Warsaw City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE 2
- ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES
Sections
- 2-1-1. - Duties of the town manager.
- 2-1-2. - Decision-making paths (DMPs).
- 2-2. - Plan of development process.
- 2-2-1. - Application of the plan of development process.
- 2-2-2. - Activities exempt from the plan of development process.
- 2-2-3. - Pre-application conference.
- 2-2-4. - Development permit application.
- 2-2-5. - Submission of a complete development permit application.
- 2-2-6. - Documents to be submitted.
- 2-2-7. - Waiver of submission and/or design requirements.
- 2-2-8. - Submission of sketch plats and sketch plans.
- 2-2-9. - Simultaneous review of plats and plans and other requests.
- 2-2-10. - Submission of a minor subdivision/site plan.
- 2-2-11. - Submission of a major subdivision/site plan.
- 2-2-12. - Adjustments to approved site plans.
- 2-2-13. - Adjustments to approved subdivision plats.
- 2-2-14. - Wetland permits required before final approval.
- 2-2-15. - Septic pump out requirement notation on plats.
- 2-2-16. - Resource protection areas and resource management areas to be identified.
- 2-3. - Public notice requirements.
- 2-4-1. - Appeals of administrative decisions.
- 2-4-2. - Appeals of decisions made by the town council, and the board of zoning appeals.
- 2-5-1. - Initiating an amendment.
- 2-5-2. - Processing an amendment request.
- 2-6-1. - Performance and maintenance guarantees required before final approvals.
- 2-6-2. - Release of performance and maintenance guarantees.
- 2-7-1. - Development permits.
- 2-7-2. - Certificates of occupancy.
- 2-8-1. - Application fees.
- 2-8-2. - Escrow schedule.
- 2-9-1. - Violations.
- 2-9-2. - Enforcement.
- 2-9-3. - Penalties.
ARTICLE 3
- ZONING
Sections
- 3-1-1. - Establishment.
- 3-1-2. - Applicability of zoning districts; effect of overlay zoning districts.
- 3-1-3. - Statement of intent of each base and overlay zoning district.
- 3-2-1. - Official zoning map of the Town of Warsaw, Virginia.
- 3-2-2. - Amendments to the official zoning map.
- 3-2-3. - Unauthorized changes.
- 3-3. - Interpretation of district boundaries.
- 3-3-1. - Center lines as boundaries.
- 3-3-2. - Property or other edge lines as boundaries.
- 3-3-3. - Boundaries other than as above.
- 3-3-4. - Dimensions.
- 3-3-5. - Unclassified areas.
- 3-3-6. - Interpretation in cases of uncertainty.
- 3-3-7. - Jurisdictional boundary changes.
- 3-4. - Application of district regulations.
- 3-4-1. - Use occupancy and construction.
- 3-4-2. - Uses permitted and conditionally permitted by zoning district.
- 3-4-3. - Uses not specifically permitted.
- 3-4-4. - Compliance with height, bulk and area coverage provisions.
- 3-4-5. - Required yard for one structure or use not to be used to meet requirements for another.
- 3-4-6. - Reduction of lots or lot area below the minimum prohibited.
- 3-4-7. - Reduction of yards below the minimum prohibited.
- 3-4-8. - Special yard regulations.
- 3-4-9. - Accessory uses.
- 3-4-10. - Home occupations.
- 3-4-11. - Use of mobile units prohibited.
- 3-5-1. - Development provisions for land disturbing activities within the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area (CBPA) Overlay District.
- 3-5-2. - Development provisions for uses within the Traditional Town (TT) Overlay District.
- 3-6-1. - Membership.
- 3-6-2. - Powers.
- 3-6-3. - Duties.
- 3-6-4. - Guiding principles.
- 3-7-1. - Application for a variance.
- 3-7-2. - Findings necessary before the issuance of a variance.
- 3-7-3. - Variances not authorized.
- 3-7-4. - Conditions attached to variances.
- 3-7-5. - Lapse of variance approval.
- 3-8-1. - Membership.
- 3-8-2. - Powers and duties.
- 3-9-1. - Purpose.
- 3-9-2. - Proffer of conditions.
- 3-9-3. - Effect of conditions.
- 3-9-4. - Zoning map notation and records.
- 3-9-5. - Submittal requirements.
- 3-9-6. - Procedural regulations and requirements.
- 3-10-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 3-10-2. - Review standards for conditional use permits.
- 3-10-3. - Special conditions.
- 3-10-4. - Conditional use permit application requirements.
- 3-10-5. - Conditional use permit general provisions.
- 3-10-6. - Revocation of conditional use permits.
- 3-11-1. - Continuation of nonconforming uses of land and/or structures.
- 3-11-2. - Changes in district boundaries.
- 3-11-3. - Permits.
- 3-11-4. - Non-conforming lots or record.
- 3-11-5. - Prohibition against the creation of lots below width and area requirements for the zoning district.
- 3-11-6. - Highway realignment or condemnation.
- 3-11-7. - Uses under conditional use permit provisions are not non-conforming uses.
- 3-11-8. - Nonconforming uses located in the resource protection area (RPA).
ARTICLE 4
- DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Sections
- 4-1-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-1-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-1-3. - General requirements relating to overall design and utility of land.
- 4-2-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-2-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-2-3. - General requirements.
- 4-2-4. - Layout of streets as related to lot and block configuration.
- 4-2-5. - Blocks.
- 4-2-6. - Lots.
- 4-2-7. - Monuments.
- 4-2-8. - Cemetery development.
- 4-3-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-3-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-3-3. - General requirements.
- 4-3-4. - Standards of design.
- 4-3-5. - Sight triangles.
- 4-3-6. - Regulatory and traffic signs.
- 4-3-7. - Street names.
- 4-3-8. - Street signs.
- 4-4-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-4-2. - General requirements.
- 4-4-3. - Plan of development submittal requirements and approval procedures for utility service request.
- 4-4-4. - Meter installation, right of entry.
- 4-4-5. - Construction materials and methods.
- 4-4-6. - Prohibited discharges.
- 4-5-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-5-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-5-3. - General requirements/fire protection.
- 4-6-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-6-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-6-3. - General requirements.
- 4-6-4. - Stormwater management area design considerations.
- 4-6-5. - Off-site drainage costs.
- 4-7-1. - Purpose.
- 4-7-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-7-3. - General requirements.
- 4-8-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-8-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-8-3. - General requirements.
- 4-9-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-9-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-9-3. - General requirement.
- 4-9-4. - Pedestrian spaces.
- 4-9-5. - Ownership and maintenance of common open space.
- 4-10-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-10-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-10-3. - General requirements.
- 4-10-4. - Off-street parking requirements.
- 4-10-5. - Driveway and aisle design.
- 4-10-6. - Loading/unloading areas.
- 4-10-7. - Surfacing requirements for off-street parking and loading areas.
- 4-10-8. - Maintenance of off-street parking and loading areas.
- 4-11-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-11-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-11-3. - General requirements.
- 4-11-4. - Landscape preservation.
- 4-11-5. - Site landscaping standards.
- 4-11-6. - Buffer areas.
- 4-11-7. - Standards relating to plant materials selected for installation.
- 4-11-8. - Standards for structural elements - fences, walls and berms.
- 4-11-9. - Maintenance of landscaping and buffering.
- 4-12-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-12-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-12-3. - General requirements.
- 4-12-4. - Lighting within public rights-of-way.
- 4-12-5. - Lighting within parking areas and adjacent walkways.
- 4-13-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-13-2. - Plan of development submission requirements.
- 4-13-3. - General requirements.
- 4-14-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-14-2. - Plan of development submission requirements.
- 4-14-3. - General requirements.
- 4-15-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-15-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-15-3. - General requirements.
- 4-16-1. - Purpose and intent.
- 4-16-2. - Plan of development submittal requirements.
- 4-16-3. - General requirements.
- 4-16-4. - Measurement.
- 4-16-5. - Illumination standards.
- 4-16-6. - Placement standard.
- 4-16-7. - General standards for specific types of permitted signs.
- 4-16-8. - Sign districts and special regulations.
- 4-16-9. - Exempt signs.
- 4-16-10. - Temporary signs requiring a sign permit.
- 4-16-11. - Prohibited signs.
- 4-16-12. - Nonconforming signs.
- 4-16-13. - Expiration of permits for signs.
- 4-16-14. - Removal of illegal or dangerous signs.