Ordinance #2003-052 Sarasota County, Florida

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Article 1. General Provisions

1.1      Short Title
1.2      Components of Zoning Regulations
1.3      Authority
1.4      Purpose
1.5      Jurisdiction
1.6      Minimum Requirements
1.7      Conflicting Provisions
1.8      Effect of Stipulations
1.9      Transitional Provisions

Article 2. Development Review Bodies

2.1      Board of County Commissioners
2.2      Planning Commission
2.3      Board of Zoning Appeals
2.4      Zoning Administrator
2.5      Design Administrator
2.6      Summary of Authority

Article 3. Development Review Procedures

Procedures
3.2      Building Permit
3.3      Certificate of Occupancy
3.4      Temporary Use Permit
3.5      Sign Permit
3.6      Master Sign Plan
3.7      Written Interpretation
3.8      Administrative Adjustment
3.9      Site and Development Plan
3.10    Variance
3.11    Administrative Appeal
3.12    Zoning Map Amendment (Rezoning)
3.13    Zoning Text Amendment
3.14    Planned Development Districts
3.15    Development Concept Plans
3.16    Special Exceptions
3.17    Transfer of Development Rights

Article 4. Zoning Districts

4.1      Districts Enumerated
4.2      Official Zoning Atlas
4.3      Rules for Interpretation of District Boundaries
4.4      Definitions of Groupings of Various Districts
4.5      Open Use District Intent Statements
4.6      Residential District Intent Statements
4.7      Commercial and Industrial District Intent Statements
4.8      Planned District Intent Statements
4.9      Special Purpose Districts
4.10    Special Purpose Overlay Districts
4.11    TDR Overlay District Intent Statements

4.12    Inactive Districts

Article 5. Use Regulations

5.1      Use Table
5.2      Use Categories
5.3      Limited and Special Exception Use Standards
5.4      Accessory Uses and Structures
5.5      Temporary Uses

Article 6. District Development Standards

6.1      Application of District Regulations
6.2      Measurement of Standards
6.3      Open Use District Development Intensity
6.4      OUE and RE District Development Intensity
6.5      RSF District Development Intensity
6.6      RMF District Development Intensity
6.7      Housing Types
6.8      RMH District Development Intensity
6.9      Manufactured Homes, RV Parks and Campgrounds
6.10    Commercial and Industrial District Standards
6.11    Planned Development District Standards

6.12    TDR Overlay District Development Standards

Article 7. General Development Standards

7.1      Off-Street Vehicular Facilities: Parking and Loading
7.2      Access and Circulation
7.3      Landscaping and Buffering
7.4      Signs
7.5      Outdoor Lighting
7.6      Outdoor Display and Storage
7.7      Architectural and Design Standards

Article 8. Nonconformities

8.1      General
8.2      Nonconforming Uses
8.3      Nonconforming Structures
8.4      Nonconforming Lots of Record
8.5      Nonconforming Residential Density
8.6      Nonconforming Characteristics of Use
8.7      Nonconformities in General
8.8      Elimination of Nonconforming Status

Article 9. Enforcement

9.1      Violations
9.2      Complaints Regarding Violations
9.3      Penalties for Violation, Resort to Other Remedies
9.4      Cumulative Violations
9.5      Repeat Violations
9.6      Prosecution Subject to Previous Zoning Regulations

Article 10. Definitions

10.1    General
10.2    Defined Terms

Article 5.    Use Regulations

5.1    Use Table

5.1.1.                  Use Table Key

a.       Types of Use

1.       Uses Permitted By Right (P)

A “P” indicates that a use is allowed by right in the respective district. Such uses are subject to all other applicable requirements of these regulations. Additional dimensional standards may allow a more intense use through the special exception process where expressly provided for in Article 6, District Development Standards.

2.       Uses Permitted With Limitations -- Limited Uses (L)

An “L” indicates a use that will be permitted subject to the use limitations in Section 5.3. Such uses are also subject to all other applicable requirements of these regulations. Additional dimensional standards may allow a more intense use through the special exception process where expressly provided for in Article 6, District Development Standards.

3.       Special Exceptions (SE)

An “SE” indicates a use that is allowed only where approved as a special exception by the Board of County Commissioners in accordance with the procedures of Section 3.16. Special exception uses are subject to all other applicable requirements of these regulations, including the additional standards contained in Section 5.3, except where expressly modified by the Board as part of the special exception approval.

4.       Existing Building or Site Only (E)

An “E” indicates a permitted use that is allowed only within a building or on a site where the use existed on October 27, 2003. Expansions of the use are allowed only in conformance with the development standards contained in these zoning regulations.

b.       Uses Not Allowed

A blank cell in the use table indicates that a use is not allowed in the respective district.

c.        Use Categories

Characteristics of the various use categories are located in Section 5.2.

d.       Standards

The “Standards” column on the use table is a cross-reference to any limited or special exception use standard in Section 5.3. All uses are also required to comply with the appropriate dimensional standards in Article 6.

5.1.2.     Use Table

 

 

OPEN USE

RESIDENTIAL

COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL

 

 

USE CATEGORY

SPECIFIC USE

OUA

OUC

OUM

OUR

OUE

RE

RSF

RMF

RMH

CN

OPI

CG

PCD

CHI

CI

CM

IR

ILW

GU

Standard

KEY:   P = Permitted Use     L = Permitted Subject to Limitations in Section 5.3     SE = Special Exception Use     Blank = Use Not Permitted

OPEN USES 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agriculture

[see 5.2.2.a]

All agriculture, except as listed below

L

 

L

L

L

 L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.1.a

Animal boarding

L/SE

 

 

L/SE

L/SE

 L/SE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.1.b

Animal shelter

SE

 

 

SE

SE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SE

5.3.1.c

Aviary

L

 

 

L

SE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.1.d

Keeping of ponies or horses

L

 

 

L

L

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.1.f

Livestock auction, feeding pen, milk processing, packing house, stockyard

L

 

 

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.1.g

Plant nursery

L

 

 

L

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.1.h

Plant nursery with landscape supply

L

 

 

L

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.1.i

Retail or wholesale sales of agriculturally-related supplies and equipment

 

 

 

SE

SE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P

 

5.3.1.k

Resource Extraction

[see 5.2.2.b]

All resource extraction, except as listed below

 

 

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.1.j

Borrow pit

L

 

L

L

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.1.e

RESIDENTIAL USES 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Household Living

[see 5.2.3.a]

Single-family detached

P

L

L

P

P

P

P

P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2.h

Lot line, traditional, patio, villa or atrium house

 

 

 

 

 

 

L

P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2.e

Two-family house

 

 

 

 

 

 

L

P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2.e

Townhouse (semi-attached, roof-deck, stacked)

 

 

 

 

 

 

L

P

 

 

 

 

P

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2.e

Multifamily (multiplex, apartment)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P

 

 

 

 

P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manufactured home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manufactured home park/subdivision

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accessory dwelling unit

 

 

 

 

 

L

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2.a

Guest house

L

 

 

L

L

L

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2.d

Short term rental

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2.g

Live-work unit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L

L

L

L

 

L

 

L

L

 

5.3.2.f

Upper story/attached residential

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P

P

P

P

 

P

L

 

 

 

5.3.2.i

Group Living

[see 5.2.3.b]

All group living, except as listed below

 

 

 

SE

SE

L

L

L

SE

L

L

L

L

 

 

 

 

 

L

5.3.2.c

Boarding house, rooming house, fraternity or sorority

 

 

 

SE

SE

SE

SE

L

SE

L

L

L

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2.c

Community residential home, 6 or fewer residents

L

 

 

L

L

L

L

L

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2.b

Community residential home, 7 to14 residents

SE

 

 

SE

SE

SE

SE

SE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2.b

Group home, 15 or more residents

 

 

 

 

 

SE

SE

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2.b

PUBLIC AND CIVIC USES 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Community Service

[see 5.2.4.a]

All community service

 

 

 

SE

SE

SE

SE

SE

SE

P

P

P

P

 

P

 

 

 

P

5.3.3.c

Rural retreat center

SE

 

 

SE

SE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.3.l

Day Care

[see 5.2.4.b]

Family day care home

P

 

 

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

 

P

 

 

SE

 

 

Large family child care home

P

 

 

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

 

P

P

 

P

 

 

SE

 

 

Day care facility

SE

 

 

SE

SE

SE

SE

L

SE

L

L

L

L

 

L

 

SE

SE

L

5.3.3.e

Adult day care home (up to 6)

P

 

 

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

 

P

 

 

 

 

 

Adult day care facility (7 or more)

SE

 

 

SE

SE

SE

SE

L

SE

P

P

P

P

 

P

 

 

 

 

5.3.3.e

Educational Facilities

[see 5.2.4.c]

College or university

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SE

P

P

P

 

P

 

P

 

P

 

Day facility

 

 

 

SE

SE

 SE

 

 

 

P

P

P

P

 

P

 

 

P

P

5.3.3.d

Elementary, middle or high school

 

 

 

SE

SE

SE

SE

SE

 

 

P

 

P

 

 

 

 

 

P

 

Vocational, trade or business school

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P

P

P

P

 

P

 

P

P

P

 

Government Facilities
[see 5.2.4.d]

All government facilities, except as listed below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P

 

Jail, prison or work camp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SE

 

Medical Facilities

[see 5.2.4.e]

All medical facilities, except as listed below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L

P

P

P

 

P

 

 

 

SE

5.3.3.g

Patient family accommodations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L

L

L

 

 

 

 

 

L

5.3.3.j

Parks and Open Areas

[see 5.2.4.f]

All parks and open areas, except as listed below

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

 

Cemetery, columbaria, mausoleum, memorial park

L

 

 

SE

SE

SE

SE

SE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P

5.3.3.b

Wild animal sanctuary

SE

 

 

SE

SE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.3.3.n

Passenger Terminals

[see 5.2.4.g]

All passenger terminals, except as listed below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P

P

P

 

P

 

P

P

P

 

Airport, heliport

 

 

 

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

L

L

L

 

L

 

L

L

L

5.3.3.a

Places of Worship

[see 5.2.4.h]

All places of worship

SE

 

 

SE

SE

SE

SE

SE

SE

L

P

P

P

 

P

 

 

 

 

5.3.3.k

Social Service Institutions

[see 5.2.4.i]

All social service institutions, except as listed below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SE

SE

SE

 

SE

 

 

 

SE

5.3.3.m

Neighborhood resource center

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SE

 

L

L

P

P

 

P

 

 

P

P

5.3.3.h

Utilities

[see 5.2.4.j]

Major utilities