Effingham County Unincorporated City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE III
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections
- 3.1 - Abandoned real property.
- 3.2 - Abandoned vehicles.
- 3.3 - Accessory structures in residential districts.
- 3.4 - Buffers.
- 3.5 - Buildings on through lots.
- 3.6 - Cemeteries, mausoleums, and crematories.
- 3.7 - Churches and schools.
- 3.7A - Conditional zoning.
- 3.8 - Conversion of dwellings.
- 3.8A - Construction sites (portable toilets).
- 3.8B - Construction sites (waste material).
- 3.9 - Deed restrictions.
- 3.10 - Excavation of sand, gravel, or other material (for industrial or commercial use).
- 3.11 - Existing uses.
- 3.12 - Fences.
- 3.13 - Garbage disposal.
- 3.14 - Government uses.
- 3.15 - Home occupations.
- 3.15A - Residential businesses.
- 3.15B - Rural businesses.
- 3.16 - Junk yards.
- 3.16A - Shipping container facility.
- 3.17 - Excavation, mining, ponds, and fills of land and/or state/federal jurisdictional waters or wetlands.
- 3.17A - Reserved.
- 3.18 - Land subject to flooding.
- 3.19 - Living units in zones other than residential.
- 3.20 - Minimum living area.
- 3.21 - Mobile homes, trailers, mobile home parks, and trailer parks.
- 3.21A. - Mobile and manufactured homes septic tank installation.
- 3.23 - Moving of buildings.
- 3.24 - Nonconforming buildings or structures.
- 3.25 - Nonconforming lots.
- 3.26 - Nonconforming use of buildings and structures.
- 3.27 - Nursing homes.
- 3.28 - Obstruction to vision at road intersections and driveways.
- 3.29 - Offensive color, designs, smoke, noise, etc.
- 3.30 - Off-street access control parking and loading.
- 3.31 - Overhanging or extruding projections.
- 3.32 - On street parking.
- 3.33 - Performance standards.
- 3.34 - Permitted building area.
- 3.35 - Principal building on a lot.
- 3.36 - Retaining walls.
- 3.37 - Shopping centers.
- 3.38 - Signs.
- 3.40 - Traffic visibility across corner lots.
- 3.41 - Swimming pools, private community, or club.
- 3.42 - Time limitation.
- 3.43 - Notice of starting work.
- 3.44 - Temporary dwelling allowance.
- 3.45 - County surveyor.
- 3.46 - Accessory dwelling units.
ARTICLE V
- USES PERMITTED IN DISTRICTS
Sections
- 5.1 - AR-1 Agricultural residential districts.
- 5.2 - AR-2 Agricultural residential districts.
- 5.3 - AR-3 Agricultural residential districts.
- 5.4 - R-1 Single-family residential districts.
- 5.5 - R-1-A Single-family residential district (alternative).
- 5.6 - R-2 Residential multifamily—Low districts.
- 5.7 - R-3 Multifamily residential districts.
- 5.8 - R-4 Planned manufactured home community districts.
- 5.9 - R-6 Single-family residential district (four and one-half dwellings per acre).
- 5.10 - B-1 Neighborhood commercial districts.
- 5.11 - B-2 General commercial districts.
- 5.12 - B-3 Highway commercial districts.
- 5.13 - I-1 Industrial districts.
- 5.14 - Light industrial districts.
- 5.15 - Heavy Industrial districts.
- 5.16 - PD Planned development district.
- 5.17 - Historic village overlay district.
- 5.18 - R-5 Single-family traditional neighborhood design residential district.
ARTICLE XIII
SIGNS, BILLBOARDS, AND INTERSTATE SIGNS
Sections
- 13.1 - Purpose and intent.
- 13.2 - Permits, administration, and enforcement.
- 13.3 - Sign definitions.
- 13.4 - General sign types.
- 13.5 - Legal signs.
- 13.6 - Illegal signs.
- 13.7 - Signs exempt from regulation.
- 13.8 - Prohibited signs.
- 13.9 - Community event temporary signs.
- 13.10 - Temporary subdivision signs.
- 13.11 - Temporary business signs.
- 13.12 - Billboards.
- 13.13 - Signs in commercial zones.
- 13.14 - Number of signs.
- 13.15 - Freestanding sign size.
- 13.16 - Height.
- 13.17 - Institutional uses.
- 13.18 - Projections.
- 13.19 - Flags.
- 13.20 - Sign conditions.
- 13.21 - Nonconforming signs.
- 13.22 - Traffic visibility across corner lots.
- 13.23 - Interstate Signs.
- 13.24 - Regulation for specific types of signs.
- ARTICLE I. - PREAMBLE AND ENACTMENT
- ARTICLE II. - DEFINITIONS
- ARTICLE III. - DWELLINGS IN RESIDENTIAL ZONES
- ARTICLE IV. - STRUCTURES IN NONRESIDENTIAL ZONES
- ARTICLE V. - PLANNED MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITY
- Section 1. - Site plan.
- Section 2. - Vicinity map.
- Section 3. - Minimum acreage.
- Section 4. - Density.
- Section 5. - Pad requirements.
- Section 6. - Setbacks.
- Section 7. - Streets, driveways, and walkways.
- Section 8. - Manufactured and mobile homes.
- Section 9. - Utilities.
- Section 10. - Sanitation.
- Section 11. - Parks.
- Section 12. - Drainage.
- Section 13. - Buffers.
- Section 14. - General.
- Section 15. - Recordkeeping.
- Section 16. - Communities existing prior to the date of enactment of this ordinance.
- ARTICLE VI. - ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
- ARTICLE VII. - INTERPRETATION AND VALIDITY