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The City of Jackson is a planned community and utilizes a combination of zoning regulations and form-based-codes to create desirable, compatible, and appropriate development in the City. These regulations and codes are designed to protect the health, safety, and welfare of citizens and visitors in our community. They also play a vital role in increasing the overall quality-of-life in our neighborhoods, and in maintaining and improving the overall aesthetics and property values.
The City of Jackson's Zoning Ordinance is available online. It is Chapter 28 of the City of Jackson Code of Ordinances.
City of Jackson Code of Ordinances
Would you like to know what your property is zoned?
Check the City Assessor’s property search website. You can access the City of Jackson’s Assessing records here or at the link below. You may conduct a property search and your zoning district will be listed under the “land information” section of your property information page.
City of Jackson Property Search
*It is important to note that sometimes your property may be split between more than one zoning districts. It is always a good idea to check a zoning map to verify the zoning of your property.
Is your property located in more than one zoning district? Do you want to see a zoning map of the entire City? You can view zoning maps here:
8 ½” x 11” low-resolution (841 kb)
36” x 48” high-resolution (2 megs)
36” x 48” with air photo; high-resolution (19 megs)
Standard (or Euclidean) zoning is a device of land use planning used by local governments in most developed countries. The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another. Zoning may be use-based (regulating the uses to which land may be put), or it may regulate building height, lot coverage, and similar characteristics, or some combination of these. It allows governments to control the development of communities and ensure they are functional and safe places. Without zoning, a gun store could open up next to a school, an adult club next to a playground, and a busy store on your residential street. Zoning prevents these things from happening and by doing so, it protects property values.
A form-based code (FBC) is a means of regulating development to achieve a specific urban form. Form-based codes create a predictable public realm by controlling physical form primarily, with a lesser focus on land use, through city or county regulations.
Form-based codes are a new response to the modern challenges of urban sprawl, deterioration of historic neighborhoods, and neglect of pedestrian safety in new development. Tradition has declined as a guide to development patterns, and the widespread adoption by cities of single-use zoning regulations has discouraged compact, walkable urbanism. Form-based codes are a tool to address these deficiencies, and to provide local governments the regulatory means to achieve development objectives with greater certainty.
Here is an example of Euclidean Zoning versus Form-Based Codes.
For more information on what a FBC is, visit the Form-Based Codes Institute at:
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