Zoning Regulations

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The November 2024 Unified Development Chapter can be downloaded in one large Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file, including all zoning maps, or individual sections of the text and maps can be downloaded as individual .pdfs below.

Article 1: General Provisions

(Sections 50-1 to 50-12)

Article 2: Zone Districts

(Sections 50-13 to 50-18) Includes information on zone district minimum requirements (such as lot area and frontage), flood plains and flood hazard management, shoreland, stormwater, and overlay districts (natural resources, historic, airport, skyline, and higher education).

Residential Districts

Mixed Use Districts

Form Districts

Special Purpose Districts

Overlay Districts

Article 3: Permitted Uses

(Sections 50-19 to 50-20) Includes a table of uses to determine where certain land uses are allowed, whether the use is allowed without special approvals (permitted use), after having obtained a Special Use Permit (special use), after having obtained an Interim Use Permit (interim use), or if the use is a use only allowed as an accessory to a principal use (accessory use) or temporary use. Use specific standards are given after the use table to describe special conditions apply to certain uses.

Section 50-19: Use Table
Section 50-20: Use-Specific Standards

Article 4: Development Standards

(Sections 50-21 to 50-34) Includes information on form districts, site connectivity, parking, landscaping, screening, signs, sustainability, building design standards, exterior lighting, plat design, and maintenance and operating standards.

Section 50-21: Dimensional Standards
Section 50-22: Building Form Standards (for Form Districts only)
Section 50-23: Connectivity and Circulation
Section 50-24: Parking and Loading
Section 50-25: Landscaping and Tree Preservation
Section 50-26: Screening, Walls, and Fences
Section 50-27: Signs
Section 50-28: Stormwater and Erosion
Section 50-29: Sustainability Standards
Section 50-30: Building Design Standards
Section 50-31: Exterior Lighting
Section 50-32: Housing and Property Maintenance
Section 50-33: Plats
Section 50-34: Maintenance and Operating Standards

Article 5: Administration & Procedures

(Sections 50-35 to 50-39) Includes information on review and approval processes, treatment of uses, buildings, and lots that were legal before an amendment to the UDC made them nonconforming with the new rules, and enforcement procedures and penalties.

Section 50-35 to 50-37: Review and approval processes - general
Section 50-37.2: Comprehensive plan adoption or amendment
Section 50-37.3: UDC text or zoning map amendment
Section 50-37.4: District plan adoption or amendment
Section 50-37.5: Subdivision plat approval or amendment
Section 50-37.6: Vacation of street
Section 50-37.7: Concurrent use of streets
Section 50-37.8: Historic resource designation
Section 50-37.9: Variance
Section 50-37.10: Special use or interim use
Section 50-37.11: Planning review
Section 50-37.12: Sidewalk use permit
Section 50-37.13: Zoning permit
Section 50-37.14: Historic construction/demolition permit
Section 50-37.15: Building permit
Section 50-37.16: Certificate of occupancy
Section 50-37.17: Accessory home share permit
Section 50-38: Nonconforming uses, buildings, and lots
Section 50-39: Enforcement and penalties

Article 6: Definitions

(Sections 50-40 to 50-41) Includes definitions of terms used in the UDC.

Amending Ordinances

Below are amendments made since the last UDC update:

None at this time (November 2024)

UDC Interpretations

In accordance with Section 50-10, the Land Use Supervisor is authorized to interpret provisions of the UDC, including uses not already classified as well as any provisions that may be ambiguous. These interpretations are an interim step until the City Council can officially amend the UDC. Below are the interpretations made since the last UDC update:

23-001 Temporary Parking Lot as An Interim Use
21-001 Daycare and Educational Facilities as An Accessory Use for Government Facilities
20-004 Replacement of Non-Conforming Structures

Regulating and Concept Plans

Sites zoned Residential-Planned (R-P) and Mixed Use-Planned (MU-P) are required to have a regulating plan to govern land uses and development of their specific area. Below are recent regulating plans.

District Plans

Sites zoned Mixed Use Institutional (MU-I) are encouraged to have an adopted MU-I District Plan for their sites. Below are some recent MU-I District Plans:

St Luke's District Plan

Planning & Development