[Ord. No. 10.310 - 10.760, 6-11-2001; 11-12-2001; 11-28-2001; 4-28-2003; 10-13-2003; 2-9-2004; 12-12-2005; 12-11-2006; 5-12-2008]
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Title. This Article shall be known, referred to and cited as the "Zoning Ordinance of the City of Hallsville, Missouri."
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Purpose. The zoning regulations set forth herein are enacted to implement the land use portion of the comprehensive development of the City of Hallsville, Missouri, and to promote the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the citizens of the City. These regulations are intended to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population; and to facilitate the adequate provision for transportation, water, sewer, schools, parks and other requirements.
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Authority. The provisions set forth in these regulations have been prepared in accordance with the authority granted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri as provided by the Municipal Planning Act of 1963, Sections 89.300 to 89.480, RSMo.
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Jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of these regulations shall include all land in the corporate City limits. These regulations shall also apply to any land added to the corporate area after such land shall have been legally annexed.
[Ord. No. 10.310 - 10.760, 6-11-2001; 11-12-2001; 11-28-2001; 4-28-2003; 10-13-2003; 2-9-2004; 12-12-2005; 12-11-2006; 5-12-2008; ]
A. 
General Definitions. For the purpose of these regulations, words used in the present tense shall include the future tenses, words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number include the singular, except where the natural construction of the writing indicates otherwise. The word "shall" is mandatory and not directory.
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Specific Definitions. For the purpose of this Article, the following words and terms as used are defined to be in the following.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE
A subordinate building having a use customarily incident to and located on the lot occupied by the main building; or a use customarily incident to the main use of the property. A building housing an accessory use is considered an integral part of the main building when it has any part of a wall in common with the main building, or is under an extension of the main roof and designated as an integral part of the main building.
ALLEY
A minor way affording a secondary means for vehicular service access to abutting properties and not intended for general traffic circulation and which is used primarily for service access to the back or side of properties.
APARTMENT
A suite of rooms or a room in an apartment house arranged, intended, designed for or used as the place or residence of a single family or group of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit.
APARTMENT HOUSE
A building arranged, intended, designed for or occupied by more than two families.
BASEMENT
A story below the first story as defined under "story," counted as a story for height regulations if subdivided and used for dwelling.
BED-AND-BREAKFAST
A building other than a hotel where lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation for not more than 20 individuals and open to transient guests, in association with which there is used only one (1) wall mounted sign, not exceeding eight (8) square feet in size.
BILLBOARD
A sign, which directs attention to business, service or commercial activity, offered elsewhere than on the same lot.
BOARD
The governing body of the City of Hallsville, the Board of Aldermen.
BOARDING HOUSE
A building other than a hotel where, for compensation and by previous arrangement, lodging and/or meals are provided for three (3) or more persons.
BUILDING
Any structure designed or built for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF
1. 
From the street curb level;
2. 
From the established or mean street grade in case the curb has not been constructed;
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From the average finished ground level of the portion of the lot adjoining and within ten (10) feet of the building where it sets back from the street line ten (10) feet or more; to the level of the highest point of the roof beams of flat roofs or roofs inclining not more than one (1) inch to the foot, and to the mean height level of the top of the main plat and highest ridge for other roofs.
CITY
The City of Hallsville, Missouri, a municipal corporation which territorially shall include all land within the corporate limits of the City as such limits now exist or may, from time to time, be extended or retracted.
CLINIC
A building arranged, intended, designed for, or used solely as a place for the treatment and diagnosis of nonresident patients.
CURRENT REPLACEMENT VALUE
The greater of assessed valuation or actual replacement value, as determined by a property appraiser certified by the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, or other equally recognized association, who appraise the property in question.
DISTRICT
A section or sections of the City of Hallsville for which the zoning regulations governing the use of buildings and premises, the height of buildings, the size of yards, and the intensity of use are uniform.
DWELLING
A building or portion thereof, designated exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family, two-family, and multiple dwellings, boarding and lodging houses, apartment houses, but not hotels.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE
A dwelling or group of dwellings on one plot, each containing separate living units for three (3) or more families, but which may have joint services or facilities.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
A detached building arranged, intended, or designed for occupancy for one family.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A building arranged, intended or designed for occupancy by two families.
FAMILY
1. 
An individual or married couple and the children thereof and no more than two (2) other persons related directly to the individual or married couple by blood or marriage, except that a family may include not more than one (1) additional person, not related to the family by blood or marriage, provided that such additional person may be provided with sleeping accommodations but not with separate kitchen facilities; or
2. 
A group of not more than four (4) persons not related by blood or marriage, living together by joint agreement and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities on a non-profit cost-sharing basis.
FILLING OR SERVICE STATION
Any building, structure or land used for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels, oils or accessories, including lubrication of automobiles and replacement or installation of minor parts and accessories, but not including major repair work such as motor replacement, body and fender repair or spray painting.
FLOODPLAIN
That area within the City subject to a one percent (1%) or greater chance of flooding in any given year (as determined by either Federal or State agencies).
FRONTAGE
All the property on one 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, then all of the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street and the dead end of the street.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
An accessory building for storage of motor vehicles.
GARAGE, PUBLIC
Any building or premises used for storage, sale, hiring, care or repair of motor vehicles, which is operated for commercial purposes.
GARAGE, STORAGE
Any building or premises, except those defined as private or public garage, providing storage for motor vehicles with facilities for washing but no other services.
GRADE
1. 
For buildings having walls adjoining one street only, the elevation of the sidewalk at the center of the wall adjoining the street.
2. 
For buildings having walls adjoining more than one street, the average of the elevation of the sidewalks at the centers of all walls adjoining the streets.
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Any wall approximately parallel to and not more than five (5) feet from a street line shall be considered as adjoining the street.
GROUP HOMES
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. A group home shall not be located within an eight-hundred-foot radius of another such group home in any specific single-family neighborhood.
[10-12-2009 (Bill No. 2009-9)]
HOTEL
A building in which lodging, or boarding and lodging, are provided and offered to the public for compensation and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is made through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all hours. As such, it is open to the public as opposed to a boarding house, a lodging house, or an apartment, which are herein separately defined.
LAUNDROMAT
A business that provides home-type washing, drying or ironing machines for hire to be used by the customer on the premises.
LOADING SPACE
A space within the main building or on the same lot, providing for the standing, loading, or unloading of trucks, having a minimum dimension of twelve (12) feet by forty (40) feet and a vertical clearance of at least fourteen (14) feet.
LODGING HOUSE
A building other than a hotel where lodging only is provided for three (3) or more but no more than 20 persons.
LOT
A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a use permitted in this Article, including one main building together with its accessory buildings, open spaces and parking spaces required by this Article, and having its principal frontage upon a street or upon an officially approved place.
LOT, CORNER
A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection. A corner lot shall be deemed to front on that street on which it has its least dimension, unless otherwise specified by the Superintendent of Public Works or similar City Official.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE
A lot having a frontage on two non-intersecting streets as distinguished from a corner lot.
LOT, FRONT OF
The front of a lot shall be considered to be that part of a lot, which has access upon a public street, except for corner lots.
LOT, INTERIOR
A lot whose sidelines do not abut on any street.
LOT LINES
The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
LOT OF RECORD
A lot which is part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of the County of Boone or a parcel of land, the deed to which has been recorded prior to the adoption of this Article.
MANUFACTURED HOME
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. The term includes any structure that meets all of the requirements of this definition except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and complies with the standards established under Title 42 of the United States Code.
MANUFACTURED HOME, DOUBLE-WIDE
A manufactured home that is designed and manufactured in a factory to function as a single complete self-contained unit by the assembly, on a site, of two or more manufactured component pieces, whether or not any additional site-built additions have been added to the unit.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK
A manufactured home park means any park, maintained or intended for the purpose of supplying a location or accommodations for any manufactured home, camper trailer, or home is parked, and shall include all buildings used or intended for use as part of the equipment thereof, whether a charge is made for the use of the trailer camp or manufactured home park and its facilities or not.
MANUFACTURED HOME, SINGLE-WIDE
A manufactured home that is designed and manufactured in a factory to function as a single complete self-contained unit without any additional components or construction, whether or not any site-built addition or additional auxiliary components have been added to the structure.
MOTEL
A group of attached or detached buildings containing individual sleeping or living units, designed for or used temporarily by automobile tourist or transients, with garage attached or parking space conveniently located to each unit, including auto courts, motor lodges or tourist courts.
NONCONFORMING USE, BUILDING OR YARD
A use, building or yard, which complied with the ordinances of the City at the time of said use, building or yard was established or constructed, but which does not conform to the regulations of the zoning district in which it is currently located.
NURSING HOME
A home for the aged or infirm in which three or more persons not of the immediate family are received, and kept and provided with food, or shelter and care, for compensation, but not including hospitals, clinics, or similar institutions devoted primarily to the diagnosis, treatment or care of the sick or injured.
PARKING AREA OR LOT
An open, unoccupied space used or required for use for parking of vehicles exclusively and in which no gasoline or vehicular accessories are sold or no other business is conducted and no fees are charged.
PARKING SPACE
A surfaced area, enclosed in the main building or in an accessory building, or unenclosed, having an area of not less than two hundred (200) square feet, exclusive of driveways, permanently reserved for the temporary storage of one automobile and connected with a street or alley by a surfaced driveway which affords satisfactory ingress and egress for automobiles.
PLACE
An open unoccupied space, a minimum of fifty (50) feet in width, other than a street or alley, permanently established or dedicated as the principal means of access to property abutting thereon.
PORTABLE BUILDING
A structure constructed off-site and transported to any premises within the City by means of a truck or trailer; or one built from a premanufactured kit and placed on skids. Portable buildings may enclose no more than one-hundred sixty (160) square feet of floor space, and do not have interior finish, electrical service or plumbing fixtures. Portable buildings must comply with the minimum yard requirements set forth in Section 400.480.
ROOMING HOUSE
See "lodging house."
STORAGE LOT
An open surfaced area used exclusively for the temporary storage of motor vehicles and with fees charged, but no vehicles may be equipped, rented or sold.
STORY
That part of a building included between the surface of one (1) floor and the surface of the floor next above, or if there be no floor above, that part of the building which is above the surface of the highest floor thereof. A top-story attic is a half story when the main line of the eaves is not above the middle of the interior height of such story. The first story is the highest story having its interior floor surface not more than four (4) feet above the curb level established or mean street grade, or average ground level, as mentioned in Section 400.490, Height Requirements.
STREET
A dedicated and accepted thoroughfare for public use which affords principal means of access, directly or indirectly, to abutting properties.
STREET LINE
The dividing line between the street and the abutting property.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION
Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls or partitions, columns in the exterior walls, excepting such repair or replacement as may be required for safety of the building, but not including opening in bearing walls as permitted by existing ordinances.
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires more or less permanent location on the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground, including but without limiting the general inclusiveness of the foregoing, advertising signs, billboards, backstops for tennis courts and pergolas.
YARD
An open space at grade between a building and the adjoining lot lines, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein. In measuring a yard for the purpose of determining the width of a side yard, the depth of a front yard or the depth of the rear yard, the minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and the main building shall be used.
YARD, FRONT
A yard extending across the front of a lot and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street or place line and the main 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 being parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension.
YARD, REAR
A yard extending across the rear of a lot and being the required minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear of the main building or any projections thereof other than the projections of uncovered steps, unenclosed balconies or unenclosed porches. On all lots, the rear yard shall be in the rear of the front yard.
YARD, SIDE
A yard between the main building and the side line of the lot, and extending from the required front yard to the required rear yard, and being the minimum horizontal distance between a side lot line and the side of the main building or any projections thereof.
ZONING MAP
The Official Zoning Map of the City of Hallsville, Missouri. Such Map shall be located in the office of the City Clerk.
[Ord. No. 10.310 - 10.760, 6-11-2001; 11-12-2001; 11-28-2001; 4-28-2003; 10-13-2003; 2-9-2004; 12-12-2005; 12-11-2006; 5-12-2008]
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Zoning Map. The boundaries of the zoning districts are hereby adopted and established as shown upon the Zoning Map, which is hereby designated as the "Zoning Map," and such map and all notations, references and other information shown thereon are hereby made a part of this Article. The Zoning Map shall be located in the Office of the City Clerk of the City of Hallsville, Missouri.
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Interpretation. Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of the zoning districts as shown on the Zoning Map, the following rules shall apply:
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The zoning district boundaries shall be streets or alleys unless otherwise shown. Where the districts designated on the Zoning Map approximately follow by street or alley lines, the center line of the street or alley shall be construed to the boundary of the district.
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Where the districts designated on the Zoning Map are bounded approximately by lot lines, said lot lines shall be construed to be the boundary of the zoning districts unless the boundaries are otherwise indicated on the Zoning Map.
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In subdivided property, the zoning district boundary lines on the Zoning Map shall be determined by the use of the scale one (1) inch is equal to two hundred (200) feet.
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Annexed Territory. All territory which may hereafter be annexed into the City of Hallsville, Missouri, shall be classified using the following options:
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All territory hereafter annexed into the City of Hallsville, Missouri, shall be classified as A-1 General Agricultural District unless, the property owner or his/her designated representative may, prior to the actual annexation of the property, meet with the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Hallsville, Missouri, and request specific zoning, which shall be considered by the Commission and their recommendation forwarded to the Board of Aldermen of the City of Hallsville for their consideration prior to the annexation of the property and upon the approval of the Board of Aldermen.
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General Provisions. Except as hereinafter specifically provided:
1. 
No land shall be used except for a purpose permitted in the zoning district in which it is located.
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No building shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed, or structurally altered; nor shall any building be used, except for a use permitted in the zoning district in which such building is located.
3. 
No building shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed or structurally altered except in conformity with the area regulations of the zoning district in which such building is located.
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No building shall be erected or structurally altered to the extent specifically provided hereinafter except in conformity with the off-street parking and loading regulations of the zoning district in which such building is located.
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The minimum yards, parking spaces and open spaces, including every building existing at the time of the passage of this Article or for any building hereafter erected, shall not be encroached upon or considered as part of the yard or parking space or open space required for any other building, nor shall any lot area be reduced below the requirement of this Article for the zoning district in which such lot is located.
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Every building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall be located on a lot as herein defined and in no case shall there be more than one main building on a lot except as specifically provided hereinafter.
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All inhabited manufactured homes hereinafter located or relocated within the City of Hallsville shall be placed in a district as described in Section 400.460 of this Chapter. All existing inhabited manufactured homes not located in a Manufactured Home District shall continue as a nonconforming use as allowed in Section 400.570 of this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 10.310 - 10.760, 6-11-2001; 11-12-2001; 11-28-2001; 4-28-2003; 10-13-2003; 2-9-2004; 12-12-2005; 12-11-2006; 5-12-2008]
A-1 District
Agricultural District
R-1 District
One-Family Dwelling District
R-2 District
Two-Family Dwelling District
R-3 District
Medium-Density Multiple-Family Dwelling District
R-4 District
High-Density Multiple-Family Dwelling District
O-C District
Office/Commercial District
C-1 District
General Commercial District
C-2 District
Planned Shopping Center District
B-1 District
Central Business District
I-1 District
Light Industrial District
I-2 District
Controlled Industrial District
M-1 District
Manufactured Home District
F-1 District
Floodplain District
[Ord. No. 10.310 - 10.760, 6-11-2001; 11-12-2001; 11-28-2001; 4-28-2003; 10-13-2003; 2-9-2004; 12-12-2005; 12-11-2006; 5-12-2008]
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The basic intent and purpose of each district is generally described as follows:
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A-1 Agricultural District: agricultural uses contained within the City, certain public uses, and facilities or activities best located in a more isolated area.
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R-1 One-Family Dwelling District: low-density residential district with related recreations, religious, and educational facilities being provided.
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R-2 Two-Family Dwelling District: residential districts with slightly higher population densities. Such districts create a smooth transition between one-family and multifamily areas.
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R-3 Medium-Density Multiple-Family Dwelling District: medium-density residential apartment-type dwelling.
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R-4 High-Density Multiple-Family Dwelling District: high-density residential areas served by common facilities and open space.
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O-C Office/Commercial District: This district is intended to provide for professional, administrative, or other offices and certain commercial uses. It may serve as a buffer area between residential and more intense nonresidential uses.
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C-1 General Commercial District: automobile-oriented commercial district providing a wide variety of business services and retail outlets. The principal land uses are sales and service activities.
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C-2 Planned Shopping Center District: This district usually consists of large retail outlets such as department stores or shopping malls, which usually create a high flow of traffic.
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B-1 Central Business District: the commercial district usually composing the City center. Such a district should offer a wide range of services and outlets and should be pedestrian-oriented.
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I-1 Light Industrial: an industrial district intended primarily for light manufacturing, assembling, fabrication or warehousing, wholesale and service uses.
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I-2 Controlled Industrial District: This District is intended to allow for manufacturing, warehousing and office activities in an industrial, parklike setting. The principal land use is a light industrial facility.
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M-1 Manufactured Home District: an area intended for the orderly, planned development of manufactured homes and related facilities.
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F-1 Floodplain Area: to Restrict or prohibit uses that are dangerous to health, safety, or property in times of flooding or cause undue increases in flood heights or velocities.