Anne Arundel County Unincorporated City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
TITLE 2
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. IN GENERAL
- § 18-2-101. Scope; applicability.
- § 18-2-102. Policy.
- § 18-2-103. Planning for future development.
- § 18-2-104. Contents and review of the General Development Plan.
- § 18-2-105. Zoning districts created.
- § 18-2-106. Zoning map.
- § 18-2-107. Zoning district line corrections.
- § 18-2-108. Amendments to comprehensive zoning ordinance.
- § 18-2-109. Review of applications for alcoholic beverage licenses.
- § 18-2-110. Preservation of historic and archaeological resources.
- § 18-2-111. Compliance with other law.
- SUBTITLE 2. USES AND STRUCTURES
- SUBTITLE 3. BULK REGULATIONS
- SUBTITLE 4. WATERFRONT PROVISIONS
TITLE 3
PARKING, OUTDOOR LIGHTING, AND SIGNAGE
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. PARKING
- SUBTITLE 2. OUTDOOR LIGHTING
- SUBTITLE 3. SIGNAGE
- § 18-3-301. General provisions.
- § 18-3-302. Permit requirements.
- § 18-3-303. Prohibited signs; location; removal from County rights-of-way.
- § 18-3-304. Measurement of area and height.
- § 18-3-305. Permanent offsite directional signs in County rights-of-way.
- § 18-3-306. Temporary signs.
- § 18-3-307. Signs in residential districts and for certain dwellings in commercial districts.
- § 18-3-308. Signs for business complexes.
- § 18-3-309. Signs in commercial and industrial districts for uses other than dwellings and business complexes.
- § 18-3-310. Signs for marinas; signs in maritime districts.
- § 18-3-311. Signs in open space districts.
- § 18-3-312. Signs in Small Business Districts.
- § 18-3-313. Signage programs.
TITLE 4
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. IN GENERAL
- SUBTITLE 2. LOT MERGER AND UNMERGER
- § 18-4-201. Scope.
- § 18-4-202. Uses and merger of unimproved lots of substandard area or dimensions.
- § 18-4-203. Merger of lots in service of a principal use.
- § 18-4-204. Lot merger agreement; effect of merger.
- § 18-4-205. Information upon application for permit; enforcement.
- § 18-4-206. Consolidation without subdivision.
- SUBTITLE 3. RA - RURAL AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 4. RLD - RESIDENTIAL LOW DENSITY DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 5. R1 - RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 6. R2 - RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 7. R5 - RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 8. R10 - RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 9. R15 - RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 10. R22 - RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
TITLE 5
COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. IN GENERAL
- SUBTITLE 2. C1 - LOCAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 3. C2 - COMMERCIAL OFFICE DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 4. C3 - GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 5. C4 - HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS
TITLE 6
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. IN GENERAL
- SUBTITLE 2. W1 - INDUSTRIAL PARK DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 3. W2 - LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 4. W3 - HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
TITLE 7
MARITIME DISTRICTS
Sections
TITLE 8
MIXED USE DISTRICTS
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. IN GENERAL
- SUBTITLE 2. USES UNDER THE STANDARD METHOD OF DEVELOPMENT
- SUBTITLE 3. USES UNDER THE OPTIONAL METHOD OF DEVELOPMENT
TITLE 9
OTHER ZONING DISTRICTS
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. ODENTON TOWN CENTER DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 2. OS/OS-C - OPEN SPACE DISTRICTS AND CONSERVATION OVERLAY
- SUBTITLE 3. TC - TOWN CENTER DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 4. SB - SMALL BUSINESS DISTRICTS
TITLE 10
REQUIREMENTS FOR CONDITIONAL USES
Sections
- § 18-10-101. Adult bookstores.
- § 18-10-102. Adult movie theater.
- § 18-10-103. Agritourism.
- § 18-10-104. Alcoholic beverage uses as accessory to other uses.
- § 18-10-105. Animal Hospitals and Veterinary Clinics with non-medical overnight stays.
- § 18-10-106. Assisted living facilities.
- § 18-10-107. Assisted living facilities II, community-based.
- § 18-10-108. Automobile gasoline stations.
- § 18-10-109. Automobile, truck, and recreational vehicle sales.
- § 18-10-110. Bed and breakfast homes.
- § 18-10-111. Bingo, commercial.
- § 18-10-112. Bird sanctuaries.
- § 18-10-113. BRAC Mixed Use Development.
- § 18-10-114. Business complexes in a residential district.
- § 18-10-115. Business complexes with auxiliary uses.
- § 18-10-116. Carnivals, circuses, and fairs, temporary.
- § 18-10-117. Carwashes.
- § 18-10-118. Commercial telecommunication facilities.
- § 18-10-119. Composting facilities.
- § 18-10-120. Country clubs, private clubs, and service and nonprofit charitable organizations with less than 125 onsite parking spaces.
- § 18-10-121. Country clubs, private clubs, and service and nonprofit charitable organizations with 125 or more onsite parking spaces.
- § 18-10-122. Data storage centers in the BWI/Fort Meade Growth Area.
- § 18-10-123. Dwelling units, accessory.
- § 18-10-124. Dwelling units, adult independent.
- § 18-10-125. Dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, and multiplexes.
- § 18-10-126. Dwelling unit, marina caretaker’s residence.
- § 18-10-127. Dwellings, multifamily.
- § 18-10-128. Dwellings, townhouses and stacked townhouses.
- § 18-10-129. Electric vehicle towing and storage facilities.
- § 18-10-130. Farm alcohol production facility.
- § 18-10-131. Farm dual uses.
- § 18-10-132. Farm or agricultural heritage site special event, 9 to 15 annual events.
- § 18-10-133. Farm or agricultural heritage site stay.
- § 18-10-134. Farm tenant houses.
- § 18-10-135. Funeral establishments.
- § 18-10-136. Garden centers.
- § 18-10-137. Golf course facilities, private.
- § 18-10-138. Government reuse facilities.
- § 18-10-139. Group homes II.
- § 18-10-140. Gunsmiths and ammunition sales facilities.
- § 18-10-141. Home occupations.
- § 18-10-142. Housing for the elderly of moderate means.
- § 18-10-143. Kennels, commercial.
- § 18-10-144. Licensed dispensaries, growers and processors of cannabis.
- § 18-10-145. Neighborhood marinas.
- § 18-10-146. Nurseries with landscaping and plant sales.
- § 18-10-147. Nursing homes.
- § 18-10-148. Package goods stores.
- § 18-10-149. Piers and launching ramps, community.
- § 18-10-150. Piers, recreational.
- § 18-10-151. Processing facilities for clay, sand, gravel, and similar materials.
- § 18-10-152. Produce market.
- § 18-10-153. Race track for horses.
- § 18-10-154. Recreational uses, active.
- § 18-10-155. Restaurants, taverns, retail sales, and consumer services in a multifamily structure.
- § 18-10-156. Retail sale of liquefied petroleum gases accessory to and on the same lot as an allowed use.
- § 18-10-157. Rooming houses.
- § 18-10-158. School bus facilities.
- § 18-10-159. Schools, private academic and public charter, with less than 125 onsite parking spaces.
- § 18-10-160. Schools, private academic and public charter, with 125 or more onsite parking spaces.
- § 18-10-161. Self-service storage facilities.
- § 18-10-162. Small cell systems.
- § 18-10-163. Small wind energy systems.
- § 18-10-164. Solar energy generating facility - community.
- § 18-10-165. Solar energy generating facility - utility scale.
- § 18-10-166. Stables or riding clubs.
- § 18-10-167. State-licensed medical clinics.
- § 18-10-168. Storage of watercraft, covered and dry.
- § 18-10-169. Storage of watercraft, outside and dry.
- § 18-10-170. Storage, multilevel watercraft rack.
- § 18-10-171. Structures, permanent, accessory to active recreational uses.
- § 18-10-172. Veterinarian clinic, large animal.
- § 18-10-173. Video lottery facilities.
- § 18-10-174. Waterman’s home commercial use.
- § 18-10-175. Workforce housing.
- § 18-10-176. Workforce housing.
TITLE 11
REQUIREMENTS FOR SPECIAL EXCEPTION USES
Sections
- § 18-11-101. Airports and airfields.
- § 18-11-102. Amusement parks.
- § 18-11-103. Animal hospitals and veterinary clinics.
- § 18-11-104. Assisted living facilities.
- § 18-11-105. Automobile and truck dismantling and recycling facilities.
- § 18-11-106. Automobile gasoline stations.
- § 18-11-107. Automobile towing facilities in conjunction with automobile gasoline stations.
- § 18-11-108. Bed and breakfast inns.
- § 18-11-109. Campgrounds, commercial recreational.
- § 18-11-110. Cement manufacturing.
- § 18-11-111. Cemeteries.
- § 18-11-112. Child care centers other than as a home occupation.
- § 18-11-113. Clay and borrow pits and sand and gravel operations.
- § 18-11-114. Coke and coke products manufacturing.
- § 18-11-116. Commercial recreational facilities.
- § 18-11-117. Commercial telecommunication facilities.
- § 18-11-118. Conference retreat facilities.
- § 18-11-119. Conversion of existing single-family detached dwellings to duplex dwellings.
- § 18-11-120. Country clubs, private clubs, and service and nonprofit charitable organizations with 125 or more onsite parking spaces.
- § 18-11-121. Dance halls.
- § 18-11-122. Drive-in theaters.
- § 18-11-123. Eating disorder treatment facility.
- § 18-11-124. Farm or agricultural heritage site special event, 16 to 30 annual events.
- § 18-11-125. Fertilizer manufacturing.
- § 18-11-126. Festival, renaissance.
- § 18-11-127. Heliports.
- § 18-11-128. Hotels and motels.
- § 18-11-129. Kennels, commercial.
- § 18-11-130. Landfills, rubble and land-clearing debris landfills.
- § 18-11-131. Landscaping and tree contracting.
- § 18-11-132. Landscaping and tree contracting with accessory recycling of logs into firewood.
- § 18-11-133. Mobile home parks.
- § 18-11-134. Natural wood waste recycling facilities.
- § 18-11-135. Nursing homes.
- § 18-11-136. Ore storage.
- § 18-11-137. Pawnshops.
- § 18-11-138. Petroleum products, storage for retail sale.
- § 18-11-139. Petroleum products, storage onsite in excess of 1,000,000 gallons for use by W3 district uses or public utilities.
- § 18-11-140. Piers and launching ramps, community.
- § 18-11-141. Planned unit developments.
- § 18-11-142. Plasma centers.
- § 18-11-143. Public utility uses.
- § 18-11-144. Race tracks for horses.
- § 18-11-145. Race tracks other than horse race tracks.
- § 18-11-146. Radio, television, or industrial testing towers.
- § 18-11-147. Recyclables recovery facilities.
- § 18-11-148. Religious facilities with 300 or more onsite parking spaces.
- § 18-11-149. Rendering plants.
- § 18-11-150. Rifle, pistol, skeet, and archery ranges, indoor.
- § 18-11-151. Rifle, pistol, skeet, and archery ranges, outdoor.
- § 18-11-152. Rubble processing facilities.
- § 18-11-153. Schools, private academic and public charter, with 125 or more onsite parking spaces.
- § 18-11-154. Self-service storage facilities.
- § 18-11-155. Small wind energy systems.
- § 18-11-156. Solar energy generating facility - community.
- § 18-11-157. Solar energy generating facility - utility scale.
- § 18-11-158. Solid waste transfer stations.
- § 18-11-159. Stadiums, commercial.
- § 18-11-160. Storage, bulk for agricultural products.
- § 18-11-161. Storage of watercraft, covered and wet.
- § 18-11-162. Storage of watercraft, covered and dry.
- § 18-11-163. Structures, permanent, accessory to active recreational uses.
- § 18-11-164. Storage of watercraft, multilevel watercraft rack.
- § 18-11-165. Truck and trailer rental facilities in conjunction with automobile gasoline stations.
TITLE 12
SPECIAL USES
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. GOVERNMENT REUSE FACILITIES
- SUBTITLE 2. PUD - PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS
- SUBTITLE 3. REGIONAL COMMERCIAL COMPLEXES
- SUBTITLE 4. SCHOOL BUS STORAGE IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
- SUBTITLE 5. SUBURBAN COMMUNITY CENTERS
- SUBTITLE 6. SHORT-TERM RESIDENTIAL RENTALS
- SUBTITLE 7. MODERATELY PRICED DWELLING UNITS
TITLE 13
CRITICAL AREA OVERLAY
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. IN GENERAL
- SUBTITLE 2. USES
- SUBTITLE 3. APPLICATIONS FOR BUFFER MODIFICATION MAP AMENDMENTS
- SUBTITLE 4. GROWTH ALLOCATION
TITLE 14
OTHER OVERLAYS
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. IN GENERAL
- SUBTITLE 2. BOG PROTECTION
- SUBTITLE 3. COMMERCIAL REVITALIZATION AREAS
- SUBTITLE 4. PAROLE TOWN CENTER
- SUBTITLE 5. BWI MIXED USE OVERLAY
- SUBTITLE 6. GLEN BURNIE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY OVERLAY AREA
TITLE 16
ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. IN GENERAL
- SUBTITLE 2. APPLICATION PROCESS AND PRE-HEARING PROCEDURES
- SUBTITLE 3. HEARING AND DECISION
- SUBTITLE 4. POST-DECISION PROCEDURES AND EVENTS
- § 18-16-401. Revision by Administrative Hearing Officer to correct errors of form.
- § 18-16-402. Appeal to the Board of Appeals.
- § 18-16-403. Limitation on subsequent applications.
- § 18-16-404. Rescission, suspension, or modification of a variance or special exception.
- § 18-16-405. Time period after which variances and special exceptions are void.
- § 18-16-406. Abandonment of special exception.
TITLE 17
ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES
Sections
- SUBTITLE 1. JUNKYARDS; SOLID WASTE; VEHICLES
- SUBTITLE 2. ZONING VIOLATIONS