The provisions of this Resolution shall apply to all land and all structures located in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia. The provisions of this Resolution shall not apply to the Macon-Bibb County consolidated government, including public rights-of-ways thereof, the Macon-Bibb County Hospital Authority, the Macon Water Authority, the Bibb County Board of Education or to other public authorities or governmental bodies to the extent their activities are exempt from the provisions of this Resolution under state or federal law.

(Amended November 14, 2011, ZA11-004; Amended July 11, 2022, ZA22-001)

The regulations established by this Resolution for each zoning district shall be minimum regulations, and they shall apply uniformly to each class or kind of structure or use of land.

[1]

No building, structure, or land shall hereafter be used or occupied, and no building or structure or part thereof shall hereafter be erected, constructed, reconstructed, moved, or structurally altered unless in conformity with all of the regulations herein specified for the zoning district in which it is located. Only those uses of land and structures as provided for each zoning district in the district regulations set out in this Resolution are permitted. (Amended July 11, 2022, ZA22-001)

[2]

No building or other structure shall hereafter be erected or altered:

(a)

To exceed the height, to accommodate or house a greater number of families, or to occupy a greater percentage of lot area than that allowed within the zoning district in which it is located;

(b)

To have narrower or smaller rear yards, front yards, side yards, or other open spaces than herein required; or

(c)

To in any other manner contravene the provisions of this Resolution.

[3]

No part of a yard or other open space or off-street parking or loading space required about or in connection with any building for the purpose of complying with this Resolution shall be included as part of a yard, open space, or off-street parking or loading space similarly required for any other building.

[4]

No yard or lot existing at the time of passage of this Resolution shall be reduced in dimension or area below the minimum requirements set forth herein. Yards or lots created after the effective date of this Resolution shall meet at least the minimum requirements established by this Resolution, except as may be allowed pursuant to the provisions of Section 27.13.

[5]

No building shall hereafter be erected, and no building shall be altered, modified, or changed; nor shall any land or building be used in such a way that because of emission of dust, fumes, gas, smoke, odor, noise, vibration or other disturbance a nuisance would be created.

[6]

No land-disturbing activity such as clearing, dredging, grading, excavating and filling of land, nor removal of trees or tree cover shall be permitted, unless in conformity with all of the regulations established by this Resolution.

(Amended July 11, 2022, ZA22-001)

Editor's note— ZA22-001, adopted July 11, 2022, repealed § 3.03 which pertained to a definition of permitted use, conditional, and special exception, and derived from ZA88-11-02, adopted Nov. 14, 1988; ZA91-05-04, adopted May 28, 1991; and ZA02-07-01, adopted July 22, 2002.