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West University Place
City Zoning Code

ARTICLE 3

- ZONING DISTRICTS ESTABLISHED

Section 3-100. - Districts; Purposes.

The City is at this moment divided into the following districts, with the purposes set out below:

(1)

SF, the Single-Family District. The purpose of this district is to provide regulations to maintain and protect the City's single-family residences and neighborhoods.

(2)

RCOD, the Rotated Corner Overlay District. The purpose of this overlay district is to provide regulations to maintain and protect the City's single-family residences and neighborhoods in an area where corner lots have been divided and reoriented. Formerly SF-1.

(3)

OBSOD, the Old Building Site Overlay District. The purpose of this overlay district is to maintain and protect building sites designated before October 24, 1987, from now on referred to as "old building sites," and to provide regulations for the re-subdivision of old building sites that do not conform to the current City building site standards of 75 feet in width, 110 feet in depth, and 8,250 square feet in area. Formerly SF-2.

(4)

TH, the Townhouse District. The purpose of this district is to maintain and protect the City's single-family, attached-building residential areas and to provide necessary regulations for buffering adjacent areas with less-intensive land uses.

(5)

GR-1, the First General Residential District. The purpose of this district is to maintain and protect the City's duplex residential area and to provide necessary regulations for buffering adjacent areas with less-intensive land uses.

(6)

GR-2, the Second General Residential District. The purpose of this district is to maintain and protect the City's general residential area and to provide necessary regulations for buffering adjacent areas with less-intensive land uses.

(7)

C, the Commercial District. The purpose of this district is to provide regulations for commercial areas compatible with nearby residential areas and to provide for buffering of less-intensive land uses.

(8)

TCC, the Town Center Commercial District. The purpose of this district is to accommodate limited commercial uses within the established core of the Town Center area that will benefit the City's residents while protecting nearby single-family residences and neighborhoods from incompatible activity through applying specific development standards. TCC use regulations and other requirements apply only to principal buildings and associated accessory structures constructed after the effective date of the TCC district. Other buildings in TCC are subject to the C, Commercial District, regulations that applied before the effective date of the TCC district.

(9)

PDDs, Planned Development Districts. The PDDs are illustrated on the Zoning District Map. The purposes of each POD are: (i) to maintain and protect that planned development area for the uses therein authorized and (ii) to provide for buffering of less-intensive uses. Section 3-100. Districts; Purposes.

(Ord. No. 2005, § 1(Exh. A), 3-9-2015; Ord. No. 3066, § 3, 4-22-2024)