De Soto City Zoning Code

Any agricultural property as defined in this Chapter.

Single-family dwelling with minimum of five (5) acres of ground.

Accessory building, use or structure.

Any "A-1" District within a Flood Plain Overlay District must comply with the residential district requirements of Chapter 420.

Park or forest preserve.

Church.

Greenhouse or nursery.

Home occupation.

Wind energy facilities, commercial wind turbines, small wind turbines and solar energy systems.

Generally. No building in this district shall exceed two and one-half (2½) stories or thirty-five (35) feet in height.

Exceptions. See Section 405.360 for exceptions.

Single-family dwelling.

Public park or public operated recreational facility.

Church.

Public schools and private educational institutions having a curriculum the same as ordinarily given in public schools.

Golf course or grounds, except a miniature course or practice driving range operated for commercial purposes.

Any public building erected and used by any department of the City, County, State or Federal Government.

Agricultural uses such as field crops, truck gardening; berry or bush crops, tree crops; flower gardening; nurseries; orchards; aviaries; including a greenhouse but not including a salesroom or roadside stand.

Accessory building, use or structure.

Group homes.

Home occupation.

Day care center or equivalent.

Country club, swimming club, tennis club and private recreation clubs excluding indoor tennis, racquetball and swimming clubs.

Private recreational facilities including lakes, tennis courts, golf courses and the like.

Wind energy facilities, commercial wind turbines, small wind turbines and solar energy systems.

Generally. No building in this district shall exceed two and one-half (2 1/2) stories or thirty-five (35) feet in height.

Exceptions. See Section 405.360 for exceptions.

Generally. No building shall exceed two and one-half (2½) stories or thirty-five (35) feet in height.

Exceptions. See Section 405.360 for exceptions.

All uses permitted in the "R-2" One-Family Dwelling District.

Two-family dwellings.

All conditional uses permitted in the "R-2" Single-Family Dwelling District.

Hospital, nursing home or sanitarium.

Cemetery.

College or university or business school.

Parking lot located immediately adjacent to or directly across the street from a commercial or industrial district.

Generally. No building shall exceed three (3) stories or forty-five (45) feet in height.

Exceptions. See Section 405.360 for exceptions.

All uses allowed in the "R-3" Two-Family Dwelling District.

Multi-family dwellings.

Modular home (see Section 405.030: DEFINITIONS).

Mobile/manufactured homes and modular homes or mobile home parks in accordance with Chapter 415 of the De Soto City Code.

All conditional uses allowed in the "R-3" Two-Family Dwelling District.

Medical or dental clinic when associated with a hospital.

Generally. No building shall exceed three (3) stories or forty-five (45) feet in height.

Exceptions. See Section 405.360 for exceptions.

All uses allowed in the "R-4" Multiple-Family District.

Banks and financial institutions.

Hospital, medical clinic, nursing home or sanitarium.

Travel agencies.

Offices for professional, business, executive or administrative use involving the sale or provision of services but not the sale or rental of goods including, but not limited to:

Veterinary hospital for small animals, if entirely within an enclosed building.

Drive-up facilities incidental to permitted uses.

All conditional uses allowed in "R-4" Multiple-Family District.

Restaurants or cafeteria facilities for employees.

Pharmacy, retail sales of dental supplies and equipment and medical and dental laboratories located wholly within an office building having sixty-five percent (65%) or more of its floor area devoted to medical and dental office use.

Research labs.

Generally. No building in this district shall exceed four (4) stories or sixty-five (65) feet in height.

Exceptions. See Section 405.360 for exceptions.

Any use permitted in the "C-1" Office and Professional District.

Religious, educational or eleemosynary institutions of a philanthropic nature.

Clothing and apparel services including laundry pickup, automatic laundry, dressmaking, millinery tailor shop and shoe repair.

Food services including grocery, meat market, bakery, restaurant, delicatessen, food market and similar self-service units but not including any business of a drive-in type.

Personal services including barber shop, beauty shop, music studio, photography and art studios, messengers, taxicabs and telegraphic branch service stations and other similar uses.

Retail services and sales including drug store, hardware store, gift shop, dry goods and notion stores and sporting good stores.

Private school or business or commercial school.

Automobile service stations.

Theatres, except drive-ins.

Florist shop.

Funeral parlors or mortuaries.

Billiard parlor or bowling alley.

Hotel or motel, lodging house or boarding house.

Wholesale or distributing establishment or warehouse or wholesale market.

Printing, publishing or engraving.

Any other use of a similar character which is not objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, gas, fumes, noise or vibration which is not prohibited.

Restaurants and other establishments serving alcoholic beverages.

Drive-in type, including restaurants, banks and theaters.

Tattoo and/or body-piercing establishments.

Microbreweries.

Medical marijuana dispensary facilities, as defined in the Missouri Constitution, Article XIV, Section 1.

Generally. No building shall exceed four (4) stories or sixty-five (65) feet in height.

Exceptions. See Section 405.360 for exceptions.

All uses permitted in the "C-2" Downtown Commercial District.

Drive-in theaters.

Truck or bus garage or repair shop.

Automobile, trailer or boat display and sale.

Automobile body or engine repair shops.

Agricultural services including machinery sales and repair establishments and farm supply stores.

Mobile home and trailer sales and repair.

Show room and sales of new automobiles, farm machinery and other vehicles and equipment and the display and sales of used cars, farm machinery and other equipment when in conjunction with the show room and sales of new units thereof. Also repair of same when in conjunction with the show room and sales.

Medical Marijuana Dispensary Facility, as defined in the Missouri Constitution, Article XIV, Section 1.

Open air display areas and indoor storage structures. Display areas/storage structures must be located behind all building setback lines.

Lots for the sale of used cars, trucks, farm machinery and other used vehicles and equipment, when not sold in conjunction with sales of new cars, machinery, vehicles or equipment, and for the repair thereof.

Places of amusement, entertainment or recreation such as bowling alleys, miniature golf, commercial swimming pool, golf driving range, theaters, roller and ice skating rinks and dance halls.

All conditional uses allowed in the "C-2" Light Commercial District.

Machinery repair, general contracting or equipment rental.

Tattoo and/or body piercing establishments.

Microbrewery.

Generally. No building shall exceed four (4) stories or sixty-five (65) feet in height.

Exceptions. See Section 405.360 for exceptions.

Research oriented and light industrial park uses.

Manufacturing, compounding process or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, food products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceutical toiletries and frozen food lockers.

Assembly of merchandise such as electrical appliances, electronic precision instruments and articles of similar nature.

Packaging of previously prepared materials but not including the bailing of discards, old iron or other metal, wood, lumber, glass, paper, rags, cloth or similar materials.

Printing, lithographic, blueprinting and similar uses.

Light manufacturing industrial use which by the nature of the materials and equipment are free from any objectionable or dangerous nuisance or hazard including any of the following goods or materials: drugs, jewelry, musical instruments, sporting goods, glass products, small household appliances, electronic products, printed matter, baked and dairy products, advertising displays, tents and awnings, brushes and brooms, cameras and photographic equipment and supplies, wearing apparel, leather products and luggage but not including tanning products from such finished products as plastic, bone, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, paper, glass, hair, horn, rubber, shell or yarn.

Research and testing facilities.

Warehouse and material distribution centers and contractors' establishments provided that all products and material and equipment are stored within an enclosed building or within an appropriately screened and fenced side or rear yards.

Body, paint and repair shops for automobiles and other vehicles.

Any accessory use, building or structure.

Tattoo and/or body piercing establishments.

Medical marijuana cultivation facility, medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility and medical marijuana testing facility, as defined in the Missouri Constitution, Article XIV, Section 1.

Restaurants and cafeteria facilities for employees but not including drive-in facilities.

Truck, bus, taxi and rail terminals.

Airport.

Open air display areas and indoor storage structures. Display areas/storage structures must be located behind all building setback lines.

Commercial service facilities of the kind needed to serve customers and employees of an industrial park such as but not limited to, restaurants but not including drive-ins, auto service stations, auto washes, gift shops, offices and motels.

Sexually oriented business.

Wind energy facilities, commercial wind turbines, small wind turbines and solar energy systems.

Generally. No building shall exceed four (4) stories or sixty-five (65) feet in height.

Exceptions. See Section 405.360 for exceptions.

Acid manufacture.

Asphalt manufacturing.

Automobile wrecking, cars and parts, storage and sale.

Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of Paris manufacture.

Explosives manufacture or storage.

Fat, grease, lard or tallow rendering or refining.

Fertilizer manufacture.

Public or private dumps, incinerators and sanitary landfills, junk yards or inoperative vehicle storage.

Glue or size manufacture.

Junk and salvage, paper, metal, rags, waste or glass storage treatment or bailing.

Paper manufacture.

Petroleum refining or manufacturing.

Petroleum products terminal.

Smelting of tin, copper, zinc or iron ores.

Stockyards of the slaughter of animals.

Storage or processing of rawhides or fur.

Any conditional uses permitted in the "M-1" Light Manufacturing District.

Generally. No building shall exceed four (4) stories or sixty-five (65) feet in height.

Exceptions. See Section 405.360 for exceptions.

To promote greater flexibility than is permitted by standard district regulations for tracts and lands where the planned development would better utilize the topographic and natural character of the site and would produce a more economic and stable development.

To allow permanent preservation of common open space and provision of recreational facilities.

To promote a creative approach to the use of land and related physical facilities that results in better development and design and the construction of aesthetic amenities.

To provide for developments which will have a more beneficial effect upon the health, safety, general welfare and stability of the City than developments under strict conformity with district regulations.

To allow innovations in residential, commercial and industrial development so that growing demands of population may be met by greater variety in type, design and layout of buildings and by the conservation and more efficient use of open space ancillary to said buildings.

Uses permitted in a PUD will be the same as those allowed in the underlying district; however, in District "R-4" PUDs, not more than five percent (5%) of the developed floor area of the PUD may be used for commercial uses. Such uses shall be compatible with surrounding residences and primarily for the use of the residents of the PUD.

Private clubs providing recreational facilities for their members, such as country clubs and bath and tennis clubs, may be included in residential districts where residents of the PUD can reasonably be expected to be members, where such facilities can reasonably be expected to enhance the residential and desirability of the area included in the PUD, and which would have no substantial adverse affect on areas surrounding the planned area. Facilities permitted under this use would be permitted to provide those types of services generally associated with such clubs to their members including those otherwise permitted only in commercial districts. Land occupied for such club facilities shall not be included in the total area comprising the PUD for the purpose of computing residential density.

Size. There is no minimum size requirement for property to be considered for a PUD district; provided however, no planned unit development shall be approved where the size of the property is such that the purpose of these regulations cannot be achieved.

Ownership. A planned unit development shall be under single ownership and/or unified control.

Height requirements. The building height requirements of the prevailing district may be waived, but no building shall exceed sixty-five (65) feet.

Yards. There shall be a twenty-five (25) foot setback from all perimeter property lines of the PUD.

Vision clearance. Vision clearance shall be as set forth in Section 405.350 of this Chapter.

Access. The streets, driveways and pedestrian ways within the proposed development must be adequate to serve those using the PUD.

Utilities. All PUDs shall provide for utilities.

Off-street parking and loading. The provisions of Section 405.390, Parking Requirements, shall apply to all PUDs.

Location. A PUD can be located in any district. A PUD may be approved provided that all provisions of this Section are complied with, but approval is not mandatory, and PUD is not a use of right.

Design characteristics. The proposed PUD shall be designed to provide for the unified development of the area in accordance with the purpose of the district or districts in which the development is located. The design may provide for modification of yard, setback, varying density or other variations consistent with the intent of this Section. The design may provide for one (1) or more dwelling unit types and may have common building sites. Open space and/or common land should be an essential and major element of the plan.

Drainage. A drainage system shall be designed to minimize the possibility of soil erosion and flood damage.

The steps in the approval process for a planned unit development shall be the same as those provided for approval of a subdivision as set forth in Sections 410.100 — 410.120 of this Code.

Approval of the final PUD plan shall be deemed as satisfying the requirements of the subdivision regulations, provided all those requirements have been met unless specifically exempted by the regulations of this district.

No building permit shall be issued until the final PUD plan has been approved.

The approval of the project shall be automatically terminated if construction is not begun within one (1) year of the time of approval.

Permitted uses. Uses in a residential planned development must conform to those in the underlying district, except as previously mentioned.

Lot size. There is no minimum size requirement for individual buildings, however no planned unit development shall be approved where the size of the property is such that the purposes of these regulations cannot be achieved.

Gross density incentives. The maximum gross densities for residential planned developments specified above may be increased if recommended by the Commission and approved by the Council, but not greater than fifty percent (50%) above the gross density otherwise permitted in the district, in accordance with the following standards:

Lot width. The requirements of the prevailing district may be waived.

Yards. The requirements of the underlying district are applicable to exterior boundaries of the PUD only.

Distance between buildings. In the parts of the PUD containing other than single-family detached dwellings, the spacing between buildings shall not be less than that set forth in the respective underlying district.

Building height. The building height requirements of the underlying district may be waived; however, the height of any building in any PUD shall not exceed sixty-five (65) feet.

Off-street parking and loading. Must be in accordance with the off-street parking and loading regulations of this Chapter.

Activities shall be enclosed. Retail sales and services, including storage of materials, shall be conducted and stored entirely within a wholly and permanently enclosed building or buildings which shall be of an architectural design compatible with surrounding uses and structures, unless otherwise recommended by the Commission and approved by the Council.

Building coverage. The building and structure shall not cover more than thirty percent (30%) of the lot area.

Yards. The requirements of the respective underlying district are applicable to the exterior boundaries of the planned development only.

Spacing between buildings. Where a transfer of ownership of a part of an industrial planned development is contemplated, spacing between principal buildings shall be at least equivalent to such spacing as would be required between buildings similarly developed under the regulations of the underlying district regulations.

Lot coverage. No more than sixty percent (60%) of the property in the PUD may be covered with buildings.

Home occupation.

A non-commercial greenhouse that does not exceed in floor area twenty-five percent (25%) of the ground floor area of the main building.

A private residential garage used only for the housing of non-commercial passenger automobiles with a floor area not to exceed four hundred fifty (450) square feet. An additional floor area of two hundred fifty (250) square feet may be provided for each three thousand (3,000) square feet of lot area by which such lot exceeds six thousand (6,000) square feet provided that no garage shall exceed one thousand (1,000) square feet or house more than five (5) such automobiles.

Cemetery, accessory buildings and mausoleums.

Vegetable or flower garden.

Tennis court, swimming pool, garden house, ornamental gate, barbecue pit, fireplace and similar uses customarily accessory to residential uses.