Madison

Any area of 100 square feet or more lying within 1,000 feet of a state highway, a residence, a dairy barn or food handling establishment where trash, garbage or their waste or scrap material is dumped or deposited without being covered by a sanitary fill.

A single store, the ground floor area of which is 4,000 square feet or less and which offers for sale primarily, most of the following articles: bread, milk, cheese, canned and bottled foods and drinks, tobacco products, candy, papers and magazines, and general hardware articles. Gasoline may also be offered for sale but only as a secondary activity of a country general store and no more than three gasoline pumps shall be permitted.

a home occupation conducted solely on or from the premises without employees other than those who reside on the premises and without any customer traffic to the home shall be permitted by right in Conservation (C-1), Agricultural (A-1), Residential, Limited (R-1), Residential General (R-2) and Residential, Multiple Family (R-3) zones.

Within any floodway area, no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analysis performed in accordance with standard engineering practice that the proposed encroachment will not result in any increase in flood levels within the community during the occurrence of the base flood discharge.

Until a regulatory floodway is designated, no new construction, substantial improvements, or other development (including fill) shall be permitted within the areas of special flood hazard, designated as AE on the FIRM, unless it is demonstrated that the cumulative effect of the proposed development, when combined with all other existing and anticipated development, will not increase the water surface elevation of the base flood more than one foot at any point within Madison County.

The Approximated Floodplain District shall be that floodplain area for which no detailed flood profiles or elevations are provided, but where a 100-year floodplain boundary has been approximated. ... When such base flood elevation data is utilized, the lowest floor shall be elevated to no less than one (1) foot above the base flood level.

All uses, activities, and development occurring within any floodplain district, including placement of manufactured homes, shall be undertaken only upon the issuance of a Flood Zone Development Permit.

Base flood elevation data shall be obtained from other sources or developed using detailed methodologies, hydraulic and hydrologic analysis, comparable to those contained in a Flood Insurance Study for subdivision proposals and other proposed development proposals (including manufactured home parks and subdivisions) that exceed fifty lots or five acres, whichever is the lesser.

Signs with a total surface area less than four square feet per sign may be erected up to the property line.

No building shall hereafter be erected and no existing building shall be moved, altered, added to or enlarged, nor shall any land or building be used, designed, or arranged to be used for any purpose other than is included among the uses listed in this ordinance as permitted in the district in which such building or land is located.

The regulations listed in this ordinance for each district shall be deemed to be the minimum requirements in every instance of their application, subject to the provisions of other sections of this ordinance.

Any use not specifically permitted as a matter by right or by special use permit is prohibited. Requests for such prohibited uses shall be governed by the terms of this ordinance specified in section 14-7 (Uses Not Provided For) and Article 18 (Amendments).