City of Grand Forks Zoning Overview
"The Grand Forks City Planning and Zoning Divison is responsible for creating a high-quality living and working environment for the City and surrounding residents; ensuring orderly and harmonious development; managing growth and development in a manner that supports housing choices and economic development efforts; protecting the quality of life for our people; to work with other Federal, State and local agencies in planning, programming, and budgeting public transportation, utilities and services." - City of Grand Forks Planning & Zoning
Click, or scroll, below to get a brief overview of the various districts within the City of Grand Forks.
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RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
R-1 Single-Family Residence: This district is meant for single-family dwelling development.
R-2 One-and Two-Family Residence: This district is meant for one- and two-family dwelling development.
R-3 Multiple-Family Residence (Medium Density): This district is meant for the development of townhouses, condominiums, apartments, and other types of medium-density multiple-family units.
R-4 Multiple-Family Residence (High Density): This district is meant for residential uses of all types and other compatible uses in a pleasant and stable environment. This district may also be used as a transition zone between lower-density resident districts and commercial districts.
R-5 Mobile Home Residence: This area to be used exclusively for mobile home residence and limited uses.
R-M Manufactured Home Residence: This district is meant to increase the supply of housing by allowing developments that have manufactured homes on permanent foundations on private lots.
BUSINESS DISTRICTS
B-1 Limited Business: This district is intended for businesses limited to offices or services are permitted, providing that no retail sales or merchandising are conducted on premises.
B-2 Shopping Center Business: This district is intended to provide and area which may be applied to land in single ownership or unified control for the purpose of developing a planned business center with a unified and organized arrangement of building and service facilities at key locations which are suitable for such use and are centrally located with the residential area they are intended to serve.
B-3 General Business: The district is intended to provide an area located in close proximity to arterials or collectors in order that highway service types of land use can be provided and is designed to furnish a wide range of retail services and goods.
B-4 Central Business: This district is intended to provide an area for the purpose of developing a unified and organized business center which serves a broad service area with a variety of retail, service , office and public uses.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS
A-1 Limited Development: The intent of the (A-1) agricultural preservation district is to preserve and protect agricultural land use and the activities that are associated with it. The A-1 district recognizes that the proximity of the land within the Grand Forks urbanized area strongly influences land use decisions. Therefore, the intent of this district is also to direct nonfarm development and urban-oriented growth into lands adjacent and/or contiguous to the city and to promote a compact development pattern.
A-2 Agricultural Reserve: The intent of the (A-2) agricultural urban reserve district is to preserve and protect agricultural land use and the activities that are associated with it. The A-2 district recognizes that the proximity of the land within the Grand Forks urbanized area strongly influences land use decisions. Therefore, the primary intent of this district is to preserve and protect agricultural land use by directing nonfarm development and urban oriented growth into lands adjacent and/or contiguous to the city and to promote a compact development pattern.
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
I-1 Light Industrial: This district is intended to encourage industrial development that is compatible with surrounding or abutting land uses thar provide open spaces, landscaping and parking areas; provides a high standard of appearance and controls for external effects such as noise, smoke and congestion; is limited to administrative, wholesaling and related to uses that can be carried out unobtrusively.
I-2 Heavy Industrial: This district is intended to provide area for larger industrial operations; those that require outside storage of materials; those that may be incompatible with certain other types of land uses; and those that can best operate with minimum restrictions and controls.
sPECIAL DISTRICTS
A-D Airport: To provide an area for the operation and development of an airport district serving both private and commercial aircraft and attendant operations and to limit development inconsistent with such use in such a manner as to minimize conflicts between the airport use and any other use.
PUD - Planned Unit Development: Allow mixed use that is coordinated and planned and it is harmonious and otherwise not permitted under conventional zoning procedures.
U-D University: This district is intended to preserve the institutional and residential character of a university or college campus and to limit commercial and industrial intrusions into the institutional and residential environment.
