Tiverton City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE IV
DISTRICT USE REGULATIONS
Sections
- Section 1. - Interpretation of zoning district use table.
- Section 2. - Residential uses.
- Section 3. - Farming or raising of animals.
- Section 4. - Public and semipublic uses.
- Section 5. - Public utility uses.
- Section 6. - Recreation uses.
- Section 7. - Office uses.
- Section 8. - Restaurants and entertainment.
- Section 9. - Service business.
- Section 10. - Retail business.
- Section 11. - Transportation uses.
- Section 12. - Wholesale business and storage.
- Section 13. - Industrial uses.
- Section 14. - Cannabis uses.
- Section 15. - Accessory uses.
- Section 16. - Prohibited uses.
- Section 17. - Manufactured home elderly community.
- Section 18. - Age restricted mixed use community.
- Section 19. - Large scale office park development.
- Section 20. - Planned development park.
- Section 21. - Casino gaming and entertainment overlay district—CGE.
- Section 22. - Adaptive reuse projects.
ARTICLE VI
OTHER DISTRICT REGULATIONS
Sections
- Section 1. - Yard regulations and accessory structures.
- Section 2. - Departures from yard requirements.
- Section 3. - Reserved.
- Section 4. - Vision clearance at corners.
- Section 5. - Height modifications.
- Section 6. - Home occupation.
- Section 7. - Setbacks from certain water bodies.
- Section 8. - Unaccepted streets.
- Section 9. - Merger of lots by "use."
- Section 10. - Performance criteria.
ARTICLE IX
RURAL RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS2
Sections
- Section 1. - Introduction.
- Section 2. - Purposes.
- Section 3. - General provisions.
- Section 4. - Density.
- Section 5. - Permitted uses.
- Section 6. - Prohibited uses.
- Section 7. - Dimensional regulations for rural residential developments.
- Section 8. - Common open space requirements.
- Section 9. - Private roads and common drives.
ARTICLE X
- SPECIAL PROVISIONS
Sections
- Section 1. - Parking regulations.
- Section 2. - Off-street loading regulations.
- Section 3. - Parking, storage and use of major recreational equipment in residential districts.
- Section 4. - Parking and storage of certain vehicles.
- Section 5. - Service station location requirement.
- Section 6. - Freshwater wetlands.
- Section 7. - Modifications to dimensional requirements.
ARTICLE XII
SIGN REGULATIONS
Sections
- Section 1. - Statement of purposes.
- Section 2. - Definitions.
- Section 3. - General standards.
- Section 4. - Standards by use.
- Section 5. - Legal nonconforming signs.
- Section 6. - Violations.
- Section 7. - Prohibited signs.
- Section 8. - Temporary signs requiring a permit.
- Section 9. - Permits.
- Section 10. - Signs exempt from permits.
- Section 11. - Special use permit.
- Section 12. - Sign maintenance and removal.
- Section 13. - Protection under First Amendment rights.
ARTICLE XV
ZONING BOARD OF REVIEW
Sections
- Section 1. - Organization.
- Section 2. - Procedures of the board.
- Section 3. - Powers and duties of the board.
- Section 4. - Procedure for appeals.
- Section 5. - Procedure for special use permits and variances.
- Section 6. - Public hearing requirement.
- Section 7. - Special conditions.
- Section 8. - Filing fees.
- Section 9. - Appeal from a decision of the zoning board of review.
ARTICLE XVIII
ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- Section 1. - Zoning officer.
- Section 2. - Building permit.
- Section 3. - Ordinance provisions as minimum requirements.
- Section 4. - Vested rights.
- Section 5. - Violations.
- Section 6. - Penalty for violations.
- Section 7. - Maintenance of zoning ordinance and map by town clerk.
- Section 8. - Review of zoning ordinance by planning board.
- Section 9. - Repetitive petitions.
- Section 10. - Technical review committee.
ARTICLE XIX
AMENDMENT
Sections
ARTICLE XXI
LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING7
Sections
- Section 1. - Statutory authority and purpose.
- Section 2. - Definitions.
- Section 3. - Comprehensive permit: In general.
- Section 4. - Comprehensive permit: Eligible applicants and projects.
- Section 5. - Comprehensive permit: Available municipal subsidies.
- Section 6. - Comprehensive permit: Application requirements.
- Section 7. - Comprehensive permits: Review procedures.
- Section 8. - Comprehensive plan: Appeals.
- Section 9. - Comprehensive permit: Vesting.
ARTICLE XXII
IMPACT FEES8
Sections
- Section 1. - Impact fees authorized.
- Section 2. - Findings.
- Section 3. - Intent.
- Section 4. - Definitions.
- Section 5. - Imposition of public facilities impact fee and appeals.
- Section 6. - Calculation of the impact fee.
- Section 7. - Payment of fee.
- Section 8. - Capital facilities impact fee proprietary fund established
- Section 9. - Use of funds.
- Section 10. - Vested rights.
- Section 11. - Refund of fees paid.
- Section 12. - Exemptions.
- Section 13. - Effective date.
ARTICLE XXIV
SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS
Sections
- Section 1. - General.
- Section 2. - Definitions.
- Section 3. - Zoning district use regulations.
- Section 4. - Roof-mounted SES.
- Section 5. - Ground-mounted SES use by zone.
- Section 6. - Ground-mounted SES general conditions and requirements.
- Section 7. - Accessory ground-mounted solar energy systems.
- Section 8. - Principal ground-mounted solar energy systems.
- Section 9. - Impaired site ground-mounted solar systems.
- Section 10. - Agricultural accessory ground-mounted solar systems.
- Section 11. - Solar canopy.
- Section 12. - Maintenance plan.
- Section 13. - Decommissioning.
- Section 14. - Financial surety.
ARTICLE XXVI
CONSERVATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Sections
- Section 1. - Conservation development.
- Section 2. - Applicability.
- Section 3. - Subdivision approval required.
- Section 4. - Maximum density for conservation developments.
- Section 5. - Permitted uses.
- Section 6. - Additional standards for multi-family conservation development projects.
- Section 7. - Additional standards for conservation development projects with a combination of dwelling types.
- Section 8. - Maintenance.
- Section 9. - Open space.