Zoning Classifications

Current Classifications

UPNDC: Unity Park Neighborhood District Code 
The Unity Park Neighborhood District Code. (UPNDC) is intended to implement the Unity Park Area Plan. The UPNDC will promote the character of the area and will encourage a walkable urban center that features cohesive design, use, densities and pedestrian amenities to create a vibrant, sustainable and complimentary community, while protecting existing residential areas from inappropriate infill and redevelopment. View Map (PDF)

R-6: Single-family residential district
The R-6 district is intended to preserve and encourage single-family residential development with a minimum lot size of 6,000 square feet. 

R-9: Single-family residential district
The R-9 district is intended to preserve and encourage single-family residential development with a minimum lot size of 9,000 square feet. 

RM-1: Single-family and multifamily residential district
The RM-1 district is intended to encourage a mixture of low-density and medium-density housing types, including multifamily units, townhouses, single-family detached, and single-family attached dwellings. The maximum density for multifamily development is ten units per acre.

RM-1.5: Single-family and multifamily residential district
The RM-1.5 district is intended to encourage a mixture of low-density and medium-density housing types, including multifamily units, townhouses, single-family detached, and single-family attached dwellings. The maximum density for multifamily development is 15 units per acre. 

RM-2: Single-family and multifamily residential district
The RM-2 district is intended to encourage a mixture of medium-density housing types, including multifamily units, townhouses, single-family detached, and single-family attached dwellings. The maximum density for multifamily development is 20 units per acre. 

RM-3: Single-family and multifamily residential district
The RM-3 district is intended to encourage a mixture of medium-density to high-density housing types, including multifamily units, high-rise multifamily units, townhouses, single-family detached, and single-family attached dwellings. The maximum density for multifamily development is 20 units per acre. 

OD: Office and institutional district
The OD district is intended to provide for a wide variety of professional and business offices and institutions.

C-1: Neighborhood commercial district
The C-1 district is intended to provide convenience shopping areas and professional offices within which the daily needs of the surrounding neighborhood can be satisfied. 

C-2: Local commercial district
The C-2 district is intended to provide a limited range of general retail, business, and service uses as well as professional and business offices, but not intensive business or industrial activities, to persons living in surrounding neighborhoods. 

C-3: Regional commercial district
The C-3 district is intended to establish and preserve distinct areas for regional retail shopping centers. 

C-4: Central business district
The C-4 district is intended to preserve downtown Greenville as the city’s center accommodating a unique, high-intensity mix of office, service, retail, entertainment, cultural, government, civic, light manufacturing, and residential uses. 

S-1: Service district
The S-1 district is intended to accommodate service-related uses, light manufacturing, and general commercial uses which may have large buildings and outdoor storage requirements. 

I-1: Industrial district
The I-1 district is intended to primarily accommodate those uses of a manufacturing and industrial nature and secondary, functionally related uses, such as distribution, storage, and processing. 

PD: Planned development district
The planned development district (PD) is intended to encourage innovative land planning and site design concepts that conform to community quality-of-life benchmarks and that achieve a high level of aesthetics, high-quality development, environmental sensitivity, energy efficiency, and other community goals.

RDV: Redevelopment district
The intent of the redevelopment district (RDV) is to promote appropriate investment and development in areas that are depressed or underdeveloped. 

PO: Preservation overlay district
The city recognizes that the historic and architectural resources of the city are among its most important assets, and uses district-specific development standards.

NRO: Neighborhood revitalization overlay district
The purpose of the neighborhood revitalization overlay district (NRO) is to enhance the compatibility of new development with design guidelines established for each neighborhood master plan approved by city council. 

SSOD: Special Sign Overlay District
The purpose of the special sign overlay district (SSOD) is to address the size and type of freestanding signs allowed without changing the base zoning classification of properties to which it is applied. 

AP: Airport protective overlay district
The airport protective overlay district (AP) is established to ensure against safety hazards, noise, and obstruction problems associated with aircraft utilizing the Greenville Downtown Airport. 

SFHA: Special flood hazard area overlay district
The special flood hazard area overlay district (SFHA) is established to protect the public health, safety, and general welfare by minimizing public and private losses resulting from flood conditions in specific areas of the city. 

FRD: Flexible Review District
The FRD is intended to provide design and use flexibility to allow development and redevelopment of properties that is compatible with the existing character of the area as set forth by the city’s comprehensive plan.