Johnston City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 165
DEFINITIONS
Sections
- 165.01 GENERAL DEFINITIONS
- Access.
- Alley.
- Amendment.
- Animal, domestic.
- Animal, non-domestic.
- Auditor’s plat.
- Average illuminance.
- Awning.
- Balcony.
- Bird friendly glass.
- Block.
- Board or Board of Adjustment.
- Board of Appeals.
- Building.
- Building height.
- Building line.
- Building materials.
- Building official.
- Building permit.
- Building, multi-tenant.
- Buffer.
- Caliper.
- Capital improvement.
- Centerline, public thoroughfare.
- Canopy.
- Certificate of occupancy.
- Certified survey.
- Channel.
- City Council.
- Clear-cutting.
- Clearing or cleared.
- Commercial vehicle.
- Complex.
- Comprehensive Plan.
- Contiguous.
- Deck.
- Detention.
- Developer.
- Development.
- Drive aisle.
- Driveway.
- Driveway, shared.
- Easement.
- Electric vehicle charging station (EVCS).
- Erosion.
- Excavate or excavation.
- Façade.
- Fence.
- Fill.
- Fixture.
- Floor.
- Floor area.
- Frontage, building.
- Frontage, street.
- Grade.
- Grading.
- Grading permit.
- Hazardous materials.
- Homeowners association.
- Horticultural activity.
- Household.
- Impervious surface.
- Improvement, public.
- Landscaping.
- Light trespass.
- Livestock.
- Loading space.
- Loading space, passenger.
- Lot of record.
- Lot.
- Lot area.
- Lot line.
- Lot width.
- Master plan.
- Message board.
- Modular home.
- Open space.
- Parcel
- Parking area, satellite.
- Parking facility.
- Parking lot.
- Parking space.
- Patron.
- Performance bond.
- Permeable pavement.
- Planning and Zoning Commission.
- Plat.
- Plat of survey.
- Planned Unit Development (PUD).
- Privacy panel.
- Private recreational facility.
- Recreational lighting.
- Recreational vehicle.
- Resubdivision.
- Retaining wall.
- Right-of-way (ROW).
- Riparian.
- Screening.
- Setback.
- Sewer.
- Shrub.
- Sidewalk.
- Sidewall height.
- Site improvements.
- Site plan.
- Slope.
- Slope, steep.
- Soil.
- Special exception.
- Stormwater Management Plan.
- Stormwater Management Facility.
- Stormwater runoff.
- Story.
- Street.
- Structural alterations.
- Structure.
- Structure, accessory.
- Structure, nonconforming.
- Structure, principal.
- Subdivider.
- Subdivision.
- Substantial damage.
- Substantial improvement.
- Tent.
- Topsoil.
- Trail.
- Travel trailer.
- Tree.
- Uniformity ratio.
- Use, accessory.
- Use, nonconforming.
- Use, principal.
- Variance.
- Wall area.
- Waterway.
- Yard.
- Zoning district.
- Zoning Administrator.
- Zoning certificate.
- 165.02 USE DEFINITIONS
- Accessory dwelling unit (ADU).
- Accessory retail.
- Accessory retail, temporary.
- Adult establishment.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture, intensive.
- Agriculture research and testing facilities.
- Animal boarding, shelter, or daycare center.
- Animal/veterinary clinic or hospital.
- Aquaculture.
- Assisted living facility.
- Automobile fueling.
- Automobile repair and service, major.
- Automobile repair and service, minor.
- Automobile sales.
- Automobile rental.
- Bar or drinking place.
- Bed and breakfast inn.
- Boutique hotel.
- Brewery.
- Brewpub.
- Campground or RV park.
- Car Wash.
- Cemetery.
- Central utility plant or electrical generator.
- Child care center.
- Child care home.
- Child development home.
- Clinic.
- Club, lodge, or meeting place.
- Commercial ambulance or medical carrier service.
- Commercial center, community.
- Commercial center, neighborhood.
- Commercial center, regional.
- Commercial greenhouse, nursery, or garden.
- Commercial recreation, indoor.
- Commercial recreation, outdoor.
- Community garden.
- Conference or convention center.
- Construction contractor yard.
- Construction-related temporary use.
- Continuing care facility.
- Cylinder recharging.
- Distillery.
- Drive-through facility.
- Dwelling.
- Dwelling, apartment.
- Dwelling, apartment mixed use.
- Dwelling, attached two-unit (twinhome).
- Dwelling, detached courtyard cottage.
- Dwelling, manufactured home.
- Dwelling, townhouse.
- Dwelling, three- or four-unit.
- Dwelling, two-unit (duplex).
- Dwelling, single-unit.
- Dwelling unit.
- Electrical substation.
- Essential services.
- Explosive manufacture or storage.
- Extraction of sand, gravel, or other materials.
- Financial institution.
- Fireworks sales.
- Food/beverage stand.
- Funeral home.
- Garden center.
- Greenhouse.
- Handicraft and/or artisanal services.
- Health club.
- Home occupation.
- Hospital.
- Hotel or motel.
- Keeping of bees.
- Laboratory.
- Large standalone store, retail or service.
- Live/Work unit.
- Lumber yard.
- Machine shop.
- Makerspace.
- Manufactured home community.
- Manufacturing, heavy.
- Manufacturing, light.
- Mobile food unit.
- Mobile home.
- Mobile home park.
- Nature preserve/conservation area.
- Neighborhood wellness, fitness, or exercise facility.
- Nursing facility.
- Office.
- Off-site service business.
- Outdoor seating.
- Outdoor display.
- Outdoor storage.
- Park.
- Place of worship.
- Produce stand.
- Recreation facility, public.
- Recreational amenity, private.
- Remote work.
- Residential care facility.
- Residential swimming pool.
- Restaurant.
- Restaurant, drive-in.
- Rooming and boarding house.
- School, elementary or secondary.
- School, postsecondary.
- Scrap, salvage, or junk yard.
- Seasonal roadside stand.
- Shooting range, indoor.
- Short-term vacation rental.
- Small-scale solar energy generation system.
- mall-scale wind energy conversion system (SWECS).
- Small standalone store, retail or service.
- Specialty food or coffee shop.
- Stable, commercial.
- Storage facility, personal.
- Storage of gasoline, fuel oil, or their derivatives.
- Storage and sale of machinery and equipment.
- Storage yard
- Studio or gallery.
- Technical training facility.
- Theater, dance, or music performance facility.
- Truck stop.
- Truck terminal.
- Vehicle impoundment yard.
- Warehouse and distribution facility, large.
- Warehouse and distribution facility, small.
- Wellness, fitness, or exercise facility.
- Wholesale greenhouse, nursery, or garden.
- Wholesale trade establishment.
- Winery.
- Wireless facility.
- 165.03 SIGN DEFINITIONS
- Backlit sign.
- Banner sign.
- Building sign.
- Bulletin board.
- Electronic message center sign.
- Flag.
- Flagpole.
- Flashing lights.
- Ground sign.
- Highway oriented monument sign.
- Interstate oriented monument sign.
- Manual changeable copy sign.
- Marquee.
- Marquee/Awning/Canopy sign.
- Monument sign.
- Obsolete sign.
- Off-premise sign.
- Panel sign.
- Permanent sign.
- Pole sign.
- Projecting sign.
- Roof sign.
- Sign.
- Sign area.
- Sign copy.
- Sign face.
- Sign support structure.
- Temporary sign.
- Vehicle sign.
- Wall sign.
- Window sign.
- 165.04 STREAM BUFFER DEFINITIONS
- 160.05 FLOODPLAIN DEFINITIONS
- Base flood
- Base flood elevation (BFE)
- Enclosed area below lowest floor.
- Existing condition.
- Five hundred (500) year flood
- Flood.
- Flood elevation.
- Flood insurance rate map (FIRM).
- Flood insurance study (FIS).
- Floodplain.
- Floodplain basement.
- Floodplain management.
- Flood profile.
- Floodproofing.
- Floodway.
- Floodway fringe.
- Freeboard
- Lowest floor.
- Maximum damage potential uses.
- New construction.
- One hundred year flood.
- Special flood hazard area (SFHA)
- Violation.
CHAPTER 172
OVERLAY DISTRICTS
Sections
CHAPTER 173
FLOODPLAIN REGULATIONS
Sections
- 173.01 STATUTORY AUTHORITY, FINDINGS OF FACT, AND PURPOSE
- 173.02 GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 173.03 ADMINISTRATION
- 173.04 ESTABLISHMENT OF ZONING OVERLAY DISTRICTS
- 173.05 FLOODWAY OVERLAY DISTRICT (FO)
- 173.06 FLOODWAY FRINGE OVERLAY DISTRICT (FF)
- 173.07 GENERAL FLOODPLAIN OVERLAY DISTRICT (FP)
- 173.08 NONCONFORMING USES
- 173.09 PENALITIES FOR VIOLATION
- 173.10 AMENDMENTS
CHAPTER 176
PRINCIPAL USE SPECIFIC STANDARDS
Sections
- 176.01 ADULT ESTABLISHMENT
- 176.02 ANIMAL BOARDING, SHELTER, OR DAYCARE CENTER
- 176.03 ANIMAL/VETERINARY CLINIC OR HOSPITAL
- 176.04 AUTO FUELING
- 176.05 AUTO REPAIR (MAJOR AND MINOR)
- 176.06 BED AND BREAKFAST INN
- 176.07 BREWERY, WINERY, DISILLERY
- 176.08 CAR WASH
- 176.09 COMMERCIAL RECREATION, OUTDOOR
- 176.10 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR YARD
- 176.11 DWELLING, APARTMENT (ALL)
- 176.12 DWELLING, APARTMENT MIXED USE
- 176.13 DWELLING, ATTACHED TWO UNIT (TWINHOME)
- 176.14 DWELLING, DETACHED COTTAGE COURTYARD
- 176.15 DWELLING, MANUFACTURED HOME
- 176.16 DWELLING, SINGLE-UNIT
- 176.17 DWELLING, TOWNHOUSE (3-8 UNITS PER BUILDING)
- 176.18 DWELLING, TWO-UNIT (DUPLEX)
- 176.19 RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITY
- 176.20 LIVE/WORK UNIT
- 176.21 MACHINE SHOP
- 176.22 MAKERSPACE
- 176.23 MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITY
- 176.24 MANUFACTURING
- 176.25 PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
- 176.26 SCRAP, SALVAGE, JUNK YARD
- 176.27 STORAGE FACILITY, PERSONAL
- 176.28 STORAGE YARD
- 176.29 WIRELESS FACILITY, MACRO
- 176.30 WIRELESS FACILITY, SMALL
CHAPTER 177
ACCESSORY USE SPECIFIC STANDARDS
Sections
- 177.01 ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT (ADU)
- 177.02 ACCESSORY RETAIL
- 177.03 ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
- 177.04 CAR WASH
- 177.05 CENTRAL UTILITY PLANT OR ELECTRICAL GENERATOR
- 177.06 DECK
- 177.07 DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITY
- 177.08 HOME OCCUPATIONS
- 177.09 KEEPING OF ANIMALS, DOMESTIC AND NON-DOMESTIC
- 177.10 KEEPING OF BEES
- 177.11 OUTDOOR DINING
- 177.12 OUTDOOR DISPLAY
- 177.13 OUTDOOR STORAGE
- 177.14 RESIDENTIAL SWIMMING POOL
- 177.15 SHORT-TERM VACATION RENTAL (STVR)
- 177.16 SMALL-SCALE SOLAR ENERGY GENERATION SYSTEM
- 177.17 SMALL WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS (SWECS)
- 177.18 STORAGE OF GASOLINE, FUEL OIL, OR THEIR DERIVATIES
- 177.19 WIRELESS FACILITY, MACRO
- 177.20 WIRELESS FACILITY, SMALL
CHAPTER 180
OFF-STREET PARKING, LOADING AND CIRCULATION
Sections
- 180.01 SINGLE-UNIT TO TOWNHOUSE RESIDENTIAL DRIVEWAY DESIGN
- 180.02 PARKING SPACES REQUIRED
- 180.03 LOADING SPACES REQUIRED
- 180.04 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION (EVCS) REQUIREMENTS
- 180.05 BICYCLE PARKING REQUIREMENTS
- 180.06 PARKING AND LOADING ACCESS
- 180.07 PARKING LOT DESIGN
- 180.08 INTERNAL WALKWAYS
- 180.09 OFF-STREET PARKING OF VEHICLE EQUIPPED FOR STREET AND HIGHWAY TRAVEL
- 180.10 WAIVER OF REQUIREMENTS