Hillsville
Zoning districts
10 districts, grouped by category.
Agricultural
1General provisions
80 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
This district is designed to provide suitable areas for mobile home park residential development... characterized by single-family mobile home dwellings in mobile home parks...
This district is designed to provide a limited variety of goods and services for the immediate residential neighborhood. It is not intended that this district permit uses which generate large volumes of traffic.
This district is designed to provide for a wide range of retail, office, amusement and service uses normally found in a central business district.
This district is designed to provide adequate space in appropriate locations for the establishment of a wide variety of uses, including commercial trades and services, entertainment facilities, offices and establishments engaged in wholesale trade.
This district is designed to provide space for a limited range of industrial uses which have high performance standards... Residential uses are excluded from this district.
The L Landfill District established by this chapter is designed to provide for the controlled and orderly disposal of waste from residents of the Town of Hillsville and surrounding areas.
These provisions shall apply to all lands within the jurisdiction of Hillsville and identified as being in the one-hundred-year floodplain by the Federal Insurance Administration.
The uses, buildings and structures listed on the Table of Permitted Uses in § 171-41 of this Article are permitted in the districts indicated, subject to all other applicable provisions of this chapter. All other uses, buildings and structures are prohibited.
On a corner lot in any district, except the CC Core Commercial District, nothing shall be erected, placed, planted or allowed to be grown in such a manner as to impede vision between a height of 2½ and 10 feet above the center-line grades within 15 feet of the intersecting streets.
fences and walls located in required front yards shall not exceed four feet in height and fences and walls located in required side and rear yards shall not exceed six (6) feet in height.
parking, loading and access aisles thereto accessory to any use other than a single-family or two-family dwelling shall not be located within a required front yard within 10 feet of any street line.
No accessory building shall be located within five feet of any other building or within 10 feet of any property line, nor shall any accessory building be located within any required front yard.
Every structure shall be on a lot having access to a public street.
No major recreational equipment shall be permanently parked or stored in any front yard of any lot in a residential district for more than 30 days in one calendar year.
in an A-1 or R-1 District, only one principal building and its permitted accessory buildings shall be located on any lot.
On double frontage and corner lots, as defined in § 171-8 of this chapter, there shall be a front yard as required by § 171-42, Table of Bulk Requirements, along each lot frontage.
The height limitations set forth in § 171-42, Table of Bulk Requirements, shall not apply to church spires, belfries, cupolas, domes, monuments, water towers, windmills, chimneys, smokestacks, flagpoles, radio towers, antennas or similar features or to structures accessory to permitted agricultural uses.
Outdoor lighting, when provided as accessory to any use or to illuminate any sign or similar device, shall be located, directed or shielded so as not to shine directly on or to create glare as viewed from nearby properties or to create a potential traffic hazard on nearby driveways or streets as a result of glare or similarity to or confusion with traffic signals, warning lights or lighting on emergency vehicles.
All modular homes must contain decorative masonry skirting to be located between ground level and underneath the side of the home. Approved masonry skirting includes brick, stone, and decorative masonry block.
Mobile modular containers, storage containers, office containers and semi-trailers are prohibited except for a period of temporary use not to exceed 30 days.
Source documents
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