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The county has a menu of exactly three streets, and every big development picks from it
The street menu, in the county’s own words
When Fremont County’s design standards attach to a large project, the streets inside it are not drawn for free. Appendix F section 1.04 of the Development Code offers exactly three street types — a village main, a village secondary and a neighbourhood street — and fixes the landscape strip, the sidewalk, the building setback and the on-street parking for each. The design-standard page introduced Appendix F from the outside and promised the street-types deep cut; this is it. The rows below were re-extracted from the county’s live PDF on 28 September 2026, and the raw and layout extractions agree on every figure.
“Three types of streets are available to create an enhanced road network. Each street type has on-street parking (optional on neighborhood streets-type C), landscape strips, sidewalks and setback standards.”
— Fremont County Development Code, 2011 Edition (Ordinance 2011-04), Appendix F section 1.04.020, Streets. Retrieved 28 September 2026
One rule sits above the whole menu. Section 1.04.010 says new streets conform to this section’s design standards and location criteria notwithstanding anything elsewhere in the ordinance or the County Public Works Department’s requirements — and that where these standards conflict with the Idaho Transportation Department, the state’s standards may prevail. The county writes the menu; on state-highway ground the state can rewrite the recipe.
The three types on one table
| Street type | Landscape strip | Sidewalk | Building setback | On-street parking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type A — Village Main | 8 ft minimum | 8 ft minimum | 0–10 ft maximum | Located in village mixed-use and village office/residential land uses; optional in others; bulbouts at the intersections in those same uses |
| Type B — Village Secondary | 7 ft minimum | 5 ft minimum | 10–20 ft maximum | Along village mixed-use and village office/residential land uses; optional in others |
| Type C — Neighborhood, which is every residential street | 7 ft with curb and gutter, or 10 ft with swales, in Rural Mixed Use / Rural Village / Recreation Resort; 10-ft swales in other residential and agricultural uses | 5 ft minimum | Set by a separate table in the residential standards — not reprinted here | Optional |
Two honest caveats belong under the table. The right-of-way widths that go with these streets live in Appendix B, which is the road-building site’s territory, so no width is printed here. And for Type C the code sends the building setback to a table in its residential standards — a table that does not extract from the county’s PDF, so no figure for it appears on this page either.
Type A: the village main
The village main is the code’s main-street template, and its numbers say so. An 8-foot landscape strip and an 8-foot sidewalk are the widest in the menu, and the building setback runs from zero to ten feet — a storefront may sit at the back of the sidewalk. On-street parking is located in village mixed-use and village office/residential land uses and optional elsewhere, and in those same uses the code puts bulbouts at the intersections — the curb extensions that shorten the walk across a crossing and calm the corner. This is the street a proposed rural village would front its core with.
Type B: the village secondary
One notch quieter: a 7-foot strip, a 5-foot sidewalk, and buildings held ten to twenty feet back. On-street parking follows the village mixed-use and village office/residential frontages and is optional in other uses. None of it is decorative — it is the delivered difference between a village core and the streets behind it, drawn in feet.
Type C: the neighbourhood street, in two regimes
All residential streets in these projects are designated neighborhood streets, and every one of them carries a maximum design speed of 25 miles per hour. That figure is a design speed, not a speed limit: it instructs the geometry — the curve radii, the widths, the sight lines — rather than the signage. From there the code splits by zone:
- In Rural Mixed Use, Rural Village and Recreation Resort — the zones behind the overlay and the village procedure — the landscape strip is 7 feet with curb and gutter, or 10 feet with swales, and the sidewalk is 5 feet.
- In all other residential and agricultural land uses, the strip is a ten-foot swale with a slope of 2 percent or less, and the sidewalk is 5 feet. Trees may not be planted in the centerline of the waterflow, and water-tolerant native and naturalized trees are recommended — or others as recommended by the County Arborist.
The swale rules are the quietest interesting thing in section 1.04. A swale is a shallow grassed channel that carries the street’s meltwater and lets it soak in on the way, and the code’s care about it — the slope cap, the trees kept out of the water’s path, the water-tolerant species — is the county writing spring runoff into the cross-section. In this country that is not a detail: the snow this place gets has to go somewhere, and the strip beside a new subdivision is where the county sends it.
Why the ground beside a new village looks the way it does
A cabin owner never builds one of these streets. They exist inside the large applications — commercial, industrial, large-scale, rural village — that the Design Review Board reviews against Appendix F. But the menu explains three things a neighbour otherwise puzzles over. Why the buildings in a new village core sit hard on the sidewalk: Type A’s zero-to-ten-foot setback. Why the parking is on-street there: the code locates it there deliberately, in the mixed-use frontages. And why the residential streets drain as grass channels instead of curbs: Type C’s swale rules. The street you drive in on is a document; this section is how to read it.
Two neighbouring rules are worth knowing alongside. The county’s off-street parking standard is the one that applies to the dwelling itself, and the covenants recorded with a plat can ask for more than any of it.
Reading the street plan for the project next door
- Get the plan set. The street types sit on the preliminary plat, and the application itself is a public document.
- Find which streets are Type A. That is where the commercial frontage, the parking and the foot traffic will concentrate.
- Trace the Type C swales to where they leave the site. Water that crosses a boundary is the neighbour’s question, and the 2 percent slope cap is on the drawings.
- Compare the buildings shown against the setback the residential table sets, and remember the Design Review Board is where that argument lives.
- Take the specifics to the hearing the application requires — and hold the county to the checklist it must ask itself about the conditions it attaches.
Common questions
What are the three street types in Fremont County's Appendix F?
The Village Main (Type A), the Village Secondary (Type B) and the Neighborhood street (Type C), under Appendix F section 1.04. Every residential street in a covered project is designated a neighborhood street, and each type carries its own landscape strip, sidewalk, building setback and on-street parking standards.
How wide is the sidewalk on a village main street?
Eight feet minimum, alongside a minimum eight-foot landscape strip — the widest pair in the menu. The village secondary drops to a seven-foot strip and a five-foot sidewalk, and the neighborhood street carries a five-foot sidewalk in both of its regimes.
What is a landscape strip?
The planted band between the street and the sidewalk. It runs seven to ten feet wide depending on the street type, and on neighborhood streets outside the resort zones it is a ten-foot swale — a shallow grassed channel that carries and absorbs the street's meltwater.
What is a bulbout?
A curb extension at an intersection that shortens the crossing distance and calms the corner. Appendix F locates bulbouts at the intersections on Type A streets in village mixed-use and village office/residential land uses — the same frontages where on-street parking goes.
Does the 25 mph figure mean there will be a speed limit sign?
No. It is a maximum design speed for the street's geometry — curve radii, widths and sight lines are drawn so the street is only comfortable at that pace. The county is designing the street to be slow, not posting it as slow.
What is a swale?
A shallow, grassed drainage channel. Appendix F requires ten-foot swales on neighborhood streets in residential and agricultural uses, with a slope of two percent or less, trees kept out of the centerline of the waterflow, and water-tolerant native and naturalized trees recommended.
Do these street standards apply to my driveway or my existing road?
No. Section 1.04 governs new streets inside the large applications Appendix F covers. Your own answers are the county's driveway and off-street parking standards, and the road you already use is governed by whatever right-of-way and maintenance arrangements created it.
What if one of these streets meets a state highway?
Section 1.04.010 says that where these standards conflict with the Idaho Transportation Department, the state's standards may prevail. The county writes the street menu, but on state-highway ground ITD's requirements can override it.
Who decides which street type a development uses?
The applicant's planner draws them onto the plat, and the county reviews the drawings against Appendix F — with the Design Review Board recommending on the large applications the appendix attaches to before the Commission and the Board approve anything.
Where are the right-of-way widths for these streets?
In Appendix B, which is a separate document from the street-type standards, and this page deliberately does not print them. They are covered on the excavation site's county-road pages, which own the road-building side of the subject.