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Work Session Packet
TOPICS: 1) Brainstorm Certified Local Government (CLG)
grant ideas; 2) Continue to work on the Downtown Historic
Overlay
Thursday, January 13, 2022
City Council Chambers Beginning at 6:15 p.m.
All public is invited to attend.
City of Seward Zoning Map
Zoningonline
Rural Residential
Single Family Residential
Two Family Residential
Multi Family Residential
Urban Residential
Office Residential
Harbor Commercial
Auto Commercial
Central Business District
Industrial
Institutional
Park
Resource Management
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15.05.025 Land use districts —Established, definitions.
(a) Established. The City is hereby divided into land use districts which shall be bounded and defined as shown
on the official land use map. This official map, together with all explanatory matter thereon, as exhibited at
the time of public hearing, is hereby adopted by reference and declared to be a part of this chapter.
(b) Definitions —Purpose.
(1) Rural residential district (RR). Intended to provide for stable, quiet, low density (one or two dwelling
units per acre) detached single-family residential development, free from other uses except those
which are both compatible and convenient to residents of such a district including recreational,
religious and educational facilities of an appropriate scale and design complementary to the
neighborhood character.
(2) Single-family residential district (R1). Intended to provide for stable and quiet low to medium density
(one to five dwelling units per acre) detached, single-family residential development, free from other
uses except those which are both compatible and convenient to residents of such a district.
(3) Two-family residential district (R2). Medium density (one to seven dwelling units per acre) transitional
housing area with a mix of single and two-family units, free from other uses except those which are
both compatible and convenient to residents of such a district.
(4) Multi -family residential district (R3). Intended to provide opportunities for a higher density residential
setting with a mix of housing units which are predominately multi -family units close to concentrations
of public services, employment and/or recreation. This district may provide a transition between more
intensive districts and lower density residential areas if sufficient screening and design features are
provided to protect multi -family residences from undesirable effects.
(5) Urban residential district (UR). Intended to allow an area of higher density mixed residential uses from
detached single-family housing to multi -family apartments in conjunction with compatible low impact
professional office uses in the area surrounding the downtown business district.
(6) Office/residential district (OR). Intended to provide for medium density residential, commercial and
office development designed to act as a transition zone between the high density central business
district and surrounding medium -high density residential districts.
(7) Harbor commercial district (HC). Provides an area for water -dependent or water -related uses with
particular emphasis on transportation, tourist, recreational, commercial or industrial enterprises which
derive major economic or social benefit from a harbor location.
(8) Auto commercial district (AC). Intended to provide areas to accommodate highway -oriented
commercial activities such as offices, certain institutional uses, and limited personal services and retail
uses requiring substantial outdoor activity, traffic and parking, and which also serve the offices and
nearby residential areas, and which do not materially detract from nearby residential areas.
(9) Central business district (CBD). Provides for an area of convenient, attractive, concentrated commercial
development primarily intended for retail, financial, entertainment and professional services occurring
within enclosed structures. Regulations applying to this zone are designed to encourage a compact
group of businesses of the type which are mutually beneficial and located close enough together to
encourage walk-in trade.
(10) Industrial district (1). Established as a district in which the principal use of land is for business,
manufacturing, processing, fabricating, repair, assembly, storage, wholesaling and distributing
operations, which may create some nuisance and which are not properly associated nor compatible
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with residential land uses. It is intended to provide environmental safeguards for people employed in
or visiting the district. Some visual amenity is expected in this district to make it compatible with
adjoining residential or business districts.
(11) Institutional district (INS). Public and private educational, administrative, government and health care
uses, including public land reserve for future public development. The development standards are
intended to set a high standard to assure that the activities provide visual amenity to the surrounding
area.
(12) Parks district (P). Is intended to designate park, recreation and commemorative property owned by the
City, state or federal governments for recreation and other compatible public purposes.
(13) Resource management district (RM). Lands which are generally undeveloped and cannot be precisely
zoned due to inadequate information on the extension of public services and utilities; the suitability of
the land to support commercial, residential, industrial or public uses; and other possible environmental
consideration.
(Ord. 626, § 3, 1989: Ord. 649, § 2, 1991)
15.10.220 Development requirements.
(a) Table 15.10.222, development requirements, is incorporated herein by reference and the restrictions and
annotations contained therein are mandatory unless otherwise modified by this chapter. (See table at the
end of this section; see also section 15.10.210.)
(b) Building height. The purpose of building height standards is to prevent loss of life or excessive property
damage through the inability of the City fire department to reach upper stories or roofs and to help maintain
the character of neighborhoods.
(c) Setbacks —Yards.
(1) Setbacks are required to insure sufficient open area for snow accumulation, sunlight, views, privacy,
fire separation and visual relief between structures.
(2) No yard or other open space provided about any building for the purpose of complying with the
provisions of this chapter shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for any other building,
and no yard or open space on one lot shall be considered as providing a yard or open space on any
other lot.
(3) No yard or lot shall be reduced in size or area below the minimum requirements set forth herein. Yards
or lots created after December 5, 1978 shall meet at least the minimum requirements established by
this chapter.
(4) In cases of corner lots with multiple frontages, the administrative official shall designate the front yard,
and all other frontages shall be designated as a side to a street.
(5) All structures shall be designed and constructed to prevent roofs from shedding snow onto adjacent
lots, structures, fences, or other property.
(Ord. 99-10, § 3; Ord. No. 2018-004, § 1)
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TABLE
Zoning District Designations
The following zoning district abbreviations are provided for information and interpretation:
RR =
Rural, very low density single-family residential
R1=
Single-family, low density residential
R2 =
Single and two-family, medium density residential
R3 =
Single, two and multi -family, high density residential
UR =
Urban residential, a mix of residential uses and low impact home professional offices
OR =
Office residential
AC =
Auto and neighborhood oriented, light commercial
HC =
Harbor commercial
CB =
Central business district - dense downtown commercial
I =
Industrial
RM =
Resource management - partially developable lands subject to floodplains and steep slopes
INS =
Institutional, public, quasi -public uses
P =
Parks
Table 15.10.226. Land Uses Allowed
KEY:
O - Use Permitted Outright
H - Home Occupation
C - Use Requires Conditional Use Permit
P - Use Requires Administrative Permit
Blank - Use Prohibited
Zoning Districts
Principally Residential
Principally Commercial
Principally
Public
Uses
RR
R1
R2
R3
UR
LORLAC
HC
CBI
RM
INSP
Accessory building
O
O
O
O
O
O
10
10
O
10
O
Adult entertainment
INTENTIONALLY
LEFT BLANK
Agency, i.e., travel, insurance,
title, real estate, etc.
O
O
O
O
O
Agriculture
O
Airport and related services
O
C
Amusement or recreation
facility
O
O
O
Animal shelter
O
C
C
Antenna, personal TV, satellite
dish
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
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Art gallery
O
O
O
O
O
Assemblages, temporary large,
i.e., circus, fair
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Attraction, permanent major
visitor
C
C
C
C
C
Auditorium
O
O
O
Auto repair, i.e., mechanic, glass
body, upholstery
C
O
Auto service/gas station
O
O
O
Auto/RV sales and rentals
O
O
O
Boat sales
O
O
O
Boat, commercial
building/fabrication
O
O
Boat, harbor/marina
C
C
C
C
C
Boat, repair and maintenance
O
O
O
C
Boat, storage commercial
O
O
O
C
Bulk material, i.e., concrete,
gravel, sand, asphalt
C
C
Business, marine retail sales
and service
O
O
O
O
C
Business, package liquor
O
O
O
Business, retail sales and service
O
O
O
O
Business, retail sales and
service, industrial
O
Campground, municipal
C/P
C/P
C/P
C/P
Campground, camper park,
private
C/P
C/P
C/P
Campground, employee
C/P
Car/boat wash
O
O
O
Cemetery
O
C
O
Center, community/civic
O
O
C
C
Center, mariner's
O
O
O
O
Center, senior or teen
C
C
C
O
O
C
C
Child care, licensed center
C
C
O
O
O
C
Child care, licensed home
O
O
10
O
O
O
O
O
O
Church
C
C
C
C
C
C
O
O
O
O
Clinic, medical
O
O
O
O
O
Clubs,
fraternal/lodges/social/veterans
C
O
O
C
Cluster subdivision
C
C
C
Commercial Communications
tower less than 16 feet
diameter or 75 feet in height
C
C
C
C
C
C
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Commercial Communications
tower 16 feet diameter or
greater than 75 feet in height
C
C
C
Correctional/prison facility
C
C
C
C
Crematory
O
Docks/wharves, industrial cargo
O
O
C
C
Dock, passenger
O
O
O
C
O
Drinking establishment, i.e.,
bar, nightclub, lounge
C
C
C
Drive-in facility —Fast food,
banking, etc.
C
C
C
C
C
Dwelling, apartment in a
commercial building (limited to
one unit)
O
O
O
O
O
C
Dwelling, apartment in a
commercial building (two or
more units)
O
O
C
C
Dwelling, apartment, efficiency
or accessory
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Dwelling, apartment, studio
C
C
C
C
C
C
Dwelling, attached single-
family, i.e., townhouse, row
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
Dwelling, condominium
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
Dwelling, detached single-
family
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
C
C
Dwelling, group home
O
O
O
O
O
O
C
Dwelling, guest house
O
O
C
Dwelling, multi -family (3 or
more units)
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
Dwelling, two-family or duplex
O
O
O
O
O
C
C
Dwelling, watchman or
caretaker
O
C
Emergency services, pub/vol;
i.e., fire, ambulance, rescue
C
C
C
C
C
C
O
C
O
O
C
O
Financial institution, i.e., bank,
S&L
C
O
O
Flea market, open air retail
other than occasional
C
C
C
Fuels, bulk storage and sales
C
Golf course
O
O
C
Golf driving range
O
1
O
O
1 O
C
Greenhouse/nursery—
Commercial
O
O
O
Grocery, convenience store
C
C
C
O
O
O
O
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Grocery, supermarket,
foodmart
O
O
Health club
C
C
O
O
O
Home occupation
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Hospital
I
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C
C
House rental on a nightly basis
P
P
P
P
P
P
Housing, bunkhouse
C
C
C
Housing, dormitory
O
O
Housing, nursing, retirement,
convalescent
C
C
C
Kennel, commercial, musher or
fancier
INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK
Laundry, dry cleaning
O
C
O
O
Library
O
O
O
O
Livestock, excluding chickens
and rabbits
P
P
Livestock, chickens and rabbits
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Lodging, B&B, rooms, duplex
and accessory apartment
H/P
H/P
H/P
H/P
H/P
O/P
O/P
O/P
O/P
Lodging, hostel
P
P
P
P
P
P
Lodging, hotel, motel, lodge, inn
C
O
C
C
Lodging, multifamily dwelling
apartment
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Lumber yard/building supply
C
O
C
Manufacturing —noxious, heavy
C
Manufacturing, light
fabrication, assembly
C
O
Merchant, transient
1
O
O
O
O
F-F
Mobile home park
I
C/P
I
Mobile home, residential, not in
park
INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK
Mobile home sales
O
O
Mobile medical unit
O
O
O
Mobile vendor
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Mortuary/funeral home
O
O
O
Museum
I C
O
10
O
10
1
10
Office, boat charter, guide
O
O
O
O
O
C
Office, business or professional
O
O
O
O
O
Office, government/quasi-
government administration
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Office, mobile/temporary on
construction site
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Office, home, professional
I
1
10
1 O
1 O
1 O
1 O
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Parking lot
C
C
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Personal services, i.e., beauty,
shoe, tailor
O
O
O
O
Planned unit development
C
C
C
C
C
C
Playground, public tot lot
O
O
10
10
O
10
O
1
O
1
O
10
10
Railroad
C
C
C
C
Recreation, commercial indoor,
i.e., bowling, skating
O
O
O
C
Recreation, outdoor, i.e.,
miniature golf
O
C
C
C
Recreation, shooting range
C
C
C
Recycling center
C
C
O
C
Recycling, self-service drop-off
point
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Repair service, i.e., large
appliance
C
C
O
Resource extraction,
commercial subsurface, i.e.,
mining
C
C
C
Resource extraction,
commercial surface, i.e., gravel
C
C
C
Resource extraction,
commercial timber harvesting
C
C
Restaurant, food service,
catering, brew pub
O
d
O
O
O
C
Rooming or boarding house
O/P
O/P
O/P
O/P
Roving Vendor
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Salvage —auto, wrecking, scrap,
junkyard
C
Sawmill or lumbermill
C
C
School, college
C
C
C
School, public/private
elementary/secondary
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
School, vocational
C
O
O
C
O
C
Seafood processing, i.e.,
canning, rendering
C
C
C
C
Shop, i.e., welding, sheetmetal,
machine, steel fab.
C
C
O
Shop, i.e., wood, signs, cabinet,
upholstery
C
C
O
C
O
Shopping center (mall)
C
C
Solid waste disposal, i.e., baler,
transfer, landfill
C
C
C
Storage, container
P
P
P
P
O
P
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Storage, explosives
P
Storage, outdoor, yard,
material/equipment
C
O
O
C
Storage, self service
O
O
O
O
Storage, warehouse and
distribution
O
O
O
C
C
Studio, radio/television
C
O
O
O
O
C
Tanks, aboveground associated
with service station
C
C
O
Taxidermy
O
O
O
O
O
Terminal, i.e., bus, truck, freight
O
C
O
C
Terminal, marine/boat
passenger
O
C
O
O
C
Theater, concert, movie
O
O
Tool/equipment rental
O
O
Temporary structure
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Utility facility, public electric,
water, sewer, etc.
C
C
C
C
C
C
O
O
O
O
O
O
Vehicle impound lot
O
O
Vending machine repair,
storage
O
O
C
Veterinary hospital
C
C
C
Wind Energy Conversion
Systems (WECS)
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
(Ord. 94-25; Ord. 95-13; Ord. 95-17; Ord. 96-05; Ord. 96-10; Ord. 96-16; Ord. 97-13; Ord. 98-06; Ord. 98-09; Ord.
99-01; Ord. 99-13, § 2, 1999; Ord. No. 99-10; Ord. 2000-12; Ord. 2001-03; Ord. 2003-08; Ord. 2007-008, § 1, 2007;
Ord. No. 2009-002, § 1; Ord. No. 2010-004, § 2; Ord. No. 2012-002, § 1; Ord. No. 2014-002, § 1; Ord. No. 2014-004,
§ 1; 2015-001, § 1; Ord. No. 2018-002, § 4; Ord. No. 2018-004, § 1; Ord. No. 2019-007, § 1, 3-26-2019; Ord. No.
2020-012, § 1, 10-12-2020)
Editor's note(s)—Ord. No. 2018-002, § 4, adopted May 14, 2018, renumbered § 15.10.225 to 15.10.226, as herein
set out.
15.10.230 Special setbacks —CB and I districts.
(a) Central business district. Except where separated by a public right-of-way, where the CB district abuts
residential districts, a minimum setback equal to that required of the abutting district shall be required.
(b) Industrial district. Where industrial (1) districts abut residential districts, a minimum setback of ten feet shall
be required.
(Ord. 626, § 3, 1989; Ord. 93-08)
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Chapter 15.15. Historic Preservation
Chapter 15.15. Historic Preservation
15.15.010 Purpose.
Historic preservation is necessary to promote the educational, cultural, economic and general welfare of the
community by providing a mechanism to identify and preserve the distinctive historic and architectural
characteristics of Seward which represent elements of the City's cultural, social, economic, political and
architectural history.
(Ord. 95-10)
15.15.015 Seward Register of Historic Places established.
(a) A Seward Register of Historic Places is hereby established to provide for public recognition of local cultural
resources worthy of preservation.
(b) Criteria for selection and placement on the register of historic places shall be set by resolution of the historic
preservation commission.
(c) The historic preservation commission shall recommend nominations to the register of historic places to the
City Council.
(d) Nominations to the register of historic places shall be approved by resolution of the City Council.
(Ord. 95-10)
15.15.020 Historic district established.
(a) The historic district of the City is established to define those areas of the City that meet state or federal
standards for historic districts or that otherwise have special historic significance that merits additional
consideration in land use regulation.
(b) The City Council shall, by resolution, establish and define those areas to be included in the historic district.
(c) Criteria for selection and placement on the list of historic districts within the City shall be set by resolution of
the City Council.
(d) Upon designation, the historic district shall be classified as an Overlay District H - Historic District on the
official zoning map of the City of Seward.
(Ord. 95-10)
15.15.025 Seward Historic Plant and Tree Register established.
(a) A Seward Historic Plant and Tree Register is hereby established to provide for public recognition of local
plants and trees.
(b) Criteria for selection and placement on the Seward Historic Plant and Tree Register shall be set by resolution
of the Historic Preservation Commission.
(c) The Historic Preservation Commission shall recommend nominations to the Seward Historic Plant & Tree
Register to the City Council.
Seward, Alaska, Code of Ordinances
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(d) Nominations to the Seward Historic Plant & Tree Register shall be subject to approval by resolution of the
City Council.
(Ord. 2007-006, § 1, 2007
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