Zoning & Subdivision Regulations

1. Zoning & Subdivision Regulations St. Albans Guide to the Rewrite Process

2. What is Zoning? • Zoning is the most common way in which municipalities regulate the land uses and physical development • Districts: Division of Uses • Minimum Lot Sizes • Setbacks • Minimum Frontage • Maximum Height • Maximum building and lot coverage • These Regulations are codified in our zoning bylaws

3. Zoning Districts • What you can build depends on where—or in what ‘zone’—your property is. • The Town uses zoning to group land into different districts, or zones, with rules about what you can build in each • St. Albans Zoning Districts: • Rural • Residential • Residential Commercial • Light Industrial • Heavy Industrial • Conservation • Lakeshore

4. Zoning Map

5. Each Zoning district has permitted, conditional and prohibited uses Permitted Conditional & prohibited Uses

6. Minimum lot Sizes Lot size is calculated by multiplying the lot width by lot depth.

7. FY – Front Yard Setback RY – Rear Yard Setback SY – Side Yard Setback SetBacks The horizontal distance from a structure to the property line

8. Frontage The portion of a lot abutting a street and situated between lot lines intersecting such street.

9. Maximum Height Height Height Ground

10. Lot Coverage The percentage of a lot’s area that is covered by impervious surfaces.

11. What Is Subdivision? • Subdivision is dividing land into multiple parcels or lots • Subdivision regulations control how land is divided to accommodate uses and support infrastructure

12. Permit flexibility in the application of land development regulations Planned Unit Development