Urbanna
Zoning districts
8 districts, grouped by category.
Commercial
2General provisions
55 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
No more than 30 percent of the required minimum area of any lot shall be located in a floodplain area and no part of the area of any lot shall be covered by any body of water except that no more than 30 percent of the required minimum area of any lot may be covered by the waters of a lake, pond, or canal planned and approved as a part of and wholly within the subdivision.
Except for buildings accessory to a farm, no accessory building shall be constructed upon a lot for more than six months prior to beginning construction of the main building and no accessory building shall be used for more than six months unless the main building on the lot is also being used or unless the main building is under construction. No accessory building, on a farm or otherwise, shall be used for dwelling except in accord with the specific provisions of this chapter.
Travel trailers, campers, motor homes, other recreation vehicles, tents, camp cabins and the like shall not be used for permanent or full-time dwellings in any district, whether or not connected to utilities, wells or septic systems, except as permitted by the terms of this chapter.
All development or redevelopment of land in the resource protection areas (RPA) and resource management areas (RMA) shall meet the following performance standards:
The provisions of this division shall apply to all lands within the jurisdiction of the town and identified as being in the 100-year floodplain by the Federal Insurance Administration.
The floodplain district shall include areas subject to inundation by waters of the 100-year flood.
Any occupation, profession, enterprise or activity conducted solely by one or more members of a family on the premises which is incidental and secondary to the use of the premises for dwelling may be permitted under an approved special use permit
No residence may be converted to accommodate an increased number of dwelling units unless...
Temporary buildings, construction trailers, and mobile homes used in conjunction with construction work only may be permitted in any district during the period when construction work is in progress
In all districts, more than one structure of the permitted principal use may be erected or placed on a single lot, provided that a special use permit is obtained
The height regulations contained in the district regulations do not apply to spires, belfries, cupolas, ventilators, chimneys, or other appurtenances usually required to be placed above the roof level and not intended for human occupancy.
Open structure such as porches, canopies, balconies, platforms, carports, covered patios, and similar architectural projections shall be considered parts of the building to which attached and shall not project into the required minimum front, side, or rear yard.
Nonresidential uses or buildings shall not be conducted or located closer than ten feet to any lot line of a residential district
No uses or buildings shall be conducted or located closer than five feet to any lot line of a residential district, and existing vegetation and significant trees shall be retained as a buffer zone.
All commercial, light industrial, special waterfront, and R-2 residential uses that require trash and/or garbage collection areas shall completely screen from view such areas on at least three sides by a solid wall, fence or hedge of at least four feet in height
On all corner lots in every district, nothing shall be erected, placed, planted, or allowed to grow in such a manner as to materially impede vision above a height of 2 ½ feet above the centerline grades of the intersecting streets in the area bounded by the street lines of such corner lots and a line joining points along said street lines 25 feet from the point of intersection.
Of the two sides of a corner lot the front yard shall be deemed to be the side fronting the street having the shortest legally recorded right-of-way
No land or building in any district shall be used or occupied in any manner creating dangerous, injurious, noxious, or otherwise objectionable conditions
Planned unit developments are permitted as a conditional zoning use in all residential districts, commercial districts and the special waterfront development district
A short-term rental shall only be allowed where: ...
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.
- Chapter 26 - SUBDIVISIONS142.9K charsRead →
- Chapter 34 - ZONING364.1K charsRead →