Within an R-1 Low Density Single-Family Residential District, the following uses are permitted:

7.1.1

Single-family dwellings;

7.1.2

Churches, fraternal organizations and clubs not operated for profit and provided that:

A)

They are located on a primary or a collector street;

B)

The buildings are placed not less than 50 feet from any property line; and

C)

There is a planted buffer strip at least ten feet wide where the property abuts a neighboring residential property;

7.1.3

Nursery schools and kindergartens provided that there is at least 150 square feet of outdoor play area for each child and the area is enclosed by a woven wire fence at least four feet high;

7.1.4

Public and private schools offering general education courses;

7.1.5

Public and semi-public recreation facilities and grounds;

7.1.6

Municipal, county, state, or federal buildings and cemeteries;

7.1.7

Public utilities such as electric transmission rights-of-way, substations, gas pipe lines, and water and sewage treatment plants;

7.1.8

Customary incidental home occupations;

7.1.9

Customary accessory buildings, including private garages and noncommercial greenhouses and workshops, provided that they are located in the rear yard and not closer than ten feet to any property line;

7.1.10

Customary agricultural operations and riding stables (commercial), but not including chicken brooder houses containing more than 100 birds, and provided;

A)

They shall be located on a tract of land of not less than five acres; and

B)

No structure, barn, pen or corral shall be closer than 100 feet to any property line;

7.1.11

Private stables, provided they shall be located on a lot of not less than one acre;

7.1.12

Incidental signs.

Within an R-2 Medium Density Single-Family Residential District, the following uses shall be permitted:

7.2.1

Any use permitted in R-1;

7.2.2

Professional office of a physician, dentist, lawyer, and the like, provided that there is no external evidence of such occupation except for an announcement or professional sign not more than two square feet in area and activities are conducted within a dwelling by not more than one person in addition to those resident therein;

7.2.3

Business and incidental signs.

Within an R-3 Multifamily Residential District, the following uses shall be permitted:

7.3.1

All uses permitted in R-1 and R-2 residential districts;

7.3.2

Two-family dwellings;

7.3.3

Multifamily dwellings such as apartments, townhouses, and public housing;

7.3.4

Tourist homes, roominghouses and boardinghouses;

7.3.5

Manufactured home parks/recreational vehicles/travel trailer and customary accessory uses, but not to include the sale of or service to manufactured homes, and to provide the following minimum standards, conditions and exceptions as follows:

(a)

Manufactured homes are prohibited, except within the boundaries of a licensed mobile home park and said park shall be located in this zoning district (R-3 Multi-Family Residential District).

(b)

The applicant must present plans and specifications for the proposed park to the city for a determination;

(c)

Mobile home inspection. No mobile home shall locate into the city without the following inspection. The cost of such inspection shall be the responsibility of the mobile home owner.

(1)

Structural inspection by the building official to assure integrity of outside structural items such as windows, doors, and siding.

(2)

HVAC inspection conducted by the building inspection department: Gas piping systems shall stand a pressure of six inches mercury or three PSI gauge for a period of not less than ten minutes without showing any drop in pressure.

(3)

When appliances are connected to the gas piping system, the entire system shall be pressurized to not less than ten inches nor more than 14 inches water column and the appliance connections tested for leakage with soapy water or bubble solution.

(4)

Electrical inspection shall be conducted by the building inspector and shall meet the requirements of the state codes.

(5)

Smoke detectors shall be installed and operational. At the minimum, a detector shall be located in the hallway(s) leading to the sleeping area(s). Detectors shall be underwriter's laboratories approved and installed in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.

(6)

An annual location decal is required and shall be filed by the owner of a manufactured or mobile home located in the county. The filing is at the office of the tax commissioner. Homes having filed for a homestead exemption in the property tax assessor's office are excluded from such requirement.

(7)

Permanent additions may be built onto any manufactured home or mobile home provided such addition or modification meets the requirements of the building code and the procedures outlined for developing a manufactured home park as applicable.

(8)

Manufactured or mobile homes placed after the date of this article shall be required to have the following improvements at the manufactured or mobile home stand per the manufactured home division of the safety fire commissioner of the State of Georgia.

(9)

Tiedowns. Each manufactured or mobile home shall be secured to ground anchors or other devices securing the stability of the manufactured or mobile home as outlined in the building code.

(10)

Foundations. Foundations shall be installed in accordance with the standards set forth in the Georgia Installation Code for Manufactured Homes.

(11)

Steps. Steps are required to be placed within 45 days of installation for all doors into the manufactured home and shall be at least 36 inches in width. If more than three steps are required, the steps shall be equipped with a hand railing. The improvements shall comply with the provisions of the building code.

(12)

Any manufactured or mobile home located within the county shall be skirted within 45 days of installation.

(13)

Any manufactured or mobile home located within the city must be placed on a masonry foundation or masonry piers with masonry curtain wall within 45 days of its installation.

(d)

Any manufactured or mobile home that is damaged by fire, flood, explosion, wind or other catastrophe in any amount equal to or greater than 60 percent of its replacement value shall be removed and disposed of or repaired by the owner within 90 days after damage occurred unless a variance has been granted.

(e)

Nonconforming manufactured or mobile home sites, parks or subdivision lawfully existing at the time of adoption of this regulation may be continued; but if such nonconforming use is discontinued for a period of 12 months, the manufactured or mobile home site, park or subdivision shall be made to conform with the requirements of these regulations.

(f)

Exceptions.

(1)

An exception to the provisions of this article may be granted based on medical hardship by the city. An application for extension shall contain an affidavit of a physician showing that present lodging facilities are inadequate and that a hardship condition exists requiring the use of a manufactured home for the health care of a dependent of the occupant of the premises. The application shall attach a separate statement by the applicant that he recognizes the exception, if granted, is to last only as long as the health condition exists.

(2)

Any change in the status of the occupant(s) justifying the granting of an exception, shall be reported to the City of Aragon building inspection and/or planning office within 30 days.

(3)

The applicant shall also state that he shall cause the removal of the manufactured home on the termination of the exception and that upon failure to do so irrevocably grants the governing body the right to use equipment to remove the manufactured home from the premises at the applicant's expense.

(4)

A manufactured home placed in this manner is not to be used as rental property. It must be removed at the expense of the property owner, once the special medical or other need for which a variance was granted no longer exists.

(g)

Manufactured and mobile homes on individual lots.

(1)

Manufactured and mobile homes situated on individual lots in the city shall be required to meet the same locational standards as other single-family units located within the same zoning district. No manufactured or mobile home shall be placed on an individual lot outside a manufactured home park within the city limits unless a special use permit is granted.

(h)

Health department approval.

(1)

[Health department approval] will be required for every manufactured home and/or mobile home on a lot not connected to public sewer systems.

(2)

Lot size shall be approved by the health department using appropriate percolation and/or soil test data.

(3)

No septic tanks shall be allowed if public sewerage is available. All dwelling shall connect to the public sewer when such sewer is within 300 feet of the property being subdivided.

(4)

All lots shall comply with the flood damage prevention provisions of this development code [appendix]. Each lot shall have thereon a viable homesite above the 100-year floodplain.

(5)

Where private sewerage disposal systems are to be placed in front yard areas, setbacks shall be established by the Polk County Health Department, but shall not be less than 40 feet.

(i)

Manufactured home subdivisions.

(1)

Manufactured home subdivisions shall be required to meet all the development standards of this Code.

(2)

Manufactured and mobile homes situated on individual lots shall be required to meet the same standards for location as single-family dwelling units. Prior to the placement of the manufactured or mobile home on the lot, the owner shall submit a plot plan or an affidavit signed by the owner to the building inspection department that indicates the site complies with the provisions of this ordinance [appendix] concerning the placement of such homes.

(j)

Manufactured home parks.

(1)

Approval of manufactured home parks. Procedures for developing a manufactured home park shall follow the same standards as specified for site plan approval outlined in this section. This article relates to application submissions, approval processes, erosion and sediment control, design issues, grading, flood area management, etc.

(k)

Manufactured home parks shall front on a publicly maintained street.

(l)

Manufactured home parks shall be served by a public water and sanitary sewer source. Any extension of public water lines shall be constructed in accordance with standards established by this development code [appendix] for single-family dwellings. All water mains shall be at least six inches in diameter. Fire hydrants shall be readily accessible for fire department use. Hydrants shall be located so that each home or building in the park is within 500 feet of a hydrant.

(m)

All manufactured home parks shall be served by a garbage collection system. Collection facilities may be provided for the entire community or at individual lots within each manufactured home park. The design for these facilities must be approved at the time of development plan approval.

(n)

Each manufactured home shall be located on a lot having an area of 5,000 square feet and minimum building line width of 40 feet.

(1)

Manufactured homes shall be separated from each other and from other buildings and structures by at least 16 feet. Porches and decks without opaque tops or roofs shall be excluded from this requirement.

(2)

One accessory storage building is allowed on an individual lot. The maximum size shall not exceed 120 square feet.

(3)

All structures shall be set back from any exterior property line of the manufactured home park by 40 feet.

(o)

One or more recreation areas shall be provided within those manufactured home parks having ten or more units. Such recreation area shall constitute a minimum of five percent of the space designated for residential lots. All such recreation areas shall be so designated on the development for the park and shall not be converted to use as a manufactured home lot. Recreations areas shall be so located as to be free of traffic and safety hazards. At least 50 percent of the recreational open space land shall be of a character suitable for active recreations, such as playgrounds or ball fields.

(p)

All interior roadways are to be surfaced with a material such as asphalt, chert, gravel, etc., to a width of 12 feet for one-way streets or to a width of 18 feet for two-way streets and maintained by the manufactured home park owner.

(q)

Areas not surfaced or built over shall be planted in grass or other suitable vegetative cover.

(r)

No mobile home, recreational vehicle or travel trailer shall be parked, placed or otherwise located for use or occupancy in the city unless an application is made with the city and approved by the city council.

[(1)]

No vacant or unoccupied mobile home, recreational vehicle or travel trailer may be stored on private property within the city limits unless approved by the city council, and in no event shall it become an eyesore.

(s)

A contractor may use a mobile structure as an office temporarily while constructing housing, etc., if approved by the council.

(Ord. of 3-17-2005)

Within a P-I Professional and Institutional District, the following uses shall be permitted:

7.4.1

All uses permitted in R-3 residential district;

7.4.2

Hospitals, clinics and nursing homes, and provided that:

(A)

They are located on a primary street;

(B)

The buildings are placed not less than 50 feet from any property line;

(C)

There is a planted buffer strip at least six feet high where the property abuts a neighboring residential property;

7.4.3

Professional offices provided the off-street parking requirements of this ordinance [appendix] are met;

7.4.4

Drug stores and apothecaries;

7.4.5

Dry cleaning and laundry pick-up stations and laundromats;

7.4.6

Barber and beauty shops;

7.4.7

Business signs which direct attention to operations conducted on the premises;

7.4.8

Incidental signs;

7.4.9

Funeral homes.

Within a C-1 Central Business District, the following uses shall be permitted:

7.5.1

Retail trade such as general merchandise, food, building materials, hardware, apparel, furniture, drugs and the like. In general, any retail business establishment including the making of articles sold at retail on the premises, provided such manufacturing is incidental to the retail business;

7.5.2

Retail services such as banks, insurance, real estate, beauty and barber services, apparel repair, dry cleaners and laundries, professional and entertainment services;

7.5.3

Hotels, motels and restaurants;

7.5.4

Newspaper and printing plants;

7.5.5

Public and semi-public uses (but not to include sanitary landfills and city dumps);

7.5.6

Off-street parking lots and parking garages;

7.5.7

Radio, television and telephone exchange stations, utility substations and transmission towers;

7.5.8

Outdoor advertising signs, provided the setback lines of the district are followed;

7.5.9

Business and incidental signs;

7.5.10

Bus terminals.

Within a C-2 Neighborhood Business District, the following uses shall be permitted:

7.6.1

All uses permitted in a C-1 Central Business District;

7.6.2

Drive-in restaurants;

7.6.3

Gasoline service stations provided that all structures and buildings including storage tanks shall be placed not less than 25 feet from any side or rear property line except where such side or rear property line abuts a street, in which case the setback shall be that required for such streets;

7.6.4

Automobile sales, new and used, retail and wholesale with attendant repair facilities.

Within an M Manufacturing Industrial District, the following uses shall be permitted:

7.7.1

Manufacturing industries provided they are not injurious to adjacent land uses by reason of noise, smoke, vibration, dust, odors, fire and explosive hazards;

7.7.2

Railroad and truck terminals, warehousing and wholesaling;

7.7.3

Any retail or service establishment dependent or closely related to the manufacturing industries;

7.7.4

Public utilities;

7.7.5

Storage yards, including building materials and lumberyards, provided such uses are screened from view by a buffer strip at least six feet high. Such buffer strip shall comply with all setback requirements of the district;

7.7.6

Junkyards, including automobile junkyards, provided such uses are screened from view by a buffer strip at least six feet high. Such screen shall comply with all setback requirements of the district;

7.7.7

Gasoline service stations, provided that all structures and buildings, including storage tanks, shall be placed not less than 25 feet from any side or rear property line except where such side or rear property line abuts a street, in which case the setback shall be that required for such streets;

7.7.8

Outdoor advertising signs, provided they comply to the setback requirements of the district;

7.7.9

Business and incidental signs;

7.7.10

Public and private recreation areas.