Permitted uses in Huntersville, NC

The Rural District's development typologies are farms, the single house, the conservation subdivision, the farmhouse cluster, and the residential neighborhood, with density regulated on a sliding scale that rises with increased open space preservation. A Farmhouse Cluster permits up to six house lots on a shared private drive under the minimum project size and frontage standards in the lot_size rule above. The full Art. 3.2.1 permitted-use list by building type was not independently re-verified against a primary PDF this session beyond the Farmhouse Cluster provision; confirm the current zoning map, any Conditional Zoning (CD) case, and the cited section text before acting.

TR serves as a bridge between rural zones and more urbanized development, sharing the Rural District's sliding-scale density and conservation-oriented typologies: farms, the single house, conservation subdivisions, farmhouse clusters, and the residential neighborhood. Building design remains subject to the G.S. 160D-702(b) carve-out (Art. 3.2.2(d)(4)(a)). The full Art. 3.2.2 permitted-use list by building type was not independently re-verified against a primary PDF this session beyond the Farmhouse Cluster provision; confirm the current zoning map, any Conditional Zoning (CD) case, and the cited section text before acting.

GR is a legacy district. The Town's own reference text (mirrored in the county's shared Polaris zoning-designations document) states GR is coded to permit completion and conformity of conventional residential subdivisions already existing or approved in sketch-plan form before this ordinance took effect, including subdivisions approved by the former Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission under prior county jurisdiction, and that GR is not intended for new development projects initiated after the ordinance's effective date. Confirm the current zoning map, any Conditional Zoning (CD) case, or Manufactured Home Overlay (MH-O) suffix, and the cited section text before acting.

Uses permitted by right: bed and breakfast inns; boarding or rooming houses for up to four roomers; congregate housing (in the civic building type); family care homes; multi-family homes; single family homes. Uses permitted with conditions include cemeteries (9.7), religious institutions (9.8), commercial use in a mixed-use building on an arterial or a local/larger-capacity street intersection, commercial use in a detached house building type within a quarter mile of a Town Center district fronting a major or minor thoroughfare (9.51), essential services 1 and 2 (9.14), government buildings up to 5,000 sq. ft., neighborhood and outdoor recreation (9.21), parks (9.29), retirement communities (9.50), schools (9.35), transit-oriented parking lots as a principal use (9.49), transit shelters (9.39), and multi-family homes under the one-building-one-lot buffer standard (9.64). The intensity a use may be built to is regulated by its assigned building type under Article 4, not a single per-district number.

Uses permitted by right: bed and breakfast inns; boarding or rooming houses for up to six roomers; civic, fraternal, cultural, community, or club facilities; commercial uses; congregate housing (civic building type); family care home; indoor amusement; indoor recreation; multi-family homes; single family homes. Uses permitted with conditions include cemeteries (9.7), religious institutions (9.8), commercial marinas (9.43), day care center (9.11), essential services 1 and 2 (9.14), government buildings up to 6,000 sq. ft. of first-floor area, gasoline stations excluding major service/repair (9.22), a parking lot as principal use (9.28), parks (9.29), schools (9.35), temporary mobile food sales (9.37), temporary outdoor seasonal agricultural sales (9.37), transit-oriented parking lots as a principal use (9.49), transit shelters (9.39), and multi-family homes under the one-building-one-lot buffer standard (9.64).

Uses permitted by right: bed and breakfast inns; boarding or rooming houses for up to six roomers; civic, fraternal, cultural, community, or club facilities; commercial uses; congregate housing (civic building type); family care home; government buildings; hotels; indoor amusement; multi-family homes; nightclubs, music clubs, bars, and similar entertainment facilities; single family homes. Uses permitted with conditions include automobile/motorcycle sales and service up to 2 acres with an 8,000 sq. ft. principal building and opaque screening of damaged vehicles/parts (9.25 area), cemeteries (9.7), religious institutions (9.8), essential services 1 and 2 (9.14), neighborhood gasoline stations excluding major service/repair (9.22), a parking lot as principal use (9.28), parks (9.29), schools (9.35), temporary mobile food sales (9.37), temporary outdoor seasonal agricultural sales (9.37), transit-oriented parking lots as a principal use (9.49), transit shelters (9.39), and multi-family homes under the Art. 9.64 buffer standard.

Uses permitted by right: indoor amusement facilities; armories; auction sales; boarding or rooming houses for up to six roomers; religious institutions; civic, fraternal, cultural, community, or club facilities; commercial uses; contractor offices and accessory storage yards (excluding general construction equipment/vehicle storage); family care home; government buildings; indoor and outdoor recreation; multi-family homes; nightclubs, music clubs, bars, and similar entertainment; pawnshops and second-hand shops; single family homes; vocational and technical schools; wholesale sales with related office/storage/warehousing entirely enclosed (truck terminals not permitted). Uses permitted with conditions include adult establishments (9.2), outdoor amusement limited to par-3 golf/driving ranges/archery (9.5), car wash (9.6), commercial marinas (9.43), day care center (9.11), essential services 1 and 2 (9.14), gasoline service stations including service/repair (9.22), hotels spaced 250+ feet from residential/mixed-use zones (9.45), parks (9.29), temporary outdoor seasonal agricultural sales and temporary mobile food sales (9.37), transit-oriented parking lots as a principal use (9.49), transit shelters (9.39), vehicle/boat service/rental/cleaning/mechanical/body repair (9.25, 9.26), and multi-family homes under Art. 9.64.

CI accommodates large institutional complexes already in place, and new institutional complexes of 15 acres or more, where building scale or use nature cannot be fully integrated into the fabric of the town. Campus districts are buffered from neighboring properties, though buildings that front a town street must still relate to the street per building type. A live GIS point query this session confirmed a 57.7-acre CI-zoned parcel in Huntersville's ETJ (ZONE_DES=CI, ETJ=ETJ), demonstrating the town zones CI both inside and outside its corporate limits. Confirm the current zoning map, any Conditional Zoning (CD) case, and the cited section text before acting.

CB provides for large business or light-industrial uses and parks already in place, and new ones that cannot be fully integrated into the town fabric because of building scale or use nature; the predominant use is the workplace. CB is buffered from neighboring properties like CI, though street-fronting buildings must relate to the street per building type; it is reserved for uses needing very large buildings and/or large parking/loading facilities such as warehouse/distribution operations. The full Art. 3.2.9 use table was not independently re-verified against a primary PDF this session. Confirm the current zoning map, any Conditional Zoning (CD) case, and the cited section text before acting.

TND-U is a mixed-use traditional neighborhood development district for new neighborhoods or the revitalization/extension of existing neighborhoods on an interconnected, pedestrian-oriented street network with a mix of housing types and prices, prominently sited civic buildings, and stores/offices/workplaces. Building design remains subject to the G.S. 160D-702(b) carve-out confirmed by TA23-06 at Art. 3.2.11(d)(1)(d). The full Art. 3.2.11 use table was not independently re-verified against a primary PDF this session. Confirm the current zoning map, any Conditional Zoning (CD) case, and the cited section text before acting.

TND-R and TND-U are defined jointly in Art. 3.2.11, confirmed this session directly from the Town's own ordinance text (fetched via the ALP viewer's print endpoint). TND-R is the rural counterpart to TND-U: it resembles a rural village, is usually surrounded by rural landscape, must comply with the density limits and bonuses of the Rural (R) and Transitional (TR) Districts, and has a 65-acre minimum development size (versus TND-U's 40-acre minimum, tied to NR district density). Uses permitted by right include bed and breakfast inns, boarding/rooming houses for up to six roomers, civic/fraternal/cultural/community/club facilities, commercial uses, congregate housing, conference facilities, family care homes, government buildings, hotels, and residential uses; uses permitted with conditions include cemeteries (9.7), religious institutions (9.8), commercial marinas (9.43), day care centers (9.11), essential services 1 and 2 (9.14), neighborhood gasoline stations excluding major service/repair (9.22), a parking lot as principal use (9.28), schools (9.35), transit-oriented parking lots as a principal use (9.49), and transit shelters (9.39). This session's live GIS check of the town's own zoning feature service found no parcel currently carrying a bare TND-R zoning code (it appears only as part of an overlay designator on some Neighborhood Residential parcels), consistent with TND-R being a real, currently defined district available for future rezonings rather than one with existing zoned acreage. Confirm the current zoning map and whether any parcel is actually zoned TND-R with the Planning Department before acting.

TOD-R is a transit-oriented, residentially-led district for higher-density residential communities with a mix of retail, restaurant, service, and small employment uses within a pedestrian village format, generally sited within a half-mile catchment of a rapid transit station, confirmed this session directly from the Town's own ordinance text (fetched via the ALP viewer's print endpoint). Uses permitted by right include bed and breakfast inns, boarding/rooming houses up to six roomers, civic/cultural/neighborhood recreation facilities up to 15,000 sq. ft. (minimum FAR .35), conference centers up to 15,000 sq. ft., dormitories, family care homes, financial institutions up to 6,000 sq. ft., government buildings up to 8,000 sq. ft., a single-screen indoor movie theater, inns, residential uses, offices, personal/professional/technical services up to 8,000 sq. ft., research and development services, restaurants without drive-through windows up to 8,000 sq. ft., retail up to 8,000 sq. ft., greenways, and small squares/plazas. A minimum average density of 15 dwelling units per acre is required district-wide. New buildings are expected to exceed the scale and volume of existing buildings but must demonstrate compatibility by varying massing (Art. 3.2.13(d)(2)(a)); this test does not apply to development with 2+ affordable units at or below 80% AMI, and building design remains subject to the G.S. 160D-702(b) carve-out (Art. 3.2.13(d)(2)(c)). Confirm the current zoning map, any Conditional Zoning (CD) case, and the cited section text before acting.

TOD-E is a transit-oriented, employment-led district accommodating general office uses (characterized by 40 to 70 employees per acre) within a half-mile catchment of a rapid transit station, confirmed this session directly from the Town's own ordinance text (fetched via the ALP viewer's print endpoint). Uses permitted by right include financial services, general commercial uses, conference centers up to 15,000 sq. ft., greenways, government offices, inns, light manufacturing (9.48), residential uses, offices, professional/personal/technical services, small squares/plazas, transit stations, and workshops/studios up to 8,000 sq. ft. Minimum permitted Floor Area Ratio is .35 (preferred range .5 to 1.5). New buildings in TOD-E are limited to seven stories or 80 feet, whichever is greater, with a minimum building height of 26 feet measured at the eave line, notwithstanding Article 4's general height standards. New buildings are expected to exceed the scale and volume of existing buildings but must demonstrate compatibility by varying massing (Art. 3.2.14(d)(1)); this test does not apply to development with 2+ affordable units at or below 80% AMI. Confirm the current zoning map, any Conditional Zoning (CD) case, and the cited section text before acting.

VS provides large accommodations for new and used passenger vehicle and truck sales, not exceeding the industry medium-duty truck standard, in areas not amenable to a comfortable pedestrian environment, serving the Huntersville community and the larger region, confirmed this session directly from the Town's own ordinance text (fetched via the ALP viewer's print endpoint). It cannot be compatibly integrated within the Town Center, Neighborhood Center, or smaller-scale Highway Commercial districts. Uses permitted with conditions: essential services 1 (9.14); sale/leasing of vehicles not exceeding the medium-duty truck standard and of boats/boat accessories (9.25). The only permitted building type is Highway Commercial (up to 65,000 sq. ft. first floor area on a major thoroughfare, 15,000 sq. ft. on a minor thoroughfare). Property boundaries adjacent to freeways or expressways require a 50-foot foliated buffer yard, and frontages on minor or major arterials require formal street tree planting. Vehicles for sale may not be displayed in the established front yard except under specific conditions (principal building covers at least 35% of frontage, decorative paving, screening). Confirm the current zoning map, any Conditional Zoning (CD) case, and the cited section text before acting.

SP accommodates uses that may pose health or safety hazards, have greater than average environmental impact, or diminish nearby property use and enjoyment through noise, smoke, fumes, odors, glare, or commercial vehicle traffic, confirmed this session directly from the Town's own ordinance text (fetched via the ALP viewer's print endpoint). Uses permitted by right include abattoirs, agricultural industries, indoor amusement facilities, general commercial uses including office, contractor offices and storage yards, foundries, indoor recreation, laboratories, lumber mills and storage yards, heavy manufacturing, outdoor theatres, power generation plants, railroad freight/repair/marshalling yards, and mini-warehouse storage, plus all uses permitted by right in the Corporate Business (CB) district. A long list of uses (airports, correctional facilities, landfills, quarries, raceways, solar/wind energy facilities, and more) require a Special Use Permit. Permitted building and lot types are limited to townhome, duplex, triplex, quadplex, workplace, and highway commercial. Because impacts vary widely by use, SP exists as a general district but frequently benefits from application as a parallel Conditional Zoning (CD) district, letting the Town Board tailor site-specific conditions. Confirm the current zoning map, any Conditional Zoning (CD) case, and the cited section text before acting.

Uses permitted by right: all uses permitted by right in the underlying base district (NR, GR, TR, or R) plus family care homes. Uses permitted with conditions: all uses permitted with conditions in the underlying district, plus manufactured homes meeting the standards in the accessory_structures rule below (masonry perimeter skirting with limited exceptions, wheels/towing gear removed, minimum 14-foot width along most of its length, minimum 3:12 roof pitch, conventional-comparable exterior/roofing materials, and permanent entry steps/porch), per Art. 3.3.1(a) as amended by TA22-13 to comply with G.S. Ch. 160D-910.