Planning & Zoning · Demo
What zone is my property in?
Pan and zoom the city's official zoning map, then tap any colored area and it tells you the district — in plain English, not planner-speak.
The city's official 2025 map
Find your street, click your zone.
This is the City's own zoning sheet, dated 19 August 2025, laid over a street map so you can find your own road. Type an address, or just click anywhere on the map — it will tell you the district, what that district is called, and the city's own minimum lot and setback requirements for it.
The city's official zoning map, dated 19 August 2025, laid over a street map. The sheet itself states it is accurate for planning purposes only — confirm anything you intend to rely on with City Hall, 601.736.8201.
Read this before relying on it
What this map is, and isn't.
Nothing on this map was drawn by us. What you are looking at is the City's own Official Zoning Map, dated 19 August 2025, positioned over a street basemap using the coordinate information the City's file already carried. The district boundaries are the City's lines, at the City's own accuracy — not a trace, and not our interpretation of one.
Three honest limits:
- The sheet itself sets the standard. Printed on the City's map: it is accurate for planning purposes only. It is drawn at city scale, so it will not settle where a line falls within a single lot. If your property sits near a boundary, that is exactly the case the map cannot answer — call City Hall.
- Click a road and you will get the nearest district, not an exact one. Streets and labels are drawn in white on the sheet, so there is no district underneath them to read. When that happens the map says so plainly, and tells you how far it had to look.
- What you may build is not on here. The map gives the district and its dimensional requirements. The list of permitted uses in each district is a separate document, and the only copy anyone holds is a damaged scan of the 1970 ordinance — too damaged to publish as though it were current. The City would need to supply a current use table.
Where this map and the City's paper document disagree, the paper document wins. Confirm anything you intend to act on with City Hall at 601.736.8201.
Source files
The City's own documents, if you want them.
Everything this page shows comes from two files the City supplied. Both are here in full:
- The Official Zoning Map, 19 August 2025 (PDF) — the sheet itself, including the certification block and the amendment table.
- Table 1 — minimum requirements for all zoning districts (DOCX) — the lot sizes, coverage limits, heights and setbacks quoted in the popups, transcribed exactly.
One thing the City still needs to settle. Table 1 contains a row labelled M-11, with mobile-home-sized requirements — 3,600 sq ft, 36 feet wide, two storeys. There is no M-11 area anywhere on the 2025 map. The numbers match the old MH — Mobile Home Parks district, so it may simply be a relabelling, but the website will not assume that. Until the City confirms it, M-11 is listed as unconfirmed and is not shown as a mapped district.
Setbacks · City-supplied Table 1
Minimum front, side and rear yards by district.
These are the minimum feet shown in the setback table Marjorie supplied. A larger buffer, corner-lot rule, special-use rule or approved variance may change what applies to a particular property.
- R-100: front 30 ft. · side 15 ft. · rear 25 ft.
- R-80: front 25 ft. · side 10 ft. · rear 20 ft.
- R-70: front 20 ft. · side 10 ft. · rear 20 ft.
- M-11 (label used in the supplied table): front 20 ft. · side 15 ft. · rear 12 ft. The row also shows a 3,600 sq. ft. minimum lot and 36 ft. width; confirm with the City whether this is intended to be the mobile-home/MH district.
- B-1: front 30 ft. · rear 25 ft. · side not generally specified, but the ordinance adds a requirement beside a residential lot.
- B-2: no general front or side minimum · rear 20 ft.
- B-3: front 30 ft. · side 25 ft. · rear 25 ft. The ordinance increases side and rear buffers beside residential uses.
- M-1: front 50 ft. · side 25 ft. · rear 50 ft.
- M-2: front 100 ft. · side 50 ft. · rear 50 ft. Side and rear increase to 150 ft. where the district abuts commercial or residential property.
Before measuring or building: read the district rules and call City Hall at 601.736.8201. Setbacks are measured from property lines or right-of-way lines as defined by the ordinance—not from the edge of pavement or a fence that may not be on the property line.
⏳ Reserved — coming to this map
The four city wards will live on this map too.
The same map that shows zoning districts is where the ward boundaries belong — one map, two layers, and a resident can answer both "what is my zone?" and "who is my alderman?" in one place.
What it needs: the city's official ward boundaries. Once we have them — even as a marked paper map — they become a layer here, and the address search above will return your ward and your alderman alongside your zoning district.
Why it is not here yet: we will not draw ward lines from guesswork. A wrong ward tells somebody to call the wrong alderman, and in a close municipal election it is worse than that. Until the city supplies the boundaries, Who Represents Me routes you to City Hall on 601.736.8201, who can tell you your ward in about thirty seconds.
Also reserved for this map: voting precincts, which are a third boundary again — see Voting & Elections.
What each colour allows
The mapped districts, and what they mean.
Clicking a coloured area on the map gives you the district name. Here is what each one broadly governs — and the full text of the rules for every district is on the zoning ordinance page, which is a different document from the map.
Residential
- R-100 — Single Family Residential. Detached houses on the largest minimum lots. The most restrictive residential district.
- R-80 — Two Family Residential. Single family plus duplexes, on smaller minimum lots.
- R-70 — Multi-Family Residential. Apartments and multi-unit dwellings permitted.
Business
- B-1 — Neighbourhood Commercial. Small-scale business meant to sit next to houses — the corner store end of the scale.
- B-2 — Central Business District. Downtown. The most permissive commercial district, and the one with the fewest parking and setback demands, because it was built before cars.
- B-3 — General Commercial. The highway-and-bypass district: larger footprints, parking, signage.
Industrial
- M-1 — Light Industrial. Manufacturing, assembly and warehousing with limited nuisance impact.
- M-2 — General Industrial. Heavier industry, with the widest buffer requirements.
Mobile-home note. The older map and ordinance material use MH — Mobile Home Parks. The 2025 map does not show an MH layer, while the new setback table contains a row labeled M-11. The City needs to confirm that label before the website treats it as a current mapped district.
🔴 This is a plain-language summary, not the law. Setbacks, heights, lot coverage, parking counts, signage and the lists of permitted and conditional uses are all in the ordinance itself — and a conditional use is not the same as a permitted one. Before you buy, build or open, read the district's section and then confirm with City Hall on 601.736.8201.
Planning & Zoning
Not sure what your zone allows?
Tell us the address and what you want to do with the property — build, open, expand, park — and we will tell you which district it is in and what that means for your plans.