Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 89 · 45 active provisions
1. The provisions of sections 89.010 to 89.140 shall apply to all cities, towns and villages in this state. 2. (1) As used in this subsection, "transect-based zoning" means a zoning classification system that prescriptively arranges uses, elements, and environments according to a geographic cross-section that range acr…
1. For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals or the general welfare of the community, the legislative body of all cities, towns, and villages is hereby empowered to regulate and restrict the height, number of stories, and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the…
For any or all of said purposes the local legislative body may divide the municipality into districts of such number, shape, and area as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of sections 89.010 to 89.140; and within such districts may regulate and restrict the erection, construction, reconstruction, alter…
Such regulations shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan and designed to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers; to promote health and the general welfare; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration of…
The legislative body of such municipality shall provide for the manner in which such regulations and restrictions and the boundaries of such districts shall be determined, established, and enforced, and from time to time amended, supplemented, or changed. However, no such regulation, restriction, or boundary shall beco…
Such regulations, restrictions, and boundaries may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or repealed. In case, however, of a protest against such change duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of thirty percent or more, either of the areas of the land (exclusive of streets and alleys) include…
In order to avail itself of the powers conferred by sections 89.010 to 89.140, such legislative body shall appoint a commission, to be known as "The Zoning Commission", to recommend the boundaries of the various original districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein. Such commission shall make a prelimin…
Such local legislative body shall provide for the appointment of a board of adjustment, and in the regulations and restrictions adopted pursuant to the authority of sections 89.010 to 89.140 may provide that the board of adjustment may determine and vary their application in harmony with their general purpose and inten…
1. The board of adjustment shall have the following powers: (1) To hear and decide appeals where it is alleged there is error in any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by an administrative official in the enforcement of sections 89.010 to 89.140 or of any ordinance adopted pursuant to such sections; (2…
Appeals to the board of adjustment may be taken by any person aggrieved, by any neighborhood organization as defined in section 32.105 representing such person, or by any officer, department, board or bureau of the municipality affected by any decision of the administrative officer. Such appeal shall be taken within a…
Any person or persons jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of the board of adjustment, any neighborhood organization as defined in section 32.105 representing such person or persons or any officer, department, board or bureau of the municipality, may present to the circuit court of the county or city in which…
1. In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, converted, or maintained, or any building, structure, or land is used in violation of sections 89.010 to 89.140 or of any ordinance or other regulation made under authority conferred hereby, the proper local authorities of the municip…
Wherever the regulations made under authority of sections 89.010 to 89.140 require a greater width or size of yards, courts, or other open spaces, or require a lower height of building or less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are requ…
Wherever any municipality pursuant to an act of the legislature of this state shall have adopted an ordinance or ordinances for any of the purposes covered by sections 89.010 to 89.140, such ordinance or ordinances shall be deemed to have been adopted under the provisions of sections 89.010 to 89.140, and it shall not…
1. Any zoning law, ordinance or code enacted on or before August 28, 1990, by the governing body of any county, or any city, town or village containing a population of more than five hundred persons, as determined based upon the last previous decennial census of the United States, shall contain or be modified to contai…
1. Any third class city having a population of more than twenty-five thousand inhabitants may, by ordinance, adopt and enforce regulations governing zoning, planning, subdivision and building within all or any portion of the unincorporated area extending two miles outward from the corporate limits of the city if the ci…
1. Any constitutional charter city having a population of more than thirty-five thousand inhabitants, located in any county of the first class not having a charter form of government or in any county of the second class, may, by ordinance, adopt and enforce any and all regulations governing zoning, planning, subdivisio…
Whenever any city, town or village, located in a county of the first class with a charter form of government annexes any unincorporated territory, the zoning classification of the annexed territory shall remain the same as it was prior to the annexation, unless the zoning classification is affirmatively changed through…
The word "street", as used in sections 89.220 to 89.250, means any public highway, esplanade, boulevard, parkway, square or street, or any part or side, or part of the side, of any of the same.
It shall be lawful for any city now having or which may hereafter have five hundred thousand or more inhabitants to provide by ordinance for the establishment of building lines on any public street. Such building line shall be established by the same procedure as that provided by law in such city for the acquiring of l…
Whenever and wherever a building line shall be established as aforesaid, all structures extending within such building lines shall be required to conform to the new line within a period of not more than twenty-five years from the time of establishing said lines, such time to be provided in the ordinance providing for t…
In payment for the real estate, improvements and easements to be taken and acquired for the establishment of such building lines as are herein provided and of the damages sustained thereby, benefits shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as provided by law in proceedings in any such city for the acquiring o…
This law shall not limit or abridge any power now or hereafter conferred by law on such cities to establish building lines or take any property or any interest therein by eminent domain.
For the purpose of sections 89.300 to 89.480 the following terms mean or include: (1) "Council", the chief legislative body of the municipality; (2) "Streets", any public ways; (3) "Subdivision", the division of a parcel of land into two or more lots, or other divisions of land; it includes resubdivision and, when appr…
Any municipality in this state may make, adopt, amend, and carry out a city plan and appoint a planning commission with the powers and duties herein set forth.