Burkittsville City Zoning Code

SECTION 9

06 General Regulations

Establishment Of Districts. For the purposes of this ordinance, all land within the Town of Burkittsville is hereby designated on the zoning map as being one (1) of the following use districts: HV - Historic Village AG - Agricultural
Boundaries Of Districts. Unless otherwise indicated on the zoning district maps, the boundary lines of the districts follow lot lines, center lines of streets, alleys, or such center lines extended, center line of creeks or the corporate limit line as existing at the time of adoption of this ordinance or measured line.
Application Of Regulations. No building or land shall hereafter be used, and no building or part thereof shall be erected, moved, or altered unless for a use expressly permitted by and in conformity with the regulations for the district in which it is located.
1. Zoning Of Annexed Areas. All territory which may hereafter be annexed to the Town shall from time of annexation be considered as being in the AG District until changed by ordinance, unless the resolution of annexation by the Town Council provides for other district classification other than (a) AG or (b) a district classification of some property abutting, contiguous, or adjacent thereto, in which case the Town Council shall: 1) refer the matter to the Commission for recommendation and report, and if the Commission makes no report within ten (10) days from the date the Council refers it to the Commission, it shall be considered to have made a report approving the proposed annexation and district classification, and (2) hold a public hearing in relation thereto, giving at least thirty (30) days notice of the time and place of such hearing in a newspaper published in or having a general circulation in the Town of Burkittsville. Nothing in this section or ordinance is intended to act nor shall it act to circumvent or supersede the requirements of the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 23A, Section 19, governing Annexations, or the limitations on rezoning of annexed land as set forth in Article 23A, Section 9(c).
2. Location Of Zoning Line In Vacated Street. Whenever the Town Council vacates a street or alley, adjacent districts shall extend to the center line of the vacation.
3. Required Open Area Not To Be Infringed Upon. Yards, parking space or lot area required for one (l) building may not be used for another main building nor may the size of a lot be reduced below the requirements of this ordinance.
Continuance Of Non-Conforming Uses. Any lawful use of land or structures existing at the time of the adoption of this ordinance may be continued if approved by the Board of Appeals with the following limitations.
1. Substitutions. If no structural alterations are made, a non-conforming use of a building may be changed to another non-conforming use provided that the use is less intensive than the existing non-conforming use, (e.g. requires less parking, or promotes less traffic, people, noise, signs, hours of operation, etc.). Whenever a non-conforming use has been changed to a more restricted use or to a conforming such use shall not thereafter be changed to a more intensive use.
2. Extensions. When authorized by the Board of Appeals, the extension of a building devoted to a non-conforming use upon a lot occupied by such building or on a lot adjoining may be made, provided, however, that the floor area of such extension or addition shall not exceed, in total, fifty percent (50%) of the floor area of the existing building or buildings devoted to a non-conforming use, as such building or buildings existed at the time of the adoption of this ordinance and provided that such extension or addition shall be undertaken within ten (10) years of the effective date of this ordinance or any amendment by which the use of such building became non-conforming. The extension of a non-conforming use throughout those parts of a building which were manifestly designed or arranged for such use prior to the effective date of this ordinance may also be authorized by the Board of Appeals.
3. Conditions And Requirements By The Board Of Appeals. In authorizing substitutions or extensions, the Board may require the installation, operation and maintenance in or in connection with the substitution or extension, of such devices and methods of operations as may, in its opinion, be reasonably required to prevent damage to adjacent properties and neighborhoods and prevent conditions which may become obnoxious or offensive. In authorizing a substitution or extension, subject to compliance with certain conditions, the Board may require a written agreement, guarantee or bond naming the Town of Burkittsville as the beneficiary or secured party (as it may deem necessary to insure the conditions stipulated by the Board are being and will be complied with). Any such written agreement may be required by the Board to be recorded among the Land Records of the County at the expense of the applicant.
4. Prohibited Uses In All Districts.
  1. Mobile homes and mobile home parks,
  2. Storage, manufacture, processing, assembly of explosives, fireworks, or incendiary devices.
  3. Junk cars, abandoned or discarded appliances, building materials, and other objects considered as junk or refuse by the Administrator.
  4. Crematoriums.
  5. Tanneries, rendering plants and/or stockyards.
  6. Restaurants with drive through aisles or windows or walk up service windows.
  7. Automobile or vehicle repair facilities and/or mechanics shops.
  8. Gasoline service stations.
  9. Taverns, pubs, bars, lounges and/or night clubs.
  10. Intensive Swine Farms, which for purposes of this section are defined as facilities, buildings or land used for the breeding, raising, feeding and/or care of two hundred fifty (250) or more animals of the porcine species.
  11. Billboard signs.
  12. Any use not specifically permitted by this ordinance shall be considered prohibited unless approval is given by the Board of Appeals where authorized elsewhere in this Article.

Burkittsville City Zoning Code

SECTION 9

06 General Regulations

Establishment Of Districts. For the purposes of this ordinance, all land within the Town of Burkittsville is hereby designated on the zoning map as being one (1) of the following use districts: HV - Historic Village AG - Agricultural
Boundaries Of Districts. Unless otherwise indicated on the zoning district maps, the boundary lines of the districts follow lot lines, center lines of streets, alleys, or such center lines extended, center line of creeks or the corporate limit line as existing at the time of adoption of this ordinance or measured line.
Application Of Regulations. No building or land shall hereafter be used, and no building or part thereof shall be erected, moved, or altered unless for a use expressly permitted by and in conformity with the regulations for the district in which it is located.
1. Zoning Of Annexed Areas. All territory which may hereafter be annexed to the Town shall from time of annexation be considered as being in the AG District until changed by ordinance, unless the resolution of annexation by the Town Council provides for other district classification other than (a) AG or (b) a district classification of some property abutting, contiguous, or adjacent thereto, in which case the Town Council shall: 1) refer the matter to the Commission for recommendation and report, and if the Commission makes no report within ten (10) days from the date the Council refers it to the Commission, it shall be considered to have made a report approving the proposed annexation and district classification, and (2) hold a public hearing in relation thereto, giving at least thirty (30) days notice of the time and place of such hearing in a newspaper published in or having a general circulation in the Town of Burkittsville. Nothing in this section or ordinance is intended to act nor shall it act to circumvent or supersede the requirements of the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 23A, Section 19, governing Annexations, or the limitations on rezoning of annexed land as set forth in Article 23A, Section 9(c).
2. Location Of Zoning Line In Vacated Street. Whenever the Town Council vacates a street or alley, adjacent districts shall extend to the center line of the vacation.
3. Required Open Area Not To Be Infringed Upon. Yards, parking space or lot area required for one (l) building may not be used for another main building nor may the size of a lot be reduced below the requirements of this ordinance.
Continuance Of Non-Conforming Uses. Any lawful use of land or structures existing at the time of the adoption of this ordinance may be continued if approved by the Board of Appeals with the following limitations.
1. Substitutions. If no structural alterations are made, a non-conforming use of a building may be changed to another non-conforming use provided that the use is less intensive than the existing non-conforming use, (e.g. requires less parking, or promotes less traffic, people, noise, signs, hours of operation, etc.). Whenever a non-conforming use has been changed to a more restricted use or to a conforming such use shall not thereafter be changed to a more intensive use.
2. Extensions. When authorized by the Board of Appeals, the extension of a building devoted to a non-conforming use upon a lot occupied by such building or on a lot adjoining may be made, provided, however, that the floor area of such extension or addition shall not exceed, in total, fifty percent (50%) of the floor area of the existing building or buildings devoted to a non-conforming use, as such building or buildings existed at the time of the adoption of this ordinance and provided that such extension or addition shall be undertaken within ten (10) years of the effective date of this ordinance or any amendment by which the use of such building became non-conforming. The extension of a non-conforming use throughout those parts of a building which were manifestly designed or arranged for such use prior to the effective date of this ordinance may also be authorized by the Board of Appeals.
3. Conditions And Requirements By The Board Of Appeals. In authorizing substitutions or extensions, the Board may require the installation, operation and maintenance in or in connection with the substitution or extension, of such devices and methods of operations as may, in its opinion, be reasonably required to prevent damage to adjacent properties and neighborhoods and prevent conditions which may become obnoxious or offensive. In authorizing a substitution or extension, subject to compliance with certain conditions, the Board may require a written agreement, guarantee or bond naming the Town of Burkittsville as the beneficiary or secured party (as it may deem necessary to insure the conditions stipulated by the Board are being and will be complied with). Any such written agreement may be required by the Board to be recorded among the Land Records of the County at the expense of the applicant.
4. Prohibited Uses In All Districts.
  1. Mobile homes and mobile home parks,
  2. Storage, manufacture, processing, assembly of explosives, fireworks, or incendiary devices.
  3. Junk cars, abandoned or discarded appliances, building materials, and other objects considered as junk or refuse by the Administrator.
  4. Crematoriums.
  5. Tanneries, rendering plants and/or stockyards.
  6. Restaurants with drive through aisles or windows or walk up service windows.
  7. Automobile or vehicle repair facilities and/or mechanics shops.
  8. Gasoline service stations.
  9. Taverns, pubs, bars, lounges and/or night clubs.
  10. Intensive Swine Farms, which for purposes of this section are defined as facilities, buildings or land used for the breeding, raising, feeding and/or care of two hundred fifty (250) or more animals of the porcine species.
  11. Billboard signs.
  12. Any use not specifically permitted by this ordinance shall be considered prohibited unless approval is given by the Board of Appeals where authorized elsewhere in this Article.

Burkittsville City Zoning Code

SECTION 9

06 General Regulations

Establishment Of Districts. For the purposes of this ordinance, all land within the Town of Burkittsville is hereby designated on the zoning map as being one (1) of the following use districts: HV - Historic Village AG - Agricultural
Boundaries Of Districts. Unless otherwise indicated on the zoning district maps, the boundary lines of the districts follow lot lines, center lines of streets, alleys, or such center lines extended, center line of creeks or the corporate limit line as existing at the time of adoption of this ordinance or measured line.
Application Of Regulations. No building or land shall hereafter be used, and no building or part thereof shall be erected, moved, or altered unless for a use expressly permitted by and in conformity with the regulations for the district in which it is located.
1. Zoning Of Annexed Areas. All territory which may hereafter be annexed to the Town shall from time of annexation be considered as being in the AG District until changed by ordinance, unless the resolution of annexation by the Town Council provides for other district classification other than (a) AG or (b) a district classification of some property abutting, contiguous, or adjacent thereto, in which case the Town Council shall: 1) refer the matter to the Commission for recommendation and report, and if the Commission makes no report within ten (10) days from the date the Council refers it to the Commission, it shall be considered to have made a report approving the proposed annexation and district classification, and (2) hold a public hearing in relation thereto, giving at least thirty (30) days notice of the time and place of such hearing in a newspaper published in or having a general circulation in the Town of Burkittsville. Nothing in this section or ordinance is intended to act nor shall it act to circumvent or supersede the requirements of the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 23A, Section 19, governing Annexations, or the limitations on rezoning of annexed land as set forth in Article 23A, Section 9(c).
2. Location Of Zoning Line In Vacated Street. Whenever the Town Council vacates a street or alley, adjacent districts shall extend to the center line of the vacation.
3. Required Open Area Not To Be Infringed Upon. Yards, parking space or lot area required for one (l) building may not be used for another main building nor may the size of a lot be reduced below the requirements of this ordinance.
Continuance Of Non-Conforming Uses. Any lawful use of land or structures existing at the time of the adoption of this ordinance may be continued if approved by the Board of Appeals with the following limitations.
1. Substitutions. If no structural alterations are made, a non-conforming use of a building may be changed to another non-conforming use provided that the use is less intensive than the existing non-conforming use, (e.g. requires less parking, or promotes less traffic, people, noise, signs, hours of operation, etc.). Whenever a non-conforming use has been changed to a more restricted use or to a conforming such use shall not thereafter be changed to a more intensive use.
2. Extensions. When authorized by the Board of Appeals, the extension of a building devoted to a non-conforming use upon a lot occupied by such building or on a lot adjoining may be made, provided, however, that the floor area of such extension or addition shall not exceed, in total, fifty percent (50%) of the floor area of the existing building or buildings devoted to a non-conforming use, as such building or buildings existed at the time of the adoption of this ordinance and provided that such extension or addition shall be undertaken within ten (10) years of the effective date of this ordinance or any amendment by which the use of such building became non-conforming. The extension of a non-conforming use throughout those parts of a building which were manifestly designed or arranged for such use prior to the effective date of this ordinance may also be authorized by the Board of Appeals.
3. Conditions And Requirements By The Board Of Appeals. In authorizing substitutions or extensions, the Board may require the installation, operation and maintenance in or in connection with the substitution or extension, of such devices and methods of operations as may, in its opinion, be reasonably required to prevent damage to adjacent properties and neighborhoods and prevent conditions which may become obnoxious or offensive. In authorizing a substitution or extension, subject to compliance with certain conditions, the Board may require a written agreement, guarantee or bond naming the Town of Burkittsville as the beneficiary or secured party (as it may deem necessary to insure the conditions stipulated by the Board are being and will be complied with). Any such written agreement may be required by the Board to be recorded among the Land Records of the County at the expense of the applicant.
4. Prohibited Uses In All Districts.
  1. Mobile homes and mobile home parks,
  2. Storage, manufacture, processing, assembly of explosives, fireworks, or incendiary devices.
  3. Junk cars, abandoned or discarded appliances, building materials, and other objects considered as junk or refuse by the Administrator.
  4. Crematoriums.
  5. Tanneries, rendering plants and/or stockyards.
  6. Restaurants with drive through aisles or windows or walk up service windows.
  7. Automobile or vehicle repair facilities and/or mechanics shops.
  8. Gasoline service stations.
  9. Taverns, pubs, bars, lounges and/or night clubs.
  10. Intensive Swine Farms, which for purposes of this section are defined as facilities, buildings or land used for the breeding, raising, feeding and/or care of two hundred fifty (250) or more animals of the porcine species.
  11. Billboard signs.
  12. Any use not specifically permitted by this ordinance shall be considered prohibited unless approval is given by the Board of Appeals where authorized elsewhere in this Article.