Cleveland, OH zoning districts
23 districts, 23 with a written citation. Each row says what the district permits by primary use.
STARTER MAP — no districts authored yet (FEAT-139 tranche 1 registers the routing + live cited code only). Zoning in Cleveland is governed by Part Twelve (the Zoning Code) of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Cleveland, administered by the City Planning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals. Every code resolves as an unmapped base: confidence low, no permission claims, code carried through as published, upper-cased and trimmed by the resolver (doctrine 4 honest-null). Authoring the districts upgrades this city to interpreted tier with NO code change.
How to read the permissions
By right — allowed without discretionary approval. Conditional use — allowed only with a specific approval. Not permitted — not allowed as a primary use. Not resolved — the ordinance does not settle it in a way we would state as fact.
These describe the district. A specific parcel can also be affected by overlays, corridors, flood zones and site conditions.
| District | Residential | Commercial | Industrial |
|---|---|---|---|
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1F
1F One-Family Residential
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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2F
2F Two-Family Residential
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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DR
DR (not in the published use table)
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| not yet sourced | |||
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GI
GI General Industry
industrial
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Not permitted | By right | By right |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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GR
GR General Retail Business
commercial mixed
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By right | By right | Not permitted |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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IR
IR (not in the published use table)
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| not yet sourced | |||
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L1F
L1F Limited One-Family
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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LLR
LLR Limited Retail Business
commercial neighborhood
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By right | By right | Not permitted |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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LMF
LMF (not in the published use table)
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| not yet sourced | |||
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LR
LR Local Retail Business
commercial neighborhood
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By right | By right | Not permitted |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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MF
MF Multi-Family Residential
residential high
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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MMUD
MMUD (not in the published use table)
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| not yet sourced | |||
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OSR
OSR (not in the published use table)
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| not yet sourced | |||
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P
P (not in the published use table)
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| not yet sourced | |||
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RA
RA Townhouse
residential medium
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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RA3
RA3 (not in the published use table)
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| not yet sourced | |||
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RI
RI Residence-Industry
mixed use
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By right | By right | By right |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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RO
RO Residence Office
office
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By right | Conditional use | Not permitted |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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SC
SC (not in the published use table)
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| not yet sourced | |||
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SI
SI Semi-Industry
industrial light
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Conditional use | By right | By right |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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UGD
UGD (not in the published use table)
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| not yet sourced | |||
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UI
UI Unrestricted Industry
industrial heavy
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Not permitted | By right | By right |
| City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted | |||
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UR
UR (not in the published use table)
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| not yet sourced | |||
Sources
- City of Cleveland, “Primary Zoning Districts & Permitted Uses” table, published first-party at clevelandohio.gov; legend P = permitted by right, C = conditional use, Z = Board of Zoning Appeals approval, -- = not permitted
- Per family, the MOST PERMISSIVE value across a NAMED representative set, so the derivation is auditable rather than a judgement over 104 rows. residential = One-Family, Two-Family, Townhouse, Apartment. commercial = Retail Store/Service, Restaurant, Bank/Financial Institution, Barber/Beauty Shop, Professional Office Bldg. industrial = Manufacturing, Warehouse, Machine Shop, Outdoor Storage/Stockpiling. P -> by-right; C or Z -> conditional; -- -> prohibited.
- The table is TWO pages and page 2's columns sit 4 characters LEFT of page 1's. Parsing every row against page 1's positions silently mis-read every page-2 row and produced different permissions for MF, GR and UI. Each page is parsed against its OWN header, and the controls include rows from BOTH pages - the first control set was page-1 only and passed while page 2 was wrong.
- 13 of the 23 codes the live layer publishes are in the use table. The other 10 (DR, IR, LMF, MMUD, OSR, P, RA3, SC, UGD, UR) assert nothing. Title VII of the Codified Ordinances is hosted on codelibrary.amlegal.com, which Disallow: / for ClaudeBot, so those need a different first-party source.
Table verified against the sources above on 2026-08-17. Ordinances change, so check the current code before relying on any row for a decision.
Which district applies to your parcel?
This table describes the districts. To find out which one covers a specific address, and what else affects that site, run the address on the home page.