Springfield City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 150
FLOODPLAIN REGULATIONS1
Sections
- § 150.01.- Purpose.
- § 150.02. - Definitions.
- § 150.03. - Base flood elevation.
- § 150.04. - Duties of the floodplain reviewer.
- § 150.05. - Development permit.
- § 150.06. - Preventing increased flood heights and resulting damages.
- § 150.07. - Protecting buildings.
- § 150.08. - Subdivision and other development requirements.
- § 150.09. - Public health and other standards.
- § 150.10. - Carrying capacity and notification.
- § 150.11. - Variances.
- § 150.12. - Disclaimer of liability.
- § 150.13. - Penalty.
- § 150.14. - Abrogation and greater restrictions.
- § 150.15. - Severability.
CHAPTER 151
PLANNED DEVELOPMENT
Sections
- ARTICLE I. - IN GENERAL
- ARTICLE II. - PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT
- § 151.02. - Purpose.
- § 151.04. - Procedure.
- § 151.05. - Findings.
- § 151.06. - Permitted uses.
- § 151.07. - Mixture of uses.
- § 151.08. - Minimum size.
- § 151.09. - Variance.
- § 151.10. - Maximum density.
- § 151.11. - Appeal of adverse decisions.
- § 151.12. - Change of an approved stage II plan, overall plan, final plat, or site plan.
- § 151.13. - Preapplication conference.
- § 151.14. - Preapplication information.
- § 151.15. - Location map.
- § 151.16. - Location map requirements.
- § 151.17. - Zoning submissions.
- § 151.18. - Zoning.
- § 151.19. - stage II submissions.
- § 151.20. - Required submissions.
- § 151.21. - Tentative approval.
- § 151.22. - Overall plan.
- § 151.23. - Required information.
- § 151.24. - Construction plans.
- § 151.25. - Required information.
- § 151.26. - Platting.
- § 151.27. - Required information.
- § 151.28. - Site plan review.
- § 151.29. - Simultaneous submission.
- § 151.30. - Required information.
- § 151.31. - Minimum development standards.
- ARTICLE III. - PLANNED EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT
- § 151.40. - Purpose.
- § 151.41. - Objectives.
- § 151.42. - Procedure.
- § 151.43. - Permitted uses; mix of uses.
- § 151.44. - Maximum size.
- § 151.45. - Variance.
- § 151.46. - Maximum density.
- § 151.47. - Preliminary plan, stage one.
- § 151.48. - Final plan, stage two.
- § 151.49. - Change of an approved plan.
- § 151.50. - Minimum development standards.
CHAPTER 152
SIGNS2
Sections
- ARTICLE I. - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- ARTICLE II. - SIGN PERMIT
- § 152.05. - Sign permit required, permit fees.
- § 152.06. - Exemptions.
- § 152.07. - Examination of plans; issuance.
- § 152.08. - When permit becomes null and void.
- § 152.09. - Inspections; inspection fees.
- § 152.10. - Painting requirements generally.
- § 152.11. - Permit number, date of erection, and voltage to be painted on signs.
- § 152.12. - Signs using electrical wiring.
- § 152.13. - Removal of certain signs.
- § 152.14. - Unsafe and unlawful signs.
- § 152.15. - Not to obstruct fire escapes.
- § 152.16. - To be marked with erector's name.
- § 152.17. - Loads and allowable stresses.
- § 152.18. - Ground signs.
- § 152.19. - Roof signs.
- § 152.20. - Wall signs.
- § 152.21. - Projecting signs.
- § 152.22. - Marquee signs.
- § 152.23. - Handbills.
- ARTICLE III. - PENALTY
CHAPTER 153
SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
Sections
- ARTICLE I. - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- ARTICLE II. - LOCATION AND SKETCH MAPS
- ARTICLE III. - PRELIMINARY PLAN
- ARTICLE IV. - CONSTRUCTION PLANS
- ARTICLE V. - CONSTRUCTION AND BONDING OF PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
- ARTICLE VI. - FINAL PLAT
- § 153.145. - Purpose.
- § 153.145.1. - Reserved.
- § 153.145.2. - Special service area tax levy.
- § 153.145.3. - Time to construct.
- § 153.146. - Submission requirements.
- § 153.147. - Final plat review process.
- § 153.148. - Submission of final plat to city engineer.
- § 153.149. - Recording the final plat.
- § 153.150. - Copies of final plat.
- § 153.151. - Acceptance of public improvements.
- § 153.152. - Recapture—Roadway improvements.
- ARTICLE VII. - STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR REQUIRED PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
- § 153.155. - State specifications.
- § 153.156. - Right-of-way of streets.
- § 153.157. - Street design.
- § 153.158. - Lot and block design.
- § 153.159. - Erosion and sediment control.
- § 153.160. - Utility easements; location of utilities.
- § 153.161. - Surface water drainage.
- § 153.162. - Sidewalks and sidewalk ramps.
- § 153.163. - Sewage disposal.
- § 153.164. - Water supply.
- § 153.165. - Backfill over underground utilities.
- § 153.166. - Electric distribution.
- § 153.167. - Street lighting.
- ARTICLE VIII. - MINOR SUBDIVISION
- § 153.175. - Purpose.
- § 153.176. - Location map.
- § 153.177. - Final plat submission requirements.
- § 153.178. - Review process.
- § 153.179. - Submission of minor subdivision plat to city council.
- § 153.180. - City council approval.
- § 153.181. - Recording the minor subdivision plat.
- § 153.182. - Electric utilities installation.
- § 153.183. - Limitations on minor subdivisions.
- ARTICLE IX. - SITE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
- ARTICLE X. - LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENT PLAN[3]
- § 153.190. - Purpose.
- § 153.191. - Submission requirements for a large scale development plan.
- § 153.192. - Large scale development plan review process.
- § 153.193. - Reserved.
- § 153.194. - City council action.
- § 153.195. - Disapproval; filing modified plan.
- § 153.196. - Validity of large scale developments.
- § 153.197. - Construction plans for large scale developments.
- § 153.198. - Construction and bonding of large scale developments.
- § 153.199. - Recording.
- § 153.200. - Copies of recorded documents.
- § 153.201. - Issuance of building permits.
- ARTICLE XI. - TRACT SURVEY[4]
- ARTICLE XII. - PROCEDURE AT PUBLIC HEARINGS; VARIATIONS; REVIEW OF ADVERSE DECISIONS; PENALTY; EFFECTIVE DATE; PUBLICATION[5]
- ARTICLE XIII. - PENALTY[6]
CHAPTER 154
EROSION CONTROL REGULATIONS
Sections
- ARTICLE I. - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- ARTICLE II. - EROSION CONTROL PERMIT
- ARTICLE III. - EROSION CONTROL PLAN
- ARTICLE IV. - MAINTENANCE OF EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL MEASURES
- ARTICLE V. - ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES
CHAPTER 155
- ZONING
Sections
- ARTICLE I. - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 155.001.- Definitions.
- § 155.002. - Short title.
- § 155.003. - Territorial application.
- § 155.004. - Establishment of districts.
- § 155.005. - Zoning map.
- § 155.006. - Control over use.
- § 155.007. - Control over bulk.
- § 155.008. - Procedure for zoning annexed territory or territory coming within zoning jurisdiction as result of change in corporate boundaries.
- § 155.009. - Severability.
- ARTICLE II.- USE REGULATIONS
- DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY
- DIVISION 2. - USE REGULATIONS, RESIDENCE DISTRICT
- § 155.015. - R-1 single-family residence districts; purpose.
- § 155.016. - Regulations of R-1 single-family residence districts.
- § 155.017. - Regulations of R-2 single-family and duplex residence district.
- § 155.018. - Regulations of R-3 (a), (b) general residence districts.
- § 155.019. - R-4 mobile home and trailer park residential district.
- § 155.020. - Regulations of the OFF office district.
- § 155.021. - Regulations of R-5(a) and (b) general residence and office district.
- § 155.022. - Regulations of R-5(c) office district.
- DIVISION 3. - USE REGULATIONS, COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
- DIVISION 4. - USE REGULATIONS, INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
- ARTICLE III.- SUPPLEMENTARY USE REGULATIONS
- § 155.042.- Temporary buildings.
- § 155.043. - Watchman's quarters.
- § 155.044. - Towing and temporary storage of vehicles.
- § 155.045. - Home occupations.
- § 155.045.1. - Garage sales.
- § 155.046. - Certain automotive uses near schools and parks.
- § 155.047. - Special provisions for district boundaries.
- § 155.048. - Further special provisions near district boundaries.
- § 155.048.1. - Special provisions for payday loan business(es).
- § 155.049. - Special provisions for residential uses in the inner city.
- § 155.050. - Screening.
- § 155.051. - Certain drive-in businesses.
- § 155.052. - Special requirements for large scale residential, industrial, multifamily and commercial developments.
- § 155.052.1. - Adult uses.
- § 155.053. - Reserved.
- § 155.054. - Heliports and helistops.
- § 155.054.1. - Special provisions for family day-care homes (types 1 and 2).
- ARTICLE IV.- BULK REGULATIONS
- § 155.055.- Minimum lot width for residences.
- § 155.056. - Minimum required lot area per dwelling unit.
- § 155.057. - Additional lot area for mixed buildings.
- § 155.058. - Maximum building heights.
- § 155.059. - Maximum height for community facilities buildings.
- § 155.060. - Exceptions to height limitations.
- § 155.061. - Basic yard requirements.
- § 155.062. - Permitted obstructions in required yards.
- § 155.063. - Required yards for lots adjoining residential districts.
- § 155.064. - Required front yards in partly residential blocks.
- § 155.065. - Side yard for community facilities building.
- § 155.066. - Minimum required rear yards for mixed buildings in commercial districts.
- § 155.067. - Provisions for through lots.
- § 155.068. - Garages or accessory buildings or structures.
- § 155.069. - Fences.
- § 155.070. - Special provisions for existing small lots of record.
- § 155.071. - Special provisions for existing narrow zoning lots.
- § 155.072. - Special provisions for R-4 mobile home and trailer park residential district.
- ARTICLE V. - OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING
- DIVISION 1. - ACCESSORY OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING REGULATIONS
- DIVISION 2. - REQUIRED ACCESSORY OFF-STREET PARKING SPACES FOR ALL USES
- § 155.090. - General provisions.
- § 155.091. - Residences.
- § 155.092. - Hotels, boarding or lodging houses, dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and private clubs and lodges.
- § 155.093. - Motels and similar places offering overnight accommodations, including, but not limited to bed and breakfast inns.
- § 155.094. - Mobile home parks.
- § 155.095. - Community facilities uses.
- § 155.096. - Public services and public utility facilities.
- § 155.097. - Office buildings.
- § 155.098. - Retail or service establishments not otherwise covered in this subchapter.
- § 155.099. - Automobile services.
- § 155.100. - Eating and drinking establishments.
- § 155.101. - Amusement facilities.
- § 155.102. - Schools, business, dance, music, or trade.
- § 155.103. - Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors.
- § 155.104. - Wholesale, manufacturing, and industrial plants.
- § 155.105. - Other uses.
- § 155.106. - All drive-up service facilities.
- § 155.107. - Computation of number of required spaces.
- § 155.108. - Collective provisions for mixed use or compatible uses.
- § 155.109. - Repair and service facilities in conjunction with accessory off-street parking facilities.
- § 155.110. - Size of parking spaces.
- § 155.111. - Access to off-street parking facilities.
- § 155.112. - Surfacing.
- § 155.113. - Screening.
- § 155.114. - Regulations for the location of off-street parking facilities.
- § 155.115. - Regulations for safety curbing.
- § 155.116. - Lighting.
- DIVISION 3. - REQUIRED OFF-STREET LOADING SPACES FOR ALL USES
- § 155.120. - General provisions.
- § 155.121. - Multiple-family dwellings, boarding or lodging houses, dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and apartment hotels.
- § 155.122. - Hotels, motels, private clubs, and lodges, containing no retail shops, convention halls, auditoriums, exhibition halls, or business or professional offices.
- § 155.123. - Hotels, motels, private clubs, and lodges, containing retail shops, convention halls, auditoriums, exhibition halls, or business or professional offices.
- § 155.124. - Community facilities uses such as auditoriums, colleges, hospitals, museums, nursing homes, sanitariums, schools, and similar institutions.
- § 155.125. - Public service and public utility facilities.
- § 155.126. - Banks and business involving no retail sales, professional and governmental offices, and medical clinics.
- § 155.127. - Retail or service establishments and eating and drinking establishments.
- § 155.128. - Amusement facilities.
- § 155.129. - Schools, business, dance, music, or trade.
- § 155.130. - Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors.
- § 155.131. - Wholesale, manufacturing, and industrial plants.
- § 155.132. - Other uses.
- § 155.133. - Size of loading spaces.
- § 155.134. - Location of off-street loading spaces.
- § 155.135. - Regulations for access of off-street loading facilities.
- § 155.136. - Regulations for surfacing of off-street loading facilities.
- § 155.137. - Regulations for repair and service facilities within off-street loading spaces.
- § 155.138. - Regulations on space allowed for off-street loading spaces.
- DIVISION 4. - REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO BOTH ACCESSORY OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING FACILITIES
- ARTICLE VI.- NONCONFORMING USES
- § 155.151. - Continuation of nonconforming use.
- § 155.152. - Change of nonconforming use.
- § 155.153. - Enlargement or extension.
- § 155.154. - Procedure for change, enlargement, or extension.
- § 155.155. - Requirements for approval of change.
- § 155.156. - Requirements for approval of enlargement or extension.
- § 155.157. - Discontinuance of use.
- § 155.158. - Damage or destruction.
- § 155.159. - Repairs or alterations.
- ARTICLE VII.- NONCOMPLYING BUILDINGS
- ARTICLE VIII.- CONDITIONAL USES
- DIVISION 1. - CONDITIONAL PERMITTED USES
- DIVISION 2. - CONDITIONAL PERMITTED USES BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
- § 155.178. - Conditional permitted uses by Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission.
- § 155.179. - Tourist homes, bed and breakfasts inns.
- § 155.180. - Cemeteries or mausoleums.
- § 155.181. - Public utility or public service facilities.
- § 155.182. - Multifamily residences in certain commercial districts.
- § 155.183. - Accessory off-street parking not on same zoning lot as use served.
- § 155.184. - Commercial off-street parking.
- DIVISION 3. - CONDITIONAL PERMITTED USES BY THE CITY COUNCIL
- § 155.185. - General provisions.
- § 155.186. - Requirements for application.
- § 155.187. - General conditions.
- § 155.188. - Procedures for revocation of conditional permitted use.
- § 155.190. - Nonbusiness clubs.
- § 155.191. - Medical centers or clinics, hospitals, or nursing homes.
- § 155.193. - Institutions.
- § 155.195. - Fairgrounds, racetracks, or drive-in theaters.
- § 155.196. - Automobile service stations.
- § 155.197. - Trucking terminals or motor freight stations.
- § 155.198. - Airports.
- § 155.199. - Riding stables and agricultural uses.
- § 155.200. - Taverns, micro-breweries, country clubs and golf course clubhouses with liquor sales by the drink.
- § 155.201. - Nurseries.
- § 155.202. - Automobile dismantling and wrecking; automobile graveyards; garbage and refuse disposal; junkyards.
- § 155.203. - Certain drive-in businesses.
- § 155.207. - Helistops and heliports.
- § 155.208. - Conditional permitted uses in H-1, H-2, H-3 historic zoning districts and landmarks or historic districts.
- § 155.209. - Reserved.
- § 155.210. - Package liquor sales.
- § 155.211. - Restaurant with service of alcoholic beverages.
- § 155.211.1. - Reserved.
- § 155.211.2. - Rehabilitation home.
- § 155.211.3. - Adult uses.
- § 155.211.4. - Family day-care home (type 1 and 2).
- § 155.211.5. - Medical cannabis cultivation centers.
- § 155.211.6. - Medical cannabis dispensing organization.
- § 155.211.7. - Adult-use cannabis dispensing organization.
- § 155.211.8. - On premises area to consume cannabis in conjunction with an adult-use cannabis dispensing organization.
- § 155.211.9. - Adult-use cannabis craft growers.
- § 155.211.10. - Adult-use cannabis transporting organization or processing organization.
- § 155.211.11. - Adult-use cannabis cultivation centers.
- § 155.211.12. - Adult-use cannabis infusers.
- ARTICLE IX.- VARIANCES
- § 155.212.- General provisions.
- § 155.213. - Application for variances; notice of hearing.
- § 155.214. - Applications for amendments and variances.
- § 155.215. - Authorized variances by Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission.
- § 155.216. - Standards for variances.
- § 155.217. - Conditions or restrictions.
- § 155.218. - Lapse of variance.
- ARTICLE X. - AMENDMENTS
- § 155.220.- General provision.
- § 155.221. - Initiation of amendment.
- § 155.222. - Application for amendment.
- § 155.223. - Hearings on application.
- § 155.224. - Protest against proposed change.
- § 155.225. - Findings of fact and recommendation of the Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission.
- § 155.226. - Conditions or restrictions.
- § 155.227. - Action by the city council; amendment, variance, conditional permitted use.
- ARTICLE XI.- OFFICE OF ZONING ADMINISTRATOR
- ARTICLE XII.- BUILDING PERMITS AND CERTIFICATES OF OCCUPANCY
- ARTICLE XIII.- PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
- ARTICLE XIV.- HISTORIC ZONING DISTRICT REGULATIONS
- § 155.265.- Purpose.
- § 155.266. - Historic zoning districts.
- § 155.267. - Historic zoning district processing of building permit applications.
- § 155.268. - H-1 historic zoning district permitted uses.
- § 155.269. - H-1 historic zoning district conditional permitted uses.
- § 155.270. - H-2 historic zoning district permitted uses.
- § 155.271. - H-2 historic zoning district conditional permitted uses.
- § 155.272. - H-3 historic zoning district permitted uses.
- § 155.273. - H-3 historic zoning district conditional permitted uses.
- § 155.274. - H-1 historic zoning district bulk regulations.
- § 155.275. - H-2 historic zoning district bulk regulations.
- § 155.276. - H-3 historic zoning district bulk regulations.
- § 155.277. - Historic zoning districts, general requirements.
- § 155.278. - Variances of bulk requirements.
- § 155.279. - Conditional permitted uses in landmarks and historic districts.
- § 155.280. - Historic enterprise conditional permitted uses.
- § 155.281. - Historic enterprise bulk, sign, and parking requirements.
- § 155.282. - Withdrawal of landmark or historic district designation.
- ARTICLE XV.- SIGNS
- DIVISION 1. - GENERAL SIGN REGULATIONS
- DIVISION 2. - RESIDENCE OFFICE DISTRICT SIGN REGULATIONS
- DIVISION 3. - COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT SIGN REGULATIONS
- DIVISION 4. - OFF-PREMISES SIGNS
- DIVISION 5. - NONCONFORMING SIGNS
- ARTICLE XVI.- WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITIES, ANTENNAS, MONOPOLES, TOWERS AND SATELLITE DISHES
- § 155.400.- Definitions.
- § 155.401. - General regulations.
- § 155.402. - Use regulations.
- § 155.403. - Bulk regulations.
- § 155.404. - Parking requirements.
- § 155.405. - Landscaping and aesthetic requirements.
- § 155.406. - Administrative review.
- § 155.407. - Conditional permitted use.
- § 155.408. - Legal nonconforming uses.
- § 155.409. - Legal noncomplying structures.
- § 155.410. - Termination of use.
- ARTICLE XVII.- LANDSCAPE, SCREENING, AND LIGHTING REGULATIONS
- ARTICLE XVII.V.- PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MEDICAL CANNABIS
- § 155.490.- Definitions.
- § 155.491. - Purpose and intent.
- § 155.492. - Conditional permitted use.
- § 155.493. - Conformance with regulations.
- § 155.494. - Principal use.
- § 155.495. - Petition.
- § 155.496. - Special requirements for cultivation centers and adult-use cannabis business establishments except adult-use dispensary.
- § 155.497. - Special requirements for dispensing organizations or adult-use dispensing organizations.
- § 155.498. - Dissolution of use and revocation of zoning.
- ARTICLE XVIII.- MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
- ARTICLE XIX.- PENALTIES