Zoning, building permits and septic rules in Park Hills, Missouri

Park Hills’s own rules

• Local zoningPresent (with conditions)

  Land inside Park Hills city limits. Park Hills city adopts and administers its own Chapter 400 Zoning Regulations (R-1 through M-3 districts, MH district, and a table of permissible uses).

  • Zoning rules apply only to land inside city limits; this claim does not describe the county's unincorporated area.

  “a. a building or premises shall be used only for the purposes as specified in the table of permissible uses attached to this chapter, or as otherwise allowed by this code.”

• Zoning districtsPublished (with conditions)

  Land inside Park Hills city limits, under Chapter 400 Zoning Regulations, Article II District Regulations.

  • Districts listed in the Article II table of contents: R-1, R-2, R-3, MH (mobile home park), C-1, C-2, C-3, M-1, M-2, M-3.

  “section 400.040 "r-1" single-family residential district regulations. section 400.050 "r-2" single-family residential district regulations. section 400.060 "r-3" general residential district regulations. section 400.070 "mh" mobile home park district regulations.”

• Minimum lot sizeSpecified

  Detached single-family dwellings in the R-1 single-family residential district inside Park Hills city limits (main single-family district). No agricultural or rural-residential district was found in the Chapter 400 district text.

  • Lot width is measured at the building setback line.
  • Churches, community buildings, schools and similar buildings require at least one acre and 150 ft width under the same section.

  minimum lot area: >= 12000 sq ft · minimum lot width at building setback line: >= 100 ft

  “detached single-family dwellings shall be on a lot having an area of not less than twelve thousand (12,000) square feet and a width at the building setback line of not less than one hundred (100) feet.”

  One more reviewed finding on this topic

  • Specified — Detached single-family dwellings in the R-2 single-family residential district inside Park Hills city limits.

    “detached single-family dwellings shall be on a lot having an area of not less than seven thousand five hundred (7,500) square feet and a width at the building setback line of not less than seventy-five (75) feet.”

• SetbacksSpecified

  Buildings in the R-1 single-family residential district inside Park Hills city limits.

  • Side yard: on each lot upon which a dwelling is constructed, there shall be a side yard on each side of not less than fifteen (15) feet.
  • Rear yard: every lot or parcel of land upon which a building is constructed shall have a rear yard of not less than thirty (30) feet, or twenty percent (20%) of the depth of the lot, whichever is greater, but it need not exceed fifty (50) feet.
  • Non-dwelling uses (churches, schools, clubs and similar) carry a 30 ft side yard on each side of the main structure.

  front yard: >= 30 ft · side yard (dwelling): >= 15 ft · rear yard: >= 30 ft (or 20% of lot depth, whichever is greater, not to exceed 50 ft)

  “each lot upon which a building is constructed shall have a front yard of not less than thirty (30) feet.”

• Lot coverageSpecified

  All buildings, including accessory buildings, on R-1 single-family residential lots inside Park Hills city limits.

  • Residential lot coverage limit stated in Section 400.040 para. 4.

  maximum lot coverage: <= 30 percent of lot area

  “all buildings, including accessory buildings, shall not cover more than thirty percent (30%) of the area of the lot.”

• Subdividing landRegulated (with conditions)

  Land divisions inside Park Hills city limits.

  • Chapter 405 Subdivision Regulations, sections 405.010 through 405.180, per the code table of contents. The text of Chapter 405 was not opened.

  “chapter 405 subdivision regulations (section 405.010 &ndash; section 405.180)”

Still unanswered

We looked and could not find an official answer yet. Silence is not permission; ask Park Hills or St. Francois County directly.

• Building permit — Building permits for new homes inside Park Hills city limits
• Owner-builder exemption — Owner-builder exemption inside Park Hills city limits
• Building code adopted — Building code adoption inside Park Hills city limits
• Inspections — Building inspections inside Park Hills city limits
• Certificate of occupancy — Certificate of occupancy inside Park Hills city limits

Each answer was extracted from an official source and independently re-checked against that source by a second reviewer. That is an evidence check, not legal advice. Rules change; confirm with the authority before you buy or build.

Off-grid gear

Going off-grid in Park Hills means bringing your own water and power. The kit we’d start with:

• Water Crystal Quest Filter any source — well, rain, or creek — to drinking-clean.
• Power Bluetti Solar generators and home battery backup for living off the grid.
• Septic Soil percolation test kit Run your own perc test before paying an engineer — the first thing a septic office asks about.
• Water Well water test kit Bacteria, nitrates, hardness — know what the well on a parcel is really pumping.

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