Section 89.030

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

Chapter 89

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   

  89.030.  Zoning districts. — 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, alteration or use of buildings, structures, or land.  All such regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind of buildings throughout each district, but the regulations in one district may differ from those in other districts.

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(RSMo 1939 § 7413)

Prior revision: 1929 § 7260

(1963) This act does not authorize the adoption of a one-use district zoning ordinance and city zoning ordinance which placed all territory in city in single family dwelling district, except as ordinance might be amended thereafter, was invalid.  City of Moline Acres v. Heidbreder (Mo.), 367 S.W.2d 568.