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ZONING
CITY OF
OCOEE, FLORIDA
This pamphlet is a reprint of Appendix A, Zoning, of the Code of
Ordinances of the City of Ocoee, Florida, published by order of the City
Commission.
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MUNICIPAL CODE CORPORATION
Tallahassee, Florida
1980
APPENDIX A
ZONING.
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I. General Provisions, ~ ~ 1-5
II. Administration and Enforcement, U 1-9
III. General Provisions Applying to All or Several Districts, ~~ 1-12
IV. Specific District Regulations, ~~ 1-13
V. Reserved
VI. Definitions, ~ 1
1. Performance Standards
CHAPTER I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 1. Citation.
This ordinance shall be known as the "Zoning Ordinance," and the map herein
referred to, which is identified by the title "Official Zoning Map," shall be known as
the "Zoning Map."
Section 2. Purpose and intent.
The zoning ordinance is declared to be necessary to promote the health, safety and
welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Ocoee by dividing the city into zones and
regulating therein the use of land and the use and size of buildings as to height and
the number of stories, the coverage of land by buildings, the size of yards and open
spaces, the location of buildings and the density of population in accordance with a
comprehensive development plan. This ordinance is designed to lessen congestion in
the streets; secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers; provide adequate light and
air; prevent the overcrowding of land; avoid undue concentration of population;
facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks and
other public requirements. They have been made with reasonable consideration, among
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.Editor's note-Appendix A contains the zoning ordinance adopted by Ord. No. 710
on Oct. 16, 1979, as amended. Said ordinance is set out herein as passed except for
minor, nonsubsta'iItive editorial additions or deletions made for clarity. The former
zoning ordinance, adopted March 23, 1971, had been amended by Ord. No. 550, ~~ 3,5,
enacted Feb. 5, 1977; Ord. No. 587, ~ 2, enacted. June 5, 1973; and Ord. No. 618, ~ 2,
enacted Aug. 5, 1975.
Cross references-Buildings and building regulations generally, Ch. 5; flood
damage prevention, ~ 5-71 et seq.; canals and lakes, Ch. 6; electricity, Ch. 9; fire
protection and prevention, Ch. 10; Mechanical Code, Ch. 14.5; parks and recreation,
Ch. 16; planning, Ch. 17; plumbing, Ch. 18; streets and sidewalks, Ch. 19; swimming
pools, Ch. 19.5; water and sewers, Ch. 22; requirements for builders and subdividers,
App. B.
Charter references-Power to establish planning and zoning commission, Art. II,
~ 1(50); power to zone, Art. II, ~ 1(50).
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other things, as to the character of the district and its peculiar suitability for particular
uses, and with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most
appropriate use of land throughout the community.
Section 3. Repeal and effective date.
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The zoning ordinance, upon recommendation of the Ocoee Planning and Zoning
Commission, was duly adopted by the city commission of the City of Ocoee on the
sixteenth day of October, 1979, and became effective immediatelay. All zoning
ordinances or parts thereof and all ordinances and parts thereof which are less
restrictive than this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, nothing in this
ordinance shall be so construed as to abandon, abate or dismiss any litigation or
prosecution now pending, and/or which may have heretofore been initiated or
prosecuted.
Section 4. Interpretation.
This ordinance shall be construed as minimum requirements for the promotion of the
public health, safety and general welfare of the community. It is not intended by this
ordinance to interfere with, abrogate or annul any lawful easements, covenants or
other agreements between parties; provided, however, that where this ordinance
imposes greater restrictions upon the use of buildings or premises than are imposed or
required by other resolutions, rules, regulations or by lawful easements, covenants or
agreements, the provisions of this ordinance shall prevail.
Section 5. Application.
5.1 General. Except as hereinafter provided:
(1) No building, structure or land shall hereafter be used or occupied, and no
building or structure or part thereof shall hereafter be erected, constructed,
reconstructed, moved or structurally altered, unless in conformity with all of the
regulations herein specified for the district in which it is located.
(2) No building or other structure shall hereafter 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 narrower or smaller rear yards, front yards, side yards or other open
spaces
than herein required; or in any other manner contrary to the provisions of this
ordinance.
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(3) No part of a yard or other open space or off-street parking or loading space
required about or in connection with any building for the purpose of complying
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with this ordinance shall be included as part of a yard, open space or off-street
parking or loading space similarly required for any other building except as
provided herein.
(4) No yard or lot existing at the time of passage of the zoning code shall be reduced
in size or area below the minimum requirements set forth herein. Yards or lots
created after the effective date of this ordinance shall meet at least the minimum
requirements established herein.
(5) Within each district, the regulations set by this ordinance shall be mInImUm
regulations and shall apply uniformly to each class or kind of structure or land.
5.2 Territorial limits. This ordinance shall apply to all land within the corporate
limits of the City of Ocoee and all land hereafter annexed to the City of Ocoee.
5.3 Zoning of annexed land. All land annexed shall retain the existing Orange
County zoning classification and shall be regulated by the county regulations until
otherwise classified. At the discretion of the city commission, the property annexed
may be given a zoning classification or classifications under this ordinance as a part
of the annexation ordinance.
The city commission shall make a finding of fact regarding the City of Ocoee zoning
classification that most nearly corresponds to the existing Orange County zoning
classification. The city commission may grant the most similar city zoning
classification, any less intense classification or a zoning classification that is
consistent with the comprehensive plan without the advice of the planning and zoning
commISSIOn.
If the area to be annexed is to be given a higher or more intense zoning category,
and this action is not consistent with the municipal land use plan, the request shall be
referred to the planning and zoning commission for a recommendation. The planning
and zoning commission shall hold a public hearing, if necessary, and shall forward its
recommendation to the city commission. The city commission shall consider the
planning and zoning commission's recommendation before assignaing a zoning
classification.
5.4 Nonconforming lots, uses of land, structures and premises, and characteristics of
uses.
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Intent. Within the zoning districts established by this ordinance or amendments
hereof, there exist lots, structures, uses of land and structures which are lawful
before this ordinance was passed or amended, but which would be prohibited
under the terms of this ordinance or amendment hereof. These lots, structures,
uses of land and structures shall be considered nonconforming.
It is the intent of this ordinance to permit these nonconformities to continue
until they are removed, but not to encourage their survival. Such uses are
declared by this ordiance to be incompatible with permitted uses in the districts
involved. It is further the intent of this ordinance that non conformities shall not
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be enlarged upon, expanded or extended, nor shall existing nonconformities be
used as grounds for adding other structures or uses prohibited elsewhere in the
same district.
A nonconforming use of a structure, a nonconforming use of land or a
nonconforming use of structure and land shall not be extended or enlarged after
passage of this ordinance by attachment of additional signs to a building, or the
placement of additional signs or display devices on the land outside the building,
or by the addition of other uses, if such additions are of a nature which would be
prohibited generally in the district involved.
To avoid undue hardship, nothing in this ordinance shall be deemed to require
a change in the plans, construction or designated use of any building on which
actual construction was lawfully begun prior to the effective date of this
ordinance, or amendment hereto, and upon which actual building construction
has been diligently carried on. Actual construction.is hereby defined to be
placing of construction materials in permanent position, fastened in a permanent
manner; except that where demolition or removal of an existing structure has
been substantially begun preparatory to rebuilding, such demolition or removal
shall be deemed to be actual construction, provided that actual construction work
shall be diligently carried on until the completion of the building involved.
(2) Nonconforming lots of record. In any zoning district in which single-family
dwellings are permitted, notwithstanding limitations imposed by other provisions
of this ordinance, a single-family dwelling and customary accessory buildings
may be erected on any single lot of record which contains an area or width less
than that required for the erection of a single-family residence in the district
which is in separate ownership at the time of passage or amendment of these
regulations, provided that yard dimensions and requirements not involving
width or area of lot shall conform to the regulations for the district in which such
lot is located.
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A single vacant lot, nonconforming as to area or width and of record at the
time of passage or amendment of this ordinance, shall be construed as falling
within the meaning of the provisions of the preceding paragraph even though an
adjoining lot containing a principal building may be in the same ownership.
If two (2) or more adjoining vacant lots, or combinations of vacant lots and
portions of vacant lots, with continuous frontage and of record at the time of
passage or amendment of this ordinance are in single ownership, and such lots
individually are too small to meet the width or area requirements of the district
in which they are located, such groups of lots shall be considered as a single plot
or several plots of at least minimum size, and the plot or plots in one ownership
shall be subject to the requirements of this ordinance as to lot area and width.
(3) Nonconforming uses of land. Where a lawful use of land exists at the time of
passage or amendment of this ordinance, which is made no longer permissible
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under the terms of this ordinance as enacted or amended, such use may be
continued so long as it remains otherwise lawful subject to the following
provisions:
(a) No such nonconforming use shall be enlarged or increased or extended to
occupy a greater area of land than was occupied at the time of adoption or
amendment of this ordinance.
(b) No such nonconforming use shall be moved in whole or in part to any other
portion of the lot or parcel occupied by such use at the time of adoption or
amendment of this ordinance.
(c) If any such nonconforming use of land ceases for any reason for a period of
more than thirty (30) days, any subsequent use of such land shall conform to
the regulations specified by this ordinance for the district in which such land
is located.
(4) Nonconforming structures. Where a lawful structure exists at the time of passage
of this ordinance which could not be built under the terms of this ordinance by
reason of restrictions on area, lot coverage, height, yards or other characteristics
of the structure or its location on the lot, such structure may be continued so long
as it remains otherwise lawful subject to the following provisions:
(a) No such structure may be enlarged or altered in a way which increases its
nonconformi ty.
(b) Should such structure be destroyed by act of nature or man to an extent of
more than fifty (50) per cent of its value as revealed by an insurance
appraisal, it shall not be reconstructed except in conformity with the
provisions of this ordinance.
(c) Should such structure be moved for any reason for any distance whatever, it
shall thereafter conform to the regulations for the district in which it is
located after it is moved.
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(5) Nonconforming uses of structures. If a lawful use of a structure, or of structure
and premises in combination, exists at the time of passage or amendment of this
ordinance, which use would not be allowed in the district under the terms of this
ordinance, the lawful use may be continued so long at it remains otherwise
lawful, subject to the following provisions:
(a) No existing structure devoted to a use not permitted by this ordinance in the
district in which it is located shall be enlarged, extended, constructed,
reconstructed, moved or structurally altered, except in changing the use of the
structure to a use permitted in the district in which it is located.
(b) Any nonconforming use may be extended throughout any parts of a building
which were manifestly arranged or designed for such use at the time of
adoption or amendment of this ordinance, but no such use or activity shall
be extended to occupy any land outside such building.
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(c) If no structural alterations are made, any nonconforming use of a structure,
or structure and premises, may be changed to another nonconforming use
provided that the board of adjustment, either by general rule or by making
findings in the specific case, shall find that the proposed use is equally
appropriate or more appropriate to the district than the existing noncon-
forming use. In permitting such change, the board of adjustment may require
appropriate conditions and safeguards.
(d) Any structure, or structure and land in combination, in or on which a
nonconforming use is superseded by a permitted use, shall thereafter conform
to the regulations for the district in which such structure is located, and the
nonconforming use may not thereafter be resumed.
(e) When a nonconforming use of a structure, or structure and premises in
combination, is discontinued or abandoned for six (6) consecutive months or
for eighteen (18) months during any three-year period, the structure, or
structure and premises in combination, shall not thereafter be used except in
conformance with the regulations of the district in which it is located.
(f) Where nonconforming use status applies to a structure and premises In
combination, removal or destruction of the structure shall eliminate the
nonconforming status of the land.
(6) Repairs and maintenance. On any building devoted in whole or in part to any
nonconforming use, work may be done in any period of twelve (12) consecutive
months on repairs or on repair or replacement of non bearing walls, fixtures,
wiring or plumbing, to an extent not exceeding twenty (20) per cent of the latest
assessed valuation of the building, provided that the cubical content of the
building as it exists at the time of passage or amendment of this ordinance shall
not be increased.
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Nothing in this ordinance shall be deemed to prevent the strengthening or
restoring to a safe condition of any building or part thereof declared to be unsafe
by any city official charged with protecting the public safety, upon order of such
official.
(7) Special exceptions not considered nonconforming uses. Any use permitted as a
special exception by the board of adjustment shall not be considered a
nonconforming use.
(8) Outdoor advertising signs and structures. Any advertising sign, billboard,
commercial advertising structure or statuary, which is lawfully existing and
maintained at the time this ordinance became effective, which does not conform
with the provisions hereof, shall not be structurally altered, and all such
nonconforming advertising signs, billboards, commercial advertising structures
and statuary, and their supporting members, shall be completely removed from
the premises not later than three (3) years from the effective date of this
ordinance.
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CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
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Section 1. Administrative official.
1.1 Appointment. The building inspector of the City of Ocoee shall administer and
enforce this ordinance. He may be provided with the assistance of such other persons
as the city commission may direct.
1.2 Powers and duties. The building inspector shall have the following powers and
duties:
(1) Attend meetings of the city commission, planning and zoning commission and
board of adjustment when specifically requested to be present pertaining to
zoning matters.
(2) Perform clerical duites related to zoning functions as may be required by the city
commission, planning and zoning commission and board of adjustment.
(3) Receive petitions for zoning amendments, requests for special exceptions, site
plans and reviews, and applications for consideration by the planning and
zoning commission.
(4) Collect the designated fees as set forth in this ordinance.
(5) Make and keep all records necessary and appropriate to the office, including
receipts of complaints of violation of this ordinance and action taken on the
same.
(6) Inspect any building and/or land to determine whether any violations of this
ordinance have been committed or exist.
(7) Keep the board of adjustment advised of all matters other than routine duties
pertianing to the enforcement of this ordinance and to transmit all applications
and records pertaining to appeals, special exceptions or variances.
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(8) Enforce this ordinance and take all necessary steps to remedy any condition
found in violation by ordering, in writing, the discontinuance of illegal uses or
illegal work in progress. The building inspector shall be responsible to issue any
permits required by this ordinance or any building permits.
1.3 Correction of violations. If the building inspector shall find that any of the
provisions of this ordinance are being violated, he shall, in writing, notify the person
responsible for such violations, indicating the nature of the violation and ordering the
action necessary to correct it. The building inspector shall order discontinuance of
illegal use of land, buildings or structures; removal of illegal buildings or structures or
of additions, alterations or structural changes thereto; discontinuance of illegal work
being done; or shall take any other action necessary to ensure compliance with this
ordinance or to prevent violations of its provisions.
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Section 2. Planning and zoning commission.
2.1 Establishment and composition. The planning and zoning commISSIOn shall
consist of nine (9) members and two (2) alternates appointed by the city commission. In
the event that the nine (9) regular members are not present, the chairman shall
designate an alterante to act as a regular member.
2.2 Terms of office, removal from office and vacancies. Members of the planning and
zoning commission shall be appointed for three-year terms and shall serve until their
successors are appointed. Original appointments may be made for a lesser number of
years so that the terms of the said members shall be staggered. Members and
alternates of the planning and zoning commission shall serve at the pleasure of the
city commission. Any vacancy occurring during the unexpired terms of office of any
member or alternate shall be filled by the city commission for the remainder of the
term. Such vacancy shall be filled within thirty (30) days after the vacancy occurs.
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2.3 Officers, rules of procedure and quorum. The planning and zoning commission
shall elect a chairman and a vice-chairman from among its members. The city
commission shall provide the commission a secretary, who may be an employee of the
City of Ocoee.
The commission shall meet at regular intervals as determined by the city. commission
and at such other times as the chairman or commission may determine necessary. It
shall adopt rules for the transaction of its business and shall keep a properly indexed
record of its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations, which record shall
be a public record. All meetings of the commission shall be public.
Five (5) members of the planning and zoning commission shall constitute a quorum,
and no action may be taken if less than five (5) members are present and voting.
2.4 Functions, powers and duties. The functions, powers and duties of the planning
and zoning commission shall be, in general:
(1) To acquire and maintain in current form such basic information as is necessary
to an understanding of past trends, present conditions, and forces at work to
cause changes in these conditions;
(2) To act as the local planning agency for the City of Ocoee as required by the State
Local Government Comprehensive Planning Act;
(3) To prepare and keep current a comprehensive plan as required by the Local
Government Comprehensive Planning Act;
(4) To establish principles and policies for guiding action affecting development in
the city and its environ;
(5) To prepare and recommend to the city commission ordinances, regulations and
other proposals promoting orderly development along lines indicated as desirable
by the comprehensive plan;
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(6) To determine whether specific proposed developments conform to the principlQs
and requirements for the comprehensive plan;
(7) To keep the city commission and the general public informed and advised as to
these matters;
(8) To conduct such public hearings as may be required to gather information
necessary for the drafting, establishment and maintenance of the comprehensive
plan and ordinances, codes and regulations related to it;
(9) To review and recommend proposed amendments to this ordinance and
amendments to or adoption of other ordinances or regulations relating to zoning
and land use within the City of Ocoee.
(10) To review zoning of newly annexed lands when it represents an mcrease in
intensity of use or a conflict with the comprehensive plan.
Section 3. Amendment and changes.
The regulations, restrictions and district boundaries set forth in this ordinance may
from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed or repealed. The procedure shall
be as follows:
3.1 Proposals for zoning amendments may be initiated by:
(a) City commission;
(b) Planning and zoning commission;
(c) Any department or agency of the city;
(d) Any individual, corporation, partnership or agency other than those listed in (a),
(b) or (c) above, who is the owner of land being changed, or the agent of the
owner.
All proposals originating under category (d) shall be submitted in writing
accompanied by all pertinent information which may be required by the
planning and zoning commission for proper consideration of the matter, along
with payment of fees and charges as established by the city commission. Agents
acting for property owners shall include documentary proof of authority to act
for the lawful owner.
Enactment of ordinances that rezone private real property initiated by the
govermng body or its designee shall be pursuant to Section 166.041, Florida
Statutes.
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3.2 Building official review. Upon receipt of an application and fee for a zoning
amendment, the building official shall review the proposed amendment to determine
whether or not it is consistent with the local comprehensive plan.
If the building official determines the proposed amendment to be inconsistent with
the local comprehensive plan, the amendment will require a public hearing before the
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p14nning and zoning commission. Notice of a public hearing on the proposed change
shall be given as outlined in section 5.1.
If the building official determines the proposed amendment to be consistent with the
local comprehensive plan, it shall be scheduled for study and recommendation by the
planning and zoning commission without notice of public hearing as outline in section
5.1.
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3.3 Planning and zoning commzsswn study and recommendations; hearings. All
proposed amendments shall be submitted to the planning and zoning commission for
study and recommendation. The planning and zoning commission can decide to delay
their study and recommendation until such time as a public hearing can be held. If a
public hearing is held, notice shall be given as outlined in section 5.1. The commission
shall study proposed amendments to determine:
(a) The need and justification for the change;
(b) When pertaining to the rezoning of land, the effect of the change, if any, on the
particular property and on surrounding properties;
(c) When pertaining to the rezoning of land, the amount of undeveloped land in the
general area and in the city having the same classifications as that requested;
(d) The relationship of the proposed amendment to the purposes of the city's general
planning program.
3.4 Report to city commission; time limit; report advisory only. Within forty-five (45)
days from the date the proposed zoning amendment is filed with the building official,
the planning and zoning commission shall meet to review the request and prepare its
recommendation to the city commission. The report and recommendations of the
planning and zoning commission shall be accompanied by a written statement of
reasons for such recommendations. The recommendations and report of the planning
and zoning commission shall be advisory only, and shall not be binding upon city
commission.
The chairman of the planning and zoning commission shall indicate the vote taken
to deny or approve each zoning request on the zoning petition. A record of the vote and
a brief statement of the reasons for the action shall be written on the zoning petition
by the chairman. This record shall be available in the city clerk's office on the next
business day after action by the planning and zoning commission.
3.5 City commission action. On any zoning change recommended for denial or
approval by the planning and zoning commission, the city commission shall schedule a
de novo public hearing with official notice on the matter. The hearing shall be held
within forty-five (45) days after receipt of the recommendation of the planning and
zoning commission. Final action by the city commission to approve or disapprove the
request for a zoning change may be taken at the time of the public hearing by passage
or disapproval of a properly noticed ordinance, but need not be. If final action is not
taken at the public hearing, it shall be taken within thirty (30) days thereafter.
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If the planning and zoning commISSIOn does not submit its report within the
prescribed time or request additional time to consider the matters, the city com~ission
shall hold a public hearing and may proceed to act on the amendment without fm...,her
awaiting the report or recommendations of the planning and zoning commission.
3.6 Limitations. No amendment to rezone property shall contain conditions,
limitations or requirements not applicable to all other property in the district to which
the particular property is rezoned.
Whenever the city commission has, by amendment, changed the zoning classification
of property, the planning and zoning commission shall not consider any petition for
rezoning of any part or all of the same property for a period of one year from the
effective date of the amendatory ordinance.
Whenever a petition to rezone property has been denied, the planning and zoning
commission shall not:
(a) Consider any further petition for the same rezoning of any part or all of the same
property for a period of one year from that date of such action;
(b) Consider a petition for any other kind of rezoning on any part or all of the same
property for a period of one year from the date of such action.
The time limits of this subsection may be waived by the affirmative vote of three (3)
members of the city commission when such action is deemed necessary to prevent
injustice or to facilitiate the proper development of the City of Ocoee. (Ord. No. 718,
4-15-80)
Section 4. Board of adjustment.
4.1 Establishment and composition. A board of adjustment is hereby established
which shall consist of five (5) members and two (2) alternates appointed by the city
commission. Provided, however, that no more than one member and one alternate may
concurrently be members of the planning and zoning commission, and that lio member
or alternate shall be an employee of the City of Ocoee.
4.2 Terms of office, removal and vacancies. Members of the board of adjustment
shall serve for overlapping terms of three (3) years. Not more than a minority of the
terms of such members shall expire in anyone year. Any member of the board of
adjustment may be removed from office for cause by the appointing governing body
upon written charges and after public hearing. Any vacancy occurring during the
unexpired term of office of any member shall be filled by the governing body for the
remainder of the term. Such vacancy shall be filled within thirty (30) days after the
vacancy occurs.
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4.3 Officers, rules and procedures. The board of adjustment shall elect a chairman
and a vice-chairman from among its members and shall appoint a secretary who may
be an officer or employee of the governing body. The board may create and fill such
other offices as it may determine to be necessary for the conduct of its duties. Terms of
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all office6 shall be for one year, with eligibility for reappointment. The board of
adjust.z:nent shall adopt rules for transaction of its business, and shall keep a record of
its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations, which record shall be a
public record. Meetings of the board shall be held at the call of the chairman and at
such times as the board may determine. The chairman, or in his absence the
vice-chairman, may administer oaths and compel the attendance of witnesses. All
meetings shall be open to the public.
4.4 Hearings, appeals and notices. Appeals to the board of adjustment may be made
by any person aggrieved or by any officer or bureau of the governing body of the City
of Ocoee affected by any decision of the building inspector or by anyone seeking a
variance or special exception.
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The board of adjustment shall fix a reasonable time for the public hearing of the
appeal, give public notice thereof, as well as due notice to the parties in interest, and
decide the same within a reasonable time. At the public hearing, any party may appear
in person or by agent or attorney. The notice of public hearing shall be given as
required in Chapter II, section 5.
4.5 Powers and duties. The board of adjustment shall have the following powers and
duties:
(1) Administrative review. To hear and decide appeals when it is alleged there is
error in any order, requirement, decision or determination made by the building
inspector in the enfocement of this ordinance, or any amendment thereto, or any
ordinance, law, policy or procedure relating to land use regulations.
(2) Special exception. To hear and recommend to the city commission such special
exceptions as the board of adjustment is specifically authorized to pass on under
the terms of the zoning ordinance; to decide such questions as are involved in the
determination of when special exceptions should be granted and to recommend to
the city commission special exceptions with appropriate conditions and
safeguards or to recommend denial of special exceptions when not in harmony
with the purpose and intent of this ordinance or any ordinance enacated under
the authority of this ordinance.
(a) In recommending any special exception, the board shall find that such
special exception will not adversely affect the public interest.
(b) In recommending any special exception, the board of adjustment may
prescribe appropriate conditions and safeguards in conformity with this
ordinance and any ordinance enacted under it. Violation of such conditions
and safeguards, when made a part of the terms under which the city
commission grants a special exception, shall be deemed a violation of the
ordinance.
(c) The board of adjustment may recommend a reasonable time limit within
which the action for which the special exception is required shall be begun or
completed or both.
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(d) The board of adjustment shall confer with the planning commission in all
cases involving requests for special exceptions.
(3) Variances. To recommend upon appeal such variance from the terms of this
ordinance as will not be contrary to the public interest where, owing to special
conditions, a literal enforcement of the provisions of this ordinance will result in
unnecessary and undue hardship. In order to recommend any variance from the
terms of the ordinance, the board of adjustment must find:
That special conditions and circumstances exist which are peculiar to the land,
structure or building involved and which are not applicable to other lands,
structures or buildings in the same zoning district;
That the special conditions and circumstances do not result from the actions of
the applicant;
That granting the variance requested will not confer on the applicant any
special privilege that is denied by this ordinance to other lands, buildings or
structures in the same zoning district;
That literal interpretation of the provisions of this ordinance would deprive the
applicant of rights commonly enjoyed by other properties in the same zoning
district under the terms of this ordinance, and would work unnecessary and
undue hardship on the applicant;
That the variance granted is the minimum variance that will make possible
the reasonable use of the land, building or structure;
That the grant of the variance will be in harmony with the general intent and
purpose of this ordinance, and that such variance will not be injurious to the
area involved or otherwise detrimental to the public welfare.
In recommending any variance, the board of adjustment may prescribe
appropriate conditions and safeguards in conformity with this ordinance.
Violation of such conditions and safeguards, when made a part of the terms
under which the variance is granted, shall be deemed a violation of this zoning
code and punishable as provided herein.
Under no circumstances shall the board of adjustment recommend variance to
allow a use not permissable under the terms of this ordinance in the district
involved, or any use expressly or by implication prohibited by the terms of this
ordinance in said district.
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4.6 Appeals to board of adjustment.
(1) Appeals to the board of adjustment may be made by any person aggrieved or by
any officer, board or bureau of the governing body affected by any decision of an
administrative official under any zoning ordinance enacted pursuant to this
ordinance. Such appeal shall be made within thirty (30) days after rendition of
the order, requirement, decision or determination appealed from by filing with
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the officer from whom the appeal is taken and with the board of adjustment a
notice of appeal specifying the grounds thereof. The appeal shall be in the form
prescribed by the rules of the board.
(2) The administrative official from whom the appeal is taken shall, upon
notification of the filing of the appeal, forthwith transmit to the board of
adjustment all the documents, plans, papers or other materials constituting the
record upon which the action appealed from was taken.
(3) The board of adjustment shall recommend actions to be taken by the city
commission. No action of the board of adjustment shall be final until reviewed
by the city commission.
(4) The board of adjustment shall keep a record of its actions and shall file same
with the city clerk within twenty-four (24) hours of taking action.
4.7 Appeals from the city commission.
(1) The city commission shall review all recommendations made by the board of
adjustment. The city commission shall act upon the recommendations of the
board of adjustment. If the city commission fails to take action within thirty (30)
days, the decision of the board of adjustment shall become final, unless appealed
to the courts. The commission may act to accept, deny or modify the
recommendations and its conditions as recommended by the board of
adjustment.
(2) Any person or persons jointly or separately aggrieved by any decision of the city
commission may, within thirty (30) days after the filing of any decision in the
office of the city clerk, but not thereafter, apply to the court for relief.
(3) An appeal to the court stays all work on the premises and all proceedings In
furtherance of the action appealed from, unless the official from whom the
appeal was taken shall certify to the court that, by reason of facts stated in the
certificate, a stay would cause imminent peril to life or property. In such case,
proceedings or work shall not be stayed except by a restraining order which may
be granted by a court of record on application, on notice to the officer from whom
the appeal is taken and on due cause shown.
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Section 5. Public hearings notice.
5.1 Notice procedures. Posted notice shall be given at least twelve (12) days in
advance of a public hearing. The owner of the property for which a change is sought,
or his agent, shall be nofitied by certified mail at least thirty (30) days prior to public
hearing, except when the change is sought by the owner, in which case this notice
shall not be required. Notice of such hearings shall be posted on the property and at
the city hall. All property owners of lots within three hundred (300) feet shall be
notified by mail at least twelve (12) days prior to the hearing date. In addition, notice
shall be given in a newspaper of general circulation at least seven (7) days in advance
of public hearing.
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5.2 Posting on property. The sign to be posted on the said land shall be at least two
(2) feet square and shall contain substantially the following language:
A PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING THE USE OF THIS PROPERTY WILL BE
HELD BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF OCOEE. CALL CITY
HALL FOR INFORMATION.
The signs shall be erected in full view of the general public on each street side of the
said land by the applicant.
Section 6. Schedule of fees.
The city commission hereby establishes a schedule of fees, charges and expenses,
and a collection procedure, for matters pertaining to this ordinance. The schedule of
fees shall be posted in the office of the building inspector and may be altered or
amended only by the city commission. No action towards processing an application
shall be taken until the fee has been paid.
Application for the rezoning of land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$100.00
Petition for interpretation of this ordinance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25.00
Petition for a variance from this zoning ordinance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 100.00
Petition for a use permitted on review by this ordinance .................. 100.00
Land use permit fee for a mobile home park or subdivision, per space . . . . . . 1.00
Sign permit, per square foot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.05
Minimum......................................................... 1.00
Section 7. Complaints regarding violations.
Whenever a violation of this ordinance occurs, or is alleged to have occurred, any
person may file a complaint, but such complaint shall be in writing and shall be signed
by the person complaining. Such complaint, stating fully the causes and basis thereof,
shall be filed with the building inspector. He shall record properly such complaint,
immediately investigate and take action thereon as provided by this ordinance.
Section 8. Interpretation and validity.
Should any section or provision of this ordinance be declared by the courts to be
unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the ordinance
as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or
invalid.
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Section 9. Penalties.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance, or who shall fail to
abide by and obey all orders and resolutions promulgated as herein provided, shall be
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guilty of a misdemeanor. Each day that the violation continues shall constitute a
separate violation.
CHAPTER III. GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLYING
TO ALL OR SEVERAL DISTRICTS
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Section 1. Official zoning map.
1.1 General. The City of Ocoee is hereby divided into zones or districts as shown on
the zoning map which, together with all explanatory matter thereon, is hereby adopted
by reference and declared to be a part of this ordinance.
The zoning map shall be identified by the signature of the mayor, attested by the city
clerk, and bearing the seal of the City of Ocoee under the following words: "This is to
certify that this is the zoning map referred to in Chapter III of Ordinance Number 516
of the City of Ocoee, Florida," with the date of adoption of this ordinance.
If, in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, changes are made in district
boundaries or other matter portrayed on the zoning map, said changes shall be made
on the zoning map promptly after the amendment has been approved by the city
commission, together with an entry on the zoning map as follows: "On (date), by
official action of the city commission, the following changes were made in the zoning
map: (brief description of nature of change)," which entry shall be signed by the mayor
and attested by the city clerk. No amendment to this ordinance which involves matters
portrayed on the zoning map shall become effective until after such change and entry
have been made on said map.
'No changes of any nature shall be made in the zoning map or matter shown thereon
except in conformity with the procedures set forth in this ordinance. Any unauthorized
change of whatever kind by any person or persons shall be considered to be a violation
of this ordinance, punishable as provided in Chapter II, section 9 of this ordinance.
Regardless of the existence of purported copies of the zoning map which may from
time to time be made or published, the official zoning map kept in the office of the city
clerk shall be the final authority as to current zoning status of lands, buildings and
other structures in the City of Ocoee.
1.2 Replacement of the official zoning map. In the event that the official zoning map
becomes damaged, destroyed, lost or difficult to interpret because of the nature or
number of changes and additions, the city commission may by resolution adopt a new
official zoning map which shall supersede the prior official zoning map.
The new official zoning map may correct drafting or other errors or omissions in the
prior official zoning map, but no such correction shall have the effect of amending the
original official zoning map. The new official zoning map shall be identified by the
signature of the mayor, attested by the city clerk and bearing the seal of the city under
the following words: "This is to certify that this Official Zoning Map supersedes and
replaces the Official Zoning Map adopted by the City of Ocoee."
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Unless the prior official zoning map has been lost, or has been totally destroyed, the
prior map or any significant parts thereof remaining shall be preserved, together with
all available records pertaining to its adoption or amendment.
1.3 Rules for interpretation of district boundaries. Where uncertainty exists as to the
boundaries of districts as shown on the official zoning map, the following rules shall
apply:
(1) Boundaries indicated as approximately following the center lines of streets,
highways or alleys shall be construed to follow such center lines.
(2) Boundaries indicated as approximately following platted lot lines shall be
construed as following such lot lines.
(3) Boundaries indicated as approximately following city limits shall be construed as
following city limits.
(4) Boundaries indicated as following railroad lines shall be construed to be midway
between the main tracks.
(5) Boundaries indicated as following center lines of watercourses shall be construed
as following such center lines. Boundaries indicated as following the lake shore
shall be construed as following the lake shore, and in the event of development
of lands extending into the lake such boundaries shall be construed as moving
with the lake shore so that new lands created in the lake shall be zoned in the
same manner as adjacent uplands which were previously at the lake shore.
(6) Boundaries indicated as being parallel to or extensions of features indicated in
items (1) through (4) above, or parallel to center lines of watercourses, shall be
construed as being in fact parallel to or extensions of such features, and if
distances involved are not specifically indicated on the zoning map, such
distances shall be determined by the scale of the zoning map.
(7) Where the street or property layout existing on the ground is at variance with
that shown on the official zoning map, or in other circumstances not covered by
the rules above, the planning and zoning board shall interpret the district
boundaries.
(8) Where a district boundary line divides a lot which was in single ownership at the
time of passage of this ordinance, permission may be given as a special
exception by the board of adjustment to extend the regulations for either portion
of the lot not to exceed fifty (50) feet beyond the district line into the remaining
portion of the lot.
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Section 2. Application of district regulations.
2.1 Application of regulation to uses of a more restricted district. Whenever the
specific district regulations pertaining to one district permit the uses of a more
restricted district, such uses shall be subject to the conditions as set forth in the
regulations of the more restricted district, unless otherwise specified.
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2.2 Specific district regulations. Within each district, regulations herein set forth
shall be minimum regulations and shall apply uniformly t" each class or kind of
building or land.
Section 3. Open space.
The following requirements are intended to provide exceptions to or to qualify and
supplement, as the case may be, the specific district regulations set forth in Chapter
IV:
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(1) An open space or lot area required for an existing building or structure shall not
be counted as open space for any other building or structure.
(2) Open eaves, cornices, window sills and belt courses may project into any required
yard a distance not to exceed two (2) feet. Open porches or open fire escapes may
project into a front or rear yard a distance not to exceed five (5) feet. Fences,
walls and hedges in residential districts may be erected in any required yard, or
along the edge of any yard, provided that street corner visibility requirements of
this ordinance shall be met, and provided further that no fence, wall or hedge
located in front of the front building line shall exceed four (4) feet in height, and
no other wall or fence shall exceed eight (8) feet in height. No fence or wall shall
extend more than ten (10) feet into any lake.
(3) Where the dedicated street right-of-way is less than fifty (50) feet, the depth of
the front yard shall be measured starting at a point twenty-five (25) feet from the
center line of the street easement.
(4) No dwelling shall be erected on a lot which does not abut on at least one street,
at least forty (40) feet in width, for at least twenty (20) feet. The street shall form
the direct and primary means of ingress and egress for all dwelling units. Alleys,
where they exist, shall form only a secondary means of ingress and egress.
(5) [The owner of] any lot of record existing at the time of the adoption of this
ordinance that does not meet the above criteria may apply to the board of
adjustment for a variance for the construction of a single-family home. The
board of adjustment shall make a determination that there is reasonable access
to the property, and that this action will create no adverse impact on adjacent
properties, before a variance is granted.
(6) Accessory buildings which are not a part of the main building may be built in
the rear yard, but shall not cover more than thirty (30) per cent of the rear yard.
(7) On any corner lot, the applicable front yard setback shall apply to both street
frontages.
(8) On any corner lot on which a front and side yard is required, no wall, fence,
sign, structure or any plant growth which obstructs sight lines at elevations
between two (2) feet, six (6) inches and ten (10) feet above any portion of the
crown of the adjacent roadway shall be maintained in a triangle formed by
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measuring from the point of intersection of the front and exterior side lot lines a
distance of twenty-five (25) feet along the front and side lot lines, and connecting
the points so established to form a sight triangle on the area of the lot adjacent
to the street intersections of minor and collector streets. The same distance for
the intersection of any street with an arterial street as defined in the
comprehensive plan shall be forty (40) feet.
(9) An attached or detached private garage which faces on a street shall not be
located closer than twenty-five (25) feet to the street right-of-way.
Section 4. Height.
The following requirements are intended to provide exceptions or qualify and
supplement, as the case may be, the specific district regulations set forth in Chapter IV;:
(1) Chimneys, elevators, flues, spires, tanks, towers and other projections not used
for human occupancy may extend above the height limit.
(2) The board of adjustment may permit buildings in certain zoning districts to
exceed the height limitation of the district if the minimum depth of front and
rear yards and the minimum width of the side yards required in the district are
increased one foot for each two (2) feet by which the height of such structure
exceeds the prescribed height limit, and the increased height will otherwise have
no adverse effect on adjacent development and is in keeping with the overall
character of the area.
Section 5. Location and construction of principal and accessory structures.
5.1 Construction and use of accessory structures. No accessory building shall be
constructed upon a lot until the construction of the main building has been actually
commenced, and no accessory building shall be used unless the main building on the
lot is also being used.
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5.2 Accessory uses and structures, location. In residential districts, accessory uses
and structures shall not be located in front or side yards but may be located in rear
yards; provided, however, that accessory structures for the housing of persons, such as
guest houses and garage apartments, shall not be located in any required yard. On
double frontage, through or corner lots in residential districts, accessory uses and
structures shall not be located in either of the required front yards but may be located
in one but not both side yards. No separate accessory building shall be located within
five (5) feet of any other building. In residential districts, utility or accessory buildings
will be no closer than seven and one-half (7l/2) feet to the rear lot line and seven and
one-half (71/2) feet to the side lot line.
5.3 Number of principal buildings permitted per lot. No lot shall be occupied by more
than one principal building. Providing, however, that in any district more than one
structure housing a permitted or permissible principal use may be erected on a single
lot provided that yard, area, street frontage and other requirements of this ordinance
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shall be met for each structure as though it were on an individual lot. No part of a
yard, court or other open space provided about any building or structure for the
purpose of complying with the provisions of this ordinance shall be included as a part
of a yard or other open space required under this ordinance for another building or
structure.
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Section 6. Public buildings and services.
6.1 Public services. Essential services, herein defined as services authorized and
regulated by state or national public utility commissions or services owned or
franchised by the City of Ocoee, may be located within any zoning district after notice
and public hearing by the planning and zoning commission and approval by the city
commission. This provision comprehends both structures and uses and includes gas,
water, electricity, sewerage and telephone facilities.
6.2 Public building. After public notice and hearing by the planning and zoning
commission the city commission may authorize the location in any zoning district of
any public buildings erected by, or any use of, municipal, county, state or federal
government.
6.3 [Easements]. Transportation, pipelines and utility easements and rights-of-way
shall be permitted in any zoning district.
Section 7. Major street setbacks.
7.1 Setback standards. For purposes of further street widening, setback lines are
established for certain streets as set out in this section. All yards required by this
ordinance shall be measured from such setback lines. Where no yard requirements are
set out for a zoning district, no portion of a structure, appurtenances thereto, sign,
canopy or parking area shall intrude streetward beyond the setback line, except as
specifically set out in this ordinance.
(1) For all arterial streets described in the general plan, the required setback shall be
fifty (50) feet, plus the yard requirements as set forth in the zoning district.
(2) For all collector streets described in the general plan, the required setback shall
be thirty (30) feet, plus the yard requirements as set forth in the zoning district.
(3) In all commercial and industrial districts, no building or other structure shall be
erected within thirty-five (35) feet of the center line of any street where a greater
setback has not been established.
7.2 Street classification system. For purposes of applying the standards established
above, the following streets shall be considered arterial or collector streets. Any street
that is not specifically listed as an arterial or collector street shall be considered a
minor street.
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ARTERIAL STREETS
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1. State Road 50
2. State Road 438-Silver Star Road
3. State Road 437 -Ocoee/ Apopka Road
4. Ocoee-Clarcona Road
5. State Road 439-Bluford Avenue
COLLECTOR STREETS
1. Wurst Road
2. Ocoee Hills Road
3. Orlando Avenue
4. Kissimmee Avenue
5. Lakewood Avenue
6. Clark Road (Proposed)
7. Wofford Road
8. Story Road
9. Franklin Street
7.3 [Additions]. Additions to the list of arterial and collector streets shall be by
resolution of the city commission.
Section 8. Storage and parking of trailers, commercial vehicles and automo-
tive vehicles.
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Commercial vehicles and trailers of all types, including travel, camping and hauling,
and mobile homes shall not be parked or stored on any lot occupied by a dwelling or on
any lot in any residential district except in accordance with the following provisions:
(1) Not more than one commercial vehicle which does not exceed one and one-half
(11/2) ton rated capacity per family living on the premises shall be permitted; and
in no case shall a commercial vehicle used for hauling explosives, gasoline or
liquefied petroleum products be permitted.
(2) Not more than one camping or travel trailer or hauling trailer per family living
on the premises shall be permitted, and said trailer shall not exceed twenty-four
(24) feet in length or eight (8) feet in width; and further provided that said trailer
shall not be parked or stored for more than forty-eight (48) hours unless it is
located behind the front yard building line. A camping or travel trailer, or
camper vehicle, shall not be occupied either temporarily or permanently while it
is parked or stored in any residential district, except when it is located in an
authorized mobile home park.
(3) Disabled vehicles or trailers of any kind or type shall not be parked or stored in
any residentially zoned property for more than one month unless in a completely
enclosed building or carport.
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Section 9. Off-street automobile and vehicle parking and loading.
9.1 Intent and application. It is the intent of these requirements that adequate
parking and loading facilities be provided off the street easement or right-of-way for
each use of land covered by this ordinance. Requirements are intended to be based on
the demand created by each use. There shall be provided at the time of the erection of
any building, or at the time any principal building is enlarged or increased in capacity
by adding dwelling units, guest rooms, seats or floor area, or before conversion from
one type of use or occupancy to another, permanent off-street parking space in the
amount specified by this section. Such parking space may be provided in a parking
garage or properly graded parking lot as provided herein.
9.2 Certificate of minimum parking requirements. Each application for a building
permit submitted to the building inspector shall include information as to the location
and dimensions of off-street parking and loading space and the means of ingress and
egress to such space. This information shall be in sufficient detail to enable the
building inspector to determine whether or not the requirements of this section are
met.
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9.3 Required open space. Off-street parking and loading space shall be in addition to
required open space associated with the permitted use, and shall not reduce or encroach
upon the required yards or open space in any manner.
The area required for off-street parking shall be in addition to the yard areas herein
required; except that the side or rear yard required in commercial or industrial districts
may be used for an uncovered parking area.
9.4 Location of off-street parking. The parking space provided herein shall be
provided on the same lot where the principal use is located or within four hundred
(400) feet from the principal entrances as measured along the most direct pedestrian
walkway. Said land shall be used for no other purpose so long as no other adequate
provisions of parking space meeting the requirements of this ordinance have been
made for the principal use.
9.5 Joint parking facilities. Whenever two (2) or more uses are located together in a
common building, shopping center or other integrated building complex, the parking
requirements may be complied with by providing a permanent common parking
facility, cooperatively established and operated, which contains the requisite number of
spaces for each use. The total number of spaces provided shall not be less than the sum
of the individual requirements; provided, however, that when the parking demands of
different uses occur at different times, joint use of parking spaces may be authorized as
a special exception by the board of adjustment provided that:
(1) A notarized statement from all property owners involved is presented indicating
that the activities of each separate building or use which creates a demand for
parking occur at different times.
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(2) Such statement must include an agreement between the parties involved
indicating responsibility for maintenance.
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(3) Such agreement shall be perpetual.
9.6 Off-street parking lots in residential districts. Whenever off-street parking lots
for more than six (6) vehicles are to be located within or adjacent to a residential
district, the following provisions shall apply:
(1) All sides of the lot within or abutting the residential district shall be enclosed
with screens. Such screens may be in the form of walls, fences or landscaping,
shall be at least three (3) feet in height, and shall be at least fifty (50) per cent
opaque as viewed from any point along said residential lot line. When
landscaping is used for screening, the height and opacity requirements shall be
attained within eighteen (18) months.
(2) No parking shall be permitted within a front yard setback.
(3) All yards shall be landscaped with grass and shrubs and maintained In good
condition the year round.
(4) Driveways used for ingress and egress shall be confined to and shall not exceed
twenty-five (25) feet in width, exclusive of curb returns.
(5) Whenever lighting is provided, the intensity of light and arrangement of
reflectors shall be such as not to interfere with residential district use.
(6) The lot may be used only for parking and not for any type loading, sales, dead
storage, repair work, dismantling, servicing or play (recreation) area.
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(7) Only one entrance and exit sign (maximum two (2) square feet) and an
un illuminated sign no larger than two (2) square feet prescribing parking
regulations may be erected at each entrance or exit. No other signs shall be
permitted.
9.7 Amount of off-street parking. Off-street parking spaces shall be provided
according to the following minimum requirements:
(1) Residential, hotel, motel and lodge.
(a) Dwelling, single-family or duplex: Two (2) parking spaces for each separate
dwelling unit within the structure.
(b) Dwelling, multiple-family: The number of spaces provided shall not be less
than one and one-half (11/2) times the number of dwelling units.
(c) Hotels, motels, boarding or rooming houses or tourist homes: One parking
space for each bedroom, plus one additional space for a resident owner or
manager and one additional space for each three (3) employees. One parking
space for every six (6) seats in a restaurant facility.
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(d) Club, lodge or fraternity: One space for each bedroom, plus
space for each fifty (50) square feet of floor area used for
recreation.
one parking
assembly or
(e) Dormitories: One space for each three (3) beds.
(2) Hospital, clinic and nursing home.
(a) Hospital: Two (2) spaces for each patient bed, exclusive of bassinets, plus
adequate area for the parking of emergency vehicles.
(b) Medical or dental clinic: One space per one hundred fifty (150) square feet of
gross floor area.
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(c) Sanatorium, convalescent or nursing home: One space for each six (6)
patient beds, plus one space for each staff or visiting doctor, plus one space
for each two (2) employees including nurses.
(3) Church and school:
(a) Church: One parking space for every four (4) seats, or one parking space for
every thirty (30) square feet in the largest assembly area, whichever is
greater.
(b) Elementary school and junior high school: One space for each four (4) seats
in the assembly hall or, if no assembly hall, then one space for each two (2)
employees including teachers and administrators, plus one space for each
thirty (30) students.
(c) Senior high school: One parking space for each ten (10) students for which
the building was designed, plus one space for each classroom and
administrative office.
(4) Places of amusement or assembly not listed elsewhere:
(a) Places of amusement or assembly containing fixed seats: One space for each
three (3) fixed seats provided for patron use.
(b) Places of amusement or assembly without fixed seats: One space for each one
hundred (100) square feet of floor or ground area used for amusement or
assembly.
(c) Public or private clubs: One parking space for each one hundred (100) square
feet of gross floor space.
(5) Office building and post office:
(a) Professional office (excluding doctor or dentist): One parking space for each
two hundred and fifty (250) square feet of gross floor space.
(b) Office building: One space for each three hundred (300) square feet of gross
floor area used for office or similar purposes.
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(c) Medical office: One space for each two hundred (200) feet of gross floor area.
(d) Post office: Four (4) spaces per service window, plus one space per
government vehicle and one space per four (4) employees.
(6) Commercial and retail use:
(a) Foodstore, supermarket and drugstore: One space for each two hundred (200)
square feet of gross square footage.
(b) Convenience stores: One space for each one hundred (100) square feet of
nonstorage area.
(c) Restaurant, including bar, grill and all similar dining and/or drinking
establishments: One space for each four (4) fixed seats provided for patron
use, plus one parking space for each seventy-five (75) square feet of floor area
provided for patron use but not containing fixed seats.
(d) Drive-in restaurant or similar use designed for curb type service: Ten (10)
parking spaces, plus one parking space for each ten (10) square feet of gross
floor space (not including dining area).
(e) Funeral home: One space for each four (4) seats in the chapel, plus one space
for each commercial vehicle.
(f) Service station: Three (3) parking spaces for each service bay.
(g) Garage: One space for each employee on the largest shift, plus five (5) spaces
for each service area or for each three hundred (300) square feet of repair or
maintenance space, whichever is the greater.
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(h) Commercial establishments not otherwise classified: One space for each two
hundred (200) square feet of first floor gross area, plus one space for each
three hundred (300) square feet of floor area above the first floor, excluding
all rooms used for storage.
(7) Wholesale and manufacturing: One space for each of the first twenty-five (25)
employees of the major shift, plus one space for each one and one-half (1/2)
additional employees of the major shift.
(8) Uses not listed above: For all uses not covered in (4) through (7) above, the
planning commission shall make a determination of the parking demand to be
created by the proposed use, and the amount of parking thus determined shall be
the off-street parking requirement for the permitted use.
9.8 Off-street parking lot requirements. All parking areas shall be surfaced with a
hard, dustless material, shall be properly drained and shall be designed with regard to
pedestrian safety. Each off-street parking space shall include one hundred eighty (180)
square feet in addition to space for access drives and aisles. The minimum size of each
space shall be nine (9) feet by twenty (20) feet. Aisles for two-way traffic in parking
lots shall be twenty-two (22) feet in width. Aisles for one-way traffic with angle
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parking may be reduced to fifteen (15) feet in width. Off-street turning and
maneuvering space shall be provided for each lot containing six (6) or more spaces so
that no vehicle will be required to back onto or from any public street or alley.
All off-street parking space shall be clearly defined and maintained in a manner
that parking spaces, pavement markings, turn arrows, etc., are always easily
discernible.
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each building or structure, other than a one- through four-family dwelling hereafter
constructed, adequate space for off-street loading, unloading and the maneuvering of
commercial vehicles. There shall be no loading or unloading of commercial vehicles on
a public street. Off-street maneuvering space shall be provided so that no backing onto
or from a public street is required. All loading and maneuvering areas shall be surfaced
with a hard, dustless material, shall be properly drained and shall be designed with
regard to pedestrian safety, and shall have direct access to a public street or alley.
The number of off-street loading berths required by this section shall be considered
as the absolute minimum, and the developer shall evaluate his own needs to determine
if they are greater than the minimum specified by this section. For purposes of this
section, an off-street loading berth shall have minimum plan dimensions of twelve (12)
feet by twenty-five (25) feet, and fourteen (14) feet overhead clearance, with adequate
means for ingress and egress. The number of off-street loading requirements shall be
as follows:
(1) Each retail store, storage warehouse, wholesale establishment, industrial plant,
factory, freight terminal, market, restaurant, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning
establishment or similar use which has an aggregate gross floor area of:
Area in square feet Spaces
Over 10,000 but not over 25,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Over 25,000 but not over 60,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Over 60,000 but not over 120,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Over 120,000 but not over 200,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Over 200,000 but not over 290,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Plus, for each additional 90,000 over 290,000 or major fraction
thereof
(2) A loading space requirement may be modified or waived by the board of
adjustment on application in the case of a bank, theater or other uses where the
same is not clearly required.
9.10 Permanent reservation. The area reserved for off-street parking or loading space
shall not be reduced in area or changed to any other use unless the permitted use
which it serves is discontinued or modified, except where equivalent parking or loading
space is provided.
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Section 10. Sign regulations.
10.1 General. The provisions of this section shall govern the number, size, location
and character of all signs which shall be permitted as a principal or accessory use in
any zoning district.
10.2 Signs exempted from these requirements. The following signs shall be permitted
in all districts and not subject to the requirements of this ordinance except in regards
to corner visibility, provided that no sign other than those listed in subsection (1) below
shall be erected within or project into a public right-of-way:
(1) Governmental signs, such as traffic or similar regulatory devices, legal notices or
warnings;
(2) Flags or emblems not used as commercial advertising;
(3) Temporary signs, totaling not over two (2) square feet of surface area on any lot,
not used as commercial advertising and for a period not to exceed fourteen (14)
days in any quarter calendar year. It shall be the responsibility of the person
who erects such a sign to have it removed;
(4) Memorial plaques, cornerstones, historical tablets and similar devices;
(5) Noncommercial signs posted in conjunction with door bells or mailboxes and not
exceeding eight (8) square inches in surface area;
(6) Signs required by law to be posted, unless specifically prohibited, limited or
restricted;
(7) Small un illuminated signs, not exceeding two (2) square feet in surface area,
displayed strictly for the direction, safety or convenience of the public, including
signs which identify rest rooms, parking area entrances or exits, freight
entrances and the like;
(8) Address signs not exceeding seventy-two (72) square inches in surface area and
showing only the numerical address designations of the premises upon which
they are located;
(9) Political signs, provided that such signs shall be removed within seven (7) days
after the most recent election;
(10) Small unilluminated announcement signs concerning the practice of a
profession, the conduct of an incidental home occupation or other authorized
occupation, provided they are not over two (2) square feet in area and are
mounted flat to the main wall of the building;
(11) Temporary un illuminated real estate signs not over six (6) square feet in area
displayed on the property proposed for sale or rent and no closer than five (5)
feet to any property line;
(12) Signs for church and community identification no larger than twenty-five (25)
square feet in area located on private property, but no closer than five (5) feet to
any property line.
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10.3 Permit required. The owner of property upon which a sign is to be erected shall
appy to the building inspector for a sign permit. Such application shall be accompanied
by drawnings describing the location, size, method of construction, sign face and other
details as may be required by the building inspector to determine compliance with the
ordinance.
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The building inspector shall, within fourteen (14) days, issue, deny or issue subject to
certain conditions a permit for the construction of such sign. Such decisions shall be
conveyed to the applicant by mail. Should any person be aggrieved of the decision of
the building inspector, he may, within fourteen (14) days, appeal to the board of
adjustment.
10.4 General requirements. In addition to specific district requirements, signs will be
subject to the following minimum general requirements:
(1) There shall be no rooftop signs except in the C-3 zoning district.
(2) Signs located on the front of a marquee shall not extend vertically above or
below the marquee.
(3) No sign which obstructs the view of, causes confusion or otherwise interferes
with, any authorized traffic signs, signals or other safety devices shall be erected
at any location.
(4) No light which resembles an emergency light shall be used in connection with
any sign.
(5) No flashing sign shall be located within three hundred (300) feet of any
residential district.
(6) Direct illuminated signs shall be limited to those lighted from behind or
internally to silhouette letters and figures, so as to prevent a direct view of the
light source.
(7) Flood lighting and display lighting shall be shielded so as to prevent a direct
view of the light source from a public right-of-way or from a residence in a
residential district.
(8) All signs shall be kept in repair and in a proper state of preservation. Signs
which are no longer functional or are abandoned shall be removed or relocated by
the owner of such signs within thirty (30) days following such disfunction.
(9) Advertising signs:
(a) The height of any advertising sign shall not exceed the prescribed building
height for the zoning district in which it is located.
(b) In commercial districts, such signs shall maintain a clear height of eight (8)
feet from grade to the bottom of the sign should there be a traffic, pedestrian
or safety hazard created by the presence of such sign. In agricultural
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districts, such signs shall maintain a clear height of three (3) feet from grade
to the bottom of the sign.
(c) No advertising sign shall exceed twenty (20) feet in length or two hundred
(200) square feet in area.
(d) Signs advertising the same business or activity and facing in the same
direction on anyone street shall not be closer than one-half mile apart.
(e) Advertising signs in agricultural districts shall be permitted no closer than
one thousand (1,000) feet from any other outdoor advertising signs on the
same side of the road.
(f) No advertising sign shall be located or erected closer than one hundred fifty
(150) feet to a lot occupied by a church, public school, public park or
cemetery, as measured along a common street right-of-way.
(g) No advertising sign shall be located closer than fifty (50) feet to an existing
residence or nearer than three hundred (300) feet to any residential zoning
district, as measured along a common street right-of-way.
10.5 Number and surface area. For the purpose of determining number of signs, a
sign shall be considered to be a single display surface or display device containing
elements organized, related and composed to form a unit. Where matter is displayed in
a random manner without organized relationship of elements, or where there is
reasonable doubt about the relationship of elements, each element shall be considered
to be a single sign.
The surface area of a sign shall be computed as including the entire area within the
periphery of a regular geometric form, or combinations of regular geometric forms,
comprising all of the display area of the sign and including all of the elements of the
matter displayed. Only frames and structural members not bearing advertising matter
shall not be included in computation of surface area. (For diagrams showing
measurement of various types of signs, see diagram below).
SIGNS: NUMBER AND SURFACE AREA MEASUREMENT
One sign; Separate letters
Area measured as a unit:
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10.6 Signs in Agricultural Districts (A-l and A-2). The following signs shall be
permitted:
(1) One nonilluminated sign, not to exceed twelve (12) square feet in area to
advertise the sale, lease or rental of property on which the sign is located.
(Exempt from permit).
(2) Nonilluminated signs not over two (2) square feet in area to prevent trespassing,
for safety or for caution. (Exempt from permit).
(3) For a home occupation, one sign as described in section 10.2(10). (Exempt from
permit).
(4) One identification wall sign not exceeding twelve (12) square feet in area and one
ground or wall sign not over thirty-two (32) square feet in area.
(5) Outdoor advertising sign subject to provisions of section 10.4(9).
10.7 Signs in residential districts. The following signs shall be permitted:
(1) One nonilluminated sign, not to exceed six (6) square feet in area, to advertise
the sale, lease or rental of property on which the sign is located. (Exempt from
permit).
(2) One nonilluminated sign not over two (2) square feet in area to prohibit
trespassing, for safety or for caution. (Exempt from permit).
(3) For a home occupation, where permissible, one sign as described In section
10.2(10). (Exempt from permit).
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(4) Two (2) non illuminated, subdivision (including mobile home subdivisions and
parks where permitted) ground signs, each having an area not to exceed one
hundred (100) square feet while under development to advertise the sale of lots or
new houses, provided such subdivision has an area of at least four (4) acres, and
provided further that signs shall be removed when eighty (80) per cent of the
individual lots or houses have been sold.
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(5) On a lot containing a permitted nonresidential use other than an accessory use,
one identification wall sign not exceeding twelve (12) square feet in area and one
bulletin, ground or wall sign not over thirty-two (32) square feet in area for each
street side.
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(6) On a lot containing a nonconforming use, there may be one identification sign
not over twelve (12) square feet in area.
(7) On a lot containing a permitted or permissible nonresidential use, not more than
two (2) temporary signs or banners, each with surface area not exceeding twenty
(20) square feet, in connection with special events, provided that no such sign or
banner shall be displayed longer than the duration of the special event plus one
week before it begins.
(8) One temporary construction project ground sign not exceeding thirty-two (32)
square feet in area on each street side on which lot abuts, such sign not to be
erected more than sixty (60) days prior to time actual construction begins and to
be removed upon completion of actual construction. If construction is not begun
within sixty (60) days, or if construction be not continuously and actively
prosecuted to completion, sign shall be removed.
(9) One wall sign not to exceed thirty (30) square feet in area on each street side to
identify a multiple dwelling.
(10) One wall or ground sign not over eight (8) square feet in area for professional
office or clinic.
(11) One nonilluminated identification wall or ground sign not over eight (8) square
feet in area for group dwelling or lodging house.
10.8 Signs in C-l Neighborhood Shopping, C-2 Community Commercial Districts.
(1) For a shopping center, one sign with one square foot of surface area for each two
(2) feet of lot adjacent to a street for purpose of general identification of the
premises and for identification of establishments in the center by name and
nature. Such sign, if a ground or pylon sign, shall not exceed twenty-five (25)
feet in height. This sign shall not count against the formula allocation of (6)(a)
below for individual establishments in the center.
(2) Wall, ground, pylon or projecting signs to advertise services or sales of products
on the premises, providing no sign shall project more than three (3) feet from
building wall, and no ground or pylon signs shall exceed twenty-five (25) feet in
height above ground level.
(3) Temporary construction signs where the surface area does not exceed fifty (50)
square feet. (Exempt from permit).
(4) One or more signs with total combined surface area not to exceed twenty-five
(25) square feet to advertise premises on which erected for sale, lease or rent.
(Exempt from permit).
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(5) A trailer sign may be used as a temporary sign for a period not exceeding thirty
(30) days and shall not return to the same place of business or location sooner
than thirty (30) days after the expiration of any thirty-day term of permitted
use. Such sign shall not be considered a permanent identification or advertising
sign. All such signs shall require a permit issued by the building official. Trailer
signs shall not:
(a) Be located nearer than three hundred (300) feet to any other trailer sign.
(b) Feature flashing or distracting light.
(6) General provisions:
(a) For signs in (2) above, the aggregate area of all signs shall not exceed two
and one-half (2V2) square feet in area for each foot of building frontage of
building displaying signs, or one and one-fourth (11/4) square feet in area for
each foot of frontage of property occupied by buildings, whichever is
greatest, provided no single business shall display more than two (2) signs,
and provided no aggregate of signs shall exceed two hundred (200) square
feet regardless of building or property frontage.
(b) No signs shall be erected in a manner that materially impedes visibility of
moving vehicles or pedestrains on or off the premises. No sign (except
projecting signs) shall be erected upon or overhang any street, right-of-way,
walk or alley, except as specifically authorized.
(c) Not more than one sign structure, including not more than two (2) signs with
total combined surface area not exceeding one hundred (100) square feet, may
be erected in any required yard adjacent to a street, provided that the area of
such signs shall be counted in the formula allocation of (a) above.
(d) Neon signs are permitted. Strip lighting is prohibited.
(e) No ground sign shall be erected within fifty (50) feet of a residential district.
Sign display surface shall be oriented toward the commercial district.
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10.9 Signs in C-3 General Commercial Districts. The following signs shall be
permitted:
(1) Shopping center signs, as for section 10.8(1).
(2) Wall, ground, roof, pylon or projecting signs to advertise services or sales of
products on the premises, provided no sign shall project more than four (4) fee
from the building wall or fifteen (15) feet above the roof, and no ground signs
shall exceed forty-five (45) feet in height above ground level.
(3) Temporary construction signs, as for section 10.8(3).
(4) Signs for lease, sale or rental of premises on which erected, as for section 10.8(4).
(5) Trailer signs, as for section 10.8(5).
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(6) General provisions:
(a) For signs in (2) above, the aggregate area of all signs shall not exceed three
(3) square feet in area for each foot of frontage occupied by building
displaying signs, or one and one-half (11/2) square feet in area for each foot of
frontage on property occupied by building, whichever may be greatest,
provided no single business shall display more than three (3) signs and
provided no aggregate area of signs shall exceed four hundred (400) square
feet regardless of building or property frontage.
(b) Limitations set out in section 10.8(6)(b), (d) and (e) shall apply.
10.10 Signs permitted in 1-1 and 1-2 Industrial Districts. The following signs shall be
permitted:
(1) As for section 10.9(2) through (5) and in addition: Advertising signs, subject to
the provisions of section 10.4(9).
(2) For an industrial park, one sign with one square foot of surface area for each five
(5) feet of lot adjacent to a street for purposes of general identification of the
premises and for identification of establishments in the park by name and
nature. Such sign, if a ground or pylon sign, shall not exceed twenty-five (25)
feet in height. This sign shall not count against the formula allocation for
individual establishments in the park.
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Section 11. Individual mobile homes and recreational vehicles on individual
lots.
11.1 Use of mobile homes and recreational vehicles in residential, commercial or
industrial districts. A mobile home or recreational vehicle may be temporarily parked
and occupied on a specified tract of land in a C-2, C-3, or industrial zoning district, to
be used for offices, storage or security purposes, during the construction of permanent
building on said tract of land.
A mobile home or recreational vehicle used for security purposes shall not be used as
permanent living quarters.
A temporary permit for use will be issued only after a building permit has been
secured for the permanent building. The mobile home or recreational vehicle shall be
removed within one hundred twenty (120) days, or within ten (10) days after completion
of the permanent building, whichever comes first.
A mobile home or recreational vehicle may be used as. a field office and tool shed
accessory to the development of a subdivision.
Mobile homes or recreational vehicles used as offices shall be permitted as a
permanent use when accessory to a mobile home sales lot.
11.2 Use of recreational vehicles in agricultural district. Recreational vehicles may be
occupied in A-I Districts as temporary shelter not longer than seven (7) days in any
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thirty-day period within a calendar year without a permit, or upon written approval by
the building inspector for a period of time not to exceed sixty (60) days continuous
within a twelve-month period.
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Section 12. Site plan.
12.1 [Regulations]. Where a site plan is required it shall include the following
regulations:
(a) The site plan shall be drawn to scale indicating property lines, rights-of-way
and the location of buildings, parking areas, curb cuts, driveways and
landscaping.
(b) Said site plan shall be submitted to and approved by authority and directive of
the building official unless the site plan contains over twelve (12) dwelling units
or a nonresidential building in excess of twenty-five thousand (25,000) square
feet.
(c) If a building exceeds twelve (12) dwelling units or twenty-five thousand (25,000)
square feet, the site plan must be approved by the city commission.
(d) No building permit shall be granted prior to the approval of the site plan. Upon
such approval, said site plan becomes a part of the building permit and may be
amended only by authority and directive of the building official or the city
commission.
CHAPTER IV. SPECIFIC DISTRICT REGULATIONS
Section 1. A-I General Agricultural District.
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1.1 General. This district is intended to provide areas primarily for agricultural uses.
It is the purpose of this district to protect such uses from unplanned urbanization so
long as the land therein is devoted primarily to agricultural uses.
1.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in an A-I General Agricultural District
shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Single-family, two-family dwelling, or mobile home.
(2) All agricultural and citrus land uses together with related buildings and
activities except the raising of poultry and swine.
(3) Temporary roadside stands for the sale of farm products grown on the premises;
provided, however, that up to one-third of the display area for produce may be
used for the sale of products not grown on the premises. The temporary structure
shall be required to set back from the roadway an adequate distance to permit
parking and ingress and egress, and shall not be constructed in such a location
as would create an undue traffic hazard, subject to the determination of the
building inspector.
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(4) All of the following uses:
(a) Church and attendant educational and recreational facilities.
(b) Horne occupation.
(c) Park or playground or public recreation area.
(d) Plant nursery or greenhouse.
(e) Private stable.
(f) Private utility buildings and facilities.
(g) Outdoor recreational activities such as a marina, boat dock or golf course.
1.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions by
the board of adjustment in accordance with procedures described in Chapter II, section
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(1) Airport or landing field.
(2) Cemetery, crematory and mausoleum.
(3) Farm labor housing, provided that total density does not exceed one dwelling
unit per gross acre and that each unit has a minimum living area of six hundred
fifty (650) square feet.
(4) Public stable, dude ranch, livery stable or boarding stable, when located on a
tract of land of not less than ten (10) acres; provided that no structure housing
animals shall be closer than two hundred (200) feet from any residential district,
and that the density shall not exceed one animal per acre.
(5) Horne beauty shop.
(6) Radio or television transmitting or receiving stations.
(7) Sale barn or commercial feed pen for livestock.
(8) Veterinary hospital or kennel.
(9) Poultry raising in excess of one hundred (100) birds, and swine raising, subject to
the following requirements:
(a) All pens, birds, swine, manure and waste disposal activities shall be located
at least one thousand (1,000) feet from any existing residential district.
(b) The minimum lot size for poultry and swine operations shall be nine (9)
acres.
(c) All pens, birds, swine, manure and waste disposal activities shall be located
one thousand (1,000) feet from abutting property and shall be located at least
two hundred (200) feet from public streets.
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1.4 General requirements.
(1) Yards. All buildings shall be set back from the street right-of-way lines to
comply with the following yard requirements:
(a) Front yard. All buildings shall be set back from the street right-of-way line
to provide a front yard having not less than thirty-five (35) feet in depth.
(b) Side yard. No building shall be located closer than fifteen (15) feet to a side
lot line.
(c) Rear yard. No building shall be located closer than fifty (50) feet to the rear
lot line.
(2) Coverage. Main and accessory buildings shall not cover more than forty (40) per
cent of the total lot area.
(3) Height restrictions. No building shall exceed two and one-half (21/2) stories or
thirty-five (35) feet in height, except as provided in Chapter III, section 4.
(4) Lot size. No lot shall be less than one acre in size or less than one hundred fifty
(150) feet in width.
(5) Minimum living area. The minimum living area for all dwelling units in the A-I
zoning district shall be one thousand (1,000) square feet.
1.5 Parking and loading. Minimum parking and loading requirements are
established in Chapter III, section 9.
1.6 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
10.
Section 2. A-2 Suburban District.
2.1 General description. This district is intended to provide a location for the land
situated on the fringe of the urban area that is used for agricultural purposes, but will
be undergoing urbanization in the near future. Many tracts in this district will be in
close proximity to residential and commercial uses. Therefore, the agricultural
activities conducted in this district should not be detrimental to urban land uses. It is
not intended that this district provide a location for a lower standard of residential,
commercial or industrial development than is authorized in other districts. The types of
uses, required area and intensity of use of land which is permitted in this district is
designed to encourage and protect agricultural uses so long as the land therein is
devoted primarily to agriculture.
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2.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in an A-2 Suburban District shall be
used only for the following purposes:
(1) Single-family dwelling.
(2) Church and attendant educational and recreational facilities.
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(3) Public school or school offering general educational courses the same as
ordinarily given in the public schools and having no rooms regularly used for
housing or sleeping.
(4) Agricultural and citrus crops.
(5) All of the following uses:
Country club and golf course;
Home occupation;
Kennel;
Library;
Park or playground or public recreation area;
Plant nursery.
(6) Private marina, stable, boat dock or other private outdoor recreation activity.
(7) Poultry raising when limited to less than one hundred (100) birds.
(8) Truck farms.
(9) Raising of cows and horses provided the densities shall not exceed one animal
per acre.
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(10) Accessory buildings which are not a part of the main building, including barns,
sheds and other farm buildings, and private garages and accessory buildings
which are a part of the main building.
2.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions by
the board of adjustment in accordance with procedures described in Chapter II, section
3.5:
(1) Cemetery, crematory or mausoleum.
(2) Farm labor housing, provided that total density does not exceed one dwelling
unit per gross acre and that each unit has a minimum living area of six hundred
fifty (650) square feet.
(3) Beauty shop.
(4) Hospital, sanatorium or nursing home.
(5) Riding stable (commercial), when located on a tract of land of not less than ten
(10) acres; provided that no structure, pen or corral housing animals shall be
closer than two hundred (200) feet from any property line, and provided that the
density shall not exceed one animal per acre of lot area.
(6) Temporary roadside stands, as for Chapter IV, section 1.2(3).
(7) Veterinary hospital or kennel.
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(1) Yards. All buildings shall be set back from the street right-of-way lines and lot
lines to comply with the following yard requirements:
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(a) Front yard. All buildings shall be set back from the street right-of-way line
to provide a front yard having not less than thirty-five (35) feet in depth.
(b) Side yard. No building shall be located closer than fifteen (15) feet to a side
lot line.
(c) Rear yard. No building shall be located closer than forty (40) feet to the rear
lot line.
(2) Coverage. Main and accessory buildings shall not cover more than forty (40) per
cent of the total lot area.
(3) Height restrictions. No building shall exceed two and one-half (2%) stories or
thirty-five (35) feet in height, except as provided in Chapter III, section 4.
(4) Lot size. No lot shall be less than one-half acre in area or less than one hundred
twenty-five (125) feet in width.
(5) Living area. Minimum living area for dwelling units in the A-2 Suburban District
shall be one thousand (1,000) square feet.
2.5 Parking and loading. Minimum parking and loading requirements are
established in Chapter III, section 9.
2.6 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
10.
Section 3. R-I-AAA and R-I-AA Single-Family Dwelling Districts.
3.1 General description. The areas included within R-l-AAA and R-I-AA
Single-Family Dwelling Districts are intended to be single-family residential areas
with large lots and low population densities. Certain structures and uses required to
serve educational, religious, utilities and noncommercial recreational needs of such
areas are permitted.
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3.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in an R-I-AAA or R-l-AA Single-Fami-
ly Dwelling District shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Single-family dwelling.
(2) Boathouse and boat dock as accessory uses, providing the roof of said boathouse
does not exceed eight (8) feet above the high water line.
(3) Golf courses with customary attendance clubhouse facilities and accessory
buildings.
(4) Park and recreation area.
(5) Citrus grove.
(6) Accessory buildings which are not a part of a main building, including one
private or accessory building which is a part of a main building, including one
private garage.
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3.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions by
the board of adjustment in accordance with procedures described in Chapter 11, section
3.5:
(1) School, as per section 2.2(3).
(2) Church with attendant educational buildings and recreational facilities.
(3) Boathouse and dock over eight (8) feet, but not over eighteen (18) feet above the
high water line, used for the shelter and storage of boats.
(4) Guest cottage.
(5) Home occupation.
(6) Temporary building of the construction industry which is incidental to the
erection of buildings permitted in this district, and which shall be removed when
construction work is completed.
3.4 General requirements.
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(1) Yards. All buildings shall be set back from the street right-of-way lines to comply
with the following requirements:
(a) Front yard. All buildings shall set back from the street right-of-way to
provide a front yard having not less than thirty (30) feet for R-I-AAA and
twenty-five (25) feet in R-I-AA districts.
(b) Side yard. No building shall be located closer than seven and one-half (7V2)
feet to a side lot line.
(c) Rear yard. No building shall be located closer than thirty-five (35) feet in an
R-I-AAA or thirty (30) feet in an R-I-AA district to the rear lot line.
(2) Coverage. Main and accessory buildings shall not cover more than thirty-five
(35) per cent of the total lot area.
(3) Height restrictions. No building shall exceed two and one-half (2V2) stories or
thirty-five (35) feet in height.
(4) Lot size. Minimum lot size and width shall be as follows:
Lot size
Lot width
R-I-AAA
R-I-AA
10,000 sq. ft.
9,000 sq ft.
85 feet
75 feet
(5) Living area. Minimum living areas for dwelling units in R-I-AAA and R-I-AA
districts shall be sixteen hundred (1,600) square feet and fourteen hundred (1,400)
square feet, respectively.
3.5 Parking and loading. Minimum parking and loading requirements are
established in Chapter III, section 9.
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3.6 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
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Section 4. R-I-A and R-l Single-Family Dwelling District.
4.1 General description. The areas included in R-1-A and R-1 Single-Family
Dwelling Districts are of the same general character as R-1-AAA and R-1-AA, but
with smaller minimum lots and yards, and a corresponding increase in population
density.
4.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in R-1-A and R-1 Single-Family
Dwelling Districts shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Same as for the R-1-AAA and R-1-AA Single-Family Dwelling Districts,
including the customary accessory uses.
4.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions by
the board of adjustment in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter II,
Section 3.5:
(1) Same as for R-1-AAA and R-1-AA Single-Family Dwelling Districts.
4.4 General requirements.
(1) Yards. All buildings shall be set back from the street right-of-way lines and lot
lines to comply with the following yard requirements:
(a) Front yard. All buildings shall set back from the street right-of-way line to
provide a front yard having not less than twenty-five (25) feet in depth.
(b) Side yard. No building shall be located closer than seven and one-half (71/2)
feet to a side lot line.
(c) Rear yard. No building shall be closer than twenty-five (25) feet to a rear lot
line.
(2) Coverage. Main and accessory buildings shall not cover more than forty (40) per
cent of the total lot area.
(3) Height restrictions. No building shall exceed two and one-half (2l/2) stories or
thirty-five (35) feet in height.
(4) Lot size. Minimum lot size and width shall be as follows:
Lot size
Lot width
70 feet
70 feet
R-1-A
R-1
8,000 sq. ft.
7,000 sq. ft.
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(5) Living area. Minimum living area for dwelling units in the R-1-A and R-1
Single-Family Dwelling Districts shall be twelve hundred (1,200) square feet and
one thousand (1,000) square feet, respectively.
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4.5 Parking and loading. Minimum parking and loading requirements are
established in Chapter III, section 9.
4.6 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
10.
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Section 5. R-2 One- and Two-Family Dwelling District.
5.1 General description. This district is composed of certain limited areas where it is
desirable, because of an established trend, to recognize a more intensive form of
residential use than in the single-family districts. Provision is made for the erection of
duplex dwelling structures.
5.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in an R-2 One- and Two-Family
Dwelling District shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Same as for the R-1-A and R-1 Single-Family Dwelling District, including
customary accessory uses.
(2) Two-family dwelling unit.
(3) One-family garage apartment, provided the principal building IS a one-family
dwelling unit.
(4) Home occupation.
(5) Child care and day nurseries.
5.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions by
the board of adjustment in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter II,
section 3.5:
(1) Same as for R-1-A and R-1 Single-Family Dwelling District.
5.4 General requirements.
(1) Yards. All buildings shall be set back from the street right-of-way lines and lot
lines to comply with the following yard requirements:
(a) Front yard. All buildings shall set back from the street right-of-way line to
provide a front yard having not less than twenty-five (25) feet in depth.
(b) Side yard. No building shall be located closer than six (6) feet to a side lot
line.
(c) Rear yard. No building shall be closer than twenty-five (25) feet to a rear lot
line.
(2) Coverage. Main and accessory buildings shall not cover more than forty (40) per
cent of the total lot area when occupied by a single-family dwelling unit, or more
than fifty-five (55) per cent when occupied by a duplex or single-family unit and
garage apartment.
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(3) Height restrictions. No building shall exceed two and one-half (2V2) stories or
thirty-five (35) feet in height.
(4) Lot size. Minimum lot size and width shall be as follows:
Lot size
Lot width
Single-family unit 7,000 sq. ft. 70 feet
Duplex or single-family unit or
garage apartment 7,500 sq. ft. 75 feet
(5) Living area. The minimum living area for a single-family dwelling unit in an
R-2 One- and Two-Family Dwelling District shall be one thousand (1,000) feet
per unit, and the minimum living area for a duplex shall be six hundred fifty
(650) square feet per unit, provided that a garage apartment unit may have a
minimum living area of four hundred (400) square feet.
5.5 Parking and loading. Minimum parking and loading requirements are
established in Chapter III, section 9.
5.6 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
10.
Section 6. R-3 Multiple-Family Dwelling District.
6.1 General description. The area included in the R-3 Multiple-Family Dwelling
District are residential in character with residential uses at high population densities.
Due to higher than average concentrations of persons and vehicles, these districts are
situated where they are well serviced by public and commercial services and have
convenient access to thoroughfares and collector streets.
6.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in an R-3 Multiple-Family Dwelling
District shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Same as for the R-2 One- and Two-Family Dwelling District.
(2) Multiple-family dwellings, including apartments and garden apartments.
(3) Boarding and lodging houses.
(4) Guest and tourist houses.
6.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions by
the board of adjustment in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter II,
section 3.5:
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(1) Same as for R-2 One- and Two-Family Dwelling District.
(2) Noncommercial cultural centers, social service centers, community centers.
(3) Nursing homes and convalescent homes.
6.4 General requirements. General requirements for the R-3 Multiple-Family
Dwelling District shall be as stipulated in Table I (hereinbelow provided).
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6.5 Other requirements. Where a lot line within an R-3 Multiple-Family Dwelling
District abuts a side or rear lot line in any single-family or two-family residential
district, such R-3 Multiple-Family Dwelling District shall be screened from said
residential lot line. Such screen shall be in the form of walls, fences or landscaping,
shall be at least six (6) feet in height, and shall be at least fifty (50) per cent opaque as
viewed from any point along said residential lot line. When landscaping is used for
screening, the height and opacity requirements shall be attained within eighteen (18)
months.
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6.6 Parking and' loading. Minimum parking and loading requirements are
established in Chapter III, section 9.
6.7 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
10.
6.8 Site plan. Each application for a building permit in an R-3 Multiple-Family
Dwelling District shall be accompanied with a site plan incorporating the regulations
established in Chapter III, section 12.
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Section GA. P-S Professional Offices and Services District.
6A.l General description. The provisions of this district are intended to apply to an
area adjacent to major streets and convenient and complementary to major
commercial uses. The types of uses permitted and other restrictions are intended to
provide an amenable environment for the development of commercial and industrial
facilities.
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6A.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in a P-S Professional Offices and
Services District shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Professional offices and services and studies such as medical, dental, legal,
engineering, real estate, insurance, technical, management consultant.
(2) Business services such as secretarial services, drafting reproduction services.
(3) Book and stationery stores, business supply retail stores.
(4) Medical and dental clinics and laboratories.
(5) Financial institutions.
(6) Pharmacy, apothecary and optical services.
6A.3 Special exceptions. The following uses shall be permitted as special exceptions
by the board of adustment in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter II,
section 3.5:
(1) Uses in keeping with the intent of the district.
(2) Technical schools not of an industrial nature.
(3) Sewer lift stations.
6A.4 General requirements. General requirements for the P-S Professional Offices
and Services District are as stipulated below:
(1) Lot size. Minimum lot size and width shall be ten thousand (10,000) square feet.
(2) Lot width. Minimum lot width shall be one hundred (100) feet.
(3) Yards. All buildings shall be set back from the street right-of-way lines and lot
lines to comply with the following yard requirements:
(a) Front yard. All buildings shall be set back from the street right-of-way line
to provide a front yard having not less than twenty-five (25) feet.
(b) Side yard. No building shall be located closer than ten (10) feet to a side lot
line.
(c) Rear yard. No building shall be closer than twenty-five (25) feet to a rear lot
line.
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6A.5 Other requirements. Driveways, streets and facilities for routing traffic shall be
designed in such a manner that no entrances and exits and shall direct traffic into
adjacent residential districts.
Where a lot line within a P -S Professional Offices and Services District abuts a side
or rear lot line in any residential district, such P -S Professional Offices and Services
District shall be screened from said residential lot line. Such screen shall be in the form
of walls, fences or landscaping, shall be at least six (6) feet in height, and shall be at
least fifty (50) per cent opaque as viewed from any point along said residential lot line.
When landscaping is used for screening, the height and opacity requirements shall be
attained within eighteen (18) months.
6A.6 Parking and loading. Minimum parking and loading requirements are
established in Chapter III, section 9.
6A. 7 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
10.
6A.8 Site plan. Each application for a building permit in a P-S Professional Offices
and Services District shall be accompanied by a site plan incorporating the regulations
established in Chapter III, section 12.
Section 7. R-T-l Mobile Home Subdivision District.
7.1 General description. This district is composed of certain lands where it is
desirable to attain a low to medium density residential area consisting of mobile homes
on single lots under individual ownership.
7.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in an R-T-l Mobile Home Subdivision
District shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Mobile homes and their customary accessory uses.
(2) Boathouses and docks as accessory uses providing the roof of said boathouse
does not exceed eight (8) feet above the high water line.
(3) Same as for R-l Single-Family Dwelling District, including customary accessory
uses.
7.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions by
the board of adjustment in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter II,
section 3.5:
(1) Same as for R-l Single-Family Dwelling District, including customary accessory
uses.
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7.4 Requirements. Each application for rezoning shall be accompanied by a site
plan.
Each R-T-l district shall contain a minimum of ten (10) acres in area. Lot size shall
be the same as those established for the R-l Single-Family Dwelling Districts.
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Setbacks shall be seven and one-half (71/2) feet from each side property line, and twenty
(20) feet from front and rear property line.
Deed covenants shall be developed to insure the maintenance and upkeep of areas
and facilities retained in common ownership in order to provide a safe, healthful and
attractive living environment within the mobile home subdivision and to prevent the
occurrence of blight and deterioration of the individual units.
7.5 Required improvements. Required improvements shall be provided in accordance
with the provisions of the City of Ocoee Subdivision Regulations.
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Section 8. C-l Neighborhood Shopping District.
8.1 General description. This commercial district is for the conduct ofretail trade and
personal service enterprises to meet the regular needs and for the convenience of the
people of adjacent residential areas. Because these shops and stores may be an
integral part of the neighborhood, closely associated with residential, religious,
recreational and educational uses, more restrictive requirements for light, air and open
space are made than are provided in other commercial districts.
8.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in a C-l Neighborhood Shopping District
shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Any use permitted in a P-S Professional Offices and Service District.
(2) Shopping centers containing retail stores and shops listed under (3).
(3) Retail stores and shops and personal service establishments which do not exceed
fourteen thousand (14,000) square feet of gross floor area and which supply the
regular and customary needs of the residents of the neighborhood and which are
primarily for their convenience, as follows:
Antique shop
Artists' materials, supply studio
Baby shop
Bakery, the products of which are sold only at retail on the premises
Bank
Barbershop
Beauty shop
Book or stationery store
Camera shop
Candy store
Clothing apparel store
Convenience grocery store
Curio or gift shop
Drugstore or fountain
Drygoods store
Dairy products or ice cream store
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Delicatessen
Dress shop
Florist shop, greenhouse, nursery
Governmental buildings
Hardware store
Jewelry or notion store
Lodge hall
Meat market
Medical facility
Musical instrument sales
Newspaper or magazine sales
Office business
Optometrist sales and service
Photographer studio
Pharmacy
Radio and television sales and service
Restaurant-Not to include drive-in
Self-service laundry or dry cleaning
Sewing machine sales, instruction
Sporting goods sales
Shoe repair shop
Tailor shop
Toy store
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above uses.
A building used for any of the above enumerated uses may not have more than
forty (40) per cent of its floor area devoted to purposes incidental to the primary
use. No material or goods offered for sale or stored in connection with the uses
enumerated in (1) through (3) above shall be displayed or stored outside of a
building.
8.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions by
the board of adjustment in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter II,
section 3.5:
(4)
(5)
(1) Theater, except drive-in theater.
(2) One single-family dwelling which is accessory and attached to the principal
building.
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(3) Other uses which are similar to the uses permitted herein which would promote
the intent and purposes of this district.
8.4 General requirements.
(1) Yards. The yard requirements for dwellings shall be the same as the
requirements of the R-2 One- and Two-Family Dwelling District. The following
requirements shall apply to all other uses permitted in this district:
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(a) Front yard. All buildings shall set back from the street right-of-way line to
provide a front yard having not less than twenty-five (25) feet in depth.
(b) Side yard. No side yard setback shall be required except adjacent to an
intersecting street. There shall be a side yard setback from an intersecting
street of not less than twenty-five (25) feet.
(c) Rear yard. There shall be provided an alley, service court, rear yard or
combination thereof, of not less than thirty (30) feet.
(d) Buffer yard. When a commercial district adjoins a residentially zoned parcel,
a buffer yard of fifteen (15) feet shall be provided in addition to the required
setback. No drives or parking will be permitted in buffer yards. Buffer yards
shall contain appropriate landscaping or fencing to screen the view from
residential structures.
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(2) Height restrictions. No building shall exceed two and one-half (21/2) stories or
thirty-five (35) feet in height.
8.5 Other requirements. Driveways, streets and facilities for routing traffic shall be
designed in such a manner that entrances and exits to public streets shall not be
hazardous, and that traffic congestion is minimized. Furthermore, no entrances or exits
shall direct traffic into adjacent residential districts.
Where a lot line within a C-l Neighborhood Shopping District abuts a side or rear
lot line in any residential district, such C-l Neighborhood Shopping District shall be
screened from said residential lot line. Such screen may be in the form of walls, fences
or landscaping, shall be at least six (6) feet in height, and shall be at least fifty (50) per
cent opaque as viewed from any point along said residential lot line. When landscaping
is used for screening, the height and opacity requirements shall be attained within
eighteen (18) months.
8.6 Parking and loading. Minimum parking and loading requirements are
established in Chapter III, section 9.
8.7 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
10.
8.8 Site plan. Each application for a building permit in a C-l Neighborhood
Shopping District shall be accompanied by a site plan incorporating the regulations
established in Chapter III, section 12.
Section 9. C-2 Community Commercial District.
9.1 General description. This commercial district is intended for the conduct of
personal and business services and the general retail business of the community.
Persons living in the community and in the surrounding trade territory require direct
and frequent access. Traffic generated by the uses will be primarily passenger vehicles
and only those trucks and commercial vehicles required for stocking and delivery of
retail goods.
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9.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in a C-2 Community Commercial District
shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Any use permitted in a C-l Neighborhood Commercial District.
(2) New automobile sales and services, new machinery sales and service and public
garages, provided no gasoline is stored above ground, used automobile and
machinery sales and service, and automobile and machinery repairing if
conducted in conjunction with a retail agency and wholly within a completely
enclosed building, but not including automobile or machinery wrecking
establishments or junkyards.
(3) Ambulance service, office or garage
Appliance store
Art school, gallery or museum
Automobile retail gasoline service station
Automobile parking lot
Bait sales
Bar, lounge or tavern (except private clubs as defined herein) having on-premise
consumption of alcoholic beverages not located within one thousand (1,000)
feet of any existing church. The distance shall be measured along the
nearest public right-of-way connecting the two (2) uses
Bath house
Bus terminal
Cleaning plant
Commercial school or hall
Dance hall
Department store
Drive-in restaurant when the boundaries of the tract of land are no less than two
hundred (200) feet from any residence
Feed and seed store
Frozen food locker
Furniture store
Furniture repair and upholstery
Funeral parlor or mortuary
Grocery store or supermarket
Golf course, miniature or practice range
Heating, ventilating or plumbing supplies, sales and services
Health bath or spa
Hospital and nursing home
Interior decorating store
Key shop
Laboratories, testing and experimental
Leather goods shop
Liquor store, no on-premise consumption
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Music, radio or television shop
Nursery or garden supply store
Pawnshop
Pet shop
Printing plant
Private club
Recreation center
Research laboratories
Roller skating rink
Stock and bond broker
Storage warehouse
Theater, except drive-in theater
Variety store
(4) Buildings, structures and uses accessory and customarily incidental to any of the
above uses, provided that there shall be no manufacture, processing or
compounding of products other than such as are customarily incidental and
essential to retail establishments.
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No article or material stored or offered for sale in connection with uses permitted
under paragraphs (1) through (4) above shall be stored or displayed outside of a
building unless it is so screened by permanent ornamental walls, fences or planting
that it cannot be seen from adjoining streets or lots when viewed by a person standing
on ground level; provided, however, that no screening in excess of six (6) feet in height
shall be required.
9.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions by
the board of adjustment in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter II,
section 3.5:
(1) Any special exception listed in the C-l district.
(2) Service station.
(3) Child care and day nursery facilities.
(4) Other uses which are similar to the uses permitted herein which would promote
the intent and purposes of this district. Determination shall be made by
authority and directive of the board of adjustment.
9.4 General requirements.
(1) Yards. The area regulations for dwellings shall be the same as requirements of
the R-2 One- and Two-Family Residential District. The following requirements
shall apply to all other uses permitted in this district:
(a) Front and side yards. There are no specific front or side yard requirements
for uses other than dwellings.
(b) Rear yard. There shall be provided an alley, service court, rear yard or
combination thereof, of not less than twenty (20) feet in width.
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(c) Buffer yard. When a C-2 Commercial District adjoins a residentially zoned
parcel, a buffer yard of twenty (20) feet shall be provided in addition to the
required setback. No drives or parking will be permitted in buffer yards.
Buffer yards shall contain appropriate landscaping or fencing to screen the
view from residential structures.
(2) Height restrictions. No building shall exceed four (4) stories or forty-five (45) feet
in height except as provided in Chapter III, section 4.
9.5 Other requirements. Driveways, streets and facilities for routing traffic shall be
designed in such a manner that entrances and exits to public streets shall not be
hazardous and that traffic congestion is minimized. Furthermore, no entrances or
exists shall direct traffic into adjacent residential districts.
9.6 Parking and loading. Mininum parking and loading requirements are established
in Chapter III, section 9.
9.7 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
10.
9.8 Site plan. Each application for a building permit in a C-2 Community
Commercial District shall be accompanied with a site plan incorporating the
regulations established in Chapter III, section 13.
Section 10. C-3 General Commercial District.
10.1 General description. This district is composed of certain land and structures
used to provide for the retailing of commodities and the furnishing of several major
services, selected trade shops and automotive repairs. Characteristically, this type of
district occupies an area larger than that of other commercial districts, is intended to
serve a considerably greater population and offers a wider range of services.
10.2 Uses permitted. [Property and buildings in a C-3 General Commercial District
shall be used only for the following purposes:]
(1) Any use permitted in the C-l Neighborhood Shopping District and the C-2
Community Commercial District.
(2) Amusements and recreational facilities such as, but not limited to, amusement
parks, shooting galleries, miniature golf courses, golf driving ranges, baseball
batting ranges and trampoline centers.
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(3) Automobile laundry.
(4) Automobile repair shop and mechanical garage.
(5) Heating and air conditioning sales and services.
(6) Printing, bookbinding, lithography and publishing plants.
(7) Radio broadcasting and telecasting stations, studios and offices.
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(8) Sign painting shop.
(9) Veterinary hospitals and kennels, when confined within structure.
(10) Washing and packaging of fruit when accessory to retail fruit sales on the
premises.
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(11) The following uses shall be permitted in the C-3 district provided that they
comply with the additional provisions of this subsection:
Boat sales and service
Farm implement and machinery, new and used, sales
Metal and wood fencing, ornamental grillwork and decorative wrought Iron
work and play equipment sales
Mobile home and travel trailer sales
Monument sales
New and used automobile sales
Prefabricated house sales
Trailers for hauling, rental and sales
The uses enumerated in subsection (11) above shall comply with the following
provisions:
(a) All open storage and display of merchandise, material and equipment shall
be screened. Such screen may be in the form of walls, fences or landscaping,
shall be at least six (6) feet in height, and shall be at least fifty (50) per cent
opaque as viewed from any point along said residential lot line. When
landscaping is used for screening, the height and opacity requirements shall
be attained within eighteen (18) months after established.
(b) All yards unoccupied with buildings or merchandise or used as traffic ways
shall be landscaped with grass and shrubs and maintained in good condition
the year round.
(c) All driveways used for vehicle ingress and egress shall be paved with a
sealed surface pavement and maintained in such a manner that no dust will
be produced by continued use.
(d) Buildings, structures and uses accessory and customarily incidental to any
of the above uses [shall be allowed]; provided that there shall be no
manufacture, processing or compounding of products other than such as are
customarily incidental and essential to retail establishments.
10.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions
by the board of adjustment in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter II,
section 3.5:
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(1) Any special exception listed in the C-2 district.
(2) Carnival-type amusements, when located more than five hundred (500) feet from
any residential district.
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(3) Drive-in theater subject to the following conditions:
(a) No part of any theater screen, projection booth or other building shall be
located closer than five hundred (500) feet to any residential district or closer
than fifty (50) feet to any property line or public right-of-way.
(b) The theater screen shall not face a major street or highway.
(c) Reservoir parking space off the street shall be provided for patrons awaiting
admission in an amount not less than thirty (30) per cent of the vehicular
capacitJ'i' of the theater.
(4) Overnight trailer park.
(5) Other uses which are similar to the uses permitted herein, which would promote
the intent and purposes of this district.
10.4 General requirements.
(1) Yards. A lot shall be of such size and dimensions as shall be necessary to
properly accommodate the intended use or structure in accordance with all
applicable regulations of this ordinance and other state and local ordinances.
(a) Front and side yards. There are no specific front or side yard requirements
for uses other than dwellings.
(b) Rear yard. There shall be provided an alley, service court, rear yard or
combination thereof of not less than twenty (20) feet in width.
(c) Buffer yards. When a C-3 General Commercial District adjoins a
residentially zoned parcel, a buffer yard of twenty (20) feet shall be provided
in addition to the required setback. No drives or parking will be permitted in
buffer yards. Buffer yards shall contain appropriate landscaping or fencing
to screen the view from residential structures.
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(2) Coverage. No requirements for lot coverage are prescribed, provided that all
applicable provisions of this ordinance are complied with.
(3) Height restrictions. No building shall exceed forty-five (45) feet in height except
as provided in Chapter III, section 4.
10.5 Other requirements. Driveways, streets and facilities for routing traffic shall be
designed in such a manner that entrances and exits to public streets shall not be
hazardous and that traffic congestion is minimized. Furthermore, no entrances or exits
shall direct traffic into adjacent residential districts.
10.6 Parking and loading. Minimum parking and loading requirements are
established in Chapter III, section 9.
10.7 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
10.
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10.8 Site plan. Each application for a building permit in a C-3 zoning district shall
be accompanied with a site plan incorporating the regulations established in Chapter
III, section 12.
Section 11. 1-1 Restricted Manufacturing and Warehousing District.
11.1 General. This district is intended primarily for manufacturing and assembly
plants and warehousing that are conducted so the noise, odor, dust and glare of each
operation is completely confined within an enclosed building. These industries may
require direct access to rail, air or street transportation facilities; however, the size and
volume of the raw materials and finished products involved should not produce the
volume of freight generated by the uses of the general industrial districts. Buildings in
this district should be architecturally attractive and surrounded by landscaped yards.
11.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in an 1-1 Restricted Manufacturing and
Warehousing District shall be:
(1) Any use permitted in a C-3 General Commercial District.
(2) Any of the following uses:
Bakery
Bottling works
Book bindery
Building products manufacturing
Candy manufacturing
Ceramics manufacturing
Clothing manufacturing
Cold storage and frozen food locker
Data processing services
Engraving plant
Electrical equipment assembly
Electronic equipment assembly and manufacture
Food products processing and packing
Furniture manufacturing
Garment manufacturing
Instrument and meter manufacturing
Jewelry and watch manufacturing
Kennels
Laundry and cleaning establishment
Leather goods fabrication
Optical goods manufacturing
Paper products manufacturing
Pharmaceutical products manufacturing
Private utility plant
Radio and television studios and offices
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(3)
Recreation facilities provided by an employer for the exclusive use of employees,
their families and guests
Restaurants
Shoe manufacturing
Manufacture of novelties and souvenirs
Machinery sales and shop
Manufacture of scientific, electrical, electronic, optical and precision instruments
or equipment
Meat and produce distribution
Sporting goods manufacturing
Storage and wholesale distribution warehouse
Wholesale or warehousing enterprise
Trade shops
Testing of materials, equipment and products
Veterinary hospitals
All uses permitted under this section shall have their primary op~rations
conducted entirely within enclosed buildings and shall not emit any dust or
smoke or noxious odor or fumes outside of the building housing the operation, or
produce a noise level at the property line that is greater than the average noise
level occurring on the adjacent street. All uses shall comply with the performance
standards contained in Appendix 1 [to this Appendix A].
(4) Sales of products that are warehoused or manufactured on-site.
(5) No dwelling use, except sleeping facilities required by caretakers or night
watchmen employed on the premises, shall be permitted in this zoning district.
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11.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions
by the board of adjustment in accordance with procedures described in Chapter II,
section 3.5:
(1) Other uses which are of a similar nature to the uses permitted herein, which
would promote the intent and purposes of this district.
(2) In cases where adequate fire access is provided or is judged to not be needed, the
board of adjustment may permit a ten-foot side yard setback on both sides of a
parcel.
11.4 General requirements.
(1) Yards. All buildings shall be set back from the street right-of-way lines and lot
lines to comply with the following yard requirements:
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(a) Front yards. All buildings shall set back from the street right-of-way line to
provide a front yard having not less than thirty-five (35) feet in depth.
(b) Side yards. No building or open storage shall be located closer than ten (10)
feet to one side lot line and twenty (20) feet to the other side lot line unless a
special exception is granted by the board of adjustment.
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(c) Rear yards. No building shall be located closer than ten (10) feet to a rear lot
line except where a building abuts a railroad. Where a building abuts a
railroad, the rear yard may be reduced to zero.
(2) Coverage. Main and accessory buildings, outdoor storage, and off-street parking
and loading facilities shall not cover more than eighty (80) per cent of the lot
area.
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(3) Buffer yard. A buffer yard of not less than fifty (50) feet in width shall be
provided along each 1-1 district boundary which abuts a residential district or
arterial street as described in the Ocoee General Plan. Such buffer yard shall be
in lieu of front, side or rear yards. The twenty-five (25) feet of such yard nearest
the district boundary line shall not be used for any processing activity, building
or structure other than walls, and shall be improved and maintained as a
landscaped planting strip. The remaining twenty-five (25) feet of said buffer yard
shall not be used for processing activities, buildings or structures other than
off-street parking lots for passenger vehicles, fences or walls.
(4) Maintenance. All yard areas required under this section and other yards and
open spaces existing around buildings shall be landscaped and maintained in a
neat condition.
(5) Height regulations. No building or structure shall exceed forty-five (45) feet in
height.
11.5 Parking and loading. Minimum parking and loading requirements are
established in Chapter III, section 9.
11.6 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
10.
11.7 Performance standards. Each use, activity or operation within the 1-1 Restricted
Industrial District shall comply with performance standards as established in
Appendix 1 [of this Appendix A).
11.8 Other requirements. Other requirements are as follows:
Driveways, streets and facilities for routing traffic shall be designed in such a
manner that entrances and exits to public streets are not hazardous and that traffic
congestion is minimized. Furthermore, no entrances or exits shall direct traffic into
adjacent residential districts.
There shall be no open storage of equipment, materials or commodities within any
1-1 Restricted Manufacturing and Warehousing District.
The parking of commercial vehicles such as trucks, cargo trailers and tractors may
be permitted on hard-surfaced lots provided such lots shall not be located in any
required buffer yard or within the front fifty (50) per cent of any required front yard.
Furthermore, such commercial vehicles, when located on a lot abutting a residential
district, shall be screened from said residential district. Such screen may be in the form
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of walls, fences or landscaping, shall be at least six (6) feet in height, and shall be at
least fifty (50) per cent opaque as viewed from any point along the residential district
boundary. When landscaping is used for screening, the height and opacity
requirements shall be attained within eighteen (18) months after commercial parking
lots are established.
The parking of passenger vehicles shall be permitted in any required yard except the
front fifty (50) per cent of required front yards and portions of the buffer yards as
otherwise established in this section.
Any portion of an improved lot or parcel not contained within a building or within
paved parking and loading areas, aisles, drives or walkways shall be landscaped with
turf, shrubs, trees or other plantings.
11.9 Site plan. Each application for a building permit in an 1-1 zoning district shall
be accompanied with a site plan incorporating the regulations established in Chapter
III, section 12.
Section 12. 1-2 General Industrial District.
12.1 General. This district is primarily intended for wholesale, storage, warehousing,
manufacturing, assembling and fabrication. These uses do not depend primarily on
frequent personal visits of customers or clients, but usually require good accessibility to
major rail, air or street transportation facilities.
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12.2 Uses permitted. Property and buildings in an 1-2 General Industrial District
shall be used for the following purposes:
Uses allowed in the 1-1 district
Battery manufacturing and storage
Boat manufacturing
Building material sales yard and lumber yard, including the sale of rock, sand,
gravel and the like as an incidental part of the main business, but not including
a concrete batch plant or transit mix
Bus, cab, truck repair, storage and terminals
Chemical products manufacturing and processing
Contractor's equipment storage yard or plant, or rental of equipment commonly used
by contractors
Dairy products manufacturing
Electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing
Glass and glass products manufacturing
Living quarters for guards, custodians and caretakers when such facilities are
accessory uses to the primary occupancy of the premises
Mechanical garage, including automobile paint and body shop
Public utility service yard or electrical receiving or transforming station
Machine shop
Manufacturing of metal, plastic or cardboard containers
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Motor vehicle assembly
Paint or varnish manufacturing
Photographic equipment and supplies manufacturing and processing
Technical and trade school for persons eighteen (18) years old or older
Textile manufacturing
Tire manufacturing
Truck terminals or stops
Buildings, structures and uses accessory and customarily incidental to any of the
above uses.
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12.3 Special exceptions. The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions
by the board of adjustment in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter II,
section 3.5:
(1) Mobile home or recreational vehicles as quarters for night watchmen.
(2) The manufacturing, compounding, assembling or treatment of such products
as cosmetics, perfumed toil~t soap and toiletries.
(3) The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles or
merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, cellophane,
canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fibre, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper,
plastics, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, shell, textiles, tobacco, wood,
yarn and paint not employing a boiling process.
Other uses which are similar to the uses permitted herein which would promote
the intent and purposes of this district. Determination shall be made by
authority and directive of the board of adjustment.
12.4 General requirements. Each 1-2 General Industrial District shall have access to
an arterial street as described in the Ocoee General Plan. Each district shall contain a
minimum land area of fifteen (15) acres.
(1) Yards. All buildings shall be set back from the street right-of-way lines and lot
lines to comply with the following yard requirements:
(a) Front yard. All buildings shall set back from the street right-of-way line to
provide a front yard having not less than thirty-five (35) feet in depth.
(b) Side yard. No building or open space shall be located closer than ten (10) feet
to one side lot line and twenty (20) feet to the other side lot line unless a
special exception is granted by the board of adjustment.
(c) Rear yard. No building shall be located closer than ten (10) feet to a rear lot
line except where a building abuts a railroad. Where a building abuts a
railroad the rear yard may be reduced to zero.
(d) In cases where adequate fire access is provided, or is judged to not be
needed, the board of adjustment may permit a ten-foot side yard setback on
both sides of a parcel.
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(2) Coverage. Main and accessory buildings, off-street parking, outdoor storage and
loading facilities shall not cover more than eighty (80) per cent of the lot area.
(3) Buffer. A buffer yard of not less than fifty (50) feet in width shall be provided
along each 1-2 district boundary which abuts a residential district or arterial
street as described in the Ocoee General Plan. Such buffer yard shall be in lieu of
front, side or rear yards. The twenty-five (25) feet of such yard nearest the
district boundary line shall not be used for any processing activity, building or
structure other than fences or walls, and shall be improved and maintained as a
landscaped planting strip. The remaining twenty-five (25) feet of said buffer yard
shall not be used for processing activities, buildings or structures other than
off-street parking lots for passenger vehicles, fences or walls.
(4) Maintenance. All yard areas required under this section and other yards and
open spaces existing around buildings shall be landscpaed and maintained in a
neat condition.
(5) Height regulations. No building or structure shall exceed forty-five (45) feet in
height.
12.5 Parking and 'loading. Minimum parking and loading requirements are
established in Chapter III, section 9.
12.6 Signs. Minimum requirements for signs are established in Chapter III, section
10.
12.7 Performance standards. Each use, activity or operation within the 1-2 General
Industrial District shall comply with performance standards as established in
Appendix 1.
12.8 Other requirements. Other requirements are as follows:
Driveways, streets and facilities for routing traffic shall be designed in such a
manner that entrances and exits to public streets are not hazardous and that traffic
congestion is minimized. Furthermore, no entrances or exits shall direct traffic into
adjacent residential districts.
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The open storage of equipment, materials or commodities may be permitted provided
such storage shall not be located within any required front or buffer yard; shall be
screened from all public streets and, when located on a lot adjacent to a residential
district, shall be screened from said residential district. Such screens may be in the
form of walls, fences or landscaping, shall be at least six (6) feet in height, and shall be
at least fifty (50) per cent opaque as viewed from any point along the public street,
right-of-way or the residential district boundary. When landscaping is used for
screening, the height and opacity requirements shall be attained within eighteen (18)
months.
The parking of commercial vehicles such as trucks, cargo trailers and tractors may
be permitted on hard-surfaced lots, provided such lots shall not be located in any
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required buffer yard or within the front fifty (50) per cent of any required front yard.
Furthermore, such commercial vehicles, when located on a lot abutting a residential
district, shall be screened from said residential district. Such screen may be in the form
of walls, fences or landscaping, shall be at least six (6) feet in height, and shall be at
least fifty (50) per cent opaque as viewed from any point along the residential district
boundary. When landscaping is used for screening, the height and opacity
requirements shall be attained within eighteen (18) months after established.
The parking of passenger vehicles shall be permitted in any required yard except the
front fifty (50) per cent of required front yards and portions of the buffer yards as
otherwise established in this section.
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Any portion of an improved lot or parcel not contained within a building or within
paved parking and loading areas, aisles, drives or walkways shall be landscaped with
turf, shrubs, trees or other plantings.
12.9 Site plan. Each application for a building permit in an 1-2 zoning district shall
be accompanied with a site plan incorporating the regulations established in Chapter
III, section 12.
Section 13. PUD Planned Development District.
13.1 Intent and purpose. It is the purpose of this section to permit planned
developments which are intended to encourage the development of land as planned
communities; encourage flexible and creative concepts of site planning; preserve the
natural amenities of the land by encouraging scenic and functional open areas;
accomplish a more desirable environment than would be possible through the strict
application of the minimum requirements of conventional zoning districts; provide for
an efficient use of land resulting in smaller networks of utilities and streets and
thereby lowering development and housing costs; provide a stable environmental
character compatible with surrounding areas; and provide the City of Ocoee with
adequate development controls to assure the proposed development meets these stated
objectives.
13.2 Permitted uses. The uses permitted within this district shall include the
following:
(1) Residential units including single-family attached and detached dwellings and
all forms of multifamily housing.
(2) Churches, schools, community or club buildings and similar public and
semipublic facilities.
(3) Nonresidential uses, including commercial or retail uses, offices, clinics and
professional uses, provided the following criteria are met:
(a) The location of nonresidential uses is in appropriate relation to other land
uses both within the planned development and adjacent thereto.
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(b) The proposed nonresidential uses are designed to serve primarily the
residential use within the planned development.
(c) The nonresidential uses do not utilize more than five (5) per cent of the gross
acreage of the development.
(d) No nonresidential use shall be built or established prior to beginning
construction of the residential buildings or uses it is intended to serve.
13.3 Definitions. In addition to the definitions contained in the zoning regulations
definitions Chapter VI, the following terms, phrases, words and derivations shall have
the following meanings:
(1) Common open space: An area of land or an area of water, or a combination of
land and water, within a planned development which is intended for the use of
residents of the planned development. Common open space may contain such
structures and improvements as are appropriate.
(2) Density: The total number of dwelling units divided by the gross acreage of the
planned development.
(3) Final master plan: The specific plan for the planned development which shall
include such information as required by this section.
(4) Preliminary master plan: The specific plan for the planned development which
shall include such information as required by this section.
(5) Site plan: An illustration of the details of development of areas which are not
platted into single-family residential lots.
(6) Gross acreage: The total number of acres within the perimeter boundaries of a
planned development.
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(7) Living area: The interior living area exclusive of porches, carports or patios.
13.4 Planned development approval procedure. Approval for a planned development
is obtained through a two-step process. The first step is an approval of the preliminary
master plan and zoning of the land. The second step consists of final master plan
approval along with the approval of the developer's commitment agreement.
Prior to formally submitting a request for planned development zoning, the developer
is encouraged to meet with city officials for comments regarding the advisability of
undertaking a planned development in the proposed location. Notices of public
hearings in connection with planned development shall include a description of the
type of intended development.
13.5 Planned development zoning and preliminary master plan approval. The
applicant shall submit a request for change of zoning and a preliminary master plan
containing the following exhibits:
(1) A vicinity map showing the location of the planned development, relationship to
surrounding streets and thoroughfares, existing land use on the site and
surrounding areas within five hundred (500) feet.
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(2) A legal description of the property.
(3) A topographic survey including flood-prone delineations. The U.S.G.S. Topogra-
phic Survey and U.S.G.8. Flood-Prone Mapping may be utilized.
(4) A soils survey which may be based on the Orange County Soils Survey.
(5) A master plan with topography which clearly identifies proposed land uses, open
space, and the proposed location of major streets, recreation areas and other
major facilities.
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(6) A diagram illustrating the phasing of development together with a development
schedule.
(7) A table showing acreage for each category of land use including roads, open
space and recreation, and a table of proposed densities for each residential
parcel.
(8) A statement on how sanitary sewers, storm drainage, potable water supply and
water supplies for fire protection will be supplied, including a definitive
statement regarding the disposal of sewage effluent and storm water drainage.
(9) A statement indicating what legal instruments will be created providing for the
management of common areas and facilities.
(10) A statement with general information regarding provisions for fire protection.
(11) An analysis of the impact of the proposed project on roads, schools, utilities and
other public facilities.
(12) Identification of the present ownership and the developers of all land included in
the development and the consultants involved in plan preparation.
The planning and zoning commission and the city commission shall review the
exhibits presented and consider rezoning in the same manner that any rezoning
request is processed except that when zoning is tied to annexation, it shall be the
responsibility of the city commission alone to consider and approve the annexation and
zoning when simultaneous approvals are requested. After rezoning, the right to develop
shall be contingent upon compliance with all procedures defined in this section. The
city commission may, as deemed appropriate, impose additional restrictions not herein
mentioned to protect the public interest.
13.6 Final master plan approval. The applicant shall submit, within twelve (12)
months from the date of preliminary master plan approval, a final master plan
covering all land areas of the approved preliminary master plan. Failure to present the
final master plan within the required time period may, at the direction of the city
commission, result in a review to determine the appropriateness of the existing zoning
classification and preliminary master plan.
The final master plan shall include the following exhibits:
(1) A boundary survey of the property.
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(2) A topographic map drawn to an appropriate scale by a registered surveyor
and/or engineer showing:
(a) The location of existing right-of-way lines and pavement widths, buildings,
watercourses, transmission lines, sewers, bridges, culverts, drain pipes, water
mains, fire hydrants and any public utility easements.
(b) Physical conditions of the site.
(c) Existing contours shown at a contour interval of one foot.
(3) A master land use plan drawn at a scale of one hundred (100) feet to one inch, or
other appropriate scale, showing:
(a) Proposed major streets and other vehicular and pedestrian circulation
systems.
(b) Specific delineation of each residential use by type, including location,
acreage, density, number of units and a parcel designation.
(c) The use, size and location of each proposed nonresidential land use area.
(d) Specific delineation, use, location, and size of each common open space and
public or semipublic area.
(4) A phasing plan indicating the number of units and acreage in each phase,
together with a chart indicating open space and recreation facilities to be
provided with the development of each phase.
(5) A development plan including:
(a) An earth-moving concept plan indicating proposed terrain alterations and
any proposed alternative in any flood-prone areas.
(b) A soils map and report. Depth of any muck and peat areas shall be
identified.
(6) A transportation plan including:
(a) The layout of roads in the project, along with all traffic controls,
right-of-way, and typical cross-sections.
(b) The layout of bikeways and pedestrian ways with typical cross-sections.
(c) An analysis of the area traffic impact.
(d) A detail of high traffic flow areas, such as entrance ways.
(e) An indication if any private streets are to be included, and a program to
maintain any private streets.
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(7) A utility service plan including:
(a) Location, size, and specific delineation of sewage treatment plants and/or
water plants.
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(b) Existing drainage and sewer lines.
(c) The disposition of sanitary waste and storm water to include ultimate
discharge or disposal.
(d) The source of potable water.
(e) Location and width of all major utility easements or rights-of-way.
(f) In some cases, it may be necessary to show plans for the special disposition
of storm water when it appears that said drainage could substantially harm
a body of surface water.
(8) A fire protection plan including:
(a) Water main size, type of pipe material, hydrant spacing, water plant
pumping and storage capacities, minimum daily consumption (calculated),
fire flow estimates.
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(b) A statement of adequacy of fire protection service.
(9) A landscaping plan showing:
(a) Landscaped areas including plantings, berms, fences and buffers.
(b) Location, height and material for walks, fences, walkways and other
man-made landscape features.
(10) A recreation concept plan including the location of major facilities by type and
areas by use. A timetable for construction by development phase shall also be
provided.
(11) A description of the street lighting system and method of financing same.
(12) A description of the structure, organization and financing of a home owners'
association if one is to be provided.
(13) The substance of covenants, grants, easements, dedications or other restrictions
to be imposed on the use of the land, buildings and structures, including
proposed easements for public and private utilities.
(14) A completed developer's commitment agreement signed by the developer.
(15) A written justification of any changes from the approved preliminary master
plan.
The city commission shall review the final master plan at a regularly scheduled
public meeting. If two (2) or more parcels are proposed to be created, the property shall
be platted under the subdivision regulations. Review of the preliminary plat submission
as required under the subdivision regulation may be carried out simultaneous with, or
subsequent to, review of the preliminary or final master plan. The city commission
may approve, subject to additional restrictions, or require additional submittals prior to
approval. The city commission shall not approve any final master plan until all
required information has been submitted and is found to be satisfactory.
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13.7 Plat or site plan approval for each phase. After approval of the final master
plan, or working portions thereof, the developer must submit either a preliminary or
final plat or must submit a site plan for all areas where structures or roads are to be
constructed. After review and final approval of either the final plat or final site plan,
the developer may request building permits for the approved phase. Final plats or final
site plans may be submitted for only the phase, phases or portion of a phase that will
be developed immediately. The developer, at his option, may submit a preliminary plat
or preliminary site plan for a portion of the project or the entire project. This
additional submission shall meet all subdivision regulations and site plan requirements
except for approved changes contained in the developer's commitment agreement. The
site plan submitted shall conform to the requirements of Chapter III, section 12 of this
ordinance and shall be submitted to the city commission for approval.
13.8 Revision of final master plan. Any major or substantial change which affects the
intent and character of the development, land use pattern or similar substantial
changes must be approved by the city commission.
If the requested changes are deemed to have a substantial effect on adjacent property
owners, residents of the PD, or the general public, the city commission shall cause a
public hearing to be held prior to official action. A request for a revision of the final
master plan shall be supported by a written statement demonstrating the reasons the
revisions are necessary or desirable. Minor changes which do not affect the intent or
character of the development or do not increase density may be approved by the city
administrator.
13.9 Deviation from the final master plan. Any unapproved deviation from the
accepted final master plan may cause the city commission to immediately revoke the
final master plan approval and stop the issuance of building permits within the project
until such time as the deviations are corrected or revisions are approved by the city
commission.
13.10 Municipal review. If the city shall determine that technical assistance is
needed to fully review the proposed PD prior to approval, the developer shall, upon
request by the city, deposit a sum of money the city deems necessary to pay for the
cost of said technical assistance.
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13.11 Development standards for planned development. Standards for the design,
subdivision and improvement within planned developments shall be the same as those
specified by the subdivision regulations, land use plan, zoning ordinance and other
appropriate land development regulations unless the city specifically authorizes less
restrictive standards as reflected in the developer's commitment agreement.
The development standards for planned developments are as follows:
(1) Relation to zoning districts. An approved PD shall be consided to be a separate
zoning district in which the final master plan, as approved, establishes the
restrictions, regulations and district description according to which the
development shall occur. Upon approval of PD zoning, the official zoning map
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will be changed to indicate the area as PD, and the preliminary master plan,
phasing schedule and developer's commitment agreement, as approved by the
city commission, shall be filed with the city clerk and a copy given to the
building official.
(2) Density. The density based on gross acreage in each PD development shall be
established by the city commission and shall be incorporated in the preliminary
and final master plan approvals.
(3) Dimensional, bulk and height restrictions. The location of all proposed building
sites as shown on the final plat or site plan shall be subject to the minimum lot
sizes, setback lines, lot coverage or floor area specified in the developer's
commitment agreement and shall be shown on the final master plan as approved
by the city commission. No buildings shall exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height.
(4) Open space. At least twenty-five (25) per cent of the area covered by a final
master plan shall be usable open space and recreation areas dedicated to a home
owners' association or similar group or the city, subject to its acceptance.
(5) Minimum living area. The minimum living area permitted in any planned
development shall be six hundred (600) square feet.
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CHAPTER V. RESERVED
CHAPTER VI. DEFINITIONS
Section 1. Interpretations of words and terms.
For the purpose of this ordinance certain terms and words are to be used and
interpreted as defined hereinbelow. Words used in the present tense shall include the
future tense; 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.
(1) Accessory use: A use customarily incidental, appropriate and subordinate to the
principal use of land or buildings and located upon the same lot therewith.
(2) Advertising sign: See Signs.
(3) Agriculture: The use of land for agricultural purposes, including farming,
dairying, pasturage, apiculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, animal and
poultry husbandry and the necessary accessory uses for packing, treating or storing
the produce; provided, however, that the operation of any such accessory uses shall be
secondary to that of the normal agricultural activities.
(4) Alley: A minor right-of-way, dedicated to public use, which affords a secondary
means of vehicular access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting a street,
and which may be used for public utility purposes.
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(5) Apartment house: See Dwelling.
(6) Automobile or automotive vehicle: A self-propelled mechanical vehicle designed
for use on streets and highways for the conveyance of goods and people, including but
not limited to the following: Passenger cars, trucks, buses, motor scooters and
motorcycles, but not including construction equipment or machinery.
(7) Billboard: See Signs.
(8) Boarding house: A building where lodging only is provided for compensation to
three (3) or more persons, but not exceeding twenty (20) persons. A building which has
accommodations for more than twenty (20) persons shall be defined as a hotel under
the terms of this ordinance.
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(9) Building: Any structure intended for shelter, housing or enclosure for persons,
animals or chattel. When separated by dividing walls without openings, each portion
of such structure so separated shall be deemed a separate building.
(10) Building, accessory: A subordinate building or a portion of the main building
located on the same lot as the main building, the use of which is incidental to that of
the dominant use of the building or premises.
(11) Building, principal: A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot
on which it is situated. In a residential district, any dwelling shall be deemed the
principal building on the lot on which the same is situated. An attached carport, shed
or garage, or any other structure with one or more walls or a part of the principal
building and structurally dependent, totally or in part, on the principal building, shall
be deemed a part of the principal building, but a detached and structurally
independent carport, garage or other structure shall be deemed an accessory building.
(12) Building height: The vertical distance from the average line of the highest and
lowest points of that portion of the lot covered by the building to the highest point of
coping of a flat roof, or the deckline of a mansard roof or to the average height of the
highest gable of a pitch or hip roof.
(13) Building line: A line establishing the minimum allowable distance between the
nearest portion of any building, excluding the outermost of any uncovered porches,
steps, gutters and similar fixtures, and the center line of any street when measured
perpendicularly thereto.
(14) Camping trailer: See Recreational Vehicles.
(15) Carport: A private garage not completely enclosed by walls and doors.
(16) Car wash: A building or portion thereof containing facilities for washing
automobiles using production line methods or providing space for the complete or
partial hand-washing of automobiles, whether by operator or by customer.
(17) Change of occupancy: A discontinuance of an existing use and the substitution
thereof of a use of a different land or class. This term does not include a change of
tenants or proprietors unless accompanied by a change in type of use.
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(18) Child care center: Any place, home or institution which receives three (3) or more
children under the age of sixteen (16) years, and not of common parentage, for care
apart from their natural parents, legal guardians custodians, when received for regular
periods of time for compensation; provided, however, this definition shall not include
public and private schools organized, operated or approved under the laws of this
state, custody of children fixed by a court of competent jurisdicition, children related by
blood or marriage within the third degree to the custodial person, or to churches or
other religious or public institutions caring for children within the institutional
building.
(19) Church: For the purpose of limiting the proximity of establishments with
on-premise consumption of alcoholic beverages, a church shall be defined as follows: A
structure whose primary purpose is for religious worship, which has at least weekly
scheduled services and has a congregation of at least fifty (50) members.
(20) City commission: City commission of the City of Ocoee.
(21) Club, night: A restaurant, dining room, bar or other similar establishment
providing food or refreshments wherein paid floor shows or other forms of paid
entertainment are provided for customers as a part of the commercial enterprise.
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(22) Club, private: Any lodge or club, as defined in Florida Statutes Section 561.20(7),
which includes:
(a) Subordinate lodges or clubs of national fraternal or benevolent associations;
(b) Golf clubs and tennis clubs municipally owned or leased;
(c) Nonprofit corporations or clubs devoted to promoting community, municipal or
county development or any phase of community;
(d) Clubs fostering and promoting the general welfare and prosperity of members of
showmen and amusement enterprises;
(e) Clubs assisting, promoting and developing subordinate lodges or clubs of
national fraternal or benevolent associations; and
(f) Clubs promoting, developing and maintaining cultural relations of people of the
same nationality.
(23) Cocktail lounge: A room having a bar and tables set up at all times and used for
serving alcoholic beverages and/or food.
(24) Coverage: The lot area covered by all buildings located thereon, including the
area covered by all overhanging roofs.
(25) District: Any section or sections of the City of Ocoee for which the regulations
governing the use of land and the use, density, bulk, height and coverage of buildings
and other structures are uniform for each class or kind of building therein.
(26) Dormitory: A building containing sleeping accommodations for the use of
students or instructors enrolled in or employed by a sponsoring education institution.
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(27) Dwelling: Any building or portion thereof which is designed or used as living
quarters for one or more families, but not including mobile homes or recreational
vehicles as defined herein.
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(28) Dwelling, one-family: A detached dwelling designed to be occupied by one
family.
(29) Dwelling, two-family: A detached dwelling designed to be occupied by two (2)
families living independently of each other.
(30) Dwelling, multiple-family: A detached dwelling designed to be occupied by three
(3) or more families living independently of each other, exclusive of hotels or motels.
(31) Dwelling, attached: A dwelling which is joined to another dwelling at one or
more sides by a party wall or walls.
(32) Dwelling, detached: A dwelling which is entirely surrounded by open space on
the same lot.
(33) Dwelling unit: A dwelling unit consists of one or more rooms which are
arranged, designed or used as living quarters for one family only. Individual
bathrooms and complete kitchen facilities, permanently installed, shall always be
included for each dwelling unit.
(34) Emission: The act of passing into the atmosphere an air contaminant or gas
stream which contains or may contain a contaminant or the material so passed into
the atmosphere.
(35) Essential services: The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance, by
public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies of underground or
overhead gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distribution systems,
collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, mains,
drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and
other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith reasonably necessary
for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal or other
governmental agencies or for the public health or safety or general welfare, but not
including buildings.
(36) Family: One or more persons occupying a single dwelling unit provided that
unless all members are related by law, blood or marriage, no such family shall contain
over five (5) persons, but further provided that domestic servants employed on the
premises may be housed on the premises without being counted as a separate or
additional family or families.
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(37) Filling station: See Service Station.
(38) Frontage: See Lot Frontage.
(39) Garage apartment: A dwelling unit for one family erected above a private
garage.
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(40) Garage, private: A detached accessory building or a portion of the principal
building used or intended for use by the occupants of the premises or their guests for
the storage of self-propelled passenger vehicles or trailers.
(41) Garage, public or mechanical: A building or portion thereof, other than a private
or storage garage, designed or used for the sale, storage, servicing, repairing, equipping
and hiring of motor-driven vehicles. Body work and painting shall be conducted within
fully enclosed buildings. Self-propelled vehicles not in safe operating condition shall be
stored in fully enclosed buildings.
(42) Garage, storage: A building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively for
the storage or parking of automobiles. Services, other than storage at such storage
garage, shall be limited to refueling, lubrication, washing, waxing and polishing.
(43) Gasoline station: See Service Station.
(44) General plan: The general plan duly adopted by the City of Ocoee.
(45) Gross density: The total number of dwelling units on a lot divided by the gross
site area less all permanent water bodies.
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(46) Reserved.
(47) Guest cottage: Living quarters within a detached accessory building located on
the same lot or parcel of land as the principal building, to be used exclusively for
housing members of the family occupying the principal building and their nonpaying
guests; such quarters shall have no kitchen facilities and shall not be rented or
otherwise used as a separate dwelling.
(48) Home occupation: An occupation conducted entirely in a dwelling unit, provided
that:
(a) No person other than members of the family residing on the premises shall be
engaged in such occupation;
(b) The use of the dwelling unit for the home occupation shall be clearly incidental
and subordinate to its use for residential purposes by its occupants, and shall
under no circumstances change the residential character thereof;
(c) There shall be no change in the outside appearance of the building or premises,
or other visible evidence of the conduct of such home occupation other than one
sign, not exceeding one square foot in area, nonilluminated, mounted flat against
the wall of the principal building at a position not more than two (2) feet
distance from the main entrance to the residence;
(d) No home occupation shall be conducted in any accessory building;
(e) No home occupation shall occupy more than twenty (20) per cent of the first floor
area of the residence, exclusive of the area of any open porch or attached garage
or similar space not suited or intended for occupancy as living quarters. No
rooms which have been constructed as an addition to the residence, nor any
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attached porch or garage which has been converted into living quarters, shall be
considered as floor area until two (2) years after the date of completion thereof,
as shown by the records in the city building department;
(f) No traffic shall be generated by such home occupation in greater volumes than
would normally be expected in a residential neighborhood, and any need for
parking generated by the conduct of such home occupation shall be met off the
street and other than in required front yard;
(g) No equipment or process shall be used in such home occupation which creates
noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical interference detectable to the
normal senses off the lot, if the occupation is conducted in a single-family
residence, or outside the dwelling unit if conducted in other than a single-family
residence. In the case of electrical interference, no equipment or process shall be
used which creates visual or audible interference in any radio or television
receivers off the premises, or causes fluctuations in line voltage off the premises;
(h) The following shall not be considered home occupations: Beauty shops,
barbershops, band instrument or dance instructor, swimming instructor, art
studio for group instruction, public dining facility or tearoom, antique or gift
shops, photographic studio, fortune-telling, outdoor repair, food processing, sale
of antiques, retail sales, nursery school or kindergarten. The giving of group
instruction shall not be deemed a home occupation;
(i) The giving of individual instruction to one person, such as an art or piano
teacher, shall be deemed a home occupation, provided, however, that the
provisions of subparagrpah (h) above shall apply to prohibiting individual
instruction as a home occupation for those activities listed in subparagraph (h)
above;
U) Fabrication of articles such as are commonly classified under the terms "arts
and handicrafts" may be deemed a home occupation, subject to the other terms
and conditions of this definition;
(k) A home occupation shall be subject to all applicable city occupational license and
other business taxes.
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(49) Hotel: A building or part thereof in which sleeping accommodations are offered
to the public, with no cooking facilities for use by the occupants, and in which there
may be a public dining room for the convenience of the guests. Access to the sleeping
rooms shall be through an inside lobby or office.
(50) Industrial park: A special or exclusive type of planned industrial area designed
and equipped to accommodate a community of industries, providing them with all
necessary facilities and services in attractive surroundings among compatible
neighbors. Industrial parks may be promoted or sponsored by private developers,
community organizations or government organizations.
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(51) Junkyard: An open area where waste, used or secondhand materials are bought,
sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including, but not
limited to, scrap iron and other metals, cloths, paper, rags, plumbing fixtures, rubber
tires and bottles. A junkyard includes an automobile wrecking yard.
(52) Kennel: Any lot or premises on which are kept four (4) or more dogs, more than
six (6) months of age.
(53) Laundry or dry cleaning, self-service: Any attended or unattended place,
building or portion thereof, available to the general public for the purpose of washing,
drying, extracting mositure from or dry cleaning wearing apparel, cloths, fabrics and
textiles of any kind by means of a mechanical appliance which is operated primiarily
by the customer.
(54) Living area: A space within the confines of the walls of the structure which is
completely enclosed by impervious materials such as masonry, plastic, wood or glass,
and is habitable the year round. Garages are excluded.
(55) Loading space: An off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building or
contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle
while loading or unloading merchandise or materials, and which abuts upon a street,
alley or other appropriate means of access.
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(56) Lodging house: See Boarding House.
(57) Lot: Any plot of land occupied or intended to be occupied by one main building
or a group of main buildings, and accessory buildings and uses, including such open
spaces as are required by these regulations and other laws or ordinances, and having
its principal frontage on a street.
(58) Lot area: The total area measured on a horizontal plane, included within lot
lines.
(59) Lot coverage: Lot coverage shall be expressed as the percentage of lot covered by
any type of structure divided by the gross lot area.
(60) Lot depth: The average horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.
(61) Lot frontage: The length of all the property fronting on one side of a street
between the two (2) nearest intersecting streets, measured along the line of the street,
or if dead ended, then all of the property abutting on one side between an intersecting
street and the dead-end of the street.
(62) Lot lines: The property lines bounding a lot.
(a) Front: That property line which abuts on a public street or, in the event the
property abuts on two (2) or more streets, it shall mean that property line
abutting on a street which has been so designated by the owner at the time of his
application for a building permit.
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(b) Side: Any property line not a front lot line or a rear lot line. A side lot line
separating a lot from a street is an exterior side lot line. A side lot line
separating a lot from another lot or lots is an interior side lot line.
(c) Rear: That boundary of a lot which is most distant from and is, or IS most
nearly, parallel to the front lot line.
(63) Lot of record: A lot whose existence, location and dimensions have legally been
recorded or registered in a deed or on a plat.
(64) Lot types: The diagram which follows illustrates terminology used in this
ordinance with reference to corner lots, interior lots, reversed frontage lots and through
lots.
In the diagram:
A = corner lot, defined as a lot located at the intersection of two (2) or more streets. A
lot abutting on a curved street or streets shall be considered a corner lot if straight
lines drawn from the foremost points of the side lot lines to the foremost point of the
lot meet at an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees. See lots
marked N in the diagram.
B = interior lot, defined as a lot other than a corner lot with only one frontage on a
street.
C = through lot, defined as a lot other than a corner lot with frontage on more than
one street. Through lots abutting two (2) streets may be referred to as double frontage
lots.
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D = reversed frontage lot, defined as a lot on which the frontage is at right angles or
approximately right angles (interior angle less than one hundred thirty-five (135)
degrees) to the general pattern in the area. A reversed frontage lot may also be a
corner lot (A-D in the diagram), an interior lot (B-D) or a through lot (C-D).
(65) Lot width: The average horizontal distance between the side lot lines.
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(66) Medical facilities:
(a) Convalescent, rest or nursing home: A health facility where persons are housed
and furnished with meals and continuing nursing care for compensation.
(b) Dental clinic or medical clinic: A facility for the examination and treatment of ill
and afflicted human out-patients, provided that patients are not kept overnight
except under emergency conditions.
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(c) Dental office or doctor's office: Same as dental or medical clinic, including
osteopath, oculist, optometrist or chiropractor.
(d) Hospital: An institution providing health services primarily for human
in-patient medical or surgical care for the sick or injured, and including related
facilities such as laboratories, out-patient departments, training facilities,
central services facilities and staff offices which are an integral part of the
facilities.
(e) Public health center: A facility primarily utilized by a health unit for providing
public health services including related facilities such as laboratories, clinics and
administrative offices operated in connection therewith.
(f) Sanatorium: An institution providing health facilities for in-patient medical
treatment or treatment and recuperation making use of natural therapeutic
agents.
(67) Mobile home: See Trailer Coach.
(68) Mobile home park: Mobile home park shall mean any site or tract of land, of
contiguous ownership, upon which mobile home spaces are provided for mobile home
occupancy according to the requirements set forth in this ordinance for a charge.
(69) Mobile home space: Mobile home space shall mean a plot of land within a
mobile home park designed for the accommodation of one mobile home in accordance
with the requirements set forth in this ordinance.
(70) Mobile home subdivision: A subdivision of land recorded in the office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Orange County, designed solely for the parking of mobile
homes, the lots of which are sold for individual ownership, and which provides
dedicated streets, sewers, drainage, parks and other public use areas and facilities.
(71) Motel, motor court, motor hotel, motor lodge: A group of attached or detached
buildings containing individual sleeping units, with automobile storage or parking
space provided in connection therewith, designed for use primarily by automobile
transients.
(72) Nonconforming building or structure: A nonconforming building or structure is
any building or structure which:
(a) Does not comply with all of the regulations of this ordinance or of any
amendment hereto governing bulk or yards for the zoning district in which such
building or structure is located; or
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(b) Is designed or intended for a nonconforming use.
(73) Nonconforming use: A nonconforming use is any use of land, buildings or
structures, lawful at the time of the enactment of this ordinance, which does not
comply with all of the regulations of this ordinance or of any amendment hereto
governing use for the zoning district in which such use is located.
(74) Noxious matter: Material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms
by chemical reaction.
(75) Octave band filter: An electrical frequency analyzer designed according to
standards formulated by the American Standards Association and used in conjunction
with a sound level meter to take measurements in specific octave intervals.
(76) Parking lot, off-street: An area or plot of ground used for the storage or parking
of motor vehicles either for compensation or to provide an accessory service to a
business, industrial or residential use.
(77) Parking space: The storage space for one automobile of not less than nine (9)
feet by twenty (20) feet; plus the necessary access space not located in a dedicated
right-of-way.
(78) Particulate matter: Material which is suspended in or discharged into the
atmosphere in a finely divided form either as a liquid or a solid.
(79) Perceived noise level: A method of measuring complex sounds designated in the
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, No. 31, pages 1415-1429, 1959.
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(80) Performance standard: A criteria established to control such matters as, but not
limited to, noise, odor, smoke, toxic or noxious matter, vibration, fire and explosive
hazards, and glare and heat generated by or inherent in uses of land or buildings.
(81) Planning and zoning commission: The Planning and Zoning Commission of the
City of Ocoee.
(82) Porch: A roofed-over space, with the roof impervious to weather, attached to the
outside of an exterior wall of a building, which has no enclosure other than the exterior
walls of such building. Open mesh screening shall not be considered an enclosure.
(83) Restaurants: An establishment where meals or prepared food, including
beverages and confections, are served to customers. Restaurants are hereby classified
and further defined into three (3) categories:
(a) Type A-I restaurants, conventional: Consisting of seats, tables, booths, or
counter stools, with aU service indoor!,!, and providing no service to persons in
vehicles or at walk-up windows.
(b) Type A-2 restaurants, short-order: Specializing in short-order foods and
beverages, including the preparation of food to be taken out and consumed off
the premises. Establishments dispensing food from service windows for
consumption either on the premises or off the premises are classified as type
A-2.
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(c) Type A-3 restaurants, drive-ins: Any restaurant serving food and/or beverages
to persons in their automobiles for consumption on the premises. This type
restaurant may also include service features of both Type A-I and Type A-2
restaurants as herein defined; however, the service of persons in automobiles on
the premises shall cause any such restaurant to be classified as Type A-3.
(84) Ringelmann Chart: A method of designating smoke density or opacity as
designated in the U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular No. 7718 and subsequent
amendments thereto.
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(85) Rooming house: See Boarding House.
(86) Service station: Buildings and premises where gasoline, oil, grease, batteries,
tires and automobile accessories may be supplied and dispensed at retail, and where in
addition the following services may be rendered and sales made, and no other:
(a) Sale and servicing of spark plugs, batteries and distributors and distributor
parts;
(b) Tire servicing and repair, but not recapping or regrooving;
(c) Replacement of mufflers and tail pipes, water hoses, fan belts, brake fluid, light
bulbs, fuses, floor mats, seat covers, windshield wipers and wiper blades, grease
retainers, wheel bearings, mirrors and the like;
(d) Radiator cleaning and flushing;
(e) Washing and polishing, and sale of automotive washing and polishing
materials;
(f) Greasing and lubricating;
(g) Providing and repairing fuel pumps, oil pumps and lines;
(h) Minor servicing and repair of carburetors;
(i) Emergency wiring repairs;
U) Adjusting and repairing brakes;
(k) Minor motor adjustments not involving removal of the head or crankcase or
racing the motor;
(1) Sales of cold drinks, packaged foods, tobacco and similar convenience goods for
service station customers, as accessory and incidental to principal operation;
(m) Provision of road maps and other informational material to customers; provision
of restroom facilities;
(n) Rental of automobiles or luggage trailers.
Uses permissible at a service station do not include major mechanical and body
work, straightening of body parts, painting, welding, storage of automobiles not in
operating condition, or other work involving undue noise, glare, fumes, smoke or other
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characteristics to an extent greater than normally found in service stations. A service
station is not a repair garage nor a body shop.
(87) Setback: The minimum horizontal distance between the center line of the street
and the point where the yard requirements begin.
(88) Shopping center: A group of commercial establishments, planned, developed,
owned and managed as a unit, with off-street parking provided on the property, and
related in its location, size and type of shops to the trade area which the unit serves.
(89) Sign: Any structure or part thereof or device attached thereto or represented
thereon, which shall display or include any letter, words, model, banner, flag, pennant,
insignia or representation used as, or which is in the nature of an announcement,
direction or advertisement. The word sign includes the word billboard or any other type
of advertising device, but does not include the flag, pennant or insignia of any nation,
state, city or other political unit. Types of signs are defined in the following categories:
(a) Business sign: A sign which directs attention to the business or profession
conducted on the premises. A "for sale", "to let" or "information" sign shall be
deemed a business sign.
(b) Advertising signs: A sign which directs attention to a business commodity,
service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered elsewhere than on the
premises and only incidentally on the premises if at all.
(c) Billboards: A type of advertising sign having more than one hundred (100)
square feet of display surface which is either erected on the ground or attached to
or supported by a building or structure.
(d) Ground sign: A sign supported by a pole, uprights or braces on the ground.
(e) Pole sign or banjo sign: A type of ground sign at least ten (10) feet above the
ground supported on a single post or pole most commonly associated with
gasoline service stations.
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(f) Projecting sign: A sign attached to a building or other structure and extending
beyond the line of the building or structure or beyond the surface of that portion
of the building or structure to which it is attached.
(g) Wall or flat sign: Any sign erected parallel to the face or on the outside wall of
any building which projects out at any angle therefrom and projects more than
twelve (12) inches beyond the face of such wall.
(h) Roof sign: A detached sign supported upon the roof or wall of a building.
(i) Marquee sign: A projecting sign attached to or hung from a marquee, and said
marquee shall be known to mean a canopy or covered structure projecting from
and supported by a building, when such canopy or covered structure extends
beyond the building, building line or property line.
U> Shingle sign: A projection or a wall sign not over six (6) square feet in area, and
projecting not more than two (2) feet over public property.
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(k) Temporary sign: Temporary signs shall include any sign, banner, pennant,
valance or advertising display constructed of wood, metal, cloth, canvas, light
fabric, cardboard, wallboard or other light material, with or without frames,
where either by reason of construction or purpose the sign is intended to be
displayed for a short period of time only.
(1) Trailer sign: A trailer sign shall be considered a temporary sign mounted on a
vehicle normally licensed hy the State of Florida as a trailer and used for
advertising or promotional purposes.
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(90) Special exception: A special exception is a use that would not be appropriate
generally or without restriction throughout the zoning division or district but which, if
controlled as to number, area, location or relation to the neighborhood, would promote
the public health, safety, welfare, morals, order, comfort, convenience, appearance,
prosperity or general welfare. Such uses may be permitted in such zoning division or
district as special exceptions by the board of adjustment if specific provision for such
special exceptions is made in this zoning ordinance.
(91) Standard condition: A condition in which the gas temperature is sixty (60)
degress Fahrenheit and the gas pressure is fourteen and seven-tenths (14.7) pounds per
square inch, dry basis.
(92) Stable, private: A stable with a capacity for not more than two (2) horses or
mules.
(93) Stable, public: A stable, other than a private stable, with a capacity for more
than two (2) horses or mules.
(94) Story: That portion of a building, other than a basement, 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 the floor and the ceiling next above it.
(95) Story, half: A space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection of
roof decking and wall face not more than three (3) feet above the top floor level, and in
which space not more than two-thirds (2/3) of the floor area is finished off for use. A
half story containing independent apartment or living quarters shall be counted as a
full story.
(96) Street: A public or private right-of-way which affords a primary means of
vehicular access to abutting properties.
(97) Street right-of-way line: The property line which bounds the right-of-way set
aside for use as a street.
(98) Street center line: The line midway between the street right-of-way lines or the
surveyed and platted center line of a street which mayor may not be the line midway
between the existing right-of-way lines.
(99) Structural addition: An addition to an existing building which reqUires
additional structural or supporting members.
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(100) Structural alteration: Any change, except for repair or replacement, in the
supporting members of a structure, such as bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams
or girders, or any substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls of a structure.
(101) Structure: Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on the ground
or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground. Among other things,
structures include buildings, mobile homes, walls, fences, billboards and poster panels.
(a) Temporary structure: Any structure to serve a use temporarily such as a field or
sales office or contractor's office for which a use permit may be granted.
(102) Subdivision: A division of a lot, tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots,
plots, plats or parcels of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale,
rent, lease, building or other land use.
(103) Swimming pool: Any constructed pool over twenty-four (24) inches in depth or
with a surface area exceeding two hundred fifty (250) square feet used for swimming or
bathing.
(104) Tourist court: An area containing one or more buildings designed or intended to
be used as temporary sleeping facilities of one or more transient families and intended
primarily for automobile transients.
(105) Tourist home: A dwelling in which sleeping accommodations in not more than
four (4) rooms are provided or offered for transient guests for compensation.
(106) Toxic materials: Materials which are capable of causing injury to living
organisms by chemical means when present in relatively small amounts.
(107) Trailer coach: (Under Ch. 320, Florida Statutes) means any vehicle or
conveyance equipped to travel upon the public highways, not self-propelled, that is
used either temporarily or permanently as a residence, or a home or apartment or other
housing accommodation. The term trailer coach shall include:
(a) Mobile home: A moveable or portable detached single-family dwelling designed
for or capable of being used for long-term occupancy, or a temporary office, or a
temporary storage building, designed to be transported after fabrication on its
own permanent chassis and wheels, arriving at the site substantially complete,
of such size and weight as to require special highway movement permits, and in
excess of eight (8) feet in width and twenty-four (24) feet in length, but does not
exceed twenty-four (24) feet in width and seventy-five (75) feet in length.
(b) Recreational vehicles shall include:
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Travel trailer: A vehicular portable structure built on a chassis, designed and
constructed to provide temporary living quarters for recreation, travel or camping
purposes; of such size and weight not to require special highway movement
permits when drawn by a passenger automobile, but does not exceed eight (8)
feet in width and twenty-four (24) feet in length.
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Camping trailer: A vehicular portable structure mounted on wheels, constructed
with collapsible partial side walls of fabric, plastic or other material for folding
compactly while being drawn by another vehicle, and when unfolded at the site
or location, providing temporary living quarters; and which is designed for
recreation, travel or camping purposes.
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Truck camper: A portable structure, designed to be loaded onto or affixed to the
bed or chassis of a truck, constructed to provide temporary living quarters for
recreation, camping or travel use.
Motor home: A structure built on and made an integral part of a self-propelled
motor vehicle chassis, designed to provide temporary living quarters for
recreation, camping and travel use.
(108) Trailer, hauling: A vehicle to be pulled behind an automobile or truck which is
designed for hauling animals, produce, goods or commodities, including boats.
(109) Truck stop: Buildings and premises designed so as to cater principally to
trucks, where the functions and services rendered by a mechanical garage may be
rendered, but not to include the storage of vehicles for the purpose of using parts of
said vehicles for sale or repair.
(110) Use: The purpose for which land or a structure thereon is designed, arranged or
intended to be occupied or utilized, or for which it is occupied or maintained.
(a) Accessory use: (See Accessory or Auxiliary Use or Building).
(b) Incompatible use: A use or service which is unsuitable for direct association with
certain other uses because it is contradictory, incongruous or discordant.
(c) Permitted use: A use which may be lawfully established in a particular district or
districts, provided it conforms with all requirements, regulations and standards
of such district.
(d) Principal use: The main or primary purpose for which a building, other structure
and/or lot is designed, arranged or intended or for which they may be used,
occupied or maintained under this ordinance. The use of any other building,
other structure and/or land on the same lot and incidental or supplementary
thereto and permitted under this ordinance shall be considered an accessory use.
(e) Transitional use: The use of a building or lot for permitted purposes in an area
adjoining, adjacent or opposite from, but separated by a street or alley, from an
area of a lower classification.
(111) Used car lot: A lot or group of contiguous lots, used for the display and sale of
used automobiles, and where no repair work is done except the necessary washing and
polishing of the cars to be displayed and sold on the premises.
(112) Variance: A relaxation of the terms of the zoning ordinance where such
variance will not be contrary to the public interest and where, owing to the applicant, a
literal enforcement of the ordinance would result in unnecessary and undue hardship.
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As used in this ordinance, a variance is authorized only for height, area and size of
structure or size of yards and open spaces; establishment or expansion of a use
otherwise prohibited shall not be allowed by variance, nor shall a variance be granted
because of the presence of non conformities in the zoning district or uses in an
adjoining zoning district.
(113) Yard: An open space at grade between a building and the adjoining lot lines
(except in cases along arterial or collector streets, in which case a yard is the open
space at grade between a building and the setback line), unoccupied and unobstructed
by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except where otherwise
specifically provided in these regulations that the building or structure may be located
in a portion of a yard required for a main building. In measuring a yard for the
purpose of determining the width of the side yard, the depth of a front yard or the
depth of a rear yard, the shortest horizontal distance between the lot lines and the
main building shall be used, except in cases along arterial and collector streets. In
cases along arterial and collector streets, the measurement shall be the shortest
horizontal distance betwen the main buildings and the set back line.
(a) Front yard: A yard located in front of the front elevation of a building and
extending across a lot between the side yard lines and being the minimum
horizontal distance between the front property line and the outside wall of the
main building.
(b) Rear yard: A yard extending across the rear of a lot measured between the lot
lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and
the rear of the outside wall of the main building. On both corner lots and interior
lots the rear yard shall in all cases be at the opposite end of the lot from the
front yard.
(c) Side yard: A yard between the building and the side line of the lot and extending
from the front lot line to the rear lot line and being the minimum horizontal
distance between a side lot line and the outside wall of the side of the main
building.
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APPENDIX 1 TO APPENDIX A
APPENDIX 1. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Section 1. Intent.
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The purpose of this appendix is to establish standards of performance for
commercial and industrial activities; to protect residential districts from certain
adverse effects of commercial and industrial activities; and to promote a safe and
healthful environment in and near commercial and industrial districts.
Section 2. Smoke and particulate matter.
(1) No operation or use in any commercial or industrial district shall discharge into
the atmosphere from any single source any air contaminant which is:
(a) Equal to or greater than the density designated as Number One on the
Ringelmann Chart. Measurement shall be made at the point of emission;
(b) Of such opacity as to obscure an observer's view to a degree equal to or greater
than the standard described in (1) above, except that when the presence of
uncombined water is the only reason for failure to comply, the standards
prescribed above shall not apply;
(c) However, when a fire box, boiler or combustion device is cleaned or a fire is being
started therein, air contaminants, the density of which is equal to Number One
on the Ringelmann Chart, may be permitted for a period not to exceed a total of
four (4) minutes in anyone-hour period.
(2) No operation or use in the commercial or industrial districts shall discharge into
the atmosphere any air contaminants in excess of a concentration of 0.10 grams per
cubic foot per hour at standard conditions. Measurement shall be made at the point of
emission.
(3) Within any commercial or industrial district, all activities, including on-site
transportation movements, paint spraying, grain handling, sand blasting, incineration
and salvage operations, shall be conducted in such a manner that air contaminants in
excess of a concentration of one hundred (100) micrograms per cubic meter, standard
conditions, will not be transported across the property line of the lot on which such
activity is located.
Section 3. Odor.
(1) No use or operation shall be located or operated in any commercial or industrial
district which involves the emission of odorous matter which exceeds the odor
threshold at the bounding property line or at any point beyond the tract on which the
use or operation is located.
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(2) The odor threshold as herein set forth shall be determined by observation by the
enforcing officer. In any case, where uncertainty may arise, or where the operator or
owner of an odor-producing use may disagree with the enforcing officer, or where
specific measurement of odor concentrating is required, the method and procedure,
specified by the American Society for Testing Materials 1391-57 entitled: "Standard
Method for Measuring Odor in Atmospheres" shall be used, and a copy of such
publication is hereby incorporated in this ordinance by reference.
Section 4. Vibration.
No operation or use in any of the commercial or industrial districts shall, at any
time, create earthborne vibrations which when measured at the bounding property line
of the source of operation exceed the limits set forth in the following table:
MAXIMUM PERMITTED VIBRATION
Frequency in Cycles
per Second:
Acceleration G's
Single Amplitude:
1
2 to 5
5 to 10
10 to 20
20 to 50
Over 50
.00062
.00084
.00055
.0014
.004
.0092
Vibration shall be measured by normal vibration analysis equipment with associated
transducer mounted vertically on two-inch pipe driven into the ground at least three
(3) feet.
Section 5. Noise.
(1) At no point on the bounding property line of any use shall the perceived noise
level exceed seventy (70) decibels.
(2) These regulations shall not apply to aircraft while in flight or while involved in
normal landing, take-off or taxiing operations. Such regulations shall, however, apply
to the testing of aircraft when not involved in normal landing, take-off or taxiing
operations.
(3) The maximum perceived noise level limits at the bounding property line of any
use may be subject to the corrections listed in the following table:
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CORRECTION FACTORS FOR MAXIMUM PERCEIVED NOISE LEVEL LIMITS
Type of Operation or Character of Noise:
Daytime operation only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Correction in
PNdb:
+ 5
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Noise source operates less than 20% of anyone-hour period. . . . . . . .
Noise source operates less than 5% of anyone-hour period
+ 5*
+ 10*
Noise source operates less than 1 % of anyone-hour period
+ 15*
Noise of impulse character (such as hammering) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Noise of periodic character (such as humming). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5
5
*Note: Only one of these correction factors may be applied to a single site.
(4) The sound pressure level shall be measured with a sound level meter with octave
band analyzer conforming to standards prescribed by the American Standards
Association as set forth in a pamphlet published by the association, entitled:
"Amercian Standard Sound Level Meters for Measurement of Noise and Other Sounds,
No. Z 24.3," published in 1944, and another pamphlet published by the same
association, entitled: "American Standard Specification for an Octave Band Filter Set
for the Analysis of Noise and Other Sounds, No. Z 24.10," published in 1953.
Section 6. Glare and heat.
Each use and activity within any district shall be so designed and operated as to
prevent the emission of glare and heat of such intensity as to be readily perceptible at
any point on the lot line of the property on which the use or activity is located.
Section 7. Industrial sewage and waste.
Every use and activity within any commercial district or industrial districts shall be
so designed and operated as to prevent the discharge into any stream, lake and ground
or public sewer system, any waste which will be dangerous to persons or animals or
which will damage plants or crops beyond the lot line of the property on which the use
or activity is located.
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CODE INDEX
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This pamphlet index is set up to conform to the index in
the Code of Ordinances for future amendatory purposes.
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ZONING (Appendix A) Section
(Note-Roman numbers designate chapter numbers of the
zoning appendix. Arabic numbers following are
section numbers of the corresponding zoning chapter.
A-I general agricultural district Chap.lSec.
Generally ..................................... IV 1.1
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. IV 1.5
Requirements generally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. IV 1.4
Signs ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. IV 1.6
Special exceptions ............................. IV 1.3
Uses permitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. IV 1.2
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ZONING (Appendix A)-Cont'd.
A-2 suburban district
General description ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
General requirements ..........................
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs .........................................
Special exceptions .............................
Uses permitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Administrative official. See within this title: Building
Inspector
Amendment and changes
Building official review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II 3.2
City commission action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II 3.5
I~iti~ti~n of proposals for zoning ~mendments. . . . II 3.1
LImItatIOns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II 3.6
Planning and zoning commission study and
recommendation; hearing ................... II 3.3
Report to city commission; time limit; etc.. . . . . . . . II 3.4
Annexed land
Zoning of ..................................... I 5.3
Appeals
Board of adjustment. See within this title that
subject
Board of adjustment
Appeals from city commission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Appeals to board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Establishment and composition .................
Hearings, appeals and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Officers, rules and procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Powers and duties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Terms of office, removal and vacancies. . . . . . . . . . .
Boundaries. See within this title: Official Zoning Map
Building inspector (administrative official)
Appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Correction of violations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Powers and duties .............................
Building official
Review of proposals for zoning amendments . . . . . .
C-l neighborhood shopping district
General description .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
General requirements ..........................
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs .........................................
Site plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Special exceptions .............................
Uses permitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
C-2 community commercial district
General description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
General requirements ..........................
Other requirements .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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IV 2.1
IV 2.4 .
IV 2.5
IV 2.6
IV 2.3
IV 2.2
II 4.7
II 4.6
II 4.1
II 4.4
II 4.3
II 4.5
II 4.2
II 1.1
II 1.3
II 1.2
II 3.2
IV 8.1
IV 8.4
IV 8.6
IV 8.7
IV 8.8
IV 8.3
IV 8.2
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IV 9.1
IV 9.4
IV 9.5
ZONING (Appendix A)-Cont'd. Chap./Sec.
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. IV 9.6
Signs ......................................... IV 9.7
Site plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. IV 9.8
Special exceptions ............................. . IV 9.3
Uses permitted ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. IV 9.2
C-3 general commercial district
General description .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
General requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other requirements ......................,.....
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs .........................................
Site plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Special exceptions .............................
Uses permitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Changes. See within this title: Amendments and
Changes
Commission. See within this title: Planning and
Zoning Commission
Cbmplaints regarding violations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II 7
Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. VI 1
Districts
Application of district regulations ............... III 2
Regulations for specific districts. See within this
title specific districts
Easements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. III 6.3
Fees, schedule of ................................ II 6
Glare and heat
Performance standards, App. 1
Hearings
Public hearings notice. See within this title that
subject
Height. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. III 4
1-1 restricted manufacturing and warehousing dis-
trict
Generally .....................................
Other requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Performance standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Requirements generally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs .......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Site plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Special exceptions ....................,.........
Uses permitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1-2 general industrial district
Generally .....................................
Other requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Performance standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Requirements generally. . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs .........................................
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IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
10.1
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.3
10.2
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
11.1
11.8
11.5
11.7
11.4
11.6
11.9
11.3
11.2
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
12.1
12.8
12.5
12.7
12.4
12.6
ZONING (Appendix A)-Cont'd. Chap./Sec.
Site plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. IV 12.9
Special exceptions ............................. IV 12.3
Uses permitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. IV 12.2
Industrial sewage and waste
Performance standards, App. 1
Location and construction of principal and accessory
structures ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. III 5
Major street setbacks ............................ III 7
Map. See within this title: Official Zoning Map
Mobile homes
Individual mobile homes and recreational vehicles
on individual lots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. III 11
Noise
Performance standards, App. 1
Nonconforming lots, uses of land, structures and
premises and characteristics of uses
Intent ........................................
Nonconforming lots of record ...................
Nonconforming structures .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Nonconforming uses of land ....................
Nonconforming uses of structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Outdoor advertising signs and structures . . . . . . . . .
Repairs and maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Special exceptions not considered nonconforming
uses...................................... .
Odor
Performance standards, App. 1
Official zoning map
Generally .....................................
Replacement ..................................
Rules for interpretation of district boundaries
Off-street automobile and vehicle parking and
loading
Amount of off-street parking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Certificate of minimum parking requirements ....
Intent and application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Joint parking facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Location of off-street parking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Off-street loading requirements .................
Off-street parking lot requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Off-street parking lots in residential districts. . . . .
Permanent reservation .........................
Required open space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Open space .....................................
Parking
Off-street automobile and vehicle parking and
loading. See within this title that subject
Storage and parking of trailers, commercial ve-
hicles and automotive vehicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. III 8
Penalties. See within this title: Violations
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I
I
I
I
I
I
I
5.4(1)
5.4(2)
5.4(4)
5.4(3)
5.4(5)
5.4(8)
5.4(6)
I
5.4(7)
III
III
III
1.1
1.2
1.3
III
III
III
III
III
III
III
III
III
III
III
9.7
9.2
9.1
9.5
9.4
9.9
9.8
9.6
9.10
9.3
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Performance standards, App. 1
Planning and zoning commission
Amendments and changes
Planning and zoning commission study and
recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Established and composition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Functions, powers and duties ...................
Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Removal from office and vacancies ..............
Rules of procedure, quorum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Terms of office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
P -S professional offices and services
General description .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other requirements .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
General requirements ...........................
Signs ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Site plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Special exceptions .............................
Uses permitted ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Provisions
Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Citation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Interpretation and validity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Purpose and intent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Repeal and effective date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Violations. See within this title that subject
Public buildings and services .....................
Public hearings notice
Notice procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Posting on property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PUD planned development district
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Development standards for planned development .
Deviation from final master plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Final master plan approval .....................
Intent and purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Municipal review ..............................
Permitted uses ................................
Planned development approval procedure . . . . . . . .
Planned development zoning and preliminary
master plan approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Plat or site plan approval for each phase . . . . . . . . .
Revision of final master plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
R-I-A and R-l single-family dwelling district
General description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
General requirements ..........................
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs .........................................
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II 3.3
II 2.1
II 2.4
II 2.3
II 2.2
II 2.3
II 2.2
IV 6A.l
IV 6A.5
IV 6A.6
IV 6A.4
IV 6A.7
IV 6A.8
IV 6A.3
IV 6A.2
I 5
I 1
I 4
II 8
I 2
I 3
III 6
II 5.1
II 5.2
IV 13.3
IV 13.11
IV 13.9
IV 13.6
IV 13.1
IV 13.10
IV 13.2
IV 13.4
IV 13.5
IV 13.7
IV 13.8
IV 4.1
IV 4.4
IV 4.5
IV 4.6
ZONING (Appendix A)-Cont'd. Chap./Sec.
Special exceptions ............................. IV 4.3
Uses permitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., IV 4.2
R-I-AAA and R-I-AA single-family dwelling dis-
tricts
General description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
General requirements ..........................
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs .........................................
Special exceptions .............................
Uses permitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
R-2 one- and two-family dwelling district
General description .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
General requirements ..........................
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs .........................................
Special exceptions .............................
Uses permitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
R-3 multiple-family dwelling district
General description ............................
General requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other requirements ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Parking and loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs .........................................
Site plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Special exceptions .............................
Uses permitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Recreational vehicles
Individual recreational vehicles on individual lots . III 11
R- T -1 mobile home subdivision district
General description ............................
Required improvements. ..... . . ...... . . . . .,. . ..
Requirements. . ......... . . ..... . . . . . . ..... .,. .
Special exceptions .............................
Uses permitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Setbacks
Major street setbacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. III
Sign regulations
General requirements .......................... III 10.4
Generally ..................................... III 10.1
Nonconforming structures, etc.
Outdoor advertising signs and structures . . . . . . .
Number and surface area... . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . .. . .
Permits required. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs exempted from these requirements. . . . . . . . .
Signs in agricultural districts (A-l and A-2) ......
Signs in C-l neighborhood shopping, C-2 communi-
ty commercial districts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs in C-3 general commercial districts. . . . . . . . .
Signs in residential districts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Signs permitted in 1-1 and 1-2 industrial districts
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IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
3.1
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.3
3.2
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5.1
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.3
5.2
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
6.1
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.3
6.2
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
7.1
7.5
7.4
7.3
7.2
7
I
III
III
III
III
5.4(8)
10.5
10.3
10.2
10.6
e
III
III
III
III
10.8
10.9
10.7
10.10
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ZONING (Appendix A)-Cont'd. Chap./Sec.
Site plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. III 12
Smoke and particulate matter
Performance standards, App. 1
Special exceptions
Powers and duties of board of adjustment. . . . . . . . II 4.5(2)
Territorial limits
Application of provisions ....................... I 5.2
Variances
Powers and duties of board of adjustment. . . . . . . . II 4.5(3)
Vehicles
Individual mobile homes and recreational vehicles
on individual lots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. III 11
Off-street automobile and vehicle parking and
loading. See within this title that subject
Storage and parking of trailers, commercial ve-
hicles and automotive vehicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. III 8
Vibration '
Performance standards, App. 1
Violations
Complaints regarding violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II 7
Correction of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II 1.3
Penalties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II 9
Zoning commission. See within this title: Planning
and Zoning Commission
Zoning of annexed land .......................... I 5.3
ZONING (Miscellaneous regulations)
Buildings. See also that title Section
Compliance with zoning requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
Mechanical code. See also that title
Compliance with zoning requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.5-11
Planning regulations. . . . . . . . . . ........ . . ... . . ..... ... 17-1 et seq.
Planning. See that title
Plumbing. See also that title
Compliance with zoning requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-11
Rezoning
Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 -1 et seq.
Planning. See that title
Swimming pools. See also that title
Pools to conform with zoning requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 19.5-9
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