The various use units referred to in the zoning district provisions are herein listed in numerical order. Within the use units, the permitted uses are ordinarily listed in alphabetical order. In these use units where there is a preliminary descriptive statement (which may mention specific uses) in addition to the detailed list of uses, the detailed list shall govern.

(A)

Unit 1. City-Wide uses by right.

(1)

Description. Unit 1 consists of public uses, essential services, agricultural uses, open land uses, and similar uses which are subject to other public controls or which do not have significantly adverse effects on other permitted uses and are, therefore, permitted as uses of right in all districts.

(2)

Included Uses. Public facilities of the types embraced within the recommendations of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan.

(B)

Unit 2. City-Wide Uses by Conditional Use Permit.

(1)

Description. Unit 2 consists of uses which may be conducted anywhere in the territorial jurisdiction, but which can be objectionable to nearby uses and are therefore permitted subject to conditional use permits in all districts.

(2)

Included Uses.

(C)

Unit 3. Public Protection and Utility Facilities.

(1)

Description. Unit 3 consists primarily of public protection and utility equipment which:

(a)

Is ordinarily not located in the street right-of-way and can be significantly objectionable to nearby residential, commercial, and light industrial uses;

(b)

Have requirements for specific locations or are needed to serve residential neighborhood or local areas; and

(c)

Are, therefore, permitted only on review.

(2)

Included Uses.

(D)

Unit 4. Cultural and Recreational Facilities.

(1)

Description. Unit 4 consists of cultural and recreational uses to serve the residents of the community.

(2)

Included Uses.

Cross-reference(s)—Parking and Loading, Ch. 172.

(E)

Unit 5. Government Facilities.

(1)

Description. Unit 5 consists of the main facilities of government agencies.

(2)

Included Uses.

(F)

Unit 6. Agriculture.

(1)

Description. Unit 6 consists of agricultural uses and services and certain other uses suitable for location near, but not in, a residential district.

(2)

Included Uses.

(G)

Unit 7. Animal Husbandry.

(1)

Description. Unit 7 consists of livestock raising and related activities which are ordinarily objectionable to other uses and require, therefore, a buffer strip when abutting a C or R District.

(2)

Included Uses.

(H)

Unit 8. Single-Family Dwellings.

(1)

Description. Unit 8 is provided in order that single-family dwellings may be located in appropriate residential areas.

(2)

Included Uses.

(I)

Unit 9. Two (2) Family Dwellings.

(1)

Description. Unit 9 is provided in order that two (2) family attached dwellings may be located in appropriate residential areas.

(2)

Included Uses.

(J)

Unit 10. Three (3) and four (4) family dwellings.

(1)

Description. Unit 10 is provided in order that three (3) and four (4) family attached dwellings may be located in appropriate residential areas.

(2)

Included uses.

(K)

Unit 11. Manufactured Home Park.*

(1)

Description. Unit 11 consists of a separate use of manufactured home parks in order that they may be located in appropriate residential areas.

(2)

Included uses.

(L)

Unit 12a. Limited Business.

(1)

Description. Unit 12a consists of small-scale establishments offering commercial goods and services that are accessible for the convenience of individuals living in residential districts, while compatible in size, scale and appearance with the surrounding neighborhood. These uses shall be subject to the regulations in Chapter 164. All uses classified under Unit 12 must be within a building containing 3,000 square feet or less excluding areas dedicated to residential uses.

(2)

Included Uses.

(M)

Unit 12b. General Business.

(1)

Description. Unit 12b consists of small-scale establishments offering commercial goods and services that are accessible for the convenience of individuals living in residential districts, while compatible in size, scale and appearance with the surrounding neighborhood. These uses shall be subject to the regulations in Chapter 164. All uses classified under Unit 12b must be within a building containing 8,000 square feet or less, excluding area dedicated to residential uses.

(2)

Included Uses.

(N)

Unit 13. Eating Places.

(1)

Description. Unit 13 is established that eating places, excluding drive-ins and those that provide dancing and entertainment, can be located as needed without necessarily introducing other commercial uses.

(2)

Included Uses.

(O)

Unit 14.Hotel, Motel, and Amusement Facilities.

(1)

Description. Unit 14 consists of hotels, motels, and certain types of amusement facilities.

(2)

Included Uses.

(P)

Unit 15. Neighborhood Shopping Goods.

(1)

Description. Unit 15 includes a variety of frequently purchased commercial goods, where convenience of location is more important than comparative shopping. These uses are grouped in limited areas while prohibiting all others not necessary near the residential districts. All uses classified under Use Unit 15 must be within a building containing 25,000 square feet or less excluding areas dedicated to residential uses.

(2)

Included Uses.

(Q)

Unit 16. Shopping Goods.

(1)

Description. Unit 16 consists of stores selling retail goods which are ordinarily purchased less frequently and often have a city-wide or regional market.

(2)

Included Uses.

(R)

Unit 17. Transportation Trades and Services.

(1)

Description. Unit 17 consists of establishments engaged primarily in providing vehicular sales, service and maintenance, and similar services which fulfill recurrent needs of residents of nearby areas, but are generally incompatible with primary retail districts because they break the continuity of retail frontage. Uses also include those that require transport of persons or materials on a regular basis.

(2)

Included Uses.

(S)

Unit 18. Gasoline service stations and drive-in/drive-through restaurants.

(1)

Description. Gasoline service stations and drive-in restaurants can be significantly objectionable to nearby uses, so, therefore, have been allowed only in districts where necessary to provide this use.

(2)

Included Uses.

(T)

Unit 19. Commercial Recreation, Small Sites.

(1)

Description. Unit 19 consists of commercial amusements which ordinarily do not require large sites and often seek location in or near developed commercial areas.

(2)

Included Uses.

(U)

Unit 20. Commercial Recreation, Large Sites.

(1)

Description. Unit 20 consists of commercial recreation facilities which are usually conducted out-of-doors, on large sites, and in undeveloped, outlying parts of the city. Uses in this unit have an adverse effect on certain other uses, in that they are often noisy and are large traffic generators.

(2)

Included Uses.

(V)

Unit 21. Warehousing and Wholesale.

(1)

Description. Unit 21 includes warehousing, wholesaling and trucking of the type which is usually located to serve the central business district and is easily serviced by rail and highway transportation.

(2)

Included Uses.

(W)

Unit 22. Manufacturing.

(1)

Description. Unit 22 consists of industrial uses which usually generate some adverse environmental effects and for this reason they should be located away from uses which do not produce adverse effects.

(2)

Included Uses.

(X)

Unit 23. Heavy Industrial.

(1)

Description. Unit 23 consists of uses which cause the greatest adverse environmental effects because of odor, noise, unsightliness, air pollution and explosions.

(2)

Included Uses.

(Y)

Unit 24. Home Occupation.

(1)

Description. Unit 24 consists of businesses for which financial compensation is received, conducted on a residential property, and which generates motor vehicle traffic to the residential property. Only those residing on the property may be employed by the home occupation.

(2)

Included Uses.

(Z)

Unit 25. Offices, Studios and Related Services.

(1)

Description. Unit 25 consists of offices, studios, medical and dental labs, and other supporting services and sales.

(2)

Included Uses.

(AA)

Unit 26. Multi-Family Dwellings.

(1)

Description. Unit 26 is provided in order that multi-family dwellings and more than four (4) attached units may be located in appropriate residential areas.

(2)

Included Uses.

(BB)

Unit 27. Wholesale Bulk Petroleum Storage Facilities with Underground Storage Tanks.

(1)

Description. Unit 27 is provided in order that wholesale bulk petroleum storage facilities with underground storage tanks may be located in the appropriate industrial areas.

(2)

Included Uses.

(CC)

Unit 28. Center for collecting recyclable materials.

(1)

Description. Unit 28 is provided in order that centers for collecting recyclable material may be located in appropriate commercial and industrial areas.

(2)

Included Uses.

(DD)

Unit 29. Dance Halls. *

(1)

Description. Unit 29 is provided in order that establishments that provide areas for dancing may be located in an appropriate environment and as not to negatively impact adjacent properties.

(2)

Included Uses.

(EE)

Unit 30. Extractive Uses.

(1)

Description. Unit 30 consists of extractive uses which generate substantial nuisances and adverse environmental effects.

(2)

Included Uses.

(FF)

Unit 31. Facilities Emitting Odors and Facilities Handling Explosives. *

(1)

Description. Unit 31 consists of facilities which are heavy industrial in nature, but which have the potential to have adverse effects such as odor or the potential for explosions

(2)

Included Uses.

(GG)

Unit 32. Sexually Oriented Business.

(1)

Description. Unit 32 consists of adult arcades, adult bookstores or adult video stores, adult cabarets, adult motion picture theaters, or adult theaters whose inventory, merchandise or performances are characterized by a preponderance of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas" all as more fully set forth in Ordinance No. 4024, §123.26, as may be amended from time to time.

(2)

Included Uses.

(HH)

Unit 33. Adult Live Entertainment Club or Bar.

(1)

Description. Unit 33 includes fixed places of business selling or dispensing alcoholic beverages including private clubs which emphasize and seek through one (1) or more dancers to arouse or excite the patron's sexual desires.

(2)

Included Uses.

(II)

Unit 34. Liquor Stores. *

(1)

Description. Unit 34 includes fixed places of business licensed by the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to sell alcoholic beverages for off-premise consumption.

(2)

Included Uses.

(JJ)

Unit 35. Outdoor music establishments. *

(1)

Description. Unit 35 includes any business or establishment that has a garden, patio, rooftop or premises not wholly enclosed by solid walls and fully roofed in which amplified or loud music is played that could be audible at nearby residences or businesses.

(2)

Included Uses.

(KK)

Unit 36. Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.

(1)

Description. A land use facility that transmits and/or receives electromagnetic signals for the purpose of transmitting analog or digital voice or data communications.

(2)

Included Uses.

(LL)

Unit 37. Manufactured Homes.

(1)

Description. Unit 37 is provided in order that manufactured homes may be located in appropriate residential areas.

(2)

Included uses.

(MM)

Unit 38. Mini-Storage Units.

(NN)

Unit 39. Auto Salvage and Junk Yards.

(OO)

Unit 40. Sidewalk Cafés.

(1)

Description. Unit 40 is provided in order that sidewalk cafés may be located in appropriate commercial areas.

(2)

Included Uses.

(PP)

Unit 41. Accessory Dwelling Units.

(1)

Description. Unit 41 includes accessory dwelling units.

(2)

Included Uses.

(QQ)

Unit 42. Clean Technologies.

(1)

Description. Unit 42 consists of uses that fabricate or produce goods and services that greatly reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts, create new technologies or improve the productive and responsible use of natural resources.

(RR)

Unit 43. Animal Boarding and Training.

(1)

Description. Unit 43 consists of services such as animal boarding, training, kennels, outdoor animal daycare and related activities which have outdoor space for animal exercise and other activities and may therefore result in noise and aesthetic impacts and may pose compatibility issues when adjacent to commercial or residential uses without adequate buffers in place.

(2)

Included uses.

(SS)

Unit 44. Cluster Housing Development.

(1)

Description. Unit 44 is provided in order that cluster housing developments are permitted by right in multi-family zoning districts and by Conditional Use Permit in single family zoning districts.

(2)

Included Uses.

(TT)

Unit 45. Small Scale Production.

(1)

Description. Unit 45 is provided in order that increased variety and flexibility of non-residential goods, services, and employment centers may be provided in close proximity to residences and commercial uses. These uses may have adverse impacts because of high traffic, delivery vehicles, noise, or odors and may pose compatibility issues if they are not limited in size.

(2)

Included Uses.

(UU)

Unit 46. Short-term rental.

(1)

Description. Unit 46 is provided to allow a permanent residential dwelling unit, portion of a residential dwelling unit, or bedroom within a residential dwelling unit, to be leased and/or rented to a guest(s) for a period of less than thirty (30) consecutive days.

(2)

Included Uses.

(VV)

Unit 47. Data centers.

(1)

Description. Unit 47 consists of uses related to facilities engaged in storage, management, processing, and transmission of digital data, including facilities used for cryptocurrency mining.

(2)

Included Uses.

(WW)

Unit 48. Private Dormitories.

(1)

Description. Unit 48 consists of uses related to facilities constructed for the purpose of housing students.

(2)

Included Uses.

(Code 1965, App. A., Art. 6 (A), (F); Ord. No. 329, 10-1-85; Ord. No. 3165, 2-4-86; Ord. No. 3341, 3-15-88; Ord. No. 1747, 6-29-70; Code 1991, §§118.01, 160.055; Ord. No. 3546, 4-19-91; Ord. No. 3792, §§2, 3, 5-17-94; Ord. No. 3870, §1 (Ex. A), 2-21-95; Ord. No. 3909, §1, 7-18-95; Ord. No. 3971, §§3, 4, 5-21-96; Ord. No. 4024, §3, 3-18-97; Ord. No. 4034, §§1, 2, 4-15-97; Ord. No. 4100, §2 (Ex. A), 6-16-98; Ord. No. 4376, §5 (Ex. E), §6 (Ex. F), 3-5-02; Ord. No. 4423, §1 (Ex. A), 10-02-02, Ord. No. 4728, 7-19-05; Ord. No. 4913, 8-15-06; Ord. No. 4919, 09-05-06; Ord. No. 4930, 10-03-06; Ord. No. 4946, 11-21-06; Ord. No. 5028, 6-19-07; Ord. No. 5128, 4-15-08; Ord. No. 5203, 12-2-08; Ord. No. 5195, 11-6-08; Ord. No. 5226, 3-3-09; Ord. No. 5238, 5-5-09; Ord. No. 5312, 4-20-10; Ord. No.5312, 4-20-10; Ord. No. 5338, 8-3-10; Ord. No. 5339, 8-3-10; Ord. No. 5352, 9-7-10; Ord. No. 5462, 12-6-11, Ord. No. 5668, 3-18-14; Ord. No. 5735, 1-20-15; Ord. No. 5772, 5-19-15; Ord. No. 5921, §§2, 3, 11-1-16; Ord. No. 5945, §§10—14, 1-17-17; Ord. No. 5990, §1, 8-1-17; Ord. No. 6245, §3, 10-15-19; Ord. No. 6427, §§1(Exh. D), 2, 4-20-21; Ord. No. 6624, §1, 11-1-22; Ord. No. 6678 meeting, §2, 9-5-23; Ord. No. 6879 meeting, §3, 5-20-25)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 6888 meeting, §1, adopted June 17, 2025 determines that Ordinance 6427 (Sunset Clause), Ordinance 6625 (extending Sunset Clause), Ordinance 6710 (extending the Sunset Clause), and Ordinance 6820 meeting (extending the Sunset Clause) be amended so that Ordinance 6427 and all amendments to Code Sections ordained or enacted by Ordinance 6427 shall automatically sunset, be repealed and become void on November 30, 2025 unless prior to that time and date the City Council amends this ordinance to repeal or further amend this sunset, repeal and termination section.

(A)

In each use unit division, permitted uses are set forth in the division entitled "Included uses." In the event of a conflict between such divisions and the "description" divisions, the former shall prevail.

(B)

In any case where there is a question as to whether or not a particular use is included in a particular use unit, the Zoning and Development Administrator shall decide. A use shall not be interpreted as being in any use unit if it is specifically listed in another unit in this chapter.

(Code 1965, App. A., Art. 6(B); Ord. No. 1747, 6-29-70; Ord. No. 2181, 1-6-76; Code 1991, §160.056; Ord. No. 4100, §2 (Ex. A), 6-16-98)

(A)

A use shall be subject to the provisions of the district in which the use is permitted. Certain uses shall be subject to additional conditions set forth separately herein. Reference will be made in the chapter to conditions applicable to a particular use in the unit where the use is listed.

(B)

Uses which are permitted both as principal and accessory uses shall be subject to the conditions set forth for the use as a principal use.

(Code 1965, App. A., Art. 6 (C); Ord. No. 1747, 6-29-70; Code 1991, §160.057; Ord. No. 4034, §6, 4-14-97; Ord. No. 4100, §2 (Ex. A) 6-16-98)

Where so specified in a use unit listing, a use shall be operated only within a fully enclosed structure. The excepting of certain districts from this requirement with respect to certain uses does not indicate that such uses are necessarily permitted in such districts. In districts where enclosure of use is required, accessory off-street parking and loading shall be exempted from this enclosure requirement.

(Code 1965, App. A., Art. 6 (E); Ord. No. 1747, 6-29-70; Code 1991, §160.059; Ord. No. 4100, §2 (Ex. A), 6-16-98)