Chatham City Zoning Code
ZONING DISTRICTS
§ 158.030 ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS.
In order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter, the following districts are hereby established:
(A) Pre-urbanized District (P-1). This district provides for low density uses presenting a rural appearance.
(B) Residence districts.
(1) R-1 Residential, Single Family, Low Density. This district is intended to provide a suitable open character for single-family detached dwellings at the lowest densities, and community facilities and public open spaces which serve the residents of these districts or are benefitted by an open residential environment.
(2) R1A Residential, Single Family, Low Density. This district is intended to provide a suitable open character for single-family detached dwellings at low densities, and community facilities and public open spaces which serve the residents of these districts or are benefitted by an open residential environment.
(3) R-2 Residential, Single Family and Two-Family, Low Density. This district is intended to provide a suitable open character for single and two-family detached dwellings at medium densities, and community facilities and public open spaces which serve the residence of these districts or are benefitted by an open residential environment at medium densities.
(4) R-3 Residential District, Multiple Family, Medium Density. This district provides a suitable open character for multiple family dwellings at medium densities and community facilities and public open spaces which serve the residents of these districts or are benefitted by an open residential environment at medium densities.
(5) R-3A Residential District, Multiple Family, Medium Density Four-Plex. This district provides a suitable open character for multiple family dwellings at medium densities and community facilities and public open spaces which serve the residents of these districts or are benefitted by an open residential environment at medium densities, but is limited to four-plex buildings only.
(6) RM-4 Residential-Mobile Home. This district allows exclusively mobile home parks.
(7) RO-5 Residential-Office, Duplex and Multiple Family, High Density. (Obsolete) This zoning district classification, allowed by the 1982 Zoning Ordinance, provided for a mixture of single duplex and multiple family residences and offices. It is considered to be a potential transitional district to serve as a buffer between business and residential areas and business and industrial areas. The Village Board hereby declares this zoning classification to be obsolete and no longer appropriate for the village. No further rezonings to this classification will be allowed. Properties zoned RO-5 as of the date of this chapter shall continue to be subject to the use regulations for the RO-5 zone contained in the 1982 Ordinance. They shall be subject to the height and bulk regulations contained in the Schedule of Height and Bulk Regulations by Districts, § 158.034 hereto.
(C) Business districts.
(1) B-1 Community Business District. This district provides for community wide retail shopping and personal services. It is intended to be located to serve a wide area and be easily accessible to a large number of people.
(2) B-2 General Business District. This district provides for the business and services needed by the population of the community.
(D) Industrial districts.
(1) I-1 Restricted Performance Manufacturing. This district provides for a range of light manufacturing uses.
(2) I-2 General Performance Manufacturing. This district provides for heavier manufacturing uses than I-1, or uses creating appreciable truck and/or train usage.
(Ord. 96-54, passed 3-26-96; Am. Ord. 04-36, passed 6-22-04)
§ 158.031 INCORPORATION OF MAPS.
The location and boundaries of districts established by this chapter are shown upon the zoning map, dated November, 1994, as amended from time to time by subsequent ordinance amending or adding to same, which is hereby incorporated as a part of this chapter.
(Ord. 96-54, passed 3-26-96)
§ 158.032 BOUNDARIES OF DISTRICTS.
When uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of the various districts as shown on the Zoning District Map, the following rules shall apply:
(A) District boundary lines are either the center lines of railroads, highways, streets, alleys, or easements; and lot lines and tract lines, or such lines extended, unless otherwise indicated.
(B) Wherever a district is indicated as a strip adjacent to and paralleling a railroad, highway or street, the depth of such strips shall be in accordance with dimensions shown on the maps measured at right angles from the center line of a railroad, street or highway, and the length of frontage shall be in accordance with dimensions shown on the map from the center lines of railroad, highway or street rights-of-way unless otherwise indicated.
(C) Where a district boundary line divides a lot in single ownership, the regulations for either portion of the lot may, at the owner's discretion, extend to the entire lot, but not more than 25 feet beyond the boundary line of the district.
(Ord. 96-54, passed 3-26-96)
§ 158.033 SCHEDULE OF USE REGULATIONS BY DISTRICTS.
The following schedule sets forth the permitted uses and special uses for the various zoning districts.
(A) Pre-urbanized District, P-1.
(1) Permitted uses:
Agriculture
Animal Hospital
Home Occupations
Residences, Single Family
(2) Special uses:
Campgrounds
Cemeteries and Mausoleums
Churches
Fruit and Vegetable Stands
Golf Courses
Greenhouses
Heliports and Airports
Historic Sites
Kennels
Nurseries
Nursery School
Parks, Public
Planned Unit Developments
Police and Fire Stations
Private Outdoor Recreation (including stables)
Public Outdoor Recreation
Public Swimming Pool
Satellite Receiving Station or Uplinks, Commercial
Schools, Elementary and High
Solar Farms
Wind Farms
Wildlife Game Preserve
(B) Residential, single family, low density, R-1.
(1) Permitted uses:
Home Occupations
Public Open Spaces
Single-Family Dwelling Units
(2) Special uses: The following institutional uses, provided that principal buildings shall be located not less than 20 feet from adjoining lot lines in a residential district.
Cemeteries
Churches
Day Care Home
Golf Course
Police and Fire Stations
Private Outdoor Recreation Centers
Public Libraries
Public Open space, including customary public parks
Public Outdoor Recreation Centers
Public Swimming Pool
Schools, Public or Private, to be used for elementary, junior and senior high, with adjacent space for playgrounds, athletic fields, including scoreboards and/or advertisement signage to be a maximum of 40 feet in height and 800 square feet in size, dormitories and other accessory uses required for operation
Seminaries, convents, monasteries and similar religious institutions, including dormitories and other accessory uses required for operation
(C) Residential, single family, low density, R-1A.
(1) Permitted uses same as R-1 District.
(2) Special uses same as R-1 District.
(D) Residential, single family and two-family, low density, R-2.
(1) Permitted uses:
Same as R-1 District
Duplexes
Zero Lot Line Duplexes
(2) Special uses:
Same as R-1 District
Assisted Care Facility
(E) Residence District, multiple family, medium density, R-3.
(1) Permitted uses:
Duplexes
Zero Lot Line Duplexes
Day Care Homes
Multiple Family, Attached Dwelling Units
Congregate Housing
Assisted Care Facility
(2) Special uses:
Same as R-1 District
Nursing homes
Family Care Facility
Group Care Facility
Shelter Care Facility
(F) R-3A Residential District, Multiple Family, Medium Density Four-Plex.
(1) Permitted Uses: only apartment buildings with four dwelling units.
(2) Special Uses: None.
(G) Residence-Mobile Home District, RM-4.
(H) Residence-Office District. (Obsolete -- See Appendix A)
(I) Community Business District, B-1.
(1) Permitted uses:
Antique, Coin, Stamp and Other Collectibles Shop
Art Galleries
Art Supplies
Banks and Financial Institutions
Barber Shops
Beauty Parlors
Bed and Breakfast
Book Stores
Restaurants without drive-through facilities
Camera and Photographic Supply
Candy Shops
Churches
Clubs - private
Convenience Stores, no gasoline sales
Day Care Center
Delicatessens
Dress Making
Drug Store without liquor sales
Dry Cleaning
Funeral Homes
Gift Shops
Golf Course
Ice Cream Shops
Jewelry Stores
Laundromat
Libraries
Locksmith Shops
Millinery Shops
Museums
Offices
Parking, Off-street
Public Swimming Pool
Shoe Repair
Stationery store
Tailor Shops
Video Sales and Rentals
(2) Special uses:
Animal Hospitals without outside runs or boarding
Community Centers
Fire Stations
Health Service Facility
Owner-occupied Dwelling Units above first floor
Satellite Receiving Station or uplinks, commercial
(J) General Business District, B-2.
(1) Permitted uses:
Advertising sign shops
Animal Hospitals
Auction houses and rooms, excluding livestock
Auto Parts
Automobile service stations
Automotive repairs and auto body repair and painting
Bakers
Banquet Halls
Boat Sales
Bicycle stores, sales, rentals and repairs
Blueprinting establishments
Bowling alleys
Building material sales without outdoor storage
Business machine sale and services
Business schools
Car Wash
Carpet and rug stores
Casket and casket supplies
Catering establishments
Clothing and costume rental establishments
Commercial printing
Community centers
Construction offices
Crematorium
Currency exchanges
Dance halls
Diet centers
Dental laboratories
Department stores
Drug sales with liquor sales
Electric shops
Electrical appliance stores
Electronic sales and service
Exterminating
Feed stores
Frozen food shops and lockers
Fuel sales, retail only
Furniture stores
Furrier shops
Garages
Garden supply stores
Golf course
Greenhouses
Grocery stores
Gymnasium
Hat and repairs
Hardware stores
Hobby shops
Hotels
Household appliance stores
Ice sales, retail only
Interior decoration shops
Laundries
Leather goods
Liquor stores
Mail order houses
Meeting halls
Medical appliances
Medical laboratories
Motels
Motor vehicle equipment sales
Motor vehicle sales
Musical instrument, sales and repairs
Newspaper offices
Office supply stores
Orthopedic appliance stores
Paint
Parking, commercial
Pet shops
Pawn shops
Photographic, studio, sales and service
Picture framing
Plumbing shop
Private Club or Lodge
Pool Halls
Post office
Public Swimming Pool
Radio broadcasting
Recording studios
Recreation building
Research laboratories
Restaurants, with drive-through facilities
Restaurants and bars with live entertainment and dancing
School supply stores
Schools, dance, music
Sewing machine sales and service
Shoe stores
Skating rinks, indoor
Small engine repair
Sporting goods
Taxidermists
Telephone offices
Testing laboratories
Television broadcasting studios
Theaters
Toy stores
Trade schools
Trailer sales
Transportation ticket offices
Travel bureaus
Variety stores
Video arcades
Vending machines, sales and service
Wholesale establishments - storage limited to samples
All retail uses compatible with the foregoing list
(2) Special uses:
Antenna towers
Electrical distribution centers
Fire stations
Hospitals
Police stations
Private outdoor recreation centers
Public outdoor recreation centers
Taverns
Zoo
(K) Restricted Performance Manufacturing, I-1.
(1) Permitted uses:
(a) Uses permitted in the I-1 District are subject to the following condition: Dwelling units and lodging rooms are not permitted, except for watchmen’s quarters.
(b) The following uses are permitted in the I-1 District:
1. Any establishment, engaged in production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair or storage of materials, goods, or products.
2. Self storage mini-warehouse.
(2) The following additional uses:
Arenas, open or enclosed
Auditoriums, open or enclosed
Auto laundries
Automobile service stations
Building material sales with outside storage
Bus terminals and garages
Cartage and express facilities
Construction equipment storage
Contractors’ office, shops and yards
Dental service facilities
Dry cleaning plant
Dwelling units for watchmen and their families, when located on the premises where employed
Electric, wholesale
Electric, gas, telephone and water service substations
Extermination
Feed sales and service
Fertilizer sales and services
Fire stations
Food locker
Fuel sales
Furniture, repair and upholstery
Garages for storage, repair and servicing of motor vehicles
Gas regulator stations
Grain elevators
Greenhouses - wholesale
Highway maintenance shops and yards
Hotels sleeping, lodging, eating and related facilities
Ice sales
Laundries
Machinery sales
Mail order houses
Medical service facilities
Motor freight terminals
Offices and lodges of labor organizations
Packing and crating
Police stations
Publishing establishments
Railroad passenger stations
Recreational center building (public and private)
Restaurants - including the sale of liquor in conjunction therewith
Satellite Receiving Station or uplink, commercial
Stadiums, open or enclosed
Taverns
Telephone exchanges
Telephone transmission equipment buildings
Temporary buildings for construction purposes for a period not to exceed the duration of such construction
Temporary real estate tract offices, for the purposes of conducting the sale of lots of the tract upon which such tract office is located, for a period not to exceed two years
Truck wash
Waterworks
Warehouses
Weighing stations
Wholesale establishments
Accessory uses, incidental to and on the same lot and zoning district as the principal use
(3) Special uses:
Airports, private and commercial
Auxiliary facilities
Flying schools
Grain elevators
Hangars
Heliports and other flight strips
(L) General Performance Manufacturing; I-2.
(1) Permitted uses:
All permitted uses in I-1
Air-freight terminals
Fertilizer manufacturing
Railroad-classification yards
Railroad-freight terminals
Railroad-switching yards
Railroad-repair shops
Roundhouses
(2) Special uses:
Same as I-1
Bulk Fuel Sales
Junk Yards
Sanitary landfill
Radio and TV transmitting or relay stations and antennas
Utility-transmission towers
Extraction of minerals
(Ord. 96-54, passed 3-26-96; Am. Ord. 97-71, passed 11-11-97; Am. Ord. 01-50, passed 9-25-01; Am. Ord. 01-51, passed 8-28-01; Am. Ord. 04-36, passed 6-22-04; Am. Ord. 12-06, passed 2-28-12; Am. Ord. 18-13, passed 2-27-18; Am. Ord. 21-21, passed 6-22-21)
§ 158.034 SCHEDULE OF HEIGHT AND BULK REGULATIONS BY DISTRICTS.
Dimensions requirements by district shall be as follows:
District | Minimum Lot Area (Sq. Ft.) | Minimum Lot Width
(Ft.) | Minimum Yard Setbacks (Ft.) | Maximum Building Height
(Ft.) | |||
Front | Rear | Interior | Corner
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District | Minimum Lot Area (Sq. Ft.) | Minimum Lot Width
(Ft.) | Minimum Yard Setbacks (Ft.) | Maximum Building Height
(Ft.) | |||
Front | Rear | Interior | Corner
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P-1 | 43,560 | 180 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 30 | 35 |
R-1 | 12,000 | 80 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 30 | 35 |
R-1A | 10,000 | 70 | 30 | 25 | 8 | 25 | 35 |
R-2 | 5,000 per dwelling unit | 70 (35 for Zero Lot Line Duplex) | 30 | 25 | 8 (0 for Zero Lot Line Duplex) | 25 | 35 |
R-3 | 3,500 per dwelling unit | 70 (35 for Zero Lot Line Duplex) | 25 | 25 | 5 (0 for Zero Lot Line Duplex) | 25 | 50b |
R-3A | 5,000 per dwelling unit | 100 | 30 | 25 | 10 | 25 | 35 |
R-M4 | 10,000 | 65 | 30 | 25 | 8 | 25 | 35 |
R-O5 (obsolete) | 1,500 per office | 60 | 20 | 20 | 5 | 20 | 30 |
B-1 | None | None | 20a | 20 | None c | None | 35 |
B-2 | None | None | 20a | 20f | None c | None | 50b |
I-1 | None | None | 25 | None | 10d | None | 50b |
I-2 | None | None | 20a | None | 10d | None | 80b |
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a. Where adjacent structures have front yard setbacks different from those required, the minimum front yard setback shall be the average setback of such structures.
b. Buildings over 35 feet in height shall have an additional 5 feet of side yard for each ten feet of height over 30 feet.
c. The side yard of a lot within a B-1 District abutting a lot within an R district shall be equal to at least one-half the front yard required in the abutting R district. The side yard of a lot within a B-2 district abutting a lot within an R district shall be at least 30 feet.
d. A lot within an I District abutting a lot within an R District shall maintain a side yard of 25 feet, and not permit parking of automobiles closer than five feet to the R District lot.
e. A lot within a PUD District abutting a lot within a R District shall maintain a setback from the boundary of the R District of one-half the lot width required in the abutting R District.
f. The rear year of a lot within the B-2 district abutting a lot within an R district shall be at least 30 feet.
(Ord. 96-54, passed 3-26-96; Am. Ord. 01-51, passed 8-28-01; Am. Ord. 04-36, passed 6-22-04; Am. Ord. 12-06, passed 2-28-12)