Norton
Zoning districts
5 districts, grouped by category.
Commercial
3General provisions
64 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
No industrialized office building below the minimum size of three hundred twenty (320) square feet of gross floor area shall be allowed; ...
The industrialized office building for temporary use shall not be placed on the site for more than six (6) consecutive months in any one-year period.
No tower shall be permitted on any lot or parcel of land, regardless of the zoning, on the south side of U.S. Route 23. ... Towers shall be set back a distance equal to one-third (⅓) of the height of the tower from its center to any public right-of-way or property line of the lot containing the tower.
The placement of towers and antennas as described in this article is prohibited in any residential zone, the central business zone, and the local business zone.
It is the purpose of this section to provide a method for permitting the reasonable and orderly development and use of land in those situations in which peculiar specific circumstances indicate that the existing zoning ordinance district regulations are not adequate.
A nonconforming use may continue as it existed when it became nonconforming. A nonconforming use shall not be changed, altered, repaired, restored, replaced, relocated or expanded in any manner, except as provided for in this article.
If lot width is less than minimum, two inches may be deducted from each side yard; no side yard less than 4 feet. In measuring height, a habitable basement or attic shall be counted as a story...
Parking space means an all-weather surfaced area not in a street or alley and having an area of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet, exclusive of driveways...
Substantial improvements means any repair, reconstruction, or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty (50) percent of the market value of the structure...
Substantial damage means damage of any origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before damaged condition would equal or exceed fifty (50) percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.
Floodway means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one (1) foot.
Shallow flooding area means a special flood hazard area with base flood depths from one to three (3) feet where a clearly defined channel does not exist...
Watercourse means any depression serving to give direction to a current of water, having a bed and well-defined banks, where the drainage area above the same is ten (10) acres or more in extent...
Story means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it... A basement shall be counted as a story if its ceiling is over five (5) feet above the level from which the height of the building is measured...
Building height means the vertical distance to the level of the highest point of the roof surface... measured at the center of the front wall of the building from the established grade from the curb...
Where the finished ground level is made by filling, such finished ground level shall not be deemed to be more than five (5) feet above the established grade of the sidewalk...
Garage, private means an accessory building for only the storage of self-propelled vehicles, provided that such storage space does not exceed that required for three (3) vehicles plus one (1) additional vehicle for each family more than one (1) housed on the lot.
Recreational vehicle means a vehicle which is: (a) Built on a single chassis; (b) Four hundred (400) square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection; (c) Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light duty truck; and (d) Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling...
Manufactured home... For floodplain management purposes the term 'manufactured home' also includes park trailers, travel trailers, and other similar vehicles placed on a site for longer than one hundred eighty (180) consecutive days.
Start of construction... means the date the building permit was issued, provided the actual start of construction... was within one hundred eighty (180) days of the permit date.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.