The City of Lowry Crossing, Texas, is hereby divided into the zoning districts named below. The use, height and area regulations as set out herein are uniform in each district. The districts established herein shall be known as:

A - Agricultural District. This district is intended to provide a location for land situated on the fringe of an urban area and used for agricultural purposes which may become an urban area in the future. Generally, Agricultural Districts, will be near development; therefore, the agricultural activities conducted in the Agricultural District, should not be detrimental to urban land uses. The types of uses, and the area and intensity of the uses permitted in this district shall encourage and protect the agricultural uses until urbanization is warranted and the appropriate change in district classification is made.

RE Single-Family Residential Estate District - The principal use of land in this district is for single-family detached dwellings of at least 1800 square feet in size on lots of at least 2 acre, and related recreational, religious and educational facilities normally required to provide the basic elements of a balanced, orderly, convenient, and attractive residential area.

R-1 Single-Family Residential District - The principal use of land in this district is for single-family detached dwellings of at least 1600 square feet in size on lots of at least 1 acre, and related recreational, religious and educational facilities normally required to provide the basic elements of a balanced, orderly, convenient, and attractive residential area.

2F Two-Family Residential District. This 2F district is intended to provide the opportunity for development that is two-family (duplex) in character, but which encourages individual ownership of all dwelling units. This is permitted by dividing the typical duplex lot from front to back, thus encouraging the sale of each dwelling unit and the land upon which it sits, to the occupant. The principal use of land in this district is for single-family dwellings of at least 1600 square feet in size on lots of at least 1 acre and related recreational, religious and educational facilities normally required to provide the basic elements of a balanced, orderly, convenient, and attractive residential area.

O - Office - This district is intended for a Professional or Administrative Office or Offices serving near residential development with professional or administrative services. No chattels or goods may be offered for sale on the premises and site development regulations and standards are required to ensure that uses will be compatible and complementary in scale and appearance with a residential environment. Professional and Administrative Offices to include, but not be limited to, the offices of doctors, dentists, attorneys, architects, engineers, urban planners, insurance, real estate, banks and similar offices.

RET - Retail District - This district provides for areas of convenience shopping and other residential service oriented businesses.

HC - Highway Commercial District - This district is intended primarily as a high intensity area permitting a mixed-use for office, commercial-retail, and highway oriented uses, such as hotels, restaurants, and low-and mid-rise offices, and should be located generally along high-volume thoroughfares.

C - Commercial District. This district concentrates business warehouse and service activities not normally locating within retail service centers.

LI - Light Industrial District. This district permits those industries and manufacturing plants that are predominantly light in character, have their operations conducted wholly within buildings, are more compatible than heavy manufacturing uses, and do not emit noxious odors, noises, dust, smoke, and vibrations as do the heavy manufacturing processes.

HI - Heavy Industrial District. This district provides for the location of enterprises that tend to emit odors, noises, dust and vibrations and that are least compatible with other uses.

SUP - Special Use Permit District - The SUP Special Use Permit District is a specific zoning classification. The uses that normally fall into this specific use category are uses that have unique characteristics that may, depending on the location of the property, require different conditions and regulations not otherwise listed under the basic zoning districts. For this reason, when an applicant seeks a change of zoning for a use listed in the Specific Use Section, the Planning & Zoning Commission may recommend, and the City Council may impose, additional special zoning conditions. The adoptive ordinance may establish requirements by reference to the basic zoning ordinance or may list such specific conditions or requirements in the ordinance or on an attached plan.

PD - Planned Development District. This district provides flexibility in planning and development through the combination of uses.

FP - Flood Plain - Prefix - When added to any of the above-listed districts, the prefix specifies a subdistrict subject to the provision of Section 20.

TR1 Temporary R1 District - A temporary classification given to a parcel of property [that] is annexed into the city or to certain tracts with a terminated Special use permit (See Subsection 18-2) or given to a parcel of property that is zoned but the correct zoning cannot be resolved by the application of Subsections 5-1 through 5-8 of Section 5 or the zoning of property is invalidated by a final judgment of a Court. Such property shall retain the temporary classification until it has been classified as a zoning district other than the “TR1” by a zoning change which shall be initiated by the Planning & Zoning Commission as soon as practicable. See Subsections 5-9 & 5-10.