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Odds and ends
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
100

The number of parking spaces required for a new two-bedroom dwelling in the upper level of an existing CBD building.

What is none?

100

The initial number of calendar days that the City has to act on a complete zoning request.

What is 60 days?

100

This district regulates density, building height, impervious coverage, and setbacks from water bodies.

What is the Shoreland Management District?

100

The zoning map must be consistent with this document.

What is the Land Use Plan?

100

This amendment to the U.S. Constitution is often cited in relation to sign regulations.

What it the First Amendment?

200

This type of overlay district typically includes flexibility, allowing a win-win for the Developer and City.

What is a Planned Unit Developement (PUD) Overlay?

200

The maximum number of working days that City Staff has to deem an application complete or incomplete.

What is 15 working days?

200

This district may require the issuance of a certificate of appropriateness for certain types of development.

What is the Heritage Preservation District?

200

This document is a coordinated set of all pertinent ordinances focused primarily on development.

What is a Unified Development Ordinance?

200

A 2015 Supreme Court ruling suggests that sign ordinances should be neutral on this issue.

What is content?

300

A small independent dwelling on the same lot as a single-family home.

What is an accessory dwelling unit?

300

The minimum number of days a public hearing notice must be published before the public hearing.

What is ten days?

300

This district may require a no-rise certificate.

What is the Floodplain Management Districts or, more specifically, the Floodway District?

300

The minimum building setbacks for most dwellings in Faribault (front, side, rear).

What is a 25-foot front yard, 10-foot side yard, 10-foot rear yard?

300

Noncommercial signs allowed during the election season that do not otherwise meet the sign ordinance must be removed within this number of days after the state general election.

What is ten?

400

An ordinance provision that may allow a reduced front yard without a variance in residential districts.

What it the prevailing setback provision?

400

The typical minimum number of weeks from the submittal of an application to City Council action.

What is six weeks?

400

Adopted in 2022, the provisions of this overlay district affected the new Rice County Public Safety Center.

What is the Wild and Scenic River Overlay District?

400

Other than the City's zoning ordinance, this key part of the UDO affects housing affordability.

What are subdivision regulations?

400

In general, sign regulations should be based on these three sign criteria.

What is time, place, and manner?

500

Faribault uses a hybrid of the Euclidean (or exclusionary) model of zoning and this model to regulate the types of housing in zoning districts.

What is Pyramid zoning?

500

The maximum number of days that the Minnesota DNR and DOT have to review applications affecting their jurisdiction.

What is 30 days?

500

This district includes safety zones that regulate heights and other potential hazards.

What is the Airport District?

500

This term refers to a property or use that was originally consistent with zoning, but no longer aligns with current zoning.

What is nonconforming?

500

The courts will apply this level of scrutiny to sign ordinances that regulate content.

What is strict scrutiny?