Grant County Property Setback Update

Hello Fellow Rimrockers!

Many of you have recently received a letter from Grant County Planning and/or the Treasurer's Office notifying you of a proposed Unified Development Code Amendment affecting our community.  If so, you may have found the language to be somewhat confusing, so I thought I'd provide a bit of clarification.  The UDC Amendment is something that we (the Rimrock Cove HOA) have requested.  Currently, the County's front setback requirement is 20 feet, which as you can imagine significantly limits our options on placing permitted structures on our small lots.  By comparison, the internal Rimrock Cove front setback requirement is only 10 feet.  With the cooperation and support of the Planning Department, Fire Marshall's office and the local Fire Chief, we have formally submitted an application to have Grant County reduce their requirement to 10 feet as well.  This has several benefits, with the most obvious being greater flexibility in utilizing our lots.  The change would also align the County's requirement with our own, as well as more accurately reflect current park usage (as most of us are already closer than 20 feet from the street).  Please note that nothing about this process affects existing structures.

We are very hopeful our request will be accepted and I've been told we should have a final decision by June.  However, if for some reason the application is denied, Rimrock will continue enforcing the 10-foot front setback for all new trailers, sheds, and other non-permitted structures.  I hope that helps.  If you have any other questions, please feel free to call or e-mail me.

Thanks!
Ron Gopal
RRC Architectural Committee
Mobile: 425-922-8949
E-mail: ron@globalbearingsolutions.com