Appendix A. ZONING

Section 5. SCHEDULE OF PERMITTED USES

§ 5-2. Table.

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ZONING DISTRICT

LAND USE

E-R

A-U

AU-2

R-R

R-1
R-1A

R-20

R-12

R-8

M-R

R-8-M

M-H-P

R-P

C-C

G-B

WLI

H-I

C-A

Residential and related uses

Accessory buildings or uses

2a.

Animals, noncommercial keeping of horses as an accessory use to residential land uses, provided that in R-R, R-1, R-1A, R-20, R-12, R-8, M-R, R-8-M, M-H-P and R-P zones:

(a)

Shall only be permitted on a lot containing not less than two acres;

(b)

All buildings used to house the animals shall be set back not less than 150 feet from any property line;

(c)

All animals shall be maintained at least 50 feet from any property line except property lines adjoining an A-U zone; and

(d)

There shall be not less than 30,000 square feet of fenced lot area not covered by the principle structure for each animal.

2b.

Animals, kennel, noncommercial, as an accessory use to residential land uses provided that:

(a)

Minimum lot size of one acre;

(b)

All buildings used to house the animals shall be set back 100 feet from any property line.

2c.

Farm animals, commercial:

(a)

Minimum lot size 20 acres.

(b)

All buildings used to house the animals shall be set back 100 feet from any property line.

2d.

Farm animals, noncommercial

(a)

Minimum lot size two acres.

(b)

All buildings used to house the animals shall be set back 100 feet from any property line.

(c)

There shall be a minimum of 10,000 square feet of fenced in yard area for each four-legged animal as described in the definition section of this ordinance, being section 2-4a; and breeding and grazing of these animals will not be considered commercial until the density exceeds the aforestated quantity of one animal per 10,000 square feet of fenced area.

(d)

There shall be a limit of not more than 50 fowl allowed on any one lot as a noncommercial accessory to that property.

Boarding or rooming house

Church or other place of worship, including Sunday school buildings, parish houses, convents, nursery school, kindergartens (subject to developmental standards listed in use item #19) and other related uses on the same premises and operated by the church provided that within R-1, R-1A, R-R, R-20, R-12, R-8, R-8-M, M-R, and R-P zones:

(a)

The lot size shall be no less than two acres;

(b)

Any building or structure established with any such use shall have minimum side and rear yards of 50 feet; and

(c)

Lot must front collector or arterial street.

Dwelling, single-family

Dwelling, two-family (duplex)

Residential group development projects (see section 9-3)

Dwelling, multifamily (see section 9-4)

Family personal care home

10.

Fraternities and sororities, located within 500 feet from the nearest point of a main college campus and located on a principal or minor arterial as specified on the Major Thoroughfare Plan, Tift County, Georgia

11.

Garage apartment, provided no more than one shall be permitted on a lot with the principal dwelling, and provided such shall be permitted only within the rear yard. The lot on which such use is to be established must be 50 percent greater in lot area than the minimum standard lot size for the respective district.

12.

Group personal care home, provided that:

(a)

Minimum lot size of one acre in all residential zones (except A-U, which requires five acres).

(b)

Parking is restricted to rear and side yard and shall be screened per section 3-19.

13.

Guest quarters or servant quarters, provided no more than one shall be permitted on a lot with the principal building and provided such shall be permitted only within the rear yard. The lot on which such use is to be established must be 50 percent greater in lot area than the minimum standard lot size for the respective district.

14.

Home occupation (see sections 9-1 and 12-6.2)

15.

Manufactured home, individually sited, provided that:

(a)

The manufactured home shall meet the same minimum square footage, setback and yard requirements as any other single family dwelling; and

(b)

Must be set on an SBCCI-approved foundation, property underpinned or skirted with material comparable to the proposed manufactured home, and anchored per SBCCI requirements.

16.

Manufactured housing park, provided that:

(a)

Access to manufactured housing parks shall be by paved public street and either on or within 1,000 feet of and readily accessible to a principal or minor arterial, or collector street as designated on the Major Thoroughfare Plan, Tift County, Georgia; and

(b)

The manufactured housing park meets the requirements of section 9-5 of this ordinance.

17.

Publicly owned recreation centers, Y.M.C.A. and institutions of a similar nature

18.

Schools, public or private, elementary through high school

19.

Schools, kindergartens, nurseries and day care centers, provided that:

(a)

Off-street loading and unloading spaces are supplied; and

(b)

At least 100 square feet of outdoor play area is supplies for each child accommodated; and

(c)

The entire play area is enclosed by a steel mesh security fence or other substantial building material affording equal or better protection having a minimum height of at least four feet and constructed in such a manner that maximum safety to the children is ensured.

20.

Tourist homes

Business uses

21.

Adult entertainment establishments, provided that:

(a)

Lot must front arterial street, and must be at least one acre in size.

(b)

Adult bookstores shall maintain all windows in a clear unobstructed manner so as to provide an open and unobstructed view through the interior of the bookstore.

(c)

Adult movie houses shall maintain all windows in a clear and unobstructed manner, so that the entire reception area, lobby, ticket sales area of the theater is open and unobstructed to view by the public from all adjoining public thoroughfares and rights-of-way.

(d)

Adult service establishments (bathhouses, etc.) shall maintain all windows in a clear and unobstructed manner, so that the entire reception area, lobby, ticket sales area of the service establishment is open and unobstructed to view by the public from all adjoining public rights-of-way.

22.

Ambulance service or rescue squad, private

23.

Amusement or recreational activities (commercial), carried on outside a building such as a golf or baseball driving range, miniature golf course, softball field and uses of a similar nature

24.

Amusement or recreational activities (commercial), carried on outside a building which produces noise and/or noxious fumes, such as drag racing strips, racetracks, motorcycle races or ATV (all terrain vehicle) courses, and uses of a similar nature

25.

Amusement or recreational activities (commercial), carried on wholly within a building, such as cinema, theater, auditorium, and uses of a similar nature

26.

Animal hospital, commercial kennels, veterinary clinic or animal boarding place, located at least 300 feet from the nearest residential district

27.

Reserved

28.

Art studio

29.

Automobile service station, provided that major auto repair shall not be permitted, nor shall there be outside storage of materials or equipment other than merchandise offered for sale in a C-C or G-B district

30.

Automobile, truck, farm equipment or motorcycle sales, repair or upholstery, auto washerteria, paint shops or tire recapping (including rebuilding of parts or sales of parts and equipment indoors only, no outside storage of equipment or parts except for WLI and H-I districts)

31.

Automobile parking lot or parking garage (commercial)

32.

Bait and tackle store; in A-U, only when associated with resource oriented amusement or recreational activity

33.

Banks, financial institutions, and offices not specifically listed elsewhere in this column

34.

Bookbinding, printing, engraving, blueprinting, photostating, or letter shop

35.

Building contractor and related activities and storage of building supplies and materials, provided that equipment and materials temporarily stored or displayed outside shall be completely enclosed by a suitable fence. No sawmill or planing mill operations shall take place on the premises within any district other than the H-I district

36.

Business schools (private)

36a.

Catering service

37.

Clothing and dry goods stores, including shoe stores, men's shops, women's shops, variety stores and stores of a similar nature

38.

Clubs or lodges (private)

39.

Public college and universities, including dormitories and fraternity or sorority houses if located on main campus

40.

Cultural facilities, libraries, museums, and similar facilities

41.

Dance school or studio

42.

Department stores

43.

Drive-in restaurants

44.

Drive-in theater

45.

Drugstores

46.

Electrical repair and similar repair of a heavy commercial nature

47.

Electrical appliance repair, wholly contained within a building

48.

Experimental laboratory

49.

Freight express office

50.

Farmers' market

51.

Farm supplies, including feed, seed, and insecticides, and fertilizer retail sales

52.

Flower shop

53.

Food stores, including retail bakeries, meat markets, dairy products, confectioner shops and stores of a similar nature

54.

Funeral home

55.

Furniture upholstery shop

56.

Glass sales and storage, wholly contained within a building

57.

Golf course, lighted

58.

Golf course, provided that:

(a)

It shall be for daytime use only; and

(b)

All greens and fairways shall be set back at least 100 feet from any exterior property lines; and

(c)

Structures shall meet minimum setback requirements for single-family residences within the respective district.

59.

Growing of gardens

60.

Home furnishings and hardware, such as appliance sales, hardware stores, paint stores, sporting goods stores, furniture stores and stores of a similar nature

61.

Hospitals, nursing homes, care homes and congregate personal care homes, provided that:

(a)

The lot size shall be no less than three acres within any district where allowed; and

(b)

Any building or structure established with any such use shall have minimum side and rear yard of 50 feet; and

(c)

The setback shall be 25 feet more than required for other structures within the same district; and

(d)

The lot upon which any hospital is built shall front on a principal or minor arterial as specified on the Major Thoroughfare Plan, Tift County, Georgia.

62.

Hotels

63.

Laboratory serving professional requirements: medical, dental

64.

Laundromat or washerteria

65.

Locksmith, gunsmith, repairs and sales only.

66.

Medical, dental, or similar clinic

67.

Motels

68.

Music teaching studio

69.

Neighborhood drycleaning plants, laundry pick-up stations:

(a)

The drycleaning plant and its operation shall meet the requirements of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.; and

(b)

The drycleaning plant shall serve not more than one pick-up and delivery station exclusive of one occupying the same premises as the plant; and

(c)

The building for a drycleaning plant shall not contain more than 4,000 square feet of floor area inclusive of drycleaning pick-up facilities within the building; and

(d)

The drycleaning plant shall be designed to operate in a manner that will not emit smoke, or odor, or objectionable waste materials and which will not produce noise that will carry beyond the walls of the building occupied by such plant; and

(e)

Fuel for operation of equipment shall be smokeless fuel; and

(f)

The applicant for the drycleaning plant shall certify in writing at the time of application that all the above conditions will be met.

70.

Newspaper or periodical production, sales and distribution

71.

Newspaper or periodical publishing

72.

Nightclub or lounge, provided lot must front arterial street

73.

Office equipment sales and service

74.

Package beer and wine sales, provided lot must front arterial street

75.

Pawnshops and small personal loan offices other than commercial banks

76.

Personal service shops, such as barbershops, beautyshops, shoe repair, watch repair and services of a similar nature.

77.

Pest control, providing no outside storage other than within a WLI or H-I district

78.

Photography studio

79.

Produce sales, seasonal

80.

Radio and television studios

81.

Radio and television towers and utility substations, provided all buildings, masts and other facilities are located at least 200 feet from adjacent property lines on any lot which adjoins any residential district

82.

Railroad or bus passenger station

83.

Railroad freight station

84.

Restaurants

85.

Retail auto parts and tire stores

86.

Retail stores, not covered elsewhere in this section

87.

Residential mobile home salesroom and sales lot

88.

Shell home display yards

89.

Shrubbery sales (within a C-C zone, must be wholly contained within the building)

90.

Specialty shops, such as gift shops, jewelry stores, jewelry repair, antique shops and stores of a similar nature

91.

Taxidermist

92.

Taxi office

93.

Telegraph or messenger service

94.

Trade schools

95.

Travel trailer park, provided that:

(a)

No travel trailer nor RV park shall be located except with direct access to a principal or minor arterial with a minimum lot width of not less than 50 feet for that portion used for entrance and exit. No entrances or exits shall be through a residential district, or shall require movement of traffic from the park through a residential district.

(b)

The minimum lot area required for a travel trailer park shall be three acres.

(c)

Spaces in a travel trailer park may be used by travel trailers provided they shall be rented by the day or week only, and an occupant of such space shall remain in the trailer park for a period of not more than 30 days.

(d)

Management headquarters, recreational facilities, toilets, showers, laundry facilities and other uses and structures customarily incidental to operation of a trailer park are permitted as accessory uses in any district in which travel trailer parks are allowed, provided such establishments and the parking area primarily related to their operations shall not occupy more than ten percent of the area of the park.

(e)

No space shall be located so that any part intended for occupancy for sleeping purposes shall be within 20 feet of the exterior property line.

(f)

In addition to meeting the above requirements, the travel trailer park site plan shall be accompanied by a certificate of approval from the Tift County health department.

96.

Utility trailer rentals and rent-alls (no outside storage in C-C district)

97.

Vending machines, located out-of-doors subject to yard and setback requirements for the respective districts (as an accessory use only)

Manufacturing, wholesale and industry

98.

Acid storage and distribution

99.

Feed, grain or fertilizer wholesaling and storage

100.

Freezer locker service, ice storage

101.

Greenhouse and plant nursery (commercial), heavy equipment allowed only in A-U, WLI, and H-I districts. In C-C district must be wholly contained within a building

102.

Heavy manufacturing. The like which produce noise, odor, dust, fumes, fire hazards or other nuisance features shall be set back not less than 500 feet from any H-I district boundary.

(a)

Asphalt or concrete plant

(b)

Battery manufacturing

(c)

Bone distillation

(d)

Corrosive acids manufacture

(e)

Drop forge industry

(f)

Fat or oil manufacture (including fat rendering)

(g)

Fertilizer manufacture

(h)

Grain mill product manufacture

(i)

Leather tanning manufacture

(j)

Linoleum manufacture

(k)

Luggage manufacture

(l)

Lumber manufacture (lumber sawmill and storage)

(m)

Meat processing plant

(n)

Metal product manufacturing

(o)

Organic materials reduction

(p)

Petroleum refining and related industry

(q)

Pulp or paper mill

(r)

Rubber or plastic product manufacture

(s)

Stone, clay or glass manufacture

(t)

Transportation equipment manufacture

103.

Junkyard or auto graveyard, provided that:

(a)

Minimum lot size of five acres is required; and

(b)

Front yard setback increased 50 feet over requirements for other uses in WLI and H-I zones; and

(c)

Cannot be within 500 feet of any R-R, R-1, R-1A, R-20, R-12, R-8, M-R, R-8-M, M-H-P or R-P districts; and

(d)

The entire junkyard or auto graveyard shall be screened as required in section 3-19; and

(e)

Must be set back 500 feet from any district boundary.

104.

Light manufacturing:

(a)

Appliance and electronic device assembly plant, including the manufacturing of parts for appliances and electronic devices; and

(b)

Manufacturing of food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products, but not including fish and meat products, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast, and rendering plants; and

(c)

Machine shop and related activities; and

(d)

Construction of signs, including painted signs; and

(e)

Cooperage; and

(f)

Bottling and canning plants; and

(g)

Light sheet metal products such as ventilating ducts and eaves; and

(h)

Ice manufacturing; and

(i)

Laundry, cleaning and dyeing plants; and

(j)

Musical instruments, toys, novelties, and similar products, and

(k)

Ceramic products, provided that kilns shall only be by gas or electricity; and

(l)

Assembly of products from previously prepared materials; and

(m)

Tinsmith and roofing services; and

(n)

Other manufacturing, processing, packaging, or handling of a similar nature which shall not omit or produce more smoke, noise, odor, dust, vibration or fumes than the uses listed herein.

105.

Lumber yard, coal storage yards or other storage not specifically listed in this column; such yards if within a WLI district shall be enclosed by a fence and no storage shall be permitted outside such fence

106.

Petroleum storage (wholesale storage and wholesale distribution)

107.

Planing or sawmill

108.

Railroad classification and repair yard

109.

Sale of livestock and fowl

110.

Sanitary landfill or incineration (private)

111.

Truck terminal

112.

Warehousing (not related to sales on the premises)

113.

Warehousing (mini storage facility), storage for personal property, must be wholly contained within a building

114.

Wholesaling of a light commercial nature when operated in conjunction with or as part of a retail outlet

115.

Wholesaling (not covered in other parts of this list)

Signs

116.

Advertising incidental use sign

117.

Advertising separate use sign

118.

Point of business sign (in accordance with restriction in section 9-1 or 9-2 if for home occupation); in R-P not to exceed 12 square feet; identification sign, bulletin board

119.

Signs which do not require a permit (refer to section 10-4)

Agricultural and related uses

120.

Amusement or recreational activities (resource-oriented), such as parks; marinas, hunting, fishing and shooting preserves and clubs; bird sanctuaries; botanical gardens; archery ranges

121.

Agricultural experimental laboratory and/or facilities

122.

Apiculture

123.

Crop dusting service, in A-U, if landing strip is associated with activity, landing strip must be set back 500 feet from all property lines

124.

Farming and farm operations, including related structures and other agricultural uses as described in section 2-4

125.

Fish hatcheries

126.

Forestry nurseries (tree farms)

127.

Growing of crops

128.

Horticultural production, including related retail and wholesale activities

129.

Plant farms

130.

Riding or boarding stables

131.

Rodeo or horse show

132.

Rural home occupation

133.

Worm farm

134.

Vineyards

Miscellaneous

135.

Armories, for meetings and training organizations

136.

Carnival or athletic event, community fair or other event of interest to the public, not to exceed 30 days

137.

Cemetery

138.

Religious meetings, held in a tent or other temporary structure, not to exceed 30 days

139.

Temporary buildings and storage of materials (in conjunction with construction of a building) on a lot where construction is taking place or on adjacent lots such temporary uses to be terminated upon completion of construction. No temporary building shall be used for residential purposes.

140.

Temporary batch plants and construction-related facilities for a single development

(Mo. of 11-10-97)

                    
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