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Tahoka City Zoning Code

§ 3

Use districts.

"A" 
Dwelling Unit:
Buildings or land, in any portion of the city may be used for any of the uses listed under this classification, but in an “A” district no building or structure shall be hereafter erected which consists of less than seven hundred and fifty (750) square feet of floor space exclusive of garages and out-buildings or attached garages, or structurally altered, which is arranged or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses:
(1) 
One-family dwellings.
(2) 
Public schools, parks, or playgrounds.
(3) 
Accessory buildings, including a private garage and servant’s quarters, when located not less than eighty (80) feet from the front line, nor less than five (5) feet from any other street line, nor less than three (3) feet from either side line.
(4) 
Incidental uses: Uses customarily incident to any of the above uses, when situated in the same dwelling and not involving the conduct of a business, including customary home occupations when engaged in by the occupants of the dwellings, such as dressmaker, the office of a physician, surgeon, dentist, musician or artist, when used as his order private dwelling. Said incidental use, however, shall never be permitted as a principal use, but only as a secondary use when indispensably necessary to the enjoyment of the premises for any of the uses permitted by this section and actually made of the premises but not otherwise.
(5) 
Signs: No window displays, no name plate exceeding two (2) square feet in area, no temporary bulletin board or sign board exceeding twelve (12) square feet in area appertaining to the lease, hire, or sale or construction of a building or premises, nor advertising sign of any other character shall be permitted in any “A” district.
(6) 
Golf courses, but not including miniature, driving range, or any other form of commercial amusements.
(7) 
Temporary buildings, when they are to be used only for construction purposes or field office for the sale of the real estate of the immediate addition. Such temporary construction buildings must be moved immediately upon completion or abandonment of construction and the field office must be removed immediately upon request of the city inspector.
"B" 
Dwelling District:
Buildings or land, in any portion of the city except in an “A” district, may be used for any of the following uses; but in a “B” district no building or land shall be used, and no building or structure shall be hereafter erected or structurally altered which is arranged or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses:
(1) 
Any use permitted in an “A” district.
(2) 
Fire stations.
(3) 
Churches.
(4) 
Kindergartens, playschools or day nurseries; when not more than ten (10) pupils.
(5) 
Parking automobile areas; as accessory use only.
(6) 
Telephone exchanges (no business office).
(7) 
Two-family dwellings.
(8) 
Water supply reservoirs and towers, gas and electric public utility regulator stations, but the size, height, and location of said stations to be fixed by the city council.
(9) 
There must be a minimum of six hundred (600) square feet of floor space for single family dwelling; duplex apartments when permitted must have a minimum of one thousand (1,000) square feet of floor space.
"B-1" 
Dwelling district:
Buildings or land, in any portion of the city except in an “A” district or “B” district, may be used for any of the following uses; but in a “B-1” district no building or land shall be used, and no building or structure shall be hereafter erected or structurally altered which is arranged or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses:
(1) 
Any use permitted in an “A” or “B” district.
(2) 
There must be a minimum of five hundred (500) square feet of floor space for a single family dwelling; duplex apartments must have a minimum of eight hundred (800) square feet of floor space.
(3) 
There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than twenty-five (25) feet from the property line to the front line of the building, covered porch, covered terrace or attached accessory building.
(4) 
Trailer camps.
"B-2" 
Dwelling district:
Buildings or land, in any portion of the city except in any of the preceding districts, may be used for any of the following uses; but in a “B-2” district no building or land shall be used, and no building or structure shall be hereafter erected or structurally altered which is arranged or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses:
(1) 
Any use permitted in any of the foregoing districts.
(2) 
Multiple dwellings, apartment houses and group houses, including tourist camps or courts, and lodges. .
(3) 
Hospitals and clinics, excepting tubercular and veterinary hospitals and clinics and those for alcoholic, narcotic, insane and feeble-minded patients.
(4) 
Hotels in which businesses may be conducted for the sole convenience of the occupants of the buildings; provided, however, there shall be no entrance to such place of business except from the inside of the building.
(5) 
Institutions of a philanthropic nature other than penal or correctional institutions.
(6) 
Libraries and museums.
(7) 
Multiple dwellings, apartment houses and group houses, including tourist or trailer camps, courts or lodges.
(8) 
Private clubs, fraternities, sororities, lodges, except those whose chief activities are services customarily carried on as a business.
"D" 
Local retail district:
(1) 
Any use permitted in any of the foregoing dwelling districts.
(2) 
Automobile parking lots (not storage).
(3) 
Banks, offices, studios, office buildings, drugstores, camera stores.
(4) 
Restaurants or cafes.
(5) 
Retail pressing, dyeing and cleaning shops.
(6) 
Retail stores, barbershops, beauty parlors, and other shops for custom work or for the making of articles to be sold at retail on the premises; provided, no “secondhand goods” stores or yards will be permitted in the “D” district.
(7) 
Bakeries, laundries, candy manufacturing (when employing less than six (6) persons on the premises).
(8) 
Hotels.
(9) 
Theaters, moving picture shows.
(10) 
Job printing and newspapers.
"E" 
Local business district:
(1) 
Any use permitted in any of the foregoing districts.
(2) 
Auto sales (where the major business is the display and sale of new automobiles by an authorized dealer and repair work and storage facilities shall be purely incidental, provided further that the area allowed for the repairs and storage of cars shall not be nearer than twenty (20) feet from the front line of the building).
(3) 
Mortuaries, greenhouses, or nursery offices.
(4) 
Public storage garages (only minor repairs).
(5) 
Retail ice delivery stations, gasoline filling stations.
(6) 
Tourist court or lodges.
(7) 
Wholesale office and sample room.
(8) 
Any use not included in any other class; provided such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, gas fumes, noise or vibration; provided further that no kind of manufacture or treatment shall be permitted in the “E” district other than the manufacture or treatment of products clearly incidental to the conduct of a retail business conducted on the premises.
"F" 
Business district:
(1) 
Any use permitted in any of the foregoing districts.
(2) 
Bakeries.
(3) 
Bottling works.
(4) 
Candy manufacturing.
(5) 
Art printing.
(6) 
Electro plating, electric works, including armature winding, galvanizing.
(7) 
Laundries, dyeing and cleaning works.
(8) 
“Secondhand” goods stores (when housed entirely in building).
(9) 
Pecan shelling.
(10) 
Public garages, including repairing.
(11) 
“Secondhand” automobile yards (not including wrecking).
(12) 
Storage warehouses.
(13) 
Wholesale houses.
(14) 
Any use not included in any other class provided such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas fumes, noise or vibration; provided further, that no kind of manufacture or treatment not listed above shall be permitted in an “F” district other than the manufacture or treatment of products clearly incidental to the conduct of a business conducted on the premises.
"G" 
Industrial districts:
(1) 
Any use permitted in any of the foregoing districts.
(2) 
Blacksmith or horseshoeing shops.
(3) 
Ice cream manufacture, ice manufacture, cold storage plants, electric power plants, and creameries and dairy products manufacture and processing, wholesale milk distribution.
(4) 
Cotton storage yards.
(5) 
Broom manufacture.
(6) 
Building materials, storage yards, lumber yards.
(7) 
Carpet cleaning.
(8) 
Chicken hatcheries.
(9) 
Central mixing plants for cement, mortar, plaster and paving materials.
(10) 
Commercial amusement parks, swimming pools, skating rinks, dance halls, driving ranges, archery ranges, miniature golf courses.
(11) 
Emery cloth and sand paper manufacture.
(12) 
Flour mills.
(13) 
Iron, steel or copper fabrication plants.
(14) 
Livery freight depots or garages.
(15) 
Machine shops.
(16) 
Mattress manufacture.
(17) 
Paper box manufacture.
(18) 
Penal or correctional institutions, institutions for the care of tubercular, insane, feeble-minded, alcoholic, or narcotic patients.
(19) 
Billboard or advertising signs pertaining to business on site; size restricted by sign ordinance.
(20) 
Planing mills and wooden box manufacture.
(21) 
Refrigerator manufacture.
(22) 
Contractor’s plants and storage.
(23) 
Stone monumental works.
(24) 
Veterinary hospitals.
(25) 
Yeast plants.
(26) 
Manufacture of any kind not listed under “H” First manufacturing district or under “I” Second manufacturing district, provided that such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of dust, smoke, gas, noise or vibration.
(27) 
Roustabout gangs.
(28) 
Well servicing.
(29) 
Dirt contractors.
(30) 
Trucking contractors.
(31) 
Feed stores.
(32) 
Recreation parlors.
(33) 
Bowling alleys.
"H" 
First manufacturing district:
(1) 
Any use permitted in any of the foregoing districts.
(2) 
Alcohol manufacture.
(3) 
Automobile wrecking.
(4) 
Bag cleaning.
(5) 
Blast furnaces.
(6) 
Boiler works.
(7) 
Brick, tile, pottery or terra cotta manufacture.
(8) 
Canning or preserving manufacture, egg breaking.
(9) 
Celluloid and similar cellulose material manufacture.
(10) 
Cotton compresses, cotton ginning, cotton bailing, cotton warehouses and cotton seed manufacture.
(11) 
Coal hoists, coal pockets or coal tar trestles.
(12) 
Disinfectants and insecticides.
(13) 
Dye stuff manufacture.
(14) 
Fish smoking and curing.
(15) 
Feed mills.
(16) 
Forage plants.
(17) 
Grain elevators.
(18) 
Iron, steel, brass or copper foundries.
(19) 
Oil cloth or linoleum manufacture.
(20) 
Oil or rubber goods manufacture.
(21) 
Petroleum products, wholesale storage of.
(22) 
Pickle manufacture.
(23) 
Potash works.
(24) 
Poultry killing, cleaning and dressing, storage of live poultry.
(25) 
Pyroxlim manufacture.
(26) 
Railroad roundhouses or shops.
(27) 
Rock crushers.
(28) 
Rolling mills.
(29) 
Rubber or gutta-percha manufacture or treatment.
(30) 
Shoe polish manufacture.
(31) 
Stone mills or quarries.
(32) 
Storage or bailing of rags, iron, junk or paper.
(33) 
Stove polish manufacture.
(34) 
Tile roofing or water proof manufacture.
(35) 
Textile manufacture.
(36) 
Wool pulling or scouring.
(37) 
Livestock auction sales with barns and temporary concentration shipping, loading and unloading facilities.
(38) 
Manufacture or industrial operations of any kind not heretofore listed; but exclusive of any kind of use listed under “I” district.
"I" 
Second manufacturing district:
(1) 
Any use not prohibited by city ordinance.
(2) 
Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed as repealing any existing ordinance of the city regulating nuisances, or to permit uses which are now prohibited by ordinances.
Newly annexed territory: All territory annexed to the city hereafter shall be classified as “A,” single family dwelling district, until permanently zoned by the governing body. The city planning and zoning commission shall, as soon as practicable, after annexation of any territory to the city, institute proceeding on its own motion to give the newly annexed territory a permanent zoning and the procedure to be followed shall be the same as is provided by law for the adoption of original zoning regulations.
(Appendix A, Ordinance adopted 5/2/77)