Kinston City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE 2
- GENERAL REGULATIONS
Sections
- Section 2.1.- Conflicts with other regulations.
- Section 2.2. - North Carolina State Building Code.
- Section 2.3. - Interpretation.
- Section 2.4. - Identification of official zoning map.
- Section 2.5. - Zoning map interpretation.
- Section 2.6. - Relationship to land use plan.
- Section 2.7. - No use or sale of land or buildings except in conformity with article provisions.
- Section 2.8. - Fees.
- Section 2.9. - Computation of time.
- Section 2.10. - Reduction of lot and yard areas prohibited.
- Section 2.11. - Street access.
- Section 2.12. - Relationship of building to lot.
- Section 2.13. - Required yards not to be used by building.
- Section 2.14. - Lot requirements/dimensions.
- Section 2.15. - Street intersection sight visibility triangle.
- Section 2.16. - Property dedicated for private use.
- Section 2.17. - Measurement of distance.
ARTICLE 4
- LEGISLATIVE/QUASI-JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
Sections
- Section 4.1.- Amendment/rezoning procedures.
- Section 4.2. - Establishment of vested rights.
- Section 4.3. - Moratorium.
- Section 4.4. - Appeals, variances, and interpretations.
- Section 4.5. - Conditional use permits.
- Section 4.6. - Expiration of permits.
- Section 4.7. - Effect of permit on successors and assigns.
- Section 4.8. - Rehearings.
- Section 4.9. - Appeals of quasi-judicial decisions.
ARTICLE 5
- DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS
Sections
- Section 5.1.- Applicability.
- Section 5.2. - Pre-application meeting and sketch plan.
- Section 5.3. - Administrative approval—Minor site plan or minor subdivision.
- Section 5.4. - Planning board review and approval—Major site plan or major subdivision.
- Section 5.5. - Construction drawing review requirements.
- Section 5.6. - Site plan procedures.
- Section 5.7. - Subdivision procedures.
ARTICLE 6
- ZONING DISTRICTS
Sections
- Section 6.1.- Establishment of zoning districts.
- Section 6.2. - Interpretation.
- Section 6.3. - Primary zoning districts.
- Section 6.4. - Overlay districts established.
- Section 6.5. - Table of uses and activities.
- Section 6.6. - Table of area, yard, and height requirements.
- Section 6.7. - Notes to the table of area, yard, and height requirements.
ARTICLE 7
- SUPPLEMENTAL REGULATIONS
Sections
- Section 7.1.- Introduction.
- Section 7.2. - Retaining walls and fences.
- Section 7.3. - Satellite dish antennas.
- Section 7.4. - Temporary storage facility (portable storage units).
- Section 7.5. - Cemeteries.
- Section 7.6. - Crematorium.
- Section 7.7. - Sanitary landfill.
- Section 7.8. - Special events.
- Section 7.9. - Wireless communication facilities.
- Section 7.10 - Artisan's workshop.
- Section 7.11. - Chemical and hazardous material storage/treatment.
- Section 7.12. - Bulk petroleum plants and LP gas and storage.
- Section 7.13. - Gamerooms, bingo, billiards and pool halls, dance halls, bars, night clubs, and social clubs.
- Section 7.14. - Golf courses.
- Section 7.15. - Horseback riding stables.
- Section 7.16. - Health care facilities.
- Section 7.17. - Dwelling, manufactured home (on a single lot).
- Section 7.18. - Multi-family residences in nonresidential districts.
- Section 7.19. - Manufactured home parks.
- Section 7.20. - Planned residential developments.
- Section 7.21. - Planned unit development (PUD).
- Section 7.22. - Temporary emergency, construction, and repair residences.
- Section 7.23. - Adult and sexually oriented businesses.
- Section 7.24. - Automobile service stations/gas sales operations.
- Section 7.25. - Battery charging/exchange stations.
- Section 7.26. - Bed and breakfast.
- Section 7.27. - Child care center.
- Section 7.28. - Daycare facility, adult.
- Section 7.29. - Flea markets.
- Section 7.30. - Manufactured home sales.
- Section 7.31. - Microbrewery/distillery.
- Section 7.32. - Mixed use.
- Section 7.33. - Motor vehicle, farm equipment, and boat sales or rental.
- Section 7.34. - Tattoo/body piercing parlors.
- Section 7.35. - Veterinarian, animal clinic, outside kennel.
- Section 7.36. - Self-service storage facility.
- Section 7.37. - Bona fide farms.
- Section 7.38. - Solar energy generating facility, accessory.
- Section 7.39. - Solar farm (major energy).
- Section 7.40. - Temporary uses.
- Section 7.41. - Wind energy generating facility, accessory.
- Section 7.42. - Wind farm.
- Section 7.43. - Home occupations in the arts and cultural overlay district.
- Section 7.44. - Dwelling, over a business.
- Section 7.45. - Internet sweepstakes operations.
ARTICLE 9
- PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Sections
- PART I. - LANDSCAPE REQUIREMENTS
- Section 9.1.- Purpose.
- Section 9.2. - Applicability.
- Section 9.3. - Tree resource management.
- Section 9.6. - Bufferyard requirements.
- Section 9.7. - Additional requirements.
- Section 9.8. - Installation.
- Section 9.9. - Maintenance.
- Section 9.10. - Landscape plan.
- Section 9.11. - Tree protection during construction.
- Section 9.12. - Recommended plant list.
- PART II.- BUILDING FACADE DESIGN
- PART III.- OFF-STREET PARKING AND OFF-STREET LOADING REQUIREMENTS
- Section 9.19.- Off-street parking requirements.
- Section 9.20. - General provisions.
- Section 9.21. - Requirements for parking lots.
- Section 9.22. - Manufactured home and trailer parking and storing.
- Section 9.23. - Vehicle storage.
- Section 9.24. - Vehicle stacking areas.
- Section 9.25. - Parking space dimensions.
- Section 9.26. - Handicapped requirements.
- Section 9.27. - Loading areas.
- Section 9.28. - Parking ratios.
- PART IV.- SIGN REGULATIONS
- Section 9.29.- Permit required for signs.
- Section 9.30. - Signs excluded from permit requirements.
- Section 9.31. - Certain temporary signs; permit exemptions and additional regulations.
- Section 9.32. - Determining the number of signs.
- Section 9.33. - Computation of sign area.
- Section 9.34. - District signs.
- Section 9.35. - Location requirements.
- Section 9.36. - Sign illumination and signs containing lights.
- Section 9.37. - Miscellaneous restrictions and prohibitions.
- Section 9.38. - General maintenance requirements.
- Section 9.39. - Reconstruction of damaged signs or sign structures.
- Section 9.40. - Nonconforming signs.
- Section 9.41. - Discontinued signs.
- PART V. - SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
- Section 9.42.- No subdivision without plat approval.
- Section 9.43. - Standards for review.
- Section 9.44. - Sketch plans.
- Section 9.45 - Preliminary plats for minor and major subdivisions.
- Section 9.46 - Final plats for all subdivisions.
- Section 9.47 - Information to be provided on preliminary and final plats.
- Section 9.48. - Final plat certifications and other documentation.
- Section 9.49. - Plat approval not acceptance of dedication offers.
- Section 9.50. - Protection against defects.
- Section 9.51. - Maintenance of common areas, improvements, and facilities.
- Section 9.52. - Cluster subdivisions.
- PART VI.- RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND OPEN SPACE
- Section 9.53.- Useable open space.
- Section 9.54. - Ownership and maintenance of recreational areas and required open space.
- Section 9.55. - Dedication of open space.
- Section 9.56. - Payments in lieu of dedication.
- Section 9.57. - Procedure for requesting payment in lieu of dedication of land.
- Section 9.58. - Homeowners' associations.
- Section 9.59. - Flexibility in administration authorized.
- Section 9.60. - Authority to sell.
- Section 9.61. - Land acceptance.
- PART VII.- STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
- Section 9.62.- Street classification.
- Section 9.63. - Access to lots.
- Section 9.64. - Access to arterial streets.
- Section 9.65. - Street width, sidewalk, and drainage requirements in subdivisions.
- Section 9.66. - General layout of streets.
- Section 9.67. - Street intersections.
- Section 9.68. - Construction standards and specifications.
- Section 9.69. - Private streets and private roads in subdivisions.
- Section 9.70. - Road and sidewalk requirements in unsubdivided developments.
- Section 9.71. - Attention to handicapped in street and sidewalk construction.
- Section 9.72. - Street names and house numbers.
- Section 9.73. - Bridges.
- Section 9.74. - Utilities.
- Section 9.75. - Cost of street and sidewalk improvements/maintenance until acceptance.
- Section 9.76. - Street name and traffic signs.
- Section 9.77. - Permits for connection to state roads.
- Section 9.78. - Offsets to utility poles.
- Section 9.79. - Street connectivity requirements.
- PART VIII.- UTILITIES
- Section 9.81.- Utility ownership and easement rights.
- Section 9.82. - Lighting requirements.
- Section 9.83. - Illumination levels.
- Section 9.84. - Excessive illumination.
- Section 9.85. - Electric power.
- Section 9.86. - Telephone service.
- Section 9.87. - Underground utilities.
- Section 9.88. - Utilities to be consistent with internal and external development.
- Section 9.89. - As-built drawings required.
- Section 9.90. - Fire hydrants.
- Section 9.91. - Sites for and screening of dumpsters.
- Section 9.92. - Lots served by governmentally owned water or sewer lines.
- Section 9.93. - Sewage disposal facilities required.
- Section 9.94. - Determining compliance with section 9.93.
- PART IX.- FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION
- Section 9.95.- Statutory authorization.
- Section 9.96. - Findings of fact.
- Section 9.97. - Statement of purpose.
- Section 9.98. - Objectives.
- Section 9.99. - General provisions.
- Section 9.100. - Administration.
- Section 9.101. - General standards for flood hazard reduction.
- Section 9.102. - Specific standards for flood hazard reduction.
- Section 9.103. - Standards for floodplains without established base flood elevations.
- Section 9.104. - Standards for riverine floodplains with base flood elevations but without established floodways or non-encroachment areas.
- Section 9.105. - Floodways and non-encroachment areas.
- Section 9.106. - Standards for areas of shallow flooding (Zone AO).
- Section 9.107. - Legal status provisions.
- PART X. - HISTORIC OVERLAY DISTRICT REGULATIONS
- Section 9.108.- General regulations.
- Section 9.109. - Certificate of appropriateness required.
- Section 9.110. - Maintenance or repair.
- Section 9.111. - Procedures for approval of certificates of appropriateness.
- Section 9.112. - Review criteria.
- Section 9.113. - Parking spaces.
- Section 9.114. - Restoration/reconstruction.
- Section 9.115. - Minor work.
- Section 9.116. - Applicability.
- Section 9.117. - Conflicts with other regulations.
- Section 9.118. - Enforcement.
- PART XI.- ROWHOUSE OVERLAY DISTRICT REGULATIONS