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.
Permanent reference monuments shall be of stone or reinforced concrete, be at least 24 inches in length and 4 inches square or 8 inches in diameter
Any cemetery hereafter established, whether intended for public or private use, shall make provision for public access by a right-of-way at least 50 feet in width.
The right-of-way width for streets shall not be less than fifty (50) feet.
Signs, plantings, structures and other obstructions which would obscure or impede sight lines between three feet (3') and six feet (6') in height above grade shall be prohibited within the sight triangle area.
Permanent street identification signs of a design approved by the plan-approving authority shall be installed at all intersections by the developer.
The owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, constructed subsequent to October 3, 1973, and situated within the franchise territory at a distance not greater than two hundred and fifty feet from any Town owned sanitary sewer line or water main... shall be required to install suitable toilet and disposable liquid waste facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the public sewer and to the public water main
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into any public sanitary sewer any of the following water or wastes: (1) Any water or waste which may contain more than one hundred parts per million, by weight, of fat, oil or grease.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to install in one building an air conditioner, any refrigerating device or any device of any kind which uses Town water for cooling purposes ... unless such device or equipment is used in conjunction with a recirculating mechanism which is designed to reuse not less than ninety percent of the water used for cooling; except, that in any one building one air conditioner, one refrigerating mechanism or one other such device using town water and having a capacity of three tons or less may be installed without such recirculating mechanism, upon approval of the Town Manager.
At a minimum, a building shall have twenty-five percent (25%) of its perimeter fronting on a public or private street or on a fire apparatus space unobstructed for at least thirty (30) feet in width. ... A fire apparatus space shall be accessible from the street by a posted fire lane at least twelve (12) feet in width.
No grading shall occur within 100 feet of any perennial watercourse or wetland except as provided for specific waterfront erosion control, water-dependent facilities or for necessary utilities and street construction.
Plantings shall not be located within twenty (20) feet of low flow channels to allow for channel maintenance. The trees shall be spaced five (5) feet to fifteen (15) feet on center.
Ten percent (10%) of the trees shall be two and one-half (2½) inches to three (3) inches caliper, twenty percent (20%) shall be one (1) inch to two (2) inches caliper, and seventy percent (70%) shall be six (6) feet to eight (8) feet high whips.
Any land disturbance in excess of 2,500 square feet may result in soil erosion from water or wind and the movement of sediments into State waters.
All utility facilities proposed within major plans of development, including but not limited to wires, cables, pipes, conduits and appurtenant equipment, carrying or used in connection with the furnishing of electric, telephone, cable television or similar service shall be placed underground.
No building or other structure shall hereafter be erected or altered to exceed the height, bulk or area requirements of this Article.
Design and performance standards for development.
Sign regulations for the Town of Warsaw.
Accessory Dwelling: A subordinate dwelling of no more than 1,000 square feet or fifty percent (50%) of the square feet of the principal dwelling (the most restrictive measure shall apply) in whose building envelope the accessory dwelling has been constructed.
Family: An individual or two (2) or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, or a group of not more than four (4) unrelated persons, occupying a dwelling unit.
Garage, private: Accessory building designed or used for the storage of not more than three (3) automobiles owned and used by the occupants of the building to which it is accessory.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.