[R.O. 2011 §400.010; CC 1974 §43.010]
This Chapter shall be known and may be cited and referred to as "The Zoning Code of the City of Cabool, Missouri".
[R.O. 2011 §400.015; CC 1974 §43.650]
In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this Chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements, adopted for the promotion of public health, morals, safety, or the general welfare. Whenever the requirements of this Zoning Code are at variance with the requirements of any other lawfully adopted rules, regulations, or ordinances, the most restrictive, or that imposing the higher standards, shall govern.
[R.O. 2011 §400.020; CC 1974 §43.020]
A. 
The following rules of construction shall apply to the text of this Chapter.
1. 
The particular should control the general.
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In case of any difference of meaning or implication between the text and any caption or illustration, the text should control.
3. 
The phrase "used for" includes "arranged for," "designed for," "intended for," "maintained for", "occupied for."
[R.O. 2011 §400.030; CC 1974 §43.030; Ord. No. 695 §I, 3-24-1997]
The following words and phrases shall have the meanings indicated.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE
A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building. An "accessory use" includes, but is not limited to the following:
1. 
A children's playhouse, garden house, and private greenhouse.
2. 
A civil defense shelter serving not more than two (2) families.
3. 
A garage, shed, or building for domestic storage.
4. 
Incinerators incidental to residential use.
5. 
Storage of merchandise normally carried in stock on the same lot with any retail service or business use, unless such storage is excluded by the district regulations.
6. 
A nonpaying guest house or rooms for guests within an "accessory building" provided such facilities are used for the occasional housing of guests of occupants of the principal building and not for permanent occupancy by others as housekeeping units.
7. 
Off-street motor vehicle parking areas, and loading and unloading facilities.
ALLEY
A narrow service way providing a secondary public means of access to abutting properties, and not more than twenty (20) feet wide.
ALTERATIONS
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the exit facilities, or an enlargement whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another, or by change in use from that of one (1) district classification to another.
ALTERATIONS, STRUCTURAL
Any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.
APARTMENT
A room or suite of rooms in a multiple-family structure, which is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a single housekeeping unit, and which contains complete kitchen, bath and toilet facilities, permanently installed.
APARTMENT HOUSE
A building arranged, intended, or designed to be occupied by three (3) or more families living independently of each other.
AREA, BUILDING
The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces and steps.
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR, MAJOR
Engine rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged motor vehicles or trailers; collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair; and overall painting of vehicles.
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR, MINOR
Incidental repairs, replacement of parts, and motor service to automobiles, but not including any operation specified under "Automobile repair, major."
BASEMENT
A story partly underground but having at least one-half (½) of its height above the average level of the adjoining ground. A "basement should be counted as a story for the purposes of height measurement, if the vertical distance between the ceiling and the average level of the adjoining ground is more than five (5) feet or if used for business or dwelling purposes.
BLOCK
That property abutting on one (1) side of a street between the two (2) nearest intersecting streets or other natural barriers.
BOARDING HOUSE
A building or premises where meals are served for compensation for five (5) or more persons, but not exceeding twelve (12) persons. An establishment where meals are served for compensation for more than twelve (12) persons should be deemed a restaurant.
BUILDING
A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls, for the shelter, support, enclosure or protection of persons, animals, chattels, or property. When separated by party walls, each portion of such building should be considered a separate structure.
BUILDING AREA
The maximum horizontal projected area of a building and its accessory buildings, excluding open steps, terraces and cornices projecting not more than thirty (30) inches.
BUILDING, FRONT LINE OF
The line of that face of the building nearest the front line of the lot. This face includes sun parlors and covered porches whether enclosed or unenclosed but does not include steps.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed, or existing finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard roofs, and to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.
CELLAR
A story having more than one-half (½) of its height below grade.
COVERAGE
That percentage of the plot or lot area covered by the building area.
DISTRICT
A section of the City for which uniform regulations governing the use, height, area, and intensity of use by buildings and land, and open spaces about buildings, are herein established.
DWELLING
A building designed or used exclusively as the living quarters for one (1) or more families.
DWELLING, GROUP
A group of two (2) or more one-family, two-family or multiple dwellings occupying a lot in one (1) ownership and having any yard in common.
DWELLING, MULTI-FAMILY
A dwelling or group of dwellings on one (1) plot containing separate living units for three (3) or more families, but which may have joint services or facilities or both.
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY
A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively by one-family.
DWELLING, ROW
A dwelling, the walls on two (2) sides of which are in common with the walls of adjoining dwellings and are party or lot line walls.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2) families living independently of each other. May also be referred to as a duplex.
DWELLING UNIT
A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping facilities for one-family.
FAMILY
One (1) or more persons who live together in one (1) dwelling unit and maintaining a common household. May consist of a single person or of two (2) or more persons, whether or not related by blood, marriage or adoption. May also include domestic servants and gratuitous guests.
FLOOR AREA
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of the building or buildings, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the centerline of walls separating two (2) buildings. In particular, the "floor area" of a building or buildings includes:
1. 
Basement space.
2. 
Elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor.
3. 
Floor space for mechanical equipment, with structural headroom of seven (7) feet, six (6) inches, or more.
4. 
Penthouses.
5. 
Attic space (whether or not a floor has actually been laid) providing structural headroom of seven (7) feet, six (6) inches, or more.
6. 
Interior balconies and mezzanines.
7. 
Enclosed porches.
8. 
Accessory uses, not including space for accessory off-street parking.
However, the "floor area" of a building shall not include:
1.
Cellar space, except that cellar space used for retailing should be included for the purpose of calculating requirements for accessory off-street parking spaces and accessory off-street loading berths.
2.
Elevator and stair bulkheads, accessory water tanks and cooling towers.
3.
Floor space used for mechanical equipment, with structural headroom of less than seven (7) feet, six (6) inches.
4.
Attic space, whether or not a floor has actually been laid, providing structural headroom of less than seven (7) feet, six (6) inches.
5.
Uncovered steps.
6.
Terraces, breezeways and open spaces.
7.
Accessory off-street parking spaces.
8.
Accessory off-street loading berths up to two hundred percent (200%) of the amount required by Section 400.180.
FRONTAGE
All the property abutting on one (1) side of a street or place between two (2) intersecting streets or places (crossing or terminating) or if the street or place is dead-ended, then all of the property abutting on one (1) side between an intersecting street or place and the dead-end of the street or place.
GARAGE, COMMUNITY
A group of minor garages, one (1) story in height, arranged in a row or surrounding a common means of access and erected for the use of adjacent property owners having no minor garage on their individual lots.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
An accessory building, housing not to exceed four (4) motor-driven vehicles, the property of and for the use of the occupants of the lot on which the private garage is located.
GARAGE, PUBLIC
Any garage other than a private garage, available to the public, operated for gain, and which is used for storage, repair, rental, greasing, washing, servicing, adjusting or equipping of automobiles or other motor vehicles.
GROUP HOME
Any home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally or physically handicapped persons reside, and may include two (2) additional persons acting as houseparents or guardians who need not be related to each other or to any of the mentally or physically handicapped persons residing in the home.
HOME-BASED BUSINESS
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. A home-based business is considered a no-impact, home-based business:
[Ord. No. 002-2023, 8-21-2023]
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If the total number of employees and clients on-site at one (1) time does not exceed the occupancy limit for the residential dwelling;
2. 
The activities of the business:
a. 
Is limited to the sale of lawful goods and services;
b. 
May involve having more than one (1) client on the property at one (1) time;
c. 
Does not cause a substantial increase in traffic through the residential area;
d. 
Does not violate any parking regulations established by the City;
e. 
Occurs inside the residential dwelling or in the yard of the residential dwelling;
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Is not visible from the street; and
g. 
Does not violate any other narrowly tailored Federal, State or City regulations.
If a home-based business does not meet the definition as a no-impact, home-based business, to ensure the public health and safety is protected and to ensure that such home-based business complies with State and Federal laws and pays applicable taxes, a conditional use permit shall be sought and obtained from the Board of Adjustment, which shall conduct a public hearing on said application. A fee of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) shall be paid to the Clerk of the City of Cabool at the time the application is filed, and an additional fee of forty dollars ($40.00) shall be paid to the City Clerk prior to the time of publication of the "notice of public hearing." All fees shall be paid over to the City to the credit of the General Revenue Fund of the City.
HOME-BASED WORK
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. 002-2023, 8-21-2023]
HOSPITAL
Unless otherwise specified, the term "hospital" should be deemed to include sanitarium, sanatorium, preventorium, clinic, rest home, nursing home, convalescent home or any other place for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of ailments, and should be deemed to be limited to places for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of human ailments.
HOTEL
A building in which lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation and in which ingress and egress to and from rooms is made through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all hours, and which is open to transient guests, in contradistinction to a boarding house or lodging house.
LAUNDROMAT
A business that provides home type washing, drying and/or ironing machines and/or dry cleaning machines for hire to be used by customers on the premises.
LOADING SPACE
A space within the main building or on the same lot therewith providing for the standing, loading, or unloading of trucks.
LODGING HOUSE
A building or premises where lodging is provided for compensation for five (5) or more persons, but not exceeding twelve (12) persons.
LOT
A parcel, tract or area of land accessible by means of a street or place. It may be a single parcel separately described in a deed or plat which is recorded in the Office of the County Recorder, or it may include parts of or a combination of such parcels when adjacent to one another and used as one.
LOT, CORNER
A lot at the junction of and having frontage on two (2) or more intersecting streets.
LOT COVERAGE
The percentage of the lot area covered by the building area.
LOT, DEPTH OF
The mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line, measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.
LOT, INTERIOR
A lot other than a corner lot or through lot.
LOT LINE, FRONT
In the case of an interior lot, a line separating the lot from the street or place; and in the case of a corner lot a line separating the narrowest frontage of the lot from the street.
LOT, THROUGH
A lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately parallel streets and which is not a corner lot.
LOT WIDTH
The dimension of a lot, measured between side lot lines on the building line.
NET SITE AREA
That area, in the case of a Community Unit Plan, not occupied by rights-of-way.
NON-CONFORMING USE
A building or use of land that does not conform to the regulations for the district in which it is situated.
NURSERY SCHOOL
A school designed to provide daytime care or instruction for two (2) or more children from two (2) to five (5) years of age inclusive.
OUTDOOR ADVERTISING
An outdoor sign, display, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, plaque, poster, billboard, or other thing designed, intended or used to advertise or inform, any part of the advertising or information contents of which is visible from any point of the traveled ways of the interstate or primary systems.
PARKING LOT
Any place, lot, parcel or yard used in whole or in part for the storage or parking of two (2) or more vehicles where such usage is not incidental to or in conjunction with a dwelling, or other usage permissible in dwelling districts and located on the same tract.
PARKING SPACE
An off-street space available for the parking of one (1) motor vehicle, and having an area of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto and giving access thereto and having direct access to a street or alley.
PLACE
An open unoccupied space other than a street or alley, permanently reserved as the principal means of access to abutting property.
RESIDENTIAL HOTEL
A dwelling occupied by permanent guests only and not by transients. It may include restaurants, newsstands and other accessory services primarily for serving its occupants and only incidentally the public.
SERVICE STATION
A building, buildings, premises or portions thereof which are used or arranged, designed, or intended to be used for the retail sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle, motor boat or aircraft fuels.
STABLE
Any building, structure or portion thereof which is used in whole or in part for the shelter or care of horses, cattle or other similar animals, either permanently or transiently.
STORY
That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next above it.
STREET
A public or private way which affords the principal means of access to abutting properties.
STREET GRADE
The officially established grade of the street upon which a lot fronts. If there is no officially established grade, the existing grades of the street should be taken as the street grade.
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground, or attachment to something having location on the ground.
USE
The specific purpose for which land or a building is designed, arranged, intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained. The term "permitted use" or its equivalent should not be deemed to include any non-conforming use.
YARD
A space on the same lot with a principal building, open, unoccupied, and unobstructed by structures, except as otherwise provided.
YARD, FRONT
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, unoccupied other than by steps, walks, terraces, driveways, lamp posts and similar structures, the depth of which is the least distance between the front lot line and the building line.
YARD, REAR
A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the rear of the principal building and the rear lot line unoccupied other than by accessory buildings which do not occupy more than thirty percent (30%) of the required space, and steps, walks, terraces, driveways, lamp posts, and similar structures, the depth of which is the least distance between the rear lot line and the rear of such principal building.
YARD, SIDE
A yard between the principal building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard or from the front lot line where no front yard is required, to the rear yard. The width of the required side yard is measured horizontally, at ninety degrees (90°) with the side lot line, from the nearest part of the principal building.
ZONING DISTRICT MAP
A map entitled "Cabool, Missouri, Zoning District Map," dated February, 1966, and any amendments thereto.
[R.O. 2011 §400.040; CC 1974 §43.050]
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The City of Cabool should be classified and divided into seven (7) districts designated as follows:
1. 
Residential Districts.
"R-1" One-Family Dwelling District
"R-2" One-Family Dwelling District
"R-3" Multiple-Family Dwelling District
2. 
Business Districts.
"B-1" Central Business District
"B-2" Highway Business District
3. 
Industrial District.
"I-1" General Industrial District
4. 
Special District.
"S-1" Flood Plain and Drainageway District.
[R.O. 2011 §400.050; CC 1974 §43.055; Ord. No. 816 §1, 11-1-2004]
The Official Zoning District Map of the City of Cabool shows the boundaries of the areas covered by the districts listed in Section 400.040.
[R.O. 2011 §400.060; CC 1974 §43.060]
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Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of any of the aforesaid districts as shown on the Zoning District Map, the following rules shall apply:
1. 
Where district boundaries are indicated as approximately following the centerlines of streets or highways, street lines, or highway right-of-way lines, such centerlines, street lines, or highway right-of-way lines should be construed to be such boundaries.
2. 
Where district boundaries are so indicated that they approximately follow the lot lines, such lot lines should be construed to be said boundaries.
3. 
Where district boundaries are so indicated that they are approximately parallel to the centerlines or street lines of streets, or the centerlines or right-of-way lines of highways, such district boundaries should be construed as being parallel thereto and at such distance therefrom as indicated on the Zoning District Map. If no distance is given, such dimension should be determined by the use of the scale shown on the Zoning District Map.
4. 
Where the boundary of a district follows a railroad line, such boundary should be deemed to be located in the middle of the main tracks of said railroad line.
5. 
Where the boundary of a district follows a stream, lake or other body of water, the boundary should be the limit of the jurisdiction of the City of Cabool, unless otherwise indicated.
[R.O. 2011 §400.070; CC 1974 §43.065]
Whenever any street, alley, public way, railroad right-of-way, waterway or other similar area is vacated by proper authority, the districts adjoining each side of such street, alley, public way, railroad right-of-way, or similar area should be extended automatically to the center of such vacation and all area included in the vacation should then and thenceforth be subject to all appropriate regulations of the extended districts. In the event of a partial vacation, the adjoining district, or district nearest the portion vacated, should be extended automatically to include all the vacated area.
[R.O. 2011 §400.080; CC 1974 §43.075]
A. 
Except as hereinafter provided:
1. 
No building or land shall be used or occupied and no building or part thereof shall be erected, moved, or altered unless in conformity with the regulations specified for the district in which it is located.
2. 
No building shall be erected or altered:
a. 
To exceed the height,
b. 
To accommodate or house a greater number of families,
c. 
To occupy a greater percentage of lot area, or
d. 
To have a narrower or smaller rear yard, front yard, side yard, inner or outer court than is specified for the district in which such building is to be located.
3. 
No part of a yard or other open space about any building required for the purpose of complying with the provisions of the standards in this report shall be included as a part of a yard or other open space similarly required for another building.