Palestine City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE I
- INTRODUCTION
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - TITLE AND PURPOSE
- Sec. 39.1.1-1. - Title.
- Sec. 39.1.1-2. - Effective date.
- Sec. 39.1.1-3. - Authority.
- Sec. 39.1.1-4. - Purpose.
- Sec. 39.1.1-5. - Applicability.
- Sec. 39.1.1-6. - Interpretation and conflict.
- Sec. 39.1.1-7. - Exhibits and graphics.
- Sec. 39.1.1-8. - Comprehensive plan.
- Sec. 39.1.1-9. - Severability and penalty.
- Sec. 39.1.1-10. - Preservation of rights.
ARTICLE II
ZONING DISTRICTS AND USE REGULATIONS
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - ZONING DISTRICTS AND MAP
- DIVISION 2. - DISTRICT STANDARDS
- Sec. 39.2.2-1. - Residential estate district (RE).
- Sec. 39.2.2-2. - Suburban residential district (SR).
- Sec. 39.2.2-3. - Urban residential district (UR).
- Sec. 39.2.2-4. - Mixed residential district (MR).
- Sec. 39.2.2-5. - Mixed use neighborhood district (MUN).
- Sec. 39.2.2-6. - Manufactured housing and mobile home park (MHP).
- Sec. 39.2.2-7. - Central business district (CBD).
- Sec. 39.2.2-8. - Retail commercial district (RC).
- Sec. 39.2.2-9. - Highway commercial district (HC).
- Sec. 39.2.2-10. - Industrial district (I).
- Sec. 39.2.2-11. - Planned development district (PD).
- Sec. 39.2.2-12. - Manufactured home overlay district (MHO).
- Sec. 39.2.2-13. - Land use chart.
- DIVISION 3. - GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR ALL DISTRICTS
- Sec. 39.2.3-1. - Purpose.
- Sec. 39.2.3-2. - General zoning compliance.
- Sec. 39.2.3-3. - Principal use and dwellings.
- Sec. 39.2.3-4. - Manufactured and mobile homes.
- Sec. 39.2.3-5. - Setbacks, lots, and yards.
- Sec. 39.2.3-6. - Height.
- Sec. 39.2.3-7. - Steep slopes.
- Sec. 39.2.3-8. - Access and frontage.
- Sec. 39.2.3-9. - Grading and excavation.
- Sec. 39.2.3-10. - Visibility at intersections.
- Sec. 39.2.3-11. - Walls and fences.
- Sec. 39.2.3-12. - Swimming pools and spas.
- Sec. 39.2.3-13. - Recreational vehicle parking.
- Sec. 39.2.3-14. - Refuse containers.
- Sec. 39.2.3-15. - Sewer and septic systems.
- Sec. 39.2.3-16. - Noxious impacts prohibited.
- Sec. 39.2.3-17. - Nonconformities.
- DIVISION 4. - SUPPLEMENTARY USE REQUIREMENTS[1]
- Sec. 39.2.4-1. - Purpose.
- Sec. 39.2.4-2. - Accessory building/structure.
- Sec. 39.2.4-3. - Agricultural operation, farm, ranch, or agritourism.
- Sec. 39.2.4-4. - Airport, heliport, airstrip, helicopter landing pad.
- Sec. 39.2.4-5. - Alcoholic beverage sales.
- Sec. 39.2.4-6. - Alternative financial establishments, pawnshops.
- Sec. 39.2.4-7. - Animal services (animal/pet shelter or rescue, hotel, store).
- Sec. 39.2.4-8. - Automobile repair facilities.
- Sec. 39.2.4-9. - Bail bond establishment.
- Sec. 39.2.4-10. - Bed and breakfast.
- Sec. 39.2.4-11. - Boarding/rooming house.
- Sec. 39.2.4-12. - Cemeteries and mausoleums.
- Sec. 39.2.4-13. - Childcare centers (daycare, after school care).
- Sec. 39.2.4-14. - Churches and other houses of worship.
- Sec. 39.2.4-15. - Commercial amusement, indoor.
- Sec. 39.2.4-16. - Commercial amusement, outdoor.
- Sec. 39.2.4-17. - Drilling and production of oil and gas, gathering and compression station.
- Sec. 39.2.4-18. - Educational and scientific research office excluding laboratory facilities.
- Sec. 39.2.4-19. - Eight-liner business.
- Sec. 39.2.4-20. - Funeral homes and mortuaries.
- Sec. 39.2.4-21. - Gasoline service stations and car washes.
- Sec. 39.2.4-22. - General retail (indoor)—Over 50,000 gross floor area.
- Sec. 39.2.4-23. - Greenhouse and nursery, commercial.
- Sec. 39.2.4-24. - Group housing, adult group home.
- Sec. 39.2.4-25. - Gun shooting or archery range, indoor.
- Sec. 39.2.4-26. - Holiday tree and firewood sales.
- Sec. 39.2.4-27. - Home occupations.
- Sec. 39.2.4-28. - Hotels.
- Sec. 39.2.4-29. - Impounded vehicle storage facility.
- Sec. 39.2.4-30. - Industrial.
- Sec. 39.2.4-31. - Junkyards and salvage yards.
- Sec. 39.2.4-32. - Manufactured home/mobile home community.
- Sec. 39.2.4-33. - Manufactured and mobile homes.
- Sec. 39.2.4-34. - Mining and mineral extraction operation.
- Sec. 39.2.4-35. - Nursing/convalescent homes.
- Sec. 39.2.4-36. - Outdoor storage and display.
- Sec. 39.2.4-37. - Propane sales and distribution.
- Sec. 39.2.4-38. - Recreational vehicle (RV) or trailer park.
- Sec. 39.2.4-39. - Personal property sales in residential districts.
- Sec. 39.2.4-40. - Restaurant with drive-through.
- Sec. 39.2.4-41. - Roadside (produce) stand.
- Sec. 39.2.4-42. - Satellite transmission antenna.
- Sec. 39.2.4-43. - Sexually oriented businesses.
- Sec. 39.2.4-44. - Solar energy equipment.
- Sec. 39.2.4-45. - Temporary uses.
- Sec. 39.2.4-46. - Tiny house.
- Sec. 39.2.4-47. - Transitional housing.
- Sec. 39.2.4-48. - Vehicle sales and rental.
- Sec. 39.2.4-49. - Veterinary hospitals or clinics.
- Sec. 39.2.4-50. - Wind energy turbines.
- Sec. 39.2.4-51. - Wireless communication facilities.
ARTICLE III
DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - SITE DESIGN STANDARDS
- DIVISION 2. - BUILDING DESIGN STANDARDS
- DIVISION 3. - PARKING AND LOADING
- Sec. 39.3.3-1. - Applicability.
- Sec. 39.3.3-2. - General parking requirements.
- Sec. 39.3.3-3. - Number of off-street parking spaces required.
- Sec. 39.3.3-4. - Design requirements for parking lots.
- Sec. 39.3.3-5. - Design requirements for driveways.
- Sec. 39.3.3-6. - Temporary parking lots.
- Sec. 39.3.3-7. - Reduction of parking.
- Sec. 39.3.3-8. - Off-street loading requirements.
- DIVISION 4. - LANDSCAPING AND TREE PRESERVATION
- Sec. 39.3.4-1. - Applicability.
- Sec. 39.3.4-2. - General landscaping requirements.
- Sec. 39.3.4-3. - Landscape plan procedures.
- Sec. 39.3.4-4. - Development/subdivision landscaping.
- Sec. 39.3.4-5. - Landscaping in parking lots.
- Sec. 39.3.4-6. - Landscaping in street rights-of-way or public utility easements.
- Sec. 39.3.4-7. - Tree preservation.
- Sec. 39.3.4-8. - Irrigation.
- Sec. 39.3.4-9. - Landscape maintenance.
- Sec. 39.3.4-10. - Approved tree list.
- DIVISION 5. - SCREENING
- DIVISION 6. - SIGNS
- Sec. 39.3.6-1. - Purpose.
- Sec. 39.3.6-2. - General provisions.
- Sec. 39.3.6-3. - Exempt signs.
- Sec. 39.3.6-4. - Prohibited signs.
- Sec. 39.3.6-5. - Permits and fees.
- Sec. 39.3.6-6. - Nonconforming signs.
- Sec. 39.3.6-7. - Noncommercial signs.
- Sec. 39.3.6-8. - Attached signs.
- Sec. 39.3.6-9. - Detached signs.
- Sec. 39.3.6-10. - Other signs.
- Sec. 39.3.6-11. - Temporary signs.
- Sec. 39.3.6-12. - Measurement standards.
- Sec. 39.3.6-13. - Construction standards.
- Sec. 39.3.6-14. - Lighting standards.
- Sec. 39.3.6-15. - Enforcement and maintenance.
- Sec. 39.3.6-16. - Signs in the Main Street overlay district.
- DIVISION 7. - HISTORIC PRESERVATION
- Sec. 39.3.7-1. - Purpose.
- Sec. 39.3.7-2. - Definitions.
- Sec. 39.3.7-3. - Appointment of historic preservation officer.
- Sec. 39.3.7-4. - Criteria for designation of local historic landmarks and districts.
- Sec. 39.3.7-5. - Designation of local historic landmarks and districts.
- Sec. 39.3.7-6. - Minimum maintenance standards.
- Sec. 39.3.7-7. - Procedure to mitigate demolition by neglect.
- Sec. 39.3.7-8. - Ordinary maintenance.
- Sec. 39.3.7-9. - Certificates of appropriateness for alterations or new construction affecting landmarks or historic districts.
- Sec. 39.3.7-10. - Review criteria for certificates of appropriateness for alterations or new construction affecting landmarks or historic districts.
- Sec. 39.3.7-11. - Procedure for certificates of appropriateness for alterations or new construction affecting landmarks or historic districts.
- Sec. 39.3.7-12. - Demolition of landmarks.
- Sec. 39.3.7-13. - Certificates of appropriateness for demolition affecting landmarks or historic districts.
- Sec. 39.3.7-14. - Procedure for certificates of appropriateness for demolition affecting landmarks or historic districts.
- Sec. 39.3.7-15. - Economic hardship involving certificates of appropriateness for demolition affecting landmarks.
- Sec. 39.3.7-16. - Other regulations in historic districts.
- Sec. 39.3.7-17. - Incentives.
- Sec. 39.3.7-18. - Enforcement.
- Sec. 39.3.7-19. - Penalties.
ARTICLE IV
ADMINISTRATION AND REVIEW PROCEDURES
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - DECISION MAKING ENTITIES
- DIVISION 2. - GENERAL PROCEDURES AND AMENDMENTS
- Sec. 39.4.2-1. - Summary of procedures.
- Sec. 39.4.2-2. - Application submission, contents, and fees.
- Sec. 39.4.2-3. - Completeness review.
- Sec. 39.4.2-4. - Administrative review.
- Sec. 39.4.2-5. - Review and action by city authorities.
- Sec. 39.4.2-6. - General review criteria.
- Sec. 39.4.2-7. - Public notice requirements.
- Sec. 39.4.2-8. - Text and map amendments.
- Sec. 39.4.2-9. - Building permits, development permits, and certificates of occupancy.
- DIVISION 3. - SPECIFIC PROCEDURES AND PROCESSES
- Sec. 39.4.3-1. - Rezoning process.
- Sec. 39.4.3-2. - Specific use permit (SUP) process.
- Sec. 39.4.3-3. - Planned unit development process.
- Sec. 39.4.3-4. - Site plan review process.
- Sec. 39.4.3-5. - Waivers.
- Sec. 39.4.3-6. - Special exception.
- Sec. 39.4.3-7. - Variance.
- Sec. 39.4.3-8. - Appeal of an administrative official's decision.
- Sec. 39.4.3-9. - Amortization of a nonconforming use.
ARTICLE V
- DEFINITIONS
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - CONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE
- DIVISION 2. - GENERAL DEFINITIONS
- DIVISION 3. - USE DEFINITIONS