Permitted uses in Rochester, MI

R-1 is one of Rochester's one-family residential districts. Article 6 permits one-family dwellings, customary accessory uses, and lists conditional uses such as houses of worship, schools, and certain public or community uses.

R-2 is one of Rochester's one-family residential districts. Article 6 permits one-family dwellings, customary accessory uses, and lists conditional uses such as houses of worship, schools, and certain public or community uses.

R-3 is one of Rochester's one-family residential districts. Article 6 permits one-family dwellings, customary accessory uses, and lists conditional uses such as houses of worship, schools, and certain public or community uses.

R-4 is one of Rochester's one-family residential districts. Article 6 permits one-family dwellings, customary accessory uses, and lists conditional uses such as houses of worship, schools, and certain public or community uses.

R-5 is one of Rochester's one-family residential districts. Article 6 permits one-family dwellings, customary accessory uses, and lists conditional uses such as houses of worship, schools, and certain public or community uses.

RT is the two-family residential district. It is intended for areas with a significant number of two-family dwellings and allows two-family dwellings plus one-family dwellings under the district article.

RM-1 permits two-family dwellings subject to the R-2 area, height, bulk, and placement regulations, and multifamily dwellings. Permitted accessory uses include the same accessory uses as R-2, private resident swimming pools, and multifamily accessory facilities such as off-street parking, carports, garages, recreation facilities, pools, clubhouses, and maintenance or management buildings. Special exception uses include the same special exception uses as R-2, hospitals, convalescent homes, nursing homes on at least five acres, group housing, and bed and breakfast homes.

RM-2 permits one-family dwellings subject to R-2 regulations and multifamily dwellings in buildings of not more than two stories. Special exception uses include RM-1 special exception uses, multifamily buildings of more than two stories but not more than eight stories and 100 feet, certain resident-serving businesses in multifamily buildings with at least 80 dwelling units, and mixed residential-office developments in limited downtown-adjacent locations.

MHP regulates mobile home parks for mobile home dwellings. A mobile home may not exceed one story or 12 feet in building height, and other buildings or structures may not exceed 1.5 stories or 25 feet. Each mobile home site must have at least 5,000 square feet, at least 90 feet of lot depth, and the yards, utilities, concrete apron, recreation, greenbelt, roadway, parking, and operating standards listed in Article 10.

CBD permits downtown retail, personal service, seated restaurants and taverns, enclosed theaters, houses of worship, offices, banks, municipal buildings, post office, business schools, and similar enclosed consumer-oriented uses. Some uses are restricted from Main Street street level between 2nd Street and University Drive.

P-1 is the vehicular parking district. Parking layouts and dimensions still need to comply with Article 24 and any site plan conditions.

B-1 is the general business district. The district article should be used for the permitted and conditional use list, and the zoning map labels the district B-1. Confirm any site-specific use against Article 13 before relying on a business use.

O-1 is the limited office district. Use the district article for the permitted office and related uses, and read upper-story apartment allowances with Section 2111.

O-2 is the restricted office district. Use the district article for permitted and conditional office uses, and check Section 2111 where upper-story apartments are proposed.

RP is the research park district in the current Municode article list and current zoning map. The city Planning Commission page also links 2025 proposed update materials that use RTECH terminology, so confirm whether those proposed labels are adopted before replacing RP in the pack.

I-1 is the Industrial 1 district in the current Municode article list and current zoning map. The city Planning Commission page also links 2025 proposed update materials that use LI terminology, so confirm whether those proposed labels are adopted before replacing I-1 in the pack.

I-2 is the Industrial 2 district. Confirm any industrial use against Article 18, Article 23 performance standards, Article 24 parking, and site plan requirements.

RV is the River Valley district. It should be read with the district article, environmental corridor context, site plan review, and any applicable park or open-space standards.

POS permits park, recreation, open-space, educational, historical, cultural, wildlife-preserve, and similar public or conservation-oriented uses listed in Section 1903. Accessory uses include customarily incidental accessory buildings and signs, with public-park signs subject to Section 2209. Wireless communication antennas and local utility structures may be allowed through the conditional-use process listed in Section 1905.