Rolesville City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE 1
- GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections
- Section 1.1: - Authority and Enactment
- Section 1.2: - Title
- Section 1.3: - Purpose
- Section 1.4: - Jurisdiction
- Section 1.5: - Legal Status
- Section 1.6: - Severability
- Section 1.7: - Statute of Limitations
- Section 1.8: - Relationship to Existing Ordinances, Laws, and Violations in Progress
- Section 1.9: - Effective Date
- Section 1.10: - Adoption Date
ARTICLE 2
- GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- Section 2.1: - Board of Commissioners
- Section 2.2: - Planning Board
- Section 2.3: - Board of Adjustment
- Section 2.4: - Technical Review Committee
- Section 2.5: - Town Manager
- Section 2.6: - Planning Director
- Section 2.7: - Zoning Administrator
- Section 2.8: - Subdivision Administrator
ARTICLE 3
- DEVELOPMENT REVIEW AND APPROVAL PROCEDURES
Sections
- Section 3.1: - Zoning Permit
- Section 3.2: - Certificate of Occupancy/Compliance
- Section 3.3: - Conformance with Plans
- Section 3.4: - Enforcement
- Section 3.5: - Right of Appeal
- Section 3.6: - Special Uses and Quasi-Judicial Evidentiary Hearings
- Section 3.7: - Application to and Hearing by the Board of Adjustment on Appeals and Variances
- Section 3.8: - Accidental Violations of Interpretation
- Section 3.9: - Zoning Amendments
- 3.9.1 - Initiation of Amendments
- 3.9.2 - Application
- 3.9.3 - Public Hearing and Notices
- 3.9.4 - Evidence Presented at Public Hearings
- 3.9.5 - Amendment to the Official Zoning Map
- 3.9.6 - Special Use Permit Requests as Part of Change to Special Use District
- 3.9.7 - Duration of Zoning Amendment Approval to Special Use Districts
- 3.9.8 - Withdrawal or Amendment of Petition
- 3.9.9 - Protested Zoning Amendment
- 3.9.10 - Effect of Denial of Petition
- Section 3.10: - Vested Rights
ARTICLE 5
USE AND DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS
Sections
- Section 5.1: - Table of Permitted Uses
- Section 5.2: - Table of Dimensional Requirements
- Section 5.3: - Special Use Districts
- Section 5.4: - Conditional Zoning Districts
- Section 5.5: - Accessory Uses
- Section 5.6: - Temporary Uses and Structures
- Section 5.7: - Application of Regulations
- Section 5.8: - Interpretation of Regulations
- Section 5.9: - Exceptions and Modifications
- Section 5.10: - Nonconformities
ARTICLE 6
- SUPPLEMENTARY DISTRICT STANDARDS
Sections
- Section 6.1: - Watershed Districts
- 6.1.1 - Special Intensity Areas
- 6.1.2 - Permitted and Special Uses in Watershed Districts
- 6.1.3 - Prohibited Uses
- 6.1.4 - Subdivision Application and Review Process
- 6.1.5 - Density and Built-Upon Limits:
- 6.1.6 - Dimensional Requirements
- 6.1.7 - Conservation Subdivisions
- 6.1.8 - Buffer Areas Required
- 6.1.9 - Rules Governing the Interpretation of Watershed Area Boundaries
- 6.1.10 - Existing Development
- 6.1.11 - Public Health Regulations
- 6.1.12 - Record and Notification
- 6.1.13 - Amendments
- 6.1.14 - Variances
- Section 6.2: - R&PUD Residential and Planned Unit Development District
- Section 6.3: - Conservation Subdivision Option
- Section 6.5: - R-III - Residential III District
ARTICLE 7
- OVERLAY DISTRICT STANDARDS
Sections
- Section 7.1: - Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District
- Section 7.2: - Flood Damage Prevention Standards
- Section 7.3: - Stream Protection Buffers
- Section 7.4: - Town Center Overlay District
- Section 7.5: - Stormwater Management Standards
- Section 7.6: - Special Highway Overlay District for the Proposed U.S. 401 Bypass
ARTICLE 8
- SPECIAL USE STANDARDS
Sections
- Section 8.1: - General Conditions
- Section 8.2: - Additional Conditions
- Section 8.3: - Specific Conditions
- 8.3.1 - Use: Automobile Repair Garage
- 8.3.2 - Use: Multi-Family Dwellings and Townhouses as a Special Use in R-ID, R-IID, and R&PUD
- 8.3.3 - Use: Dish Antennas as Provided in Section 5.5
- 8.3.4 - Use: Golf Driving Ranges as a Special Use in the C-O District
- 8.3.5 - Use: Mobile Home Parks
- 8.3.6 - Use: Shopping Centers Containing More than Five Establishments or More than 5,000 Square Feet
- 8.3.7 - Use: Temporary Uses as a Special Use in All Districts
- 8.3.8 - Use: Child Day Care Facility within the Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District
- 8.3.9 - Use: Market and Sales of Produce and Seasonal Goods
- 8.3.10 - Use: Electronic Gaming Operations
- 8.3.11 - Use: Telecommunication Tower
ARTICLE 9
- ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
Sections
- Section 9.1: - Visibility at Intersections
- Section 9.2: - Lots With Buildings, Structures, and Uses Must Abut Streets
- Section 9.3: - Complexes
- Section 9.4: - Home Occupations
- Section 9.5: - Group Care Homes for Infirm or Aged, Congregate Care, Life Care, Non-Protected Group Homes, Intermediate Care, and Nursing Homes
- Section 9.6: - Water and Sewer Utility Standards
- Section 9.7: - Availability of Public Utilities for Industrial and Commercial Development
- Section 9.8: - Water Towers
- Section 9.9: - Auto Repair, Auto Wash, Wrecker Service, and Vehicle Storage Facilities
- Section 9.10: - Town Inspectors
- Section 9.11: - Traffic Impact Study
- Section 9.13: - Mobile Vendors
- Section 9.14: - Masonry Ordinance
- Section 9.15: - Data Storage Boxes
- Section 9.16: - Cluster Mailbox Units (CBU's)
ARTICLE 11
- SIGN STANDARDS
Sections
- Section 11.1: - Purpose and Intent
- Section 11.2: - Definition of "Sign"
- Section 11.3: - Permanent Signs
- 11.3.1 - General Permanent Sign Regulations
- 11.3.2 - Signs for a Non-Residential Multi-Tenant Building or Center
- 11.3.3 - Criteria and Standards for Signs in a Commercial, Multi-Tenant Building or Center
- 11.3.4 - Signs in a Non-residential Subdivision
- 11.3.5 - Criteria and Standards for Signs in a Non-residential Subdivision
- Section 11.4: - Temporary Signs
- Section 11.5: - Billboard Signs
- Section 11.6: - Removal or Repair of Signs
- Section 11.7: - Nonconforming Signs
- Section 11.8: - Master Sign Plan
- Section 11.9: - Signs in Public Right-of-Way
- Section 11.10: - Prohibited Signs
- Section 11.11: - Signs Allowed Without a Permit
- Section 11.12: - Computation
ARTICLE 14
- LANDSCAPE AND APPEARANCE STANDARDS
Sections
- Section 14.1: - Purpose and Intent
- Section 14.2: - General
- Section 14.3: - Preservation of Existing Vegetation
- Section 14.4: - Streetscape Buffers Along Thoroughfares
- Section 14.5: - Buffers Along Fully-and Limited Controlled Access Highways
- Section 14.6: - Landscape Buffers Between Land Uses
- 14.6.1 - Applicability
- 14.6.2 - Purposes
- 14.6.3 - Hardship
- 14.6.4 - Building Setbacks from Edge of Buffer
- 14.6.5 - Type and Width of Buffer Required
- 14.6.6 - Land Use Classes
- 14.6.7 - Types of Buffers
- 14.6.8 - Location of Buffers
- 14.6.9 - Existing Vegetation, Fences, Walls, and Berms
- 14.6.10 - Installation of New Vegetation and Other Features
- 14.6.11 - Standards for New Plantings
- 14.6.12 - No Development within the Required Buffer
- 14.6.13 - Dripline Encroachment
- 14.6.14 - Easements
- 14.6.15 - Responsibility for Buffer Installation
- 14.6.16 - Zoning Change
- 14.6.17 - Buffer Width Reduction Allowed
- Section 14.7: - Vehicular Use Areas (VUAs)
- Section 14.8: - Exterior Lighting
- 14.8.1 - Purpose and Intent
- 14.8.2 - Lighting Plan
- 14.8.3 - General Design Standards
- 14.8.4 - Illumination Standards
- 14.8.5 - Fixtures
- 14.8.6 - Mounting Heights
- 14.8.7 - Location of Ground Based Lights
- 14.8.8 - Site Compatibility
- 14.8.9 - Spillover Light
- 14.8.10 - Wattage
- 14.8.11 - Wall-pack Fixtures
- 14.8.12 - Floodlights
- 14.8.13 - Building Façade Lighting
- 14.8.14 - Sign Lighting
- 14.8.15 - Awning and Canopy Lighting
- 14.8.16 - Flashing Lights
- 14.8.17 - Lighting for Gas Stations/Convenience Store Canopies
- 14.8.18 - Sports and Athletic Field Lighting
- 14.8.19 - Exemptions
- 14.8.20 - Certificates of Occupancy
- Section 14.9: - Mechanical, Utility, Loading and Service Areas, and Trash Containment Areas
- Section 14.10: - Time for Installation of Required Landscaping
- Section 14.11: - Inspections
- Section 14.12: - Maintenance Responsibility and Replacement of Damaged Vegetation
ARTICLE 15
- SUBDIVISION STANDARDS
Sections
- Section 15.1: - Introductory Subdivision Provisions
- Section 15.2: - Legal Provisions
- Section 15.3: - Procedure for Review and Approval of Subdivision Plats
- 15.3.1 - Plat Shall be Required on Any Subdivision of Land
- 15.3.2 - Approval Prerequisite to Plat Recordation
- 15.3.3 - Procedures for Review of Major and Minor Subdivisions
- 15.3.4 - Procedure for Review of Minor Subdivisions
- 15.3.5 - Sketch Plan for Major Subdivisions
- 15.3.6 - Preliminary Plat Submission and Review
- 15.3.7 - Final Plat Submission and Review
- 15.3.8 - Information to be Contained in or Depicted on Preliminary and Final Plats
- 15.3.9 - Recombination of Land
- 15.3.10 - Resubdivison Procedures
- Section 15.4: - Required Improvements, Dedication, Reservation, Minimum Standards of Design