The ordinance shall be known as the Zoning Ordinance of Wetumpka, Alabama, and the map herein referred to as the Zoning Map of Wetumpka, Alabama. The map and all explanatory matter thereon are hereby adopted and made a part of this chapter. Such map shall be filed in the office of the city clerk and shall show thereon the date of adoption of this ordinance and of any amendments thereto.

(Ord. No. 99-4, § 20.0, 8-16-1999)

For the purposes of this chapter, the City of Wetumpka is hereby divided into several use districts, the names and purposes of which are set out below. The location, boundaries and area of each are and shall be shown on the zoning map.

(1)

R-1 Low Density Residential District. This district is for single family detached residential development, in a manner compatible with the character of adjacent neighborhoods.

(2)

R-2 and R-2.6 Low Density Residential Districts. These districts are primarily for single-family detached residential development in a manner compatible with the character of adjacent neighborhoods. The uses allowed in R-2 and R-2.6 districts are the same. However, to accommodate existing residential neighborhoods the R-2.6 district allows a smaller lot width and area than the R-2 district.

(3)

R-3 Medium Density Residential District. This district is for most types of residential development, including single family detached, duplexes, townhouses, multiplexes, and patio homes in a manner compatible with the character of adjacent neighborhoods.

(4)

R-4 High Density Residential District. This district is for all types of residential development, including single family detached, duplexes, townhouses, multiplexes, apartments, and patio homes, except mobile homes, in a manner compatible with the character of adjacent neighborhoods.

(5)

R-5 High Density Residential District. This district is for all types of residential development, including single family detached, duplexes, townhouses, multiplexes, apartments, patio homes, and mobile homes, in a manner compatible with the character of adjacent neighborhoods.

(6)

B-1 General Business District. This district provides for a variety of relatively large commercial and other uses typically organized and clustered into groups of related activities, that require a high volume of vehicular accessibility.

(7)

B-2 Local Business District. This district is for small-scale, convenience retail, office and service uses and activities that cater primarily to the local neighborhood.

(8)

B-3 Central Business District. This district is the traditional, downtown, central business core of Wetumpka. Appropriate uses in this district shall typically rely on pedestrian access, and shall include retail, office, banking, insurance, government, food service, and personal services, and upper story residential uses. Development within this district should be compatible with the context, character, scale, and density of adjacent activities, which typically are characterized by lot line to lot line construction, lack of on-premise, off-street parking for all but residential uses, and combined uses within buildings and properties.

(9)

B-4 Business Conservation District. This district is intended in part to prevent existing established businesses and properties used for business purposes from becoming nonconforming; and in part to encourage and accommodate the adaptive re-use of such existing businesses and properties in a manner compatible with the surrounding area.

(10)

M-1 Light Industrial District. This district is intended to provide locations for industrial, service and limited commercial uses, except those which would cause noise, smoke, gas, vibration, fumes, dust or other objectionable conditions that could affect neighboring uses and activities. It is intended that each property so used provide the space necessary to accommodate the vehicles of all workers in the use, to store overnight all vehicles incidental to operation of the use, and for the loading or unloading of all vehicles or trucks incidental to the operation of the use.

(11)

M-2 Heavy Industrial District. This district is intended to provide locations for industrial, service and limited commercial uses, except those which would cause noise, smoke, gas, vibration, fumes, dust or other objectionable conditions that could affect a substantial portion of the city. It is intended that each property so used provide the space necessary to accommodate the vehicles of all workers in the use, to store overnight all vehicles incidental to operation of the use, and for the loading or unloading of all vehicles or trucks incidental to the operation of the use.

(12)

R-H Rural and Holding District. This district is intended to provide for and protect those areas of Wetumpka that are predominantly agricultural in character and use and to provide areas for development. The R-H District is also intended to serve as a holding district for future development. As portions of this district are developed and/or complete utility services become available, it is intended that such district designation be amended appropriately in accord with the comprehensive plan.

(Ord. No. 99-4, §§ 21.0—21.12, 8-16-1999)

For the purposes of this chapter, the City of Wetumpka hereby establishes several overlay districts, the names and purposes of which are set out below. The location, boundaries and area of each are and shall be shown on the zoning map.

(1)

FH Flood Hazard Overlay District. This district is intended to account for the presence of flood hazards in and adjacent to Wetumpka and to protect persons and property from flooding.

(2)

PUD Planned Unit Development District. This district is intended to provide the opportunity for appropriate development of tracts of land sufficiently large to allow comprehensive development planning and design and to provide flexibility in the application of certain of the regulations of this article in a manner consistent with its general purposes.

(Ord. No. 99-4, §§ 22.0—22.2, 8-16-1999)

The boundaries of the use and overlay districts are hereby established as shown on the zoning map. Unless otherwise shown on said map, the boundaries of districts shown thereon are intended to follow lot lines, center lines of streets or alleys, the centerline of railroad tracks, or the corporate limit lines as they exist at the time of enactment of this article or amendments thereto. Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of any of the aforesaid districts as shown on said map, the board of adjustment shall determine said boundaries as set forth in article X.

(Ord. No. 99-4, § 23.0, 8-16-1999)

There are created and established certain zones, which include all of the land lying beneath the approach surface, transitional surfaces, horizontal surfaces and conical surface as they apply to the airport except those areas located in the Town of Coosada. Such zones are shown on the zoning map which is on file in the clerk's office and adopted by reference in this section as if fully set forth. An area located in more than one of the following zones is considered to be only in the zone with the more restrictive height limitations. The various zones are established and defined as follows:

(1)

Visual approach zone. The inner edge of the visual approach zone coincides with the width of the primary surface and is 500 feet wide. The approach zone expands outward uniformly to a width of 1,500 feet at a horizontal distance of 5,000 feet from the primary surface. Its centerline is the continuation of the centerline of the runway.

(2)

Transitional zones. The transitional zones are the areas beneath the transitional surfaces.

(3)

Horizontal zone. The horizontal zone is established by swinging arcs of 5,000 feet radii from the center of each end of the primary surface of each runway and connecting the adjacent arcs by drawing lines tangent to those arcs. The horizontal zone does not include the approach and transitional zones.

(4)

Conical zone. The conical zone is established as the area that commences at the periphery of the horizontal zone and extends outward from that zone a horizontal distance of 4,000 feet.

(Ord. No. 97-2, § 3, 2-17-1997)

Any property hereafter annexed to the City of Wetumpka should be annexed as a designated district or as R-H Rural and Holding District.

(Ord. No. 99-4, § 24.0, 8-16-1999)