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Chapter 29:  Index

| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U |V | W | X | Y | Z |

A Section
Abatement, Remedies 29.1603(6)
Accessory Buildings, Other Development Standards 29.408(7)
Accessory Structures, Building Setbacks 29.402(2b)
Accessory Structures, Cover, Building Setbacks 29.402(2b)(ii)
Accessory Structures, Uncovered, Building Setbacks 29.402(2b)(I)
Accessory Uses and Structures, Nonconformates 29.307(1d)
Adaptive Reuse 29.306
Adaptive Reuse Performance Standards 29.306(3)
Adaptive Reuse, Qualifying  29.306(2)
Adult Entertainment Business 29.1301
Adult Entertainment Facilities Table 29.501(4)-7
Agricultural Zone 29.600
Agriculture and Farm Related Activities Table 29.501(4)-7
Airports, Height Near 29.408(6)
Aisle Dimension, Vehicle Parking 29.406(9)
Apartment Buildings, Landscaping Requirements 29.403(5)
Appeals 29.1507
Appeals from Decision of City Council 29.1507(3)
Appeals from Decisions of the ZBA 29.1507(2)
Appeals from Decisions of the Zoning Enforcement Officer 29.1507(1)
Appeals, Powers of ZBA 29.1403(7a)
Application after Denial, Variance 29.1504(5)
Application of Regulations 29.302
Approved Plans, Approved Site Plans 29.105(2)
Approved Plans, Commercial District Plan 29.105(2)
Approved Plans, Planned Industrial 29.105(2)
Approved Plans, Residential PUD's 29.105(2)
Area, Parking Dimensions Figure and Table 29.406(9)
Automotive and Marine Craft Trade Table 29.501(4)-3

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B Section
Basic Utilities Table 29.501(4)-6
Bed and Breakfast Establishments 29.1302
Billboards 29.409
Board Action, ZBA 29.1403(4)
Boat Parking 29.406(19)
Building Coverage, Minimum 29.401(4)
Building Setbacks, Accessory Structures 29.402(2b)
Building Setbacks, Covered Accessory Structures 29.402(2b)(ii)
Building Setbacks, See also Setbacks 29.402
Building Setbacks, Uncovered Accessory Structures 29.402(2b)(I)
Building/Zoning Permit 29.1501

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C Section
Campustown ServiceCenter 29.809
Cell Towers, see Wireless Communication Facilities 29.1307
Child Day Care Facilities Table 29.501(4)-5
Civil Penalties, Remedies 29.1603(7)
Co Location 29.1307(7g)
Colleges and Universities Table 29.501(4)-5
Co-Location Effort 29.1307(7b)
Commercial Outdoor Recreation Table 29.501(4)-7
Commercial Use Model Homes/Sales Offices 29.706
Commercial Zone Standards, Special Use Permits 29.1503(4c)
Community Commercial Node 29.802
Community Commercial Residential Node 29.806
Community Facilities Table 29.501(4)-5
Corner Lots, Setbacks 29.402(5)
Coverage Standards 29.401

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D Section
Day Care Facilities, see Child Day Care Facilities  
Demolition and Development, Temporary Deferral 29.1108
Denial, Application after, Variance 29.1504(5)
Design Standards, Major Site Development Plan Review 29.1502(4d)
Design Standards, Minor Site Development Plan 29.1502(3f)
Density Standards 29.700 29.1203(5)
Detention Facilities Table 29.501(4)-7
Determination of Nonconforming Status, Nonconformities 29.307(1e)
Dimensions, Parking Area Figure and Table 29.406(9)
Display, Outdoor 29.405
Downtown Service Center 29.809
Drive-through Facilities 29.1303
Driveways 29.406(10)
Dwellings, Detached, Size and Appearance 29.412

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E Section
Enlargement and Expansion, Nonconforming Structures 29.307(3d)
Entertainment, Restaurant, Recreation Trade Table 29.501(4)-3
Environmentally Sensitive Area Overlay 29.1103
Essential Public Services Table 29.501(4)-6
Establishment of Membership, ZBA 29.1403(1)
Extensions into the Required Setbacks 29.402(2)

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F Section
Farm and Agricultural Related Activities Table 29.501(4)-7
Fences, Other Development Standards 29.408(2)
Floor Area Ratios (FARs), Maximum 29.401(1)
Floor Area Standards 29.401
Front Yard, Locating Parking Spaces 29.406(7)
Frontage Standards 29.401
Frontage, Minimum 29.401(3)
Functional Families, Special Use Permits 29.1503(4d)
Funeral Facilities Table 29.501(4)-5

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G Section
Garage Sales 29.1304(1)(d)
Garbage Collection Areas, Other Development Standards 29.408(3)
Gateway Overlay 29.1104
General Industrial Zone 29.901
General Requirement, Site Plan Review 29.1502(2)
General Standards, Special Use Permits 29.1503(4a)
Government/Airport District 29.1002
Group Living Table 29.501(4)-1

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H Section
Handicap Parking Spaces, Additional Requirements for Passenger Access Aisles 29.406(15c)
Handicap Parking Spaces, Location 29.406(15e)
Handicap Parking Spaces, see Spaces Accessible for Persons with Disabilities 29.406(14)
Handicap Parking Spaces, Signage 29.406(15a)
Handicap Parking Spaces, Standards 29.406(15)
Handicap Parking Spaces, Vertical Clearance 29.406(15d)
Handicap Parking Spaces, Width of Spaces and Aisles 29.406(15b)
Hearings and Notices 29.1500(2)
Height Maximum 29.401(5)
Height near Airports 29.408(6)
Height Standards 29.401
Highway-Oriented Commercial Zone 29.804
Historic Preservation Overlay 29.1102
Home Occupations 29.1304
Home Occupations, Permitted 29.1304(1)
Home Occupations, Permitted 29.1304(2a)
Home Occupations, Prohibited 29.1304(1)
Home Occupations, Prohibited 29.1304(2c)
Home Occupations, Special 29.1304(1)
Home Occupations, Special 29.1304(2b)
Hospital-Medical District 29.1001
Household Living Table 29.501(4)-1

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I Section
Improvements, Off-Street Parking Areas 29.406(11)
Industrial Service Table 29.501(4)-4
Industrial Use Categories Table 29.501(4)-4
Injunctive Relief, Remedies 29.1603(5)
Installation and Maintenance, Landscaping 29.403(3)
Institutional Use Categories Table 29.501(4)-5

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J Section
Joint Use Parking 29.406(17)

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L Section
Landscape Elements, Required for Apartment Buildings 29.403(5b)
Landscaping, Shrubs and Ground Cover 29.403(2a)
Landscaping and Screening Standards 29.403(1)
Landscaping Requirements for Apartment Buildings 29.403(5)
Landscaping, Definition of Shrubs 29.403(2d)
Landscaping, Existing Vegetation 29.403(2c)
Landscaping, Fully Sight-Obscuring Fence, F2 29.403(1f)
Landscaping, General, L1 29.403(1a)
Landscaping, High Screen, L3 29.403(1c)
Landscaping, High Wall, L4 29.403(1d)
Landscaping, Installation and Maintenance 29.403(3)
Landscaping, Interior for Parking Areas 29.403(4c)
Landscaping, Landscape Trees 29.403(2b)
Landscaping, Lot Landscaping Plans for Parking Lots 29.403(4f)
Landscaping, Low Screen, L2 29.403(1b)
Landscaping, Maintenance of Parking Lots 29.403(4e)
Landscaping, Parking Lot Requirements 29.403(4)
Landscaping, Partially Sight-Obscuring Fence, F1 29.403(1e)
Landscaping, Perimeter Landscaping for Parking Lots Table 29.403(4)
Landscaping, Plant Materials 29.403(2)
Landscaping, Plant Materials for Parking Lots 29.403(4d)
Lapse of Approval, Special Use Permits 29.1503(5)
Lighting Grandfathering of Nonconforming Luminaries 29.411(8)
Lighting, Advertising Signs 29.411(5)
Lighting, Light Trespass 29.411(10)
Lighting, Outdoor Code 29.411
Lighting, Parking Lots 29.406(11d)
Lighting, Recreational Facilities 29.411(6)
Loading, Off-Street 29.407
Loading, Off-Street Spaces Table 29.407(1)
Lot Area Standards 29.401
Lot Area, Minimum 29.401(2)
Lot Merger, Nonconforming Lots 29.307(4d)
Lots of Record, Area Requirements 29.401(6c)
Lots Previously of Record 29.401(6b)
Lots, Change in Lots Size, Zoning Regulations 29.303(2a)
Lots, Corner Lots, Zoning Regulations 29.303(2b)
Lots, Flag Lots, Zoning Regulations 29.303(2c)
Lots, Multiple Buildings 29.401(6a)
Lots, Nonconforming, see also Nonconforming Lots 29.307(4)
Lots, Shape Regulated, Zoning Regulations 29.303(2a)
Lots, Width and Yard Requirements 29.401(6b)
Lots, Zoning Regulations 29.303(2)

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M Section
Mailed Notices 29.1500(2d)(I)
Maintenance and Repair, Non Conforming Structures 29.307(3a)
Major Event Entertainment Table 29.501(4)-7
Major Site Development Plan Review 29.1502(4)
Major Site Development Plan Review, Design Standards 29.1502(4d)
Manufactured Housing 29.1305
Manufactured Homes Parking 29.406(19)
Manufacturing and Processing Table 29.501(4)-4
Map, Official Zoning 29.301
Marine Craft and Automotive Trade Table 29.501(4)-3
Master Plans 29.1502(5)
Mechanical Equipment Setbacks, Rooftop 29.402(4)
Mechanical Equipment, Other Development Standards 29.408(4)
Medical Center Table 29.501(4)-5
Meetings and Quorum, ZBA 29.1403(3)
Mini Storage Warehouse Facilities 29.1308
Minor Site Development Plan, Design Standards 29.1502(3f)
Minor Site Development Plan, Procedures for Approval 29.1502(3)
Mobile Home Parking 29.406(19)
Model Homes/Sales Offices 29.706
Monopoles Required 29.1307(6)
Multiple Buildings on Single Lots 29.401(6a)

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N Section
Neighborhood Commercial Zone 29.801
Nonconforming Lots 29.307(4)
Nonconforming Lots, Lot Merger 29.307(4d)
Nonconforming Lots, Lot with Building or Structure 29.307(4c)
Nonconforming Lots, Use 29.307(4a)
Nonconforming Lots, Vacant Lots 29.307(4b)
Nonconforming Structures 29.307
Nonconforming Structures, Enlargement and Expansion 29.307(3d)
Nonconforming Structures, Maintenance and Repair 29.307(3a)
Nonconforming Structures, Occupancy by a Conforming Use 29.307(3b)
Nonconforming Structures, Relocation 29.307(3e)
Nonconforming Structures, Restoration 29.307(3c)
Nonconforming Uses 29.307(2)
Nonconforming Uses, Abandonment 29.307(2c)
Nonconforming Uses, Change to Another Nonconforming Use 29.307(2b)
Nonconforming Uses, Movement, Alteration and Enlargement 29.307(2a)
Nonconforming Uses, Special Use Permit Provision 29.307(2d)
Nonconforming Uses, Variance Provision 29.307(2e)
Nonconformities 29.307
Nonconformities, Accessory Uses and Structures 29.307(1d)
Nonconformities, Determination of Nonconformity Status 29.307(1e)
Nonconformities, Other 29.307(5)
Nonconformities, Other, Examples 29.307(5a)
Nonconformities, Other, Increase Prohibited 29.307(5c)
Nonconformities, Other, Policy 29.307(5b)
Nonconformities, Repair and Maintenance 29.307(1c)
Nonconformities, Reversion Prohibited 29.307(1f)
Nonconformities, Unsafe Situations 29.307(1b)
Northeast Gateway Overlay 29.1109
Notice, Posted 29.1500(2d)(iii)
Notice, Published 29.1500(2d)(ii)
Notices 29.1500(2d)
Notices and Hearings 29.1500(2)
Notices, Mailed 29.1500(2d)(I)

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O Section
Occupancy by a Conforming Use, Nonconforming Structures 29.307(3b)
Office Use Categories Table 29.501(4)-2
Officers and Duties, ZBA 29.1403(5)
Official Zoning Map 29.301
Off-Street Loading 29.407
Off-Street Loading Spaces Table 29.407(1)
Off-Street Parking 29.406
Onsite Sidewalks 29.404
Open Space and Parks Table 29.501(4)-6
Outdoor Display 29.405
Outdoor Lighting Code 29.411
Outdoor Storage 29.405, 29.405(1)
Outdoor, Display of Goods 29.405(1)

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P Section
Parking Area Dimensions Figure and Table 29.406(9)
Parking Area Interior Landscaping 29.403(4c)
Parking Decks 29.406(12)
Parking Lots Landscaping Requirements 29.403(4)
Parking Lots, Landscaping Maintenance 29.403(4e)
Parking Lots, Landscaping Plant Materials 29.403(4d)
Parking Lots, Lighting 29.406(11d)
Parking Lots, Lot Landscaping Plan 29.403(4f)
Parking Lots, Minimum Parking Area Setbacks Table 29.403(4)
Parking Lots, Perimeter Landscaping Standards Table 29.403(4)
Parking Space 29.406(9)
Parking Structures, see Parking Decks 29.406(12)
Parking, Computation of Spaces 29.406(3)
Parking, Improvements to Off-Street Areas 29.406(11)
Parking, Joint Use 29.406(17)
Parking, Locating Spaces in the Front Yard 29.406(7)
Parking, Manufactured Homes 29.406(19)
Parking, Minimum Off-Street Requirements Table 29.406(2)
Parking, Mobile Homes 29.406(19)
Parking, Occupancy of Structures Requiring Off-Street Parking 29.406(4)
Parking, Off-Street 29.406
Parking, Off-Street, Required Parking Spaces 29.406(2)
Parking, Proximity to Use 29.406(6)
Parking, Recreational Vehicles, RVs 29.406(19)
Parking, Remote for Commercial Land Use 29.406(18)
Parking, Stacked 29.406(8)
Parking, Standards for Accessible (Handicap) Spaces 29.406(15)
Parking, Storm Water Management Design Standards 29.406(11c)
Parking, Surface Material Standards 29.406(11a)
Parking, Trucks and Equipment 29.406(20)
Parking, Use of Required Parking Spaces 29.406(5)
Parking, Vehicle Aisle Dimensions 29.406(9)
Parks and Open Space  Table 29.501(4)-6
Party Wall Agreement 29.410
Passenger Terminals Table 29.501(4)-6
Pending Applications, Approved Site Plans 29.105(2)
Pending Applications, Planned Commercial District Plan 29.105(2)
Pending Applications, Planned Industrial District Plan 29.105(2)
Pending Applications, Residential PUD's 29.105(2)
Permissible Uses, Use Regulations 29.304(2)
Permitted Home Occupations 29.1304(1)
Permitted Home Occupations 29.1304(2a)
Personal Wireless Service Facilities Table 29.501(4)-6
Planned Industrial Zone 29.902
Planned Regional Commercial Zone 29.805
Planned Residence District 29.1203
Plant Materials, Landscaping 29.403(2)
Porches, Building Setbacks 29.402(2a)(iii)
Posted Notice 29.1500(2d)(iii)
Powers, ZBA 29.1403(7)
Principal Buildings, Extensions into Required Setbacks 29.402(2a)
Principal Buildings, Full Projection Allowed, Building Setbacks 29.402(2a)(ii)
Principal Buildings, Porches, Building Setbacks 29.402(2a)(iii)
Private Garages, Other Development Standards 29.408(7)
Procedure for Approval, Minor Site Development Plan 29.1502(3)
Procedures, Variance 29.1504(3)
Prohibited Home Occupations 29.1304(1)
Prohibited Home Occupations 29.1304(2c)
Prohibited Uses, Use Regulations 29.304(3)
Proximity of Parking to Use 29.406(6)
Published Notice 29.1500(2d)(ii)
PUD, see Planned Residence District 29.1203

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R Section
Radio and Television Broadcast Facilities Table 29.501(4)-6
Rail Lines and Utility Corridors Table 29.501(4)-6
Railroad Yards Table 29.501(4)-6
Reasonable Accommodation, Requests for 29.1505
Recreation, Restaurant, Entertainment Trade Table 29.501(4)-3
Regulations, Application of 29.302
Regulations, Zoning 29.303
Religious Institutions Table 29.501(4)-5
Relocation, Nonconforming Structures 29.307(3e)
Remedies 29.1603
Remedies, Abatement 29.1603(6)
Remedies, Civil Penalties 29.1603(7)
Remedies, Injunctive Relief 29.1603(5)
Remedies, Revoke Permits 29.1603(2)
Remedies, Revoke Plan or Other Approvals 29.1603(4)
Remedies, Stop Work 29.1603(3)
Remedies, Withhold Permits 29.1603(1)
Remote Parking for Commercial Land Use 29.406(18)
Remote Parking, see Proximity of Parking to Use 29.406(6)
Repair and Maintenance, Nonconformities 29.307(1c)
Residential High Density Zone 29.704
Residential Low Density Park Zone 29.705
Residential Low Density Zone 29.701
Residential Medium Density Zone 29.702
Residential Use Categories Table 29.501(4)-1