Shelby City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE 3
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections
- Section 3.00.- Access across residential zoning districts.
- Section 3.01. - Accessory buildings in other than residential one- and two-family districts.
- Section 3.02. - Animals.
- Section 3.03. - Annexed and detached territory.
- Section 3.04. - Approval of plats.
- Section 3.05. - Average lot size for subdivisions and condominium subdivisions.
- Section 3.06. - Brick requirement and alteration limitations.
- Section 3.07. - Building (structure) grades.
- Section 3.08. - Buildings to be moved.
- Section 3.09. - Canopies.
- Section 3.10. - Corner visibility.
- Section 3.11. - Dwellings in non-residential districts.
- Section 3.12. - Excavations or holes.
- Section 3.13. - Fees paid, bonds deposited and surety requirements.
- Section 3.14. - Fences in other than one-family zoning districts.
- Section 3.15. - Front setback requirements abutting streets, roads and thoroughfares.
- Section 3.16. - Frontage.
- Section 3.17. - Garage sales, rummage sales and similar activities.
- Section 3.18. - Garbage, rubbish and waste.
- Section 3.19. - Horse keeping.
- Section 3.20. - Location of structures and buildings in a public or private easement.
- Section 3.21. - Lot limitations.
- Section 3.22. - Lots, yards and open spaces.
- Section 3.23. - Maintaining of property in a manner consistent with public health, safety and welfare.
- Section 3.24. - Measuring setback requirements.
- Section 3.25. - Non-residential driveways, entrances and exits.
- Section 3.26. - Outdoor merchandising.
- Section 3.27. - Reserved.
- Section 3.28. - Prohibited occupancy.
- Section 3.29. - Development entranceways.
- Section 3.30. - Public utility cabinets and equipment enclosures.
- Section 3.31. - Railroad lines, sidings and spurs.
- Section 3.32. - Sanitary sewer systems.
- Section 3.33. - Satellite dish antennas and other audio visual antennas and receivers.
- Section 3.34. - Side yard setbacks (corner lots and double frontage lots).
- Section 3.35. - Storage, accumulation, dumping and/or collection of waste, construction supplies and firewood.
- Section 3.36. - Storage of motor vehicles.
- Section 3.37. - Temporary dwelling.
- Section 3.38. - Reserved.
- Section 3.39. - Vacated right-of-way.
- Section 3.40. - Waterfront access.
- Section 3.41. - Water supply.
- Section 3.42. - Yard use.
- Section 3.43. - Reserved.
- Section 3.44. - Open space preservation option.
- Section 3.45. - Landscaping maintenance easements.
- Section 3.46. - Home occupations.
ARTICLE 4
GENERAL EXCEPTIONS
Sections
- Section 4.00.- Access through yards.
- Section 4.01. - Essential services.
- Section 4.02. - Height limit.
- Section 4.03. - Lot area.
- Section 4.04. - Porches/terraces, at-grade patios, steps/stairs and decks.
- Section 4.05. - Projections into yards.
- Section 4.06. - Residential yard fences.
- Section 4.07. - Restoring unsafe buildings.
- Section 4.08. - Setback exception.
- Section 4.09. - Voting place.
ARTICLE 5
SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS
Sections
- Section 5.00.- Intent.
- Section 5.01. - Screening requirements.
- Section 5.02. - Preservation of wooded and shrubbed areas.
- Section 5.03. - Landscaping requirements.
- Section 5.04. - Parking lot landscaping requirements.
- Section 5.05. - Sign regulations.
- Section 5.06. - Lighting.
- Section 5.07. - Performance standards.
- Section 5.08. - Location and screening of trash receptacles.
- Section 5.09. - Construction scheduling.
ARTICLE 6
OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING REQUIREMENTS
Sections
- Section 6.00.- Intent.
- Section 6.01. - General parking requirements.
- Section 6.02. - Minimum number of off-street parking spaces.
- Section 6.03. - Off-street parking space layout standards, construction and maintenance.
- Section 6.04. - Parking structure and carport development standards.
- Section 6.05. - Off-street loading and unloading.
ARTICLE 9
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
Sections
- Section 9.00.- Provisions applicable to residential districts.
- Section 9.10. - One-family residential districts.
- Section 9.20. - Two-family residential district (R-2).
- Section 9.30. - Mobile home park districts (MHP).
- Section 9.40. - Multiple-family residential districts (R-3 through R-12).
- Section 9.50. - High and mid-rise district (HMR).
ARTICLE 10
OFFICE AND COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS
Sections
- Section 10.00.- Provisions applicable to office and commercial districts.
- Section 10.10. - District O-1 professional office.
- Section 10.20. - District O-2 service office.
- Section 10.30. - District C-1 local retail business.
- Section 10.40. - District C-2 linear retail business.
- Section 10.50. - District C-3 shopping center business.
- Section 10.60. - District C-4 general business.
- Section 10.70. - District C-5 multi-use.
- Sec. 10.80. - District C-6 Shelby Center.
ARTICLE 13
SPECIAL LAND USE APPROVAL
Sections
- Section 13.00.- Statement of intent and purpose.
- Section 13.01. - Special land use review standards.
- Section 13.02. - Special land use procedures.
- Section 13.03. - Amusement device centers located in a mall area of a shopping center or in a C-3 district.
- Section 13.04. - Amusement device centers located in C-2 and C-4 zoning districts.
- Section 13.05. - Age-restricted adult housing.
- Section 13.06. - Auditoriums, stadiums and outdoor theaters.
- Section 13.07. - Reserved.
- Section 13.08. - Automobile washing facilities (automatic or self-service).
- Section 13.09. - Reserved.
- Section 13.10. - Businesses of a drive-in nature, but not including outdoor theaters.
- Section 13.11. - Reserved.
- Section 13.12. - Cemeteries and crematoriums.
- Section 13.13. - Churches and private/parochial schools.
- Section 13.14. - Cluster housing.
- Section 13.15. - Colleges, universities and similar institutions.
- Section 13.16. - Composting (municipal and commercial).
- Section 13.17. - Nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities.
- Section 13.18. - Detached one-family planned project.
- Section 13.19. - Fast-food restaurants.
- Section 13.20. - Funeral homes and mortuaries, not including crematoriums.
- Section 13.21. - Gasoline self-service stations.
- Sec. 13.22. - Reserved.
- Sec. 13.23. - Reserved.
- Section 13.24. - General hospitals, emergency care treatment centers and similar outpatient treatment facilities.
- Section 13.25. - Golf courses.
- Section 13.26. - Group child care homes.
- Section 13.27. - Reserved.
- Section 13.28. - Reserved.
- Section 13.29. - Reserved.
- Section 13.30. - Junk yards, auto wrecking yards, and storage of industrial wastes.
- Section 13.31. - Landfills.
- Section 13.32. - Mining and extraction.
- Section 13.33. - Nurseries and greenhouses.
- Section 13.34. - Child care centers, nursery schools, and similar uses.
- Sec. 13.35. - Reserved.
- Section 13.36. - Outdoor storage.
- Section 13.37. - Planned unit developments (PUDs).
- Section 13.38. - Private clubs, fraternal organizations, lodge halls, cultural centers and union halls.
- Section 13.39. - Private outdoor non-commercial recreation, private swimming pool clubs, institutional or community [township] recreation centers.
- Section 13.40. - Reserved.
- Section 13.41. - Public buildings and recreation.
- Section 13.42. - Public utility buildings without storage.
- Section 13.43. - Race tracks for motor vehicles.
- Section 13.44. - Refuse disposal incinerators and transfer stations.
- Section 13.45. - Self-storage facilities used to provide temporary storage needs for businesses, apartment dwellers and other individuals on a self-serve basis.
- Section 13.46. - Shooting ranges, outdoor.
- Section 13.47. - Slaughterhouses, meat packing and animal rendering.
- Section 13.48. - Reserved.
- Section 13.49. - Veterinary offices or clinics providing medical, surgical and grooming facilities for small non-farm animals.
- Section 13.50. - Wetlands planned development.
- Section 13.51. - Kennels.
ARTICLE 14
NONCONFORMING LOTS, STRUCTURES, USES OF LAND AND STRUCTURES
Sections
- Section 14.00.- Intent.
- Section 14.01. - Nonconforming use classifications.
- Section 14.02. - Procedure for obtaining class A designation.
- Section 14.03. - Revocation of class A designation.
- Section 14.04. - Regulations pertaining to class A nonconforming use.
- Section 14.05. - Regulations pertaining to class B nonconforming uses.
- Section 14.06. - Nonconforming structures and buildings.
- Section 14.07. - Nonconforming uses of structures and land.
- Section 14.08. - Records of nonconforming uses.
- Section 14.09. - Change of tenancy or ownership.
- Section 14.10. - Uses subject to special land use approval not nonconforming uses.
- Section 14.11. - Nonconforming lots.
- Section 14.12. - Acquisition.
- Section 14.13. - Appeals.
- Section 14.14. - Abandonment.
ARTICLE 15
ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
Sections
- Section 15.00.- Creation and membership.
- Section 15.01. - Jurisdiction.
- Section 15.02. - Meetings and record.
- Section 15.03. - Appeals procedures.
- Section 15.04. - Variance review procedures.
- Section 15.05. - Approval of temporary structures or uses.
- Section 15.06. - Zoning board of appeals approval.
- Section 15.07. - Special land use and planned unit development appeals.
ARTICLE 16
ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Sections
- Section 16.00.- Enforcement.
- Section 16.01. - Duties of building director.
- Section 16.02. - Permits.
- Section 16.03. - Zoning approval certificate.
- Section 16.04. - Final inspection.
- Section 16.05. - Planning commission.
- Section 16.06. - Amendments and changes.
- Section 16.07. - Fees.
- Section 16.08. - Certificate of zoning compliance.
- Section 16.09. - Minor buildings and uses of a temporary nature.