Altavista City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE I
- ADMINISTRATION2
Sections
- Sec. 86-1.- Jurisdiction.
- Sec. 86-2. - Authority.
- Sec. 86-3. - Effective date.
- Sec. 86-4. - General purpose.
- Sec. 86-5. - Application of regulations.
- Sec. 86-6. - Zoning permits.
- Sec. 86-7. - Special use permit.
- Sec. 86-8. - Uses not provided for.
- Sec. 86-9. - Commission must act within a timely manner.
- Sec. 86-10. - Widening of highways and streets; setbacks may be altered.
- Sec. 86-11. - Preventing construction of building in violation of provisions.
ARTICLE III
- DISTRICTS
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY
- DIVISION 2. - R-1 (LOW-DENSITY RESIDENTIAL) DISTRICT
- Sec. 86-131.- Statement of intent.
- Sec. 86-132. - Permitted uses.
- Sec. 86-133. - Site development regulations.
- Sec. 86-134. - Minimum lot area.
- Sec. 86-135. - Minimum lot frontage.
- Sec. 86-136. - Minimum setback requirements—Principal structure.
- Sec. 86-137. - Minimum setback requirements—Accessory structures.
- Sec. 86-138. - Maximum lot coverage—Accessory structures.
- Sec. 86-139. - Maximum height of structures.
- Sec. 86-140. - Provisions for corner lots.
- DIVISION 3. - R-2 (MEDIUM-DENSITY RESIDENTIAL) DISTRICT
- Sec. 86-191.- Statement of intent.
- Sec. 86-192. - Permitted uses.
- Sec. 86-193. - Site development regulations (in general).
- Sec. 86-194. - Minimum lot area.
- Sec. 86-195. - Minimum lot frontage.
- Sec. 86-196. - Minimum setback requirements—Principal structure.
- Sec. 86-197. - Minimum setback requirements—Accessory structures.
- Sec. 86-198. - Maximum lot coverage—Accessory structures.
- Sec. 86-199. - Maximum height of structures.
- Sec. 86-200. - Provisions for corner lots.
- Sec. 86-221. - Site development regulations (for townhouses).
- Sec. 86-222. - Minimum lot area.
- Sec. 86-223. - Minimum gross acreage.
- Sec. 86-224. - Minimum lot width.
- Sec. 86-225. - Minimum setback requirements—Principal structure.
- Sec. 86-226. - Minimum setback requirements—Accessory structures.
- Sec. 86-227. - Maximum lot coverage.
- Sec. 86-228. - Maximum height of structures.
- Sec. 86-251. - Site development regulations (for multi-family dwellings).
- Sec. 86-252. - Minimum gross acreage.
- Sec. 86-253. - Minimum setback requirements—Principal structures.
- Sec. 86-254. - Minimum setback requirements—Accessory structures.
- Sec. 86-255. - Maximum lot coverage.
- Sec. 86-256. - Maximum height of structures.
- DIVISION 4. - R-MHP (RESIDENTIAL MANUFACTURED HOME PARK) DISTRICT[3]
- Sec. 86-291.- Statement of intent.
- Sec. 86-292. - Permitted uses.
- Sec. 86-293. - General regulations for residential manufactured home parks.
- Sec. 86-294. - Minimum size requirements.
- Sec. 86-295. - Yard and setback requirements.
- Sec. 86-296. - Minimum setback requirements—Principal structure.
- Sec. 86-297. - Minimum setback requirements—Accessory structures.
- Sec. 86-298. - Maximum height of accessory structures.
- Sec. 86-299. - Maximum lot coverage—All structures.
- Sec. 86-300. - Streets.
- Sec. 86-301. - Utilities.
- Sec. 86-302. - Skirting and underpinning.
- DIVISION 5. - C-1 (LOCAL COMMERCIAL) DISTRICT[4]
- Sec. 86-321.- Statement of intent.
- Sec. 86-322. - Permitted uses.
- Sec. 86-323. - Site development regulations.
- Sec. 86-324. - Minimum lot area.
- Sec. 86-325. - Minimum setback requirements—Principal structures.
- Sec. 86-326. - Minimum setback requirements—Accessory structures.
- Sec. 86-327. - Maximum height of structures.
- DIVISION 6. - C-2 (GENERAL COMMERCIAL) DISTRICT[5]
- DIVISION 7. - M (INDUSTRIAL) DISTRICT[6]
- Sec. 86-381.- Statement of intent.
- Sec. 86-382. - Permitted uses.
- Sec. 86-383. - Site development regulations.
- Sec. 86-384. - Minimum lot area.
- Sec. 86-385. - Minimum setback requirements—Industrial uses.
- Sec. 86-386. - Minimum setback requirements—Principal residential structures.
- Sec. 86-387. - Minimum setback requirements—Accessory structures.
- Sec. 86-388. - Maximum height of structures.
- DIVISION 8. - PUD (PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT) DISTRICT
- DIVISION 9. - DRO (DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION OVERLAY) DISTRICT
- Sec. 86-421.- Statement of intent.
- Sec. 86-422. - District boundaries.
- Sec. 86-423. - General provisions.
- Sec. 86-424. - Architectural treatment.
- Sec. 86-425. - Maximum square footage of use.
- Sec. 86-426. - Residences.
- Sec. 86-427. - Permitted uses.
- Sec. 86-428. - Regulations for signs in the DRO.
- Sec. 86-429. - Regulations for parking areas.
- Sec. 86-430. - Landscaping and accessory structures.
- Sec. 86-431. - Demolition, razing or moving a building or structure.
- Sec. 86-432. - Procedure in the event of significant damage.
- Sec. 86-433. - Appeal of planning commission decision on demolition, razing, and moving of a building or structure.
- Sec. 86-434. - Appeal to the circuit court from a decision of the town council on the demolition, razing, or moving of a building or structure.
ARTICLE IV
- DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - USE AND DESIGN STANDARDS
- Sec. 86-451.- Use and design standards.
- Sec. 86-452. - Residential use types.
- Sec. 86-453. - Accessory apartments.
- Sec. 86-454. - Home occupations.
- Sec. 86-455. - Manufactured home.
- Sec. 86-456. - Manufactured home, emergency.
- Sec. 86-457. - Manufactured home park.
- Sec. 86-458. - Multi-family dwelling consisting of more than three units.
- Sec. 86-459. - Single-family, attached.
- Sec. 86-460. - Temporary family health care structures.
- Sec. 86-461. - Townhouses.
- Sec. 86-462. - Upper-story residential unit.
- Sec. 86-471. - Civic use types.
- Sec. 86-472. - Cemetery.
- Sec. 86-473. - Clubs.
- Sec. 86-474. - Community recreation.
- Sec. 86-475. - Educational facility college/university.
- Sec. 86-476. - Educational facility primary/secondary.
- Sec. 86-477. - Family day care home.
- Sec. 86-478. - Public parks and recreational areas.
- Sec. 86-479. - Religious assembly.
- Sec. 86-480. - Safety service.
- Sec. 86-481. - Utility services, major.
- Sec. 86-482. - Non-profit facility.
- Sec. 86-482.1. - Food bank, food pantry, or similar uses.
- Sec. 86-483. - Personal service business in R-2 district.
- Sec. 86-501. - Commercial use types.
- Sec. 86-502. - Adult use.
- Sec. 86-503. - Automobile dealership, new.
- Sec. 86-504. - Automobile dealership, used.
- Sec. 86-505. - Automobile repair services, major.
- Sec. 86-506. - Automobile repair services, minor.
- Sec. 86-507. - Bed and breakfast.
- Sec. 86-508. - Car wash.
- Sec. 86-509. - Construction sales and service.
- Sec. 86-510. - Day care center.
- Sec. 86-511. - Equipment sales and rentals.
- Sec. 86-512. - Garden center.
- Sec. 86-513. - Gasoline stations.
- Sec. 86-514. - Itinerant merchant.
- Sec. 86-515. - Kennel, commercial.
- Sec. 86-515.1. - Keeping of chickens.
- Sec. 86-515.2. - Keeping of horses in R-1 and R-2 district.
- Sec. 86-516. - Manufactured home sales.
- Sec. 86-517. - Mini-storage.
- Sec. 86-518. - Recreational vehicle sales and service.
- Sec. 86-519. - Retail sales.
- Sec. 86-520. - Restaurant, mobile.
- Sec. 86-521. - Wedding/event facility.
- Sec. 86-522. - Short-term rental.
- Sec. 86-523. - Indoor pet boarding facility.
- Sec. 86-531. - Industrial use types.
- Sec. 86-532. - Construction yard.
- Sec. 86-533. - Custom manufacturing.
- Sec. 86-534. - Recycling centers and stations.
- Sec. 86-541. - Miscellaneous use types.
- Sec. 86-542. - Amateur radio tower.
- Sec. 86-543. - Parking facility, surface.
- Sec. 86-544. - Satellite dish antenna in excess of one meter.
- Sec. 86-545. - Tower.
- Sec. 86-546. - Aviation facility, private.
- Sec. 86-548. - Donation bins.
- DIVISION 2. - ACCESSORY USES AND STRUCTURES
- Sec. 86-551.- Accessory uses and structures.
- Sec. 86-552. - Accessory uses: Agricultural use types.
- Sec. 86-553. - Accessory uses: Residential use types.
- Sec. 86-554. - Accessory uses: Civic use types.
- Sec. 86-555. - Accessory uses: Office use types.
- Sec. 86-556. - Accessory uses: Commercial use types.
- Sec. 86-557. - Accessory uses: Industrial use types.
- DIVISION 3. - PARKING
- DIVISION 4. - BUFFERS AND LANDSCAPING STANDARDS
- Sec. 86-571.- Buffer yards, screening, and landscaping.
- Sec. 86-572. - General requirements.
- Sec. 86-573. - Buffer yards.
- Sec. 86-574. - Standards for buffer yard planting and screening.
- Sec. 86-575. - Requirements for exterior storage, HVAC equipment, dumpsters.
- Sec. 86-576. - Screening requirements for outdoor recreation uses.
- Sec. 86-577. - Perimeter landscaping standards for parking areas.
- Sec. 86-578. - Use of existing wooded areas.
- Sec. 86-579. - Interior landscaping standards for parking areas.
- Sec. 86-580. - Planting and design guidelines.
- Sec. 86-581. - Maintenance of landscaping.
- Sec. 86-582. - Modifications.
- Sec. 86-583. - Conflicting requirements.
- DIVISION 5. - MISCELLANEOUS STANDARDS
- Sec. 86-591.- Site lighting.
- Sec. 86-592. - Sketch plans.
- Sec. 86-593. - Yard, height, and setback requirements.
- Sec. 86-594. - Frontage requirements on cul-de-sacs.
- Sec. 86-595. - Flag lots; prohibition of irregular lots.
- Sec. 86-596. - One single-family detached dwelling per lot.
- Sec. 86-597. - Public utility lots.
- Sec. 86-598. - Corner and double frontage lots, orientation of yards.
- Sec. 86-599. - Establishment of sight triangles.
- Sec. 86-600. - Location and design of fences.
- Sec. 86-601. - Standards and procedures for review of condominiums.
- Sec. 86-602. - On-site storage and temporary mobile storage containers.
- Sec. 86-603. - Outside recreational vehicle parking and storage (all zoning districts).
- DIVISION 6. - SITE PLANS
- Sec. 86-611.- Site plan review.
- Sec. 86-612. - Pre-application conference.
- Sec. 86-613. - Preliminary site plan administrative procedures and requirements.
- Sec. 86-614. - Final site plan.
- Sec. 86-615. - Format of final site plans and technical information.
- Sec. 86-616. - Final site plan administrative procedures and requirements.
- Sec. 86-617. - Minimum standards and improvements required.
- Sec. 86-618. - Construction to be in accordance with approved final site plan.
- Sec. 86-619. - Supervision by developer and prosecution of work.
- Sec. 86-620. - Inspection by the town.
- Sec. 86-621. - Site plan approval required prior to issuance of building permit.
ARTICLE V
- SIGNS7
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY
- Sec. 86-631. - Purpose and intent of article.
- Sec. 86-632. - Applicability of article provisions.
- Sec. 86-633. - Sign permit required.
- Sec. 86-634. - Signs considered accessory uses.
- Sec. 86-635. - Definitions.
- Sec. 86-636. - Prohibited signs.
- Sec. 86-637. - Exempt signs.
- Sec. 86-638. - Signs requiring temporary sign permit, other than banners.
- Sec. 86-639. - General sign standards.
- Sec. 86-640. - Development standards for permitted sign types.
- Sec. 86-641. - Standards for portable A-frame, T-frame signs and banners.
- Sec. 86-642. - Construction and maintenance standards.
- Sec. 86-643. - Nonconforming signs.
- Sec. 86-644. - Streamers/festoons.
- DIVISION 2. - SIGNS PERMITTED BY ZONING DISTRICT
- DIVISION 3. - ADMINISTRATION[8]
ARTICLE VI
TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES9
Sections
- Sec. 86-671.- Findings.
- Sec. 86-672. - Purposes of article.
- Sec. 86-673. - Definitions.
- Sec. 86-674. - Development and approval of towers.
- Sec. 86-675. - Availability of suitable existing towers or other structures.
- Sec. 86-676. - Interference with public safety radio services.
- Sec. 86-677. - Setbacks and fall zones.
- Sec. 86-678. - Separation or buffer requirements.
- Sec. 86-679. - Method of determining tower height.
- Sec. 86-680. - Illumination.
- Sec. 86-681. - Exterior finish.
- Sec. 86-682. - Landscaping.
- Sec. 86-683. - Security.
- Sec. 86-684. - Access.
- Sec. 86-685. - Certifications and inspection of new and existing towers.
- Sec. 86-686. - Maintenance.
- Sec. 86-687. - Stealth.
- Sec. 86-688. - Telecommunications facilities on antenna support structures.
- Sec. 86-689. - Collocation; existing towers.
- Sec. 86-690. - Abandonment.
- Sec. 86-691. - Local government access.
- Sec. 86-692. - Reservation of rights.
ARTICLE VII
NONCONFORMING USES AND OTHER VESTED RIGHTS
Sections
- Sec. 86-701.- Vested rights not impaired; general policy as to nonconforming uses.
- Sec. 86-702. - General provisions as to nonconforming lots of record, structures, uses of land, and uses of structures.
- Sec. 86-703. - General rules as to nonconforming uses.
- Sec. 86-704. - Permits previously issued.
- Sec. 86-705. - Changes in district.
ARTICLE VIII
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS10
Sections
- Sec. 86-731.- Created; membership; organization.
- Sec. 86-731.1. - Board of zoning appeals, ex parte communications; proceedings.
- Sec. 86-732. - Board of zoning appeals—Powers and duties.
- Sec. 86-733. - Applications for variances.
- Sec. 86-734. - Appeals.
- Sec. 86-735. - Procedure on appeal.
- Sec. 86-736. - Reserved.
ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENTS; CONDITIONS; NOTICES
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - AMENDMENTS; CHANGES IN ZONING
- DIVISION 2. - CONDITIONAL ZONING
- Sec. 86-791. - Declaration of legislative policy and findings; purpose.
- Sec. 86-792. - Conditions as part of a rezoning or amendment to zoning map.
- Sec. 86-793. - Enforcement and guarantees.
- Sec. 86-794. - Records.
- Sec. 86-795. - Petition for review of decision.
- Sec. 86-796. - Amendments and variations of conditions.
ARTICLE X
- FLOOD CONTROL
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY
- Sec. 86-821. - Definitions.
- Sec. 86-822. - Applicability of article provisions.
- Sec. 86-823. - Purpose of article.
- Sec. 86-824. - Compliance with article provisions.
- Sec. 86-825. - Abrogation and greater restrictions.
- Sec. 86-826. - Special use permits and variances; additional factors considered.
- Sec. 86-827. - Existing structures in floodplain districts.
- Sec. 86-828. - Municipal liability.
- DIVISION 2. - ESTABLISHMENT OF FLOODPLAIN DISTRICTS
- DIVISION 3. - DISTRICT PROVISIONS