Covington City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 16
04 - ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- 16.04.010 - Short title and scope.
- 16.04.020 - Authority.
- 16.04.030 - Purpose.
- 16.04.040 - Official zoning map.
- 16.04.050 - Relationship to comprehensive plan.
- 16.04.060 - Administration of zoning ordinance.
- 16.04.070 - Zoning verification.
- 16.04.080 - Acceptance of alternative forms of documentation.
- 16.04.090 - Provisions of zoning ordinance to be minimum requirements.
- 16.04.100 - Violations.
- 16.04.110 - Penalties for violation.
- 16.04.120 - Remedies.
- 16.04.130 - Severability clause.
CHAPTER 16
12 - PROCEDURES
Sections
- 16.12.010 - Procedures.
- 16.12.020 - Planning commission.
- 16.12.030 - Pre-application meeting.
- 16.12.040 - Amendments.
- 16.12.050 - Additional application requirements.
- 16.12.060 - Staff review.
- 16.12.070 - Public hearing and notice.
- 16.12.080 - Policies and procedures.
- 16.12.090 - Zoning decisions.
- 16.12.100 - Procedures for annexation.
- 16.12.110 - Zoning proposal review standards.
- 16.12.120 - Future land use map standards.
- 16.12.130 - Conditional zoning.
- 16.12.140 - Special use permits.
- 16.12.150 - Administrative variances.
- 16.12.160 - Board of appeals and adjustments.
- 16.12.170 - Variances.
- 16.12.180 - Appeal procedures.
- 16.12.190 - Special event permits.
CHAPTER 16
20 - SUPPLEMENTAL USE PROVISIONS
Sections
- 16.20.010 - Supplemental use regulations.
- 16.20.020 - Accessory uses.
- 16.20.030 - Adult entertainment establishments.
- 16.20.040 - Amusement, arcade, amusement theme park.
- 16.20.050 - Animal hospitals and veterinary clinics—Horse stables, riding and boarding.
- 16.20.060 - Antennae, amateur radio.
- 16.20.070 - Antennae, satellite.
- 16.20.080 - Appliance repair and maintenance.
- 16.20.090 - Automobile impound lot.
- 16.20.100 - Automotive repair and maintenance.
- 16.20.110 - Automobile wash services.
- 16.20.115 - Banquet hall.
- 16.20.120 - Bed and breakfast inn.
- 16.20.130 - Boarding and breeding kennels.
- 16.20.135 - Breweries, brewpubs and distilleries.
- 16.20.140 - Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers.
- 16.20.150 - Cemeteries.
- 16.20.155 - Cigar lounges.
- 16.20.160 - Crematories.
- 16.20.170 - Child and personal care uses.
- 16.20.180 - Reserved.
- 16.20.190 - Compost facility.
- 16.20.200 - Day care center, adult—Day care center, child.
- 16.20.210 - Day care facility, adult—Day care facility, child.
- 16.20.220 - Dry cleaning plants.
- 16.20.230 - Drug rehabilitation center.
- 16.20.235 - Dwelling, single-family detached.
- 16.20.240 - Reserved.
- 16.20.250 - Reserved.
- 16.20.255 - Reserved.
- 16.20.260 - Electric vehicle charging stations.
- 16.20.270 - Electric power generation.
- 16.20.280 - Electric, petroleum or gas substation.
- 16.20.290 - Extended-stay motels/hotels.
- 16.20.300 - Farming, general.
- 16.20.310 - Fitness and recreational sports centers.
- 16.20.315 - For-rent single-family detached development.
- 16.20.320 - Forestry and logging.
- 16.20.325 - Funeral homes.
- 16.20.330 - Gasoline station and gasoline station with convenience store.
- 16.20.340 - Halfway house.
- 16.20.345 - Homeless shelter.
- 16.20.350 - Home occupations.
- 16.20.360 - Hospital.
- 16.20.370 - Hotel/motel.
- 16.20.380 - Industrialized homes.
- 16.20.390 - Keeping and raising of farm animals.
- 16.20.400 - Kennel, hobby and pet boarding.
- 16.20.410 - Landfill, inert waste.
- 16.20.420 - Landfills, sanitary (municipal).
- 16.20.430 - Landscaping services.
- 16.20.440 - Reserved.
- 16.20.450 - Manufacturing plants.
- 16.20.455 - Massage wellness spas/center.
- 16.20.460 - Mineral extraction/rock for production and processing of crushed stone.
- 16.20.470 - Mini-warehouses and self-storage units.
- 16.20.475 - Reserved.
- 16.20.480 - Motor vehicle sales.
- 16.20.490 - Open yard storage business.
- 16.20.495 - Outdoor display.
- 16.20.500 - Outdoor storage.
- 16.20.510 - Parks and playgrounds.
- 16.20.540 - Pawn shops.
- 16.20.550 - Personal care homes—Family, group or congregate.
- 16.20.560 - Passenger car rental.
- 16.20.570 - Places of worship and religious institutions larger than ten acres.
- 16.20.580 - Quarry.
- 16.20.590 - Recycling collection center.
- 16.20.600 - Recyclable material merchant wholesaler.
- 16.20.610 - Recreational and vacation camps, RV parks and campgrounds.
- 16.20.615 - Recreational goods rentals.
- 16.20.620 - Rooming and boarding house.
- 16.20.630 - School K-12.
- 16.20.635 - Short-term vacation rentals.
- 16.20.640 - Solid waste transfer station/materials recovery facilities.
- 16.20.650 - Sports teams and clubs.
- 16.20.660 - Storage tank, bulk, flammable liquids.
- 16.20.670 - Storm shelter.
- 16.20.680 - Support activities for air transportation.
- 16.20.690 - Swimming pool, home.
- 16.20.700 - Swimming pool, nonresidential.
- 16.20.710 - Temporary structure.
- 16.20.720 - Temporary use, commercial retail.
- 16.20.725 - Tire store retail.
- 16.20.730 - Transitional housing facility.
- 16.20.735 - Truck terminal/dispatch/parking.
- 16.20.740 - Utility structures and buildings.
- 16.20.750 - Veterinary services.
- 16.20.760 - Reserved.
- 16.20.770 - Reserved.
CHAPTER 16
32 - STANDARDS APPLYING TO ALL DISTRICTS
Sections
- 16.32.010 - General provisions.
- 16.32.020 - ADA compliance.
- 16.32.030 - Applicability to land, buildings and open space.
- 16.32.040 - Buildings under construction.
- 16.32.050 - Business license requirements.
- 16.32.060 - Reserved.
- 16.32.070 - Fence and hedges.
- 16.32.080 - Front yard setbacks for dwellings.
- 16.32.090 - Height and density.
- 16.32.100 - Reserved.
- 16.32.110 - Lot reduction prohibited.
- 16.32.120 - Measurement of distance.
- 16.32.130 - One principal residential building on a lot.
- 16.32.140 - Permitted encroachments upon required setbacks.
- 16.32.150 - Permit issuance.
- 16.32.160 - Sight obscuring container enclosures.
- 16.32.170 - Street frontage requirement.
- 16.32.180 - Substandard lots of record.
- 16.32.190 - Truck stops prohibited.
- 16.32.200 - Unsafe buildings.
- 16.32.210 - Uses requiring occupation tax and business license.
- 16.32.220 - Walls and fences.
CHAPTER 16
36 - NONCONFORMING SITUATIONS
Sections
- 16.36.010 - General provision.
- 16.36.020 - Nonconforming use of land.
- 16.36.030 - Reversions and changes.
- 16.36.040 - Nonconforming use of land and buildings in combination and nonconforming use of land and structures in combination.
- 16.36.050 - Nonconforming characteristics of buildings and structures.
- 16.36.060 - Nonconforming uses requiring special use permit.
- 16.36.070 - Reconstruction.
- 16.36.080 - Buildings and structures.
- 16.36.090 - Buildings and structures where construction has begun.
- 16.36.100 - Area extensions prohibited.
- 16.36.110 - Sign provisions.
CHAPTER 16
48 - SIGNS
Sections
- 16.48.010 - Purpose and intent.
- 16.48.020 - Scope of regulations.
- 16.48.030 - Definitions.
- 16.48.040 - Signs regulated by zoning district.
- 16.48.050 - Additional allowable signs.
- 16.48.060 - Reserved.
- 16.48.070 - Standards.
- 16.48.080 - Prohibited signs.
- 16.48.090 - Procedures.
- 16.48.100 - Construction and maintenance.
- 16.48.110 - Enforcement.
- 16.48.120 - Fines and penalties.
- 16.48.130 - Inspection.
- 16.48.140 - Nonconforming signs.
- 16.48.150 - Appeals and variances.
- 16.48.160 - Severability.
CHAPTER 16
52 - HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Sections
- 16.52.010 - Purpose of historic preservation.
- 16.52.020 - Definitions.
- 16.52.030 - Creation.
- 16.52.040 - Commission position.
- 16.52.050 - Commission members—Number, appointment, terms and compensation.
- 16.52.060 - Commission's powers.
- 16.52.070 - Commission's rules and standards.
- 16.52.080 - Conflicts of interest.
- 16.52.090 - Authority to receive funding.
- 16.52.100 - Commission's mandate and recommendations.
- 16.52.110 - Documentation of proposed designation.
- 16.52.120 - Criteria for selection of historic districts.
- 16.52.130 - Boundaries of historic district.
- 16.52.140 - Classification of properties within historic districts.
- 16.52.150 - Criteria for selection of historic properties or landmarks.
- 16.52.160 - Application for designation of historic districts or historic properties.
- 16.52.170 - Required components of a designation ordinance.
- 16.52.180 - Public hearing.
- 16.52.190 - Recommendations on proposed designations.
- 16.52.200 - City council action on commission recommendation.
- 16.52.210 - Notification of adoption of ordinance.
- 16.52.220 - Notification of other agencies regarding designation.
- 16.52.230 - Moratorium on alteration or demolition while ordinance for designation is pending.
- 16.52.240 - Approval of alterations in historic properties or districts.
- 16.52.250 - Submission of plans.
- 16.52.260 - Interior alterations.
- 16.52.270 - Public hearing on applications for certificates of appropriateness, notices and right to be heard.
- 16.52.280 - Commission action on applications for certificate of appropriateness.
- 16.52.290 - Hardship.
- 16.52.300 - Approval or rejection of application for certificate of appropriateness.
- 16.52.310 - Conformance with certificate of appropriateness.
- 16.52.320 - Expiration of certificates of appropriateness.
- 16.52.330 - Acquisition property.
- 16.52.340 - Appeals.
- 16.52.350 - Ordinary maintenance or repair.
- 16.52.360 - Failure to provide ordinary maintenance or repair.
- 16.52.370 - Affirmation of existing building and zoning codes.
- 16.52.380 - Penalties.
- 16.52.390 - Severability.
- 16.52.400 - Defense indemnification.
CHAPTER 16
56 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURES
Sections
- 16.56.010 - Purpose.
- 16.56.020 - Definitions.
- 16.56.030 - Applicability.
- 16.56.040 - General provisions.
- 16.56.050 - Application procedures.
- 16.56.060 - Administrative approvals.
- 16.56.065 - Administrative approval of insubstantial changes to existing structures.
- 16.56.070 - Special use permit required.
- 16.56.080 - Support structures and antennas in residential areas.
- 16.56.090 - Removal of abandoned support structures and antennas.
- 16.56.100 - Application and permit fees.