Warsaw
Zoning districts
8 districts, grouped by category.
Commercial
3Limited Commercial District
- Min lot
- 21,780 sq ft (0.5 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 32
General Commercial District
- Min lot
- 21,780 sq ft (0.5 ac)
- Max height
- 45 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 40
Commercial and Light Industrial
- Min lot
- 217,800 sq ft (5 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 17
Residential
4Limited Residential District
- Min lot
- 21,780 sq ft (0.5 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 9
Residential/Office
- Min lot
- 21,780 sq ft (0.5 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Max density
- 12 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 7
High Density Residential Development
- Min lot
- 21,780 sq ft (0.5 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Max density
- 18 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 5
- Front setback
- 35 ft
- Permitted uses
- 39
General provisions
112 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
Residential density shall not exceed three (3) dwelling units per net developable acre unless additional density is earned as provided by Section 3-5-2g.
Land is topographically unsuitable for building sites if it possesses steep slopes which will require extensive grading or unusual construction practices in order for development to take place, or which would provide less than 10,000 useable square feet of contiguous building area with slopes of less than 15 percent.
Architectural style and building materials are not restricted, however, extremes of style not indigenous to the Town are not encouraged if visible from public rights-of-way.
Newly installed utility services, and service revisions necessitated by exterior alterations, should be underground.
Project features which may have negative impacts upon adjacent properties, such as parking lots, service entrances, loading zones, mechanical equipment, etc., shall be buffered from adjacent properties.
Landscape screening shall be of a height and density so that it provides the full desired effect within three years growing time.
Every sign shall have appropriate scale in its design and in its visual relationship to buildings and surroundings.
Free standing parking lot and internal access route lighting should be color corrected, high pressure sodium vapor luminaries.
Buildings and appurtenances, including signs, shall be cleaned and painted or repaired as required to present a neat appearance.
Natural features such as trees, hilltops and views, natural terrain, open waters and natural drainage lines shall be preserved whenever possible in designing any development.
Off-street parking areas shall be located within the rear and side yards only unless the applicant can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the plan-approving authority that off-street parking is necessary between the building and public right-of-way, or that front yard off-street parking is substantially buffered from the view of public rights-of-way. This requirement shall not apply to single family dwellings.
Parking spaces shall be sized in accordance with the dimensions provided in Exhibit 10. Small car spaces may be provided for up to thirty (30) percent of all required spaces for nonresidential uses.
Parking spaces for the physically handicapped shall be identified by signs, each of which shall not exceed two square feet in area. These signs should generally be located eight (8) feet above grade.
The curb cut shall not be less than four (4) feet wide and shall have a grade of not more than one (1) foot in twelve (12) feet. Curb cuts shall be provided within thirty (30) feet of each accessible entrance sidewalk to the structure, at all pedestrian sidewalk intersections, and elsewhere to provide reasonably direct circulation within each development. Curb cuts shall not be more than one hundred fifty (150) feet apart.
Sidewalks shall be scored or textured to indicate the location of doors to blind persons. Exterior sidewalks shall not be obstructed. They shall have a side slope not greater than one (1) inch in four (4) feet and a grade of not more than one (1) foot in twenty (20) feet.
The grade of parking spaces for the physically handicapped shall not be more than one (1) foot in twenty (20) feet.
No land shall be subdivided unless there is public water and sewer available to every lot within the subdivision.
By providing vehicular access to such lots by means of a local street or service drive separated from the highway by a planting strip at least 30 feet in width
Residential blocks shall normally not exceed 1,200 feet in length, or be less than 400 feet in length, between street lines.
Except for unusual topographic conditions or in response to the position of environmental and/or cultural resources, a ratio of depth to width of two to one shall be considered a desirable maximum.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.