Except where specifically defined herein, all words used in this chapter shall carry their customary meanings. Words used in the present tense include the future tense; the singular number includes the plural. The word shall is mandatory, not directory.

Accessory use means a use of land or of a building or portion thereof customarily incidental to the principal use of the land or building and located on the same lot with such principal use. For the purpose of this chapter, accessory uses include swimming pools and game courts and shall meet the requirements of article 6.

Agriculture, farming means the science or art of cultivating the soil, producing crops, plants, trees or shrubs, and/or raising livestock which does not require a tax license by the State of South Carolina.

Apartment. Same as "Dwelling, multiple-family."

Automobile wash, automated, means any automobile cleaning facility that provides exterior washing and cleaning on a drive-through or rollover basis.

Automobile wash, full-service, means any automobile cleaning facility which provides exterior and interior washing and cleaning services for automobiles and other motor vehicles.

Automobile wash, self-service, means any automobile cleaning facility where equipment and/or facilities are provided for the self-service cleaning of automobiles and other motor vehicles.

Barn means a structure that may be used to house animals, farm equipment, feed, storage or other farm-related items.

Bed and breakfast inn, lodge, cottage means a home used for lodging. The home is secondary to the business. These types of facilities provide accommodations with breakfast in operator or owner occupied homes that are primarily used for inn activities. Inns are operated as a commercial enterprise. Bed and breakfast inns, lodges, and cottages may operate restaurants offering meals to the general public, as well as overnight guests. Accommodations for overnight stays are limited to five to 15 guest rooms.

Bed and breakfast homestay, host home, guest house means a private home offering lodging and breakfast to guests. Accommodations are limited to a maximum of four guestrooms. This type of establishment is primarily a private home offering lodging and breakfast to guests. The appearance and primary function of the home shall remain as a residence, not as a lodging establishment.

Building means any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls and intended for the shelter, housing, or enclosure of any person, process, equipment, or goods.

Building, accessory, means a structure attached to or detached from a principal building on the same lot and customarily incidental to the use of the principal building.

Building, principal, means a building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot.

Building permit means a certificate which has been endorsed by the zoning administrator that a proposal to use or occupy a tract of land or a building, or to erect, install, or alter a structure, building, or sign, fully meets the requirements of this chapter.

Building setback line means a line establishing the minimum allowable distance between the nearest portion of any building, excluding steps, gutters, and similar fixtures, and the property line when measured perpendicularly thereto.

Canopy means a rooflike, unenclosed (except when connected to a building) shelter having various means of support and generally used for protection from weather for pedestrians.

Cemetery means land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, and including columbariums, mausoleums, and chapels when operated in conjunction with and within the boundaries of such cemetery.

Certificate of occupancy means a statement signed by the zoning administrator setting forth that the building, structure, or use complies with the zoning ordinance and that the same may be used for the purpose stated herein.

Child care center means any home, center, agency, or place where children not related to the operator are received for care.

Child care home means one in which care is given in a family home for one and not more than six children. Only those residing in the home may be involved in the day-to-day operation of the child care home.

Cluster housing means grouping of three or more structures around courts, culs-de-sac or short streets, more closely than in conventional single-family classifications, in order to preserve open space for common use.

Collection center for recyclable consumer items means a facility designed to receive household consumer items for recycling, such as metal food containers and cans, glass food containers, beverage bottles, discarded newspapers, magazines, card board and flat paper.

Columbarium means a building or structure designed with niches for the location of urns to hold the ashes of cremated persons. Columbaria shall be operated only within the boundaries of approved cemeteries and churches.

Communication antenna means a device used to transmit and/or receive radio or electromagnetic waves between terrestrially or orbitally based structures.

Communication tower means a tower of any size which supports communication (broadcast or receiving) equipment utilized by commercial, governmental, or other public and quasi-public users. This does not include communication equipment operated by a public service agency, private home use of satellite dishes and television antennas, or amateur radio operators as licensed by the Federal Communications Commission.

Community recreational area means a recreational area shown on an approved preliminary subdivision plat comprised of one or more of the following: swimming pools, picnic shelter, game courts, and neighborhood clubhouses. A community recreational area is intended to serve the residents of the subdivision in which it is located. It does not include for-profit, privately owned and operated facilities.

Continuing care retirement center means one or more structures maintained for the purpose of providing housing to two or more individuals, except rooms or units occupied by resident personnel staff, which may be in conjunction with medical and skilled nursing care and personal services such as shared food preparation, dining areas, recreation, social, and other personal services for the exclusive use of the residents.

District, zoning, means any section of Anderson County in which zoning regulations are uniform.

Drainage plan means a site plan showing contours, drainage structures (including, but not limited to, pipes, ponds, ditches, etc.), anticipated flow calculations, destination of run-off to nearest identifiable drainage way, and any other data required to clearly define the proposed drainage system.

Dwelling means any building used exclusively for human habitation, including any permitted home occupation but excluding hotels, motels, and rooming[houses] and boardinghouses.

Dwelling unit means one or more rooms with cooking and toilet facilities used as a place of residence for one family.

Dwelling, garden court, means a single-family dwelling unit, also known as a patio house, which is located on its lot, nearer to one side and/or rear property lines(s) than is allowed for normal single-family dwellings; however, such structure cannot be located closer than five feet to the side and/or rear property lines(s). For the purpose of this chapter, a garden court dwelling shall be treated as a single-family detached dwelling.

Dwelling, multiple-family, means a residential building containing three or more individual dwelling units located on a single lot or parcel of ground. A multiple-family dwelling, commonly known as an apartment house, generally has a common outside entrance(s) for all the dwelling units, and the units are generally designed to occupy a single floor one above the other.

Dwelling, single-family, means a residential building containing only one dwelling unit and not occupied by more than one family.

Dwelling, single-family attached, means two or more single-family dwelling units, each with its own outside entrance, which are generally joined together by a common party wall or connecting permanent structures such as breezeways, carports, or garages, whether or not such a group is located on a single lot or parcel of ground or on adjoining individual lots. For the purpose of this chapter, dwellings such as rowhouses, townhouses, and condominiums shall be treated as single-family attached dwellings.

Dwelling, single-family detached, means a single-family dwelling unit that is entirely surrounded by open space or yards on the same lot.

Dwelling, two-family, means a residential building containing two individual dwelling units located on a single lot or parcel of ground.

Dwelling, zero lot line, means a single-family dwelling that has a zero-foot setback from a side and/or rear property line. For the purpose of this chapter, a zero lot line dwelling shall be treated as a single-family detached dwelling.

Expressway. Expressways involve those facilities containing some at-grade intersections but with limited access.

Family means one or more persons living together as a single housekeeping unit. For the purposes of this chapter, such persons may include gratuitous guests, foster children, and domestic servants employed in the same.

Family care home means a residence in which six or fewer individuals are housed who are not necessarily related and who are individuals with disabilities as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, aged, alcoholic or drug addicted, or who are in need of adult supervision and/or family support. Any family care home which houses alcoholic or drug addicted individuals must be a noncommercial organization that can ensure its residents have completed a recognized drug and/or alcohol treatment program and are no longer using alcohol or controlled substances. In addition, facilities for mentally ill, alcoholic or drug addicted individuals must be licensed by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) as a community residential care facility as defined in the South Carolina Code of Laws 1976, as amended, Regulation 61-84. Only those residing in the home may be involved in the day-to-day operation of the family care home. Such homes include children's homes, group homes, rest homes, homes for the elderly, and family support homes. Family care homes do not provide continuous medical and skilled nursing care such as a nursing home nor provide any service to the resident beyond personal assistance.

Freeway. Freeways involve those facilities with complete control of access through the use of grade separation and interchanges.

Gross leasable area means the total floor area designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use including basements, mezzanines, and upper floors, if any, expressed in square feet and measured from the centerline of joint partitions and from outside wall faces.

Group care home means a residence in which seven or more, but not exceeding 20, individuals are housed who are not necessarily related and who are individuals with disabilities as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, aged, alcoholic or drug addicted, or who are in need of adult supervision and/or group support. Any group care home which houses alcoholic or drug addicted individuals must be a noncommercial organization that can ensure its residents have completed a recognized drug and/or alcohol treatment program and are no longer using alcohol or controlled substances. In addition, facilities for mentally ill, alcoholic or drug addicted individuals must be licensed by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) as a community residential care facility as defined in South Carolina Code of Laws 1976, as amended, Regulation 61-84. Only those residing in the home may be involved in the day-to-day operation of the group home. Such homes include facilities such as children's homes, group homes, rest homes, homes for the elderly, and family support homes. Group care homes do not provide continuous medical and skilled nursing care such as a nursing home nor provide any service to the resident beyond personal assistance.

Group development means a planned mix of permitted uses.

Group commercial development. A commercial group development is two or more permitted land uses on the same lot, tract, or parcel of land, i.e., shopping center.

Group industrial development. An industrial group development is two or more permitted land uses sited on the same lot, tract, or parcel of land, i.e., industrial park.

Group residential development. A residential group development is a planned group of three or more residential dwelling units exclusive of single-family detached and two-family (duplex) dwelling units. For the purpose of this chapter, multifamily dwelling units and single-family attached dwelling units (i.e., cluster homes, row houses, and townhouses) shall be treated as residential group developments.

Height means the vertical distance measured from the average finished grade at the front building line to the highest point of the structure.

Home occupation means any use of principal and accessory buildings clearly incidental to their uses for dwelling purposes and conducted for compensation by a resident thereof within a residential district and meeting the requirements of article 6 of this chapter.

Hotel or motel means a building or group of buildings containing individual sleeping or living units designed for the temporary occupancy of automobile tourists or transient guests and which has a garage attached or parking space conveniently located to each unit.

Interstate highway. See Freeway.

Industrial park means two or more compatible industrial structures or uses that are located on a single parcel or on contiguous parcels whose location is identified by a common name.

Junk yard means any land or area used, in whole or in part, for commercial storage and/or sale of waste paper, rags, scrap metal, or other junk and including storage of vehicles and machinery and/or dismantling of such vehicles or machinery.

Light industry means the manufacture, service, repair, or testing of products taking place in a totally enclosed building. There is no outside storage. Noise, odor, glare, vibrations, or emissions from the industrial activity are not detectable off of the property.

Lot means a parcel of land designated by number or other symbol as a part of a legally approved and recorded subdivision or as described by metes and bounds and recorded in the office of the Anderson County register of deeds.

Lot, corner, means a lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection or upon two parts of the same street forming an interior angle of less than 135 degrees. The point of intersection of the street lines or of the street lines as extended is the corner.

Lot, depth, means the average horizontal distance between the front and rear property lines of a lot.

Lot, double frontage, means a lot which extends through a block having frontage on two roads.

Lot line, front, means that line which separates the lot from a street right-of-way.

Lot line, rear, means ordinarily that lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. In the case of a triangular or otherwise irregularly shaped lot, a line ten feet in length entirely within the lot, parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line, or a chord thereof if the front lot line is curved, shall be considered as the rear lot line for purposes of determining the required rear yard.

Lot of record means a lot existing before the adoption of the zoning ordinance and as shown or described on a plat or deed in the records of the Anderson County register of deeds.

Lot, width, means the distance between the side lot lines at the setback line as measured along a straight line parallel to the front line or parallel to the chord thereof.

Lot, zoning, means a parcel of land which is indicated by the owner at the time of application for a building or zoning permit as being that land which he proposes to develop under one ownership.

Manufactured home park means any place, area, or tract of land maintained, offered, or used for parking of two or more manufactured homes used or intended to be used for living or sleeping purposes regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodations.

Manufactured home space means that portion of land in a manufactured home park allotted to or designed for the accommodation of one manufactured home.

Manufactured multi-section home means a portable unit designed and built to be towed on its own chassis, comprised of frame and wheels, connected to utilities, and designed to be used without a permanent foundation for a permanent residence. It contains two or more separately towable sections designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of being again separated into components. Either or both units may contain parts that may be folded, collapsed, or telescoped when being towed and expanded later to provide additional cubic capacity. These units may be used for residential, commercial, educational, or industrial purposes. Travel trailers, travel motorized homes, pick-up coaches, and camping trailers are excluded from this definition. This definition includes units referred to as doublewide manufactured homes built prior to the enactment of the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, which became effective June 15, 1976.

Manufactured single-sectionhome means a portable unit designed and built to be towed on its own chassis, comprised of frame and wheels, connected to utilities, and designed to be used without a permanent foundation for a permanent residence. A single-section unit may contain parts that may be folded, collapsed, or telescoped when being towed and expanded later to provide additional cubic capacity. These units may be used for residential, commercial, educational, or industrial purposes. Travel trailers, travel motorized homes, pick-up coaches, and camping trailers are excluded from this definition. This definition includes units referred to as singlewide manufactured homes built prior to the enactment of the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, which became effective June 15, 1976.

Mausoleum means a building or structure designed with vaults to hold caskets or crematory urns. Mausoleums shall be operated only within the boundaries of approved cemeteries.

Mini-warehouse means a facility composed of one or multiple structures divided into sections for use as storage of items either temporary or long-term and not to be used for any other purpose (such as small office, garage, etc.). Such a facility may include one accessory manager's office/apartment which is clearly subordinate to the primary use of the facility for warehousing purposes.

Manufactured home. See Manufactured single-section home.

Modular home means a home consisting of two or more factory fabricated components that do not have an integrated chassis which are transported to the home site where they are put on a permanent foundation or slab and joined to make a permanent single-family house. Such units shall comply with all state and locally adopted building codes.

Motel. See Hotel or motel.

Nightclub means any establishment, whether public or a private club, including cocktail lounges, etc., serving a predominantly adult clientele, and whose primary business is the sale of alcoholic beverages, including beer and wine, for consumption on the premises in conjunction with dancing or live performances. The purchase of food is at the option of the customers and not required by the operator. The state alcoholic beverage commission must license the sale of alcoholic beverages, beer, and wine.

Nonconforming lot means a lot of record at the time of this chapter which does not meet the requirements for area and/or width generally applicable in the district in which such lot is located.

Nonconforming use or structure means a land use or structure which existed lawfully on the date this zoning ordinance became effective and which does not conform with the permitted uses for the zoning district in which it is situated. Nonconforming uses are incompatible with permitted uses in the districts involved. Such nonconformities are permitted to continue until they are removed.

Nursery means an area where trees, shrubs, or plants are grown for transplanting, for use as stocks for budding and grafting or for sale, which requires a tax license by the State of South Carolina.

Nursing care facility means a facility or institution, also known as a nursing home, providing continuous medical and skilled nursing care to two or more individuals who by reason of illness, physical or mental infirmity, or age are unable to properly care for themselves.

Nursing continuing care retirement center means a continuing care retirement center that has a 2:1 or greater ratio of nursing beds to residential units. A nursing CCRC must contain some independent residential units and not be developed entirely as a nursing care facility.

Parking space means the storage space for one automobile of not less than nine feet by 20 feet plus the necessary access space and located outside the dedicated street right-of-way.

Patio house. Same as Dwelling, garden court.

Planned shopping center means a group of commercial establishments planned and developed as a unit, related in location, size, and type of shops to the trade area that the unit serves. It provides on-site parking in definite relationship to the types and sizes of stores.

Planned development district is a development project comprised of housing of different types and densities and of compatible commercial uses, or shopping centers, office parks, and mixed-use developments. A planned development district is established by rezoning prior to development and is characterized by a unified site design for a mixed use development.

Private recreation area means a recreation area maintained for members, including, but not limited to, golf courses, swimming pools, tennis clubs, and neighborhood clubhouses, any and each of which must comply with all requirements of the zoning ordinance.

Private street means right-of-way and roadway of undetermined width which has not been dedicated, recorded, or publicly accepted by the county.

Recycling collection center means a facility located within an enclosed building that accepts recyclable materials by donation, redemption or purchase. May allow sorting, limited compacting and/or crushing of recyclable materials for shipment to other locations. This type of facility is considered to be the intermediate storage and hauling site, between recycling drop-off boxes and recycling processing centers, for recyclable materials.

Recycling convenience center means a staffed, enclosed facility which receives and sorts banned materials (e.g., used oils, tires, white goods and batteries) and waste into separate weather-resistant containers. Such facilities are prohibited from processing recyclable materials on-site and are intended to provide citizens with easy and accessible solid waste and recyclable disposal services.

Recycling drop box means a weather-resistant container that is provided for the collection of recyclable materials.

Recycling drop-off trailer means a non-motorized trailer designed and/or maintained as a temporary or permanent use to accept donated recyclable goods. A recycling drop-off trailer may be pulled by a truck for purposes of selling or recycling the goods at a different location.

Recycling processing center means a facility that accepts, stores, and processes recyclable materials whether or not maintained in connection with another business. Processing includes, but is not limited to, bailing, briquetting, crushing, compacting, grinding, shredding, sawing, shearing, composting and sorting of recyclable materials, and may include the heat reduction or melting of such materials. Examples of such facilities include:

a)

Materials recovery facility ("MRF") means a facility which accepts recyclable materials that have been separated from the waste stream and are delivered either by private citizens, businesses or recyclables collectors (i.e., "source separated" recyclables) to be processed in order to meet market specifications.

b)

Dirty materials recovery facility ("DMRF") means a facility which separates recyclable materials from a combined stream of household refuse and processes the recyclables in order to meet market requirements.

c)

Co-composting facility means a facility which accepts yard waste, industrial process wastes, agricultural wastes, residues from agricultural products processing, or sludge, functioning as a nitrogen source, to be combined in a manner that will lead to its biological or natural degradation.

Recycling materials means reusable material, including, but not limited to, glass, clothing, plastics, paper products (e.g., news papers, stationary, scrap paper, computer paper and corrugated cardboard), rubber, batteries, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, concrete asphalt, wood, building materials, and yard wastes.

Residential continuing care retirement center means a continuing care retirement center that has a 2:1 or greater radio of residential units to nursing beds. A residential CCRC may be entirely developed with independent residential units and contain no nursing beds or facilities.

Restaurant means any establishment, whether open to the public or operated as a private club, including drive-ins, whose primary business is serving meals prepared on the premises for consumption on the premises. Any defined portion of the restaurant where alcoholic beverages, including beer and wine, are served but the purchase of food is optional shall be clearly subordinate to the main dining area, where the purchase of food is expected and required by the operator. The state alcoholic beverage commission must license the sale of alcoholic beverages, beer, and wine.

Rowhouse. Same as Townhouse.

Rooming[house] orboardinghouse means a dwelling other than a hotel where lodging and/or meals for three or more persons are provided for compensation.

Screening means the method by which a view of one site from another adjacent site is shielded, concealed, or hidden. Screening techniques include fences, walls, hedges, or other features.

Service station means an establishment used for the servicing of automobiles, including the sale of gasoline, oil, grease, minor accessories, and washing and polishing, but excluding the sale of automobiles, body repairing, major motor repairing, and painting.

Setback line means that line which is parallel to and a given distance from the front lot line of a lot or parcel of land at such distance as is required in this chapter.

Sexually oriented business means any business as defined and regulated under Anderson County Code section 42-400 [now section 10-63].

Sign means any form of publicity which is visible from any public way directing attention to an individual, business, commodity, service, activity, or product by means of words, lettering, parts of letters, figures, numerals, phrases, sentences, emblems, devices, designs, trade names or trademarks, or other pictorial matter designed to convey such information and displayed by means of paint, bills, posters, panels, or other devices created on an open framework or attached or otherwise applied to stakes, posts, poles, trees, buildings, or other structures or supports.

Sign, accessory, means an advertising device used to disseminate information concerning a person, place, or thing pertaining to the use of the land upon which it is located.

Sign, advertising, means a sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, or entertainment not necessarily conducted, sold, or offered upon the premises where the sign is located.

Sign, business, means a sign which directs attention to a business, service, activity, or product sold, conducted, or offered upon the premises where such sign is located.

Sign, identification, means a sign on the premises bearing the name of a subdivision, farm, or group housing project; or of a school, college, park, church, or other public or quasipublic facility, but bearing information pertaining only to the premises on which such sign is located.

Sign, occupancy, means a sign on the premises bearing the name or address of the piece of property, the name of the owner or resident, or any permitted home occupation, but bearing information pertaining only to the premises on which the sign is located.

Sign, temporary, means an advertising device for the purpose of disseminating information about special events or occurrences, about property for sale or rent, and warning or informational signs on construction-sites; such signs as may be required in the public interest.

Street means a dedicated public right-of-way which affords the principal means of access to abutting property and which has been accepted for maintenance by Anderson County or the state highway department. For the purposes of these regulations, the term "street" or "streets" shall also mean avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, and other public ways.

Arterial street means a federal or state highway designed primarily for the movement of large volumes of traffic from one area to another.

Collector street means a public way designed primarily to connect residential service streets with arterial streets, or to provide a direct connection between two arterial streets, and may be expected to carry a significant volume of traffic having neither origin nor destination on the street.

Residential service street means a public or private way used primarily for providing direct access to abutting property.

Structure means anything constructed or erected which requires permanent location above grade. For purposes of this chapter, "structure" does not include landscape features such as ornamental pools, planting boxes, sculptures, bird baths, open terraces, walkways, driveways, walls or fences, shelters for pets, playhouses, open stairs, recreational equipment, flagpoles, light standards, game courts, swimming pools, underground fallout shelters, air conditioning compressors, pump houses or wells, mailboxes, outdoor fireplaces, gatehouses, burial vaults, or bus shelters.

Tattoo facility means any such business as defined and regulated under Anderson County Code section 38-183 [now section 24-149].

Tavern means any establishment, whether public or operated as a private club, including cocktail lounges, etc., serving a predominantly adult clientele, and whose primary business is the sale of alcoholic beverages, including beer and wine, for consumption on the premises, and where the purchase of food is at the option of the customers and not required by the operator. The state alcoholic beverage commission must license the sale of alcoholic beverages, beer, and wine.

Townhouse means a row of two or more single-family attached dwelling units each with its own outside entrance, which are joined together by a common party wall. For the purpose of this chapter, a townhouse shall be treated as a single-family attached dwelling.

Travel trailer means any vehicle mounted on wheels and designed and intended to serve primarily as short-term shelter.

Uses permitted by special exception means uses allowable where facts and conditions detailed in this chapter as those upon which a use may be permitted are found to exist.

Utility, public, means any agency which, under public franchise or ownership, provides the general public with electricity, gas, heat, steam, communication, rail transportation, water, sewage collection, or other service.

Variance means a relaxation of the dimensional terms of the zoning ordinance where such variance will not be contrary to the public interest and where, owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of actions of the applicant, a literal enforcement of the chapter would result in unnecessary and undue hardship; and does not involve a change in the use of property.

Veterinary clinic means a facility for diagnosis, treatment, and care of large and small animals. Animals may be boarded in this facility. All activities related to this facility shall be enclosed in a self-contained, freestanding building wholly occupied by the activities related to the veterinary clinic.

Veterinary clinic, mobile, means a veterinary clinic operating in a travel trailer or other such temporary structure that temporarily locates in an area to provide veterinary services. [A] temporary sign notifying of clinic date and time of service may be posted not more than one week prior to date of service. Duration of service time shall not exceed eight hours in one day.

Veterinary hospital means a facility for diagnosis, treatment, and care of large and small animals. The facility shall be a freestanding building wholly occupied by the activities related to the veterinary hospital. Animals may be boarded in this facility. Activities are not restricted to the interior of the building.

Veterinary office means a facility for diagnosis, treatment, and care of small domestic animals. Sick or injured animals may be boarded on a short-term basis. No commercial boarding is allowed in the veterinary office facility. All activities related to this facility shall be enclosed in a self-contained, freestanding building wholly occupied by activities related to the veterinary office.

Yard, required, means the open space between a lot line and the buildable area within which no structure may be located except as otherwise provided in this chapter. All yards referred to in this chapter are minimum required yards.

Yard, front, means an area extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the front lot line and the setback line as required in the applicable district.

Yard, rear, means an area extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the rear lot line parallel thereto at a distance therefrom as required in the applicable district.

Yard, side, means an area extending along the length of the lot between the required front yard and the required rear yard and between the side lot line and a line parallel thereto and a distance therefrom as required in the various districts.

Zoning advisory groups means at the time of initial zoning of a voting precinct, the council member(s) whose district(s) include that precinct may recommend appointment of a zoning advisory group to offer advice on zoning-related matters in that precinct. The group shall be composed of three residents from the zoned precinct, and shall operate for a period of no more than two years from the time of the zoning of the precinct. The planning and community development department shall provide the zoning advisory group with necessary information concerning rezoning, variance, and special exception requests in that precinct. The group shall communicate its recommendations on these matters to the planning and community development department in a timely fashion. The planning and community development department shall make these recommendations known to the planning commission, board of zoning appeals, and the county council.

(Ord. No. 99-004, art. 4, 7-20-1999; Ord. No. 2006-025, § 6, 8-15-2006; Ord. No. 2016-006, art. 4, 4-19-2016; Ord. No. 2019-030, § 2(a), 8-20-2019)