Birmingham City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE 1
Zoning Ordinance Foundation
Sections
- Basic Provisions
- General Zoning Districts
- Zoning Map
ARTICLE 2
Zoning Districts and Regulations
Sections
- 2.01 PP (Public Property) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.02 PP (Public Property) District Development Standards
- 2.03 R1A (Single-Family Residential) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.04 R1A (Single-Family Residential) District Development Standards
- 2.05 R1 (Single-Family Residential) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.06 R1 (Single-Family Residential) District Development Standards
- 2.07 R2 (Single-Family Residential) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.08 R2 (Single-Family Residential) District Development Standards
- 2.09 R3 (Single-Family Residential) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.10 R3 (Single-Family Residential) District Development Standards
- 2.11 R4 (Two-Family Residential) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.12 R4 (Two-Family Residential) District Development Standards
- 2.13 R5 (Multiple-Family Residential) District Intent, Permitted Uses, & Special Uses
- 2.14 R5 (Multiple-Family Residential) District Development Standards
- 2.15 R6 (Multiple-Family Residential) District Intent, Permitted Uses, & Special Uses
- 2.16 R6 (Multiple-Family Residential) District Development Standards
- 2.17 R7 (Multiple-Family Residential) District Intent, Permitted Uses, & Special Uses
- 2.18 R7 (Multiple-Family Residential) District Development Standards
- 2.19 R8 (Attached Single-Family Residential) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.20 R8 (Attached Single-Family Residential) District Development Standards
- 2.21 O1 (Office) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.22 O1 (Office) District Development Standards
- 2.23 O2 (Office/Commercial) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.24 O2 (Office/Commercial) District Development Standards
- 2.25 P (Parking) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.26 P (Parking) District Development Standards
- 2.27 B1 (Neighborhood Business) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.28 B1 (Neighborhood Business) District Development Standards
- 2.29 B2 (General Business) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.30 B2 (General Business) District Development Standards
- 2.31 B2B (General Business) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.32 B2B (General Business) District Development Standards
- 2.33 B2C (General Business) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.34 B2C (General Business) District Development Standards
- 2.35 B3 (Office-Residential) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.36 B3 (Office-Residential) District Development Standards
- 2.37 B4 (Business-Residential) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.38 B4 (Business-Residential) District Development Standards
- 2.39 MX (Mixed Use) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.40 MX (Mixed Use) District Development Standards
- 2.41 TZ1 (Transition Zone) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.42 TZ1 (Transition Zone) District Development Standards
- 2.43 TZ2 (Transition Zone) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.44 TZ2 (Transition Zone) District Development Standards
- 2.45 TZ3 (Transition Zone) District Intent, Permitted Uses, and Special Uses
- 2.46 TZ3 (Transition Zone) District Development Standards
ARTICLE 3
Overlay Districts
Sections
- Downtown Birmingham Overlay District
- Triangle Overlay District
- 3.05 Purpose
- 3.06 Applicability
- 3.07 Permitted Uses and Special Uses
- 3.08 Height and Placement Requirements
- 3.09 Commercial/Mixed Use Architectural Requirements
- 3.10 Attached Single-Family Residential Architectural Requirements
- 3.11 Modifications to Architectural Requirements
- 3.12 Streetscape Design Requirements
- Activation Overlay District
ARTICLE 4
Development Standards
Sections
- 4.01 How to Use this Article
- Accessory Structure Standards (AS)
- Drainage Standards (DN)
- Essential Services Standards (ES)
- Fence Standards (FN)
- Floodplain Standards (FP)
- Height Standards (HT)
- Landscaping Standards (LA)
- Lighting Standards (LT)
- Loading Standards (LD)
- Lot Standards (LO)
- Open Space Standards (OS)
- Operation Standards (OP)
- Outdoor Dining Standards (OD)
- Parking Standards (PK)
- Screening Standards (SC)
- Setback Standards (SB)
- Storage and Display Standards (SD)
- Street Standards (ST)
- Structure Standards (SS)
- Temporary Use Standards (TU)
- Utility Standards (UT)
- Vision Clearance Standards (VC)
- Window Standards (WN)
ARTICLE 5
Use Specific Standards
Sections
- 5.01 PP District
- 5.02 R1A District, R1 District, R2 District, R3 District
- 5.03 R4 District, R5 District, R8 District
- 5.04 R6 District
- 5.05 R7 District
- 5.06 O1 District
- 5.07 O2 District
- 5.08 P District
- 5.09 B1 District
- 5.10 B2 District, B2B District, B2C District
- 5.11 B3 District
- 5.12 B4 District
- 5.13 MX District
- 5.14 TZ1
- 5.15 TZ2 & TZ3
ARTICLE 7
Processes, Permits and Fees
Sections
- 7.01 General
- 7.02 Rezoning Amendments
- 7.03 Architectural Design Review: Purpose
- 7.04 Architectural Design Review: Application
- 7.05 Requirements
- 7.06 Design Review: Purpose
- 7.07 Design Review: Application
- 7.08 Design Review: Requirements
- 7.09 Design Review: Review
- 7.10 Design Review: Permit
- 7.11 Design Review: Approval
- 7.12 Design Review: Application Fee
- 7.13 Design Review: Appeal
- 7.14 Design Review: Planning Department Approval
- 7.15 Floodplain Use Permit: Purpose
- 7.16 Floodplain Use Permit: Application
- 7.17 Floodplain Use Permit: Review
- 7.18 Floodplain Use Permit: Appeal
- 7.19 Regulated Uses: Purpose
- 7.20 Regulated Uses: Application
- 7.21 Regulated Uses: Requirements
- 7.22 Regulated Uses: Approval
- 7.23 Regulated Uses: Appeal
- 7.24 Site Plan Review: Purpose
- 7.25 Site Plan Review: Review
- 7.26 Site Plan Review: Application
- 7.27 Site Plan Review: Requirements
- 7.28 Site Plan Review: Approval
- 7.29 Site Plan Review: Hearing on Review
- 7.30 Site Plan Review: Application Fee
- 7.31 Site Plan Review: Appeal
- 7.32 Site Plan Review: Planning Department Approval
- 7.33 Special Land Uses: Purpose
- 7.34 Special Land Uses: Review
- 7.35 Special Land Uses: Application
- 7.36 Special Land Uses: Requirements
- 7.37 Special Land Uses: Approval
- 7.38 Temporary Use Permit: Purpose
- 7.39 Temporary Use Permit: Application
- 7.40 Temporary Use Permit: Approval
- 7.41 Wall Art Review: Purpose
- 7.42 Wall Art Review: Application Requirements
- 7.43 Wall Art Review: Review
- 7.44 Wall Art Review: Application Fee
- 7.45 Zoning Ordinance Compliance Permit: Purpose
- 7.46 Zoning Ordinance Compliance Permit: Application
ARTICLE 9
Definitions
Sections
- 9.01 General
- 9.02 Definitions
- Abutting
- A
- Addition:
- Adult Bookstore
- Adult Foster Care Group Home
- Adult Motion Picture Theater
- Alley
- Anemometer or Wind Monitoring Tower
- Area of Special Flood Hazard
- Architectural Enhancement Lighting
- Artisan Use
- Assisted Living:
- Attached Single-Family Residence
- Attic
- Automobile Repair
- Banquet Facility
- Base Flood:
- Basement:
- Basement Window Well
- Bathing Establishment
- Bistro:
- Boutique
- Broadcast Media Device
- Building
- Building, Accessory:
- Building Height:
- Building Height, Downtown Overlay:
- Building, Principal:
- Caliper
- C
- Child Care Center
- Circulation Area
- Clear Glazing
- Commercial Use
- Community Use
- Connecting Via
- Continuing Care Retirement Community
- Control Bumper
- Cutoff Luminaire:
- Day Care, Family Home
- Day Care, Group Home
- DBH
- Deciduous Tree:
- Destination Via
- Development
- Disability Glare
- Dormer
- Drainage
- Drive-in
- Drugstore
- Dwelling, Multiple-family:
- Dwelling, Single-family:
- Dwelling, Two-family:
- Dwelling Unit:
- Eave or Eave Line:
- Enclosure (outdoor dining)
- Electronic Video Game
- Essential Services
- Evergreen Tree:
- Facade
- Family:
- Filling Station
- Flood or Flooding
- Flood Boundary and Floodway Map
- Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
- Flood Insurance Study
- Floodplain:
- Floodway
- Floodway Fringe
- F
- Floor Area Ratio (FAR)
- Floor Area, Residential Accessory Building Total
- Floor Area, Residential Total
- Foot-candle
- Frontage Line, Non-Overlay
- Frontage Line, Overlay
- Full Cutoff Luminaire:
- Furnishing Zone
- Garage, Attached Private
- Garage, Community:
- Garage, Private
- Garage, Public
- Gasoline Full-Service Station
- Gasoline Service Station
- Glare
- Grade
- Grade, Existing
- Grade, Finished
- Grass
- Grocery Store
- Ground Cover
- Habitable Attic:
- Habitable Room
- Harmful Increase
- Health Club/Studio
- Height:
- Height of Luminaire
- Historic District
- Historic Resource
- Home Occupation
- Horizontal Illuminance
- Hospice
- Hotel
- IESNA
- Illuminance
- Impervious Surface:
- Independent Senior Living
- Indoor Recreational Facility
- Interior Planting Area
- Lamp:
- Landscape Lighting
- Light Nuisance
- Light Trespass
- Live/Work Unit
- Lot:
- Lot, Corner:
- Lot Coverage, Percent:
- Lot, Interior:
- Lot Line, Front:
- Lot Line, Rear
- L
- Lot of Record:
- Lot Width:
- Lumen
- Luminaire
- Massage Facility
- Mechanical Amusement Device
- Medical Rehabilitation Facility
- Meeting Room
- Mezzanine:
- Midpoint
- Mixed Passage
- Mobile Home
- Motel
- New Construction
- Nightclub
- Nonconforming
- Off-Street Loading Space
- Off-Street Parking Space
- Office
- Open Space:
- Open Space, Front:
- Open Space, Percent:
- Open Space, Rear:
- Open Space, Side:
- Ornamental Landscape Feature
- Outdoor Dining Patio
- Outdoor Dining Platform
- Outdoor Display
- Outdoor Lighting
- Outdoor Storage
- Parcel
- Park
- Parking
- Parking Area, Total:
- Parking Lot Interior:
- Party Store
- Passage
- Pawnshop
- Permanent Cosmetics
- Permanent Fixture (outdoor dining)
- Personal Services
- Philanthropic Use
- Photometric Plan
- Rail District:
- Religious Institution
- Residential Occupancy
- Retail Frontage Line
- Retail Use
- Right-of-Way
- Rooftop
- School
- Screenwall
- Seating Capacity
- Security Lighting
- Senior
- Setback:
- Shadow Flicker
- Shrub
- Sign
- Skilled Nursing Facility:
- Social Club
- Specialty Food Store
- Special Purpose Housing
- Staff Arborist
- Storefront
- Story:
- Street:
- Street Tree
- Structure
- Substantial Improvement
- Swept Area
- Swimming Pool, Private
- Swimming Pool, Public
- Swimming Pool, Semi-private
- Tattoo Parlor
- Terminated Vistas
- Tobacconist
- Tower Height
- Tract:
- Transition Line
- Tree
- Triangle District:
- Turbine Tower
- Use, Accessory
- Use, Principal
- Use, Regulated
- Vehicular Canopy
- Vertical Illuminance
- Via:
- Wall Art
- Wall Pack
- Windbreaks
- Wind Energy Facility
- Wind Turbine
Appendix B
Index
Sections
- A
- B
- C
- Carport:
- Certificate of Occupancy:
- Chapter 14:
- Chapter 22:
- Chapter 26:
- Chapter 62:
- Chapter 86:
- Chapter 98:
- Chapter 102:
- Chapter 110:
- Chapter 126:
- Chimney:
- Christmas Tree:
- Church:
- City Attorney:
- City Building Department:
- City Clerk:
- City Commission:
- City Engineer:
- City Planner:
- Community Development Department:
- Corner Lot:
- Cornice:
- Court:
- Covenant:
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- Satellite:
- School:
- Screenwall:
- Seniors:
- Shelving:
- Side Open Space:
- Side Yard Setback:
- Sign:
- Sign, Notice:
- Single-Family:
- Single-Family Cluster:
- Site Plan Review:
- Social Club:
- Special Land Use:
- Special Treatment License:
- Specialty Food Store:
- Staff Arborist:
- Stairway:
- Street:
- Structure:
- Substantial Improvement:
- Swimming Pool:
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z