[R.O. 1992 § 405.010; Ord. No.
228 § 700.1, 5-10-1990]
This Title and the District Zoning Map, separate but made a
part hereof, shall be known as "The Zoning Ordinance" of the City
of Wright City, Missouri.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.020; Ord. No.
228 § 700.2, 5-10-1990]
A.
The main purpose of the Zoning Ordinance is to provide a framework
for implementing the Wright City Comprehensive Development Plan.
1.
These regulations are made in accordance with the Statutes of
the State of Missouri and amendments thereto and in accordance with
the Comprehensive Development Plan of the City of Wright City and
are designed to:
2.
This Zoning Chapter regulates and restricts in the City of Wright
City the use of land and the location of improvements thereon and
is intended to:
a.
Divide into districts the City, said districts being arranged
according to the Wright City Development Plan and referenced to maps
showing the same;
b.
Regulate and restrict within such districts the erection, construction,
reconstruction, alterations, repair, location, relocation, maintenance
or use of buildings, dwellings, structures, lots or land;
c.
Regulate and restrict the height, number of stories and size
of buildings, dwellings and structures; percentage of lot that may
be occupied; size of yards, courts or other open spaces; population
density; location and use of buildings, dwellings, structures and
land for trade, industry, residences and other purposes and uses;
and
d.
Preserve features of historical significance, natural resources
and agricultural lands.
3.
These regulations provide for a Planning and Zoning Commission
and a Board of Adjustment and define their respective powers and duties.
4.
These regulations provide for amendments, permits, enforcement
and penalties.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.030; Ord. No.
228 § 700.3, 5-10-1990]
A.
To support the above-stated purpose by identifying the City's specific
zoning districts, and establishing the characteristics and limitations
appropriate to each, based on the following factors:
1.
The stability and integrity of the various zoning districts.
2.
Protection against fire and casualties.
3.
Observation of general police regulations.
4.
Prevention of traffic congestion.
5.
Promotion of traffic safety and the orderly parking of motor
vehicles.
6.
Provision for adequate light and air.
7.
Prevention of overcrowding and excessive land-use intensity.
8.
Capacity of public utilities and schools.
9.
Invasion by inappropriate uses.
10.
Value, type and character of existing land uses.
11.
Conformance to overall planning.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.040; Ord. No.
228 § 700.4, 5-10-1990; Ord. No. 354 § I, 3-25-1999]
A.
The City of Wright City zoning districts hereby established, and
to which these regulations apply, are as follows:
1.
Agricultural And Miscellaneous.
"AG" - General Agricultural
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"FP" - Flood Plain
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"PS" - Park and Scenic
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2.
Residential.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
"SR-1" - Single-family residential, one (1) acre or more
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"SR-2" - Single-family residential, twenty-one thousand seven
hundred eighty (21,780) square feet
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"SR-3" - Single-family residential, ten thousand (10,000) square
feet to fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet
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"SR-4" - Single-family residential, seven thousand five hundred
(7,500) square feet
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(Reserved)
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"MR-1" - Two-family residential
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"MR-2" - Multiple-family residential
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"MH" - Manufactured home residential
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3.
Commercial.
"C-1" - Commercial, neighborhood
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"C-2" - Commercial, central business
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"C-3" - Commercial, shopping center
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"C-4" - Commercial, general
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"C-5" - Commercial, downtown
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4.
Industrial.
"M-1" - Light industrial
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"M-2" - Heavy industrial
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5.
"PDA" - Planned Development Area.
6.
"SL" - Sanitary and Debris Landfill.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.050; Ord. No.
228 § 700.5, 5-10-1990]
The boundaries of such zoning districts enumerated in these
regulations are hereby established as shown on the zoning maps prepared
for that purpose, said maps being hereby designated as the City of
Wright City Zoning District Maps, and said maps and all notations,
references and information shown thereon are hereby made as much a
part of these regulations as if the same were set forth in full herein.
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall keep on file in its office
authentic copies of said maps and all changes, amendments or additions
thereto.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.060; Ord. No.
228 § 700.6, 5-10-1990]
The area governed by these regulations is hereby declared to
be the land within the City limits of Wright City.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.070; Ord. No.
228 § 700.7, 5-10-1990; Ord. No. 390 §§ I –
II, 4-12-2001]
A.
In applying and interpreting these regulations, the requirements
contained herein are declared to be the minimum requirements necessary
to carry out the purpose of this Title. Except as specifically provided
herein, these regulations shall not be deemed to interfere with, abrogate,
annul or otherwise affect in any manner whatsoever any law, ordinance,
easement, covenant or other agreement between parties. Whenever the
provisions of these regulations impose greater restrictions upon the
use of land or buildings, or upon the height or bulk of buildings,
or require larger building site areas, yards or open spaces than are
imposed or required by any such other law, ordinance, rule, regulation,
permit, easement, covenant or other agreement between parties, this
regulation shall control. These regulations shall apply uniformly
to each class or kind of structure or land within each district, and,
particularly, except as otherwise provided herein:
1.
The use shall be unlawful of any land, structure or building
for any purpose other than permitted in the district where such land,
structure or building is located.
2.
No building or structure shall be erected, constructed, reconstructed,
moved or altered to exceed the height or area limit.
[Ord. No. 852 § XV, 4-23-2015]
3.
No building shall hereafter be erected, reconstructed, relocated
or structurally altered on any lot or parcel unless such lot or parcel
faces a dedicated street or right-of-way. Where a building exists,
a required dedicated street or right-of-way shall not be vacated so
as to eliminate the required access to a dedicated street or right-of-way.
4.
No building shall hereafter be erected, constructed, reconstructed,
moved, relocated or structurally altered to have a greater percentage
of lot area, to accommodate or have a greater number of facilities,
or to have narrower or smaller yards, courts or open spaces than is
permissible under the limitations set forth herein for the district
where said building is located.
5.
No part of a yard or other open space required for any specific
building or use and necessary to meet the requirements of these regulations
shall be included as part of a yard or open space required for another
building or use.
6.
No lot, held under one (1) ownership at the effective date on
or before May 10, 1990, shall be reduced in dimension or area in relation
to any building thereon so as to be smaller than that required by
this regulation; if already smaller, the dimensions or the area shall
not be further reduced.
7.
Every building hereafter erected or altered shall be located
on a lot as herein defined and in no case shall more than one (1)
principal building be located on one (1) lot except as provided herein.
8.
No lot area shall be reduced or diminished so the yards or other
open spaces shall be smaller than prescribed by these regulations,
nor shall the population density be increased in any manner, except
in conformity with the area regulations established herein.
9.
Except as provided in Section 405.070(A)(10), any and all lands annexed to the City after May 10, 1990, shall be classified as an "AG" General Agricultural District until, within a period not to exceed ninety (90) days following the annexation date, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall appropriately reclassify such annexed area in accordance with the amendment procedure to this Title.
10.
Areas which may hereafter be proposed to be voluntarily annexed
to the City may first be tentatively zoned by the Board of Aldermen,
following study and recommendations by the Planning and Zoning Commission,
if the owners thereof desire; such tentative zoning shall, upon the
effective date of the annexation, become the classified zoning.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.080; Ord. No.
228 § 700.8, 5-10-1990; Ord. No. 765 § I, 7-26-2012]
A.
With respect to interpreting these regulations, the following rules
shall apply:
1.
District Boundaries. When uncertainty exists with respect to
the boundaries of any of the districts enumerated within this Title
or on the zoning maps, the following rules shall apply:
a.
Where district boundary lines are indicated as approximately
following roads, streets, alleys, highways or railroads, such boundaries
shall be construed as following the rights-of-way thereof.
b.
Where district boundary lines are indicated as approximately
following lot lines or section lines, such lines shall be construed
as the said boundaries.
c.
Where a district boundary line appears to follow a stream, lake
or other body of water, said boundary line shall be deemed to be at
the centerline of the stream, lake or body of water, unless otherwise
indicated.
d.
Where a district boundary line divides a lot or unsubdivided
property, and the dimensions are not shown on the map, the boundary's
location shall be determined by using the scale appearing on the zoning
maps.
e.
When definite distances in feet are not shown on the zoning
district maps, the district boundaries are intended to be along existing
property lines, roads, streets, alleys or platted lot lines, survey
or land lines or extensions of same, and if the exact location of
such lines is not clear, such location shall be determined by the
Zoning Enforcement Officer, due consideration being given to location
as indicated by the scale of the zoning maps.
f.
When roads, streets or alleys on the ground differ from the
roads, streets or alleys as shown on the zoning maps, the Zoning Enforcement
Officer shall apply the district designations on the maps to the roads,
streets or alleys on the ground in such a manner as to conform to
the intent and purpose of these regulations.
g.
Wherever any road, street or alley is vacated, the particular
district in which the adjacent property lies shall be automatically
extended to the centerline of any such road, street or alley which
thenceforth shall be subject to all regulations of said extended district(s).
Wherever a public road, street or alley is dedicated as such, the
zoning district designation within that dedicated road, street or
alley shall be automatically made void.
h.
The boundaries of the Floodway and Floodway Fringe Overlay Districts
shall be determined by scaling distances on the Official Zoning Map
or on the Flood Insurance Rate Map, and, in case of conflict between
a mapped boundary and actual field conditions, the Zoning Enforcement
Officer shall make the necessary interpretation. The regulatory flood
elevation for the point in question shall be the governing factor
in locating the district boundary on the land.
i.
Any person contesting the location of a district boundary, or
the Zoning Enforcement Officer's interpretation of same, shall be
given a reasonable opportunity to present his or her case to the Board
of Adjustment and to submit his or her own technical evidence, and
the Board shall resolve the dispute.
2.
Uses.
a.
Uses listed under the heading Permitted Land Uses and Developments
are allowable in respective districts.
b.
Uses listed under the heading Conditional Uses and Land Developments
are allowable in respective districts h with Planning and Zoning Commission
approval. If a residential use is requested in non-residential districts,
such use shall conform to the residential district regulations.
c.
Unlisted Uses. Any use not listed is specifically prohibited.
Any use not shown as a use permitted by right, a conditional use or
a planned use in a zoning district is specifically prohibited in that
district. Uses not listed have been determined either not to be appropriate
in any district, incompatible with certain existing uses, or sufficiently
rare or unexpected as to be incapable of being listed at the time
of adoption of this Code. Any use not shown as a use permitted by
right, a conditional use or a planned use in any zoning district,
but constituting a use that is required to be permitted by law, shall
be authorized only in the industrial district subject to the following
conditions:
(1)
The use shall be permitted only to the extent required
by law to be permitted;
(2)
The use shall be approved only as a planned use,
except if by law it is required to be permitted by right;
(3)
The use shall be located no closer than one thousand
(1,000) feet from any residence, residential property, park, school
or church, except as may be modified by the Board of Aldermen through
a planned use procedure;
(4)
The use shall maintain a distance of at least one
thousand (1,000) feet from any other such use;
(5)
No use shall occupy a structure in excess of five
thousand (5,000) square feet without an approved alternate parking
plan designed for that use and supported by a traffic study submitted
to and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
3.
Nothing contained herein shall be construed as authorizing the
governing body to discriminate against any person by reason of color,
race or gender.
4.
Any person having an interest in property affected by these
regulations may have the reasonableness of these regulations determined
by bringing an action in the District Court of the County against
the City and/or the Planning and Zoning Commission.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.090; Ord. No.
228 § 700.9, 5-10-1990; Ord. No. 696 § I, 9-24-2009; Ord. No. 697 § I, 9-24-2009; Ord. No. 759 § I, 6-28-2012]
A.
For the purposes of this Title, the word interpretations and definitions
contained in this Section shall be observed and applied, except when
the context clearly indicates otherwise.
1.
Word Interpretation.
a.
Words used in the present tense include the future; words in
the singular number include the plural; and words in the plural number
include the singular.
b.
The word "shall" or "must" is mandatory, and the word "may"
is permissive.
c.
The term "used for" includes the meanings "designated for,"
"intended for," "occupied for" and "maintained for."
d.
The word "lot" shall include the words "plot," "piece" and "parcel."
2.
ABANDON
ABANDONMENT
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR STRUCTURE
ACCESSORY USE
ADMINISTER MEDICAL MARIJUANA
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
AGRICULTURAL AND FARM BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES
AGRICULTURAL HEMP PROPAGULE
AGRICULTURAL HEMP SEED
AGRICULTURAL or FARMING
AIRPORTS
ALLEY
ALTERATIONS, BUILDING OR STRUCTURAL
ANIMAL BOARDING KENNELS
ANIMAL CLINICS AND HOSPITALS
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
APARTMENT
APARTMENT HOTEL
APARTMENT HOUSE
APPEAL
AREA
AREA OF ZONING LOT
AREA REQUIREMENTS
ATTACHED BUILDING
AUDITORIUM
AUTOMOBILE (MOTOR VEHICLE)
AUTOMOBILE AND TRAILER SALES AREA
AUTOMOBILE PARKING AREA
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION
AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARD
BASEMENT
BENCHMARK
BILLBOARD
BLIGHT
BLOCK
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
BOARDING, LODGING OR ROOMING HOUSE
BUILDABLE AREA
BUILDING
BUILDING HEIGHT
BUILDING LINE
BUILDING, ACCESSORY
BUILDING, ENCLOSED
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
BUILDING, TEMPORARY
CABIN
CAMPGROUND (CAMPSITE)
CAMPING EQUIPMENT
CARE HOME
CELLAR
CHILD CARE FACILITY
CHURCH
CITY PLAN
CLINIC, ANIMAL
CLINIC, HEALTH
CLUB
CONDEMNATION
CONDITIONAL USE
CONDOMINIUM
CONSTRUCTION TRAILER
CONSTRUCTION, EXISTING
CONSTRUCTION, NEW
CONSTRUCTION, START OF
CORNER LOT
COURT
COVERAGE
CUL-DE-SAC
CURB LEVEL
DENSITY
DEPARTMENT
DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT
DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT
DRIVEWAY
DUMP
DUPLEX
DWELLING
DWELLING UNIT
DWELLING, GROUP
DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY
DWELLING, NON-
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY OR SINGLE-FAMILY
DWELLING, THREE-FAMILY
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
EASEMENT
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ENTITY
ESSENTIAL UTILITY, GOVERNMENT OR PUBLIC
EXCEPTIONAL USE
EXISTING
FAMILY
FILL, EARTH
FILLING STATION
FLOOR AREA
FLOOR AREA RATIO
FLOWERING PLANT, MARIJUANA
FLOOR AREA, GROSS
FOOD TRUCK
FRONTAGE
GARAGE, PRIVATE
GARAGE, PUBLIC
GARAGE, STORAGE
GARBAGE
GASOLINE SERVICE STATION
GRADE
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
GROUP HOME
HEIGHT
HEIGHT, BUILDING
HEIGHT, YARD OR COURT
HEMP EXTRACT
HOME-BASED BUSINESS
HOME-BASED BUSINESS, NO IMPACT
(1)
(2)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
HOME-BASED WORK
HOME OCCUPATION
HOSPITAL
HOTEL
HOTEL APARTMENT
HOUSE
ILLEGAL INDUSTRIAL HEMP
INDEPENDENT SENIOR LIVING FACILITY
INDOOR CULTIVATION FACILITY, INDUSTRIAL HEMP CULTIVATION
INDOOR FIRING RANGE
INDUSTRIAL HEMP CROP
INDUSTRIAL HEMP CULTIVATION
INDUSTRIAL HEMP PLANT MONITORING SYSTEM
INSTITUTION
INTERIOR SIDE LOT LINE
JUNK YARD
KENNEL
LAND USE PLAN
LAUNDROMAT
LAUNDRY, COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL
LICENSE
LINE
LIVESTOCK
LIVESTOCK MARKET FACILITY
LOADING SPACE
LODGING HOUSE
LOT
LOT AREA
LOT COVERAGE
LOT DEPTH
LOT IN SEPARATE OWNERSHIP
LOT LINES
LOT LINES, FRONT
LOT LINES, REAR
LOT LINES, SIDE
LOT OF RECORD
LOT, CORNER
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE
LOT, INTERIOR
LOT, MOBILE HOME
LOT, NON-CONFORMING
LOT, PARKING
LOT, THROUGH
LOT, WIDTH
MANUFACTURED HOME
MANUFACTURED HOME LOT
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK
MANUFACTURED HOME STAND
MANUFACTURER, MEDICAL MARIJUANA
MARIJUANA or MARIHUANA
MARIJUANA-INFUSED PRODUCTS
MEDICAL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION
MEDICAL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FACILITY
MEDICAL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION IDENTIFICATION CARD
MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY
MEDICAL MARIJUANA MEDICAL USE
MEDICAL MARIJUANA TESTING FACILITY
MEDICAL MARIJUANA TRANSPORTATION FACILITY
MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
MEDICAL MARIJUANA-INFUSED PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING FACILITY
MOBILE HOME
MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY/PARK
MOBILE HOME LOT
MOBILE HOME PARK
MOBILE HOME SPACE
MODULAR HOME
MOTEL/MOTOR HOTEL/MOTOR COURT
MOTOR HOME
MOTOR VEHICLE AND TRAILER SALES AREA
MOTOR VEHICLE GASOLINE SERVICE STATIONS
MOTOR VEHICLE PARKING AREA
MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR SHOP
MOTOR VEHICLE WRECKING YARD
MUNICIPAL OFFICIAL
NEIGHBORHOOD
NOISOME AND INJURIOUS SUBSTANCES, CONDITIONS AND OPERATIONS
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
NON-CONFORMANCE
NON-CONFORMING BUILDING
NON-CONFORMING LOT
NON-CONFORMING USE
NON-VIABLE INDUSTRIAL HEMP
NURSING OR CONVALESCENT HOME
OFFICE, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
OFFICE, SERVICE
OPEN SPACE, PUBLIC
OPEN UNOCCUPIED SPACE
OVERLAY DISTRICT
PARCEL
PARK STREET
PARKING AREA
PARKING AREA, PRIVATE
PARKING AREA, PUBLIC
PARKING LOT, COMMERCIAL
PARKING SPACE
PAVED
PAWNSHOP
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
PERSON
PHYSICIAN
PLACE
PLAN
PLAN, LAND
PLANNED DEVELOPMENT
PLANNED DISTRICT
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
PLAT
POLLUTION
PORTABLE STORAGE CONTAINER
PREMISES
PRIMARY CAREGIVER
PRINCIPAL USE
PRODUCER, INDUSTRIAL HEMP CULTIVATION
PROFESSIONAL
PROPERTY
PROPERTY LINE
PUBLICLY MARKETABLE PRODUCT
PUBLIC OPEN SPACE
PUBLIC SEWAGE SYSTEM
PUBLIC USE
PUBLIC UTILITY
PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
QUALIFYING PATIENT
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
REPAIR FACILITY
RESIDENCE
REST HOME
RESTAURANT
RESTAURANT, DRIVE-IN
RIGHT-OF-WAY
ROAD
ROADWAY SURFACE WIDTH
ROOM
ROOMING HOUSE
SANITARY LANDFILL
SEARCHLIGHT, MARKETING/PROMOTIONAL
SECONDARY SCHOOL
SERVICE BUILDING
SETBACK
SETBACK LINE, BUILDING FRONT, REAR OR SIDE
SEWAGE SYSTEM OR WORKS, SANITARY
SHIPPING CONTAINER
SHIPPING CONTAINER HOME
SEWAGE, DOMESTIC OR SANITARY
SEWAGE/WASTE, INDUSTRIAL
SHOPPING CENTER/MALL
SIGN
SIGN AREA
SIGN CLEARANCE
SIGN COMBINATION
SIGN HEIGHT
SIGN, ADVERTISING
SIGN, BILLBOARD
SIGN, BULLETIN BOARD
SIGN, BUSINESS
SIGN, CONSTRUCTION
SIGN, DIRECTIONAL
SIGN, FACE
SIGN, FREESTANDING
SIGN, IDENTIFICATION
SIGN, ILLUMINATED
SIGN, INCIDENTAL USE
SIGN, MARQUEE
SIGN, NAME PLATE
SIGN, POLE
SIGN, PRINCIPAL USE
SIGN, PROJECTING
SIGN, REAL ESTATE
SIGN, ROOF
SIGN, SEPARATE USE
SIGN, SUBDIVISION
SIGN, TEMPORARY
SIGN, WALL
SITE PLAN
SOLID WASTE
SPACE
SPORTING GOODS
STABLE, PRIVATE
STABLE, PUBLIC
STABLE, RIDING
STORAGE BUILDINGS
STORAGE UNIT (LONG-TERM AND TEMPORARY)
STORY
STORY, HALF
STREET
(1)
(2)
(3)
STREET LINES
STREET SURFACE WIDTH
STREET-SIDE LOT LINES
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS
STRUCTURE
STRUCTURE, DWELLING
STRUCTURE, NON-DWELLING
SUBDIVISION
SUBDIVISION PLAT, FINAL
SUBDIVISION PLAT, PRELIMINARY
TATTOO SHOP
TEMPORARY BUILDING OR USE
THEATER
THEATER, OUTDOOR DRIVE-IN
THOROUGHFARE
THOROUGHFARE PLAN
THOROUGHFARE, PRIMARY/SECONDARY
TIE-DOWN
TOPOGRAPHIC MAP
TOURIST HOME
TOURIST/TRAILER CAMP
TRAILER
TRAILER, CONSTRUCTION
TRANSITIONAL AREA
TRANSPORTATION INSTALLATIONS, MAJOR
UNFIT FOR HUMAN HABITATION
USE
UTILITIES, LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICE
UTILITIES, MAJOR
UTILITIES, PRIVATE
UTILITY TRAILER
VACATION VEHICLE LOT OR PARK
VARIANCE
VIABLE INDUSTRIAL HEMP
WAREHOUSE
YARD
YARD, FRONT
YARD, REAR
YARD, SIDE
ZONING
ZONING AMENDMENT
ZONING APPEAL
ZONING BOARD
ZONING CERTIFICATE
ZONING DISTRICTS
ZONING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
ZONING MAP
ZONING, BUILDING PERMIT
Definitions.
To discontinue a use for more than one hundred eighty (180)
consecutive days, or six (6) months, whichever is less.
An action to give up one's rights or interest in property.
A detached subordinate building or structure, the use of
which is customarily incidental to the principal use, located on the
same lot with the principal building or use. A building housing an
accessory use is considered an integral part of the principal building
when it has any part of a wall in common with the principal building
or is under an extension of the principal roof and designed as an
integral part of the principal building.
A use incidental and subordinate to the principal use of
the premises.
The direct application of marijuana to a qualified patient, to the extent allowed by and pursuant to the terms of Article XIV, Section 1 of the Missouri Constitution, by way of any of the following methods:
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
Ingestion of capsules, teas, oils, and other marijuana-infused
products;
Vaporization or smoking of dried flowers, buds, plant material,
extracts, or oils;
Application of ointments or balms;
Transdermal patches and suppositories;
Consuming marijuana-infused food products; or
Any other method recommended by a qualified patient's physician as authorized by Article XIV, Section 1 of the Missouri Constitution.
Any building or structure necessary or incidental to the
normal conduct of a farm, including, but not limited to, the operator
residence; residence of hired personnel; barns, buildings and sheds
for housing livestock, poultry and farm machinery; buildings for the
storage or shelter of grain, hay and other crops; silos, mills and
water storage tanks.
Any viable non-seed plant material used to cultivate industrial
hemp, including, but not limited to, transplants, cuttings, and clones.
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
Cannabis sativa L. seed that meets any labeling, quality,
or other standards set by the Missouri Department of Agriculture and
that is intended for sale, is sold to, or is purchased by registered
industrial hemp producers for planting.
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
Planting, cultivating, harvesting and storing grains, hay,
plants or trees commonly grown in Warren County; raising and feeding
livestock or poultry, except feeding, fattening or finishing livestock
or poultry for hire or as a business venture separate and distinct
from crop raising which shall be classed as commercial agriculture.
A minimum of five (5) acres of land shall constitute agriculture or
farming for the purposes of these regulations.
All areas used for landing aircraft.
A public secondary means of access to abutting property,
not intended for general traffic circulation and less than thirty
(30) feet wide.
Any addition, removal, extension or change in the location
of any exterior wall, structural part or exit facilities of a principal
or accessory building or structure; any change in use from one (1)
zoning classification to another; or any moving of a building from
one (1) site to another.
Any structure or lot where four (4) or more dogs or cats
older than four (4) months of age and/or other animals for other than
agricultural purposes are boarded, bred and/or offered for sale, not
including stables.
An establishment where animals are admitted principally for
examination and treatment by a doctor of veterinary medicine, with
boarding facilities limited to that necessary for the treatment of
the sick animal and not including open kennels or runs.
The non-profit maintenance of one (1) horse per acre, four
(4) cattle per acre, two (2) goats per acre, twenty-four (24) poultry
and/or cats, dogs, rabbits, chinchillas, guinea pigs or pigeons in
excess of the amount permitted as household pets, with the slaughter
of such animals as poultry, rabbits or beef cattle permitted only
for consumption by the resident family, with animals other than household
pets not kept within a dwelling or within twenty (20) feet of a dwelling
on the same lot or within sixty (60) feet of any property line, and
with housing and caging of animals adequate and sanitary and subject
to all state health requirements for health and sanitation and with
all animal food except hay and straw stored in rodent-proof containers.
A room or suite of rooms within a building arranged, intended
or designed as a place of residence for a single family or group of
individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit.
An apartment house providing its tenants services ordinarily
furnished by hotels, but not primarily available to the public, or
a hotel primarily intended to provide dwelling facilities for non-transient
persons.
(See "dwelling, multiple-family.").
A request for a review of the Zoning Enforcement Officer's
interpretation of any provision of this Title or a request for a variance.
The amount of land surfaces in a lot, plot or parcel. (See
also "buildable area, lot area.")
(See "lot area.")
The yard, lot area, lot width, lot coverage and space requirements
as set forth in a specific district.
A building attached to another building by a common wall
(such wall being a solid wall with or without windows and doors) and
a common roof with at least a horizontal dimension of six (6) feet.
A room, hall or building made a part of a church, theater,
school, recreation or other building assigned to the gathering of
people as an audience, to hear lectures, plays and other presentations.
A passenger car, van, pickup truck, bus, and/or recreational
vehicle, usually four-wheeled, propelled by an engine, meant for traveling
on streets or roads.
(See "motor vehicle and trailer sales area.")
(See "parking area.")
(See "gasoline service station.")
(See "motor vehicle wrecking yard.")
A building portion having part but not more than one-half
(1/2) its height above grade and used for storage, garages for building
occupant's use, janitor's or watchman's quarters or other utilities
common for the rest of the building and which is not, as defined herein,
counted as a story unless subdivided and used for dwelling purposes
other than by a janitor or watchman employed on the premises.
A permanent point of reference from which various measurements
may be made.
(See "sign, billboard.")
Deterioration, deficiencies or inadequacies in buildings,
facilities and/or their environment diminishing their value, appearance
and/or usability.
A tract of land bounded by public highways, streets or rights-of-way,
other than alleys or, in cases where the platting is incomplete or
disconnected, as determined by the Zoning Enforcement Officer.
The City's official Board of Adjustment.
A building, other than a hotel or restaurant, operated as
a single housekeeping unit, where lodging and/or meals are provided
for compensation to three (3) or more persons, but not more than twenty
(20), who are not members of the keeper's family, but not open on
a daily, overnight or per-meal basis to transient guests.
The space remaining on a zoned lot after the minimum open
space requirements of this Title have been met.
An enclosed structure, anchored to a permanent foundation,
and having exterior walls and a roof, designed for the shelter of
persons, animals or property. When divided by other common or continuous
walls, each portion or section of such building shall be regarded
as a separate building, except two (2) such enclosed structures connected
by a breezeway shall be deemed as one (1) building.
(See "height, building.")
A building limit fixed by setback requirements at a specific
distance from the front, rear and side boundaries of a lot, beyond
which a structure cannot lawfully extend.
(See "accessory building or structure, attached building.")
A building separated on all sides from adjacent open space
or other buildings by fixed exterior walls or party walls, with openings
only for windows and doors and covered by a permanent roof.
A building housing the principal, as distinguished from accessory
or secondary, use or uses on a lot.
(See "temporary building or use.")
A structure used for residential occupancy in a recreational
district.
An area of land whereupon camping trailers, campers and similar
vacation vehicles are housed on a temporary basis and used exclusively
by such camping vehicles.
(See "recreational vehicle.")
A licensed rest home, nursing home, convalescent home, boarding
home for the aged or similar use established to render domiciliary
care for chronic or convalescent patients, but not including hospitals,
clinics or facilities for the care of feeble-minded or mental patients,
epileptics, alcoholics, senile psychotics, drug addicts, sick or injured.
(See "basement.")
An establishment used for the purpose of a day care center,
day nursery, nursery school, day school, kindergarten (not connected
with a school as defined herein) or similar use which constitutes
the normal care of physically and mentally sound children. Child care
facilities shall meet all requirements and specifications of the Division
of Health and other State or local agencies having jurisdiction over
child care facilities.
A building, including, but not limited to, a church, synagogue,
temple, mosque, cathedral, chapel, sanctuary, or other facility wherein
persons regularly assemble for religious worship maintained and controlled
by a religious body having a principal use of religious worship or
the offering of religious services of any denomination.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
The City's sketch plan or comprehensive plan, whether in
whole or in part, as adopted by the Planning and Zoning Commission,
approved by the Board of Aldermen and duly recorded in the Warren
County, Missouri, Recorder's Office. Such plan may consist of several
maps, data and other descriptive matter, for the physical development
of the City or any portion thereof, including any amendment, extension
or additions thereto adopted by the Board of Aldermen, indicating
the general locations for major streets, parks, schools or other public
open spaces, public building sites, routes for public utilities, zoning
districts or other similar information.
(See "animal clinics and hospitals.")
An establishment for the care, diagnosis and treatment of
sick, ailing, infirm and injured persons, by a group of licensed health
practitioners, but not providing board, room or overnight accommodations
on the premises, not including animal hospitals or clinics.
A non-profit association of persons who are bona fide members
organized for some common purposes and paying regular dues; not including
a group organized solely or primarily to render a service customarily
a commercial enterprise; or a private, public or semi-public building
or premises and appurtenant recreational facilities used by persons
for recreational and eating purposes but not dwelling purposes for
other than managerial or transient lodging.
The taking of private property by a government unit for public
use when the owner will not relinquish it through sale or other means,
with compensation of fair market value paid to owner.
A land use or development requiring analysis and judgment
of its consequences regarding its location and relationship to other
land uses.
The legal arrangement for individual ownership of each dwelling
unit in an apartment building or residential development while common
areas are owned, controlled and maintained through an organization
consisting of all the individual owners.
(See "trailer, construction.")
Structures for which the "start of construction" commenced
before January 3, 1985 (the effective date of the Wright City Flood
Insurance Rate Map); also refers to "existing structures."
Structures for which the "start of construction" or substantial
improvement commenced on or after January 3, 1985.
The first placement of permanent construction of a structure
on a site, such as pouring slabs or footings or any work beyond the
excavation stage. Permanent construction does not include land preparation,
such as clearing, grading and filling; nor does it include installing
streets or walkways; nor does it include excavation for a basement,
footings, piers or foundations or the erection of temporary forms;
nor does it include installing accessory buildings on the property.
For a structure without a basement or poured footings, the "start
of construction" includes the first permanent framing or assembly
of the structure or any part thereof on its piling or foundation.
For separate mobile homes, the "start of construction" means affixing
the mobile home to its permanent site; for grouped mobile homes, the
"start of construction" means the completion date for the construction
of facilities for servicing the site, including street installation,
final site grading, pouring concrete pads, and installation of utilities.
(See "lot, corner.")
An open, unoccupied space, other than a yard, bounded on
three (3) or more sides by exterior walls of a building, or by exterior
walls of a building and lot lines on which walls are allowable.
(See "lot coverage.")
A short street having one (1) end open to traffic and being
terminated at the other end by a vehicular turnaround.
The mean level of the curb in front of the lot or, in case
of a corner lot, along that abutting street where the mean curb level
is highest.
Land occupancy area requirements/limitations. (See also "area
requirements.")
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, or
its successor agency.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures or mining,
dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavating or drilling operations.
A section or sections of the City specifically declared within
which the regulations governing the user of buildings and premises
are uniform.
A type of retail sales providing patrons, in parked motor
vehicles at specified spaces, outdoor service of food and/or beverage
prepared for immediate human consumption.
A roadway or drive for vehicular use located on private property
leading to a building, parking area (private or public, depending
on use) or use. For single-family dwellings, a driveway may also serve
as a parking space.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016; Ord. No. 910, 4-27-2017]
A lot, land or part thereof used primarily for disposal by
abandonment, dumping, burial, burning or any other means, and for
whatever purpose, of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded
machinery, vehicles or parts thereof, or waste material of any kind.
(See "dwelling, two-family.")
A stationary building, or portion thereof, designed exclusively
for permanent residential occupancy, including residential buildings,
modular homes, boarding and lodging houses, apartment houses, apartment
hotels or manufactured homes, with special provisions being required
for manufactured homes such as being placed on a permanent foundation
and having wheels and tongue removed, but not motels or hotels. A
shipping container home shall not be considered a dwelling.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
A structure or portion thereof with complete housekeeping
facilities for one (1) family or group operating as a single housekeeping
unit.
Two (2) or more detached or attached single-family, two-family
or multiple-family dwellings occupying a single building site and
having yards or open space in common, but not including a motel, hotel
or motor hotel.
A building or portion thereof, including apartment houses,
row houses, tenements and apartment hotels arranged, intended or designed
for occupancy by three (3) or more families or groups each living
as an independent housekeeping unit, such dwelling units normally
being rented or used other than by the day, by the same occupant for
a continuous period ordinarily of three (3) months or more.
(See: STRUCTURE, NON-DWELLING)
A detached principal building containing one (1) dwelling
unit designed for or used exclusively by one (1) family as an independent
housekeeping unit.
[1]A detached principal building designed for or used as a dwelling
exclusively by three (3) families or groups each living as an independent
housekeeping unit.
A detached principal building designed for or used as a dwelling
exclusively by two (2) families or groups each living as an independent
housekeeping unit or a building, such as a duplex, containing two
(2) dwelling units only.
A grant by the owner, for a specific purpose or purposes,
of the use of a strip of land by the general public, utility companies
or private individuals.
A public, private, religious or parochial school giving instruction
in a grade or grades not lower than pre-school nor higher than the
eighth grade.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
A natural person, corporation, professional corporation,
nonprofit corporation, cooperative corporation, unincorporated association,
business trust, limited liability company, general or limited partnership,
limited liability partnership, joint venture, or any other legal entity.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
Erecting, constructing, altering or maintaining by public
utilities or municipal departments, underground or overhead gas, electrical,
steam, water transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication,
supply or disposal systems, including poles, wire, mains, drains,
sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm and police call boxes,
traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories
in connection therewith, reasonably necessary to furnish adequate
service or for the public health, safety or general welfare, but not
including buildings.
In force or being as of May 10, 1990.
One (1) or more persons related by blood, adoption or marriage,
or by employment as domestic servants, living together and occupying
a single housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities, or a group
of not more than five (5) (excluding servants) living together by
joint agreement and occupying a single housekeeping unit with kitchen
facilities, on a non-profit cost-sharing basis.
The height to which uncontaminated soil is placed; also the
resulting earthwork.
(See "gasoline service station.")
The area included within outside walls of a building or portion
thereof, including habitable penthouses and attic space, but not including
vent shafts, courts or uninhabitable areas below ground level or in
attics.
The ratio in square feet of total floor area of all buildings
on a lot to total lot area.
A marijuana plant from the time it exhibits the first signs
of sexual maturity through harvest.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
The total number of square feet of floor area in a building
determined by horizontal measurements between the exterior faces of
walls, including basement area used for storage of goods, equipment
and vehicles, also including interior balconies, mezzanines and accessory
buildings.
An automobile or trailer designed and used for cooking, preparation,
assembling, and/or serving of a full or limited menu of single service
food items from the automobile or trailer for use by consumers.
[Ord. No. 812 § I, 12-12-2013]
All the property on the side of a street between two (2)
intersecting streets (crossing or terminating), measured along the
line of the street or, if the street is dead-ended, all the property
abutting one (1) side between an intersecting street and the dead
end of the street.
If detached, an accessory building for storing motor vehicles;
if attached, a building or portion thereof for storing one (1) or
more motor vehicles for persons occupying the premises. Only one (1)
such vehicle may be commercial, not more than two (2) tons capacity.
A building or portion thereof designed or used for the storage,
sale, hiring, care or incidental repair of motor vehicles and operated
for commercial purposes, except no salvage of automobiles, trucks,
tractors or similar automotive equipment for parts or other uses is
permitted under this definition.
A building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively
for prearranged term storage of motor vehicles, not daily, and within
which motor fuels and oils may be sold, but no motor driven vehicles
are equipped, repaired, hired or sold.
Putrescible animal or vegetable wastes resulting from food
handling, preparation, cooking, servicing or consumption.
A building, premises or portion thereof having pumps and
storage tanks and used for the retail sale of gasoline, oil or other
fuel, automotive parts, supplies or accessories for motor vehicles
and which may include, as an incidental use only, facilities for polishing,
greasing, washing or otherwise cleaning or light servicing motor vehicles,
but not including liquefied petroleum gas distribution, junk and/or
motor-vehicle wrecking facilities.
For buildings having walls adjoining one (1) street only, the
sidewalk elevation at the center of the wall adjoining the street.
For buildings having walls adjoining more than one (1) street,
the average sidewalk elevation at the centers of all walls adjoining
the streets.
For buildings having no wall adjoining the street, the average
level of the finished ground surface adjacent to the building's exterior
walls.
Any wall approximately parallel to and not more than five (5)
feet from a street line shall be considered adjoining the street.
Where no sidewalk exists, the grade shall be established by the City
Engineer.
A permitted form of single-family residential occupancy in
which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally or physically handicapped
persons reside and may include two (2) additional persons acting as
house parents or guardians who need not be related to each other or
to any of the mentally or physically handicapped persons residing
in the home.
The distance above the average finished ground elevation
at the perimeter of the structure being measured.
The vertical distance measured from the highest point of
a flat roof's coping, a mansard roof's deck line or a gable, hip or
gambrel roof's mean height level between eaves and ridge, to the highest
of the following three (3) levels: from the street curb level; from
the established or mean street grade in case the curb has not been
constructed; or from the average finished ground level adjoining the
building if it sets back from the street line.
The vertical distance from the lowest level of such yard
or court to the highest point of any boundary wall.
An extract from a cannabis plant or a mixture or preparation
containing cannabis plant material that:
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
Any business operated in a residential dwelling that manufactures,
provides, or sells goods or services and that is owned and operated
by the owner or tenant of the residential dwelling.
[Ord. No. 1030, 9-22-2022]
Any Home-Based Business:
[Ord. No. 1030, 9-22-2022]
Where the total number of employees and clients on-site at one
(1) time does not exceed the occupancy limit for the residential dwelling;
and
The activities of the business:
Are limited to the sale of lawful goods and services;
May involve having more than one (1) client on the property
at one (1) time;
Do not cause a substantial increase in traffic through the residential
area;
Do not violate the Residential Parking Requirements set forth
in Section 400.390;
Occur inside the residential dwelling or in the yard of the
residential dwelling;
Are not visible from the street; and
Do not violate the narrowly tailored regulations in Section 405.100(A)(1)(b)(6)(b), established herein.
Any lawful occupation performed by a resident within a residential
home or accessory structure, which is clearly incidental and secondary
to the use of the dwelling unit for residential purposes and does
not change the residential character of the residential building or
adversely affect the character of the surrounding neighborhood.
[Ord. No. 1030, 9-22-2022]
A no impact home-based business or home-based work.
[Ord. No. 1030, 9-22-2022]
Any institution receiving in-patients, or a public institution
receiving out-patients and authorized under Missouri Law to render
medical, surgical and/or obstetrical care, including a sanitarium
for the treatment and care of feeble-minded and mental patients, epileptics,
alcoholics, senile psychotics or drug addicts, but not including office
facilities for the private practice of medicine or dentistry or care
homes as defined herein.
A building containing individual guest rooms or suites of
rooms, providing lodging with or without meals to the transient public
for compensation, with ingress to and egress from all rooms through
an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all
hours, as distinguished from a boarding or lodging house or apartment
herein separately defined.
(See "apartment hotel.")
(See "dwelling.")
All non-seed parts and varieties of the Cannabis sativa L.
plant, growing or not, that contain an average delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol
concentration exceeding three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) on a dry
weight basis.
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
A facility containing dwelling units, accessory uses and
support services specifically designed for occupancy by persons fifty-five
(55) years of age or older. Such facilities may include accommodations
for persons who are fully ambulatory or who require no medical or
personal assistance or supervision, as well as accommodations for
persons who require only limited or intermittent medical or personal
assistance.
[Ord. No. 986, 4-2020]
Any greenhouse or enclosed building or structure, used or
proposed to be used for the cultivation of industrial hemp, capable
of continuous cultivation throughout the year that is not a residential
building.
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
An indoor facility in which the supervised discharging of
legal firearms, including, but not limited to, pistols, rifles and
shotguns for target practice and which use may include other related
accessory uses and activities such as the sale of legal firearms,
legal ammunition and targets and the instruction of the use of firearms.
[Ord. No. 910, 4-27-2017]
Industrial hemp grown under a single registration with the
Missouri Department of Agriculture.
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
The process by which a person, business, or legal entity
promotes the germination and growth of a seed to a mature hemp plant
and the harvesting of such hemp plant.
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
A reporting system that includes, but is not limited to,
testing, transfer reports, and data collection maintained by an industrial
hemp producer or agricultural hemp propagule and seed permit holder
and available to the Missouri Department of Agriculture for purposes
of monitoring viable industrial hemp cultivated as an agricultural
product from planting to final sale or transfer as a publicly marketable
hemp product.
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
A building occupied by a non-profit corporation or a non-profit
establishment for public use.
(See "lot lines, side.")
Use of land for indoor and/or outdoor storage, keeping, abandonment,
sale or resale of junk, including scrap metal, automobile parts, rags,
paper or other scrap materials, used lumber, salvaged house wrecking
and structural steel materials and equipment, or for the dismantling,
demolition or abandonment of automobiles, other vehicles, machinery
or parts thereof.
(See "animal boarding kennels.")
The long-range plan designating the future use or reuse of
land in the City's planning area, setting forth the policies and reasoning
behind such decisions, serving as a guide regarding distribution and
intensity of development, public facilities and open spaces, officially
adopted and amended from time to time by the Board of Aldermen and
kept on file in the City Clerk's Office.
A business providing home-type washing, drying and ironing
machines for hire to be used by the customers on the premises.
A business providing washing, drying and ironing services
operated by the employees on the premises.
A written license issued by the municipality.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
(See "building line and lot lines.")
Hooved animals.
A space and/or building facilitating the selling and buying
of animals, the selling of goods and related activities as required
by law.
An off-street space or berth having a minimum dimension of
ten (10) by thirty (30) feet for single-unit truck deliveries and
ten (10) by sixty (60) feet for semi-trailer deliveries, on the same
lot with a building or contiguous to a group of buildings, for temporarily
parking a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise
or materials and which abuts a street, alley or other appropriate
means of access.
(See "boarding, lodging or rooming house.")
A portion of land (whether of a platted subdivision or otherwise)
defined by metes, bounds or boundary lines in a recorded deed or on
a recorded plat, occupied or intended to be occupied by a building
or use and its accessories, together with such yards as are required
under the provisions of this Title, having not less than the minimum
area, width and depth required by this Title for a lot in the district
in which such land is situated, and having its principal frontage
on a street or on such other means of access as permitted in accordance
with the provisions of this Title. The minimum area of a lot as defined
herein must be an integral unit of land under unified ownership in
fee or in continuancy, or under legal control tantamount to such ownership,
which ownership or control must continue for the existence of the
building or buildings permitted to be situated on the lot.
The total square footage or acreage within the property lines
of a lot, excluding public streets and alleys, subject to the district
requirements herein.
The area of a zoned lot occupied by the principal building
or buildings and accessory buildings.
The mean horizontal distance between the front and the rear
lot lines measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.
A lot with boundary lines touching, along their entire length,
lands under other ownership as shown by plat or deed recorded in the
office of the Recorder of Warren County on or before May 10, 1990.
The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
The boundary between a lot and the street it fronts.
The boundary line opposite and most distant from the front
street line, except in the case of uncertainty the Zoning Enforcement
Officer shall determine the rear line on irregular lots.
Any lot line other than front or rear lot line. A side lot
line separating a lot from a street side lot line. A side lot line
separating a lot from another lot or lots is called an "interior side
lot line."
A lot which is part of a subdivision recorded in the office
of the County Recorder, or a lot, plot or parcel described by metes
and bounds, the description of which had been so recorded on or before
May 10, 1990.
A lot abutting two (2) or more streets at their intersection
or two (2) parts of the same street, such streets or parts of the
same street forming an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty-five
degrees (135°), the point of intersection of the street lines
being the "corner."
A lot having a frontage on two (2) non-intersecting streets
as distinguished from a corner lot.
A lot whose boundary lines do not abut upon any street.
(See "mobile home lot.")
A single lot, tract or parcel of land shown on a recorded
or unrecorded map, plat, drawing or survey in existence on failing
to meet the requirements for area, width or depth for any use permitted
within the district in which it is located.
(See "parking area.")
A lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately
parallel streets.
The mean horizontal width of the lot measured at right angles
to its depth.
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which,
in the traveling mode, is eight (8) body feet or more in width or
forty (40) body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site,
is three hundred twenty (320) or more square feet, and which is built
on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with
or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities,
and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical
systems contained therein. Each manufactured home must meet the minimum
standards of Chapter 700, RSMo. It must meet all the standards relating
to manufactured homes as adopted by the Missouri Public Service Commission
and evidenced by a seal issued by the Public Service Commission or
equivalent standards such as the standards established under Title
42 of the United States Code.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
The area within a manufactured home park designed for the
accommodation of one (1) manufactured home, its accessory buildings
or structures, and accessory equipment for the exclusive use of the
occupants.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
Any parcel of land consisting of five (5) or more acres upon
which two (2) or more manufactured homes, occupied for dwelling or
sleeping purposes, are located, regardless of whether or not a charge
is made for such accommodations.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
That part of an individual lot which has been reserved for
the placement of one single- or one double-wide manufactured home
unit.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
Every person, partnership, firm, corporation, association,
limited liability company, or other legal entity engaged in the cultivation
of a product or material, or in treating, processing, refining, improving,
combining, fabricating, assembling or otherwise adding to the utility
value, or appearance of commodities and other personal property, whether
done on order or for sale upon expected or anticipated demand or orders
for the manufactured goods. Medical marijuana cultivation facilities
and medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facilities are
"Light Industrial/Manufacturing" uses for purposes of this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa, and Cannabis ruderalis,
hybrids of such species, and any other strains commonly understood
within the scientific community to constitute marijuana, as well as
resin extracted from the plant and marijuana-infused products. "Marijuana"
or "marihuana" does not include industrial hemp containing a crop-wide
average tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed three-tenths
(0.3) of one percent (1%) on a dry weight basis, or commodities or
products manufactured from industrial hemp.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
Products that are infused with marijuana or an extract thereof
and are intended for use or consumption other than by smoking, including,
but not limited to, edible products, ointments, tinctures and concentrates.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
As related to activity authorized pursuant to Article XIV, Section 1, of the Missouri Constitution and all rules and regulations issued by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, the process by which a person, business or legal entity promotes the germination and growth of a seed to a mature marijuana plant.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire,
cultivate, process, store, transport and sell marijuana to a medical
marijuana dispensary facility, medical marijuana testing facility,
medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility, or medical
marijuana transportation facility.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
An additional, separate, or enhanced identification card
issued by the State of Missouri allowing the holder to cultivate medical
marijuana in amounts and in secure manners as authorized by the Department,
only to the extent authorized by applicable law.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire, store, sell, transport, and deliver marijuana, marijuana-infused products, and drug paraphernalia used to administer marijuana as provided by the State of Missouri solely pursuant to the terms of Article XIV, Section 1, of the Missouri Constitution to a qualified patient, a primary caregiver, another medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing facility, medical marijuana transportation facility, or a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
The production, possession, delivery, distribution, transportation, or administration of marijuana or a marijuana-infused product, or drug paraphernalia used to administer marijuana or a marijuana-infused product as provided by Article XIV, Section 1, of the Missouri Constitution, for the benefit of a qualified patient to mitigate the symptoms or effects of the patient's qualifying medical condition as defined in Missouri State Law.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
A facility certified by the State of Missouri to acquire,
test, certify, and transport marijuana.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
A facility certified by the State of Missouri to store and
transport marijuana.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
A medical marijuana use shall be defined as any of the following
herein defined entities:
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
Medical marijuana cultivation facility.
Medical marijuana dispensary.
Medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.
Medical marijuana testing facility.
Medical marijuana transportation facility.
Any other entity currently or hereafter included in and regulated by Article XIV, Section 1, of the Missouri Constitution
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire,
store, manufacture, transport, and sell marijuana-infused products
to a medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing
facility, medical marijuana transportation facility, or to another
medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
A transportable, factory-built home designed to be used as
a residential dwelling and built prior to the enactment of the Federal
Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, which
became effective June 15, 1976.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
Any parcel of land consisting of three (3) or more acres
upon which two (2) or more mobile homes, occupied for dwelling or
sleeping purposes, are located, whether or not a charge is made for
such accommodations.[2]
Any area, tract, site or plot of ground within a mobile home
community or mobile home park designed to accommodate one (1) mobile
home as herein defined and the accessory uses thereto.
(See "mobile home community/park.")
(See "mobile home lot.")
A building assembly or system of building sub-assemblies,
designed for habitation as a dwelling for one (1) or more persons,
including the necessary electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating
and other service systems, that is constructed with conventional floor
joist or trusses, does not include a permanent chassis, is of closed
or open construction, and is made or assembled by a manufacturer,
off the building site, for installation, or assembly and installation,
on the building site, with a permanent foundation. For purposes of
this Code, a modular home is a dwelling permitted in any district
that permits single-family or duplex dwellings.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
One (1) or more buildings containing attached, semi-attached
or detached sleeping or living units to accommodate transient guests
for compensation and not customarily including individual cooking
or kitchen facilities, said units having convenient access to off-street
parking spaces for the exclusive use of the guests or occupants; not
to include tourists homes.
(See "recreational vehicle.")
An open off-street area used for the display and sale of
new or used automobiles, pickup trucks, vans, vacation vehicles and
trailers, where no repair work is done except of a minor and incidental
nature to only those vehicles and trailers being sold.
(See "gasoline service station.")
(See "parking area.")
A building or a portion of a building arranged, intended
or designed to be used for making repairs to motor vehicles.
Any place where two (2) or more farm or motor vehicles or
farm machinery, not in running condition, or part thereof, are stored
in the open and not being restored to operation, or any land, building
or structure used for wrecking and storing such motor vehicles or
parts thereof, including the commercial salvaging of any other goods,
articles or merchandise.
The authorized representative of the City of Wright City,
Missouri.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
The smallest sub-area in City planning, being a residential
area with common public facilities and social institutions within
walking distance.
Any public nuisance of an offensive or invasive nature resulting
from a use within the jurisdiction of this Title, including, but not
limited to, the following:
Creation of unreasonable physical hazard, by fire, explosion,
radiation or other cause, to persons or property.
Discharge of any liquid or solid waste into any stream of body
of water or into any public or private disposal system or into the
ground, so as to contaminate any water supply, including underground
water supply.
Maintenance or storage of any material either indoors or outdoors
so as to cause or to facilitate the breeding of vermin.
Emission of smoke, measured at the point of emission, which
constitutes an unreasonable hazard to the health, safety or welfare
of any persons.
Fly ash or dust which can cause damage to the health of persons,
animal or plant life or to other forms of property, or excessive soil,
measured at or beyond the property line of the premises on which the
aforesaid fly ash or dust is created or caused.
Creation or causation of any unreasonably offensive odors discernible
at or beyond any property line of the premises on which the aforesaid
odor is created or caused.
Creation or maintenance of any unreasonably distracting or objectionable
vibration and/or electrical disturbances discernible at or beyond
any property line of the premises on which the aforesaid vibration
or electrical disturbance is created or maintained.
A condition existing on May 10, 1990, whereby a structure,
land or use does not conform to the regulations of the district in
which it is situated, including, but not limited to, failure to conform
to height, area, coverage or off-street parking requirements.
A building, structure or portion thereof conflicting with
the provisions of this Title applicable to the district in which it
is situated.
(See "lot, non-conforming.")
A use legally existing on the effective date of this ordinance
(May 10, 1990), or any amendment thereto, which does not meet the
use requirements of the district where located.
Plant material or agricultural hemp seed that is not capable
of living or growing.
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
(See "care home.")
An office (other than a service office or office for care
and/or treatment of, or medical attention to, animals as distinguished
from persons) for the practice of professions, such as the offices
of physicians, dentists, attorneys-at-law, architects, engineers,
artists, musicians, teachers, accountants and others who through training
are qualified to perform services of a professional nature, or the
offices of a governmental agency, with no storage, sale or display
of merchandise on the premises.
An office where services are offered by real estate agents,
insurance agents, public stenographers, brokers or others who through
training are duly-qualified to perform services of an executive nature
(as distinguished from a professional office), with no storage, sale
or display of merchandise on the premises.
Land dedicated or reserved for acquisition for general use
by the public, including parks, forest and wildlife preserves, recreation
areas, school sites, community or public building sites, waterways,
streets and other lands.
That area of private property upon which these regulations
prohibit the location of any building or structure.
A district where additional requirements act in conjunction
with the underlying or abutting zoning district(s), and the original
zoning district designation does not change.
All continuous lands including lots and parts of lots held
in one (1) ownership.
A private way which affords principal means of access to
individual manufactured home lots or auxiliary buildings.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
An open, otherwise unoccupied, hard-surfaced space used or
required for use for temporarily parking motor vehicles exclusively
and where no gasoline or vehicular accessories are sold, no other
business is conducted and no fees are charged.
An open, hard-surfaced space, other than a street or public
way, designed, arranged and made available to the occupants of the
building or buildings for which the parking area is developed and
is accessory for the storage of private passenger automobiles only.
An open, hard-surfaced area, other than a street or other
public way, used for parking automobiles or other motor vehicles and
available to the public whether for a fee or as an accommodation to
clients or customers.
An open surfaced area used exclusively for temporarily storing
motor vehicles and within which motor fuels and oils may be sold and
fees charged, but no vehicles may be equipped, repaired, rented or
sold.
Space within a public or private parking area of not less
than one hundred seventy one (171) square feet nine (9) feet by nineteen
(19) feet, exclusive of access drives, aisles, ramps, columns, or
office and work areas, for the storage of passenger automobile or
a commercial vehicle under one and one-half (1 1/2) tons capacity,
and connected with a street or alley by a surfaced driveway which
affords satisfactory ingress and egress for such vehicles.
[Ord. No. 872 § XVI, 2-11-2016]
Surfaced with asphaltic or concrete pavement material of
a thickness sufficient to withstand the highest-use loading.
See Section 625.020 of this Code.
[Ord. No. 807 § I, 9-26-2013]
Regulations specifically directed toward controlling noisome
and injurious substances, conditions and operations.
Any natural individual, firm, trust, partnership, association
or corporation.
An individual who is licensed and in good standing to practice
medicine or osteopathy under Missouri Law.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
An open, unoccupied space or public or private thoroughfare,
other than a street or alley permanently reserved as the principal
means of access to abutting property.
(See "plat.")
(See "land use plan," "subdivision plat, final" and "subdivision
plat, preliminary.")
A residential, commercial or industrial development on a
parcel of land in single ownership and consisting of two (2) or more
buildings having any yard, court, parking or loading space in common.
A land area, at least five (5) acres in size, having, by
design, individual building sites and common property for open space
and is organized to operate as a unit, without necessary participation
of other units and building sites, the ownership of common property
and building sites being either public or private, common or individual,
according to a submitted plan.
The City's official Planning and Zoning entity.
A map, plan or layout of a City, township, section or subdivision
indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties and
other such details as may be required for review.
(See "noisome and injurious substances, conditions and operations.")
A transportable enclosure marketed, designed and/or rented
for use for temporary, on-site storage. Portable storage containers
are commonly referred to by various trade names, such as "PODS," "U-Box
Containers," and "U-Pack." A portable storage container is not a storage
unit. To be considered a portable storage container, the container
shall not exceed eight (8) feet in height eight (8) feet in width
or twelve (12) feet in length. Any storage container exceeding those
dimensions shall be deemed a storage unit.
[Ord. No. 910, 4-27-2017]
A parcel together with all buildings and structures thereon.
An individual twenty-one (21) years of age or older who has
significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a qualified
patient and who is designated as such under the rules and regulations
of the Department and possesses a Department-issued primary caregiver
or primary caregiver cultivation identification card.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
The main purpose for which a lot or the principal building
thereon is designed, arranged or intended and for which it is or may
be used, occupied or maintained in accordance with the provisions
of these regulations.
A person who is a Missouri resident, or an entity that is
domiciled in this State, who cultivates industrial hemp.
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
A member of a recognized profession, including accountants,
architects, dentists, doctors, engineers and lawyers.
That which can be owned, either by an individual or by a
group in common.
(See "lot lines.")
Any non-viable industrial hemp material, including seed,
stem, root, leaf, or floral material, that contains no material with
a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration exceeding three-tenths
of one percent (0.3%) on a dry weight basis.
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
Any publicly owned open area, including, but not limited
to, parks, playgrounds, forest preserves, beaches, waterways, parkways
and streets.
(See "utilities, local public service.")
Buildings, structures and uses of land owned, operated and
maintained by a government unit or government agency, including, but
not restricted to, public schools, fire stations, recreation sites
and facilities and water treatment facilities.
(See "utilities, local public service.")
(See "utilities, local public service.")
A Missouri resident diagnosed with at least one qualifying
medical condition as defined in Missouri State Law and possessing
a Department-issued qualifying patient or qualifying patient cultivation
identification card.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
Any of the following vehicles which are licensed for travel
on the highway: travel trailer (a vehicular, portable structure built
on a chassis designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel,
recreation or vacation or one permanently identified as a travel trailer
by the manufacturer of the trailer), pickup coach (a structure designed
to be mounted on a truck chassis for use as a temporary dwelling for
travel, recreation and vacation), motor home (a portable, temporary
dwelling to be used for travel, recreation and vacation constructed
as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle) and camping trailer
(a canvas material on metal folding structure mounted on wheels and
designed for travel, recreation and vacation use).
A building used for the repair and/or restoration of equipment
and/or machinery.
[Ord. No. 872 § I, 2-11-2016]
(See "dwelling.")[3]
(See "care home.")
A building or portion thereof used or designed for on-premise
food and beverage service for compensation, not including drive-in
restaurants.
(See "drive-in restaurant.")
The area of a vehicular way or other strip of land reserved
for public use whether established by prescription, easement, dedication,
gift, purchase, eminent domain or other legal means. (See also "street.")
Any street, highway, avenue, marginal access street, bridge,
viaduct or segment thereof. (See also "street.")
(See "street surface width.")
An unsubdivided portion of a dwelling unit interior, excluding
bathrooms, kitchens, closets, hallways and service porches.
(See "boarding, lodging or rooming house.")
A type of operation, conforming to City permit and State
licensing requirements, in which refuse and earth or other suitable
cover material is deposited in alternate layers of specified depth
in accordance with a definite plan on a designated portion of open
land, each layer being compacted with force applied by mechanical
equipment.
The use of laser source light or any similar high-intensity
light for outdoor advertising or entertainment, including the operation
of searchlights for advertising purposes.
[Ord. No. 810 § I, 10-24-2013]
A public, private, religious or parochial school giving instruction
in a grade or grades not lower than the sixth nor higher than the
twelfth grade.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
A building housing community toilet, laundry, and other sanitary
facilities necessary for the health and convenience of manufactured
home occupants.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
The distance in linear feet measured on a horizontal plane
from any lot line to a building or structure on the lot.
(See "building line.")
A facility designed for collection, removal, purifying treatment
and disposal of waterborne sewage generated within a given service
area, with stormwater, surface water and groundwater not intentionally
admitted.
A large prefabricated portable container, designed and manufactured
as an enclosed container to store goods during shipment over ocean,
over road and/or over rail.
[Ord. No. 910, 4-27-2017]
A building used for permanent or temporary human occupancy,
including, but not limited to, living, sleeping or other residential
uses, composed of one (1) or several conjoined and/or stacked prefabricated
metal containers formerly used as an enclosed shipping container for
over-ocean, over-road and/or over-rail shipment of bulk goods.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
A combination of the waterborne human wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be present.
The liquid wastes from individual manufacturing processes,
trade or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
A planned group of stores, the large primary stores flanking
the smaller secondary stores and shops to create a balanced pedestrian
flow, providing convenient customer parking, with accommodations made
for, but not limited to, off-street loading, landscaping, stormwater
runoff, lighting, signage, cleanliness, designated fire lanes, internal
traffic circulation and access to off-site thoroughfares, conforming
to all appropriate codes and ordinances.
[Ord. No. 852 § XVII, 4-23-2015]
Any structure, part thereof, or device attached thereto,
or painted or represented thereon, or any material or object illuminated
or otherwise, displaying or including any numeral, letter, word, model,
banner, emblem, insignia device, trademark or other representation
used as, or in the nature of, an announcement, advertisement, direction
or designation of any person, firm, group, organization, place, commodity,
product, service, business, profession, enterprise or industry, located
upon any land, building or window. The flag, emblem or other insignia
of a nation, governmental unit, or educational, charitable or religious
group shall not be included within the meaning of this definition.
The total surface area of the entire sign, including all
parts and appurtenances thereof [except principal supports, the total
cross-sectional area of which does not exceed one (1) square foot
and on which there is no display of advertising material or any lighting].
In the case of any sign having display surfaces which are not continuous
(e.g., separated letter displays or separated display surfaces), sign
area shall include a theoretical display surface equal to the area
of the smallest enclosure into which the combined non-continuous display
surfaces can be fitted, including intermediate structural supports.
The vertical distance from the established finished grade
of the ground or sidewalk to the lower edge of a sign.
Any sign incorporating any combination of the features of
the signs defined herein.
The vertical distance measured from the highest point of
the street curb level, the established or mean street grade in case
the curb has not been constructed or the average finished ground level
adjoining the sign if it sets back from the street line, to the level
of the highest point of the sign.
A sign directing attention to a business, commodity, service
or entertainment.
Any advertising display structure with its facing outline
in excess of twenty (20) square feet not related to a permitted principal
use of the premises.
A sign used to notify the public of an event or other occurrence
of public interest, such as a church service, political rally, civic
meeting or similar event.
A sign directing attention to a business, profession, display
or entertainment conducted upon a lot or to a commodity or service
stores, sold or displayed on a lot. Only one (1) side of any double-facing
business sign shall be considered in the total sign area permitted
for any business building or lot, provided the same theoretical message
appears on both faces of the sign and further provided the sign shall
be perpendicular to the traveled way toward which the sign is oriented
with variations of less than five degrees (5°) permitted.
A sign advertising the development or improvement of a property
by a building contractor or other person furnishing services, materials
or labor to said premises, intended for a limited period of display
and erected on the same lot with the work being done.
A sign containing only the name and location of and/or direction
to a business, community, service or other activity and located other
than on the premises where such business, service or other activity
is conducted.
Any sign attached to the face of a building or structure
in such a manner as to be approximately parallel to the plane of such
building or structure face and not extending farther than one (1)
foot from such face.
A detached sign supported by one (1) or more uprights, poles
or braces in or upon the ground and not attached to a building or
other structure.
An on-premises sign serving only to tell the name or use
of any public/semi-public building or recreation space, club, lodge,
church or institution or only to tell the name and/or address of an
apartment house or hotel or to identify a parking lot, not including
a sign identifying a commercial or industrial use or a commodity or
service offered on the premises.
Any signage display using electrical or other illumination
devices, including luminous tubing, either attached or detached.
A non-illuminated professional or announcement sign, not
exceeding one-half (1/2) square foot in area and attached wholly to
a building, including those pertaining only to the rent, lease or
sale of property upon which displayed.
A display sign attached to or suspended from a marquee, canopy
or other covered structure projecting from and supported by the building
and extending beyond the building wall or building line.
A sign servicing solely to designate the name of person or
persons residing in a dwelling.
A sign supported wholly by a pole or poles, the surface of
which is not a part of a building.
A sign on the same premises with a principal use, announcing
only the name of such principal use and/or the principal product sold
or the principal service rendered by such principal use.
All signs, other than face signs, suspended or supported
by any building or wall and extending outward therefrom.
A temporary sign indicating the availability for sale, rent
or lease of the specific lot and/or building upon which the sign is
erected or displayed.
A sign erected upon or above a roof or parapet wall of a
building or structure but not projecting over public property.
Any sign, including a standard poster panel sign or fabricated
sign (billboard) directing attention to a business commodity, service,
entertainment or other activity, conducted, sold or offered elsewhere
than on the premises where said sign is located.
A temporary sign advertising the general development, sale
and/or subdivision of land and displayed or erected upon the subject
property, as distinguished from a real estate sign, and to be replaced
at a specified time by a permanent sign identifying said development
or subdivision.
Any sign intended to be displayed for a short period, which
period shall not be greater than three (3) months.
Any sign painted on, attached to or erected against the wall
of a building or structure, with the exposed sign face parallel to
the plane of said wall and extending not more than twelve (12) inches
from the face of the wall.
A plan showing uses and structures proposed for a selected
parcel, including lot lines, streets, building sites, reserved open
spaces, buildings, major landscape features — both natural and
manmade — and proposed utilities locations.
Garbage, refuse and other discarded material, including,
but not limited to, solid and liquid waste materials resulting from
industrial, business, agricultural and residential activities.
(See "public open space" and "parking space.")
An establishment engaged in the retail sale of sporting goods
such as hunting and fishing accessories (including archery equipment,
firearms and ammunition), sports equipment, camping equipment, exercise
and fitness equipment, apparel, footwear and other goods, accessories
and related merchandise to the general public.
[Ord. No. 910, 4-27-2017]
An accessory building for keeping horses, ponies, mules or
cows owned by occupants of the premises and not kept for remuneration,
hire or sale.
A stable other than a private or riding stable as defined
herein.
A structure where horses or ponies, used exclusively for
pleasure riding or driving, are housed, boarded or kept for remuneration,
hire or sale.
A warehouse that is divided into multiple units.
[Ord. No. 872 § I, 2-11-2016]
A large [exceeding eight (8) feet in height eight (8) feet
in width or twelve (12) feet in length] prefabricated portable container
such as a semi-truck trailer, box trailer or shipping container. A
storage unit is not a portable storage container. A storage unit intended
to be placed or actually located on a lot for more than sixty (60)
days shall be deemed a "long-term storage unit." A storage unit intended
or located on a lot for sixty (60) days or less shall be deemed a
"temporary storage unit."
[Ord. No. 910, 4-27-2017]
That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if no floor
is above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next
above it.
A story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plates
of which on at least two (2) opposite exterior walls are not more
than three (3) feet above the floor of such story, except any partial
story used for residential purposes other than for a janitor or caretaker
or his or her family, or by a family occupying the floor immediately
below it, shall be deemed a full story.
The full width between the property lines bounding every
way of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to use by the
public as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular traffic
and whether designated as a street, highway, freeway, expressway,
thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane,
place, circle or however otherwise designated, except accessways commonly
designated as alleys, and further described as follows:
Major streets and highways are those used primarily for fast
or heavy through traffic.
Collector streets are those providing for traffic movement between
major streets and highways and local streets, including principal
entrance streets or residential developments and streets for circulation
within such developments.
Local and minor streets are those used primarily to provide
direct access to individual lots and for local traffic movements.
A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and
a contiguous street.
That portion of any street designated for vehicular traffic
and, where curbs are laid, that portion of any street between the
curbs.
(See "lot lines, side.")
(See "alterations, building or structural.")
Anything fabricated, assembled, constructed or erected, the
use of which requires more or less permanent location on the ground
or attached to something having permanent location on the ground,
including, but not limited to, buildings, signs, poles, walkways,
retaining walls, towers and fences.
(See "dwelling.")
Any structure not conforming to use for dwelling purposes.
The division of a parcel into two (2) or more lots, or other
divisions of land, including re-subdivisions and, when appropriate
to the context, the process of subdividing or to the land or territory
subdivided.
The final map, drawing or chart and required documents presenting
a subdivision plan to the Planning and Zoning Commission and Board
of Aldermen for approval.
The first formal submission by a subdivider of a map, drawing
or chart indicating the proposed layout of a subdivision with accompanying
documents as required by the subdivision regulation.
A commercial establishment licensed by the State of Missouri
Division of Professional Registration, Office of Tattooing, Body Piercing
and Branding as outlined in 20 CSR § 2267-3.010, and which employs
practitioners licensed by the State who perform the service of placing
a tattoo or tattoos on patrons of such establishment. For the purpose
of this definition, the term “Tattoo” shall mean an indelible mark made on the body of another person
either or both:
[Ord. No. 1008, 10-28-2021]
A use or building established for a delineated time span
in connection with a specific purpose such as a construction project
or real estate development, not to include facilities for sleeping
or cooking.
A building or part of a building devoted primarily to the
showing of motion pictures or theatrical productions on a paid admission
basis.
An open lot or part thereof with its appurtenant facilities
devoted primarily to the showing of motion pictures or theatrical
productions on a paid admission basis to patrons seated in automobiles
or on outdoor seats.
A major street.
The official plan of highways, primary and secondary thoroughfares,
parkways and other major streets, including collector streets, adopted
by the Planning and Zoning Commission, approved by the Board of Aldermen,
and duly recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Deeds of
Warren County.
A major street so designated in the official thoroughfare
plan.
A device designed for the purpose of anchoring a manufactured
home to the ground anchors.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
A map showing all principal physical features of an area,
including elevation.
A building other than a hotel or motel where lodging is provided
and offered for compensation to not more than twenty (20) transient
guests, with only one (1) sign not more than two (2) square feet in
area.
[See "campground (campsite)."]
Any structure built on a chassis for licensing by the State
as a trailer and designed for general hauling or recreational purposes.
(See "mobile home," "trailer, construction," "utility trailer," and
"recreational vehicle.")
A vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, designed or intended
for temporary office space and/or storage, but not dwelling purposes,
whether or not such vehicle is attached to or resting on the ground
or something having a location on the ground, and is parked on the
building site where construction work is occurring and requires a
permit prior to its placement.
An area with its geographical location to other zoning districts
making it more subject to uses from said adjoining districts not completely
compatible with its existing zoning district regulations, such that
condition use permits and/or variances are requested at a frequency
to alter the original zoning district's intent.
Industrial-type transportation facilities to include airports,
bus terminals, flight strips and heliports, railroad terminals and
yards and truck terminals.
Any manufactured home or structure which is dangerous to
human life or detrimental to health through either lack of maintenance,
or repair generally, or because of unsafe or improper construction
or installation, and includes, but is not limited to, manufactured
homes or structures within a manufactured home park in which any one
or more of the following exists: The exterior wall or walls, supporting
structure, doors, windows, floors, roof, appliances, or equipment
are so deteriorated, broken or damaged as to be hazardous to the occupants;
or the walls, roof, floor, doors or windows are in such condition
as not to adequately protect the occupant or occupants from the elements.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
The specific purpose or combined purposes for which land
or a building is designed, arranged, intended, occupied or maintained,
with any combination of uses subject to the like combination of their
individual requirements. The term "permitted use" or its equivalent
shall not be deemed to include any non-conforming or conditional use.
(See also "accessory use," "conditional use," "exceptional use," "non-conforming
use," "principal use," "public use," "temporary building or use.")
(See "essential utility, government or public.")
Publicly or privately owned, operated and maintained facilities
requiring licensing and monitoring beyond local levels and more selectively
in their location within the community, such as sanitary landfills,
sewage treatment plants and outfall sewers, radio and television transmitter
towers, electrical substations and telephone exchanges, power generating
plants and water towers.
Those water, sewer, storm drainage, communication, power
or other facilities privately owned, operated and maintained for a
specific service area and which comply with applicable public health
standards.
Any structure built on a chassis for licensing by the State
as a trailer and designed for general hauling or recreational purposes.
Any area, tract, site or plot of land whereupon a minimum
of two (2) vacation vehicles as herein defined are placed, located
or maintained for temporary dwelling purposes.
The official granting of an exemption from compliance with
the terms or conditions of the zoning regulations by the Zoning Board
for a specific parcel, structure or use as a result of demonstrable
practical difficulties other than of a financial nature in meeting
the existing requirements, as distinct from rezoning and as further
set out hereinafter in powers and duties of the Board of Adjustment.
An agricultural product that is subject to regulation by
the Missouri Department of Agriculture, including compliance with
an industrial hemp plant monitoring system.
[Ord. No. 977, 10-10-2019]
A large building where raw materials or manufactured goods
may be stored before their export or distribution for sale.
[Ord. No. 872 § I, 2-11-2016]
The open space at grade remaining between the lot lines adjoining
such space and the principal building or building lines on such lot,
unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the
ground upward, except as otherwise provided.
A yard extending between side lot lines and across the front
of a lot and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street
or lot line and the principal building or any projections thereof
other than the projections of the usual uncovered steps, uncovered
balconies or uncovered porch. On corner lots, the front yard shall
be considered as parallel to the street the front door faces.
A yard extending between side lot lines and across the rear
of a lot and being the required minimum horizontal distance between
the rear lot line and the rear of the principal building or any projections
thereof other than the projections of uncovered steps, unenclosed
balconies or unenclosed porches; the rear yard being opposite the
front yard.
A yard between the principal building and the side line of
the lot, and extending from the required front yard to the required
rear yard, being the minimum horizontal distance between a side lot
line and the side of the principal building or any projection thereof.
A unified set of regulations and maps establishing use groups
by district designations and controlling the placement, height, bulk,
coverage and performance and other standards for use of land and structures
within each district.
A change or revision of the ordinance or map.
An official request for reconsideration filed with the Zoning
Board after an application to the Zoning Enforcement Officer for a
zoning permit has been denied for non-compliance with the requirements
of the ordinance.
The term used to refer to the Board of Zoning Appeals as
herein regulated.
A document issued by the Zoning Enforcement Officer authorizing
buildings, structures or uses consistent with the terms of this Title
and for the purpose of implementing and enforcing its provisions.
The City's divisions regulating land use and density.
A person or persons designated by the Board of Aldermen to
administer the ordinance.
The City's Official Zoning Map and all amendments thereto
located in the office of the City Clerk.
A permit issued by the Zoning Enforcement Officer indicating
the plan submitted complies with the zoning ordinance and the use
or structure proposed is allowed by the ordinance or has been allowed
by a variance or exception granted by the Zoning Board.
[1]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "dwelling, senior,"
which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 4-__-2020
by Ord. No. 986.
[2]
Editor's Note: Former definitions of "mobile home, dependent"
and "mobile home, independent," which immediately followed this definition,
were repealed 8-25-2016 by Ord. No. 890.
[3]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "residential meal
service," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed
4-23-2015 by Ord. No. 852 § II.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.100; Ord. No.
228 § 700.10, 5-10-1990; Ord. No. 292 § I, 12-8-1994; Ord. No. 354 §§ II
— IV, 3-25-1999; Ord. No. 426 § I, 6-12-2003; Ord. No. 698 § I, 9-24-2009]
A.
This Section outlines regulations affecting more than one (1), or
all, zoning districts and must be reviewed in every case when considering
any type of land use within the City's jurisdiction; however, these
supplemental regulations shall defer to any specific regulations within
the respective zoning districts Sections.
1.
Building Or Structures.
a.
General.
(1)
Buildings Or Structures, Accessory. In all zoning districts except the residential districts identified in Article III of this Chapter, accessory buildings or structures, as defined in Section 405.090, shall be subject to the following:
[Ord. No. 827 § I, 5-22-2014]
(a)
An accessory building to a primary structure shall
be set back no less than the existing building line of the property
and in no instance be located or constructed in the applicable setbacks
for the zoning district in which the principal building is located.
(b)
No single accessory building in any district shall
occupy more than thirty percent (30%) nor shall all such buildings
collectively occupy more than forty percent (40%) of the required
yard spaces in the rear one-half (1/2) of a lot.
(c)
On external corner lots in a subdivision, an accessory
building shall not project closer than fifteen (15) feet to the street
side lot line; except if a required parking garage with access to
said street, such setback shall be a minimum of twenty (20) feet.
(d)
No accessory building shall be erected in any required
front or side yard, and no separate accessory building shall be erected
within five (5) feet of any other building.
(e)
No accessory building shall be constructed upon
a lot until the construction of the principal building has commenced,
and no accessory building shall be placed in use until the principal
building is completed and in use.
(f)
No accessory building shall be used for dwelling
purposes.
(2)
Buildings Or Structures, Principal.
(a)
More than one (1) principal structure, or structure
housing a permitted or permissible principal use, may be erected on
a single lot provided all yard and other requirements herein shall
be met for each structure as though it were on a separate lot.
(b)
Every building hereafter erected or moved shall
be on a lot adjacent to a public street, or have access to an approved
private street, and all structures shall be so located on lots as
to provide safe and convenient access for servicing, fire protection
and required off-street parking.
(c)
All owners, contractors or builders of any principal
structure in the City shall report its location to the Zoning Enforcement
Officer and procure a certificate of the number issued by the U.S.
Postal authority and shall cause said number to be placed thereon
where it shall be clearly visible from any public road or street it
fronts.
(3)
Buildings Or Structures, Temporary. No temporary
structure (including trailers and manufactured homes) shall be used
or occupied for any residential, commercial or industrial use except
as specifically permitted or required by these regulations; however,
the Planning and Zoning Commission may, upon application therefor,
permit the use of such temporary structure for such reasonable time,
for such use and subject to such conditions as the Commission deems
compatible with the character of the area in which the structure is
located and in compliance with the purpose and intent of these regulations.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
(4)
Buildings Or Structures, Incomplete. Nothing herein
contained shall require a change in the plans, construction or designated
use of a building, if its foundation has been completely constructed
at the effective date of these regulations and if construction shall
be completed within one (1) year of said date.
b.
The below-listed types of uses shall be subject to the additional
requirements as follows:
(1)
Churches And Places Of Formal Worship. For each
seventy-five (75) seats (or where benches are provided, each twenty-four
(24) inches of said bench shall constitute a seat) or fraction thereof,
excluding Sunday school accommodations, the site shall contain at
least one-half (1/2) acre of land.
(2)
Drive-In Theaters.
(a)
Projection screens and parking areas shall not
be closer than fifty (50) feet from any street right-of-way line and
not closer than one hundred (100) feet from any residential district
boundary.
(b)
The projection screen surface shall not be visible
from any major traffic street.
(c)
Loudspeakers shall be limited to individual unit
type designed to be heard by occupants within one (1) vehicle only.
(d)
Entrances and exits shall connect only to major
arterial or collector streets and shall be designed to avoid interference
with traffic flow.
(e)
Entrances and exit waiting space for vehicles shall
be provided to accommodate not less than five percent (5%) of the
theater's parking capacity.
(3)
Fences, Walls And Hedges.
(a)
No barbed wire or other such sharp pointed fencing
and no electrically charged fence shall be erected or maintained in
any residential zoned district. These fences are allowed in agricultural
and conservation districts. In commercial and industrial districts,
barbed wire fencing is allowed only if placed on the top of a chain-linked
fence, six (6) feet minimum in height. Razor ribbon or equivalent
and concertina type wire or banding is prohibited.
(b)
No permanent fence or retaining wall shall be constructed
or erected within any public street or alley right-of-way unless authorized
by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
(c)
Fences, walls and hedges in any district may be located along lot lines, provided those exceeding six (6) feet in height meet the minimum yard requirements of the subject district. [See also Density and Appurtenant Requirements, Section 405.100(A)(2)(a)(5)].
(d)
Notwithstanding anything else in this Section to
the contrary, in residential districts, fences not exceeding eight
(8) feet in height are permitted; provided that no fence of any type
shall be built:
[Ord. No. 880, 4-28-2016; Ord. No. 948, 9-13-2018]
(e)
Fence Construction Material.
[Ord. No. 787 § I, 3-28-2013]
(i)
All fencing must be made of approved material and be adequately
secured in the ground.
(ii)
Approved material would be chain link, decorative
wood, or vinyl fence.
(iii)
All fencing installed six (6) feet or less in
height must have posts cemented in concrete at thirty (30) inches
deep.
(iv)
Any fence over six (6) feet in height must be
secured in concrete thirty-six (36) inches deep.
(v)
All material and construction must be approved by City Official,
Code Enforcement Officer or Building Official.
(4)
Garages, Motor Vehicle Repair. All repair work,
servicing, storage of parts and equipment and vehicle dismantling
shall be done completely within an enclosed building or shall be enclosed
by a solid fence at least six (6) feet in height.
(5)
Gasoline Service Stations.
(a)
All gasoline pumps, lubrication or similar devices
and other service facilities shall be located at least twenty (20)
feet from any street right-of-way line.
(b)
All fuel and oil storage, pumps or other such dispensing
devices shall be located at least twenty (20) feet from any side or
rear lot line.
(c)
No access drive shall be within two hundred (200)
feet of a fire station, school, public library, church, park or playground.
(d)
All food, ice and beverage vending devices shall
be located within or immediately adjacent to the principal building.
(6)
Home Occupations.
[Ord. No. 1030, 9-22-2022]
(a)
These regulations are narrowly tailored to protect
the public health and safety, including ensuring compliance with regulations
related to fire and building codes, health and sanitation, transportation
or traffic control, solid or hazardous waste, pollution, and noise
control; to ensure that all home-based business activity is compliant
with State and Federal law; and to ensure that home-based businesses
are paying applicable taxes.
(b)
A home occupation may operate in the Agricultural
or any Residential Districts provided the home occupation:
(i)
Is clearly incidental and secondary to the primary residential
use of the dwelling unit;
(ii)
Does not occupy more than forty-nine percent (49%)
of the floor area of the dwelling;
(iii)
Is operated such that the total number of employees
and clients on-site at one (1) time does not exceed the occupancy
limit for the residential dwelling;
(iv)
Pays all applicable taxes and otherwise operates
in compliance with applicable City, State, and Federal law;
(v)
Is operated by a resident or residents of the dwelling
unit;
(vi)
Does not change the residential character of the
residential building by altering or modifying the exterior of the
dwelling so as to indicate the presence of a home occupation; and
(vii)
Does not adversely affect the character of the
surrounding neighborhood by allowing or causing, for example: commercial
or delivery vehicles used in connection with the home occupation are
parked at or stored on the dwelling or visit the premises with a frequency
of more than one (1) visit per day; a steady or concentrated visitation
of clients to the dwelling; a substantial increase in traffic or on-street
parking through the residential area; storage or the use of equipment
that produces negative effects outside the home or accessory structure
or violates the performance standards of these regulations; outdoor
display or storage of material visible from the street; signs displayed
(except one (1) nameplate displayed flat against a door or wall, or
in the window, of the principal dwelling) The dwelling's appearance
is altered by the conduct of the home occupation and is recognizable
as serving a non-residential purpose, either by color, materials of
construction, lighting, sounds, vibrations; requiring additional off-street
parking; or similar adverse impacts.
(c)
Neither a license nor a fee is required for a home
occupation, but in order to ensure applicable taxes are paid, within
sixty (60) days of establishing a home occupation, the resident or
homeowner shall supply the City with a copy of their business's Missouri
Tax I.D. number and, for home occupations selling goods at retail,
a Statement of No Tax Due in accordance Missouri Statutes (Section
144.083.2 and 144.083.4, RSMo.). The resident shall also submit to
the City Clerk a written description of the type of home occupation,
the total floor area of the dwelling in which the home occupation
is to be located with the amount of floor area to be occupied by the
home occupation, any equipment used in the conduct of the home occupation,
and the number of employees to be working at the home occupation including
those who are not residents of the home.
(d)
Nothing in this Subsection pertaining to home occupations
shall be deemed to:
(i)
Prohibit mail order or telephone sales for home occupations;
(ii)
Prohibit service by appointment within the home
or accessory structure;
(iii)
Prohibit or require structural modifications
to the home or accessory structure;
(iv)
Restrict the hours of operation for home occupations;
(v)
Restrict storage or the use of equipment that does
not produce effects outside the home or accessory structure; or
(vi)
Restrict or prohibit a particular occupation that
is legal under the laws of the City, State, and United States.
(7)
Hospitals And Sanitariums.
(a)
The minimum site shall be five (5) acres except
when the facility's capacity exceeds fifty (50) beds the site shall
be the greater of five (5) acres or the acreage determined by the
number of beds multiplied times the percentage of total floor area
at ground level and dividing by five hundred (500).
(b)
All principal buildings shall be located at least
twenty-five (25) feet from all lot lines.
(c)
The site shall not have any lot dimension less
than two hundred (200) feet.
(8)
Junk Yards.
(a)
All storage of parts and equipment and the dismantling
of vehicles shall be within a completely enclosed building or within
an area enclosed by a solid fence not less than six (6) feet in height.
(b)
Any junk yard shall be located not less than five
hundred (500) feet from any residential district boundary.
(9)
Nurseries, Plant/Tree, And Greenhouses.
(a)
No fertilizer, compost, manure or other odor- or
dust-producing substance shall be stored within fifty (50) feet of
any property line.
(b)
Greenhouse heating units shall be in an enclosed
building not less than fifty (50) feet from any property line.
(c)
Along any side or rear lot line, a planting or
other appropriate screening shall be provided of such size and density
to provide visual separation from adjacent residential properties.
(10)
Nursing Homes.
(a)
The minimum site shall be two (2) acres; a nursing
home containing more than forty (40) beds shall have a minimum site
area the greater of two (2) acres or the number of acres determined
by multiplying the number of beds times the percent of total ground
floor area and dividing that total by two thousand (2,000).
(b)
All principal buildings shall be located at least
twenty-five (25) feet from all lot lines.
(c)
The site shall have a minimum lot dimension of
two hundred (200) feet.
(11)
Public Buildings.
(a)
In any agricultural, park and scenic or residential
district, all publicly owned buildings shall be located at least twenty-five
(25) feet from all property lines.
(b)
In any agricultural, park and scenic, residential
or commercial district, permanent storage of heavy construction or
maintenance equipment (such as excavating, road building or hauling
equipment) shall not be permitted unless in an enclosed building or
enclosed within a solid wall or fence at least six (6) feet in height,
and such storage areas, maintenance yards or storage warehouses shall
be located at least twenty-five (25) feet from any front or side property
line.
(12)
Public Utility Stations, Exchanges, Essential
Services. Electrical substations, gas regulator stations or telephone
exchange facilities in any agricultural, park and scenic or residential
district shall be subject to the following:
(a)
No public office, repair or storage facilities
shall be maintained in connection with such substations or exchanges.
(b)
The building housing any such facility shall be
designed and constructed to conform to the general character of the
neighborhood.
(c)
The area where the facility is located shall be
landscaped and maintained in conformance with the general character
of the surrounding area.
(d)
Where all facilities and equipment are entirely
within a completely enclosed building, the minimum lot may consist
of width not less than the total building width plus the total minimum
required side yards, and depth not less than the building depth plus
the minimum required front yard plus a three-foot minimum rear yard.
(e)
Where facilities or equipment are located outside
an enclosed building, no such facilities or equipment shall be located
closer than fifteen (15) feet to any side or rear lot line.
(f)
If transformers are exposed, an enclosing fence
or wall at least six (6) feet in height shall be provided.
(14)
Stables. No private stable shall be located closer
than one hundred fifty (150) feet to any other structure.
(15)
Swimming Pools. No public or private swimming pool in any district shall be located in any required front yard; however, if not more than six (6) feet in height, such use may be located in any required side or rear yard but not closer than ten (10) feet to a side lot line adjacent to a street, subject to the provisions of Section 405.100(A)(2)(a)(5).
(17)
Vacation Vehicle Parks.
(a)
All vacation vehicle parks shall be used exclusively
for temporary parking only and no permanent mobile dwelling shall
be permitted.
(b)
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall require
improvements considered necessary with respect to the environment
and existing City and State laws, with the City's ordinance regulating
the establishment of manufactured home parks to be used as a guideline
in approving or denying a proposed vacation vehicle park.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
(18)
Portable Storage Containers And Temporary Storage
Units.
[Ord. No. 910, 4-27-2017]
(a)
Portable Storage Containers - Permit Required.
Except for short-term storage of less than five (5) business days
in a residential district, any owner or occupier of commercial or
industrial property who causes or allows a portable storage container
to be parked, placed, located or stored on a lot must obtain a temporary
use permit pursuant to Section 400.050(A)(3)(f). Such permit shall
include the portable storage container's serial/rental number, the
name and address of lot owner/occupant, date of its placement on the
lot, date that removal is required, and local telephone number of
the provider of the portable storage container.
(i)
A portable storage container, located in a residential
district, shall be parked, placed, or stored on a residential driveway.
Such portable storage container may slightly encroach into the right-of-way
provided that it does not limit the sight distance for motorists or
pedestrians, block or inhibit use of the sidewalk, impede vehicular
traffic or otherwise harm the health, safety and welfare of the neighborhood.
(ii)
In the residential districts, a portable storage
container shall only be moved, delivered or removed between the hours
of 7:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.
(b)
Temporary Storage Units - Permit Required. Any
owner or occupier of commercial or industrial property who causes
or allows a temporary storage unit to be parked, placed, located or
stored on a lot must obtain a temporary use permit pursuant to Section
400.050(A)(3)(f). If applicable, such permit shall include the temporary
storage unit's serial/rental number, the name and address of lot owner/occupant,
date of its placement on the lot, date that removal is required, and
local telephone number of the provider of the storage unit. No more
than one (1) temporary storage unit may be placed on a lot at a time
unless otherwise approved by the Board upon Planning and Zoning Commission
recommendation.
(c)
For the purpose of this Section, a temporary storage
unit shall be deemed a structure.
(d)
Any residential, commercial, or industrial lot
permitted to have a portable storage container parked, placed, or
stored on such lot and any commercial or industrial lot permitted
to have a temporary storage unit parked, placed, or stored on such
lot must display the permit on the inside of a window or door of the
primary building or attached to the portable storage container or
temporary storage unit; such permit shall be visible from the right-of-way.
(e)
A portable storage container or storage unit located
on a commercial lot shall not be stacked on top of another such container
or unit. A temporary storage unit shall not exceed ten (10) feet in
height and width, or forty (40) feet in length, when measured on the
exterior.
(f)
A portable storage container or temporary storage
unit shall not be used for living quarters.
(g)
A portable storage container or temporary storage
unit shall not be used to store flammables, explosives, fire arms,
or noxious chemicals.
(h)
No items, equipment, or materials may be stored
outside of a portable storage container or temporary storage unit
at any time.
(i)
A portable storage container or temporary storage
unit shall not be externally illuminated or have any utilities connected
to it.
(j)
A portable storage container or temporary storage
unit shall not be used primarily for advertisement or as signage.
(k)
Portable storage containers or temporary storage units kept or caused to be parked, placed, or stored in violation of this Section shall be subject to permit revocation and/or immediate removal in addition to being a violation punishable pursuant to Section 100.220 of the Municipal Code of the City of Wright City. Failure to obtain a permit pursuant to this Section is a violation punishable pursuant to Section 100.220 of the Code. The City's costs of enforcement of this Section and/or the cost of bringing the premises or condition of real property into compliance, including the City's administrative costs of inspections and attorneys' fees, shall be a joint and several obligation of all liable persons.
(l)
In addition to the requirements of above, all portable
storage containers or temporary storage units in commercial or industrial
districts must also meet the following requirements:
(i)
A portable storage container or temporary storage
unit shall be parked, placed, or stored on a hard surface. For the
purpose of this Section, "hard surface" shall be defined as one surfaced
with a minimum of three (3) inches of crushed stone or a hard-paved
surface such as asphalt, concrete or brick.
(ii)
A portable storage container or temporary storage
unit shall not be parked, placed, or stored on the paved surface of
any public or private street of the City or within the public rights-of-way.
(iii)
A portable storage container or temporary storage
unit shall only be moved, delivered or removed between the hours of
6:00 A.M. and 10:00 P.M.
(19)
Indoor Firing Ranges. Shall be constructed to
current national shooting range design standards.
[Ord. No. 910, 4-27-2017]
2.
Density And Appurtenant Requirements.
a.
Height Limitations.
(1)
Accessory use structures secondary to principal
use structures shall be limited to the principal use structure height.
(2)
No dwelling structure shall exceed two and one-half
(2 1/2) stories or thirty-five (35) feet in height except multi-family
use [four (4) or more family units per building] which shall be limited
to four (4) stories or fifty (50) feet in height.
(3)
Non-dwelling buildings and structures shall be
limited to two and one-half (2 1/2) stories or thirty-five (35)
feet in height except as stated otherwise in these regulations and
as allowed by conditional use permits.
(4)
No building or structure, other than authorized
utility towers and antennas, shall exceed four (4) stories or fifty
(50) feet in height in any district.
(5)
Any permitted building, other than a dwelling or
accessory building, may be built to a greater height than allowed
in that district if the setback is increased by one (1) foot for every
one (1) foot of additional height.
(6)
The height limitations contained in these regulations
shall not apply to a parapet wall or ornamental cornice without windows
extending above the height limit not more than five (5) feet, nor
to church spires, belfries, cupolas, penthouses and domes not used
for human occupancy, chimneys, ventilators, skylights, water tanks,
silos, bulkheads, other similar architectural features and necessary
mechanical appurtenances usually extended above roof level.
(7)
Airport Zones. Any area designated an airport zone
shall have such additional height restrictions as the Federal Aviation
Administration requires, and permits for material changes in land
use, structures and trees shall be necessary for use not in conflict
with said restrictions, which, along with the special zones to which
they apply, shall be defined in a separate ordinance and incorporated
herein by reference.
b.
Lot Dimensions, Lot Areas And Yard Requirements.
(1)
Wherever an existing lot of record has a width
of sixty (60) feet or less, the side yard on each side of any building
thereon may be reduced to not less than ten percent (10%) of the lot
width but in no instances shall such yard be less than five (5) feet
wide nor can two (2) adjoining lots have buildings closer than ten
(10) feet across a common lot line.
(2)
In the event forty percent (40%) or more of the
structures fronting one (1) side of a street, between two (2) intersecting
streets or for a distance of at least five hundred (500) feet in either
direction, have been set back from such street with greater or less
than the required front yardage in that district, a dwelling may be
hereafter erected so it approaches no closer to the street than the
average setback of the existing structures, but in no case shall the
front yard be reduced to less than fifteen (15) feet.
(3)
Even though its area is less than the minimum required
by these regulations for a district, except in industrial districts,
an existing lot of record may be used as a building site if all other
requirements are met, provided no more than one (1) principal building
is placed thereon.
(4)
Two (2) or more contiguous parcels held in one
(1) ownership and each lacking adequate area and/or minimum dimensions
to qualify for a permitted use in a district, but together would satisfy
such requirements, may be combined for said use.
(5)
In the case of corner lots, no person owning or
occupying a corner lot shall allow or cause to be erected or maintained
any structure or plant material exceeding thirty-six (36) inches in
height above the street pavement elevation within the sight distance
triangle, which is defined as the triangular area formed by connecting
three (3) points, the point at which the street lines intersect and
two (2) additional points, each forty (40) feet from the point of
the street line intersection and located on the street lines abutting
the property. This prohibition shall not apply to overhanging tree
limbs ten (10) feet or more above the street pavement elevation.
(6)
For any through lot or corner lot, both frontages
shall comply with the front yard requirement.
(7)
The minimum lot width fronting a horizontally curved
street shall be determined by measuring along a straight line defined
by the points of intersection of the side property lines with the
right-of-way line, shall be equal to or greater than the minimum setback
plus ten (10) feet and shall be no less than thirty-five (35) feet.
(8)
The minimum front setback for a lot fronting a
horizontally curved street shall be determined by measuring from a
straight line defined by the points where the side property lines
intersect with the right-of-way line.
(9)
On a corner or external lot, a structure may face
either street.
(10)
For other than corner lot setbacks as required
herein, property line setback requirements for structures shall not
apply to the following:
(11)
Where the side lot lines are not parallel, the
minimum width dimension shall be calculated as the average of the
width measured at the front lot line, said front width being at least
thirty-five (35) feet, and the lot width, being at least fifty (50)
feet, measured twenty-five (25) feet back from said front lot line.
(12)
Where a building wall is not parallel to a side
or rear lot line, the required yard shall be determined by calculating
the average distance of said wall from said lot line, provided the
building extends no closer than five (5) feet to any rear or side
lot line.
(13)
In calculating the percentage of lot coverage
or required yards, the following structure features shall be excluded
as coverage or yard infringements:
(a)
Open or lattice-enclosed fire escapes, fireproof
outside stairways and balconies opening upon fire towers projecting
into a yard not more than five (5) feet.
(b)
Unenclosed surfaced walks and driveways.
(c)
Fences or trellises six (6) feet or less in height.
(d)
Retaining walls eighteen (18) inches or less in
height.
(e)
Flue or fireplace chimneys or similar architectural
features attached to the principal building but not extending beyond
two (2) feet therefrom.
(f)
Bay windows extending not more than eighteen (18)
inches from the principal building.
(g)
Cornices, canopies and eaves not extending more
than four (4) feet.
(h)
Open fire escapes not projecting in a required
side yard more than half (1/2) the width of said yard.
(i)
Solid floor balconies, enclosed outside stairways
and fire escapes and unenclosed but covered patios not extending to
within twelve (12) feet of the rear lot line.
3.
Spacing requirement for medical marijuana uses. No medical marijuana
use shall be located within one-thousand (1,000) feet of any then-existing
elementary school, secondary school, child care facility, or church.
As used in the previous sentence, "then-existing" shall mean any elementary
school, secondary school, child care facility, or church with a building
permit from the City to be constructed, or under construction, or
completed and in use at the time the medical marijuana use applies
for a zoning permit.[2]
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
a.
When measuring the spacing requirement, the following guidelines
shall be followed:
(1)
In the case of a freestanding medical marijuana
use facility, the distance between the facility and the elementary
or secondary school, child care facility, or church shall be measured
from the property line of the facility to the closest point of the
property line of the elementary or secondary school, child care facility,
or church.
(2)
In the case of a medical marijuana use facility
that is part of a larger structure, such as an office building or
strip mall, the distance between the facility and the elementary or
secondary school, child care facility, or church shall be measured
from the property line of the elementary or secondary school, child
care facility, or church to the facility's entrance or exit closest
in proximity to the elementary or secondary school, child care facility,
or church.
(3)
Measurements shall be made along the shortest path
between the demarcation points that can be traveled by foot.
[2]
Editor’s Note: Former Subsection (A)(3), Parking And
Loading, Off-Street, was repealed 4-23-2015 by § IV of Ord.
No. 852.
4.
Performance Standards.
a.
Performance standards shall apply to all land uses and developments
in all districts and are subject to all existing or future local,
State and/or Federal laws.
b.
Air, land and water quality.
(1)
Every use shall be operated so no odor, smoke,
toxic gases and/or dirt, dust, fly ash or other particulate matter
is emitted to violate the air quality standards and air pollution
control regulations of the St. Louis metropolitan area or existing
or future Federal, State or local laws pertaining to air, land and
water pollution and must conform to any such law in addition to requirements
contained herein.
(2)
Every use shall be operated so no dangerous amount
of radioactive emissions occur to violate Federal, State or local
regulations.
c.
Drainage, Erosion And Slope. Any lot shall be properly graded
for drainage to prevent excessive stormwater or other run-off from
one (1) lot to another under separate ownership or onto any public
right-of-way and maintained in good condition, free from weeds, trash
and debris. Significant changes in the natural flow of water courses
shall be prohibited. Where a lot slopes ten percent (10%) or more
within fifty (50) feet of any proposed principal building wall, the
following shall be provided for consideration before a building permit
can be issued:
(1)
A site plan drawn to a scale of not less than two
hundred (200) feet to one (1) inch with contour intervals every two
(2) feet and indicating the location of all buildings and structures,
their required minimum yard requirements and the lot's principal use;
(2)
What structural, mechanical and locational measures
will be taken to prevent erosion and protect any building from hillside
slumpage resulting from the development and use of the lot;
(3)
A stable angle of recline for the lot's soil properties;
(4)
Accessways, including for emergency vehicles;
(5)
Any information to indicate the development will
not be detrimental to adjacent properties.
d.
Glare And Heat. Any operation producing intense glare or heat
shall be performed in an enclosure and shall be imperceptible without
instruments along any lot line.
e.
Impact. Any site location shall have a compatible relationship
to the environment, established street system and utilities capacities
and services and shall pose no greater burden than could be considered
reasonable as determined by the City Engineer.
f.
Lighting Controls. Any light illuminating signs, parking areas,
swimming pools or for any other purpose shall be arranged to direct
the light away from residential properties or public rights-of-way.
g.
Maintenance. Maintaining yards and other open spaces and lot
areas shall be a continuing obligation of the owner(s) of a building,
use or property as long as such exists.
h.
Noise. Every use shall be operated so the sound pressure or
noise level generated, measured in decibels, shall not exceed at any
lot line the maximum decibel levels for the designated octave band
within or adjacent to residential or other districts as set forth
in the following:
Octave Band
(cycles/sec.)
|
Residential
|
Other
|
---|---|---|
0 to 75
|
72
|
79
|
75 to 150
|
67
|
74
|
150 to 300
|
59
|
66
|
300 to 600
|
52
|
59
|
600 to 1,200
|
46
|
53
|
1,200 to 2,400
|
40
|
47
|
2,400 to 4,800
|
34
|
41
|
above 4,800
|
32
|
39
|
i.
Vibration. Every use shall be operated so the maximum ground
vibration generated is not perceptible without instruments at any
point on its lot lines.
5.
Signs. All signs hereafter constructed, erected, painted or
otherwise within the jurisdiction of these regulations shall comply
with the following:
a.
Governmental signs, including for traffic regulations intended
for public information, direction, safety or control purposes shall
be subject to the ANSI Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices,
U.S. Department of Transportation, latest edition, and no sign in
any district shall conflict in any manner with public devices controlling
public traffic. Any sign illustrated with colors to conflict with
those of safety signs, particularly safety yellow, red and green,
shall not be erected within one hundred (100) feet of any safety sign.
b.
Temporary signs shall be limited to a sixty-day period, with
one (1) thirty-day extension from the Zoning Enforcement Officer,
additional time extensions being subject to Planning and Zoning Commission
approval.
c.
Advertising signs shall be located only on the premises advertised.
d.
Identification and directional signs shall be limited to one
(1) per each separate road frontage.
e.
No sign may be located nearer than one thousand (1,000) feet
to any designated scenic or historic area.
f.
No sign may extend over or interfere with a public right-of-way.
g.
All existing signs not complying with the terms herein shall
be deemed non-conforming, subject to the specific regulations for
such structures.
h.
Any advertising signs for which the period has expired or for
which the object, business, commodity, service or entertainment being
advertised has been discontinued shall be removed within thirty (30)
days of such discontinuance.
i.
Temporary construction signs shall be limited to three (3) signs
with a total square footage of sixty-four (64) square feet. Signs
must be erected on same lot where the work is being done.
6.
Transitional Areas. All lots or uses, including public utilities,
adjacent to or transversing zoning district boundaries shall be subject
to the following:
a.
Lots. Where a district boundary line divides a lot of record
at the time such line is adopted, the district in which the lot has
frontage shall control for a distance no greater than fifty (50) feet
across said line; in the case of a lot fronting in two (2) districts,
the more restrictive district shall control; in the case of property
split by the district limit, the more restrictive shall control.
b.
Street. Where a residential district is bounded by a portion
of a commercial district, that portion of any side street extending
through such residential district into such business district shall
not be used for any business purpose, except as herein set forth.
(1)
Business structures shall face and open upon streets
within the said commercial district, except show-windows of such business
structures may face said side street, and a commercial-use entrance
may be placed at the corner of such intersecting business and residential
streets.
(2)
Entrances from such residential streets may be
made to upper stories of a commercial structure.
c.
Uses.
(1)
Where a commercial or industrial use abuts a residential
district, the non-residential use shall erect and maintain in good
condition an opaque fence, wall or hedge five (5) to six (6) feet
in height, with topographic features or landscaping allowable in lieu
of fences or walls, subject to Planning and Zoning Commission approval,
where such alternatives will achieve comparable effect.
(2)
No public or private garage for more than five
(5) motor vehicles shall have an entrance or exit for same within
fifty (50) feet of a residential district.
d.
Yards, Front. Where the lots fronting a street within one (1)
block are zoned partly residential and partly commercial or industrial,
the front-yard depths of the non-residential lots shall equal the
required front-yard depths of the said residential district for a
distance of fifty (50) feet into the non-residential district.
e.
Other. In cases where the division of a lot or use by a boundary line and the application of the provisions hereinabove fail to provide dimensions meeting the requirements of either district, or a lot faces or is adjacent to a permit from the Planning and Zoning Commission, as set forth in the Procedures Section of this Title (see Section 400.050). This provision gives the City the flexibility to individually consider whether the highest and best use of a lot is more nearly consistent with those of an adjacent zoning district and to permit said transitional area use subject to the following guidelines:
7.
Uses. When determining the status of a use within a particular zoning district, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall base its consideration on upholding the purpose, intent and requirements of this Chapter, supporting the intent and regulations of the subject district and assessing the desirability of said use therein. The method for obtaining a permit or determination for the following uses is set forth in the "Administration" Chapter of this Title (see Chapter 400).
a.
Conditional. These uses are considered of value in the subject
district but involve elements warranting analysis and judgment of
their proper placement with the district; conditional use permit,
required.
b.
Exceptional Uses. Quarry and mining uses, to include bulk removal
of gravel, topsoil or similar natural material not in connection with
any building construction shall require safeguards for protecting
adjoining property and the community and an exceptional use permit.
c.
Non-conforming Uses. Any existing use, structure, lot or character
of use, considered lawful prior to the effective date of these regulations
but prohibited, regulated, restricted or determined incompatible under
the provisions of this Chapter or subsequent amendments, shall be
classified a non-conforming use, allowed to continue until removal
or discontinuance but not encouraged to survive, subject to the following:
(1)
Existing non-conforming uses of any type or nature shall not be extended, enlarged, structurally altered or physically changed to increase or accommodate their non-conformity or moved in whole or in part within their subject district but may be altered to decrease such non-conformity [see Subsection (A)(7)(c)(5) hereinbelow] and may receive ordinary repairs.
(2)
Incomplete non-conforming structures under construction
or for which a building permit has been issued may be completed according
to approved plans only and within the time limit for non-conformities.
(3)
Restoration. A non-conforming use damaged or destroyed
by any means to the extent of fifty percent (50%) or more of its existing
value shall not be restored or replaced unless to full conformance
with these regulations, unless the structure is registered as historic
with a State or national agency. If the extent of damage or destruction
is less than fifty percent (50%), replacement or restoration of a
non-conforming use must occur within the time limit for non-conformities.
(4)
Time Limit. Any non-conforming use discontinued
or rendered unusable for a period of six (6) months shall thereafter
conform to the regulations of the zoning district in which it is located.
(5)
Certificate Of Non-conformity. The Planning and Zoning Commission may find a proposed non-conforming use is equally or more appropriate to the subject district than an existing non-conforming use and shall issue a certificate of non-conformity in accordance with the "Administration" Chapter of this Title (see Chapter 400).
d.
Temporary Uses. Any use listed or intended as temporary may
be located in any district upon issuance of a permit specifying time
limit from the Zoning Enforcement Officer, to include the following:
(1)
Temporary Agricultural. This use is limited to
commercial and industrial districts only and would allow crop farming
on a lot being prepared or intended for future development.
(2)
Temporary Asphalt Or Concrete Batching Plants.
These uses are permitted in any district when part of a local construction
project.
e.
Uses Not Listed. When a use is not specifically listed under
the headings for Permitted Land Uses and Developments in the respective
zoning district Chapters or in the Table of Uses, such use is expressly
prohibited. The Planning and Zoning Commission shall determine whether
a proposed unlisted use is similar to and compatible with the uses
listed in a particular zoning district, and an amendment procedure
is required to establish a definition, district classifications and
appurtenant requirements before such use is authorized.
8.
Utilities, Line Protection. No building or addition thereto
shall be erected over or across any public sewer, water or utility
line, nor upon any platted or recorded easement, unless permission
is granted in writing by the City and by the public utility, if any,
whose lines are involved.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.110; Ord. No.
852 § I, 4-23-2015]
A.
Applicability. For every use, activity or structure permitted by
this Chapter and for all buildings or structures erected in accordance
therewith, there shall be provided sufficient space for access and
off-street standing, parking, circulation, unloading and loading of
motor vehicles that may be expected to transport its occupants, whether
as patrons, residents, customers, employees, guests or otherwise,
to an establishment, activity or place of residence at any time under
normal conditions for any purpose. When a use is expanded, off-street
parking and loading shall be provided in accordance with the regulations
herein for the area or capacity of such expansion in combination with
the previously existing uses, structure or activity. Exception: The
forgoing notwithstanding, temporary seasonal uses such as fireworks
stands, Christmas tree sales, etc., of a duration of no more than
thirty (30) consecutive days in a calendar year may have gravel parking
and are exempt from landscaping requirements.
B.
Site Plan Required. Every building permit application for a new,
enlarged or remodeled building, structure or use shall include therewith
a parking site and landscape plan with the exception of detached single-family
residences. In addition, such parking site and landscape plan requirements
shall also apply to new, enlarged or remodeled parking facilities
serving existing buildings, structures or uses. Application for approval
of such a plan shall include for review and approval by the Planning
and Zoning Commission and Board of Aldermen all existing parking facilities
currently serving said buildings, structures and uses for conformity
with these regulations. Site plan review by the Planning and Zoning
Commission and Board of Aldermen is not required for the addition
of ten (10) or fewer parking spaces. An administrative review is required
by the Public Works Department.
1.
Parking Plan Requirements. In addition to the requirements of Chapter 410, Subdivision and Land Development, the plan shall also specifically include the following:
a.
Delineation of individual parking and loading spaces by adequate
striping.
b.
Circulation area necessary to serve spaces.
c.
Access to streets and property to be served.
d.
Driveway and traffic aisle width, location of all curbs and
curbing materials.
e.
Grading, drainage, surfacing and subgrading details.
f.
Delineation of obstacles to parking and circulation in finished
parking area.
g.
Specification as to signs and bumper guards.
h.
Dimensions and material of required landscaping and screening. [See Subsection (D) for landscaping requirements for parking lots.]
i.
Lighting and other pertinent details.
j.
Critical dimensions indicating setback and parking lot design
layout.
k.
Subsurface public utilities to be covered.
C.
Design Requirements.
1.
Surface Material. Areas used for standing, parking, storage
and maneuvering of shipping containers, vehicles, accessory trailers,
recreational vehicles, portable storage containers (residential districts),
equipment or product inventory and materials, including access points
to public or private streets, shall have Portland concrete or asphaltic
concrete surfaces constructed and maintained adequately for all-weather
use and be so drained as to avoid flow of water across sidewalks.
All driveways and access points to public or private streets shall
be paved. Use of permeable pavement as a surface material is permitted
subject to site plan review and approval, with soil type and base
preparations as reviewed and approved by the City.
[Ord. No. 910, 4-27-2017]
a.
Exceptions. Existing residential gravel driveways may continue
to be used, so long as they are legally installed and properly maintained.
Residential driveways that are directly connected to private gravel
roads may be gravel. A conditional use permit may be issued to allow
heavy steel track equipment storage on gravel. Biodegradable product
inventory and materials are not required to be placed on a paved hard
surface for storage in all industrial districts.
b.
Commercial And Industrial. Existing gravel parking lots that
are legally installed and properly maintained may continue to be used
until such time as there is a change in occupancy, by any means, to
a cumulative extent of more than fifty percent (50%) to the square
foot area within the footprint of the building or structure, or a
change of ownership for the entire structure, or any portion of the
structure. At that time it will be required to have a minimum parking
surface of eight (8) inches of rock base and three (3) inches of asphalt,
or four (4) inches of concrete on a prepared subgrade will be required.
2.
Access To Parking Areas. All commercial and industrial zoned
off-street parking spaces necessitating backing into a public road
are prohibited. Off-street parking spaces necessitating backing into
a public road upon residential collector streets are prohibited and
shall be designed to utilize rear entry or side entry garages.
3.
Access Near Street Corners. No entrance or exit for any commercial
or industrial off-street parking area with over four (4) parking spaces,
nor any loading berth, shall be located within one hundred fifty (150)
feet of the intersection of any two (2) street right-of-way lines.
Residential driveways located on corner lots shall be placed adjacent
to the interior or side property lines most distant from the street
corner.
4.
Drainage. All off-street parking areas shall be drained so as
to prevent drainage to abutting properties. The manner of site drainage
proposed shall be subject to review and approval by the Director of
Public Works.
5.
Lighting. The location of light standards shall be approved
by the Planning and Zoning Commission on a site development plan.
Any building-mounted and pole lighting fixtures used to illuminate
any off-street parking area shall be so arranged and shielded to reflect
the light away from any adjoining residential lot, institutional premise
or adjacent streets. All new lighting fixtures' source shall be uniform
within a development.
6.
Location Of Parking. Unless otherwise provided by specific provisions of this Chapter, all required parking spaces may be located in a required front yard, side yard, or rear yard area. All commercial and industrial zoned areas require that a ten-foot setback is maintained from any property line, under separate ownership and/or a lease line, subject to site plan approval. [See Subsection (D), Screening And Landscaping.)
a.
Exception. Where the proposed parking area will be located adjacent to a similarly zoned property and where internal access will be provided between the two (2) properties through the recording of appropriate cross-access easements, the ten-foot setback may be shared between two (2) adjacent properties subject to site plan approval, maintaining compliance with Section 405.110(D)(11) requirements.
7.
Striping Required. Open parking spaces for multiple-family dwellings [containing three (3) or more dwelling units] and non-residential uses shall be delineated by pavement striping and must meet minimal parking stall sizes as described in Subsection (C)(8) below.
9.
All commercial and industrial zoned off-street parking areas
shall be improved with a four-inch thick concrete surface or three
(3) inches of asphaltic concrete on a compacted stone base. A concrete
pad shall be provided for trash collection areas within the enclosure
and fronting the service access to the enclosure, subject to site
plan approval.
10.
All residential zoned off-street parking areas shall be improved
with a four-inch thick concrete surface or three (3) inches of asphaltic
concrete on a compacted stone base.
11.
In all zoning districts that require screening of exterior solid
waste containers, such screening, if not in compliance with district
regulations, shall be accomplished with all new occupancies and changes
in ownership.
12.
Maximum Width Access From Street (At Throat). No access point
from a street shall have a throat width larger than forty (40) feet.
Larger access widths may be recommended for approval by the Planning
and Zoning Commission and approved by the Board of Aldermen, subject
to site plan review and approval.
D.
Screening And Landscaping — Commercial, Industrial And Public
Facility/Assembly Properties. All parking and loading areas shall
be properly screened and landscaped as hereinafter set forth. It is
the purpose and intent of this Section to require adequate protection
for contiguous property against undesirable effects from the creation
and operation of parking or loading areas; and to protect and preserve
the appearance and character of surrounding neighborhoods and the
City with aesthetic screening and landscaping; to provide greenspace
to visually soften paved areas and buildings; and to provide shade,
air purification, including noise, glare and heat abatement. Exception:
The forgoing notwithstanding, temporary seasonal uses such as fireworks
stands, Christmas tree sales, etc., of a duration of no more than
thirty (30) consecutive days in a calendar year are exempt from landscaping
requirements contained herein.
1.
All landscaping and screening requirements shall be the responsibility
of the property owner or developer to install and maintain. All landscaping
and screening shall be located on the owner's or developer's property.
2.
Landscaping shall include, to the extent necessary to further
the intent of this Section, shrubs, bushes, hedges, trees, grasses,
seasonal plantings, ground cover plantings, decorative walls or fencing
as set forth below.
3.
In all commercial districts, the frontage along the entire public
or private street shall be landscaped with shrub, bush and hedge plantings,
so as to separate and screen any parking areas from adjacent streets.
A minimum of one (1) shrub, bush or hedge shall be provided for every
ten (10) feet of lot frontage or fraction thereof. Shrubs and bushes
are not required to be planted ten (10) feet on center, but may be
clustered to provide an enhanced landscaped appearance.
4.
Uses with off-street parking or loading areas located adjacent
to a residential district shall provide along the lot line a continuous
solid fence, masonry wall, greenbelt or equivalent landscaped berm
or hedge to prevent direct light from automobile headlights shining
on adjacent residential units. The maximum height of any fence or
wall shall not exceed six (6) feet. The fence or wall shall not exceed
three and one-half (3 1/2) feet within fifteen (15) feet of the
public right-of-way. The minimum height of any continuous landscape
hedge shall be planted initially to twenty-four (24) inches and maintained
to a maximum of three and one-half (3 1/2) feet in height.
5.
In addition to any landscaped front, back or side yard areas
required by this or any other Section, (except for all industrial
districts, vehicle storage lots and multiple level parking structures)
a minimum of ten (10) square feet of interior landscaped area shall
be provided within the parking lot and adjacent to a proposed building(s)
for each parking space when four (4) or more spaces are required subject
to site plan approval. The landscaping shall be in one (1) or more
areas so as to minimize and reduce the apparent size of parking areas
to provide shade, minimize heat and glare, and to improve the community
appearance. Interior landscaping shall be provided within raised,
curbed parking lot islands. One (1) or more of the following alternatives
shall be used for interior landscaping of parking lots:
a.
A continuous or interrupted raised landscape strip or island
consisting of shade trees, shrubs, bushes and ground cover landscaping
with a minimum width of five (5) feet between rows of parking spaces.
b.
Raised landscaped islands of no less than one hundred (100)
square feet and not more than two hundred (200) square feet, with
a minimum width of six (6) feet, to be located throughout the lot
planted with shade trees, shrubs, bushes and ground cover landscaping.
c.
Raised landscaped islands of no less than nine (9) feet in width
and twenty (20) feet in length to be located at the end of or in between
rows of parking spaces and to be planted with shade trees, shrubs
and ground cover landscaping.
d.
Raised diamond shaped islands, required every four (4) spaces
along interior parking aisles.
6.
All interior landscape planting areas shall be treated with
sod, vegetative ground cover species, mulch, decorative rock, decorative
stone or similar material beneath surrounding trees and shrubs.
7.
Deciduous shade trees shall have a minimum caliper of two and
one-half (2 1/2) inches in the trunk measured one (1) foot above
the ground. Evergreen trees shall be a minimum of six (6) feet in
height at planting. Evergreen trees used for interior landscaping
shall be a minimum of three (3) feet in height. All trees shall be
properly planted and staked.
8.
Landscaping hedges or shrubs shall be planted initially eighteen
(18) inches in height and maintained to a maximum of three and one-half
(3 1/2) feet in height; however, no hedge, shrub, wall or berm
shall exceed three (3) feet in height within ten (10) feet of any
driveway opening.
9.
The use of earth sculpting or berms as allowed by these regulations
shall be designed to avoid erosion, drainage or maintenance problems.
10.
All landscaping shall be permanently maintained in good condition with at least the same quality and quantity of landscaping as initially approved. In order to present a healthy, neat and orderly appearance, landscaped areas shall be provided with adequate irrigation for the maintenance of grass, shrubs, ground cover and other landscaping by utilizing a sprinkler system, hose bibs and/or such other method of providing water. In the event that landscaping approved by the City as part of site plan review should die and is not replaced by the property owner in a timely fashion, taking into consideration the season of the year, it shall be deemed a violation of this Chapter and subject to the penalties outlined in Section 420.010 of this Title.
11.
Notwithstanding the requirements of Subsection (D)(6), a perimeter landscaped buffer strip shall be provided and maintained at a width of not less than ten (10) feet along all front, side and rear property lines. Said landscape strip shall be planted with sod or similar turf grass and shall contain trees and shrubs as required by this Section.
12.
All landscaped areas in parking areas or adjacent to parking
or loading areas, or that can be encroached upon by a motor vehicle,
shall be provided with a permanent six-inch vertical Portland cement
concrete curb, as approved upon an approved site plan, except areas
adjacent to and associated with approved stormwater facilities, constructed
compliant with stormwater management criteria approved by the City
Engineer via site improvement plans, to restrict the destruction of
the landscaped areas by vehicles. Adequate scuppers and/or weep holes
shall be provided through the curbing to permit drainage.
13.
All side and rear property lines (except industrial districts)
shall contain deciduous shade tree(s) a maximum spacing of one hundred
(100) feet as required by this Section. Deciduous shade tree(s) are
not required to be planted one hundred (100) feet on center, but may
be clustered to provide an enhanced landscape appearance.
14.
All landscaping areas shall remain as greenspace and shall not
be utilized for vehicle parking or corrupted with any form of impervious
paved surface and shall not be utilized for storage of vehicles or
equipment or as a location for any accessory building.
15.
A landscape legend shall be included on all plans, providing
quantity, size and type of landscaping applicable to these standards.
E.
Administrative Requirements. Required off-street parking spaces stipulated
in this Chapter may not overlap sidewalks or the street right-of-way.
No person, firm, corporation or partnership shall drive through, park,
or conduct any activity from a pickup truck rated more than one (1)
ton, van, semi-tractor, or commercial vehicle upon any street, highway
or roadway within a residential area except for local deliveries.
"Delivery" shall mean the active loading or unloading of the vehicle
or part of the same and shall not exceed two (2) hours. The parking
of such vehicles upon any private or public parking lot in any residential
area is expressly prohibited without the permission of the property
owner or agent for said property owner. The driver of any semi-tractor
and trailer is hereby prohibited from allowing any motor or motors
which is a part of the semi-tractor or trailer from running while
parked in any residential area regardless of location. Any Law Enforcement
Officer or the Public Works Director of the City of Wright City may
cause the removal of any vehicle or part thereof from any residential
area where found in violation of the requirements of this Chapter.
Any expense incurred by said removal shall be at the expense of the
driver, operator or owner of the towed unit.
1.
Determination Of Required Number Of Spaces.
a.
Fractional Spaces. When determination of the number of off-street
parking spaces required by this regulation results in a requirement
of a fractional space, the fraction of one-half (1/2) or less may
be disregarded, and a fraction in excess of one-half (1/2) shall be
counted as one (1) parking space.
b.
Floor Area. "Floor area," when used as a measurement for determining
the number of parking spaces for office, merchandising or service
uses, shall mean the gross floor area used or intended to be used
for service to the public as patrons or patients, including areas
occupied by fixtures and equipment used for display or sale of merchandise.
It shall not include areas used principally for non-public purposes
such as storage, processing or packaging of merchandise, show windows,
or restrooms or utilities, dressing, fitting or alteration rooms.
Eighty percent (80%) of the floor area shall be used when no use is
present and no development floor plan is prepared as a calculation
method.
c.
Beds. Cribs or bassinets shall not be counted as beds in determining
the number of parking spaces based upon the number of beds.
d.
Employees. Employees shall be estimated when used as a measurement
for determining the number of parking spaces for a new or established
expanding business.
2.
Parking Exception For Churches. Off-street parking facilities
required for churches may be reduced by fifty percent (50%) where
churches are located in non-residential districts and within three
hundred (300) feet of usable public or private off-street parking
areas, and further provided that an agreement filed on record with
the County Recorder is provided reflecting that the use of such accessory
parking facilities by the church will be permitted by the property
owner.
3.
Parking For Multiple Use Buildings. The number of parking spaces
required for land or buildings used for two (2) or more purposes shall
be the sum of the requirements for the various uses computed in accordance
with this Chapter. Parking facilities for one (1) use shall not be
considered as providing the required parking facilities for any other
use, except churches.
4.
Use Of Required Parking Spaces. Required accessory off-street parking facilities provided for the commercial and industrial uses hereinafter listed [in Subsection (F)] shall be solely for the parking of motor vehicles in operating condition by patrons, occupants or employees of such uses and shall not be used for the storage of other vehicles, boats, motor homes, campers, manufactured homes or materials or for the parking of delivery trucks or tractor trailers used in conducting the business or use. In no case shall any parking spaces devoted to the principal use of a lot be leased, rented or sold for the purpose of use by any other person, firm, company, corporation or use other than those located upon the property, except as provided for in Subsection (E)(2) of this Section.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
5.
Overnight Parking Of Motor Vehicles.
a.
In residential zones, the overnight parking of motor vehicles
shall be limited to passenger vehicles. The following vehicles are
exempted from this above regulation:
(1)
School or church buses used for the transportation
of personnel in conjunction with religious or school activities, if
parked on school or church property.
(2)
One (1) commercial truck or van licensed as a passenger
vehicle not in excess of eighteen thousand (18,000) pounds gross vehicle
weight used by the occupant of the dwelling. Said vehicle shall be
located on a Portland or asphalt concrete surface.
(3)
Emergency vehicles or public utility vehicles may
be exempted also after written application and written approval of
the Chief of Police, subject to approval by the Board of Aldermen.
b.
"Overnight parking" shall mean any parking in excess of four
(4) hours between the hours of 6:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M.
6.
Parking of camping and recreational equipment.
a.
For the purposes of this regulation, camping and recreational
equipment includes auxiliary trailers, motorized homes, pickup coaches,
travel trailers and boats.
b.
No camping and recreational equipment shall be parked on any
street, alley, highway or other public place, with the exception of
emergency or temporary stopping or parking, for not longer than twelve
(12) hours.
c.
Parking and storing of camping and recreational equipment on
private residential property shall be permitted if the following conditions
are met:
(1)
At no time shall such parked or stored camping
and recreational equipment be occupied or used for living, sleeping
or housekeeping purposes. No utility connections shall be permitted.
(2)
The owner of camping and/or recreational equipment
shall not park or store such equipment in such a manner as to create
a dangerous or unsafe condition on the property.
(3)
Residential parking for utility trailers and/or
recreational vehicles shall be limited to two (2) per single-family
residence. Any utility trailer or recreational vehicle parked outside
shall be located behind the residence or beside the residence if on
a paved surface adjacent and parallel to the exterior wall of the
residence and driveway. Any paved surface shall be no less than the
width and length of the utility trailer or recreational vehicle. The
size of any utility trailer or recreational vehicle shall be limited
to a width no greater than eight (8) feet six (6) inches and a length
no greater than thirty (30) feet, inclusive of any tongue.
(4)
No "derelict vehicles" or equipment no longer capable
of the function intended shall be stored out-of-doors on residential
premises in an inoperative or unregistered condition.
7.
Number Of Entrances And Exits. The Planning and Zoning Commission
shall approve and recommend to the Board of Aldermen the location
and width of the entrances and exits from every parking lot. Access
point(s) shall be established based upon review and approval of appropriate
engineering traffic analysis data from a traffic engineer, and subject
to substantial compliance with access management standards within
the transportation master plan. With property located at the intersection
of a major and minor road, the access to the parking area shall be
limited to the major road. In the instance of the intersection of
two (2) major roads, access to the parking area may be from either
road. Additional access points may be permitted if deemed necessary
by the Planning and Zoning Commission for the alleviation of traffic
movement along the related street(s), upon review and approval of
appropriate engineering traffic analysis data from a traffic engineer.
8.
Shared Access Points/Cross Access Points. To minimize multiple
points of access to public streets or traffic impact upon public streets
and to provide interior traffic circulation, the Planning and Zoning
Commission shall approve and recommend to the Board of Aldermen the
location of shared access point to the public road network and the
location and width of cross access drives through commercially or
industrially zoned properties as alternative points of access.
9.
Accessory Parking Lots. All required off-street parking or loading
spaces shall be provided on the same parcel of land occupied by the
use or building to which it is appurtenant; provided, however, that
where there are, in the judgment of the Planning and Zoning Commission,
practical difficulties in satisfying the requirement for parking space
and/or if the public safety or convenience would be better served
by another location, the Planning and Zoning Commission may recommend
authorization of an alternate location for any portion of the required
parking for a non-residential use which will adequately serve the
public interest, subject to the following conditions:
a.
Required accessory off-street parking facilities may be provided
elsewhere than on the lot on which the principal use served is located,
provided that the property occupied as parking is in the same possession
either by deed, by easement, or by long-term lease which has a term
equal to or exceeding the projected life of the facility occupied
by the principal use, and further provided that the owner shall be
bound by covenants filed on record in the office of the Warren County
Recorder requiring the owners, heirs or assigns to maintain the required
number of off-street parking spaces during the existence of such principal
use.
b.
Pedestrian access shall be available within a walking distance
of not more than three hundred (300) feet measured from the nearest
point of public access to the building to the nearest part of the
accessory parking area.
c.
Such separated parking space shall be usable without causing
unreasonable traffic congestion, detrimental to any residential neighborhood
or hazardous to pedestrians or vehicular traffic.
d.
All accessory parking lots shall be located on property permitted
by zoning.
10.
Changes In Use. No off-street parking space required under this
Chapter shall be used for any other purpose. Where a change in use
creates greater parking requirements than the amount being provided,
an occupancy permit shall not be issued until provision is made for
the increased amount of required off-street parking.
11.
Additions To Structures, Buildings Or Uses. Where an addition
is made to an existing structure, building or use which does not comply
with the parking requirements cited for such structure, building or
use, the parking requirements supplied for the addition shall include
those spaces necessary to bring the structure, building or use as
a whole into conformance with the requirements of this Chapter.
12.
Existing Parking. No parking area or parking space which exists
at the time this Section becomes effective (April 23, 2015) or which
subsequent thereto is provided for the purpose of complying with the
provisions of this Chapter shall thereafter be relinquished or reduced
in any manner below the requirements established by this Chapter.
13.
Maintenance Of Parking Facilities. Any persons operating or
owning a parking lot shall keep it free, as may be practical, of dust,
loose particles, trash, debris and broken glass and shall promptly
remove the snow and ice from the surface of the parking lot. Such
persons shall also keep all adjacent sidewalks free from dirt, ice,
sleet and snow and shall keep the sidewalks in a safe condition for
use by pedestrians. All signs, markers, striping or any other methods
used to indicate direction of traffic movement and location of parking
spaces shall be maintained in a neat and legible condition. Likewise
any walls, landscaping, including trees and shrubbery, as well as
surfacing and curbing of the parking lot, shall be maintained in good
condition throughout its use for parking purposes, and the Board of
Aldermen shall have the authority to prohibit the use of the area
for parking purposes unless and until proper maintenance, repair or
rehabilitation is completed, including the replacement of any landscaping
material which may die from time to time, or the failure of the landscape
irrigation or surface drainage system within the parking area to be
properly maintained.
14.
Shared Parking. Notwithstanding the parking requirements set out in Subsection (F) of this Section, the number of parking spaces may be reduced by up to twenty percent (20%), at the discretion of the Planning and Zoning Commission, if the developer demonstrates that the parking required is so located and designed such that shared parking within the proposed development meets the minimum requirements of this Section. A reduction in required parking shall not be permitted in those instances where the Planning and Zoning Commission determines that there is a potential for changes in use, over the short term, creating a change in the basic mixture of uses upon which the justification for shared parking is based. Adequate data shall be provided upon the site development plan relating to the request. For the purposes of this Section, the City may require a professionally prepared survey, conducted under replicable conditions, which yield a statistically significant result.
F.
Schedule Of Required Parking Spaces.
1.
Residential And Lodging Uses.
a.
Dwellings.
(1)
Single-Family. Two (2) parking spaces per dwelling
unit.
(2)
Two-Family. Two (2) parking spaces per dwelling
unit.
(3)
Multi-Family. Two and one-half (2 1/2) parking
spaces per dwelling unit.
(4)
Manufactured Home. Two (2) parking spaces per dwelling
unit.
[Ord. No. 890, 8-25-2016]
(5)
City Authorized Emergency Dwelling. Two (2) parking
spaces per dwelling unit.
b.
Dormitories Or Group Homes. One (1) space for every two (2)
beds plus one (1) space for every one hundred (100) square feet of
floor area.
c.
Motel/Hotel. One (1) space per guest room plus one (1) space
per every two (2) employees.
d.
Rooming Or Boarding House. One (1) space for each guest room,
but no fewer than two (2) total spaces.
2.
Commercial Uses.
a.
Indoor Retail Uses. Six (6) spaces for each one thousand (1,000)
square feet of floor area, except as otherwise herein noted.
b.
Personal Service Uses. Five (5) spaces per one thousand (1,000)
square feet of floor area, except as otherwise herein noted.
c.
General Offices. Five (5) spaces per one thousand (1,000) square
feet of floor area.
d.
Financial Institutions. Five (5) spaces per one thousand (1,000)
square feet of floor area plus one (1) space for each automatic teller
unit. In addition, where the use involves drive-up banking, three
(3) stacking spaces shall be provided for each drive-up window or
delivery station.
e.
Automobile, Truck, Recreational Vehicle, And Equipment Sales
And Services Facility. One (1) parking space per three thousand (3,000)
square feet of open sales lot area devoted to the sale, display or
rental of said vehicles or equipment; or two (2) spaces for every
one thousand (1,000) square feet of interior showroom, whichever is
greater; plus three (3) spaces for every service bay in garage repair
areas, as well as one (1) space for every two (2) employees on the
maximum shift.
f.
Automobile Service Station. One (1) space for each fuel dispenser
nozzle plus three (3) spaces for each service bay or similar facility
plus one (1) space for each vehicle used directly in conduct of the
business or stored on the premises, as well as one (1) space for every
two (2) employees on the maximum shift.
g.
Automobile, Truck, Recreational Vehicle Quick Repair Facility.
Three (3) spaces for each service bay or similar facility plus one
(1) space for each vehicle used directly in conduct of the business
or stored on the premises. Parking for employees is to be one (1)
space for every two (2) employees on the maximum work shift.
h.
Car Wash — Mechanical. Ten (10) customer parking spaces
plus stacking area five (5) times the capacity of the car wash.
i.
Car Wash — Self-Service. Two (2) stacking spaces for each
car washing stall and two (2) drying spaces for each car washing stall.
j.
Clubs, Lodges. Spaces equivalent to the combined requirements
of the uses being conducted, such as hotel, restaurant, auditorium,
etc.
k.
Day Care. One (1) space for every ten (10) seats in the main
assembly room or two (2) spaces for every classroom, whichever is
greater, plus one (1) space for every employee on the maximum work
shift.
l.
Funeral Homes, Mortuaries. One (1) space for every four (4)
seats in the auditorium or chapel with a minimum of thirty (30) spaces
being provided.
m.
General Contracting Services. Four (4) spaces for every one
thousand (1,000) square feet of floor area plus two (2) spaces for
every three (3) employees on the maximum shift plus one (1) space
for every vehicle customarily used in operation of the use or stored
upon the property.
n.
Research Facilities And Laboratories. Four (4) spaces for every
one thousand (1,000) square feet of floor area up to fifty thousand
(50,000) square feet plus two (2) spaces for every one thousand (1,000)
square feet of floor area over fifty thousand (50,000) square feet.
o.
Restaurants And Liquor By The Drink Establishments Without Drive-Through
Or Carry-Out Facilities. Sixteen (16) spaces per one thousand (1,000)
square feet of seating area plus two (2) spaces for every three (3)
employees on the maximum shift.
p.
Restaurants And Liquor By The Drink Establishments With Drive-Through
Or Carry-Out Facilities. Sixteen (16) spaces for every one thousand
(1,000) square feet of seating area plus two (2) spaces for every
three (3) employees on the maximum shift. There will be ten (10) stacking
spaces for each drive-in window or delivery station.
q.
Vehicle Storage Lots. Two (2) spaces for every three (3) employees
on the maximum shift plus one (1) space for every vehicle customarily
used in the conduct of the business or stored upon the premises.
r.
Veterinary Clinics, Animal Hospitals, Kennels. Four (4) spaces
for every doctor plus one (1) space for every additional employee.
3.
Industrial and transportation related uses.
a.
Manufacturing Plants. One (1) space for every employee on the
maximum shift plus one (1) space for every vehicle utilized in the
operation and stored on the property and two (2) guest spaces.
b.
Storage Warehouses/Distribution Center Or Similar Use. One (1)
space for every employee on the maximum work shift plus one (1) vehicle
utilized in the operation and stored on the property and two (2) guest
spaces.
c.
Terminal (Air, Bus, Railroad, Truck And Heliport). One (1) space
for every two hundred (200) square feet of lobby area plus two (2)
spaces for every three (3) employees on the maximum shift plus one
(1) space for every vehicle used in the operation of the use or stored
on the premises.
d.
Storage Or Extraction Of Raw Materials. Two (2) spaces for every
three (3) employees on the maximum shift plus one (1) space for every
vehicle used in the operation of the use or stored on the premises.
e.
Automobile, Truck, Recreational Vehicle, Machinery, Quick Repair
Facility. Three (3) spaces for each service bay or similar facility
plus one (1) space for each vehicle used directly in conduct of the
business or stored on the premises. Parking for employees is to be
one (1) space for every two (2) employees on the maximum work shift.
[Ord. No. 872 § II, 2-11-2016]
4.
Cultural and recreational uses.
a.
Amusement Parks. One (1) square foot of parking for each square
foot of public activity area.
b.
Athletic Fields. Thirty (30) spaces for every diamond or athletic
field or one (1) space for every eight (8) seats, whichever is greater.
[One (1) seat is equal to two (2) feet of bench length.]
c.
Auditoriums, Gymnasium, Stadium, Arena, Convention Hall, Community
Center, Theaters, Meeting Rooms And Places For Public Assembly (Except
As Noted Herein). One (1) space for every four (4) seats or one (1)
space for every fifty (50) square feet gross floor area when there
is no fixed seating. One (1) space for every employee on the maximum
shift.
d.
Bowling Alleys. Five (5) spaces for every alley.
e.
Camping. One (1) for every campsite.
f.
Fairgrounds. Sufficient open land convertible to parking such
that no vehicle need be parked on any street.
g.
Golf Courses. One (1) per five (5) members or five (5) spaces
per hole if open to the public.
h.
Miniature Golf Courses. Two (2) spaces per hole plus one (1)
space for each two (2) employees on the maximum work shift.
i.
Golf Driving Ranges. One (1) space for every tee and one (1)
space for every two (2) employees on the maximum work shift.
j.
Handball, Racquetball Courts. Two (2) spaces for every court
and one (1) space for every two (2) employees on the maximum work
shift.
k.
Ice And Roller Rinks. One (1) space for every one hundred (100)
square feet of skating area or playing surface with a minimum of fifty
(50) spaces for every playing field.
l.
Indoor Soccer. Fifty (50) spaces for every playing field plus
one (1) space for every three (3) seats of spectator seating plus
two (2) spaces for every three (3) employees on the maximum shift.
m.
Parks, Playgrounds, Picnic Grounds. Space equivalent to one
percent (1%) of the total land area. Parking area available along
park roads or private drives internal to the use may be used to fulfill
this requirement.
n.
Racetracks. One (1) space for every four (4) seats. One (1)
for every two (2) employees on the maximum shift.
o.
Retreats, Having Dormitories. One (1) space for every two (2)
dormitory dwelling units plus two (2) spaces for every three (3) employees
on the maximum shift plus one (1) space for every vehicle customarily
used in operation of the use or stored on the premises.
p.
Outdoor Swimming Pools. One (1) space for every one hundred
(100) square feet of water area, subject to site plan approval.
q.
Tennis Courts. Four (4) spaces for every court.
5.
Institutional Uses.
a.
Churches. One (1) space for every four (4) seats plus one (1)
space for every vehicle customarily used in operation of the use or
stored on the premises.
b.
Fire Stations. One (1) space for every employee on the maximum
shift.
c.
Group Homes. Two (2) spaces for every three (3) beds plus one
(1) space for every two (2) employees on the maximum shift.
d.
Hospitals. Two (2) spaces for every three (3) beds plus one
(1) space for every staff doctor and employee on the maximum shift.
e.
Libraries, Reading Rooms. Five (5) spaces for every one thousand
(1,000) square feet of gross floor area, one (1) space for every three
(3) seats in an accessory auditorium, and two (2) spaces for every
three (3) employees on the maximum shift.
f.
Nursing Homes. One (1) space for every five (5) beds, one (1)
space for every self-care unit, and one (1) space for every two (2)
employees on the maximum shift.
g.
Police Stations. One (1) space for every one (1) employee on
the maximum shift plus one (1) space for every vehicle customarily
used in operation of the use or stored on the premises, one (1) visitor
space per one thousand (1,000) square feet.
h.
Postal Stations. Six (6) spaces for every customer service station,
two (2) spaces for every three (3) employees on the maximum shift
plus one (1) space for every vehicle customarily used in operation
of the use or stored on the premises.
i.
Schools, Public And Private, All Grades And Vocational. One
(1) space for every faculty and staff member and one (1) space for
every three (3) students over sixteen (16) years of age plus one (1)
space per bus stored at the facility.
G.
Schedule Of Off-Street Loading Spaces.
1.
Offices And Personal Or Community Service Establishments. One
(1) loading space shall be provided for each such use, including schools,
medical or dental clinics, auditoriums or clubs, etc., having greater
than six thousand (6,000) square feet of gross floor space.
2.
Industrial Or Commercial Uses. Every building or use of land
consisting of over three thousand (3,000) square feet of gross floor
area designed or adaptable for retail business purposes or warehouse,
wholesale or manufacturing use shall be provided with loading space
as follows:
Total Gross Floor Area
(square feet)
|
Number of Loading Spaces Required
|
---|---|
Up to 15,000
|
1
|
15,000 to 50,000
|
2
|
50,000 to 100,000
|
3
|
Each additional 100,000
|
1 additional space
|
3.
Design Criteria. Each loading space shall be not less than ten
(10) feet in width and sixty (60) feet in length and shall have a
height clear of obstructions of fourteen (14) feet. Loading spaces
shall be surfaced with Portland or asphaltic concrete and designed
to allow access to loading docks.
H.
Disabled Parking Regulations.
1.
Number Of Spaces And Arrangement.
a.
Disabled parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with
the following table:
Total Number of Parking Spaces Required
|
Minimum Number of Disabled Spaces Required
|
---|---|
1 to 25
|
1
|
26 to 50
|
2
|
51 to 75
|
3
|
76 to 100
|
4
|
101 or more
|
5 plus 1% of the total number of spaces
|
b.
In accordance with Section 301.143, RSMo., one (1) in every
four (4) accessible spaces, but not less than one (1), shall be served
by an access aisle a minimum of ninety-six (96) inches wide and shall
be designated "lift van accessible only" with signs that meet the
requirements of the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended,
and any rules or regulations established pursuant thereto.
2.
The disabled parking spaces shall meet the following requirements:
a.
Parking spaces designated for physically disabled persons shall
be at least ten (10) feet wide with a five-foot access aisle immediately
adjacent thereto. Two (2) disabled parking spaces may share a common
access aisle.
b.
Van accessible disabled parking spaces shall be at least ten
(10) feet wide with an eight-foot access aisle immediately adjacent
thereto. Two (2) disabled parking spaces may share a common access
aisle.
c.
Parking spaces designated for physically disabled persons shall
be located on the shortest possible accessible circulation route to
an accessible entrance of the building. In separate parking structures
or lots which do not serve a particular building, parking spaces for
physically disabled persons shall be located on the shortest possible
pedestrian route to an accessible pedestrian entrance of the parking
facility.
d.
Each parking space designated for physically disabled persons
shall be provided with a sign, freestanding or attached to the building,
bearing the international symbol of accessibility in white on a blue
background. In addition, such freestanding sign must read "$50 to
$300 fine" pursuant to HB 389 enacted by the State of Missouri. Non-conforming
signs in use prior to August 28, 1997, may be used during the useful
life of the sign so long as it is maintained in an appropriate manner
as determined by the Community Development Director.
e.
A parking area used for dead storage of new or used motor-driven
vehicles held by a licensed franchise dealer, agent or manufacturer
is exempt from this Section.
[Ord. No. 968, 5-23-2019]
A.
Qualifying Patient Medical Marijuana Cultivation. On any lot in the City, a person holding a current, valid medical marijuana cultivation identification card issued by the State of Missouri may have as an accessory use medical marijuana cultivation as permitted by Article XIV, Section 1(7)(9), of the Missouri Constitution so long as all of the following conditions are met:
1.
The accessory use must take place only in a facility that is
enclosed, locked, and equipped with security devices (the "cultivation
area"), all of which shall be designed in such a way as to permit
access only by the qualifying patient or by such patient's primary
caregivers and in conformance with all Federal and Missouri laws and
regulations.
2.
The State-issued qualifying patient cultivation identification
card or cultivation authorization must be clearly displayed within
the cultivation area and in close proximity to the marijuana plants.
3.
The accessory use must have an odor control system that is at
least as stringent as that which is required by Missouri regulations.
4.
No marijuana may be smoked, ingested, or otherwise administered
or consumed on the lot except by a qualified patient.
5.
One (1) qualified patient may cultivate up to six (6) flowering
marijuana plants and six (6) nonflowering marijuana plants at any
given time in a single, enclosed locked facility.
6.
Two (2) qualified patients, who both hold valid qualified patient
cultivation identification cards, may share one (1) enclosed, locked
facility but no more than twelve (12) flowering marijuana plants and
twelve (12) nonflowering plants may be cultivated in a single, enclosed
locked facility, except when one (1) of the qualified patients, as
a primary caregiver, also holds a qualified patient cultivation identification
card for a third qualified patient, in which case that primary caregiver
may cultivate six (6) additional flowering marijuana plants and six
(6) additional nonflowering marijuana plants for a total of eighteen
(18) flowering marijuana plants and eighteen (18) nonflowering marijuana
plants in a single, enclosed locked facility.
7.
All cultivated flowering marijuana plants in the possession
of a qualified patient or primary caregiver shall be clearly labeled
with the qualified patient's name.
8.
All medical marijuana cultivation must cease immediately upon
the expiration or revocation of a State-issued qualified patient cultivation
identification card.
9.
Nothing in this section shall convey or establish a right to
cultivate medical marijuana in a facility or premises where State
or Federal law or a private contract would otherwise prohibit doing
so.