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Cottage Grove Development Code

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Table of Contents
1 Introduction
  • 1.1 How To Use the Development Code
  • 1.2 General Adminstration
  • 1.3 Definitions
  • 1.4 Use Categories
  • 1.5 Enforcement
    • 2 Land Use Districts
  • 2.1 Organization of Land Use Districts
  • 2.2 Residential Districts
  • 2.3 Commercial Districts
  • 2.4 Industrial Districts
  • 2.5 Parks & Recreation District
  • 2.6 Combining Districts
    • 3 Community Design Standards
  • 3.0 Design Standards Administration
  • 3.1 Access & Circulation
  • 3.2 Landscaping, Street Trees, Fences & Walls
  • 3.3 Parking & Loading
  • 3.4 Public Facilities
  • 3.5 Surface Water Management
  • 3.6 Other Standards
  • 3.7 Sensitive Lands
  • 3.8 Signs
    • 4 Administration of Land Use & Development
  • 4.1 Types of Review Procedures
  • 4.2 Land Use Review & Site Design Review
  • 4.3 Land Divisions & Property Line Adjustments
  • 4.4 Conditional Use Permits
  • 4.5 Master Planned Developments
  • 4.6 Modifications to Approved Plans & Conditions of Approval
  • 4.7 Land Use District Map and Text Amendments
  • 4.8 Code Interpretations
  • 4.9 Miscellaneous Permits
    • 5 Exceptions to Code Standards
  • 5.1 Variances
  • 5.2 Nonconforming Uses and Development
  • 5.3 Lots of Record
    • 6 Map Amendments & Code Interpretations