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Planning & Zoning Department
Overview
Planning and Zoning is responsible to provide and communicate the framework for guiding the community toward orderly growth and development by relating, balancing, and harmonizing the physical, social, economic, and aesthetic features of the community as it responds to private sector initiatives.
The Comprehensive Plan for the City of El Dorado (PDF) establishes community-wide goals and serves as the basis for making zoning decisions. No zoning laws or plan, however, can provide for the general public good and at the same time accommodate all individual interests.
While there must be a proper balance between the public good and individual interests, what is best for the community as a whole must prevail. Zoning amendments that are based on benefits to individuals while becoming detriments to the community as a whole, have usually been declared invalid by the courts.
- Article 1 - Title and Jurisdiction (PDF)
- Article 2 - Purpose and Intent (PDF)
- Article 3 - Rules and Definitions (PDF)
- Article 4 - General Provisions (PDF)
- Article 5 - District Regulations (PDF)
- Article 6 - Supplementary District Regulations (PDF)
- Article 7 - Off-Street Parking and Loading Regs (PDF)
- Article 8 - Sign Regulations (PDF)
- Article 9 - Nonconformities (PDF)
- Article 10 - Special Use Permit (PDF)
- Article 11 - Site Plan Review (PDF)
- Article 12 - Board of Zoning Appeals (PDF)
- Article 13 - Amendments (PDF)
- Article 14 - Administration (PDF)
- Article 15 - Violations and Penalties (PDF)
- Appendix A - Listing of Uses by Zoning District (PDF)
- Subdivision Regulations (PDF)
- Zoning Map - City and ETJ (PDF)
- Official Zoning Map City Only (PDF)
Procedures Manual
- Article 1 - The Role of Each Participant (PDF)
- Article 2 - The Basis of Decision-Making (PDF)
- Article 3 - Bylaws (PDF)
- Article 4 - Code of Conduct (PDF)
- Article 5 - Procedural Summary (PDF)
- Article 6 - Zoning Text Amendment Procedure (PDF)
- Article 7 - Zoning District Change (PDF)
- Article 8 - Appeal of Administrative Decision (PDF)
- Article 9 - Variance (PDF)
- Article 10 - Special Uses (PDF)
- Article 11 - Amendment of Subdivision Regulations (PDF)
- Article 12 - Plat Approval (PDF)
- Article 13 - Lot Split (PDF)
- Article 14 - Site Plan Review (PDF)
- Article 15 - Fences (PDF)
- Article 16 - Issues of Importance (PDF)