Huntsville City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE 1
Introductory Provisions
Sections
ARTICLE 4
Use Regulations
Sections
- 4.100 ALLOWED USES
- 4.200 SUPPLEMENTAL USE REGULATIONS
- 4.201 Accessory Uses and Structures
- 4.202 Home Occupations
- 4.203 Mobile Homes and Manufactured Housing Unit
- 4.204 Mobile Home/Manufactured Housing Parks/Subdivisions
- 4.205 Recreational Vehicle Parks
- 4.206 Wireless Communications Towers
- 4.207 Purpose-Built Shared Housing
- 4.208 Mobile Food Vendors
- 4.209 Mobile Food Vendor Courts
- 4.2010 Equipment Screening and Outdoor Storage Requirements
- 4.2011 Townhouse
- 4.2012 Multiplex
- 4.2013 Apartment / Condominium
- 4.2014 Fraternal Organization
- 4.2015 Animal Service
- 4.2016 Assembly and Entertainment
- 4.2017 Office
- 4.2018 Retail Sales and Service
- 4.2019 Fuel Station or Vehicle Repair
- 4.2020 Short-Term Lodging
- 4.300 NEW AND UNLISTED USES
ARTICLE 5
Lot and Setback Regulations
Sections
- 5.100 LOT DESIGN, ARRANGEMENT AND LAYOUT GENERALLY
- 5.200 Residential Lot Size and Building Setback Regulations
- 5.300 NONRESIDENTIAL AND MIXED USE LOT SIZE AND BUILDING SETBACK REGULATIONS
- 5.400 AGRICULTURE TRACTS
- 5.500 RESIDENTIAL LOTS
- 5.600 NONRESIDENTIAL LOTS
- 5.700 FLAG LOTS
- 5.800 MEASUREMENTS
- 5.900 ACCESS TO LOTS
ARTICLE 6
Parking and Driveway Access
Sections
- 6.100 GENERAL
- 6.200 MINIMUM PARKING RATIOS
- 6.300 CALCULATION OF REQUIRED PARKING
- 6.400 PARKING EXEMPTIONS AND REDUCTIONS
- 6.500 USE OF PARKING AREAS
- 6.600 LOCATION
- 6.700 DESIGN
- 6.800 PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION
- 6.900 ACCESSIBLE PARKING FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
- 6.1000 DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITIES
- 6.1100 DRIVEWAYS
- 6.1200 LOADING
ARTICLE 7
Landscaping and Buffers
Sections
- 7.100 GENERAL
- 7.200 MINIMUM LANDSCAPING
- 7.300 DISTRIBUTION OF REQUIRED LANDSCAPING
- 7.400 CREDITS AND INCENTIVES
- 7.500 BUFFERS
- 7.600 GARBAGE AND RECYCLING DUMPSTERS
- 7.700 LANDSCAPE PLANTING AREAS AND MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS
- 7.800 TREES IN PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY
- 7.900 TREE PRESERVATION
- 7.1000 INSPECTIONS, PERMITS, AND FEES
- 7.1100 REGULATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS
- 7.1200 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
- 7.1300 ENFORCEMENT FOR VIOLATIONS
ARTICLE 8
Signs
Sections
ARTICLE 9
Flood Protection
Sections
ARTICLE 10
Infrastructure and Public Improvements
Sections
- 10.100 GENERAL
- 10.200 INFRASTRUCTURE AND IMPROVEMENTS REQUIRED
- 10.300 FINANCIAL GUARANTEES
- 10.400 STREETS
- 10.500 SIDEWALKS
- 10.600 WATER
- 10.700 WASTEWATER
- 10.800 DRAINAGE AND STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
- 10.900 PARKS AND OPEN SPACE
- 10.1000 STREET LIGHTS
- 10.1100 TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNS AND STREET SIGNS
- 10.1200 STREET NAMES
- 10.1300 UTILITIES
- 10.1400 EASEMENTS
- 10.1500 SURVEYING AND MONUMENTATION
- 10.1600 MAINTENANCE OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND IMPROVEMENTS
ARTICLE 12
Development Review and Approval Procedures
Sections
- 12.100 COMMON PROVISIONS
- 12.200 DEVELOPMENT CODE TEXT AMENDMENTS
- 12.300 ZONING DISTRICT MAP AMENDMENTS
- 12.400 PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS
- 12.500 HISTORIC PRESERVATION OVERLAY DISTRICT MAP AMENDMENTS
- 12.600 CERTIFICATES OF APPROPRIATENESS
- 12.700 SUBDIVISION PLATS
- 12.800 CONDITIONAL USES
- 12.900 VARIANCES
- 12.1000 APPEALS OF ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS
ARTICLE 15
Terminology and Definitions
Sections
- 15.100 RULES OF LANGUAGE AND INTERPRETATION
- 15.200 DEFINITIONS
- A
- Accessory Building
- Adjacent
- Agriculture
- Agriculture
- Aircraft Landing Area
- Airport
- A
- A
- Alley
- Alluvial Fan Flooding
- All-Weather Surface (or Material)
- Alterations
- Animal Service
- A
- Apex
- Apartment/Condo
- Applicant
- Approach
- Area of Shallow Flooding
- Area of Special Flood Hazard
- A
- Assembly and Entertainment
- Base Flood
- Basement
- Bedroom, Purpose-Built Shared Housing
- Berm
- Block
- Boundary Sewer Line
- Boundary Water Line
- Buffer
- Buildable Area
- Building
- Building Height
- Building Line
- Building or Tower-mounted Antenna
- Building Service
- Business Support Service
- Building, Principal
- Caliper
- Caliper-Existing Tree(s)
- Caliper-Replacement Tree(s)
- Car Wash
- Certificate of Compliance
- City
- College or University
- Commercial
- Commercial Message
- Commercial Service
- Commercial Service Uses, All Other
- Community Center
- Community Garden
- Community Home
- Construction, Existing
- Construction, New
- Consumer Maintenance and Repair Service
- Correctional Facility (Private)
- Critical Feature
- Day Care
- Detached House
- Development
- Developer
- Density
- Diameter at Breast Height
- Display Surface (of a Sign)
- D
- Driveway
- Dwell Time
- Dwelling Unit, Apartment/Condo & Purpose-built Shared Housing
- Dwelling Unit, Single Family
- Dynamic Display
- Eating Establishment
- Erected
- Elevated Building
- Excavation
- Family
- Farming/General Agriculture
- FEMA
- FHBM
- Filling
- Financial Service
- FIRM
- Flag Lot
- Flood or Flooding
- Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
- Flood Insurance Study
- Floodplain Management
- Floodplain or Flood-Prone Area
- Floodproofing
- Flood Protection System
- Floodway (Regulatory Floodway)
- Foot-candle
- Fraternal Organization
- Freestanding Tower
- Frontage
- Fuel Sales
- Functionally Dependent Use
- Funeral or Mortuary Service
- Governmental Facility
- Grade
- Groundcover
- Group Living
- Habitable Floor
- Half-Street
- Height, Building
- Height, Sign
- Highest Adjacent Grade
- H
- H
- Hospital
- Household Living
- Improvement
- Industrial
- Industrial, Heavy
- Industrial, Light
- Landscape Development
- Lawfully Established
- Lease
- Levee
- Levee System
- Library
- Lodging
- Lot
- Lot Depth
- Lot Lines
- Lot Line, Front:
- Lot Line, Rear
- Lot Line, Side
- Lot of Record
- Lot Width
- Lowest Floor
- M
- Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision
- Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision, Existing
- Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision, Expansion of an Existing
- Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision, New
- Marquee
- Mean Sea Level
- Mining/Extraction
- Mining/Extraction, Surface or Above-ground
- M
- Mixed Use, Horizontal
- Mixed Use, Vertical
- Mobile Food Vendor
- Mobile Food Vendor Court
- Mobile Home
- Mobile Home Park
- Mobile/Manufactured Dwelling Unit (Outside of MH Park)
- Multiplex
- Museum or Cultural Facility
- Natural Resource Preservation
- Noncommercial Message
- Nonconforming Building (Nonconforming Structure)
- Nonconforming Use
- Nonprecision Instrument Runway
- Nursing Home
- Office
- Open-Air Use
- Owner
- Owner's Front Footage
- Parks and Recreation
- Pavement Width
- Perpetual Access Easement
- Person
- Personal Improvement Service
- Primary Surface
- Principal Use
- Private Street
- Pro Rata
- Protected Tree Replacement Plan
- Public Street
- P
- P
- Purpose-Built Shared Housing, Attached
- Purpose-Built Shared Housing, Detached
- Ratio of Replacement
- Recreational Vehicle (Outside of RV park)
- Recreational Vehicle (RV)
- Recreational Vehicle Park
- Recyclable Material Drop-off Facility
- Recyclable Material Processing Facility
- Recycling Facility
- Religious Assembly
- Repair Service
- Research Service
- Reserve
- Residential
- Retail Sales
- Right-of-way
- Runway
- Safety Service
- School
- Self-Service Storage Facility
- Setback
- Setback, Rear
- Setback, Side
- Setback, Street
- Setback, Street Side
- Shared Driveway Easement
- Shrub
- Sign
- Sign, Off-Premise
- Sign, On-Premise
- Sign Area (or Sign Face Area)
- Sign, Construction
- Sign, Directional
- Sign, Dynamic Display
- Sign, Freestanding
- Sign, Identification
- Sign, Menu Board
- Sign, Monument
- Sign, Moving
- Sign, Portable
- Sign, Projecting
- Sign, Roof
- Sign Structure
- Sign, Temporary
- Sign, Wall
- Site Area
- Site Plan
- Start of Construction
- Street, Expressway
- S
- S
- S
- S
- Structure
- Structure (Floodplain)
- Subdivision
- Subdivision Plat
- Substantial Damage
- Substantial Improvement
- Tiny House
- Tiny Home Community
- Townhouse
- Trade School
- Tree
- Tree, Canopy
- Tree Diameter
- Tree(s) Historic
- Tree, Non-canopy
- Tree(s) Nuisance
- Tree(s) Protected
- Tree Survey/Inventory
- Two-unit house
- Unified Development
- Utilities and Public Service Facility, Minor
- Utilities and Public Service Facility, Major
- Utility Runway
- Variance
- Vehicle Sales and Service
- Vehicle Maintenance
- Vehicle Repair
- Vehicles Sales, Rental, and Leasing
- Violation
- Watercourse
- Water Surface Elevation
- Wholesale, Distribution & Storage
- Wholesale, Distribution and Storage, All Other
- Wholesale, Distribution and Storage, Indoor
- Wireless Communications