Planning and Zoning
Overview:
Economic Development begins with Planning and Zoning. The city utilizes a Comprehensive Zoning Plan allowing for a variety of business types, residential districts, and commercial areas.
Proper zoning of property is required to receive a Certificate of Occupancy. Platting may also be required.
Zoning Map - August 2011
The main types of Zoning used in the city are as follows:
Commercial Zoning:
- Local Business (LB): A restricted business district comprised of business and professional service establishments and retail stores serving primarily the everyday shopping needs of the surrounding residential neighborhood.
- General Business (GB): All those businesses and service establishments and retail stores necessary to the everyday and occasional shopping needs of the public.
- Commercial (C): All-purpose business district providing areas for the total service, retail, and wholesale trade needs of the community
Residential Zoning:
- Single Family Attached (SFA-6): Provide for residential areas with medium population densities within integral neighborhood units. Designed to permit low density development of detached single-family housing supplemented by those uses which support and provide stability to such residential environment.
- Duplex (D): Designed to permit and encourage two-unit residential development in an environment which provides many of the amenities of a single-family district
- Multifamily (MF): Designed to permit and encourage medium density multifamily housing development of all types
