Vinton City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE II
DISTRICTS AND DISTRICT MAP
Sections
- Sec. 2-1.- Establishment of zoning districts.
- Sec. 2-2. - District boundaries; official zoning map.
- Sec. 2-3. - Maintenance of zoning map.
- Sec. 2-4. - Recording amendments on zoning map.
- Sec. 2-5. - Unauthorized changes to zoning map.
- Sec. 2-6. - Copies of zoning map.
- Sec. 2-7. - Interpretation of district boundaries.
- Sec. 2-8. - Vacation of street or other public way.
- Sec. 2-9. - Unclassified areas and additions to jurisdiction.
ARTICLE III
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections
- Sec. 3-1.- Compliance with provisions.
- Sec. 3-2. - Interpretation and application.
- Sec. 3-3. - Reduction from requirements.
- Sec. 3-4. - Requirements to be met for each building, structure or use.
- Sec. 3-5. - Existing buildings, structures and uses.
- Sec. 3-7. - Compliance with approved applications and plans.
- Sec. 3-8. - Permits issued prior to adoption of appendix.
- Sec. 3-9. - Fees.
- Sec. 3-10. - Severability.
ARTICLE IV
DISTRICT REGULATIONS
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
- DIVISION 2. - MULTIPLE PURPOSE DISTRICTS
- DIVISION 3. - INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
- DIVISION 4. - PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS
- DIVISION 5. - MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT (MUD) DISTRICT
- Sec. 4-16. - Purpose of the mixed-use development (MUD) district.
- Sec. 4-17. - Procedural requirements for mixed-use development (MUD) district.
- Sec. 4-18. - Use table for mixed-use development district.
- Sec. 4-19. - Street design, block size and sidewalks.
- Sec. 4-20. - Parking.
- Sec. 4-21. - Pedestrian scale lighting.
- Sec. 4-22. - Utilities.
- Sec. 4-23. - Property owners' association (POA).
- Sec. 4-24. - General development standards.
- Sec. 4-25. - Procedures.
- DIVISION 6. - FLOODPLAIN OVERLAY DISTRICT
- Sec. 4-26. - General provisions.
- Sec. 4-27. - Definitions.
- Sec. 4-28. - Administration.
- Sec. 4-29. - Boundary and floodplain overlay district changes.
- Sec. 4-30. - Establishment of floodplain overlay districts.
- Sec. 4-31. - District provisions.
- Sec. 4-32. - Permitted uses by right and by special use.
- Sec. 4-33. - Existing structures in floodplain areas.
- Sec. 4-34. - Variances; factors to be considered.
ARTICLE V
- SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS
Sections
- Sec. 5-1.- Purpose.
- Sec. 5-2. - Applicability.
- Sec. 5-3. - Accessory dwelling units.
- Sec. 5-4. - Adult uses.
- Sec. 5-5. - Animal-related facilities, completely enclosed.
- Sec. 5-6. - Animal-related facilities with outdoor components.
- Sec. 5-7. - Boardinghouses and rooming houses.
- Sec. 5-8. - Commercial motor vehicle sales, rental, and service establishments, and recreational vehicle or boat sales and service establishments.
- Sec. 5-9. - Day care centers, adult and child.
- Sec. 5-10. - Drive-up facilities.
- Sec. 5-11. - Eating and drinking establishments.
- Sec. 5-12. - Flags and flagpoles.
- Sec. 5-13. - Homestays.
- Sec. 5-14. - Manufactured home park standards.
- Sec. 5-15. - Mixed-use buildings.
- Sec. 5-16. - Motor vehicle sales and service establishments.
- Sec. 5-17. - Motor vehicle or trailer painting and body repair.
- Sec. 5-18. - Multifamily dwellings.
- Sec. 5-19. - Outdoor display areas.
- Sec. 5-20. - Outdoor lighting.
- Sec. 5-21. - Outdoor storage.
- Sec. 5-22. - Parking of recreational vehicles, watercraft, personal utility trailers, and recreational equipment trailers in residential and R-B districts.
- Sec. 5-23. - Parking of commercial vehicles in residential districts.
- Sec. 5-24. - Raising and keeping of livestock.
- Sec. 5-25. - Research and development facilities.
- Sec. 5-26. - Retail stores and shops, boutique.
- Sec. 5-27. - Satellite dish antennas, location and height.
- Sec. 5-28. - Tourist homes.
- Sec. 5-29. - Townhouse development standards.
- Sec. 5-30. - Two-family dwellings.
- Sec. 5-31. - Vehicle storage or impoundment lots.
ARTICLE VI
DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - APPLICABILITY
- DIVISION 2. - BUILDINGS AND LOTS
- DIVISION 3. - SUPPLEMENTARY YARD AND HEIGHT REGULATIONS
- Sec. 6-5. - Exceptions to yard requirements.
- Sec. 6-6. - Permitted projections into required yards.
- Sec. 6-7. - Yards on corner lots and through lots.
- Sec. 6-8. - Yards for accessory structures.
- Sec. 6-9. - Yards along streets less than 50 feet in width or streets to be widened.
- Sec. 6-10. - Yards and screening for swimming pools and tennis or pickleball courts.
- Sec. 6-11. - Visibility at intersections.
- Sec. 6-12. - Zero lot line option.
- Sec. 6-13. - Exceptions to height regulations.
- DIVISION 4. - ACCESSORY BUILDINGS AND TEMPORARY BUILDINGS
- DIVISION 5. - LANDSCAPING, SCREENING, AND BUFFER YARD REQUIREMENTS
- Sec. 6-18. - Purpose.
- Sec. 6-19. - Applicability.
- Sec. 6-20. - Enforcement procedures and penalties.
- Sec. 6-21. - Landscaping plan.
- Sec. 6-22. - General standards for landscaping and screening.
- Sec. 6-23. - Protection and preservation methods.
- Sec. 6-24. - Canopy coverage requirements.
- Sec. 6-25. - Parking lot landscaping.
- Sec. 6-26. - Adjacent right-of-way/street side plantings.
- Sec. 6-27. - Applicability of buffering and screening requirements.
- Sec. 6-28. - Perimeter buffer yard standards.
- Sec. 6-29. - Standards for buffer yard planting and screening.
- Sec. 6-30. - Modifications.
- Sec. 6-31. - Credit toward other standards.
- DIVISION 6. - OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS[2]
- Sec. 6-32. - Number of spaces required.
- Sec. 6-33. - Method of determining number of spaces.
- Sec. 6-34. - Location of required parking spaces.
- Sec. 6-35. - Parking space dimensions.
- Sec. 6-36. - Criteria for access and maneuvering space.
- Sec. 6-37. - Parking spaces accessible to persons with disabilities.
- Sec. 6-38. - Driveways and curb cuts.
- Sec. 6-39. - Paving, drainage and delineation of spaces.
- Sec. 6-40. - Supplemental parking area requirements in certain districts.
- Sec. 6-41. - Off-street loading areas.
- Sec. 6-42. - Maintenance of parking.
- Sec. 6-43. - Reserved.
- DIVISION 7. - SIGN REGULATIONS
- Sec. 6-44. - Purpose, applicability and definitions.
- Sec. 6-45. - Standards and general provisions.
- Sec. 6-45.1. - Signs in all districts
- Sec. 6-45.2. - Exempted signs, displays and devices.
- Sec. 6-45.3. - Prohibited signs.
- Sec. 6-46. - Temporary signs.
- Sec. 6-47. - Sign permits required for signs.
- Sec. 6-48. - Sign measurement rules.
- Sec. 6-49. - Illuminated signs.
- Sec. 6-50. - Historic signs.
- Sec. 6-51. - Rooftop screening wall signs.
- Sec. 6-52. - Other permitted signs.
- Sec. 6-53. - Signs regulations in residential districts.
- Sec. 6-54. - Signs regulations in the R-B district.
- Sec. 6-55. - Signs regulations in the GB and M-1 district.
- Sec. 6-56. - Signs regulations in the CB district.
- Sec. 6-57. - Signs regulations in the M-2 district.
- Sec. 6-58. - Signs regulations in the planned development district.
- Sec. 6-59. - Signs regulations in the public/open space district.
- Sec. 6-60. - Sign maintenance, repair, and removal.
- Sec. 6-61. - Signs identifying nonconforming uses.
- Sec. 6-62. - Nonconforming signs.
- Sec. 6-63. - Obsolete signs.
- DIVISION 9. - TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITIES
- Sec. 6-64. - Purpose and short title.
- Sec. 6-65. - Applicability.
- Sec. 6-66. - Development standards for small wireless facilities attached to existing structures.
- Sec. 6-67. - Development standards for new support structures for small wireless facilities.
- Sec. 6-68. - Application requirements for legislative process projects.
- Sec. 6-68.1. - Provisions for legislative process projects.
- Sec. 6-69. - Special provisions on disapproval of a legislative process facility.
- Sec. 6-70. - Abandoned wireless support structures on private property.
ARTICLE VII
NONCONFORMING USES, FEATURES, STRUCTURES AND LOTS
Sections
- Sec. 7-1.- Purpose.
- Sec. 7-2. - Generally.
- Sec. 7-3. - Nonconformities; establishment of vested rights.
- Sec. 7-4. - Nonconforming uses.
- Sec. 7-5. - Alterations to buildings devoted to nonconforming use.
- Sec. 7-6. - Change of nonconforming use.
- Sec. 7-7. - Discontinuance of nonconforming uses.
- Sec. 7-8. - Use and alteration of buildings with nonconforming features.
- Sec. 7-9. - Damage to nonconforming buildings and uses.
- Sec. 7-10. - Nonconforming lots of record.
- Sec. 7-11. - Intermittent, temporary or illegal use.
- Sec. 7-12. - Wireless facility modifications.
ARTICLE VIII
ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT3
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - ZONING ADMINISTRATOR
- DIVISION 2. - PERMITS
- Sec. 8-3. - Zoning permit required.
- Sec. 8-4. - Application for zoning permit.
- Sec. 8-5. - Plans to be submitted with zoning permit application.
- Sec. 8-6. - Waiver of certain plan requirements.
- Sec. 8-7. - Sign permit application requirements.
- Sec. 8-8. - Issuance of zoning permit.
- Sec. 8-9. - Expiration of zoning permit.
- Sec. 8-10. - Certificate of zoning compliance required.
- Sec. 8-11. - Procedure for issuance of certificate of zoning compliance.
- Sec. 8-12. - Temporary certificate of zoning compliance.
- Sec. 8-13. - Building permit; relation to zoning and sign permits.
- Sec. 8-14. - Certificate of use and occupancy and certificate of zoning compliance.
- Sec. 8-15. - Land disturbing permit; relation to zoning.
- DIVISION 3. - SITE PLAN REVIEW
- Sec. 8-16. - Purpose of site plan review.
- Sec. 8-17. - Applicability of site plan review.
- Sec. 8-18. - General requirements for site plans.
- Sec. 8-19. - Required information on site plans.
- Sec. 8-19.1. - General requirements for plot plans.
- Sec. 8-19.2. - General requirements for scaled elevations.
- Sec. 8-20. - Waiver of certain site plan requirements.
- Sec. 8-21. - Procedure for site plan review and approval.
- Sec. 8-21.1. - Procedure for approval of plot plans and scaled elevations for small wireless facilities.
- Sec. 8-22. - Modifications to approved site plan.
- Sec. 8-23. - Guarantees.
- Sec. 8-24. - Compliance with approved site plan.
- Sec. 8-25. - Expiration of approved site plan.
- Sec. 8-26. - Failure to act; appeals.
- DIVISION 4. - SPECIAL USES
- Sec. 8-27. - Intent of special use provisions.
- Sec. 8-28. - Special use permit required.
- Sec. 8-29. - Application for special use permit.
- Sec. 8-30. - Procedure for issuance of special use permits.
- Sec. 8-31. - General requirements for approval of special use permits.
- Sec. 8-32. - Modifications or amendments to approved special use permits.
- Sec. 8-33. - Expiration of special use permits.
- Sec. 8-34. - Discontinuance of special use permits.
- Sec. 8-35. - Compliance with approved plans.
- Sec. 8-36. - Reconsideration.
- Sec. 8-37. - Appeals.
- DIVISION 5. - VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES
ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENTS
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY
- DIVISION 2. - CONDITIONAL ZONING
ARTICLE X
- BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS4
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - MEMBERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION
- DIVISION 2. - POWERS AND DUTIES
- DIVISION 3. - PROCEDURES
- Sec. 10-11. - Appeal procedure.
- Sec. 10-12. - Application for variance and interpretation of zoning map.
- Sec. 10-13. - Public hearings and decisions.
- Sec. 10-14. - Expiration of variance.
- Sec. 10-15. - Amendment of variance.
- Sec. 10-16. - Enforcement of decisions.
- Sec. 10-17. - Appeals from decisions of the board.