Zoning District Map

Use of Land
Zoning District Map

A person may use the land or building in each of the above-classified districts in the city only for the purposes described. Any other use of land or building in district or districts is unlawful and in violation of this chapter. A person may not erect, reconstruct, enlarge, structurally alter, or move a building or structure unless it conforms to the regulations for the district in which the building or structure is located.

Zoning Map

The boundaries of each district are shown upon the map, which accompanies (on file in city secretary's office) and is made a part of this chapter and is designated as the zoning map. The zoning map and all markings, notations, references, and other information shown on the zoning map are part of this chapter.

One building on one lot If a person erects, enlarges or structurally alters a building, he may locate no more than one main building on one lot, except as may be otherwise provided by this chapter.

Annexed Property

All territory hereafter annexed to the City of Lamesa is subject to the restrictions and regulations of an "R-1" District until otherwise changed by an amendment to the chapter.

Lamesa Zoning Districts are as follows:

R-1: 1 Family, 2 Family (Duplex)
R-1

R-1 Zoning District – Single Family Residence

In the "R-1" district, there may be any of the following:

  • One-family dwellings
  • Two-family dwellings (Duplexes)
  • Public parks, playgrounds, etc.
  • Customary home occupations
  • Churches
  • Public schools and educational institutions
  • Accessory buildings (garages, servants quarters)
  • Boarding or lodging houses
  • Fire station, police station, pumping station, lake, water supply reservoir, filter bed, water tank, tower, or bridges
  • Electrical facilities and electrical energy facilities, transformers, relay and substations, poles, wires, and electrical transmission and distribution appurtenances, but not including office buildings or storage facilities.  
     
NOTE:  Boarding or Lodging Houses May include:

1.A foster care type residential facility as defined in Section 242.002(6) of the Health and Safety Code that:  provides room and board to fewer than five persons who:
  • Are not related within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity to the proprietor; and
  •  Because of their physical or mental limitation, or both, require a level of care and services suitable to their needs that contributes to their health, comfort, and welfare; and is not required to be licensed by the state. 
2.An establishment that furnishes, in addition to food, shelter, and laundry, only baths and massages and is not required to be licensed by the state.    
R-2: Apartment District; Multi-Family Residence
R-2

R-2 Zoning District – Multi-Family Residence

In the "R-2" district, there may also be:

  • Apartment houses
  • Multi-family dwellings
  • Hospitals and clinics (other than hospitals and clinics of a veterinarian)
  • Libraries and museums
  • Mortuary
  • Non-profit religious, educational institutions
  • Clubs, lodges, and fraternities, where the chief activity is not a business
  • Public parking lots
  • Office buildings
  • Nursing homes
  • Accessory buildings incident to above uses.    
NOTE: Nursing Homes May include:

1. A convalescent and nursing home institution as defined in Section 242.002 of the Health and Safety Code.
2. A continuing-care facility as defined in Section 246.002 of the Health and Safety Code.
3. A personal care facility as defined in Section 247.002 of the Health and Safety Code.
4. A special care facility as defined in Section 248.002 of the Health and Safety Code.
R-3: Mobile Homes
R-3

R-3 Zoning District – Mobile Homes

In the "R-3" district, there may also be:

1. Mobile home subdivisions, provided the following regulations are observed:
a. Area: A mobile home subdivision shall consist of at least 42,000 square feet.
b. Requirements: Any person owning a mobile home subdivision in an "R-3" district shall provide lots sufficient in size to meet     the following requirements:
i. Parking space for motor vehicles is clearly designated, and any vehicle is parked at least ten (10) feet from the street frontage.
ii. The owner of the mobile home subdivision shall surround the mobile home subdivision with a strip of open space ten (10) feet wide along the street frontage and five (5) feet wide along other lot line.
2. Accessory buildings incident to the above use.
C-1: Local Retail District
C-1

C-1 Zoning District – Local Retail District

In the "C-1" district, there may also be: 

1. Auto sales-repair 
2. Auto service station-minor repairs 
3. Bank 
4. Barber shop-beauty shop 
5. Bakeries-bottling works 
6. Beer and liquor stores (when legal) 
7. Bowling alley 
8. Business or Commercial school and/or Dancing or Music Studio 
9. Building materials-storage 
10. Bus stations 
11. Cleaning-pressing shop 
12. Cemetery 
13. Children’s nursery or kindergarten; including a day care center and a group day care home as defined by state law 
14. Catering establishments 
15. Cold storage plants 
16. Drug Stores 
17. Dry goods stores 
18. Dentists 
19. Department stores 
20. Electric shops 
21. Florist shop 
22. Feed store-no manufacturing 
23. Fabric shops 
24. Farm equipment 
25. Furniture dealers 
26. Grocery stores 
27. Garage storage and repair 
28. Gift shop 
29. Glass shops-plate, window, auto, etc. 
30. Hotels and motels 
31. Hardware stores 
32. Insurance agents 
33. Irrigation systems and equipment 
34. Jewelers 
35. Laundry-dry cleaning 
36. Locker plants 
37. Lumberyards 
38. Monument sales 
39. Music dealers 
40. Office supplies 
41. Optometrists 
42. Paint store 
43. Pet shops 
44. Photographers studios 
45. Plumbing shops 
46. Printing shops 
47. Restaurant-cafe 
48. Retail store 
49. Retail ice 
50. Studio-artist, dancing, music 
51. Sales-showrooms 
52. Shoe repair shops 
53. Second-hand store (entirely inside a building) 
54. Theaters, but not a drive-in 
55. TV-radio sales and repair shops-TV Cable Company 
56. Tire sales and repair shops 
57. Trailer sales service 
58. Taxicabs 
59. Telegraph 
60. Telephone companies 
61. Trading stamp companies 
62. Used auto sales 
63. Upholsterers 
64. Variety stores 
65. Washateria or self-service laundry 
66. Welding equipment-(sales) 
67. Wrecker service as defined in Section 42.061 of this Code. 
68. Cabinet or carpenter shop 
69. Contractors-plant and storage 
70. Sale, repair, and fabrication of gin fans and processing equipment for agricultural products. 
71. Rental storage or mini-warehouse rental units, including recreational vehicle and boat storage units.
I-1: Light Industry District
I-1

I-1 Zoning District – Light Industry

In the "I-1" district, there may also be:

1. Ice manufacture
2. Sash and door manufacture
3. Storage warehouses
4. Wholesale houses
5. Clothing manufacture
6. Hatchery
7. Public kennel
8. Mattress manufacture
9. Prefab house manufacture
10. Produce market
11. Roofing manufacturing shop
12. Drive-in theaters
I-2: Heavy Industry
I-2

I-2 Zoning District – Heavy Industry

In the "I-2" district, there may also be:

1.Blacksmith shop
2.Machine shop
3.Planing mill
4.Welding shop
5.Asphalt storage
6.Brick-tile manufacture
7.Canning plant
8.Central mix plant-concrete or paving materials
9.Concrete block plant
10.Cheese manufacture
11.Coal yard
12.Cotton gins
13.Cotton storage
14.Dairy products manufacture
15.Disinfectants and insecticide manufacture and storage
16.Freight terminal
17.Grain elevator
18.Livestock loading pens
19.Monument manufacture
20.Oil reclamation plant
21.Oil well equipment service and supplies
22.Pharmaceutical manufacture
23.Petroleum-bulk storage
24.Paper products manufacture
25.Railroad shops
26.Steel prefab and storage
27.Vegetable packing plant
28.Warehouse-cotton
29.Fertilizer-storage and blending 

I-2 district uses for which approval required:

A.Regulations In the "I-2" district, there may be any use except:
1.Building for residential use and mobile homes, except quarters for caretakers and similar personnel;
2.Junkyards, salvage and scrap operations, and automobile wrecking yards as defined in Section 396.001 (1) of the Texas Transportation Code, not surrounded by a solid fence at least six feet high located within building lines.
B.Approval required:  A person shall obtain separate council approval before a building or occupancy permit is issued for:
1.Acid manufacture
2.Cement, lime, gypsum, or plaster of paris manufacturing
3.Distillation of bone
4.Explosives manufacturing or storage
5.Fat rendering
6.Fertilizer manufacturing
7.Gas manufacturing
8.Garbage, offal, or dead animals, reductions of dumping
9.Glue manufacturing
10.Petroleum, or its products, refining
11.Smelting of tin, copper, zinc or iron ores
12.Stockyards or slaughter of animals.

I-2 Zoning District – Heavy Industry

In the "I-2" district, there may also be:

1.Blacksmith shop
2.Machine shop
3.Planing mill
4.Welding shop
5.Asphalt storage
6.Brick-tile manufacture
7.Canning plant
8.Central mix plant-concrete or paving materials
9.Concrete block plant
10.Cheese manufacture
11.Coal yard
12.Cotton gins
13.Cotton storage
14.Dairy products manufacture
15.Disinfectants and insecticide manufacture and storage
16.Freight terminal
17.Grain elevator
18.Livestock loading pens
19.Monument manufacture
20.Oil reclamation plant
21.Oil well equipment service and supplies
22.Pharmaceutical manufacture
23.Petroleum-bulk storage
24.Paper products manufacture
25.Railroad shops
26.Steel prefab and storage
27.Vegetable packing plant
28.Warehouse-cotton
29.Fertilizer-storage and blending 

I-2 district uses for which approval required:

A.Regulations In the "I-2" district, there may be any use except:

1.Building for residential use and mobile homes, except quarters for caretakers and similar personnel;
2.Junk yards, salvage and scrap operations, and automobile wrecking yards as defined in Section 396.001 (1) of the Texas Transportation Code, not surrounded by a solid fence at least six feet high located within building lines.

B.Approval required:  A person shall obtain separate council approval before a building or occupancy permit is issued for:
1.Acid manufacture
2.Cement, lime, gypsum, or plaster of paris manufacturing
3.Distillation of bone
4.Explosives manufacturing or storage
5.Fat rendering
6.Fertilizer manufacturing
7.Gas manufacturing
8.Garbage, offal, or dead animals, reductions of dumping
9.Glue manufacturing
10.Petroleum, or its products, refining
11.Smelting of tin, copper, zinc or iron ores
12.Stockyards or slaughter of animals.