Rayland Heights City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE VII
DEFINITIONS
Sections
- SECTION 7.0 WORDS AND PHRASES:
- A
- ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE, CUSTOMARY
- AGRICULTURE
- AIR RIGHTS
- ALLEY
- APARTMENT
- APARTMENT HOUSE
- AUTOMOBILE LAUNDRY
- AUTOMOBILE AND TRAILER SALES AREAS
- AUTOMOTIVE PART AND ACCESSORIES STORE
- BASEMENT
- BEAUTY PARLOR
- BILLBOARD
- BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS
- BUFFER AREA
- BUILDING
- BUILDING, ALTERATION OF
- BUILDING AREA OR LOT COVERAGE BY BUILDING
- BUILDING, COMPLETELY ENCLOSED
- BUILDING, DETACHED
- BUILDING, HEIGHT OF
- BUILDING INSPECTOR
- BUILDING PERMIT
- BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
- BUILDING, SETBACK LINE
- BUILDING SITE
- BUSINESS
- CAMPING/VACATION MOBILE UNIT
- CANOPY (MARQUEE)
- CARPORT
- CHANGEABLE COPY SIGN, AUTOMATIC
- CHANGEABLE COPY SIGN, MANUAL
- CHILD DAY CARE CENTER
- CITIZEN MEMBER
- CLINIC, ANIMAL
- CLINIC, HUMAN CARE
- CLUB
- COMMERCIAL MESSAGE
- C
- COMPLEX (COMMERCIAL)
- COMPREHENSIVE (MASTER) PLAN
- CONCEALED LIGHTING
- CONDITIONAL USE
- CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT
- CONFORMING USE
- CURB CUT
- DECIBEL
- DEVELOPMENT PLAN
- DISTRICT
- DORMITORY
- DRIVE-THRU FACILITY
- DWELLING
- DWELLING, ATTACHED, SINGLE-FAMILY
- DWELLING, DETACHED, SINGLE-FAMILY
- DWELLING, TRAILER
- DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
- DWELLING, MULTI-FAMILY
- DWELLING UNIT
- EASEMENT
- EATING ESTABLISHMENTS -- RESTAURANTS
- ESSENTIAL SERVICES
- FAMILY
- FENCE
- FILLING STATION
- FLOOD
- FLOOD - 100 YEAR FREQUENCY
- FLOOD PLAIN OR FLOOD PRONE AREA
- FLOODWAY
- FLOODWAY ENCROACHMENT LINES
- FLOOR AREA, GROSS
- FRATERNITY OR SORORITY
- FRATERNITY/SORORITY HOUSE
- FRONTAGE
- GARAGE, PRIVATE
- GENERAL STORE
- HOLIDAY DECORATIONS
- HOME OCCUPATION
- HOSPITAL (HUMAN CARE)
- HOSPITAL (ANIMAL)
- HOTEL
- HOUSE TRAILER
- JUNK YARD/RECYCLING CENTER
- KENNEL
- LABORATORY, MEDICAL OR DENTAL
- LAUNDROMAT
- LEASABLE AREA, GROSS
- LEGIBLE
- LEGISLATIVE BODY
- LIVESTOCK
- LOADING AND/OR UNLOADING SPACE
- LOT
- LOT AREA
- LOT, CORNER
- LOT, DEPTH OF
- LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE
- LOT, FLAG
- LOT, INTERIOR
- LOT LINE, FRONT
- LOT LINE, REAR
- LOT LINE, SIDE
- LOT OF RECORD
- LOT WIDTH
- MINIMUM FRONT YARD DEPTH
- MINIMUM REAR YARD DEPTH
- MINIMUM SIDE YARD WIDTH
- MOBILE HOME
- MOBILE HOME PARK
- MODULAR HOUSING
- MOTEL
- N/A
- NEIGHBORHOOD
- NEIGHBORHOOD CONCEPT PLAN
- NIT
- NKAPC
- NONCONFORMING LOT
- NONCONFORMING USE OR STRUCTURE
- NOXIOUS MATTER OR MATERIALS
- NURSERY
- NURSERY SCHOOL
- NURSING HOME
- OCTAVE BAND
- OCTAVE BAND FILTER
- ODOROUS MATTER
- PARKING AREA, OFF-STREET
- PARKING BUILDING OR GARAGE
- PARTICULATE MATTER
- PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
- PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD)
- PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT, SMALL
- RAILROAD RIGHTS-OF-WAY
- RECYCLING COLLECTION AND LIGHT PROCESSING CENTER
- RESIDENTIAL CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT (RCD)
- REST HOME
- SCHOOLS, PAROCHIAL
- SCHOOLS, PRIVATE
- SCHOOLS, PUBLIC
- SEPARATE (LIGHTING OR ILLUMINATION)
- SERVICE FACILITIES, PUBLIC UTILITIES
- SERVICE STATION
- SIGN
- SIGN, ANIMATED
- SIGN, DETACHED
- SIGN, DIRECTORY
- SIGN, PRINCIPAL
- SIGN, TEMPORARY
- SIGN, WINDOW
- SITE
- SOUND LEVEL METER
- STORY
- STORY, HALF
- STREET, PRIVATE
- STREET, PUBLIC
- STREET, ARTERIAL
- STREET, COLLECTOR
- STREET, EXPRESSWAY
- STREET, FREEWAY
- STREET, FRONTAGE ROAD (SERVICE OR ACCESS ROAD)
- STREET, LOCAL
- STRUCTURE
- STRUCTURAL ALTERATION (SIGNS)
- SUBDIVISION
- SWIMMING POOL, OUTDOOR
- TAVERN
- TENANT SPACE
- TRAILER
- USE, PERMITTED
- VARIANCE
- VEHICLE
- WALL LINE OF HOUSE
- YARD DEPTH, FRONT
- YARD DEPTH, REAR
- YARD WIDTH, SIDE
- YOUTH SHELTER
- ZONE
- ZONING ADMINISTRATOR
ARTICLE IX
GENERAL REGULATIONS
Sections
- SECTION 9.0 PURPOSE:
- SECTION 9.1 REDUCTION IN BUILDING SITE AREA:
- SECTION 9.2 INTERFERENCE WITH TRAFFIC SIGNALS:
- SECTION 9.3 VISION CLEARANCE AT CORNERS, CURB CUTS, AND RAILROAD CROSSINGS:
- SECTION 9.4 FRONTAGE ON CORNER LOTS AND DOUBLE FRONTAGE LOTS:
- SECTION 9.5 UTILITIES LOCATION:
- SECTION 9.6 RAILROAD RIGHTS-OF-WAY LOCATION:
- SECTION 9.7 EXCAVATION, MOVEMENT OF SOIL, TREE REMOVAL, AND EROSION AND SEDIMENTATION CONTROL:
- SECTION 9.8 UNSIGHTLY OR UNSANITARY STORAGE
- SECTION 9.9 APPLICATION OF ZONING REGULATIONS:
- SECTION 9.10 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS GOVERNING HOME OCCUPATIONS:
- SECTION 9.11 NONCONFORMING LOTS, NONCONFORMING USES, NONCONFORMING STRUCTURES, REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE AND NONCONFORMING SIGNS:
- SECTION 9.12 EXCEPTIONS AND MODIFICATIONS:
- SECTION 9.13 CONDITIONAL USES:
- SECTION 9.14 BUILDING REGULATIONS AND WATER AND SANITARY SEWER SERVICE:
- SECTION 9.15 MOVE AND SET:
- SECTION 9.16 SCREENING AREA:
- SECTION 9.17 OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOLS
- SECTION 9.18 SITE PLAN REQUIREMENTS:
- SECTION 9.19 PLAN REQUIREMENTS - STAGES I, II AND RECORD PLAT:
- SECTION 9.20 REGULATIONS CONCERNING AIR RIGHTS:
- SECTION 9.21 REGULATIONS CONCERNING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS:
- SECTION 9.22 REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO PARKING OR STORING OF TRAILERS, MOBILE HOMES, CAMPERS, INOPERABLE VEHICLES, AND OTHER SUCH TYPE EQUIPMENT:
- SECTION 9.23 HILLSIDE DEVELOPMENT CONTROLS:
- SECTION 9.24 FLOOD PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT CONTROLS
- A Zone
- Accessory structure (Appurtenant structure)
- Accessory use
- Addition (to an existing structure)
- AE zones
- AH zone
- AO zone
- Appeal
- AR/A1 – A30, AR/AE, AR/AH, AR/AO, and AR/A zones
- A99 zone
- Area of shallow flooding
- Base flood
- Base Flood Elevation (BFE)
- Basement
- Building -
- Community
- Community Rating System (CRS)
- Community Flood Hazard Area (CFHA)
- Critical facility
- D zone
- Development
- Elevated structure
- Elevation Certificate
- Emergency Program
- Enclosure
- Encroachment
- Existing construction
- Existing Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision
- Expansion to an existing Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision
- Five-Hundred Year Flood
- Flood or Flooding
- Flood Boundary and Floodway Map (FBFM)
- Flood Hazard Boundary Map (FHBM)
- Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
- Flood Insurance Study
- Floodplain or flood-prone area
- Floodplain Administrator
- Floodplain Management
- Floodplain Management Regulations
- Floodproofing
- F
- Floodway
- Floodway fringe
- Freeboard
- Fraud and victimization
- Functionally dependent use facility
- Governing body
- Hazard potential
- Highest adjacent grade
- Historic Structure
- Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC)
- Letter of Map Change (LOMC)
- Levee
- Levee System
- Limited storage
- Lowest adjacent grade
- Lowest Floor
- Manufactured Home
- Manufactured home park or subdivision
- Map
- Map Panel Number
- Market value
- Mean Sea Level (MSL)
- Mitigation
- Mudslide (i.e. mudflow)
- Mudslide (i.e. mudflow) area management
- Mudslide (i.e. mudflow) prone area
- National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
- National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD)
- New Construction
- New manufactured home park or subdivision
- Non-Residential
- North American Vertical Datum (NAVD)
- Obstruction
- One-Hundred Year Flood (100-Year Flood)
- Participating Community
- Pre-FIRM Construction
- Post-FIRM Construction
- Probation
- Program Deficiency
- Public Safety and Nuisance
- Recreational Vehicle
- Regular Program
- Regulatory floodway
- Remedy a violation
- Repair
- Repetitive Loss
- Repetitive Loss Property
- Riverine
- Section 1316
- Severe Repetitive Loss Structure
- Sheet flow area
- Special flood hazard area (SFHA)
- Start of Construction (includes substantial improvement and other proposed new development)
- Structure
- Subdivision
- Subrogation
- Substantial Damage
- Substantial Improvement
- Substantially improved existing manufactured home parks or subdivisions
- Suspension
- Utilities
- Variance
- Violation
- Watercourse
- Water surface elevation
- Watershed
- X (shaded) and B zones
- X (unshaded) and C zones
- Zone
- G
- SECTION 9.25 GENERAL MOBILE HOME REGULATIONS:
- SECTION 9.26 GARAGE SALES:
- SECTION 9.27 PHASED ZONING REGULATIONS:
- SECTION 9.28 LAND USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES:
- SECTION 9.29 FILING OF CERTIFICATE OF LAND USE RESTRICTIONS:
- SECTION 9.30 REGULATIONS CONCERNING TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS
- SECTION 9.31 KEEPING OF LIVESTOCK:
ARTICLE XIII
FENCES, WALLS, AND OBSTRUCTION TO VIEW REGULATIONS
Sections
- SECTION 13.0 VISION CLEARANCE AT CORNERS AND RAILROAD CROSSINGS:
- SECTION 13.1 CLASSIFICATION OF FENCES AND WALLS
- SECTION 13.2 CONSERVATION & AGRICULTURAL ZONES
- SECTION 13.3 RESIDENTIAL ZONES
- SECTION 13.4 COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES:
- SECTION 13.5 MEASUREMENT OF ALL FENCE AND/OR WALL HEIGHTS AND/OR LOCATIONS
- SECTION 13.6 HEIGHT OF ANY BARBED WIRE OR SHARP POINTED FENCES
- SECTION 13.7 HEIGHT OF FENCES ATOP RETAINING WALLS:
- SECTION 13.8 ELECTRIFIED FENCES:
- SECTION 13.9 PERMIT REQUIRED FOR ERECTION OF FENCES:
- SECTION 13.10 STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF FENCES:
- SECTION 13.11 DILAPIDATED FENCES:
ARTICLE XIV
SIGN REGULATIONS
Sections
- SECTION 14.1 SHORT TITLE:
- SECTION 14.2 PURPOSE AND INTERESTS SERVED
- SECTION 14.3 TEMPORARY SIGNS
- SECTION 14.4 SCOPE, AUTHORITY AND APPLICABILITY
- SECTION 14.5 PROHIBITED SIGN TYPES
- SECTION 14.6 INSTALLATION, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS
- SECTION 14.7 SIGNS ALLOWED IN CONSERVATION, AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL DISTRICTS (CO, A-1, and R-RE Zones)
- SECTION 14.8 MASTER SIGNAGE PLANS
- SECTION 14.9 PERMIT REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES
- SECTION 14.10 APPEALS
- SECTION 14.11 DEFINITIONS AND MEASUREMENTS
- SECTION 14.12 POLICIES AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
ARTICLE XVI
ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- SECTION 16.0 ENFORCING OFFICER:
- SECTION 16.1 ZONING PERMITS:
- SECTION 16.2 BUILDING PERMITS:
- SECTION 16.3 CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY:
- SECTION 16.4 CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY FOR EXISTING BUILDING:
- SECTION 16.5 CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY FOR LAWFUL NONCONFORMING USES AND STRUCTURES:
- SECTION 16.6 DENIAL OF CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY:
- SECTION 16.7 CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY RECORDS:
- SECTION 16.8 COMPLAINTS REGARDING VIOLATIONS:
- SECTION 16.9 PENALTIES:
ARTICLE XVII
AMENDMENT PROCEDURE
Sections
ARTICLE XVIII
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS
Sections
- SECTION 18.0 ESTABLISHMENT OF BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT; MEMBERSHIP; APPOINTMENT; TERMS; VACANCIES; OATHS; COMPENSATION; REMOVAL; OFFICERS
- SECTION 18.1 MEETINGS OF BOARDS; QUORUM; MINUTES; BYLAWS; FINANCES; SUBPOENA POWER; ADMINISTRATION OF OATHS
- SECTION 18.2 PROCEDURE FOR ALL APPEALS TO BOARD:
- SECTION 18.3 APPEALS FROM PLANNING COMMISSION OR BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS OR LEGISLATIVE BODY:
- SECTION 18.4 STAY OF PROCEEDINGS:
- SECTION 18.5 POWERS OF BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS:
- SECTION 18.6 VARIANCES; CHANGE FROM ONE NONCONFORMING USE TO ANOTHER; CONDITIONS GOVERNING APPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES
- SECTION 18.7 CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS:
- SECTION 18.8 DECISIONS OF THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS
- SECTION 18.9 ACTIONS OF BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS TO BE FURNISHED TO THE NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA PLANNING COMMISSION