COLUMBIA COUNTY
ZONING ORDINANCE
JULY 1984
AMENDED
MARCH 1985
JULY 1985
AUGUST 1988
FEBRUARY 1990
APRIL 1991
JULY 1992
SEPTEMBER 1993
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION TITLE
ARTICLE I - GENERAL DEFINITIONS
100 General Definitions
ARTICLE II - GENERAL PROVISIONS
201 Compliance with this Ordinance
202 Districts
203 Zoning Maps
204 Amendments to the Zoning Map
205 Boundaries of Zones 206 Building Permits in Hazard Areas
207 Condominiums
208 Re-development Plans
209 Dwellings in Conjunction with Farm or Forest Uses in the Agriculture, Forest,
or Forest Agriculture Districts
210 New Lot Division 211 Lots of Record
212 Lot Line Adjustment
213 Setback Exceptions and Modifications
214 Pending Application and Modifications
215 Ingress and Egress
216 Unsafe Buildings
217 Conversion of Buildings
219 Sight Obscuring Fence of Planting
220 Archaeological Sites
221 One Principal Use Per Lot
222One Septic System Per Lot
ARTICLE III - RESOURCE DISTRICTS
300 Primary Agriculture - 38
400 Forest Agriculture - 19
500 Primary Forest - 76
ARTICLE IV - RURAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS
600 Rural Residential
650 Rural Center
670 Existing Commercial
680 Resource Industrial
ARTICLE V - SUBURBAN DISTRICTS
700 Single-Family residential
710 Single-Family and Two-Family Residential
720 Multiple-Family Residential
730 Mobile Home Residential
800 Highway Commercial
810 Neighborhood Commercial
820 General Commercial
940 Marine Commercial
910 Industrial Park
920 Light Industrial
930 Heavy Industrial
940 Airport Industrial
ARTICLE VI - SPECIAL DISTRICTS, OVERLAY DISTRICTS AND SPECIAL PROVISIONS
1000 Community Service Institutional
1010 Community Service Utility
1020 Community Service Recreation
1040 Surface Mining
1100 Flood Hazard Overlay
1120 Sensitive Bird Habitat Overlay
1130 Historic Overlay
1140 Greenway Overlay
1170 Requirements for Protection of Water Quality, Streambank Stabilization, and Fish and Wildlife Habitat
1175 Buffer Woodlot Overlay
1180 Wetland Area Overlay
1185 Natural Area Overlay
1190 Big Game Range Overlay
1200 Planned Development Overlay
1300 Signs
1400 Off-Street Parking and Loading
ARTICLE VII - DISCRETIONARY PERMITS
1501 General Provisions
1502 Zone Changes
1503 Conditional Uses
1504 Variances
1505 Temporary Permits
1506 Non-Conforming Uses
1507 Home Occupations
1550 Site Design Review
1601 Staff Approval
1602 Appeal
1603 Quasijudicial Public Hearings
1604 Appeal
1605 Zone Change
1606 Legislative Hearing
1607 Consistency with the Comprehensive Plan
1608 Contents of Notice
1609 Notice of Review by the Director
1610 Personal Notice to Adjoining Property Owners
1611 Notice of Legislative Hearing
1612 An "Administrative Action"
1613 Appointment of Hearings Officer
1614 Initiation of Administrative Action
1615 Rules of Procedures
1616 Design Review Board
1617 Planning Director
1701 Appeal Procedures
1702 Appeal of Planning Commission Action