The following residential districts are hereby established: Agricultural, R-12, R-9, R-7, RM-3 and M-1. Each of these districts is designed and intended to secure for the persons who reside there a comfortable, healthy, safe, and pleasant environment in which to live, sheltered from incompatible, and disruptive activities that properly belong in nonresidential districts. Other objectives of some of these districts are explained in the remainder of this section:

(1)

The agricultural district is designed to accommodate single-family residential development in areas within the city's planning jurisdiction that are not served by public water or sewer facilities and that are not yet appropriate for development at higher densities.

(2)

The R-12 and R-9 districts are designed primarily to accommodate single-family detached residential uses (other than mobile homes) at medium densities in areas served by public water and sewer facilities. Two-family and multifamily residences are allowed in these districts only in the context of planned residential developments.

(3)

The R-7 district is designed to accommodate single-family detached, and two-family.

(4)

The RM-3 district is designed primarily to accommodate higher density multifamily developments.

(5)

The M-1 manufactured home district is designed primarily to accommodate manufactured homes.

(Ord. No. 2010-09-743, 9-7-10)

The following commercial districts are hereby established: C-1, C-2, and C-3. These districts are created to accomplish the purposes and serve the objectives set forth in the remainder of this section:

(1)

The C-1 district is designed to accommodate a wide variety of commercial activities that will result in the most intensive and attractive use of the commercial district.

(2)

The C-2 (community business) district is designed to accommodate commercial development on a scale that is less intensive than that permitted in a C-1 district. A lesser intensity of development is achieved through setback, height and minimum lot size requirements that are more restrictive than those applicable to the C-1 district. The types of uses permissible in these districts are generally similar to the types permissible in a C-1 district, except that additional automobile-oriented businesses (e.g., drive-in banks and restaurants not allowed in the C-I district are permissible in these districts). The C-2 thus may provide transition in some areas between a C-I district and a residential district or may provide for a smaller scale shopping center that primarily serves one (1) neighborhood or area of the city (as opposed to a regional shopping center). The dimensional restrictions in the district are also designed in appropriate areas to encourage the renovation for commercial purposes of buildings that formerly were single-family residences.

(3)

The C-3 (highway service) is designed to accommodate commercial activities that draw business primarily from and provide services primarily to (the interstate highway).

(4)

There is hereby created the downtown business district (DBD) zone and it is designed to accommodate a wide variety of commercial activities, events, and uses (particularly those that are pedestrian-oriented) considered to be suitable for the public areas, that will result in the most intensive and attractive use of the downtown business district. The location of the downtown business district is as follows: All properties fronting on the public square and the following properties fronting: College Street to end just past city hall and the city police station; Boothe Street to end at school property; Broadway Street to end at Short Street; Court Street to encompass Court Street Catering and the lot on which was formerly located the law office of Ted Smith; Eureka Street to end at Church Street; Lomax Street to end at city property (the Trailor property); Thomas Street to VanVoris; VanVoris to encompass Crowson's Grocery; Panola Avenue to end at the United Methodist Church and First Baptist Church properties.

(Ord. No. 2010-09-743, 9-7-10; Ord. No. 2016-07-832, §§ 1, 2, 7-5-16; Ord. No. 2016-11-838, §§ 2, 3, 11-1-16; Ord. No. 2019-07-864, 7-2-19)

The following districts are hereby established primarily to accommodate enterprises engaged in the manufacturing, processing, creating, repairing, renovating, painting, cleaning, or assembling of goods, merchandise, or equipment: I-1 and I-2.

(Ord. No. 2010-09-743, 9-7-10)

(a)

Planned unit development district established. The purpose of the planned unit development district is to provide for the development of planned total communities that provide a full range of residential types as well as certain commercial, office or light industrial uses designed to serve the inhabitants of the districts consistent with the comprehensive plan. For the purposes of this appendix a planned unit development shall be a tract of land at least five (5) acres in area, under single, corporation, firm, partnership or association ownership, planned and developed as an integrated unit in a single development operation or a programmed series of development operations and according to an approved preliminary site plan.

(b)

Mixed use district established. The purpose of this district is to allow the optional development and redevelopment of land in Batesville consistent with the design principles of traditional neighborhoods as set forth in the district requirements.

(c)

Planned commercial district established. The purpose of this district is to provide for modern, attractive, and efficient retail, personal, and professional commercial facilities with access needs which demand location along major arterial roadways.

(d)

Floodplain and floodway districts. The floodplain and floodway districts are hereby established as overlay districts; meaning that these districts are overlaid upon other districts and the land so encumbered may be used in a manner permitted in the underlying district only if and to the extent such use is also permitted in the applicable overlay district.

(Ord. No. 2010-09-743, 9-7-10)

(a)

There shall be a map known and designated as the official zoning map, which shall show the boundaries of all zoning districts within the city's planning jurisdiction. This map shall be drawn on acetate or other durable material from which prints can be made, shall be dated, and shall be kept in the planning department or shall be stored in electronic format.

(b)

The official zoning map dated April 21, 1992, is adopted and incorporated herein by reference. Amendments to this map shall be made and posted in accordance with the requirements of this appendix.

(c)

Should the official zoning map be lost, destroyed or damaged, the administrator may have a new map drawn on acetate or other durable material from which prints can be made or in electronic format. No further city authorization or action is required so long as no district boundaries are changed in this process.

(Ord. No. 2010-09-743, 9-7-10; Ord. No. 2016-07-832, § 3)

(a)

Amendments to the official zoning map are accomplished using the same procedures that apply to other amendments to this appendix, as set forth in article XIII.

(b)

The administrator shall update the official zoning map as soon as possible after amendments to it are adopted by the city. Upon entering any such amendment on the map, the administrator shall change the date of the map to indicate its latest revision. New prints of the updated map may then be issued.

(c)

No unauthorized person may alter or modify the official zoning map.

(d)

The planning department shall keep copies of superseded prints of the zoning map for historical reference.

(Ord. No. 2010-09-743, 9-7-10)