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1. Residential
The residential category is the principal use of land and buildings for dwelling units. The arrangement and extent of dwelling units depends on the zoning district, lot sizes, and building types, arranged in the following types
2. Civic institutional
The civic/institutional category is the use of land and buildings to serve public or community interest by enhancing the daily cultural, social, or recreation need for residents and neighborhoods, whether by way of open and public citizenship, by property ownership or residency, or by membership affiliation. It includes the following types
3. Retail
The retail category is the use of land and buildings for the sale of goods and/or food and beverages directly to the consumer, where these goods are available for immediate purchase or order, and where goods can be immediately removed from the premises, or immediately consumed on the premises by the purchaser, and where frequent interaction of patrons or consumers occurs on the premises. The types of uses in this category are dependent on the size of gross leasable area per tenancy, where the smaller formats (micro, limited, or small) are typically dependent on a target market of consumers within the neighborhood or one-mile area, and where the larger formats (general, large, and warehouse) are typically dependent on a target market beyond the one-mile area.
4. Office/service
The Office/service category is the use of land and buildings for businesses engaged in the exchange of professional and individual services. It includes the following types
5. Industrial
The industrial category is the use of land and buildings engaged in the production, processing, storage or distribution of goods with potential impacts beyond the site due to the types of activities, the physical needs of the site or facility, the types of materials used, or the delivery and access operations, and which in typical formats and operations may not be compatible with other business uses. It includes the following types
6. Special uses
These businesses are subject to special licensure, location, and permitting requirements.
3-/4-plex
A residential building designed to accommodate up to four primary dwelling units in single-ownership in a neighborhood. Units are arranged to maintain an outward design and appearance as a detached house.
Accessory dwelling
A dwelling unit, either in a detached accessory structure, or included within a principal structure, that is located on the same lot as a detached house and is incidental to the principal use of the lot for a principal dwelling. Examples include a garage apartment, basement apartment, or second level/attic apartment.
Animal care or clinic - general
A service use for the medical care of small domestic animals where outdoor pens or kennels are only used for exercise and recreational purposes, and no animals are kept outside. Examples include large veterinary offices, large grooming facilities, animal hospital, or commercial kennels.
Animal care or clinic - limited
A service use for the medical care of small domestic animals where treatment rooms, cages, or pens are completely enclosed and soundproof, and where any boarding of animals is accessory to the principal use, and where the gross leasable area is under 2,500 square feet. Examples include a small veterinary office, small pet day care, or grooming facility.
Apartment complex
A grouping of apartment buildings in a common development arranged around an internal system of streets/internal access, walkways, and common open space.
Assembly - event venue
Places of public assembly designed and located to serve community or civic needs of the City or region and typically designed for 1,001 or more. Examples include an auditorium or large event hall.
Assembly - event venue, religious
Places of religious assembly designed and located to serve community or civic needs of the City or region and typically designed for 1,001 or more.
Assembly - large
Places of public assembly designed and located to serve community or civic needs of a broad vicinity with regular or periodic organized services or events, and typically designed for 501 to 1,000 people. Examples include a community center or event hall.
Assembly - large, religious
Places of religious assembly designed and located to serve community or civic needs of a broad vicinity with regular or periodic organized services or events, and typically designed for 501 to 1,000 people.
Assembly - limited
Places of public assembly designed and located to serve community or civic needs for residents of nearby neighborhood(s) with regular or periodic organized services or events, and typically designed for no more than 250 people at maximum occupancy. Examples include a neighborhood association clubhouse or meeting hall.
Assembly - limited, religious
Places of religious assembly designed and located to serve community or civic needs for residents of nearby neighborhood(s) with regular or periodic organized services or events, and typically designed for no more than 250 people at maximum occupancy.
Assembly - small
Places of public assembly designed and located to serve community or civic needs of neighborhoods in the vicinity with regular or periodic organized services or events, and typically designed for 251 to 500 people. An example includes a small event hall.
Assembly - small, religious
Places of religious assembly designed and located to serve community or civic needs of neighborhoods in the vicinity with regular or periodic organized services or events, and typically designed for 251 to 500 people.
Community and public service
A civic use offering education, arts and cultural materials, or attractions for the general public, including exhibits and events; or offering administrative, social, tourism, or charitable services to the general public. Examples include museums, libraries, public safety, post office, or recreation centers.
Detached house
A residential building designed as one primary dwelling unit in a neighborhood subdivision setting. Variations of this type are based primarily on lot size.
Duplex
A residential building designed to accommodate two primary dwelling units in a neighborhood setting. Duplex units share a single common wall or floor/ceiling, with an outward design and appearance as a detached house. A duplex may be on a single lot, or it may be platted as separate lots along the common wall line. Duplex units may be developed as rental properties or as condominiums.
Education - campus
A large public or private institution for primary or secondary education and typically serving more than 601 students on more than 10 acres and targeted to the broad vicinity, including neighborhoods beyond one mile.
Education - extension
A public or private institution for a wide variety of academic, vocational, or professional training and education services, but which provides services in a more mixed-use or commercial setting utilizing sites and buildings within that context.
Education - neighborhood school
A small public or private institution for primary or secondary education and typically serving up to 600 students on less than 10 acres, primarily targeted to neighborhoods within one mile. Special purpose schools that have a larger target area but are designed and scaled to perform similarly to a neighborhood school may be included in this type.
Gas station - general (five to 16 pumps)
A retail use engaged in the sale of fuel and other convenience goods to the general public, and may include accessory repair or maintenance services. The use is limited to no more than 16 fueling stations and no more than four garage service bays. Examples include a small convenience center or large gas station.
Gas station - large (16+ pumps)
A retail use engaged in the sale of fuel and other convenience goods to the general public, and may include accessory repair or maintenance services. The use may include more than 16 fueling stations. Examples include large convenience stores, gas stations or truck stops and travel centers.
Gas station - limited (one to four pumps)
A retail use engaged in the sale of fuel and other convenience goods to the general public, and may include accessory repair or maintenance services. The use is limited to no more than four fueling stations and no more than two garage service bays. Examples include a small, neighborhood gas and service station.
Grocery - convenience/market
A retail use selling food and produce or specialty food products for household consumption in a small-scale format under 10,000 square feet. Examples include a corner market, butcher shop, produce stand, or similar food store. This use may also be associated with gasoline sales.
Grocery - store (5,000 - 40,000)
A retail use selling food, produce, and other household products for household consumption in a small-scale format at least 6,000 but less than 40,000 square feet. Examples include a small grocery store that may serve as the anchor to a small-scale walkable center.
Grocery - supermarket (40,000+)
A retail use selling food, produce, and household products for household consumption in a large-scale format, at least 40,000 square feet. Examples include a large-format grocery or supermarket, or a similar function housed within a larger warehouse retail store.
Group homes
A "group home" is a single-family dwelling in which eight or fewer unrelated mentally or physically handicapped persons reside and live together functionally as a single housekeeping unit, and may include two additional persons acting as houseparents or guardians who need not be related to each other or to any of the mentally or physically handicapped persons residing in the home.
Home-based business
An accessory use conducted in either the principal dwelling unit or an accessory dwelling or structure that might be characterized as home crafts, such as model making, rug weaving, lapidary work, cabinet making, etc., provided that no machinery or equipment is used or employed other than that which would customarily be found in the home, such as machinery or equipment that would customarily be employed in connection with a hobby or vocation not conducted for gain or profit. Other types of home office or service occupations are further defined in Subsection D of this section.
Live/work unit
A mixed-use unit that contains a commercial, office or light industrial component. The work component does not exceed 50% of the dwelling area.
Lodging - bed-and-breakfast (up to five rooms)
A lodging use in a residential building type that has up to five guest rooms and a resident manager for accessory meals, operations, and cleaning services.
Lodging - hotel/motel
A lodging use in a large commercial building or complex designed for more than 20 guest rooms, as well as associated restaurant, event and conference services.
Lodging - inn (up to 20 rooms)
A lodging use in a small commercial building that accommodates up to 20 guest rooms which may include limited accessory service, such as a small restaurant or lounge.
Manufacturing - artisan
A small-scale industrial use where activities produce little or no by-products, such as smoke, odor, dust, or noise, discernible from outside of the building; where deliveries and distribution are made by general consumer delivery services requiring no special large truck access; and where products are made available for purchase or viewing to the general public. Uses typically occupy buildings or spaces under 5,000 square feet of gross leasable area. Examples include artists' studios, small wood or metal shops, craft manufacturing, small bakery, or other similar small-scale assembly of finished products.
Manufacturing - general
An industrial use where by-products, such as noise, dust, smoke, or odor, are produced, but are mitigated to limit impacts beyond the property boundary. Outside storage and activities may be necessary, and distribution and delivery needs involve frequent or large truck access. Examples include large-scale manufacturing or fabrication plants, food production and manufacturing plants, metal fabrication plants, chemical laboratories, or other similar high-intensity manufacturing or distribution operations.
Manufacturing - heavy
An industrial use capable of producing significant by-products, such as noise, dust, smoke, or odor, beyond the building or site, or where hazardous materials may be stored, used, or produced as a typical part of the business, and distribution involves heavy truck, freight and machinery access. Examples include chemical, wood or metal storage and production, pressing and dying plants, asphalt or cement production, animal processing, or other heavy or hazardous manufacturing operations.
Manufacturing - light
An industrial use where little or no by-products, such as smoke, odor, dust, or noise, are discernible from outside of the building and where distribution and delivery needs occur through light to moderate commercial truck access. Examples include research labs or facilities, small equipment or commodity assembly, warehousing or wholesaling of consumer products, commercial bakery, nonretail laundry services, or similar businesses that provide products for support of other businesses.
Medical marijuana distribution, manufacturing, cultivation, and testing businesses
Terms not expressly defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Missouri Constitution, Art. XIV, Section 1(2), enacted as Amendment 2(2018) to the Missouri Constitution and approved by Missouri voters on November 6, 2018, relating to access to medical marijuana, if defined therein. 

MEDICAL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FACILITY - A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, cultivate, process, store, transport, and sell marijuana to a medical marijuana dispensary facility, medical marijuana testing facility, or to a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY FACILITY - A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, store, sell, transport, and deliver marijuana, marijuana-infused products, and drug paraphernalia used to administer marijuana to a qualifying patient, a primary caregiver, another medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing facility, or a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA TESTING FACILITY - A facility certified by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, test, certify, and transport marijuana.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA-INFUSED PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING FACILITY - A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, store, manufacture, transport, and sell marijuana-infused products to a medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing facility, or to another medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.
Medical marijuana sale
Terms not expressly defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Missouri Constitution, Art. XIV, Section 1(2), enacted as Amendment 2(2018) to the Missouri Constitution and approved by Missouri voters on November 6, 2018, relating to access to medical marijuana, if defined therein. 

MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY FACILITY - A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, store, sell, transport, and deliver marijuana, marijuana-infused products, and drug paraphernalia used to administer marijuana to a qualifying patient, a primary caregiver, another medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing facility, or a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.
Mixed use (apartment over commercial/service)
A residential use in a building designed primarily for street level retail, service, or employment uses, and where dwelling units are accommodated on upper stories, or otherwise separated from the principal commercial function of the building.
Office
An employment use focusing on the administrative and management aspects of business or professional services, typically does not have a high rate of exchange with the general public, consumers, or patrons, but may involve regular interaction with clients or other business activities. This use type is broken into the following subclasses based on scale and intensity
Office - general
An office use where the total gross leasable area is at least 10,000 square feet, and may include more than one building.
Office - Home-based business
An office use entirely within an owner-occupied residential dwelling and/or its accessory structures, when such activities are clearly incidental or subordinate in use to the dwelling and may involve limited on-premises interaction with customers. Such uses include office facilities for architects, engineers, lawyers, realtors, insurance agents, brokers and members of similar professions operating as sole practitioners; office facilities for ministers, rabbis, priests; and office facilities for salesmen, sales representatives, manufacturers' representatives, when no retail or wholesale sales are made or transacted on the premises or where no warehousing occurs.
Office - limited
An office use where the total gross leasable area is less than 10,000 square feet.
Open/civic space
Areas preserved as primarily open land, except for accessory structures, and designed to serve a specific urban design function for natural, ecological, aesthetic, recreational or formal gathering purposes. This use includes parks, subdivision open space or common ground and buffers, trails, plazas associated with planned developments and government buildings, and other public spaces.
Recreation - indoor
A service use providing daily or regularly scheduled activities for entertainment, instruction, or exercise inside a building and open to the general public or through membership. This use type is broken into the following subclasses based on scale and intensity
Recreation - indoor, general (10,000 or more)
Indoor recreation that involves a building 10,000 square feet or more. Examples include a large bowling alley, sports and recreation center, theater complex, large health club, or shooting range.
Recreation - indoor, limited (less than 10,000)
Indoor recreation that involves a building less than 10,000 square feet. Examples include a small bowling alley, fitness club, billiard hall, martial arts centers, yoga studio, or dance studio.
Recreation - outdoor
A service use providing daily or regularly scheduled activities for entertainment, recreation, or exercise outside and is open to the general public or through membership. This use includes accessory buildings for the transaction of business and accessory indoor services. This type is broken into "limited" and "general" based on the scale and intensity of the use.
Recreation - outdoor, general
Examples include theme park, water park, fairground, zoo, drive-in theater, shooting range, skeet and trap range, racetrack.
Recreation - outdoor, limited
Examples include driving range, miniature golf, golf course, swimming pool, tennis, batting cage, small band shell, or amphitheater.
Residential care - general
A facility providing long-term care, health services, and residency that admits residents on medical referral, and where medical, behavioral, and rehabilitative care is necessary beyond normal business hours. Examples include nursing homes, hospice home, or other similar care facilities.
Residential care - institutional
A facility offering short- or long-term care for individuals residing on the site that need a high degree of services or monitoring, and where full-time staff are present on the premises at all times, and where the building(s) and site design emphasize the institutional function secondary to the residential accommodations. Examples include treatment centers, homeless shelters, or other facilities with a high intensity of care or supervision.
Residential care - limited
A facility providing residential living, social programs, and limited health care services for residents; where the social and health care services are accessory to the building(s) and site design emphasizing household living; where the social programs and health care services are limited accessory elements in terms of the function and extent; and where dedicated staff are present primarily during normal business hours. Examples include co-housing, retirement village, independent living, or assisted living apartment communities.
Restaurant - bar/tavern
An area primarily devoted to the serving of alcoholic beverages and in which the service of food is only incidental to the consumption of such beverages.
Restaurant - drive-in/drive-through
A food and beverage retail use where a portion of the facility relates to dispensing products or services to patrons who remain in vehicles. It may include a window, driving lane, outside menu boards, and other interior or exterior features and equipment dedicated for this purpose.
Restaurant - general
A food and beverage retail use that typically includes seating for 100 or more patrons and may include accessory off-premises consumption through carry-out or drive-through services, and may also include limited areas dedicated to consumption of alcoholic beverages and/or accessory indoor entertainment.