YAVAPAI COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING ORDINANCE
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RCD DISTRICT (Residential Camping District) Permitted Uses:
This District is intended to cover the operation of resident camps that are either private, public, religious,
organizational or agency camps. Resident camps are not restricted from operating trip camps, schools,
travel, outpost, over-night or day camping programs.
DEFINITIONS: Resident Camping: a sustained experience which provides a creative, recreational,
educational or religious opportunity in group living in the out-of-doors in which campers live at a site
for one (1) or more consecutive nights, not to exceed ninety (90) days; Resident Camp Sleeping Units:
a building or group of buildings containing guestrooms or dwelling units. For Density Formula purposes,
two (2) such guestrooms, RV's or tents may be counted as one (1) dwelling unit. Each four (4) beds
shall be counted as one (1) guestroom.
A. All principal and accessory uses and structures permitted in R1L.
B. Up to ten percent (10%) of all allowable units may be recreational vehicles spaces.
C. Meeting, dining and other structures and services required to provide for residents of the camping
programs.
D. Resident camp sleeping or dorm facilities.
Land coverage shall not exceed twenty percent (20%).
All provisions of Density District 25 shall prevail. (See Section 516)
Space between buildings shall not be less than twenty feet (20’).
Peripheral setback requirements shall be sixty feet (60’) of maintained open space, not to allow parking
and storage.
Building Heights: A maximum of thirty feet (30’).
Non-conforming Uses:
(1) One hundred percent (100%) expansion of the number of bed units allowed under an existing
non-conforming use within original camp boundary.
(2) Where dwelling units are combined with non-residential uses or structures on a conforming lot,
then each eight hundred (800) square feet, or fraction thereof, of area occupied by such shall be
deducted from the total Density Formula area in determining the number of units allowed.
(3) Existing camps may be exempted from the requirements of this Ordinance, except in the
expansion of said camps, thereby areas of expansion shall be in conformance with the
requirements of this Ordinance.
(4) Cumulative expansion of fifty percent (50%) or more shall result in the full compliance, except
existing buildings, of the existing camp with the terms of this Ordinance. Such expansion shall
be within original camp boundaries.
SECTION 450 RCD DISTRICT