A. - General Provisions

A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

1. Creation of districts.

For the purposes of this ordinance the Parish of Natchitoches is divided into the following districts:

R-1 Districts: Residence districts—One-family
R-1.5 Districts: Residence districts—Town house
R-2 Districts: Residence districts—Multiple-family
R-3 Districts: Residence districts—Multiple-family

B-1 Districts: Transition business districts
B-2 Districts: Neighborhood business districts
B-3 Districts: Community and central business districts
B-I Districts: Interstate interchange business districts

I-A Districts: Industry-agriculture districts
I-1 Districts: Light industry districts
I-2 Districts: Heavy industry districts

2. Zoning map.

The zoning districts and the boundaries thereof are shown on the attached zoning map of the Parish of Natchitoches, 1991, which map is hereby made a part of this ordinance.

(Amend. of 8-21-91; Ord. of 9-17-97)

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The zoning map referenced above is not included in this Appendix A, but is on file and available for inspection in the office of zoning administration for the parish.

Except where specifically shown by dimension or otherwise on the zoning map, the boundaries of districts are lot or property lines, the center lines of streets or alleys or such lines extended, railway right-of-way lines, natural boundary lines such as water courses, and the municipal corporate limit lines as they may exist from time to time. Questions concerning the exact location of any district boundary shall be decided by the planning commission.

All territory annexed from the Parish of Natchitoches, Louisiana into an incorporated municipality shall be removed from the jurisdiction of the Natchitoches Parish Police Jury at the time of annexation. Concurrently, any existing zoning previously set forth by the parish shall then become a function of the annexing authority, and the responsibility of establishing zoning for the removed territory will be the same authority. All obligations of jurisdiction with regards to the provision of critical services will also become the responsibility of the annexing municipality.

Except as hereinafter provided:

a. No land shall be used or occupied, no structure shall be designed, erected, altered, used, or occupied, and no use shall be operated unless in conformity with the regulations herein prescribed for the district in which such structure or land is located;

b. No structure shall be designed, erected, altered, used, or occupied to exceed the height limits herein established, to have less building site area, or to have narrower or smaller front, side, and rear yards than herein prescribed for the district in which the structure is located;

c. No part of a yard or other open space required about any structure for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this ordinance shall be included as a part of the yard or other open space similarly required for another structure;

d. No building site shall be so reduced or diminished that the building site area, yards, or the open spaces shall be smaller than prescribed by this ordinance;

e. Every structure, other than an accessory structure, hereafter designed, erected, altered, used, or occupied shall have provided and continuously maintained for it a separate building site as herein defined;

f. Every use, unless expressly exempted by this ordinance, shall be operated entirely within a completely enclosed structure.