Laurel City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
DIVISION 1
IN GENERAL
Sections
- Sec. 20-1.1.- Short title.
- Sec. 20-1.2. - Purpose.
- Sec. 20-1.3. - Relationship to the City of Laurel Master Plan.
- Sec. 20-1.4. - Conflicting ordinances.
- Sec. 20-1.5. - Minimum requirements.
- Sec. 20-1.6. - Severability.
- Sec. 20-1.7. - Definitions.
- Sec. 20-1.8. - Division of City into zones; designation of zones.
- Sec. 20-1.9. - Zoning map; maps.
- Sec. 20-1.10. - Zone boundaries.
- Sec. 20-1.11. - Annexation of additional area to City.
- Sec. 20-1.12. - Construction and interpretation of article; general provisions.
- Sec. 20-1.13. - Notification of surrounding property owners.
DIVISION 2
ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Sections
- Sec. 20-2.1. - Building permits; use and occupancy permits.
- Sec. 20-2.2. - Plans, plats, and information to accompany applications for permits.
- Sec. 20-2.3. - Conditions.
- Sec. 20-2.4. - Temporary use and occupancy permit.
- Sec. 20-2.5. - Issuance of use and occupancy permit.
- Sec. 20-2.6. - Use and occupancy permit required; exceptions.
- Sec. 20-2.7. - Application for use and occupancy permits; inspection of premises, issuance of certificate of compliance, and permit.
- Sec. 20-2.8. - Suspension/revocation of use and occupancy permit.
- Sec. 20-3.1. - What constitutes violations; continuing violation.
- Sec. 20-3.2. - Compliance with and enforcement of article; complaints as to alleged violation.
- Sec. 20-3.3. - Procedure upon verification of violation; penalties.
- Sec. 20-3.4. - Extension of grace period.
- Sec. 20-3.5. - Violators shall be subject to prosecution.
- Sec. 20-3.6. - Remedies.
DIVISION 3
CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
Sections
- Sec. 20-4.1.- Created; name.
- Sec. 20-4.2. - Composition; appointment; term of members; vacancies; compensation.
- Sec. 20-4.3. - Chairman; Vice-chairman.
- Sec. 20-4.4. - Powers and duties.
- Sec. 20-4.5. - Hearings on proposed plans, regulations, etc.
- Sec. 20-4.6. - City Administrator, City Solicitor, and other officers and employees.
DIVISION 4
BOARD OF APPEALS
Sections
- Sec. 20-5.1.- Created; name; appointment; term of members; Chairman; Vice-chairman.
- Sec. 20-5.2. - Powers and duties.
- Sec. 20-5.3. - Filing of petitions and accompanying data for special exceptions and variances.
- Sec. 20-5.4. - Public hearings—When required; notice generally.
- Sec. 20-5.5. - Same—Additional notice by advertisement.
- Sec. 20-5.6. - Continuation of adjourned hearings—Generally.
- Sec. 20-5.7. - Same—Condition precedent to final decision: Recommendation of the Commission.
- Sec. 20-5.8. - Limitations of authority.
- Sec. 20-5.9. - Period of validity of permits issued pursuant to decision of the Board.
- Sec. 20-5.10. - Who may file an appeal form and procedure for appeals.
DIVISION 5
ZONING DISTRICTS
Sections
- Sec. 20-6.1.- Intent.
- Sec. 20-6.2.- Use regulations: P-I—Public Institutional Zone.
- Sec. 20-6.3.- Use regulations: R-5—One-Family Detached Zone.
- Sec. 20-6.4.- Use regulations: R-55—One-Family Detached Zone.
- Sec. 20-6.5.- Use regulations: R-20—One-Family Semi-Detached, Two-Family Detached, and One-Family Triple Attached Zone.
- Sec. 20-6.6.- Use regulations: R-T—Townhouse and Plexes Zone.
- Sec. 20-6.7.- Use regulations: R-30—Low Density, Multifamily Zone.
- Sec. 20-6.8.- Use regulations: R-18—Medium Density, Multifamily Zone.
- Sec. 20-6.9.- Use regulations: R-10—High Density, Multifamily Zone.
- Sec. 20-6.10.- Use regulations: R-H—High Rise, Multifamily Zone.
- Sec. 20-6.11.- R-MD—Single-Family Detached Medium Density Zone.
- Sec. 20-6.12.- Neo-Traditional Overlay areas.
- Sec. 20-6.13.- Table of residential uses.
- Sec. 20-6.14.- Accessory uses.
- Sec. 20-6.15.- Area, yard, and height regulations.
- Sec. 20-6.16.- Schedule of Area, Yard, and Height Regulations for residential uses.
- Sec. 20-6.17.- Yard regulations for multifamily developments.
- Sec. 20-6.18.- Required yards to be maintained.
- Sec. 20-6.19.- Front yards of partially built-up blocks.
- Sec. 20-6.20.- Side yards of insufficient width.
- Sec. 20-6.21.- Yards on corner lots.
- Sec. 20-6.22.- Yards for irregular lots; variance required.
- Sec. 20-6.23.- Accessory structures; bulk regulations.
- Sec. 20-6.24.- Projection into yards.
- Sec. 20-6.25.- Driveways and other structures.
- Sec. 20-6.26.- Building permitted on lot.
- Sec. 20-6.27.- Required lot area to be maintained.
- Sec. 20-6.28.- Lots of record of insufficient area.
- Sec. 20-6.29.- Dwelling unit area requirements.
- Sec. 20-6.30.- Supplementary height regulations.
- Sec. 20-6.31.- Access to less restrictive uses.
- Sec. 20-6.32.- Open storage prohibited.
- Sec. 20-6.33.- Removal of soil protection of drain course.
- Sec. 20-6.34.- Temporary buildings and enclosures.
- Sec. 20-6.35.- Swimming pools.
- Sec. 20-6.36.- Sign regulations.
- Sec. 20-6.37.- Parking regulations.
- Sec. 20-6.38.- Development plans: Residential zones.
- Sec. 20-7.1.- Intent.
- Sec. 20-7.2.- Use regulations: C-N—Commercial Neighborhood Zone.
- Sec. 20-7.3.- Use regulations: C-C—Commercial Community Zone.
- Sec. 20-7.4.- Use regulations: C-G—Commercial General Zone.
- Sec. 20-7.5.- Use regulations: C-SH—Commercial Shopping Center Zone.
- Sec. 20-7.6.- Use regulations: C-V—Commercial Village Zone.
- Sec. 20-7.7.- Use regulations: C-VAC—Village Activity Center Zone.
- Sec. 20-7.8.- Table of commercial uses.
- Sec. 20-7.9.- Land coverage.
- Sec. 20-7.10.- Yard regulations.
- Sec. 20-7.11.- Schedule of area, yard, and height regulations for commercial uses.
- Sec. 20-7.12.- Yard regulations, Commercial Village Activity Center Zone.
- Sec. 20-7.13.- Supplementary regulations.
- Sec. 20-7.14.- Shopping center development plans.
- Sec. 20-7.15.- Submission of application for commercial shopping center development.
- Sec. 20-7.16.- Referral for review and reports: Sketch development plan.
- Sec. 20-7.17.- Authority to proceed: Preliminary development plan.
- Sec. 20-7.18.- Development plan: Commercial shopping center zone.
- Sec. 20-7.19.- Building permits for shopping center development.
- Sec. 20-7.20.- Amendments to final shopping center development plan.
- Sec. 20-7.21.- Progressive development for shopping center.
- Sec. 20-7.22.- Construction time limitation for shopping center development.
- Sec. 20-7.23.- Performance bond: Shopping center development.
- Sec. 20-7.24.- Commercial area design plans.
- Sec. 20-7.25.- Development plans: Commercial Neighborhood, Commercial Community, Commercial General, and Commercial Village Activity Center Zones.
- Sec. 20-7.26.- Sign regulations.
- Sec. 20-7.27.- Parking regulations.
- Sec. 20-7.28.- Supplementary regulations for Shopping Center Commercial Zone.
- Sec. 20-7.29.- Modification overlay areas.
- Sec. 20-7.30.- Intent: Arts and Entertainment Overlay.
- Sec. 20-7.31.- Use regulations: AE—Arts and Entertainment Overlay.
- Sec. 20-7.32.- Table of arts and entertainment uses.
- Sec. 20-8.1.- Intent.
- Sec. 20-8.2.- Use regulations: O-B—Office Building Zone.
- Sec. 20-8.3.- Table of office building uses.
- Sec. 20-8.4.- Land coverage.
- Sec. 20-8.5.- Access.
- Sec. 20-8.6.- Yard regulations.
- Sec. 20-8.7.- Development plan: Office Building Zone.
- Sec. 20-8.8.- Sign regulations.
- Sec. 20-8.9.- Parking regulations.
- Sec. 20-8.10.- Intent: Office Building-Existing Zone.
- Sec. 20-8.11.- Use regulations: O-B-E—Office Building-Existing Zone.
- Sec. 20-8.12.- Sign regulations.
- Sec. 20-8.13.- Parking regulations.
- Sec. 20-9.1.- Intent.
- Sec. 20-9.2.- Use regulations: I-CS—Industrial-Commercial Service Zone.
- Sec. 20-9.3.- Use regulations: I-G—Industrial General Zone.
- Sec. 20-9.4.- Use regulations: I-RTP—Industrial Research and Technology Park Zone.
- Sec. 20-9.5.- Table of industrial uses.
- Sec. 20-9.6.- Lot area, width, and coverage regulations.
- Sec. 20-9.7.- Yard regulations.
- Sec. 20-9.8.- Supplementary yard regulations.
- Sec. 20-9.9.- Height regulations.
- Sec. 20-9.10.- Sign regulations.
- Sec. 20-9.11.- Parking regulations.
- Sec. 20-9.12.- Development plans: Industrial Zones.
- Sec. 20-10.1.- Intent.
- Sec. 20-10.2.- Permitted buildings and uses.
- Sec. 20-10.3.- Land planning for one-family and multifamily dwellings.
- Sec. 20-10.4.- Sign regulations.
- Sec. 20-10.5.- Parking regulations.
- Sec. 20-10.6.- Regulations for residential districts applicable.
- Sec. 20-10.7.- Amendment to plan.
- Sec. 20-11.1.- Intent.
- Sec. 20-11.2.- Scope of planned development areas.
- Sec. 20-11.3.- Land planning criteria and regulations.
- Sec. 20-11.4.- Sign regulations.
- Sec. 20-11.5.- Parking and loading facilities.
- Sec. 20-11.6.- Amendment to plan.
- Sec. 20-12.1.- Purposes.
- Sec. 20-12.2.- Table of mixed-use—Transportation oriented zone uses.
- Sec. 20-12.3.- Reserved.
- Sec. 20-12.4.- M-X-T development.
- Sec. 20-12.5.- Conceptual development proposal and site plans.
- Sec. 20-12.6.- Regulations M-X-T Zone.
- Sec. 20-13.1.- Purpose and intent.
- Sec. 20-13.2.- Types and location of revitalization overlay areas.
- Sec. 20-13.3.- Development standards for all revitalization overlay areas.
- Sec. 20-13.4.- Process for the consideration of a conceptual development proposal within any overlay area.
- Sec. 20-13.5.- Final approval of revitalization overlay area plan.
- Sec. 20-13.6.- Amendments to final plans within revitalization overlay area.
- Sec. 20-13.7.- Review of the Mayor and City Council.
- Sec. 20-13.8.- Uses within all revitalization overlays.
- Sec. 20-13.9.- Revitalization overlay area maps.
- Sec. 20-13.10.- Special provisions for convenience stores in certain revitalization overlay areas.
- Sec. 20-13.11.- Amendment to revitalization overlay area map.
- Sec. 20-14.1.- Definition.
- Sec. 20-14.2.- Use.
- Sec. 20-14.3.- Permission.
- Sec. 20-14.4.- Fees.
- Sec. 20-15.1.- Generally; purposes and objectives.
- Sec. 20-15.2.- Zoning districts.
- Sec. 20-15.3.- Satellite earth station antennas having a diameter of one meter or less.
- Sec. 20-15.4.- Commercial, office building, and industrial zones; satellite earth station antennas having a diameter of two meters or less.
DIVISION 6
PARKING AND LOADING FACILITIES
Sections
- Sec. 20-16.1. - Intent.
- Sec. 20-16.2. - Scope of regulations.
- Sec. 20-16.3. - Measurement units.
- Sec. 20-16.4. - Application and design.
- Sec. 20-16.5. - Schedule of parking requirements.
- Sec. 20-16.6. - Modifications of requirements.
- Sec. 20-16.7. - Continuation of facilities.
- Sec. 20-16.8. - Location of facilities.
- Sec. 20-16.9. - Parking limitations for service stations.
- Sec. 20-16.10. - Parking area improvements.
- Sec. 20-16.11. - Illumination of parking areas.
- Sec. 20-16.12. - Driveways to parking areas.
- Sec. 20-16.13. - Loading facilities.
- Sec. 20-16.14. - Approval of facilities.
- Sec. 20-16.15. - Electric vehicle charging for new and existing buildings.
DIVISION 7
SIGNS AND ADVERTISING STRUCTURES
Sections
- Sec. 20-17.1. - Purpose and scope.
- Sec. 20-17.2. - Definitions.
- Sec. 20-17.3. - General provisions.
- Sec. 20-17.4. - Regulation by zones.
- Sec. 20-17.5. - Legal nonconformity; maintenance and repair.
- Sec. 20-17.6. - Construction specifications.
- Sec. 20-17.7. - Administration and enforcement.
- Sec. 20-17.8. - Conflict.
- Sec. 20-17.9. - Appendix.
- Sec. 20-18.1. - Zones in which permitted.
- Sec. 20-18.2. - Nonconforming billboards.
- Sec. 20-18.3. - Illumination.
- Sec. 20-18.3.1. - Unobstructed view.
- Sec. 20-18.3.2. - Distance from an existing billboard.
- Sec. 20-18.4. - General regulations.
- Sec. 20-18.5. - Structural requirements.
- Sec. 20-18.6. - Permits.
- Sec. 20-18.7. - Inspection, removal, and safety.
- Sec. 20-18.8. - Administration of article; penalty for violation of section.
DIVISION 9
EXCEPTIONS AND SUPPLEMENTS TO ZONE REGULATIONS
Sections
- Sec. 20-20.1.- Applicability of division.
- Sec. 20-20.2. - Minimum lot area when water or sewage facilities lacking.
- Sec. 20-20.3. - Building height limit.
- Sec. 20-20.4. - Extensions and projections.
- Sec. 20-20.5. - Fences and walls.
- Sec. 20-20.6. - Accessory uses.
- Sec. 20-20.7. - Utility lines, except as provided for elsewhere in this article.
- Sec. 20-20.8. - Solar energy collection panels.
- Sec. 20-20.9. - Small wind energy systems.
- Sec. 20-20.10. - Wireless telecommunication facilities.
DIVISION 10
SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS
Sections
- Sec. 20-21.1. - Board of appeals authorized to grant special exceptions, upon certain findings.
- Sec. 20-21.2. - Issuance of building, use, and occupancy permits; annual certification of operation; complaints; revocation.
- Sec. 20-21.3. - Procedure.
- Sec. 20-22.1. - Special provisions.
- Sec. 20-22.2. - Uses for which granted, and specific provisions relative thereto.
- Sec. 20-22.3. - Accessory apartments.
- Sec. 20-22.4. - Accessory building, height of.
- Sec. 20-22.5. - Adult entertainment facilities in the General Industrial Zone.
- Sec. 20-22.6. - Agricultural uses, general.
- Sec. 20.22.7. - Animal hospital; pet shop; veterinarian.
- Sec. 20-22.8. - Antique shop.
- Sec. 20-22.9. - Apartment hotels.
- Sec. 20-22.10. - Assisted living facilities.
- Sec. 20-22.11. - Art or cultural center.
- Sec. 20-22.12. - Auction facility.
- Sec. 20-22.13. - Automobile gas station.
- Sec. 20-22.14. - Automobile wash.
- Sec. 20-22.15. - Automobile parking lots, public and private.
- Sec. 20-22.16. - Automobile service station; automobile garage, repair; automobile sales and service center; automobile sales lot; automobile service center.
- Sec. 20-22.17. - Bed and breakfast facility.
- Sec. 20-22.18. - Building supply sales yard or lumber sales yard, excluding bulk sale of sand, gravel, cement, or concrete.
- Sec. 20-22.19. - Bulk distribution for gasoline and oil.
- Sec. 20-22.20. - Campgrounds.
- Sec. 20-22.21. - Cemetery or crematory.
- Sec. 20-22.22. - Child care residences.
- Sec. 20-22.23. - Child care facilities.
- Sec. 20-22.24. - Children's rides, miniature amusements.
- Sec. 20-22.25. - Club or lodge.
- Sec. 20-22.26. - Commercial parking lot.
- Sec. 20-22.27. - Communications tower, monopole or antenna.
- Sec. 20-22.28. - Assisted living residences.
- Sec. 20-22.29. - Convenience stores (within shopping centers or commercial complex under 50,000 square feet).
- Sec. 20-22.30. - Convention center.
- Sec. 20-22.31. - Drive-in, carryout, or fast-food restaurant.
- Sec. 20-22.32. - Drive-in, carryout, and fast-food restaurants; "in-line" store located in a strip shopping center.
- Sec. 20-22.33. - Dry cleaning plants, retail.
- Sec. 20-22.34. - Dwellings.
- Sec. 20-50.35. - Eating and drinking establishments.
- Sec. 20-22.36. - Educational institution, private.
- Sec. 20-22.37. - Elderly day care facility or center.
- Sec. 20-22.38. - Entertainment uses.
- Sec. 20-22.39. - Funeral home (funeral parlor).
- Sec. 20-22.40. - Garden supplies and horticultural nursery.
- Sec. 20-22.41. - Gas station complex.
- Sec. 20-22.42. - Golf course; country club.
- Sec. 20-22.43. - Greenhouses, private noncommercial.
- Sec. 20-22.44. - Health club or spa.
- Sec. 20-22.45. - Healths, eleemosynary and philanthropic institutions, congregate living facilities, personal care facilities for the elderly or physically handicapped.
- Sec. 20-22.46. - Heliport.
- Sec. 20-22.47. - Dwelling unit, housing for senior and handicapped persons.
- Sec. 20-22.48. - Indoor shooting range.
- Sec. 20-22.49. - Industrial staffing agencies.
- Sec. 20-22.50. - Interim limited retail uses.
- Sec. 20-22.51. - Laboratories.
- Sec. 20-22.52. - Limited professional uses in residential zones.
- Sec. 20-22.53. - Liquor stores.
- Sec. 20-22.54. - Motel/hotel including accessory swimming pool for the use of transient guest.
- Sec. 20-22.55. - Newspaper publishing establishment or printing office.
- Sec. 20-22.56. - Public utility use or structure.
- Sec. 20-22.57. - Public water supply reservoir, tower, and pumping station.
- Sec. 20-22.58. - Recreation facility, commercial indoor and outdoor.
- Sec. 20-22.59. - Restaurant, standard.
- Sec. 20-22.60. - Restaurant, standard, permitting dancing, live, and recorded entertainment.
- Sec. 20-22.61. - Retail sales and consumer service establishments.
- Sec. 20-22.62. - Golf driving range.
- Sec. 20-22.63. - Sand, gravel, or clay pits; rock or stone quarries; mining; removal of earth or topsoil; other operations involving extraction of natural material deposits.
- Sec. 20-22.64. - Small wind energy systems.
- Sec. 20-22.65. - Swimming pools, community.
- Sec. 20-22.66. - Television or radio broadcasting stations.
- Sec. 20-22.67. - Temporary structures.
- Sec. 20-22.68. - Theatre.
- Sec. 20-22.69. - Trade schools and job training centers.
- Sec. 20-22.70. - Video stores.
- Sec. 20-22.71. - Wholesale offices and showrooms.
- Sec. 20-22.72. - Licensed premises of licensed dispensaries of cannabis.
- Sec. 20-22.73. - Body art establishments.
- Sec. 20-22.74. - Group home, adult.
- Sec. 20-22.75. - Respite care.
DIVISION 11
NONCONFORMING USES
Sections
- Sec. 20-23.1.- Continuation and discontinuation of use.
- Sec. 20-23.2. - Enlargement of nonconforming use.
- Sec. 20-23.3. - Expansion of nonconforming use.
- Sec. 20-23.4. - Changing nonconforming uses.
- Sec. 20-23.5. - Certification of nonconforming use.
- Sec. 20-23.6. - Uses becoming nonconforming through taking of land by eminent domain or government action.
- Sec. 2-23.7. - Repair of single-family dwellings located on certain plains.
DIVISION 12
AMENDMENT PROCEDURE
Sections
- Sec. 20-24.1.- Authority of Mayor and City Council to make changes.
- Sec. 20-24.2. - Procedural requirements for adoption of original zoning for newly annexed areas.
- Sec. 20-24.3. - Types of applications for amendment.
- Sec. 20-24.4. - Who may apply for amendment; requirements as to filing application for amendment.
- Sec. 20-24.5. - Form of application to amend zoning map, and accompanying papers.
- Sec. 20-24.6. - Filing fees and deposits.
- Sec. 20-24.7. - Erection of sign; tampering with sign prohibited.
- Sec. 20-24.8. - Notice and hearing; inspection of records.
- Sec. 20-24.9. - Decisions of Mayor City Council; rehearings.
- Sec. 20-24.10. - Conditional zoning.
DIVISION 13
HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION
Sections
- Sec. 20-25.1.- Created; name.
- Sec. 20-25.2. - Composition; appointment; term of members; vacancies; compensation.
- Sec. 20-25.3. - Chairman.
- Sec. 20-25.4. - Powers and duties.
- Sec. 20-25.5. - Hearings on proposed plans, regulations, etc.
- Sec. 20-25.6. - Regular meeting dates.
- Sec. 20-25.7. - City Administrator, City Solicitor, Director of the Department of Economic and Community Development, and other officers and employees.
- Sec. 20-25.8. - Prevention of demolition by neglect.
- Sec. 20-25.8.9. - Appeals.
DIVISION 14
DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION
Sections
- Sec. 20-26.1.- Authority.
- Sec. 20-26.2. - History, composition, and operation.
- Sec. 20-26.3. - Purpose.
- Sec. 20-26.4. - Definitions.
- Sec. 20-26.5. - Review of applications.
- Sec. 20-26.6. - Documentation.
- Sec. 20-26.7. - Accessory structures.
- Sec. 20-26.8. - Additions.
- Sec. 20-26.9. - Awnings and overhangs.
- Sec. 20-26.10. - Building mass.
- Sec. 20-26.11. - Chimneys.
- Sec. 20-26.12. - Colors.
- Sec. 20-26.13. - Demolition.
- Sec. 20-26.14. - Doors and entrances.
- Sec. 20-26.15. - Driveways and parking pads.
- Sec. 20-26.16. - Fences.
- Sec. 20-26.17. - Garages.
- Sec. 20-26.18. - Handicap ramps.
- Sec. 20-26.19. - Landscaping.
- Sec. 20-26.20. - Mailboxes.
- Sec. 20-26.21. - New construction.
- Sec. 20-26.22. - Painting.
- Sec. 20-26.23. - Patios and walkways.
- Sec. 20-26.24. - Windows.
- Sec. 20-26.25. - Placement of the structure on the site.
- Sec. 20-26.26. - Porches.
- Sec. 20-26.27. - Preservation incentives.
- Sec. 20-26.28. - Roofs and roofing.
- Sec. 20-26.29. - Satellite dishes and other telecommunications antenna.
- Sec. 20-26.30. - Shutters.
- Sec. 20-26.31. - Signage.
DIVISION 16
COMMUNITY DESIGN STANDARDS2
Sections
- Sec. 20-28.1.- Intent.
- Sec. 20-28.2. - Application.
- Sec. 20-28.3. - Definitions.
- Sec. 20-28.4. - Standards for design.
- Sec. 20-28.5. - Maintenance for good appearance.
- Sec. 20-28.6. - Art in public places.
- Sec. 20-28.7. - Process; recommendation of the Arts Council.
- Sec. 20-28.8. - Public art provided or funded by private development.