Brevard City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 1
PURPOSE AND APPLICABILITY
Sections
- 1.1. Official title and map.
- 1.2. Purpose.
- 1.3. Authority.
- 1.4. Applicability.
- 1.5. Comprehensive plan.
- 1.6. Compliance.
- 1.7. Land development permit required.
- 1.8. Effect upon existing permits, permit choice, relation to other ordinances, abrogation and greater restrictions.
- 1.9. Effective date.
- 1.10. Effect on rights and liabilities under the existing ordinances.
- 1.11. Map interpretation.
- 1.12. Interpretation.
- 1.13. Reserved.
- Editor's Notes
CHAPTER 2
DISTRICTS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections
- 2.1. General intent and establishment of districts.
- 2.2. Use categories and tables of permitted uses.
- 2.3. Principal structures.
- 2.4. Group development.
- 2.5. Accessory structures.
- 2.6. Density and dimensional requirements.
- 2.7. Yards and setbacks.
- 2.7.1. General standards for all yards and setbacks.
- 2.7.2. Setbacks for principal structures.
- 2.7.3. Setbacks for accessory structures.
- 2.7.4. Setbacks for corner lots and multi-frontage lots.
- 2.7.5. Setbacks for triangle lots and other lots without a rear lot line.
- 2.7.6. Setbacks for irregular lots.
- 2.7.7. Setbacks for zero lot line developments.
- 2.7.8. Lots within the Downtown Development Overlay District.
- 2.7.9. Encroachments.
- 2.8. Fences and walls.
CHAPTER 3
USE DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS
Sections
- 3.1. Purpose and intent.
- 3.2. Applicability.
- 3.3. Enforcement.
- 3.4. Additional standards.
- 3.5. Residential uses.
- 3.6. Lodging uses.
- 3.7. Commercial uses.
- 3.8. Civic / institutional uses.
- 3.9. Entertainment / recreation uses.
- 3.10. Agriculture uses.
- 3.11. Manufacturing / wholesale / storage uses.
- 3.12. Infrastructure uses.
- 3.13. Accessory uses.
- 3.14. Temporary uses.
CHAPTER 4
LOT AND SUBDIVISION REQUIREMENTS
Sections
- 4.1. Authority and purpose.
- 4.2. Lot requirements.
- 4.3. Exempt subdivisions.
- 4.4. Minor subdivisions.
- 4.5. Major subdivisions.
- 4.6. Plat requirements.
- 4.7. Certifications and statements.
- 4.8. Approval review procedure.
- 4.9. Public improvements dedication and acceptance.
- 4.10. Placement of monuments.
- 4.11. Re-subdivision.
- Editor's Note
CHAPTER 5
ARCHITECTURAL STANDARDS
Sections
- 5.1. Purpose and intent.
- 5.2. Applicability.
- 5.3. Process.
- 5.4. Inside of Character Areas.
- 5.5. Outside of Character Areas.
- 5.6. General design requirements.
- 5.7. Building types
- 5.7.1. Civic building.
- 5.7.2. Institutional building.
- 5.7.3. Warehouse.
- 5.7.4. Main street building.
- 5.7.5. Flex building.
- 5.7.6. Liner building.
- 5.7.7. Live/work building.
- 5.7.8. Neighborhood business.
- 5.7.9. Large commercial building.
- 5.7.10. Roadside business.
- 5.7.11. Stacked flats.
- 5.7.12. Multiplex.
- 5.7.13. Small multiplex.
- 5.7.14. Accessory structures.
- 5.8. Architectural styles.
- 5.9. Building extensions.
- 5.10. Building frontages.
- 5.11. Wall elements.
- 5.12. Architectural elements.
- Editor's Note
CHAPTER 8
TREE PROTECTION AND LANDSCAPING
Sections
- 8.1. Purpose and intent.
- 8.2. General provisions.
- 8.3. Tree protection.
- 8.4. Buffers and screening.
- 8.5. Street tree plantings.
- 8.6. Parking area screening.
- 8.7. Parking area landscaping.
- 8.8. General non-residential and mixed-use landscaping.
- 8.9. General installation and maintenance standards.
- 8.10. Penalties.
- 8.11. Emergencies.
- 8.12. Modifications to standards.
CHAPTER 10
PARKING STANDARDS
Sections
- 10.1. Purpose and intent.
- 10.2. Applicability.
- 10.3. Off-street vehicle parking requirements.
- 10.4. Off street loading requirements.
- 10.5. Off-street bicycle parking requirements.
- 10.6. Off-street electric vehicle parking requirements.
- 10.7. Off-street parking area design and construction standards.
- 10.8. Structured parking.
CHAPTER 13
INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT REQUIREMENTS
Sections
- 13.1. Purpose and intent.
- 13.2. Required improvements for all development plans.
- 13.3. General provisions.
- 13.4. General infrastructure design requirements.
- 13.5. Street design.
- 13.6. Typical street design.
- 13.7. Street classification.
- 13.8. Driveways and culverts.
- 13.9. Containment areas for trash and recyclables.
CHAPTER 14
NONCONFORMITIES
Sections
- 14.1. Purpose and applicability.
- 14.2. Nonconforming uses.
- 14.3. Nonconforming principal structures.
- 14.4. Nonconforming manufactured homes/mobile homes, and mobile home parks.
- 14.5. Nonconforming accessory uses and structures.
- 14.6. Nonconforming lots.
- 14.7. Nonconforming signs.
- 14.8. Nonconforming landscaping, screening, buffering, and lighting.
- 14.9. Nonconforming street improvements.
- 14.10. Nonconforming plans.
- 14.11. Phasing for the purposes of evasion of the provisions of this chapter.
CHAPTER 16
ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- 16.1. Purpose and intent.
- 16.2. Duties of the administrator.
- 16.3. General applicability.
- 16.4. Administrative decisions.
- 16.5. Application submittal for development approvals.
- 16.6. Development approval review procedure in general.
- 16.7. Legislative decisions.
- 16.8. Quasi-judicial decisions.
- 16.9. Administrative modifications.
- 16.10. Vested rights—Site-specific vesting plans.
- 16.11. Development agreements.
- 16.12. Performance guarantees.
- 16.13. Revocation/invalidation of land development permit.
- 16.14. Moratoria.
- 16.15. Reserved.
- Editor's Notes
CHAPTER 17
DEVELOPMENT PLAN REQUIREMENTS
Sections
- 17.1. Purpose and intent.
- 17.2. Establishment of land development permit and development plan.
- 17.3. Environmental survey.
- 17.4. Sketch plan requirements.
- 17.5. Master plan requirements.
- 17.6. Construction document requirements.
- 17.7. Reserved.
- 17.9. Landscape plan requirements.
- 17.10. Lighting plan requirements.
- 17.11. Architectural plans.
- 17.12. Traffic impact study (TIS).
- 17.13. Stormwater management plan requirements.
CHAPTER 18
ENFORCEMENT
Sections
CHAPTER 19
DEFINITIONS
Sections
- 19.1. Intent.
- 19.2. Interpretation.
- 19.3. Definitions.
- Abandon
- Abandoned vehicle
- Abut
- Accessory retail
- Accessory structure
- Accessory use
- Addition (to an existing building)
- Administrative decision
- Adult establishment
- Affordable housing
- Agriculture
- Agricultural / produce stand:
- Alcoholic beverage sales store
- Appeal
- Approved palette
- Arch
- Area of special flood hazard
- Assessed and appraised value
- Automated teller machines (ATM)
- Auto/mechanical parts sales
- Aviation facilities
- Awning
- B
- Banner
- Bar/nightclub
- Basement
- Base flood
- Base flood elevation (BFE)
- Bay
- Bay window
- B
- Bedroom
- Belt course
- Brewery, distillery, winery, cidery - high impact
- Brewery, distillery, winery, cidery - low impact
- Brick bond
- Brick finish
- Building
- Buildable area
- Building line
- Build-to line
- Build-to percentage
- Build-to zone
- Camping uses
- Campground / recreational vehicle park
- Canopy
- Cemetery
- Chemical storage facility
- City Code
- Civic/institutional
- Clear height
- Cluster home development
- Colleges/universities
- Column
- Commercial
- Compensatory storage
- Conditional zoning
- Condominium
- Construction office:
- Copy (as used in conjunction with signs)
- Cornice
- Correctional Facility
- Cremation
- C
- Day care center
- Day care home
- Dedication
- Default
- Density
- Development
- Development approval
- Development regulation
- Display window
- Disposal
- Door
- Door surround
- D
- Dwelling
- Dwelling, accessory unit (ADU)
- Dwelling, duplex
- Dwelling, multi-family (three or four units/building)
- Dwelling, multi-family (more than four units/building)
- Dwelling, single-family
- Temporary dwelling
- Dwelling, townhome
- Dwelling unit
- Eating and drinking establishment uses
- Educational uses
- Electric vehicle parking space
- Elevated building
- Encroachment
- Entertainment/recreation
- Environmental containment parcel
- Equipment rental
- Evidentiary hearing
- Exposed wood structures
- Extractive industries
- Extractive industries involving blasting
- Façade
- Familial relationship
- Family care home
- Fascia
- Fence
- Fence, closed
- Fence, open
- Fenestration
- Flea market:
- F
- Flood boundary and floodway map (FBFM)
- Flood hazard boundary map (FHBM)
- Flood insurance
- Flood insurance rate map (FIRM)
- Flood insurance study (FIS)
- Flood prone area
- Floodplain
- Floodplain administrator
- Floodplain development permit
- Floodplain management
- Floodplain management regulations
- Floodproofing
- Floodway
- Flood zone
- Freeboard
- Frontage
- Frontage line
- Funeral homes and services
- Garage, private
- Gas station
- Government services
- Ground water
- Group care facilities
- Group development
- Group living uses
- Gunsmiths and weapon sales
- Hazardous waste facility
- Heavy manufacturing
- Highest adjacent grade (HAG)
- Historic structure
- Home occupation
- Horizontal band
- Horizontal organization
- Hospital
- Household living uses
- Housing services for the elderly
- H
- Impervious area
- Indoor amusements
- Indoor animal services
- Indoor firing range
- Indoor recreation facilities
- Indoor vehicle/heavy equipment sales
- Infill development
- Infrastructure
- Illumination of signs
- Junk
- Junkyard / salvage yard
- Keeping bees
- Keeping domestic fowl (chickens)
- Kennels and outdoor animal services
- Laboratory
- Landscaping and contractor services
- Laundry, dry cleaning plant
- Legislative hearing
- Letter of map change (LOMC)
- Light industrial and manufacturing
- Lintel
- Live performance theater
- Live-work unit
- Loading space, off-street
- Lodging
- Lot, air
- Lot, conventional
- Lot, conservation
- Lot, interior
- Lot, irregular
- Lot, pre-existing
- Lot width
- Lowest adjacent grade (LAG)
- Manufactured home
- Manufactured home park
- Manufacturing research and development (R&D)
- Manufacturing/wholesale/storage
- Market value
- Masonry stylization
- Massing:
- Media production
- Medical offices and facilities
- Metal finish
- M
- Mixed-use residential unit
- Mobile food vendors (or food trucks)
- Mobile food vendor site
- Modular home
- Moped
- Monitor
- Motor vehicle
- Motor vehicle, abandoned
- Motor vehicle, junked
- Motor vehicle, nuisance
- Mortar
- Movie theater
- Mullion
- Multiphase development
- Mural
- Natural grade
- Neighborhood development
- New construction
- Nonconformities
- Non-encroachment area
- Non-residential accessory use
- N
- Opaque
- Open storage
- Operable shutter
- Outdoor advertising device
- Outdoor amusements
- Outdoor firing ranges
- Outdoor seasonal sale:
- Outdoor recreation facilities
- Outdoor vehicle/heavy equipment sales
- Overnight accommodations
- Parapet
- Parapet gable roof
- Parcel
- Parks, open space, and greenways
- Parking area
- Parking lot
- Passenger vehicle terminal
- Pediment
- Personal services
- Pilaster
- Poster
- Post-FIRM
- Post office
- Pre-FIRM
- Principally above ground
- P
- Professional services
- Property line
- Proportion
- Public parking facilities
- P
- Public safety station
- Quasi-judicial decision
- Recreational vehicle
- Recycling, small collection
- Regulatory jurisdiction
- Religious institutions or places of worship
- Remedy a violation
- Rental cottages / cabins
- Reserve strip
- Residential
- Residential accessory use
- Residential zoning district
- Retail uses
- Rhythm
- Right-of-way
- Riverine
- Roof Material
- Roof pitch
- Roof shape
- Roof-wall junction
- Rooftop amenity space
- R
- Salvage yard
- Satellite parking
- School, vocational/technical
- Seasonal camp
- Sedimentation pollution
- Setback
- Shared private drive
- Shelter
- Shipping container
- Shopping center
- Short-term rental
- Sidelite (or sidelight) window
- Sill
- Sight triangle
- Sign
- Signband
- Sign, advertising
- Sign, awning
- Sign, canopy
- Sign, directional
- Sign, electronic display
- Sign, freestanding
- Sign, identification
- Sign, illuminated
- Sign, incidental
- Sign, menu reader board
- Sign, nameplate
- Sign, off-premises
- Sign, political
- Sign, portable
- Sign, product information
- Sign, projection
- Sign, reader board
- Sign, real estate
- Sign, roof
- Sign, temporary
- Sign, traffic
- Sign, vintage
- Sign, wall
- Sign, window
- Significant damage
- Significant improvement
- Sleeping room
- Sleeping unit
- Slope
- Slope, cut
- Slope, fill
- Slope, moderately steep
- Slope, steep
- Social service uses
- Solid waste disposal facility
- Solid waste disposal site
- Special event
- Special event venue
- Special flood hazard area (SFHA)
- Special use permit
- Start of construction
- Stealth
- Stone course
- Stone finish
- Storage and disposal uses
- Stormwater
- Stormwater control and treatment measure
- Story
- Street
- Street, public
- String course
- Structure
- Studios, galleries, and workshops – high impact
- Studios, galleries, and workshops – low impact
- Subdivision
- Subdivision, major
- Subdivision, minor
- Substantial damage
- Substantial improvement
- Surface area
- Surface water
- Swimming pool or pond
- Tandem parking space
- Taproom or tasting room
- Temporary events and structures
- Temporary mobile classroom
- Temporary mobile vendors
- Temporary one-day event
- Temporary outdoor event
- Temporary outdoor storage container
- Temporary structure
- Temporary vendors
- Temporary use
- Total suspended solids
- Tower (wireless facility)
- Trailer
- Transom window
- Utilities
- Variance
- Vaulted roof:
- Vehicle services, major repair/body work
- Vehicle services, minor maintenance and repair
- Vending pushcart
- Vertical organization
- Violation
- Visible
- Water surface elevation (WSE)
- Watercourse
- Wetland
- Window
- Window grouping
- Wireless telecommunication facility
- Wireless telecommunication facility, tower
- Wholesaling and distribution
- Wood finish
- Wood siding
- Workforce housing
- Yard
- Yard, front
- Yard, rear
- Yard, side
- Zero lot line development
- Zoning district
CHAPTER 20
HISTORIC DISTRICTS AND LANDMARKS
Sections
- 20.1. Historic districts.
- 20.2. Historic landmarks.
- 20.3. Certificate of appropriateness—Required.
- 20.4. Standard for appropriate change.
- 20.5. Design standards.
- 20.6. Administrative approval of minor works.
- 20.7. Applicability to state and other government entities.
- 20.8. Standards for review of applications of the state.
- 20.9. Certain changes not prohibited.
- 20.10. Application.
- 20.11. Action on application.
- 20.12. Appeals.
- 20.13. Enforcement of compliance; remedies.
- 20.14. Delay in demolition of landmarks and buildings within historic districts.
- Editor's Notes