St. Louis City Revised Code Chapter 26.52
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26.52.010 District regulations. City Counselor Ops.: 9547 McQuillin: 25.110 et seq. Business district 26.52.010 District regulations. The regulations set forth in this chapter or set forth elsewhere in the
zoning code and referred to in this chapter are the district regulations in
the I central business district. (Ord. 59979 § 14 (part), 1986.) 26.52.020 Use regulations. A building or premises may be used for any purpose except the following:
abattoir; acetylene gas manufacture; acid manufacture, ammonia, bleaching
powder or chlorine manufacture: arsenal; asphalt manufacture or refining;
automobile body or fender repair shops; automobile salvage yard; bag
cleaning (except when the dustless vacuum process is exclusively employed);
blast furnace; boiler works; brick, terra cotta or tile manufacture; candle
manufacture; carry-out restaurants that sell to customers in cars or who
consume the sold products in cars parked on the carry-out restaurant
premises, or sell prod-ucts through a sales window to customers who are in
cars, for immediate consumption by the customer either on or off the
premises; celluloid manufacture; cement, gypsum, lime or plaster-of-paris
manufacture; dextrine, glucose and starch manu-facture; distillation of
bones, coal or wood; dye stuff manufacture (not including chemical dyes);
emery, emery cloth and sand paper manufacture; fat rendering; fertilizer
manufacture; fireworks or explosive manufacture or storage; flour and grain
milling; forge plant; fuel manufacture; gas manufacture or storage; glass
manufacture; glue, gelatin or size manufac-ture; incineration, reduction or
dumping of garbage, dead animals, offal or refuse; iron, brass, copper or
steel foundry or works (unless gas or electrically operated); lamp black
manufacture, match manufacture; meat packing; motor fuel pumping stations
(except where wholly contained within and accessory to a parking garage and
providing there are no exterior signs on the premises advertising the motor
fuel pumping station location); oilcloth or linoleum manufacture; oiled
goods manu-factured from raw materials; ore reduction; paint materials
manufacture; paper and paper pulp manufacture; petroleum products refining
(or wholesale storage thereof); potash or washing soda manufacture; proxylin
manufacture; rock crushing; rolling mill; rubber or gutta percha
manufacture; salt works; saw mill; smelting or refining of metals; soap
manufacture from refuse; stockyard, corral or pen; stone mill or quarry;
storage of barrels, bottles, iron, junk, rags or scrap paper; stove or shoe
polish manufacture; sugar refining; tanning, curing or storage of green
salted hides or skins, or leather dressing or coloring; tar distillation or
manufacture; tar roofing or water proofing manufacture; telephone, outdoor
pay, if the proposed telephone is located on a lot that is located
contiguous with or directly across a street, alley, public or private
easement from a dwelling district; tobacco (chewing) manufacture or
treatment; used car lots, car leasing or car rental lots; vinegar, sauer-kraut
or pickle manufacture; wool pulling or scouring; yeast manufacture; any use
which is a nuisance per se. (Ord. 64167 § 6, 1997: prior: Ord. 59979 § 14
(part), 1986.) 26.52.025 Conditional uses. The following conditional uses may be allowed in the I central business
district subject to the provisions of Section 26.80.010: 26.52.030 Parking and loading regulations. No parking regulations shall be required for this district. Loading
regulations are the same for uses enumerated in Chap-ters 26.20 through
26.48, inclusive. (Ord. 59979 § 14 (part), 1986.) 26.52.040 Height regulations. Buildings may be erected to such height that the cubic contents of said
building above the established grade shall not exceed the volume of a prism
having a base equal to the projected horizontal area of the building and a
height of two hun-dred (200) feet. In the case of buildings occupying a lot
having frontage on intersecting streets and which buildings are so designed
as to provide a setback or open space at one (1) corner or corners where
such street intersections occur, or when such setback begins below the two
hundred (200) foot height above the established grade, the volume determined
by the above rule may be exceeded by an amount equal to the volume so taken
out of the reference prism of two hundred (200) foot height; provided,
however, that the total volume of the actual building shall not exceed by
more than twenty-five per-cent (25%) the volume of said reference prism of
two hundred (200) foot height. (Ord. 59979 § 14 (part), 1986.) 26.52.050 Area regulations. There shall be a lot area of not less than two hundred and fifty (250)
square feet for each dwelling unit up to and including eight (8) stories or one hundred
(100) feet in height; thereafter there shall be provided a lot area of not less than one
hundred (100) square feet for each additional dwelling unit above eight (8) stories or one
hundred (100) feet in height. Sleeping rooms without cooking facilities shall have a lot
area of not less than one hundred (100) square feet each. (Ord. 59979 § 14 (part), 1986.) Return to Top of Charter, Code, and Ordinances.
Chapter 26.52
I CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT
26.52.020 Use regulations.
26.52.025 Conditional uses.
26.52.030 Parking and loading regulations.
26.52.040 Height regulations.
26.52.050 Area regulations.
A. Telephone, outdoor pay, if the proposed telephone is located on a lot
that is located contiguous with or directly across a street, alley, public
or private easement from a dwelling district. (Ord. 64167 § 7, 1997.)
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