will be reviewable yearly, but signs must be
removed when the subdivision is completed.
b. Special Uses. In the R-S district, special uses are as follows:
1. Agri-businesses and nurseries
2. Airports, heliports, and aircraft landing fields
3. Cemeteries, including mausoleums
4. Churches, Sunday school buildings, and other places of worship and those uses
traditionally associated with these including, but not limited to: convents,
monasteries. parish houses, rectories, seminaries, and child day care services
5. Golf courses and related buildings
6. Landfills
7. Mining, loading, and hauling of sand, gravel, top soil, or other aggregate or minerals,
including equipment and buildings or structures for screening, crushing, mixing, washing,
storage, or office purposes
8. Oil and gas wells and pumping stations
9. Penal, correctional, and other institutions necessitating restraint of patients
10. Public utility and service uses including, but not limited to: fire stations,
electric substations, gas regulator stations, telephone exchanges, microwave relay towers
and stations, antenna towers and other outdoor equipment essential to the operation of the
exchange in the interest of public convenience and necessity, commercial radio and
television towers, sewage treatment plants, well and water pumping stations, water
filtration plants, water reservoirs, and other similar uses
11. Riding academies and stables
12. Schools, public or private, elementary, secondary, and colleges
13. Stadiums and arenas.
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