Beaufort County Unincorporated City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE 1
- General Provisions
Sections
- Division 1.1: - Title, Authority, and References to South Carolina Statutes
- Division 1.2: - Purpose and Intent
- Division 1.3: - Applicability and Jurisdiction
- Division 1.4: - Relationship to Comprehensive Plan, Laws, and Restrictive Covenants
- Division 1.5: - Official Zoning Map
- Division 1.6: - Transitional Provisions
- 1.6.10 - Effective Date
- 1.6.20 - Transition to New Zones
- 1.6.30 - Violations Continue
- 1.6.40 - Nonconformities
- 1.6.50 - Complete Applications
- 1.6.60 - Planned Unit Development (PUD) Approved Prior to December 8, 2014
- 1.6.70 - Other Development Subject to a Development Agreement
- 1.6.80 - Other Approved Development Permits and Approvals
- Division 1.7: - Severability
ARTICLE 2
- Multi-Lot and Single Lot Community Scale Development
Sections
- Division 2.1: - Overview
- Division 2.2: - General to Community Design
- Division 2.3: - Traditional Community Plans
- 2.3.10 - Purpose
- 2.3.20 - General Requirements
- 2.3.30 - Land Uses and Density
- 2.3.40 - Types of Traditional Community Plans
- 2.3.50 - Pedestrian Sheds
- 2.3.60 - Transect Zones
- 2.3.70 - Thoroughfare Design
- 2.3.80 - Open Space, Civic Space and Civic Buildings
- 2.3.90 - Neighborhood Centers/Main Streets
- 2.3.100 - Mix of Building Types
- Division 2.4: - Multi-Family Oriented Communities
- Division 2.5: - Manufactured Home Communities
- Division 2.6: - Commercial Oriented Communities
- Division 2.7: - Developments within Rural Areas
- Division 2.8: - Civic and Open Space Types
- Division 2.9: - Thoroughfare Standards
- 2.9.10 - Purpose
- 2.9.20 - Applicability
- 2.9.30 - Assembling/Designing a Thoroughfare
- 2.9.40 - Thoroughfare Design
- 2.9.50 - Movement Types and Design Speed
- 2.9.60 - Intersections
- 2.9.70 - Public Frontages
- 2.9.80 - Thoroughfare Construction Specifications
- 2.9.90 - Thoroughfare Formulas and Components
- 2.9.100 - Thoroughfare Assemblies
- Division 2.10: - Transfer of Development Rights
- 2.10.10 - Purpose
- 2.10.20 - Voluntary Nature of Program
- 2.10.30 - Establishment of TDR Sending and Receiving Areas
- 2.10.40 - Establishment of TDR Overlay Districts
- 2.10.50 - Development Options within TDR Overlay District
- 2.10.60 - Exceptions to the TDR Requirement
- 2.10.70 - Development Project Procedures
- 2.10.80 - TDR Bank
- 2.10.90 - TDR Certificates
- 2.10.100 - Calculation of TDRs in Sending Areas
- 2.10.110 - Sending Area Easements
- 2.10.120 - TDR Compliance
- 2.10.130 - In-Lieu Payment Option
ARTICLE 3
- Specific to Zones
Sections
- Division 3.1: - Establishment and Designation of Zones
- Division 3.2: - Transect Zones
- 3.2.10 - Purpose
- 3.2.20 - Applicability
- 3.2.30 - T1 Natural Preserve (T1) Standards
- 3.2.40 - T2 Rural (T2R) Standards
- 3.2.50 - T2 Rural Neighborhood (T2RN) Standards
- 3.2.60 - T2 Rural Center (T2RC) Standards
- 3.2.70 - T3 Edge (T3E) Standards
- 3.2.80 - T3 Hamlet Neighborhood (T3HN) Standards
- 3.2.90 - T3 Neighborhood (T3N) Standards
- 3.2.100 - T4 Hamlet Center (T4HC) Standards
- 3.2.110 - T4 Neighborhood Center (T4NC) Standards
- Division 3.3: - Conventional Zones
- Division 3.4: - Overlay Zones
- 3.4.10 - Purpose
- 3.4.20 - Applicability
- 3.4.30 - MCAS Airport Overlay (MCAS-AO) Zone Standards
- 3.4.40 - Beaufort County Airport Overlay (BC-AO) Zone Standards
- 3.4.50 - Cultural Protection Overlay (CPO) Zone Standards
- 3.4.60 - Commercial Fishing Village Overlay (CFV) Zone Standards
- 3.4.70 - Transfer Development Rights Overlay (TDR) Zone Standards
- 3.4.80 - Place Type Overlay (PTO) Zone Standards
ARTICLE 4
- Specific to Use
Sections
- Division 4.1: - Specific to Use
- 4.1.10 - Purpose
- 4.1.20 - Adult-Oriented Businesses
- 4.1.30 - Animal Production
- 4.1.40 - Animal Services: Kennel
- 4.1.50 - Commercial Stables
- 4.1.60 - Day Care (Adult or Child)
- 4.1.70 - Drive-Through Facilities
- 4.1.80 - Family Compound
- 4.1.90 - Seasonal Farmworker Housing
- 4.1.100 - Gas Station/Fuel Sales
- 4.1.110 - General Offices and Services
- 4.1.120 - General Retail
- 4.1.130 - Manufactured Home Community
- 4.1.140 - Manufacturing, Processing, and Packaging
- 4.1.150 - Meeting Facility/Place of Worship
- 4.1.160 - Mining/Resource Extraction
- 4.1.170 - Multi-Family Dwellings
- 4.1.180 - Outdoor Maintenance/Storage Yard
- 4.1.190 - Recreation Facility: Campgrounds
- 4.1.200 - Recreation Facility: Commercial Outdoor
- 4.1.210 - Regional (Major) Utility
- 4.1.220 - Residential Storage Facility
- 4.1.230 - Restaurant, Cafés, Coffee Shop
- 4.1.240 - Salvage Operations
- 4.1.250 - Tattoo or Body Piercing Facility
- 4.1.260 - Vehicle Sales and Rental: Automobiles, Light Trucks, Boats
- 4.1.270 - Vehicle Services: Maintenance and Repair
- 4.1.280 - Warehousing, Wholesaling, and Distribution
- 4.1.290 - Waste Management Facility: Community Waste Collection and Recycling
- 4.1.300 - Waste Management Facility: Regional Waste Transfer and Recycling
- 4.1.310 - Waste Management Facility: Regional Waste Disposal and Resource Recovery
- 4.1.320 - Wireless Communications Facility
- 4.1.330 - Ecotourism
- 4.1.340 - Aquaponics
- 4.1.350 - Affordable Housing
- 4.1.360 - Short-Term Rentals
- Division 4.2: - Accessory Uses and Structures
- 4.2.10 - Purpose
- 4.2.20 - General Standards and Limitations
- 4.2.30 - Accessory/Secondary Dwelling Unit
- 4.2.40 - Cottage Industry
- 4.2.50 - Fences and Walls
- 4.2.60 - Food Sales (Indoor)
- 4.2.70 - Reserved
- 4.2.80 - Home Business
- 4.2.90 - Home Office
- 4.2.100 - Outdoor Display as an Accessory Use
- 4.2.110 - Outdoor Storage as an Accessory Use
- 4.2.120 - Private Stables
- 4.2.130 - Satellite Dish Antenna
- 4.2.140 - Security Quarters
- 4.2.150 - Small Wind Energy System
- 4.2.160 - Solar Energy Equipment
- 4.2.170 - Swimming Pools, Hot Tubs, and Ornamental Ponds and Pools
- 4.2.180 - Waste Receptacles and Refuse Collection Areas
- 4.2.190 - Water/Marine-Oriented Facilities
- 4.2.200 - Private Fish Ponds
- Division 4.3: - Temporary Uses and Structures
- 4.3.10 - Purpose
- 4.3.20 - Table of Allowed Temporary Uses and Structures
- 4.3.30 - Prohibited Temporary Uses
- 4.3.40 - Temporary Use Permits
- 4.3.50 - General Standards for all Temporary Uses and Structures
- 4.3.60 - Temporary Offices and Classrooms
- 4.3.70 - Temporary Real Estate Sales Office and Model Sales Home
- 4.3.80 - Seasonal Sales
- 4.3.90 - Sidewalk and Parking Lot Sales
- 4.3.100 - Roadside Stands and Farmers' Markets
- 4.3.110 - Special Events
- 4.3.120 - Construction-Related Activities for New Construction
- 4.3.130 - Temporary Concrete/Asphalt Batch Plant
ARTICLE 5
- Supplemental to Zones
Sections
- Division 5.1: - Building Type Standards
- 5.1.10 - Purpose
- 5.1.20 - Applicability
- 5.1.30 - Building Types Overview
- 5.1.40 - Carriage House
- 5.1.50 - Estate House
- 5.1.60 - Village House
- 5.1.70 - Small Lot House
- 5.1.80 - Cottage Court
- 5.1.90 - Duplex
- 5.1.100 - Townhouse
- 5.1.110 - Mansion Apartment
- 5.1.120 - Apartment House
- 5.1.130 - Main Street Mixed-Use
- 5.1.140 - Industrial/Agricultural
- Division 5.2: - Private Frontage Standards
- Division 5.3: - Architectural Standards and Guidelines
- Division 5.4: - Fences and Walls
- 5.4.10 - Purpose
- 5.4.20 - Applicability
- 5.4.30 - General Requirements for Fences and Walls
- 5.4.40 - Height Requirements for Fences and Walls
- 5.4.50 - Perimeter Fences and Walls Abutting Public Rights-of-Way
- 5.4.60 - Design and Appearance
- 5.4.70 - Visibility Clearance
- 5.4.80 - Restricted and Prohibited Fences
- 5.4.90 - Maintenance Required
- Division 5.5: - Off-Street Parking
- Division 5.6: - Sign Standards
- 5.6.10 - Purpose, Scope, and Intent
- 5.6.20 - Prohibited Signs
- 5.6.30 - General Sign Requirements
- 5.6.40 - Permanent Sign Types for Buildings, Businesses and Communities
- 5.6.50 - Off-Premises Sign Standards
- 5.6.60 - Temporary Signs
- 5.6.70 - Administration
- 5.6.80 - Awning/Canopy Sign Type
- 5.6.90 - Directional Sign Type
- 5.6.100 - Landscape Wall Sign Type
- 5.6.110 - Marquee Sign Type
- 5.6.120 - Freestanding Sign Type
- 5.6.130 - Projecting Sign Type
- 5.6.140 - Sidewalk Sign Type
- 5.6.150 - Suspended Sign Type
- 5.6.160 - Wall Sign Type
- 5.6.170 - Wall Mural Sign Type
- 5.6.180 - Window Sign Type
- 5.6.190 - Yard Sign Type
- Division 5.7: - Exterior Lighting
- 5.8.10 - Purpose and Intent
- 5.8.20 - Applicability
- 5.8.30 - General Landscape Design Applicable to All Zones
- 5.8.40 - Overview of On-Lot Landscaping and Buffer Requirements
- 5.8.50 - Thoroughfare Buffer
- 5.8.60 - Foundation Buffer
- 5.8.70 - Private Frontage Landscaping (Transect Zones)
- 5.8.80 - Parking Area Landscaping
- 5.8.90 - Perimeter Buffers
- 5.8.100 - Screening
- 5.8.110 - Landscape Construction and Maintenance Standards (Applicable To All Zones)
- Division 5.9: - Neighborhood Compatibility Standards
- Division 5.10: - Historic Preservation
- 5.10.10 - Purpose
- 5.10.20 - Identification of Historic Resources
- 5.10.30 - Historic Property Inventory
- 5.10.40 - National Register of Historic Places Nominations
- 5.10.50 - Certificate of Appropriateness
- 5.10.60 - Maintenance, Repair and Interior Projects
- 5.10.70 - Prohibited Acts
- 5.10.80 - Adaptive Reuse of Historic Structures
- 5.10.90 - Access to Cemeteries on Private Properties
- 5.10.100 - Archaeological and Historic Impact Assessment
- Division 5.11 - Resource Protection Standards
- 5.11.10 - Purpose and Intent
- 5.11.20 - General
- 5.11.30 - Tidal Wetlands
- 5.11.40 - Non-Tidal Wetlands
- 5.11.50 - Beach Dune System
- 5.11.60 - River Buffer
- 5.11.70 - Endangered Species and Bird Nesting Habitat
- 5.11.80 - Flood Hazard Area
- 5.11.90 - Forests
- 5.11.100 - Tree Protection
- 5.11.110 - Allowed Activities in Resource Protection Areas
- Division 5.12: - Stormwater Standards
- Division 5.13: - Fill Standards
ARTICLE 6
- Subdivision and Land Development
Sections
- Division 6.1: - Subdivision Standards
- Division 6.2: - Land Development Standards
- Division 6.3: - Traffic Impact Analysis
ARTICLE 7
- Procedures
Sections
- Division 7.1: - Organization
- Division 7.2: - Application Specific Review Procedures
- 7.2.10 - Overview
- 7.2.20 - Zoning Permit
- 7.2.30 - Modulation Permit
- 7.2.40 - Sign Permit
- 7.2.50 - Tree Removal Permit
- 7.2.60 - Land Development Plan
- 7.2.70 - Subdivision Plat
- 7.2.80 - Development Permit
- 7.2.90 - Traditional Community Plan (TCP)
- 7.2.100 - Street Renaming
- 7.2.110 - Certificate of Design Compliance
- 7.2.120 - Certificate of Appropriateness
- 7.2.130 - Special Use Permit
- 7.2.140 - Variance Permit
- Division 7.3: - Other Review Procedures
- Division 7.4: - Standard Procedures
- 7.4.10 - General
- 7.4.20 - Pre-Application Conference
- 7.4.30 - Application Submittal and Acceptance
- 7.4.40 - Staff Review and Action
- 7.4.50 - Public Hearing Scheduling and Notice
- 7.4.60 - Deferral of Application
- 7.4.70 - Public Hearing Procedures
- 7.4.80 - Advisory Body Review and Recommendation
- 7.4.90 - Decision-Making Body Review and Decision
- 7.4.100 - Limitation on Subsequent Similar Applications
- 7.4.110 - Effect of Approval
- 7.4.120 - Vested Rights for Land Development Plan / Plat
- 7.4.130 - Expiration of Development Approval
- Division 7.5: - Administrative Bodies and Staff
ARTICLE 8
- Nonconformities
Sections
- Division 8.1: - General Applicability
- Division 8.2: - Nonconforming Uses
- Division 8.3: - Nonconforming Structures
- Division 8.4: - Nonconforming Lots
- Division 8.5: - Nonconforming Signs
ARTICLE 9
- Enforcement
Sections
- Division 9.1: - Purpose
- Division 9.2: - Compliance Required
- Division 9.3: - Responsible Persons
- Division 9.4: - Enforcement Generally
- Division 9.5: - Remedies and Penalties
ARTICLE 10
- Definitions
Sections
- Division 10.1: - Definitions
- 10.1.10 - A Definitions
- 10.1.20 - B Definitions
- 10.1.30 - C Definitions
- 10.1.40 - D Definitions
- 10.1.50 - E Definitions
- 10.1.60 - F Definitions
- 10.1.70 - G Definitions
- 10.1.80 - H Definitions
- 10.1.90 - I Definitions
- 10.1.100 - J Definitions
- 10.1.110 - K Definitions
- 10.1.120 - L Definitions
- 10.1.130 - M Definitions
- 10.1.140 - N Definitions
- 10.1.150 - O Definitions
- 10.1.160 - P Definitions
- 10.1.170 - Q Definitions
- 10.1.180 - R Definitions
- 10.1.190 - S Definitions
- 10.1.200 - T Definitions
- 10.1.210 - U Definitions
- 10.1.220 - V Definitions
- 10.1.230 - W Definitions
- 10.1.240 - X Definitions
- 10.1.250 - Y Definitions
- 10.1.260 - Z Definitions
Appendix A
- Community Preservation Districts
Sections
- Division A.1: - Introduction
- Division A.2: - Lady's Island Community Preservation District (LICP)
- Division A.3: - Lady's Island Expanded Home Business District (LIEHB)
- Division A.4: - Lady's Island Neighborhood Activity Center (LINAC)
- Division A.5: - Lady's Island Professional Office District (LIPO)
- Division A.6: - Dale Community Preservation District (DCP)
- Division A.7: - Dale Mixed Use District (DMU)
- Division A.8: - Seabrook-Stuart Point Residential (SSPR)
- Division A.9: - Seabrook-Stuart Point Mixed-Use District (SSPMU)
- Division A.10: - Buckingham Landing Community Preservation District (BLCP)
- Division A.11: - Coosaw Island Rural (CIR) and Coosaw Island Rural Residential (CIRR)
- Division A.12: - Sheldon-Big Estate Community Preservation (SBECP)
- Division A.13: - May River Community Preservation District (MRCP)
- A.13.10 - Purpose
- A.13.20 - Applicability
- A.13.30 - District Boundaries
- A.13.40 - Permitted Activities
- A.13.50 - Conditional and Special Use Standards
- A.13.60 - Development Standards Specific to North Side of May River Road
- A.13.70 - Development Standards Specific to South Side of May River Road
- A.13.80 - Design Standards
Appendix B
- Daufuskie Island Community Development Code
Sections
- Division B.1: - Transect Zones
- B.1.10 - Purpose
- B.1.20 - Applicability
- B.1.30 - Transect 1: DI Natural Preserve (DINP) Standards
- B.1.40 - Transect 2: D2 Rural (T2R) Standards
- B.1.50 - Transect 3: D3 General Neighborhood (D3GN) Standards
- B.1.60 - Transect 4: D4 Mixed Use (D4MU) Standards
- B.1.70 - Transect 5: Village Center (D5VC) Standards
- B.1.80 - Transect 5: Gateway Corridor (D5GC) Standards
- Division B.2: - Overlay Zones
- Division B.3: - Permitted Uses and Definitions
- Division B.4: - Developments Within Rural Areas
- Division B.5: - Applicability of the Community Development Code
Appendix C
- Area Specific Access Management Standards
Sections
- Division C.1: - Purpose
- Division C.2: - Robert Smalls Parkway (SC 170) & Broad River Boulevard
- Division C.3: - West Fording Island Road (US 278) and Okatie Highway (SC 170)
- Division C.4: - Buckwalter Parkway
- Division C.5: - Bluffton Parkway
- Division C.6: - Gardens Corner
Appendix D
- Technical Manual
Sections
- 1.1 - Street Design Resources
- 1.2 - The Planning Process
- 1.3 - Preserving Mobility
- 1.4 - Fiscal Sustainability
- Section 2 - Thoroughfare Treatments in Places of Character
- 2.1 - Thoroughfare Design Opportunities
- 2.2 - Boundary and Ribaut
- 2.3 - Boundary and Robert Smalls
- 2.4 - Burton Village
- 2.5 - North Shell Point
- 2.6 - South Shell Point
- 2.7 - Lady's Island Crossing
- 2.8 - Brickyard Point and Middle Road
- 2.9 - Sams Point Hamlet
- 2.10 - Port Royal Center
- 2.11 - Beaufort Memorial Hospital
- 2.12 - Parris Island Gateway and Robert Smalls
- 2.13 - Corners Community
- Section 3: - Collector and Local Street Design