High Point City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 1
- GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections
- 1.1.- Title
- 1.2.- Authority
- 1.3.- General Purpose and Intent
- 1.4.- Applicability
- 1.5.- Conformance With City Adopted Policy Guidance
- 1.6.- Development Guide
- 1.7.- Relationship to Other Laws, Agreements or Rights
- 1.8.- Transitional Provisions
- 1.8.1.- Prior Violations Continue
- 1.8.2. - Existing Nonconformities
- 1.8.3. - Pending Complete Applications
- 1.8.4. - Approved Applications
- 1.8.5. - Prior-Approved Conditional Use Zoning
- 1.8.6. - Prior-Approved Conditional Zoning
- 1.8.7. - Prior Approved Planned Unit Development and Traditional Neighborhood District
- 1.8.8. - Existing Uses
- 1.9.- Transition to New Zoning Districts
- 1.10.- Vested Rights
- 1.11.- Severability
CHAPTER 2
- ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- 2.1.- Summary Development Review Table
- 2.2.- Review Authorities
- 2.2.1.- Overview
- 2.2.2. - City Council
- 2.2.3. - Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z)
- 2.2.4. - Board of Adjustment (BOA)
- 2.2.5. - Historic Preservation Commission (HPC)
- 2.2.7. - Technical Review Committee (TRC)
- 2.2.8. - Urban Forestry Committee (UFC)
- 2.2.10. - Planning and Development Director
- 2.2.11. - Engineering Services Director
- 2.2.12. - Public Services Director
- 2.2.13. - Transportation Director
- 2.3.- Standard Review Procedures
- 2.3.1.- General
- 2.3.2. - Pre-Application Conference
- 2.3.3. - Citizen Information Meeting
- 2.3.4. - Application Submittal and Acceptance
- 2.3.5. - Staff Review and Action
- 2.3.6. - Public Notification
- 2.3.7. - Quasi-Judicial Hearing Procedures
- 2.3.8. - Review by P&Z or HPC
- 2.3.9. - Action by Decision-Making Body
- 2.3.10. - Conditions of Approval
- 2.3.11. - Notification of Decision or Action
- 2.3.12. - Effect of Development Approval
- 2.3.13. - Deferral and Continuance
- 2.3.14. - Withdrawal
- 2.3.15. - Expiration of Permit or Development Approval
- 2.4. - Review Procedures Subject to Decision-Making Body Review and Decision
- 2.4.1.- Overview
- 2.4.2.- Alternate Design
- 2.4.3.- Appeal
- 2.4.4.- Beneficial Use Determination
- 2.4.5.- Certificate of Appropriateness
- 2.4.6.- Conditional Zoning
- 2.4.7.- Development Agreement
- 2.4.8 - RESERVED
- 2.4.9.- Planned Development
- 2.4.10.- Reasonable Accommodation
- 2.4.11.- Right-of-Way Encroachment
- 2.4.12.- Special Use
- 2.4.13.- Street Abandonment
- 2.4.14.- Street Name Change
- 2.4.15.- Text Amendment
- 2.4.16.- Variance
- 2.4.17.- Vested Rights Certificate
- 2.4.18.- Voluntary Annexation
- 2.4.19.- Reserved
- 2.4.20.- Zoning Map Amendment
- 2.5.- Review Procedures Subject to Staff Review and Decision
- 2.5.1.- Overview
- 2.5.2. - Administrative Adjustment
- 2.5.3. - Building Permit
- 2.5.4. - Determination
- 2.5.5. - Easement Reconveyance
- 2.5.6. - Exclusion Map
- 2.5.7. - Final Plat
- 2.5.8. - Floodplain Development Permit
- 2.5.9. - Group Development
- 2.5.10. - Land Disturbance Permit
- 2.5.11. - Preliminary Plan
- 2.5.12. - Public Tree Certificate
- 2.5.13. - Sign Permit
- 2.5.14. - Site Plan
- 2.5.15. - Wireless Telecommunications Permit
- 2.5.16. - Zoning Compliance Permit
- 2.6.- Financial Guarantees
- 2.7.- Payment in-Lieu of Required Improvements
CHAPTER 3
- ZONING DISTRICTS
Sections
- 3.1.- General Provisions
- 3.2.- General Zoning Districts Established
- 3.3.- Residential Zoning Districts
- 3.4.- Business Zoning Districts
- 3.4.1.- General Purpose and Intent
- 3.4.2. - Transitional Office (TO)
- 3.4.3. - Office Institutional (OI)
- 3.4.5. - Limited Business (LB)
- 3.4.6. - General Business (GB)
- 3.4.7. - Retail Center (RC)
- 3.4.8. - Central Business (CB)
- 3.4.10. - Employment Center (EC)
- 3.4.11. - Light Industrial (LI)
- 3.4.12. - Heavy Industrial (HI)
- 3.5.- Special Zoning Districts
- 3.6.- Conditional Zoning Districts
- 3.7.- Planned Development Zoning Districts
- 3.7.1.- Purpose and Intent
- 3.7.2. - General Provisions
- 3.7.3. - Standards Applied to All Planned Development Districts
- 3.7.4. - Amendments to Approved Planned Development Master Plan Map or the Statement of Intent and Development Standards
- 3.7.5. - Planned Development-Core City (PD-CC)
- 3.7.6. - Planned Development-Periphery (PD-P)
- 3.8.- Overlay Zoning Districts
- 3.8.1.- Purpose
- 3.8.2. - Establishment
- 3.8.3. - Classification
- 3.8.4. - Relationship to Underlying Zoning Districts
- 3.8.5. - Airport Overlay (ARO)
- 3.8.7. - Gateway Corridor Overlay (GCO)
- 3.8.8. - Local Historic Overlay (LHO)
- 3.8.9. - Manufactured Housing Overlay (MHO)
- 3.8.10. - Neighborhood Conservation Overlay (NCO)
- 3.8.12. - Watershed Overlay (WSO)
CHAPTER 4
- USES
Sections
- 4.1.- Principal Use Table
- 4.2.- Use Classifications, Use Categories, and Use Types
- 4.3.- Use Standards
- 4.4.- Accessory Structures and Uses
- 4.5.- Temporary Uses
CHAPTER 5
- DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
Sections
- 5.1.- Public Infrastructure
- 5.2.- Zone Lot and Access
- 5.4.- Off-Street Parking and Loading
- 5.5.- Landscaping
- 5.5.1.- Purpose and Intent
- 5.5.2. - Applicability
- 5.5.3. - Exemptions
- 5.5.4. - District Standards
- 5.5.5. - General Requirements
- 5.5.6. - Plant Material Specifications
- 5.5.7. - Limitations on Landscaping Placement
- 5.5.8. - Credit for Existing Vegetation
- 5.5.9. - Time for Installation of Required Landscaping
- 5.5.10. - Parking Lot Landscaping
- 5.5.11. - Perimeter Landscape Yards
- 5.5.12. - Landscape Yards on Slopes
- 5.5.13. - Alternate Landscape Plan
- 5.5.14. - Additional Landscape Yard Flexibility
- 5.5.15. - Landscape Yard Maintenance
- 5.5.16. - Removal or Relocation of Trees and Shrubs
- 5.6.- Screening
- 5.7.1.- Purpose and Intent
- 5.7.2. - Applicability
- 5.7.3. - Prohibited Signs
- 5.7.4. - General Standards
- 5.7.5. - Installation and Design
- 5.7.6. - Illumination Standards
- 5.7.7. - Signs Allowed Without a Sign Permit
- 5.7.8. - Freestanding Signs Requiring a Sign Permit
- 5.7.9. - Attached Signs Requiring a Sign Permit
- 5.7.10. - Electronic Sign Standards
- 5.7.11. - Signs in Institutional Districts
- 5.7.12. - Limited Duration Signs
- 5.7.13. - Vintage Signs
- 5.7.14. - Common Sign Plan
- 5.7.15. - Savings Clause
- 5.7.16. - Sign Images by Sign Type
- 5.9.1.- Purpose and Intent
- 5.9.2. - Applicability
- 5.9.3. - Exemptions
- 5.9.4. - Standards
- 5.9.5. - Additional Zoning District Standards
- 5.9.6. - Timing of Installation
- 5.9.7. - Payment in-Lieu of Required Installation
- 5.10.- Exterior Lighting
- 5.11.1.- Purpose and Intent
- 5.11.2. - Applicability
- 5.11.3. - Exemptions
- 5.11.4. - Locational Requirements
- 5.11.5. - Height Standards
- 5.11.6. - Materials
- 5.11.7. - Finished Side
- 5.11.8. - Maintenance
- 5.12.- Open Space
- 5.14.- Development Types
- 5.15.- Sustainability Incentives
CHAPTER 6
- ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS
Sections
- 6.1.- Public Tree Protection
- 6.2.- Watershed Protection
- 6.2.1.- Purpose and Intent
- 6.2.2. - Applicability
- 6.2.3. - Exemptions
- 6.2.4. - Exemption to the Plan Submission Requirements of This Section
- 6.2.5. - Compliance with Previously Approved Plans
- 6.2.6. - Activities Regulated by Other Governmental Agencies
- 6.2.7. - How to Use This Section
- 6.2.8. - Incorporation of Watershed Map
- 6.2.9. - Protection of Fragile Areas
- 6.2.10. - Low Impact Design
- 6.2.11. - General Standards and Restrictions
- 6.2.12. - General Watershed Area and Watershed Critical Area Established
- 6.2.13. - Standards Applicable in the GWA
- 6.2.14. - Standards Applicable in the WCA
- 6.2.15. - Individual Water Supply Watersheds
- 6.2.16. - Watershed Modifications
- 6.2.17. - Watershed Accounting
- 6.3.- Soil Erosion and Sedimentation
- 6.3.1.- Applicability
- 6.3.2. - Exemptions
- 6.3.3. - Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Plan
- 6.3.4. - Basic Control Objectives
- 6.3.5. - Mandatory Standards for Land-Disturbing Activity
- 6.3.6. - Design and Performance Standards
- 6.3.7. - Stormwater Outlet Protection
- 6.3.8. - Borrow and Waste Areas
- 6.3.9. - Access and Haul Roads
- 6.3.10. - Operations in Lakes or Natural Watercourses
- 6.3.11. - Responsibility for Maintenance
- 6.3.12. - Additional Measures
- 6.3.13. - Existing Uncovered Areas
- 6.3.14. - Restoration after Non-Compliance
- 6.4.- Flood Damage Prevention
CHAPTER 7
- SUBDIVISION STANDARDS
Sections
- 7.1.- Subdivisions
- 7.1.1.- Purpose and Intent
- 7.1.2. - Applicability
- 7.1.3. - Street and Utility Construction
- 7.1.4. - Dedication of Right-of-Way
- 7.1.5. - Permanent Runoff Control Structures/Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Devices
- 7.1.6. - Subdivision Standards
- 7.1.7. - Performance Guarantee for Required Improvements
- 7.1.8. - Payment in Lieu of Required Improvements
- 7.2 - Reserved
- 7.3.- Homeowners' or Property Owners' Association
- 7.4.- Greenway Dedication
- 7.5.- Reservation of Public Land
CHAPTER 8
- NONCONFORMITIES
Sections
- 8.1.- General Applicability
- 8.2.- Nonconforming Uses
- 8.3.- Nonconforming Structures
- 8.4.- Nonconforming Lots of Record
- 8.5.- Nonconforming Signs
CHAPTER 9
- ENFORCEMENT
Sections
- 9.1.- Purpose
- 9.2.- Applicability
- 9.3.- Violations
- 9.4.- Responsible Persons
- 9.5.- Enforcement
- 9.6.- Enforcement Procedure
- 9.7.1.- Civil Penalties
- 9.7.2. - Denial of Permit or Certificate
- 9.7.3. - Conditional Permit or Temporary Certificate
- 9.7.4. - Stop Work Orders
- 9.7.5. - Revocation or Modification of Permits
- 9.7.6. - Injunctive Relief
- 9.7.7. - Order of Abatement
- 9.7.8. - Equitable Remedy
- 9.7.9. - State and Common Law Remedies
- 9.7.10. - Previous Enforcement
- 9.8.- Remedies—Cumulative and Continuous
- 9.9.- Assessment of Civil Penalties
- 9.10 - Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Enforcement and Penalties
CHAPTER 10
- MEASUREMENT AND DEFINITIONS
Sections
- 10.1.- General Rules for Interpretation
- 10.1.1.- Meanings and Intent
- 10.1.2. - Headings, Illustrations, and Text
- 10.1.3. - Lists and Examples
- 10.1.4. - Computation of Time
- 10.1.5. - References to this Ordinance
- 10.1.6. - References to Other Regulations/Publications
- 10.1.7. - Delegation of Authority
- 10.1.8. - Technical and Non-Technical Terms
- 10.1.9. - Public Officials and Agencies
- 10.1.10. - Mandatory and Discretionary Terms
- 10.1.11. - Conjunctions
- 10.1.12. - Tenses and Plurals
- 10.1.13. - Term Not Defined
- 10.2.- Rules of Measurement
- 10.2.1.- Purpose
- 10.2.2. - Measurement, Generally
- 10.2.3. - Lot Dimensions
- 10.2.4. - Setbacks
- 10.2.5. - Density and Intensity
- 10.2.6 - Height and Length
- 10.2.7. - Slope and Elevation
- 10.2.8. - Parking Space Computation
- 10.2.9. - Landscaping
- 10.2.10. - Signs
- 10.2.11. - Exterior Lighting
- 10.2.12. - Fences
- 10.2.13. - Surface Water Buffers
- 10.3.- Abbreviations
- 10.4.- Definitions