17.05.010 Purpose of Classification - The purpose of the Minimum Requirement District is to maintain broad controls in preserving rural character and protecting natural resources.

1. Normal accessory uses customary and incidental to the permitted and/or conditional use of the property.
2. Additional residential units for extended family members or employees of a farm upon which they live and work (for example, guest houses, employee housing and seasonal worker cabins). Note: Additional residential units are not allowed in association with multi-family housing or mobile home parks.
3. Bed and Breakfast

1. Minimum lot area is one acre, except where health regulations require larger parcels to accommodate on-site sewage treatment.
2. When structures for manufacturing, commercial, and industrial uses exceed 35 feet minimum lot area is 5 acres.
3. Minimum lot width is 100 feet.

1. Minimum of one acre/single family unit.
2. Minimum 9600 sq. ft/multi-family unit or mobile home park unit

1. For all permitted structures, except manufacturing, commercial, and industrial structures, shall have the following required yard setbacks:

A. Front - Minimum is 25'

B. Side - Minimum is 5'

C. Rear - Minimum is 25'

2. Manufacturing, commercial, or industrial structures: yard setbacks from all property lines shall not be less than two feet horizontal for every one foot of vertical height; or, the setback established in this section, whichever is greater. [Example: A sixty-five-foot tall structure shall be required to be setback 130 feet from all property lines.]

1. Maximum height for all uses in the zone shall be 35’, except as noted in sections 2 through 7 below.
2. Maximum height shall be 50’ for: appurtenances and decorative non-structural architectural components on roofs of single and multiple family dwelling units and on roofs of accessory agricultural buildings.
3. Maximum height for agricultural uses shall be 65’, except as noted in section 5.
4. Maximum height for the following uses, shall be 65’ fee, unless otherwise limited by condition of a conditional use permit, PD, or by a County commissioner sanctioned Community Advisory Committee, as identified in the district use chart: agricultural wind machines; aircraft hangers; asphalt or concrete batch plants; barns and silos; cement, lime, or gypsum manufacturers; chimneys not attached to dwellings; church steeples, spires, belfries, cupolas, and domes; community centers, sports facilities and complexes; cooling towers; county administrative and criminal justice buildings; Government Services; crosses and other religious and civic monuments; drive-in movie theater screens, elevator penthouses; fertilizer manufacturing; gas holders or other similar structures; hose towers; mining, milling, and associated facilities; parapet walls; performing arts centers (theaters); petroleum storage tanks; sawmills and pulpmills; school auditoriums and theaters; smokestacks; [Note: Manufacturing, commercial and industrial uses can only be placed on lots 5 acres and larger, if the structures exceed 35 feet in height. See "Lot Area and Width Requirements" in section 17.05.060]
5. Maximum height for the following list of uses in 100’: grain elevators; private communication towers; single family residential windmills; water tanks.
6. Maximum height for electric transmission and distribution towers and poles shall be 150’.
7. Maximum height for communication facilities (commercial and public agency radio and TV, microwave or other antennas for transmitting and receiving) shall be 200’.

1. Density of RV Parks, Campgrounds, Hotels, Motels, etc. shall be determined by Okanogan County Health District standards for on-site treatment.
2. The following subarea overlay requirements have been established within the Minimum Requirement District, Molson Subarea Overlay.