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Madison County adopts personal-campground definition to clarify RV and tent use

3218707 · May 8, 2025
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Summary

The county amended zoning text to add a definition for "personal campground" intended to allow temporary recreational use of private property while preventing RVs and tents from being used as permanent residences; the zoning department will investigate complaints about permanent RV residency.

Madison County officials adopted a definition for “personal campground” to clarify how recreational vehicles and tents may be used on private property and to limit their use as permanent residences.

Planning staff presented the zoning-text amendment (case 2024-ZOA-12-18-02) and said the definition will appear in the ordinance’s definitions section and be treated as a by-right use in the designated districts. "The personal campground shall be a by right use in C-1 and R-1," staff said during the planning…

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