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City of Poplar Bluff, MO General Provisions
§ 405.010 Title, Intent and Purpose.
§ 405.015 Interpretation of Chapter.
Chapter 405: Zoning Regulations ARTICLE I General Provisions
Section 405.010 Title, Intent and Purpose.
Section 405.015 Interpretation of Chapter.
[R.O. 2007 App. B §1; Ord. No. 3900 §1(1), 3-6-1972]
Title. These regulations may be referred to as the "zoning ordinance".
These regulations have been based upon the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Said Comprehensive Plan included estimates of population growth, a land use plan, plans for major thoroughfares, community facilities and public services.
The regulations are intended to preserve and protect existing property uses and values against adverse or unharmonious adjacent uses.
The land use regulations divide the area into a number of zoning districts.
In the past, residential neighborhoods have deteriorated because they were invaded by small isolated commercial uses and by more intensive residential uses such as duplexes or apartment buildings. The great majority of our population desires to and does live in single-family homes which they own and which are located on fairly large lots. The regulations establish residential districts particularly designed to provide maximum protection for single-family homes.
Other residential districts are established for two-family homes and for apartments. Density, yard and parking regulations would ensure good living conditions in these areas. Much of present day building is by large projects instead of lot by lot. The regulations provide for large scale developments (ten (10) acres or more) which may be located in any residential district with approval of the site plan and with conformity of the plan to the overall density standards of the district. This introduces an important measure of flexibility into the regulations.
Commercial districts recognize the different types of commercial areas that will be needed by the future growth for the community. There is a zoning district for the neighborhood commercial area, i.e., the grocery store — drugstore complex serving the adjacent residential neighborhoods. For the more widely used commercial areas along major streets and highways, there is a general commercial district. There is a central commercial district for the downtown area and a special planned district for the shopping centers.
For industry there are two (2) districts, a restricted district for non-obnoxious light industrial uses with landscaped front yards and no open storage and a general or unrestricted industrial district.
[R.O. 2007 App. B §10(E); Ord. No. 3900 §1(10)(E), 3-6-1972]
In interpreting and applying the provisions of this Chapter, they shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public safety, health, convenience, comfort, morals, prosperity and general welfare. It is not intended by this Chapter to interfere with or abrogate or annul any easements, covenants or other agreements between parties, except that if this Chapter imposes a greater restriction, this Chapter shall control.
[R.O. 2007 App. B §11; Ord. No. 3900 §1(11), 3-6-1972; Ord. No. 4707 §1, 12-6-1982; Ord. No. 4713 §2, 1-3-1983; Ord. No. 5529 §3, 3-2-1992; Ord. No. 5546 §1, 6-15-1992; Ord. No. 5847 §1, 11-20-1995; Ord. No. 6604 §1, 5-5-2003; Ord. No. 6618 §1, 6-2-2003]
For the purpose of this Chapter, certain terms are hereby defined. Words used in the present tense shall include the future; the singular number shall include the plural and the plural the singular; the word "building" shall include the words "structure" and "premises"; the word "shall" is mandatory and the word "may" is permissive; the words "used" or "occupied" shall be construed to include "intended", "designed" or "arranged to be used or occupied"; the word "lot" includes the words "plot" or "parcel" and the word "person" includes a firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company or corporation as well as an individual. Any word not herein defined shall be as defined in any recognized standard English dictionary.
Banners affixed on poles, wires or ropes and streamers, wind-operated devices, flashing lights and other similar devices.
Agricultural activity, including forests and forest products, harvest and management, dairy farming, livestock grazing and pasturage, truck gardening, the raising of crops, fruit and nursery stock, fish farms, animal kennels and fur-bearing animal farms and the harvesting, processing, packaging, packing, shipping and selling of products produced on the premises and incidental farm occupations and uses such as machinery, farm equipment and domestic repair and construction, excluding commercial feed lots.
See "DWELLING UNIT".
Any land, building, structure or premises used for the sale at retail of motor vehicle fuels, oils or accessories or for servicing or lubricating motor vehicles or installing or repairing parts and accessories, but not including the repairing or replacing of motors, bodies or fenders of motor vehicles or painting motor vehicles, public garages and the open storage of rental vehicles or trailers.
Any commercial establishment that sells any intoxicating beverages.
A portion of a building which is wholly or partly below grade, the ceiling of which is less than four (4) feet above grade, which shall not be included as a story.
Any place of lodging that:
Provides four (4) or fewer guest rooms for rent to no more than a total of ten (10) tourist or transient guests;
Provides no meals other than breakfast and provides the breakfast only to registered guests of the establishment;
If the owner's personal residence or the owner has direct supervision and responsibility during periods of occupancy;
Provides rooms for rent for more than ten (10) nights in a twelve (12) month period;
Has completed any structural additions to the dimensions of the original structure prior to application for a conditional use permit, including by renovation, except a structural addition may be made within the dimensions of the original structure with prior approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council.
Board of Adjustment established in Section 405.330.
A building, other than a hotel or apartment hotel, where for compensation and by prearrangement for definite periods lodging, meals or lodging and meals are provided for three (3) or more persons.
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the shelter or enclosure of persons or property and when separated by fire walls, each portion of such building so separated shall be deemed a separate building.
The vertical distance from the grade to:
The highest point of a flat roof,
The deck line of a mansard roof, or
The average height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.
The individual designated to administer the zoning ordinance and who is responsible for the enforcement of the regulations imposed by said ordinance.
BUILDING OR SETBACK LINE
A line beyond which the exterior face of a building shall not extend.
A structure consisting of a roof, supports and a base, basically open on two (2) or more sides.
That part of a building having more than one-half (½) of its height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
City of Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
An administrative official designated by the City Manager to coordinate the activities of the Commission, the Council, the Board, the Building Inspector and the public.
Buildings and facilities owned or operated by a corporation, association, person or persons for a social, educational or recreational purpose, but not primarily for profit and not primarily to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.
An area of land devoted to raising and feeding of livestock where the operation is not part of a normal agricultural activity.
City Planning and Zoning Commission of Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
A use allowed in a zoning district after a permit is granted by the Council according to provisions of Section 400.035.
City Council of Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
An open space more than one-half (½) surrounded by buildings.
A standard subdivision plat plus sites for proposed single-family, two-family and multiple-family dwellings and other public and non-public uses such as churches, schools, recreation centers, etc.; contours at an interval to be determined by the Commission; significant features including watercourses, marshes, rock outcrops and miscellaneous buildings.
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by three (3) or more families.
A hotel, tourist rooming houses, bed and breakfast establishment, restaurant, temporary restaurant or vending machine commissary.
One (1) or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, occupying a dwelling unit as an individual housekeeping organization. A family may not include more than two (2) persons not related by blood, marriage or adoption.
See "AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY".
A structure for enclosure or screening.
The square feet of floor space within the outside line of walls and includes the total of all space on all floors of a building. It does not include porches, garages or space in a basement or cellar when said basement or cellar space is used for storage or incidental uses.
The floor area of the building divided by the area of the lot.
All the property on one (1) side of a street or highway between two (2) intersecting streets (crossing or terminating) or for a distance of four hundred (400) feet on either side of a proposed building or structure, measured along the line of the street; or if the street is dead-ended, then all of the property abutting on (1) side between an intersecting street and the dead end of the street, but not including property more than four hundred (400) feet distant on either side of a proposed building or structure.
A detached accessory or portion of a main building housing the automobiles of the occupants of the premises, but not commercial vehicles.
A building or portion thereof, other than a private or storage garage, designed or used for equipping, servicing, repairing, hiring, selling, storing or parking motor- driven vehicles. The term repairing shall not include an automotive body repair shop nor the rebuilding, dismantling or storage of wrecked or junked vehicles.
Any building or premises used for housing only motor-driven vehicles, other than trucks and commercial vehicles.
Any sign erected, constructed or maintained for the purpose of displaying outdoor advertising by means of posters, pictures, pictorial and reading matter when such sign is supported by two (2) or more uprights, posts or braces placed upon or affixed in the ground and not attached to any part of a building.
Any room or unit where sleeping accommodations are regularly furnished to the public.
Any occupation or profession carried on by a member of the immediate family residing on the premises, in connection with which there is used no sign other than a nameplate not more than three (3) square feet in area or no display that will indicate from the exterior that the building is being utilized in whole or part for any purpose other than that of a dwelling; there is no commodity sold upon the premises except that prepared on the premises; no person is employed other than a member of the immediate family residing on the premises; and no mechanical equipment is used that creates excessive noise or vibration. Home occupation shall include insurance and legal offices, minor repairs and services, but shall not include barbershops, beauty shops or pet shops.
An institution providing primary health services and medical or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity and other abnormal physical or mental conditions and including, as an integral part of the institution, related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient facilities or training facilities.
All places wherein sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to transients in five (5) or more rooms and all places used in connection therewith. "Hotelkeeper", "motelkeeper" and "innkeeper" are synonymous and "inn", "motel" and "hotel" are synonymous.
INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES FOR MENTALLY RETARDED
See "RESIDENTIAL CARE CENTER" and "RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS AND/OR LEARNING CENTERS" herein.
An establishment where small animals are boarded for compensation or where dogs are bred or raised on a commercial scale.
An area that is permanently devoted and maintained to the growing of shrubbery, grass and other plant material.
A space within the main building or on the same lot for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks, having a minimum area of four hundred twenty (420) square feet, a minimum width of twelve (12) feet, a minimum depth of thirty-five (35) feet and a vertical clearance of at least fourteen and five-tenths (14.5) feet.
A lot having a frontage on two (2) non-intersecting roads, as distinguished from a corner lot.
A lot or parcel of land the plat or deed of which has been recorded prior to the adoption of this Chapter.
Any sign affixed to a marque over the entrance to a building and supported from the building.
Persons with significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior, manifest during the developmental period and diagnosed by appropriate professional authorities. In no manner does this definition mean or imply or make any association with the mentally ill.
Any building or group of buildings containing guest rooms or dwelling units, some or all of which have a separate entrance directly from the outside of the building with garage or parking space conveniently located on the lot and designed, used or intended wholly or in part for the accommodation of automobile transients.
The lawful use of land or a building or a portion thereof, which use does not conform with the use regulations of the district in which it is located.
A home for the aged or infirmed in which three (3) or more persons not of the immediate family are received, kept or provided with food and shelter or care for compensation; but not limited to hospitals, clinics or similar institutions devoted primarily to the diagnosis and treatment of the sick or injured.
One (1) foot above the adjacent curb elevation for each one and one-fourth (1¼) foot the building or structure is set back from the street lot line, except that no portion of the structure shall exceed twelve (12) feet above the adjacent curb elevation. This provision shall not apply to walls or structures that do not extend more than four (4) feet above the adjacent curb elevation.
A surfaced area, enclosed or unenclosed, sufficient in size to store one (1) automobile no less than nine (9) feet wide and twenty (20) feet long, together with a driveway connecting the parking space with a street, road or alley and permitting ingress and egress of that automobile without the necessity of moving any other automobile.
Any person who rents and occupies a guest room in a lodging establishment for a period of thirty-one (31) days or more.
PORCH, UNENCLOSED
An improved surface, open on all sides, with no roof or cover, including stoops, patios, docks and raising landings.
Any letter, word, model sign, device or representation used in the nature of an advertisement or announcement not attached to a building and which is supported by a single stationary pole or post.
At lot together with all buildings and structures thereon.
A facility which provides care, treatment or custody for ten (10) or more mentally retarded residents and affords an opportunity for utilization of community, educational, training, recreational, socialization and health facilities and may in addition to those services provide educational, nursing or other specialized services within the facility.
RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS AND/OR LEARNING CENTERS
A facility which primarily provides special education or training to mentally retarded students on a residential or non-residential basis. The educational or training program of such a facility should be based on realistic and professionally sound curriculum geared to meet the physical, emotional, social, academic and vocational needs of its students, with a view to maximizing their potential so as to lead to as much self-sufficiency in life as possible. Such a facility follows an academic calendar and is staffed by a special education faculty and meets the standards established by the State Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, section of special education, as an educational agency to provide special education services by contractual agreement.
Any building, room or place where meals are prepared or served or sold to transients or the general public, and all places used in connection with it and includes any public or private school lunchroom for which food service is provided by contract. "Meals" does not include soft drinks, ice cream, milk, milk drinks, ices and confections. "Restaurant" does not include:
Taverns that serve free lunches consisting of popcorn, cheese, crackers, pretzels, cold sausage, cured fish or bread and butter.
Churches, religious, fraternal, youth or patriotic organizations, service clubs and civic organizations which occasionally prepare, serve or sell meals to transients or the general public.
Any public or private school lunchroom for which food service is directly provided by the school or a private individual selling foods from a movable or temporary stand at public farm sales.
Any bed and breakfast establishment that serves meals only to its lodgers.
The serving of food or beverage through a licensed vending machine.
Any center defined as institutional, vocational, technical and adult education district school that serves meals only to the students enrolled in the center, institution or school or to authorized elderly persons.
Any painted sign or poster on any surface or plane that may be affixed to the front, side or rear wall of any building.
An institution where people go to rest and regain health as well as provide for the indefinite care of invalids or convalescents.
The total area of the space to be used for advertising purposes, including the spaces between open type letters and figures, including the background structure or other decoration or addition which is an integral part of the sign. Sign supports shall be excluded in determining the area of a sign. A double-faced sign shall have twice the total area of a single-faced sign.
Any thing 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, walls, fences and signs.
A restaurant that operates at a fixed location in conjunction with a single event such as a fair, carnival, circus, public exhibition, anniversary sale or occasional sales promotion.
A merchant selling merchandise (excluding the provision of services) and not located inside a permanent building or structure on private property. "Temporary vendor" shall not include peddlers, as that term is defined under Chapter 610 of this Code.
TOURIST OR TRANSIENT
A person who travels from place to place away from his/her permanent residence for vacation, pleasure, recreation, culture, business or employment.
Any lodging place or tourist cabin or cottages where sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to tourists or transients. "Tourist rooming house" does not include:
A private boarding or rooming house, ordinarily conducted as such, not accommodating tourists or transients.
A building that has single-family dwelling units erected in a row as a single building on adjoining lots, each being separated from the adjoining unit or units by a masonry party wall or walls extending from the basement floor to the roof along the dividing line and each such building being separated from any other building by space on all sides.
A yard across the full width of the lot extending from the front line of the main building to the front line of the lot. On corner lots the front yard shall face the shortest street dimension of the lot, except that if the lot is square or almost square, i.e., has dimensions in a ratio of from 3:2 to 3:3, then the front yard may face either street.