Missouri Revised Statutes

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 89.030 (2026)

Zoning districts

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  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.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases, 1956–2016 · leading case: Carl & Janice Duffner v. City of St. Peters, 482 S.W.3d 811 (Mo. Ct. App. 2016).
Carl & Janice Duffner v. City of St. Peters, 482 S.W.3d 811 (Mo. Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 2× “040, but mistakenly refers to it as Section 89.030. Because the substance is set forth in the petition, which then goes on to claim that the City lacked any of the purposes enumerated in the statute, we consider the substance of Appellants’ argument, which amounts to a complaint…”
Strandberg v. Kansas City, 415 S.W.2d 737 (Mo. 1967). · cites it 4× “Section 89.030 provides that 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.”
City of Moline Acres v. Heidbreder, 367 S.W.2d 568 (Mo. 1963). · cites it 4× “” Section 89.030 provides: “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.”
Moore v. City of Parkville, 156 S.W.3d 384 (Mo. Ct. App. 2005). · cites it 2× “Section 89.030 delegates the power to zone to municipalities and provides that the local legislative bodies of such municipalities may divide their cities into zoning districts.”
City of Green Ridge v. Kreisel, 25 S.W.3d 559 (Mo. Ct. App. 2000). · cites it 2× “Section 89.030 further provides that the city “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.”
State Ex Rel. Croy v. City of Raytown, 289 S.W.2d 153 (Mo. Ct. App. 1956). · cites it 2× “* * Section 89.030. See also Section 89.020. “Such regulations shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan”, Section 89.”
McCarty v. City of Kansas City, 671 S.W.2d 790 (Mo. Ct. App. 1984). “Instead, the statute speaks of amendment, supplement, change or modification to regulations, restrictions and boundaries which, in turn are the controls *795 on erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration or use of buildings, structures or land specified in § 89.030. If…”
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