Missoula City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 20
01 - Introductory Provisions
Sections
- 20.01.010 - Official Name (Title)
- 20.01.020 - Effective Date
- 20.01.030 - Authority
- 20.01.040 - Applicability
- 20.01.050 - Purposes
- 20.01.060 - Minimum Requirements; Compliance with other Applicable Regulations
- 20.01.070 - Compliance Required
- 20.01.080 - Conflicting Provisions
- 20.01.090 - Rules of Language and Ordinance Construction
- 20.01.100 - Zoning Map
- 20.01.110 - Transitional Provisions
- 20.01.120 - Special Districts/Overlay Districts established under Title 19
- 20.01.130 - Severability
CHAPTER 20
25 - Overlay Districts
Sections
- 20.25.010 - General
- 20.25.020 - /P, Pedestrian Overlay
- 20.25.030 - /PUD, Planned Unit Development Overlay
- 20.25.035 - /AR, Adaptive Reuse Overlay
- 20.25.040 - /NC, Neighborhood Character Overlays Generally
- 20.25.050 - /NC-B, Boulevard Neighborhood Character Overlay
- 20.25.058 - /NC-RT, Riverfront Trails Neighborhood Character Overlay
- 20.25.060 - /NC-SR, Southside Riverfront Neighborhood Character Overlay
- 20.25.070 - /NC-HFM, Historic Fort Missoula Neighborhood Character Overlay
- 20.25.071 - /NC-RG, Rattlesnake Gardens Neighborhood Character Overlay
- 20.25.072 - University District Neighborhood Character Overlay
- 20.25.075 - /NC-MDP, Missoula Development Park Overlay
- 20.25.080 - /DE, Design Excellence Overlay - Generally
- 20.25.081 - /DE-D, Design Excellence - Downtown Overlay
- 20.25.082 - /DE-C, Design Excellence - Corridor Overlay
- 20.25.090 - /TO, Transit-Oriented Overlay
CHAPTER 20
40 - Use- and Building-Specific Standards
Sections
- 20.40.010 - Applicability
- 20.40.020 - Animal Sales and Grooming
- 20.40.030 - Bed and Breakfast
- 20.40.040 - Casinos, Taverns and Nightclubs
- 20.40.045 - Emergency Homeless Shelter
- 20.40.050 - Enterprise Commercial Uses
- 20.40.055 - Extreme Weather Shelter
- 20.40.060 - Gasoline and Fuel Sales
- 20.40.070 - Group Living
- 20.40.080 - Lot Line House
- 20.40.083
- 20.40.085 - Meal Center
- 20.40.090 - Multi-dwelling Building
- 20.40.100 - Multi-dwelling House
- 20.40.110 - Residential Storage Warehouse
- 20.40.120 - Residential Support Services
- 20.40.130 - Temporary Uses
- 20.40.135 - Tourist Homes
- 20.40.140 - Townhouse
- 20.40.150 - Truck Stop/Travel Plaza
- 20.40.160 - Wireless Communication Facilities
- 20.40.170 - Commercial Uses Not Exceeding 30,000 Square Feet
- 20.40.180 - Townhome Exemption Development (TED) Standards
CHAPTER 20
45 - Accessory Uses and Structures
Sections
- 20.45.010 - General Regulations
- 20.45.020 - Parcel and Building Standards in Residential Districts
- 20.45.030 - Parcel and Building Standards in Nonresidential Districts
- 20.45.040 - Accessory Structures for Livestock or Fowl
- 20.45.050 - Home Occupations
- 20.45.060 - Accessory Dwelling Units
- 20.45.070 - Satellite Dish Antennas
- 20.45.080 - Wind Energy Conversion Systems
- 20.45.090 - Solar Energy Conversion Systems
CHAPTER 20
60 - Parking and Access
Sections
- 20.60.010 - General
- 20.60.020 - Required Motor Vehicle Parking
- 20.60.030 - Shared Parking
- 20.60.040 - Location of Off-Street Parking
- 20.60.050 - Use of Off-Street Parking Areas
- 20.60.060 - Parking Area Design
- 20.60.070 - Accessible Parking (for People with Disabilities)
- 20.60.080 - Reserved
- 20.60.090 - Bicycle Parking
- 20.60.100 - Motorcycle Parking
- 20.60.110 - Drive-through Facilities and Vehicle Stacking Spaces
- 20.60.120 - Cross-Access
- 20.60.130 - Off-Street Loading
- 20.60.140 - Traffic Studies
CHAPTER 20
65 - Landscaping
Sections
- 20.65.010 - General
- 20.65.020 - General Site Landscaping
- 20.65.030 - Street Frontage Landscaping
- 20.65.040 - Interior Parking Lot Landscaping
- 20.65.050 - Perimeter Parking Lot Landscaping
- 20.65.060 - Buffers
- 20.65.070 - Screening
- 20.65.080 - Landscape Material and Design
- 20.65.090 - Installation and Maintenance
- 20.65.100 - Alternative Compliance
CHAPTER 20
75 - Signs
Sections
- 20.75.010 - Purpose
- 20.75.020 - General Sign Regulations
- 20.75.030 - Prohibited Signs and Sign Characteristics
- 20.75.040 - Signs Allowed Without a Sign Permit
- 20.75.050 - Signs in Residential and Open Space/Public Districts
- 20.75.060 - Signs in Nonresidential Districts
- 20.75.070 - Regulations of Specific Types of Signs
- 20.75.080 - Signs for Businesses that Lack Street Frontage
- 20.75.090 - Off-Premises Sign Options
- 20.75.100 - Special Signs
- 20.75.110 - Maintenance and Removal
- 20.75.120 - Nonconforming Signs
- 20.75.130 - Sign Variances
- 20.75.140 - Administration and Enforcement
- 20.75.150 - Violations, Penalties and Enforcement
- 20.75.160 - Billboards
- 20.75.170 - Measurement Rules
CHAPTER 20
85 - Review and Approval Procedures
Sections
- 20.85.010 - Review and Decision-making Authority (Summary Table)
- 20.85.020 - Common Provisions
- 20.85.030 - Review and Decision-Making Criteria; Burden of Proof or Persuasion
- 20.85.040 - Zoning Amendments
- 20.85.050 - Repealed
- 20.85.060 - Planned Unit Developments
- 20.85.070 - Conditional Uses
- 20.85.080 - Design Review
- 20.85.085 - Historic Preservation Permit (HPP)
- 20.85.090 - Variances
- 20.85.095 - Public Forum
- 20.85.100 - Appeals of Administrative Decisions
- 20.85.110 - Administrative Adjustments
- 20.85.120 - Zoning Compliance Permits
- 20.85.130 - Zoning Compliance Review
- 20.85.140 - Final Zoning Compliance Approval
CHAPTER 20
100 - Terminology
Sections
- 20.100.010 - General Terms
- Accessory Building
- Accessory Dwelling Unit
- Accessory Structure
- Accessory Use
- Administrative Adjustment
- Affordable Housing
- Agent
- Agricultural Land
- Alley
- Antenna
- Area of Riparian Resource
- Artist Live/Work Space
- Attached
- Awning
- Base (Zoning) District
- Bay Window
- Best Management Practices (BMPs)
- Billboard
- Billboard, Dynamic Display
- Billboard, Mobile
- Block Face
- Body of Water, Other
- Buffer Area
- Building
- Building and Disturbance Area
- Building Frontage
- Building Graphics
- Building-Integrated System
- Building Line
- Building Site
- Cabaret License
- Cannabis
- Cannabis, Canopy
- Cannabis, Cultivation
- Cannabis, dispensary
- Cannabis, Manufacturing
- Cannabis, Products
- Cannabis, recreational
- Cannabis, Tier
- Canopy
- Channel Letter
- Collocation
- Commercial Message
- Completely Enclosed Building
- Comprehensive Design Plan
- Conditional Use
- Construction
- Copy (Permanent and Temporary)
- Copy Change
- Corner Parcel
- Corporate Color
- Courtyard
- Cut and Fill
- Day
- Density
- Detached House
- Development
- Development Application
- Diameter-at-Breast Height (DBH)
- Distributed Antenna System (DAS)
- Drive-through Facility
- Dwelling Unit
- Dynamic Display
- Easement
- Equipment Enclosure
- Erected
- Erosion
- Established Road
- FAA
- Facade
- FCC
- Flashing
- Floor Area
- Floor Area, Gross
- Floor Area, Gross Leasable
- Front Property Line
- Frontage (Street Frontage)
- Garage
- Glazed area
- Grade, Existing
- Grade, Finished
- Groundcover
- Ground Floor
- Ground-floor Entrance
- Ground-Mounted Solar Energy System
- Hardiness Zones
- Health Authorities
- Height, Plant Material
- Hillside Land
- Home Occupation
- Household
- Hydrology
- Impervious Surface
- Ilumination, External
- Illumination, Internal
- Interior Side Property Line
- Kilowatt-hour (kWh)
- Landscape/Landscaping
- Landscape Plan
- Lawfully Established
- Lot
- Lot Line House
- Low-Impact Development (LID)
- Malt Beverage
- Manufactured Housing Unit
- Marquee
- Microbrewery/Microdistillery
- Mixed-use Building
- Mulch
- Multi-dwelling Building
- Multi-dwelling House
- Multi-Tenant Development
- Nonconforming Parcel
- Nonconforming Sign
- Nonconforming Structure
- Nonconforming Use
- Nonconformity
- Non-motorized (Transportation) Facilities
- Nonresidential District
- Offset
- Open-Air Uses
- Open Porch or Deck
- Outdoor Display Area
- Outdoor Sales Area
- Overlay District
- Parapet or Parapet Wall
- Parcel
- Parcel, Corner
- Parcel, Interior
- Parcel, TED
- Parking Structure
- Personal Wireless Services
- Personal Wireless Service Facility(ies) or (Facility(ies))
- Personal Wireless Service Facilities, Abandoned
- Personal Wireless Services Facility Existing
- Personal Wireless Service Facilities Support Structure
- Personal Wireless Service Facilities Support Structure, Height
- Pitch, (Roof)
- Pond
- Primary Roof Pitch
- Principal Building
- Principal Use
- Product Display Window
- Property Line
- Public Safety
- Public Utility Installation
- Pump Top Unit
- Rear Property Line
- Residential Building
- Roof-Mounted Solar Energy Conversion Systems
- Runoff
- Satellite Dish Antenna
- Sediment
- Sedimentation
- Setback
- Setback, Front
- Setback, Rear
- Setback, Side
- Setback, Street Side
- Side Property Line
- Sidecasting
- Sign
- Sign, Abandoned
- Sign, Address
- Sign, Animated
- Sign Area
- Sign, Awning
- Sign, Banner
- Sign, Box (Also Known as "Cabinet Sign")
- Sign, Building as a
- Sign, Changeable Copy
- Sign, Directional
- Sign, Directory
- Sign, Dynamic Display
- Sign, Ground
- Sign, Hanging
- Sign Height
- Sign, Heritage
- Sign, Ideological
- Sign, Incidental
- Sign, Inflatable
- Sign, Manual Changeable Copy
- Sign, Menu Board
- Sign, Minor
- Sign Multi-tenant
- Sign, Nameplate
- Sign, National Register District Identification