BUILDING REGULATIONS
This is required before constructing, setting, or placing a structure in unincorporated Bonner County.
What is a building location permit?
This zoning district has a minimum lot size of 40 acres.
What is the F (Forestry) district?
Parking spaces must have this minimum area, ensuring they are large enough for typical vehicles.
What is 200 square feet?
This type of plan must be submitted for all building permits to address snowmelt water, erosion, and stormwater control.
What is a grading, stormwater, and erosion control plan?
This mountain range, which rises up to 7,000 feet, dominates the western side of Bonner County.
What are the Selkirk Mountains?
A small structure in Bonner County must not exceed this floor area to qualify for a simplified building location permit.
What is 1,080 square feet?
This is the maximum lot coverage percentage allowed in most of the zones in the "Forestry, Agricultural/Forestry, and Rural" districts.
What is 35 percent?
An accessory dwelling unit can have no more than this number of bedrooms.
What is two (2) bedrooms?
These plans are required for retaining walls taller than this height and must be stamped by a structural engineer.
What is four feet (4')?
Before becoming a village in 1901 and a city in 1907, this Idaho town was part of the homeland of the Kalispel Tribe, whose ancestral lands stretched across Priest and Pend Oreille Lakes, up the Pend Oreille River into Canada, and as far east as Montana.
What is Sandpoint?
This is the maximum period of time after a building location permit is issued before the work must commence, or the permit expires.
What is one year?
For agricultural buildings used solely for growing and harvesting crops in rural zones, the minimum property line setback is this many feet.
What is 5 feet?
A recreational vehicle dwelling unit is limited to one per lot for parcels smaller than this size.
What is one (1) acre?
This percentage represents the maximum grade allowed for driveways without a snowmelt system in the Alpine Village District.
What is eight percent (8%)?
This statue, donated to the City of Sandpoint in the early 2000s, serves as a memorial to Louise, who is honored through this gift.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This is the maximum floor area for a detached accessory building, such as a tool shed or playhouse, that is exempt from certain building regulations.
What is 400 square feet?
In the R-5 zone, this is the maximum number of single-family dwellings that may be allowed on a 15-acre parcel of land, provided the lot meets the density requirements.
What is 3 single-family dwellings?
The minimum required building setback from wetlands is this distance, unless the wetland is low quality.
What is 40 feet?
Applicants for building permits must submit a snow management plan to the satisfaction of this agency.
What is the agency having jurisdiction over the public or private travelways?
This street, originally named Ash Avenue in Sandpoint, is now known as this modern-day street.
What is 4th Avenue?
This is the general term used to describe a combination of materials assembled to provide shelter, support, or an extension of shelter, such as buildings, tanks, platforms, and pools.
What is a structure?
In commercial zones, this setback may be reduced to 0 feet under specific conditions for buildings containing ground-floor commercial uses.
What is the street setback?
This professional is required to stamp and sign the geotechnical analysis.
Who is an Idaho licensed civil or geological engineer?
Parking requirements for residential uses shall be______ off street spaces per dwelling unit, or _________ per one thousand (1,000) square feet of floor area (living space), whichever is more.
2 off street spaces per dwelling unit
1 per one thousand (1,000) square feet
The first settlers in this town moved to the area in 1888 but had to relocate due to flooding. The railroad originally named the town "Valencia" on their maps.
What is Priest River?