Shelton City Zoning Code

Occupancies. The city recognizes the occupancy classifications of the most recently adopted version of the International Building Code for the purposes of determining general land use categories.

Mixed Occupancy. When two or more occupancy classifications are located in the same structure, if the primary use and secondary uses are not physically separated by firerated walls, they must be calculated together under the more restrictive occupancy requirements; if meeting the physical separation requirements of the International Building Code, International Fire Code, and other applicable codes, then their areas may be calculated separately.

Model homes or apartments and related real estate services, if the use is located within the residential development to which the use pertains;

A circus, carnival, rodeo, fair, or similar activity, if:

Yard sales, provided they are limited to no more often than four per year, and such sale shall not be continued for a period of more than three consecutive days, and shall not commence on each day of such sale before eight a.m. nor continue past eight p.m.;

Christmas tree sales;

An on-site construction field office, if the use is located in a portable structure and conducted for not more than six months;

The seasonal retail sale of agricultural or horticultural products, if the use is located in a general commercial zoning district;

A sales office for a new subdivision, if the sales office is located within the subdivision and at least two hundred feet from existing dwellings outside the subdivision;

A single dwelling located in a mobile structure on a construction site may be permitted as a temporary use under this title for the purpose of providing security against nighttime theft or vandalism, for a period of up to six months and, if requested by the applicant, may extend that period for an additional six months;

Retail services may be permitted as a temporary use within the downtown (DT) or general commercial (GC) zoning districts, in accordance with the following requirements:

Whenever a public hearing is to be held by the hearings examiner for a change of zoning, no less than three notices thereof shall be posted by the director of planning in conspicuous places on or adjacent to the tract, lot or other land or building area affected.

Written notices shall be mailed to adjacent landowners, or their agents, or others likely to be affected. Such notices shall state the time and place of such hearing and the nature of the question to be heard and shall be posted not less than fourteen days prior to the date of hearing. Notices shall be sent to the names appearing on the tax rolls of all property within a distance of three hundred feet, streets and alleys excluded, and of all property which is the subject of the public hearing not less than seven days before the public hearing. Notices may also be sent to other property owners who might be affected. In addition, notice of the hearing shall be published at least ten days prior to the hearing in the city’s newspaper of record. In addition to other required data accompanying a request involving public hearing, nonrefundable fee payable to the city shall be filed to cover costs incurred in connection with the posting and mailing of notices in the amount indicated elsewhere in this title.