The City of Paradise, Texas, is hereby divided into zoning districts as listed in this section.

A - Agricultural District: This district provides for the continuance of farming, ranching, and gardening activities on land being utilized for these purposes. When land in an Agricultural District is needed for urban purposes, it is anticipated the zoning will be changed to the appropriate zoning district(s) to provide for orderly growth and development in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan.

R-1 - Single-Family Residential District: The R-1 district permits residential development of densities up to four (4) units per gross acre.

R-2 - Multiple-family Dwelling District: The MF district permits multifamily developments of maximum densities of twenty (20) units per acre, except under special mitigation conditions.

MHP - Manufactured Home Park District: The MHP district establishes a category in which manufactured home park development with a maximum density of not more than six (6) units per gross acre [can occur].

MHS - Manufactured Home Subdivision District establishes a category in which manufactured home subdivision development with a maximum density of approximately five (5) units per gross acre can occur.

B-1 - General Business District: The B-1 District permits virtually all business, commercial, and office uses, including single-family residential uses but excluding industrial and storage uses.

I-1 - Manufacturing/Industrial District: The Light Manufacturing/Industrial District (I-1) is established to accommodate uses of a non-nuisance type located in relative proximity to residential and B-1 business areas. Development in the I-1 district is limited primarily to certain wholesale, jobbing, and warehouse uses and certain specialized manufacturing and research uses of a type which will not create a nuisance. Single-family residential uses are permitted in this district.

I-2 - Manufacturing/Industrial District, Heavy: The Heavy Manufacturing/Industrial District (I-2) is established to accommodate industrial uses likely to create noise, traffic, odor, and/or other conditions incompatible with most residential and commercial uses.

PD - Planned Development District: The Planned Development District provides a zoning category for the planning and development of larger tracts of land or tracts of land with unique characteristics for a single use or combination of uses requiring flexibility and variety in design to achieve orderly development with due respect to the protection of surrounding property.

FP - Flood Plain District: Zoning districts located in flood hazard areas which are subject to periodic inundation shall be preceded by the prefix FP, indicating a subdistrict. Areas designated FP may be used only for those uses listed in the provisions of Section 16 [17] until a use in any area or any portion thereof located in FP subdistrict has been approved by the City Council. Approval shall only be given after engineering studies determine that the area, or any portion thereof, is suitable for uses in the district, and building construction or development would not create an obstruction to drainage nor a hazard to life or property, and that such construction is not contrary to the public interest.