Berkeley County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

ARTICLE 4

- USE TABLE

4.1.- Purpose.

This article's purpose is to provide guidelines for and define the land uses permitted in each zoning district. This section is intended to provide the user an easy guide for reviewing permitted uses. Each zoning district contains a detailed list of permitted uses.

4.2. - Interpretation.

This article shall be used to define the various land uses permitted in each zoning district. The listing of permitted uses, accessory uses, conditional uses, and special exceptions for the various zoning districts in this table is offered as a quick reference guide. The applicable zoning district should be referred to for verification.

4.3. - Use table.

According to generalized land uses, the following table lists the type of use permission in each district, as well as definitions for each use listed. References for additional use standards are also contained in the tables.

p	Permitted use. Any use allowed in a zoning district and subject to the restrictions applicable to that zoning district.
c	Conditional use. A use permitted in a particular zoning district upon showing that such use in a specified location will comply with all the conditions and standards for the location or operation of the use as specified in the zoning ordinance and authorized by the approving agency.
s	Special exception. An exception issued by the board of zoning appeals authorizing a particular use in a specified location within a zoning district, upon demonstrating that such use complies with all the conditions and standards specified by this ordinance.
a	Accessory use. An incidental and subordinate use that is customarily associated with the principal use of a lot or building located upon the same lot as the principal use. See district requirements for full list of permitted accessory uses.
x	Prohibited use. A use that is not permitted in a zoning district.

4.3.1. Use table.

USE PERMISSION

p	Permitted use
x	Prohibited use
c	Conditional use
a	Accessory use
s	Special exception

	Districts
Land Use	R1	R1-MM	R2	R3	R4	R5	R1-R	R2-R	R2-R(F)	R15	Flex1	RNC	GC	OI	LI	HI	Use Definition
AGRICULTURAL USES
Agriculture, crop	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	p	p	The use of land for the production of row crops, field crops, timber, bees, apiary products, aquaculture, and fur-bearing animals primarily for the sale to others.
Agriculture, intensive animal production Conditional use: § 11.3	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	The production principally for the sale to others of animals or their products, including, but not limited to: dairy animals and dairy products, livestock, including dairy and beef cattle, poultry, sheep, swine, horses, ponies, mules, and goats; including the breeding and grazing of all such animals.
Agriculture, home animal production	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	p	p	x	x	x	x	p	The production, principally for use or consumption of the property owner, of plants, animals, or their products and for sale to others where such sales are incidental, including, but not limited to: gardening, fruit production, and equine, poultry and livestock products for household use only.
Agriculture, home horses only Conditional use: § 11.3	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	An accessory land use that is designed, arranged, used, or intended to be used for the keeping of equines for the private use of the occupants of a principal dwelling and their guests, but in no event for hire.
Boarding facility Conditional use: § 11.3	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	c	x	x	p	A structure or use designed for the feeding, housing, and exercising of animals not owned by the owner of the premises and for which the owner of the premises receives compensation. Also includes any structure or place where such animals are kept for riding, driving, or stabling for compensation or incidental to the operation of any club, association, ranch, or similar purpose.
Forestry	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	p	p	Management, harvesting, and enhancement of forest resources for ultimate sale or use of wood products, requiring replanting, and subject to S.C. Forestry Commission best management practices.
Agriculture, sales and service	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	x	x	x	p	p	Sale or rental of farm tools and small implements, feed and grain, tack, animal care products, and farm supplies.
Sale of products produced on-site	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	a	a	a	a	x	x	x	p	p	Handcrafted products produced or grown on-site and sold on the premises. Examples of products include: honey, wooden lawn ornaments, and sweet-grass baskets.
Agriculture, storage	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	a	x	x	x	p	p	Facilities for the warehousing of agricultural products.
COMMERCIAL USES
Bed and breakfast Conditional use: § 11.4	s	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	a	a	x	x	x	Overnight accommodations and a morning meal in a dwelling unit provided to transients for compensation.
Commercial lodging (hotel and motel)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	x	Hotels, motels, boarding or rooming houses, or a building or group of buildings offering transient lodging accommodations on a daily rate to the general public. Additional services may include a restaurant, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities.
Retail sales	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	p	x	Establishments engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods. All forms of retail sale businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Convenience retail and/or gas station	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	c	x	p	x	Retail establishments offering for sale pre-packaged food products, household items, newspapers and magazines, gasoline, and pre-packaged freshly prepared foods for off-site consumption. These stores operate long hours, often 24 hours, and contain a myriad of items. Commercial, transportation uses such as truckstops are not included in this definition.
Commercial, transportation (truckstop)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	p	p	Any building, premises, or land in which or upon which a business, service, or industry involving the maintenance, servicing, storage, or repair of commercial vehicles is conducted or rendered, including the dispensing of motor fuel or other petroleum products directly into motor vehicles and the sale of accessories or equipment for trucks and similar commercial vehicles. A truckstop may also include overnight accommodations and restaurant facilities primarily for the use of truck crews.
Commercial, personal services	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	x	Establishments providing services pertaining to the person or to his/her apparel and personal effects, including, but not limited to, barber and beauty shops, laundromats, dry cleaning, tailors, photography studios, health club, jewelry and watch repair and tattoo parlors. All forms of personal service businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Commercial, professional services	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	x	Establishments providing services which supply general needs of an intangible nature to the public including real estate offices, insurance agents, business consultants, banks, medical, and loan centers. All forms of professional service businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Commercial, general services	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	p	x	p	p	Establishments providing services pertaining to the maintenance, installation, and repair of personal and business articles including plumbing, heating and air conditioning, electrical, janitorial, and contracting services, general machinery repair, auto garages, and oil change centers. All forms of general service businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere. Outdoor storage is included in this definition as an accessory use as long as the use meets the defined conditions.
Commercial event venue	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s	p	p	p	x	x	A commercial facility that is rented to individuals, groups, or organizations, and used to host gatherings such as, but not limited to, weddings, receptions, parties, meetings, and conferences. A commercial event venue may be comprised of permanent structure(s), temporary structure(s), uncovered outdoor gathering area(s), or any combination thereof. This definition does not include those uses classified as assembly and worship, commercial lodging (hotel and motel), or publicly-owned facilities.
Wholesale sales	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	x	p	p	Establishments engaged in selling merchandise to retailer; to industrial, commercial, institutional, or professional business user; to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to, such individuals or companies. All forms of wholesale businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Restaurant	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	x	Establishments where food and drink are prepared, served, and consumed primarily within the principal building. The serving of alcohol is not included within this definition.
Drive-through restaurant Conditional use: § 11.4	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	Establishments where food and drink are sold in a form ready for consumption, where all or a portion of the consumption takes place or is designed to take place outside the confines of the restaurant, and where ordering and pickup of food may take place from an automobile.
Bar Conditional use: § 11.4	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	Establishments used primarily for the sale or dispensing of liquor by the drink for on-site consumption.
Sexually oriented business Special exception: § 11.4	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s	Sexually oriented business establishments as defined under article 11 including adult arcades, adult bookstores, adult retail stores, adult video stores, adult cabarets, adult health clubs, adult motels, adult motion picture theaters, adult theaters, and other similar activities.
Office	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	a	Building or buildings wherein operations are predominantly administrative, professional or clerical.
Outdoor sales, rural	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	p	x	The display, rental, and sale of products and services primarily outside of a building or structure, including garden supplies, produce, plants, landscaping materials, farm equipment, lumberyards, burial monuments, and automobiles.
Outdoor sales, other	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	p	x	The display, rental, and sale of products and services primarily outside of a building or structure, including vehicles, boats, aircraft, construction equipment, manufactured homes, and building materials.
Carwash	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	Establishments used for the washing of automobiles.
Mixed use	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	x	x	1. A building containing two or more use categories, permitted within the zoning district, with five or more residential dwelling units comprising a minimum of 25% of the total floor area. 2. A building or group of buildings arranged around a pedestrian facility, containing four or more different uses, permitted within the zoning district, such as: retail sales, lodging, office, service, residential, institutional, or recreation. Residential use may be one of the required uses.
INDUSTRIAL USES
Transportation	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Ground establishments providing for the interchange of passenger and freight including, but not limited to, bus passenger and parking terminals, truck terminals, railroad passenger and freight terminals, railway express freight terminals, taxicab stands and yards, and airports.
Light manufacturing	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Commerce and light industrial uses, including, but not limited to, product assemblage and repair, research and development, office/service facilities, and indoor storage/warehousing/manufacturing of finished parts or products, or similar uses.
Heavy manufacturing	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	Heavy industrial uses and processing plants, including, but not limited to, the mechanical or chemical transformation of organic or inorganic substances into new products.
Manufacturing services (construction)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Construction establishments engaged in the construction, repair, or demolition of buildings, streets, water and sewer systems, bridges, and similar construction, including, but not limited to, building, electrical heating, air conditioning, heavy construction, paving and earth moving operations.
Manufacturing services (other)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Establishments supplying other business, industries, or individuals, including, but not limited to, laundry and dry cleaning plants, linen supply plants, closed storage, cabinet and metal shops, welding shops, but not including junkyards or other establishments designed primarily for outdoor, open air storage.
Mining	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s > 5 ac.; c ≤ 5 ac.	x	x	x	c	c	The breaking of the surface soil to facilitate or accomplish the extraction or removal of ores or mineral solids for sale or processing or consumption in the regular operation of a business; and/or the removal of overburden lying above natural deposits of ore or mineral solids and removal of the mineral deposits exposed, or by removal of ores or mineral solids from deposits lying exposed in their natural state.
RECREATION USES
Campground	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a; c ≤10 ac.; s <10 ac.	c	x	x	x	x	Form of commercial lodging where two or more campsites are located, established, or maintained for occupancy by camping units as temporary living quarters for recreation, education, or vacation purposes.
Commercial, indoor recreation	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	Establishments engaged in providing indoor entertainment for a fee including bowling alleys, indoor sports arenas, movie theaters, performing arts companies, indoor skating rinks, amusement game machine complex, and pool halls.
Commercial, outdoor recreation	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	Establishments engaged in providing outdoor entertainment for a fee including fairgrounds, outdoor stadiums, go-cart facilities, amusement parks, water slides, batting cages, zoos, and botanical gardens.
Indoor recreation	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Indoor recreational uses including community recreation centers, gymnasiums, indoor swimming pools, tennis, racquetball, or handball courts. Commercial uses such as health clubs are not included in this definition.
Outdoor recreation, active	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Leisure-time activities, usually of a formal nature and often performed with others, requiring equipment and taking place at prescribed places, sites, or fields. Active recreational uses and supporting services include swimming, tennis, baseball and other field sports, track, and playground activities.
Outdoor recreation, passive	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Activities that involve relatively inactive or less energetic activities, such as walking, sitting, and picnicking. Passive recreational uses include nature trails, walking paths, picnic areas, nature areas, and other passive recreation-oriented parks.
Resort/fish camp	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	p	x	p	p	Lodging that serves as a destination point for visitors, located and designed with some combination of recreational uses or natural areas, such as marinas, beaches, or pools, tennis, golf or other special recreation opportunity, and/or a variety of restaurants and shops to serve the guests.
Ecotourism	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Organized, educational, and mainly outdoor recreation with or without lodging, which invites participants to learn about and promote ecological preservation, conservation, and sustainability.
Golf course	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	A tract of land laid out for at least nine holes for playing the regulation game of golf and improved with tees, greens, fairways, and hazards and that may include a clubhouse and shelter.
Miniature golf	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	Putting courses installed on artificial surfaces, practice facilities that are driving ranges, or which have several practice holes or putting areas.
Racetrack	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	A course where animals or machines are entered in competition against one another or against time, including, but not limited to, motorcar racetracks, dirt-bike tracks, and mud bogs.
Shooting range, outdoor	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	The use of land for archery and/or the discharging of firearms for the purposes of target practice, skeet and trap shooting, mock war games. Excluded from this use type shall be general hunting and unstructured and nonrecurring discharging of firearms on private property with the property owner's permission.
INSTITUTIONAL USES
Poultry	c	c	c	x	x	x	c	c	c	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	1. The common domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus) or its young.
Assembly and worship	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Assembly uses include museums, libraries, cultural or arts centers, historic sites, etc. Worship uses include a building or structure, or groups of buildings or structures, that by design and construction is primarily intended for conducting organized religious services and associated accessory uses such as schools, day care, and community centers, etc.
Cemetery	x	a	a	x	x	x	a	a	a	a	a/c	p	p	p	p	p	Property used for interring the dead.
College and professional schools	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	p	Colleges, universities, professional, vocational and other schools of advanced education.
Neighborhood and community schools	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Institutions of learning or instruction primarily catering to minors, whether public or private, which are licensed by the State of South Carolina. These uses include nursery schools, kindergartens, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and special need schools. Charm schools, dancing schools, music schools, or similar limited schools do not fall under this definition but can be listed under personal services.
Institutional, residential	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	x	s	x	x	x	x	x	1. Sheltered care facilities or group living facilities where the residents live in an institutional environment and are generally under the care or control of staff. All sheltered care, group care, and group homes, except where care is provided to no more than two (2) unrelated individuals, shall be considered institutional residential use. 2. Schools with live-in facilities on-site, other than universities, colleges, or preparatory schools.
Assisted living facilities	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	x	x	Institutional housing where there is commercial rental or condominium ownership combined with any of the following: common food service, nursing, or health care. Nursing, rest and convalescent home shall also be included.
Commercial day care center	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	a	A nonresidential facility in which child care is provided on more than two days a week for periods of less than 24 hours, but more than four hours, for seven or more children.
Family day care home Conditional use: § 11.6	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	An occupied residence in which child day care is provided no more than two days a week for periods of less than 24 hours, but more than four hours, for no more than six children, including those children living in the home and children received for day care who are related to the resident caregiver. Family day care homes are licensed by the South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS).
Protective care	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Housing where the residents are assigned to the facility and are under the protective care of the county, state, or federal government. This use includes jails, prisons, work release, and other similar facilities.
Government offices, public services, and local utilities	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	County, state, or federal office buildings or other facilities that are primarily devoted to public office uses or services. These uses include public services such as emergency service, buildings, or garages (e.g. ambulance, fire, police, and public works) or other garages where vehicles are stored and dispatched. These uses also include local utilities such as utility substations or transmission and local distribution facilities, including telephone, and all government-owned utilities. Not included are generation facilities, storage of combustibles, regional facilities, and landfills or mining operations.
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
Commercial communication towers 1. Locating antennas on existing structures. 2. Locating antennas on existing towers with tower modifications. 3. Locating new towers constructed with monopole, guyed, or lattice construction. Conditional use: § 11.7	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	c	c	c	c	Tower, pole, or similar structure that supports communication equipment either broadcasting or receiving. This definition does not include television reception antennas and satellite dishes, amateur radio operators as licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, or towers under 150 feet in height used solely for educational communications purposes and located on property owned by a public or private school facility.
Small Wireless Facilities Conditional Use: § 11.7	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	A wireless facility that is affixed to a pole, post, or other wireless support structure(s) and meets both of the following qualifications: (i) each antenna is located inside an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume, or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of its exposed elements could fit within an imaginary enclosure of not more than six cubic feet; and (ii) all other wireless equipment associated with the facility is cumulatively no more than 28 cubic feet in volume, not including associated ancillary equipment as defined in section 11.7.2(A)(21).
STORAGE USES
Boat storage facility (indoor)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	p	p	Storage and holding of boats and other marine vehicles within an enclosed structure containing separate, individual, and private storage spaces of varying sizes leased or rented on an individual basis for varying periods of time. For outdoor storage of boats, see definition of "Outdoor storage" below.
Business storage (indoor storage)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	p	p	p	p	Storage and holding of commercial business supplies, materials, equipment and products, that are necessary for conducting that business.
Storage facility (miniwarehouse) Conditional use: § 11.8	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	c	c	A structure containing separate, individual, and private storage spaces of varying sizes leased or rented on individual leases for varying periods of time. Outdoor storage in the form of lease space for the open storage of boats, automobiles, and marine, recreational, and similar vehicles in an unenclosed area or structure may be permitted as an accessory use per the conditions found in section 11.8.2.
Outdoor storage	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s/a	x	c	c	Goods, equipment, or supplies including, but not limited to, junked vehicles and white goods, held for safekeeping or eventual sale or distribution or processing for recycling, not entirely within totally enclosed buildings. Property maintained in this manner may be referred to as a junkyard. T-structures, lean-to-type structures or roofed-over, fenced-in areas shall not be considered totally enclosed buildings. This use classification may also be applied to facilities that provide lease space for the open storage of boats, automobiles, and marine, recreational, and similar vehicles in an unenclosed area or structure.
RESIDENTIAL USES
Single-family detached	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	x	A one-family dwelling unit located on a separate lot and is not attached to any other dwelling by any means. This definition does not include manufactured housing units or portable residential dwellings, such as recreational vehicles, that fail to meet adopted building codes and/or are not tied into required public or private utilities.
Manufactured home	x	c	p	p	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	x	A residential dwelling unit that is composed of one or more components, each of which was assembled in a manufacturing plant and designed to be transported to the home site on its own chassis. The manufactured home must bear a seal certifying that it was built to HUD standards for mobile homes, adopted on July 1, 1976.
Multifamily	x	x	x	x	x	p	x	x	x	x	x	p	c	c	x	x	A building containing two or more dwelling units on the same lot, including units that are located one over the other. These can include apartments and condominiums.
Townhouse/single-family attached	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	x	x	A one-family dwelling attached to two or more one-family dwellings by common vertical walls.
Patio home	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	A one-family dwelling on a separate lot with open space setbacks on three sides and with a courtyard. This definition does not include portable residential dwellings, such as recreational vehicles, that fail to meet adopted building codes and/or are not tied into required public or private utilities.
Duplex	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	A multifamily dwelling containing two dwelling units on one lot, each separate, independent unit with its own independent entrance. A dwelling with two units, each unit on its own lot, is not a duplex. Attached cluster housing and two attached townhouses are not duplexes.
Triplex	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	A building containing three dwelling units, each of which has direct access to the outside or to a common hall.
Quadruplex	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	Four attached dwellings in one building in which each unit has at least two open space exposures and shares one or two walls with adjoining unit or units.
Commercial apartment	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	a	a	x	x	One to four dwelling units located above, or to the rear of a nonresidential structure on the same lot.
Home occupation Conditional use: § 11.9	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	a	a	a	x	x	Any use conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the occupants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes and does not change the character thereof.
Accessory dwelling unit	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	a	a	a	x	x	A dwelling unit detached from a principal building located on the same lot and customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal building or use.
Guesthouse/garage apartment	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	c	a	a	a	x	x	An accessory dwelling unit that is detached from a principal building, but located on the same lot, and is no larger than 25 percent of the primary structure's heated square footage, up to a maximum of 850 square feet.

(Ord. No. 02-08-33, 8-26-2002; Ord. No. 02-12-58, 12-16-2002; Ord. No. 04-11-68, 11-23-2004; Ord. No. 05-08-58, 8-29-2005; Ord. No. 06-09-63, 9-25-2006; Ord. No. 09-04-16, 4-13-2009; Ord. No. 10-08-24, 8-23-2010; Ord. No. 12-11-33, 11-26-2012; Ord. No. 14-03-03, 3-24-2014; Ord. No. 14-11-38, 11-24-2014; Ord. No. 15-01-01, 1-26-2015; Ord. No. 19-10-52, 10-28-2019; Ord. No. 21-01-02, 1-25-2021; Ord. No. 21-01-03, 1-25-2021; Ord. No. 21-05-25, 5-24-2021)

Berkeley County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

ARTICLE 4

- USE TABLE

4.1.- Purpose.

4.2. - Interpretation.

4.3. - Use table.

p	Permitted use. Any use allowed in a zoning district and subject to the restrictions applicable to that zoning district.
c	Conditional use. A use permitted in a particular zoning district upon showing that such use in a specified location will comply with all the conditions and standards for the location or operation of the use as specified in the zoning ordinance and authorized by the approving agency.
s	Special exception. An exception issued by the board of zoning appeals authorizing a particular use in a specified location within a zoning district, upon demonstrating that such use complies with all the conditions and standards specified by this ordinance.
a	Accessory use. An incidental and subordinate use that is customarily associated with the principal use of a lot or building located upon the same lot as the principal use. See district requirements for full list of permitted accessory uses.
x	Prohibited use. A use that is not permitted in a zoning district.

4.3.1. Use table.

USE PERMISSION

p	Permitted use
x	Prohibited use
c	Conditional use
a	Accessory use
s	Special exception

	Districts
Land Use	R1	R1-MM	R2	R3	R4	R5	R1-R	R2-R	R2-R(F)	R15	Flex1	RNC	GC	OI	LI	HI	Use Definition
AGRICULTURAL USES
Agriculture, crop	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	p	p	The use of land for the production of row crops, field crops, timber, bees, apiary products, aquaculture, and fur-bearing animals primarily for the sale to others.
Agriculture, intensive animal production Conditional use: § 11.3	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	The production principally for the sale to others of animals or their products, including, but not limited to: dairy animals and dairy products, livestock, including dairy and beef cattle, poultry, sheep, swine, horses, ponies, mules, and goats; including the breeding and grazing of all such animals.
Agriculture, home animal production	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	p	p	x	x	x	x	p	The production, principally for use or consumption of the property owner, of plants, animals, or their products and for sale to others where such sales are incidental, including, but not limited to: gardening, fruit production, and equine, poultry and livestock products for household use only.
Agriculture, home horses only Conditional use: § 11.3	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	An accessory land use that is designed, arranged, used, or intended to be used for the keeping of equines for the private use of the occupants of a principal dwelling and their guests, but in no event for hire.
Boarding facility Conditional use: § 11.3	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	c	x	x	p	A structure or use designed for the feeding, housing, and exercising of animals not owned by the owner of the premises and for which the owner of the premises receives compensation. Also includes any structure or place where such animals are kept for riding, driving, or stabling for compensation or incidental to the operation of any club, association, ranch, or similar purpose.
Forestry	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	p	p	Management, harvesting, and enhancement of forest resources for ultimate sale or use of wood products, requiring replanting, and subject to S.C. Forestry Commission best management practices.
Agriculture, sales and service	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	x	x	x	p	p	Sale or rental of farm tools and small implements, feed and grain, tack, animal care products, and farm supplies.
Sale of products produced on-site	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	a	a	a	a	x	x	x	p	p	Handcrafted products produced or grown on-site and sold on the premises. Examples of products include: honey, wooden lawn ornaments, and sweet-grass baskets.
Agriculture, storage	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	a	x	x	x	p	p	Facilities for the warehousing of agricultural products.
COMMERCIAL USES
Bed and breakfast Conditional use: § 11.4	s	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	a	a	x	x	x	Overnight accommodations and a morning meal in a dwelling unit provided to transients for compensation.
Commercial lodging (hotel and motel)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	x	Hotels, motels, boarding or rooming houses, or a building or group of buildings offering transient lodging accommodations on a daily rate to the general public. Additional services may include a restaurant, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities.
Retail sales	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	p	x	Establishments engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods. All forms of retail sale businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Convenience retail and/or gas station	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	c	x	p	x	Retail establishments offering for sale pre-packaged food products, household items, newspapers and magazines, gasoline, and pre-packaged freshly prepared foods for off-site consumption. These stores operate long hours, often 24 hours, and contain a myriad of items. Commercial, transportation uses such as truckstops are not included in this definition.
Commercial, transportation (truckstop)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	p	p	Any building, premises, or land in which or upon which a business, service, or industry involving the maintenance, servicing, storage, or repair of commercial vehicles is conducted or rendered, including the dispensing of motor fuel or other petroleum products directly into motor vehicles and the sale of accessories or equipment for trucks and similar commercial vehicles. A truckstop may also include overnight accommodations and restaurant facilities primarily for the use of truck crews.
Commercial, personal services	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	x	Establishments providing services pertaining to the person or to his/her apparel and personal effects, including, but not limited to, barber and beauty shops, laundromats, dry cleaning, tailors, photography studios, health club, jewelry and watch repair and tattoo parlors. All forms of personal service businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Commercial, professional services	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	x	Establishments providing services which supply general needs of an intangible nature to the public including real estate offices, insurance agents, business consultants, banks, medical, and loan centers. All forms of professional service businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Commercial, general services	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	p	x	p	p	Establishments providing services pertaining to the maintenance, installation, and repair of personal and business articles including plumbing, heating and air conditioning, electrical, janitorial, and contracting services, general machinery repair, auto garages, and oil change centers. All forms of general service businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere. Outdoor storage is included in this definition as an accessory use as long as the use meets the defined conditions.
Commercial event venue	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s	p	p	p	x	x	A commercial facility that is rented to individuals, groups, or organizations, and used to host gatherings such as, but not limited to, weddings, receptions, parties, meetings, and conferences. A commercial event venue may be comprised of permanent structure(s), temporary structure(s), uncovered outdoor gathering area(s), or any combination thereof. This definition does not include those uses classified as assembly and worship, commercial lodging (hotel and motel), or publicly-owned facilities.
Wholesale sales	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	x	p	p	Establishments engaged in selling merchandise to retailer; to industrial, commercial, institutional, or professional business user; to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to, such individuals or companies. All forms of wholesale businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Restaurant	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	x	Establishments where food and drink are prepared, served, and consumed primarily within the principal building. The serving of alcohol is not included within this definition.
Drive-through restaurant Conditional use: § 11.4	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	Establishments where food and drink are sold in a form ready for consumption, where all or a portion of the consumption takes place or is designed to take place outside the confines of the restaurant, and where ordering and pickup of food may take place from an automobile.
Bar Conditional use: § 11.4	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	Establishments used primarily for the sale or dispensing of liquor by the drink for on-site consumption.
Sexually oriented business Special exception: § 11.4	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s	Sexually oriented business establishments as defined under article 11 including adult arcades, adult bookstores, adult retail stores, adult video stores, adult cabarets, adult health clubs, adult motels, adult motion picture theaters, adult theaters, and other similar activities.
Office	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	a	Building or buildings wherein operations are predominantly administrative, professional or clerical.
Outdoor sales, rural	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	p	x	The display, rental, and sale of products and services primarily outside of a building or structure, including garden supplies, produce, plants, landscaping materials, farm equipment, lumberyards, burial monuments, and automobiles.
Outdoor sales, other	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	p	x	The display, rental, and sale of products and services primarily outside of a building or structure, including vehicles, boats, aircraft, construction equipment, manufactured homes, and building materials.
Carwash	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	Establishments used for the washing of automobiles.
Mixed use	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	x	x	1. A building containing two or more use categories, permitted within the zoning district, with five or more residential dwelling units comprising a minimum of 25% of the total floor area. 2. A building or group of buildings arranged around a pedestrian facility, containing four or more different uses, permitted within the zoning district, such as: retail sales, lodging, office, service, residential, institutional, or recreation. Residential use may be one of the required uses.
INDUSTRIAL USES
Transportation	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Ground establishments providing for the interchange of passenger and freight including, but not limited to, bus passenger and parking terminals, truck terminals, railroad passenger and freight terminals, railway express freight terminals, taxicab stands and yards, and airports.
Light manufacturing	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Commerce and light industrial uses, including, but not limited to, product assemblage and repair, research and development, office/service facilities, and indoor storage/warehousing/manufacturing of finished parts or products, or similar uses.
Heavy manufacturing	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	Heavy industrial uses and processing plants, including, but not limited to, the mechanical or chemical transformation of organic or inorganic substances into new products.
Manufacturing services (construction)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Construction establishments engaged in the construction, repair, or demolition of buildings, streets, water and sewer systems, bridges, and similar construction, including, but not limited to, building, electrical heating, air conditioning, heavy construction, paving and earth moving operations.
Manufacturing services (other)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Establishments supplying other business, industries, or individuals, including, but not limited to, laundry and dry cleaning plants, linen supply plants, closed storage, cabinet and metal shops, welding shops, but not including junkyards or other establishments designed primarily for outdoor, open air storage.
Mining	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s > 5 ac.; c ≤ 5 ac.	x	x	x	c	c	The breaking of the surface soil to facilitate or accomplish the extraction or removal of ores or mineral solids for sale or processing or consumption in the regular operation of a business; and/or the removal of overburden lying above natural deposits of ore or mineral solids and removal of the mineral deposits exposed, or by removal of ores or mineral solids from deposits lying exposed in their natural state.
RECREATION USES
Campground	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a; c ≤10 ac.; s <10 ac.	c	x	x	x	x	Form of commercial lodging where two or more campsites are located, established, or maintained for occupancy by camping units as temporary living quarters for recreation, education, or vacation purposes.
Commercial, indoor recreation	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	Establishments engaged in providing indoor entertainment for a fee including bowling alleys, indoor sports arenas, movie theaters, performing arts companies, indoor skating rinks, amusement game machine complex, and pool halls.
Commercial, outdoor recreation	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	Establishments engaged in providing outdoor entertainment for a fee including fairgrounds, outdoor stadiums, go-cart facilities, amusement parks, water slides, batting cages, zoos, and botanical gardens.
Indoor recreation	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Indoor recreational uses including community recreation centers, gymnasiums, indoor swimming pools, tennis, racquetball, or handball courts. Commercial uses such as health clubs are not included in this definition.
Outdoor recreation, active	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Leisure-time activities, usually of a formal nature and often performed with others, requiring equipment and taking place at prescribed places, sites, or fields. Active recreational uses and supporting services include swimming, tennis, baseball and other field sports, track, and playground activities.
Outdoor recreation, passive	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Activities that involve relatively inactive or less energetic activities, such as walking, sitting, and picnicking. Passive recreational uses include nature trails, walking paths, picnic areas, nature areas, and other passive recreation-oriented parks.
Resort/fish camp	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	p	x	p	p	Lodging that serves as a destination point for visitors, located and designed with some combination of recreational uses or natural areas, such as marinas, beaches, or pools, tennis, golf or other special recreation opportunity, and/or a variety of restaurants and shops to serve the guests.
Ecotourism	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Organized, educational, and mainly outdoor recreation with or without lodging, which invites participants to learn about and promote ecological preservation, conservation, and sustainability.
Golf course	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	A tract of land laid out for at least nine holes for playing the regulation game of golf and improved with tees, greens, fairways, and hazards and that may include a clubhouse and shelter.
Miniature golf	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	Putting courses installed on artificial surfaces, practice facilities that are driving ranges, or which have several practice holes or putting areas.
Racetrack	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	A course where animals or machines are entered in competition against one another or against time, including, but not limited to, motorcar racetracks, dirt-bike tracks, and mud bogs.
Shooting range, outdoor	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	The use of land for archery and/or the discharging of firearms for the purposes of target practice, skeet and trap shooting, mock war games. Excluded from this use type shall be general hunting and unstructured and nonrecurring discharging of firearms on private property with the property owner's permission.
INSTITUTIONAL USES
Poultry	c	c	c	x	x	x	c	c	c	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	1. The common domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus) or its young.
Assembly and worship	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Assembly uses include museums, libraries, cultural or arts centers, historic sites, etc. Worship uses include a building or structure, or groups of buildings or structures, that by design and construction is primarily intended for conducting organized religious services and associated accessory uses such as schools, day care, and community centers, etc.
Cemetery	x	a	a	x	x	x	a	a	a	a	a/c	p	p	p	p	p	Property used for interring the dead.
College and professional schools	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	p	Colleges, universities, professional, vocational and other schools of advanced education.
Neighborhood and community schools	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Institutions of learning or instruction primarily catering to minors, whether public or private, which are licensed by the State of South Carolina. These uses include nursery schools, kindergartens, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and special need schools. Charm schools, dancing schools, music schools, or similar limited schools do not fall under this definition but can be listed under personal services.
Institutional, residential	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	x	s	x	x	x	x	x	1. Sheltered care facilities or group living facilities where the residents live in an institutional environment and are generally under the care or control of staff. All sheltered care, group care, and group homes, except where care is provided to no more than two (2) unrelated individuals, shall be considered institutional residential use. 2. Schools with live-in facilities on-site, other than universities, colleges, or preparatory schools.
Assisted living facilities	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	x	x	Institutional housing where there is commercial rental or condominium ownership combined with any of the following: common food service, nursing, or health care. Nursing, rest and convalescent home shall also be included.
Commercial day care center	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	a	A nonresidential facility in which child care is provided on more than two days a week for periods of less than 24 hours, but more than four hours, for seven or more children.
Family day care home Conditional use: § 11.6	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	An occupied residence in which child day care is provided no more than two days a week for periods of less than 24 hours, but more than four hours, for no more than six children, including those children living in the home and children received for day care who are related to the resident caregiver. Family day care homes are licensed by the South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS).
Protective care	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Housing where the residents are assigned to the facility and are under the protective care of the county, state, or federal government. This use includes jails, prisons, work release, and other similar facilities.
Government offices, public services, and local utilities	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	County, state, or federal office buildings or other facilities that are primarily devoted to public office uses or services. These uses include public services such as emergency service, buildings, or garages (e.g. ambulance, fire, police, and public works) or other garages where vehicles are stored and dispatched. These uses also include local utilities such as utility substations or transmission and local distribution facilities, including telephone, and all government-owned utilities. Not included are generation facilities, storage of combustibles, regional facilities, and landfills or mining operations.
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
Commercial communication towers 1. Locating antennas on existing structures. 2. Locating antennas on existing towers with tower modifications. 3. Locating new towers constructed with monopole, guyed, or lattice construction. Conditional use: § 11.7	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	c	c	c	c	Tower, pole, or similar structure that supports communication equipment either broadcasting or receiving. This definition does not include television reception antennas and satellite dishes, amateur radio operators as licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, or towers under 150 feet in height used solely for educational communications purposes and located on property owned by a public or private school facility.
Small Wireless Facilities Conditional Use: § 11.7	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	A wireless facility that is affixed to a pole, post, or other wireless support structure(s) and meets both of the following qualifications: (i) each antenna is located inside an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume, or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of its exposed elements could fit within an imaginary enclosure of not more than six cubic feet; and (ii) all other wireless equipment associated with the facility is cumulatively no more than 28 cubic feet in volume, not including associated ancillary equipment as defined in section 11.7.2(A)(21).
STORAGE USES
Boat storage facility (indoor)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	p	p	Storage and holding of boats and other marine vehicles within an enclosed structure containing separate, individual, and private storage spaces of varying sizes leased or rented on an individual basis for varying periods of time. For outdoor storage of boats, see definition of "Outdoor storage" below.
Business storage (indoor storage)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	p	p	p	p	Storage and holding of commercial business supplies, materials, equipment and products, that are necessary for conducting that business.
Storage facility (miniwarehouse) Conditional use: § 11.8	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	c	c	A structure containing separate, individual, and private storage spaces of varying sizes leased or rented on individual leases for varying periods of time. Outdoor storage in the form of lease space for the open storage of boats, automobiles, and marine, recreational, and similar vehicles in an unenclosed area or structure may be permitted as an accessory use per the conditions found in section 11.8.2.
Outdoor storage	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s/a	x	c	c	Goods, equipment, or supplies including, but not limited to, junked vehicles and white goods, held for safekeeping or eventual sale or distribution or processing for recycling, not entirely within totally enclosed buildings. Property maintained in this manner may be referred to as a junkyard. T-structures, lean-to-type structures or roofed-over, fenced-in areas shall not be considered totally enclosed buildings. This use classification may also be applied to facilities that provide lease space for the open storage of boats, automobiles, and marine, recreational, and similar vehicles in an unenclosed area or structure.
RESIDENTIAL USES
Single-family detached	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	x	A one-family dwelling unit located on a separate lot and is not attached to any other dwelling by any means. This definition does not include manufactured housing units or portable residential dwellings, such as recreational vehicles, that fail to meet adopted building codes and/or are not tied into required public or private utilities.
Manufactured home	x	c	p	p	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	x	A residential dwelling unit that is composed of one or more components, each of which was assembled in a manufacturing plant and designed to be transported to the home site on its own chassis. The manufactured home must bear a seal certifying that it was built to HUD standards for mobile homes, adopted on July 1, 1976.
Multifamily	x	x	x	x	x	p	x	x	x	x	x	p	c	c	x	x	A building containing two or more dwelling units on the same lot, including units that are located one over the other. These can include apartments and condominiums.
Townhouse/single-family attached	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	x	x	A one-family dwelling attached to two or more one-family dwellings by common vertical walls.
Patio home	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	A one-family dwelling on a separate lot with open space setbacks on three sides and with a courtyard. This definition does not include portable residential dwellings, such as recreational vehicles, that fail to meet adopted building codes and/or are not tied into required public or private utilities.
Duplex	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	A multifamily dwelling containing two dwelling units on one lot, each separate, independent unit with its own independent entrance. A dwelling with two units, each unit on its own lot, is not a duplex. Attached cluster housing and two attached townhouses are not duplexes.
Triplex	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	A building containing three dwelling units, each of which has direct access to the outside or to a common hall.
Quadruplex	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	Four attached dwellings in one building in which each unit has at least two open space exposures and shares one or two walls with adjoining unit or units.
Commercial apartment	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	a	a	x	x	One to four dwelling units located above, or to the rear of a nonresidential structure on the same lot.
Home occupation Conditional use: § 11.9	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	a	a	a	x	x	Any use conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the occupants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes and does not change the character thereof.
Accessory dwelling unit	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	a	a	a	x	x	A dwelling unit detached from a principal building located on the same lot and customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal building or use.
Guesthouse/garage apartment	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	c	a	a	a	x	x	An accessory dwelling unit that is detached from a principal building, but located on the same lot, and is no larger than 25 percent of the primary structure's heated square footage, up to a maximum of 850 square feet.

Berkeley County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

ARTICLE 4

- USE TABLE

4.1.- Purpose.

4.2. - Interpretation.

4.3. - Use table.

p	Permitted use. Any use allowed in a zoning district and subject to the restrictions applicable to that zoning district.
c	Conditional use. A use permitted in a particular zoning district upon showing that such use in a specified location will comply with all the conditions and standards for the location or operation of the use as specified in the zoning ordinance and authorized by the approving agency.
s	Special exception. An exception issued by the board of zoning appeals authorizing a particular use in a specified location within a zoning district, upon demonstrating that such use complies with all the conditions and standards specified by this ordinance.
a	Accessory use. An incidental and subordinate use that is customarily associated with the principal use of a lot or building located upon the same lot as the principal use. See district requirements for full list of permitted accessory uses.
x	Prohibited use. A use that is not permitted in a zoning district.

4.3.1. Use table.

USE PERMISSION

p	Permitted use
x	Prohibited use
c	Conditional use
a	Accessory use
s	Special exception

	Districts
Land Use	R1	R1-MM	R2	R3	R4	R5	R1-R	R2-R	R2-R(F)	R15	Flex1	RNC	GC	OI	LI	HI	Use Definition
AGRICULTURAL USES
Agriculture, crop	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	p	p	The use of land for the production of row crops, field crops, timber, bees, apiary products, aquaculture, and fur-bearing animals primarily for the sale to others.
Agriculture, intensive animal production Conditional use: § 11.3	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	The production principally for the sale to others of animals or their products, including, but not limited to: dairy animals and dairy products, livestock, including dairy and beef cattle, poultry, sheep, swine, horses, ponies, mules, and goats; including the breeding and grazing of all such animals.
Agriculture, home animal production	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	p	p	x	x	x	x	p	The production, principally for use or consumption of the property owner, of plants, animals, or their products and for sale to others where such sales are incidental, including, but not limited to: gardening, fruit production, and equine, poultry and livestock products for household use only.
Agriculture, home horses only Conditional use: § 11.3	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	An accessory land use that is designed, arranged, used, or intended to be used for the keeping of equines for the private use of the occupants of a principal dwelling and their guests, but in no event for hire.
Boarding facility Conditional use: § 11.3	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	c	x	x	p	A structure or use designed for the feeding, housing, and exercising of animals not owned by the owner of the premises and for which the owner of the premises receives compensation. Also includes any structure or place where such animals are kept for riding, driving, or stabling for compensation or incidental to the operation of any club, association, ranch, or similar purpose.
Forestry	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	p	p	Management, harvesting, and enhancement of forest resources for ultimate sale or use of wood products, requiring replanting, and subject to S.C. Forestry Commission best management practices.
Agriculture, sales and service	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	x	x	x	p	p	Sale or rental of farm tools and small implements, feed and grain, tack, animal care products, and farm supplies.
Sale of products produced on-site	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	a	a	a	a	x	x	x	p	p	Handcrafted products produced or grown on-site and sold on the premises. Examples of products include: honey, wooden lawn ornaments, and sweet-grass baskets.
Agriculture, storage	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	a	x	x	x	p	p	Facilities for the warehousing of agricultural products.
COMMERCIAL USES
Bed and breakfast Conditional use: § 11.4	s	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	a	a	x	x	x	Overnight accommodations and a morning meal in a dwelling unit provided to transients for compensation.
Commercial lodging (hotel and motel)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	x	Hotels, motels, boarding or rooming houses, or a building or group of buildings offering transient lodging accommodations on a daily rate to the general public. Additional services may include a restaurant, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities.
Retail sales	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	p	x	Establishments engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods. All forms of retail sale businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Convenience retail and/or gas station	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	c	x	p	x	Retail establishments offering for sale pre-packaged food products, household items, newspapers and magazines, gasoline, and pre-packaged freshly prepared foods for off-site consumption. These stores operate long hours, often 24 hours, and contain a myriad of items. Commercial, transportation uses such as truckstops are not included in this definition.
Commercial, transportation (truckstop)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	p	p	Any building, premises, or land in which or upon which a business, service, or industry involving the maintenance, servicing, storage, or repair of commercial vehicles is conducted or rendered, including the dispensing of motor fuel or other petroleum products directly into motor vehicles and the sale of accessories or equipment for trucks and similar commercial vehicles. A truckstop may also include overnight accommodations and restaurant facilities primarily for the use of truck crews.
Commercial, personal services	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	x	Establishments providing services pertaining to the person or to his/her apparel and personal effects, including, but not limited to, barber and beauty shops, laundromats, dry cleaning, tailors, photography studios, health club, jewelry and watch repair and tattoo parlors. All forms of personal service businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Commercial, professional services	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	x	Establishments providing services which supply general needs of an intangible nature to the public including real estate offices, insurance agents, business consultants, banks, medical, and loan centers. All forms of professional service businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Commercial, general services	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	p	x	p	p	Establishments providing services pertaining to the maintenance, installation, and repair of personal and business articles including plumbing, heating and air conditioning, electrical, janitorial, and contracting services, general machinery repair, auto garages, and oil change centers. All forms of general service businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere. Outdoor storage is included in this definition as an accessory use as long as the use meets the defined conditions.
Commercial event venue	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s	p	p	p	x	x	A commercial facility that is rented to individuals, groups, or organizations, and used to host gatherings such as, but not limited to, weddings, receptions, parties, meetings, and conferences. A commercial event venue may be comprised of permanent structure(s), temporary structure(s), uncovered outdoor gathering area(s), or any combination thereof. This definition does not include those uses classified as assembly and worship, commercial lodging (hotel and motel), or publicly-owned facilities.
Wholesale sales	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	x	p	p	Establishments engaged in selling merchandise to retailer; to industrial, commercial, institutional, or professional business user; to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to, such individuals or companies. All forms of wholesale businesses are included in this definition unless defined separately elsewhere.
Restaurant	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	x	Establishments where food and drink are prepared, served, and consumed primarily within the principal building. The serving of alcohol is not included within this definition.
Drive-through restaurant Conditional use: § 11.4	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	Establishments where food and drink are sold in a form ready for consumption, where all or a portion of the consumption takes place or is designed to take place outside the confines of the restaurant, and where ordering and pickup of food may take place from an automobile.
Bar Conditional use: § 11.4	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	Establishments used primarily for the sale or dispensing of liquor by the drink for on-site consumption.
Sexually oriented business Special exception: § 11.4	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s	Sexually oriented business establishments as defined under article 11 including adult arcades, adult bookstores, adult retail stores, adult video stores, adult cabarets, adult health clubs, adult motels, adult motion picture theaters, adult theaters, and other similar activities.
Office	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	a	Building or buildings wherein operations are predominantly administrative, professional or clerical.
Outdoor sales, rural	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	p	x	The display, rental, and sale of products and services primarily outside of a building or structure, including garden supplies, produce, plants, landscaping materials, farm equipment, lumberyards, burial monuments, and automobiles.
Outdoor sales, other	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	p	x	The display, rental, and sale of products and services primarily outside of a building or structure, including vehicles, boats, aircraft, construction equipment, manufactured homes, and building materials.
Carwash	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	Establishments used for the washing of automobiles.
Mixed use	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	x	x	1. A building containing two or more use categories, permitted within the zoning district, with five or more residential dwelling units comprising a minimum of 25% of the total floor area. 2. A building or group of buildings arranged around a pedestrian facility, containing four or more different uses, permitted within the zoning district, such as: retail sales, lodging, office, service, residential, institutional, or recreation. Residential use may be one of the required uses.
INDUSTRIAL USES
Transportation	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Ground establishments providing for the interchange of passenger and freight including, but not limited to, bus passenger and parking terminals, truck terminals, railroad passenger and freight terminals, railway express freight terminals, taxicab stands and yards, and airports.
Light manufacturing	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Commerce and light industrial uses, including, but not limited to, product assemblage and repair, research and development, office/service facilities, and indoor storage/warehousing/manufacturing of finished parts or products, or similar uses.
Heavy manufacturing	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	Heavy industrial uses and processing plants, including, but not limited to, the mechanical or chemical transformation of organic or inorganic substances into new products.
Manufacturing services (construction)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Construction establishments engaged in the construction, repair, or demolition of buildings, streets, water and sewer systems, bridges, and similar construction, including, but not limited to, building, electrical heating, air conditioning, heavy construction, paving and earth moving operations.
Manufacturing services (other)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Establishments supplying other business, industries, or individuals, including, but not limited to, laundry and dry cleaning plants, linen supply plants, closed storage, cabinet and metal shops, welding shops, but not including junkyards or other establishments designed primarily for outdoor, open air storage.
Mining	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s > 5 ac.; c ≤ 5 ac.	x	x	x	c	c	The breaking of the surface soil to facilitate or accomplish the extraction or removal of ores or mineral solids for sale or processing or consumption in the regular operation of a business; and/or the removal of overburden lying above natural deposits of ore or mineral solids and removal of the mineral deposits exposed, or by removal of ores or mineral solids from deposits lying exposed in their natural state.
RECREATION USES
Campground	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a; c ≤10 ac.; s <10 ac.	c	x	x	x	x	Form of commercial lodging where two or more campsites are located, established, or maintained for occupancy by camping units as temporary living quarters for recreation, education, or vacation purposes.
Commercial, indoor recreation	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	Establishments engaged in providing indoor entertainment for a fee including bowling alleys, indoor sports arenas, movie theaters, performing arts companies, indoor skating rinks, amusement game machine complex, and pool halls.
Commercial, outdoor recreation	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	Establishments engaged in providing outdoor entertainment for a fee including fairgrounds, outdoor stadiums, go-cart facilities, amusement parks, water slides, batting cages, zoos, and botanical gardens.
Indoor recreation	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Indoor recreational uses including community recreation centers, gymnasiums, indoor swimming pools, tennis, racquetball, or handball courts. Commercial uses such as health clubs are not included in this definition.
Outdoor recreation, active	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Leisure-time activities, usually of a formal nature and often performed with others, requiring equipment and taking place at prescribed places, sites, or fields. Active recreational uses and supporting services include swimming, tennis, baseball and other field sports, track, and playground activities.
Outdoor recreation, passive	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Activities that involve relatively inactive or less energetic activities, such as walking, sitting, and picnicking. Passive recreational uses include nature trails, walking paths, picnic areas, nature areas, and other passive recreation-oriented parks.
Resort/fish camp	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	p	x	p	p	Lodging that serves as a destination point for visitors, located and designed with some combination of recreational uses or natural areas, such as marinas, beaches, or pools, tennis, golf or other special recreation opportunity, and/or a variety of restaurants and shops to serve the guests.
Ecotourism	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Organized, educational, and mainly outdoor recreation with or without lodging, which invites participants to learn about and promote ecological preservation, conservation, and sustainability.
Golf course	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	A tract of land laid out for at least nine holes for playing the regulation game of golf and improved with tees, greens, fairways, and hazards and that may include a clubhouse and shelter.
Miniature golf	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	Putting courses installed on artificial surfaces, practice facilities that are driving ranges, or which have several practice holes or putting areas.
Racetrack	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	A course where animals or machines are entered in competition against one another or against time, including, but not limited to, motorcar racetracks, dirt-bike tracks, and mud bogs.
Shooting range, outdoor	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	The use of land for archery and/or the discharging of firearms for the purposes of target practice, skeet and trap shooting, mock war games. Excluded from this use type shall be general hunting and unstructured and nonrecurring discharging of firearms on private property with the property owner's permission.
INSTITUTIONAL USES
Poultry	c	c	c	x	x	x	c	c	c	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	1. The common domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus) or its young.
Assembly and worship	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Assembly uses include museums, libraries, cultural or arts centers, historic sites, etc. Worship uses include a building or structure, or groups of buildings or structures, that by design and construction is primarily intended for conducting organized religious services and associated accessory uses such as schools, day care, and community centers, etc.
Cemetery	x	a	a	x	x	x	a	a	a	a	a/c	p	p	p	p	p	Property used for interring the dead.
College and professional schools	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	p	Colleges, universities, professional, vocational and other schools of advanced education.
Neighborhood and community schools	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	Institutions of learning or instruction primarily catering to minors, whether public or private, which are licensed by the State of South Carolina. These uses include nursery schools, kindergartens, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and special need schools. Charm schools, dancing schools, music schools, or similar limited schools do not fall under this definition but can be listed under personal services.
Institutional, residential	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x	x	x	s	x	x	x	x	x	1. Sheltered care facilities or group living facilities where the residents live in an institutional environment and are generally under the care or control of staff. All sheltered care, group care, and group homes, except where care is provided to no more than two (2) unrelated individuals, shall be considered institutional residential use. 2. Schools with live-in facilities on-site, other than universities, colleges, or preparatory schools.
Assisted living facilities	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	x	x	Institutional housing where there is commercial rental or condominium ownership combined with any of the following: common food service, nursing, or health care. Nursing, rest and convalescent home shall also be included.
Commercial day care center	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	a	A nonresidential facility in which child care is provided on more than two days a week for periods of less than 24 hours, but more than four hours, for seven or more children.
Family day care home Conditional use: § 11.6	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	An occupied residence in which child day care is provided no more than two days a week for periods of less than 24 hours, but more than four hours, for no more than six children, including those children living in the home and children received for day care who are related to the resident caregiver. Family day care homes are licensed by the South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS).
Protective care	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	Housing where the residents are assigned to the facility and are under the protective care of the county, state, or federal government. This use includes jails, prisons, work release, and other similar facilities.
Government offices, public services, and local utilities	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	County, state, or federal office buildings or other facilities that are primarily devoted to public office uses or services. These uses include public services such as emergency service, buildings, or garages (e.g. ambulance, fire, police, and public works) or other garages where vehicles are stored and dispatched. These uses also include local utilities such as utility substations or transmission and local distribution facilities, including telephone, and all government-owned utilities. Not included are generation facilities, storage of combustibles, regional facilities, and landfills or mining operations.
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
Commercial communication towers 1. Locating antennas on existing structures. 2. Locating antennas on existing towers with tower modifications. 3. Locating new towers constructed with monopole, guyed, or lattice construction. Conditional use: § 11.7	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	c	c	c	c	Tower, pole, or similar structure that supports communication equipment either broadcasting or receiving. This definition does not include television reception antennas and satellite dishes, amateur radio operators as licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, or towers under 150 feet in height used solely for educational communications purposes and located on property owned by a public or private school facility.
Small Wireless Facilities Conditional Use: § 11.7	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	A wireless facility that is affixed to a pole, post, or other wireless support structure(s) and meets both of the following qualifications: (i) each antenna is located inside an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume, or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of its exposed elements could fit within an imaginary enclosure of not more than six cubic feet; and (ii) all other wireless equipment associated with the facility is cumulatively no more than 28 cubic feet in volume, not including associated ancillary equipment as defined in section 11.7.2(A)(21).
STORAGE USES
Boat storage facility (indoor)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	p	p	Storage and holding of boats and other marine vehicles within an enclosed structure containing separate, individual, and private storage spaces of varying sizes leased or rented on an individual basis for varying periods of time. For outdoor storage of boats, see definition of "Outdoor storage" below.
Business storage (indoor storage)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	p	p	p	p	Storage and holding of commercial business supplies, materials, equipment and products, that are necessary for conducting that business.
Storage facility (miniwarehouse) Conditional use: § 11.8	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	c	c	A structure containing separate, individual, and private storage spaces of varying sizes leased or rented on individual leases for varying periods of time. Outdoor storage in the form of lease space for the open storage of boats, automobiles, and marine, recreational, and similar vehicles in an unenclosed area or structure may be permitted as an accessory use per the conditions found in section 11.8.2.
Outdoor storage	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	s/a	x	c	c	Goods, equipment, or supplies including, but not limited to, junked vehicles and white goods, held for safekeeping or eventual sale or distribution or processing for recycling, not entirely within totally enclosed buildings. Property maintained in this manner may be referred to as a junkyard. T-structures, lean-to-type structures or roofed-over, fenced-in areas shall not be considered totally enclosed buildings. This use classification may also be applied to facilities that provide lease space for the open storage of boats, automobiles, and marine, recreational, and similar vehicles in an unenclosed area or structure.
RESIDENTIAL USES
Single-family detached	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	x	A one-family dwelling unit located on a separate lot and is not attached to any other dwelling by any means. This definition does not include manufactured housing units or portable residential dwellings, such as recreational vehicles, that fail to meet adopted building codes and/or are not tied into required public or private utilities.
Manufactured home	x	c	p	p	x	x	x	p	p	p	p	p	x	x	x	x	A residential dwelling unit that is composed of one or more components, each of which was assembled in a manufacturing plant and designed to be transported to the home site on its own chassis. The manufactured home must bear a seal certifying that it was built to HUD standards for mobile homes, adopted on July 1, 1976.
Multifamily	x	x	x	x	x	p	x	x	x	x	x	p	c	c	x	x	A building containing two or more dwelling units on the same lot, including units that are located one over the other. These can include apartments and condominiums.
Townhouse/single-family attached	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	x	x	x	A one-family dwelling attached to two or more one-family dwellings by common vertical walls.
Patio home	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	A one-family dwelling on a separate lot with open space setbacks on three sides and with a courtyard. This definition does not include portable residential dwellings, such as recreational vehicles, that fail to meet adopted building codes and/or are not tied into required public or private utilities.
Duplex	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	A multifamily dwelling containing two dwelling units on one lot, each separate, independent unit with its own independent entrance. A dwelling with two units, each unit on its own lot, is not a duplex. Attached cluster housing and two attached townhouses are not duplexes.
Triplex	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	A building containing three dwelling units, each of which has direct access to the outside or to a common hall.
Quadruplex	x	x	x	x	p	p	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	Four attached dwellings in one building in which each unit has at least two open space exposures and shares one or two walls with adjoining unit or units.
Commercial apartment	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	a	a	a	x	x	One to four dwelling units located above, or to the rear of a nonresidential structure on the same lot.
Home occupation Conditional use: § 11.9	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	c	a	a	a	x	x	Any use conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the occupants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes and does not change the character thereof.
Accessory dwelling unit	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	a	a	a	x	x	A dwelling unit detached from a principal building located on the same lot and customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal building or use.
Guesthouse/garage apartment	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	c	a	a	a	x	x	An accessory dwelling unit that is detached from a principal building, but located on the same lot, and is no larger than 25 percent of the primary structure's heated square footage, up to a maximum of 850 square feet.

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