The Decatur City Council has approved a full rewrite of the city’s zoning ordinance and adopted an updated zoning map, modernizing rules the city says have been in place since the late 1950s.

New zoning districts, less-restrictive sign regulations, new bans on parking in yards and on large commercial trucks parking at residences are among numerous changes in a proposed zoning and land-use ...

Decatur's proposed zoning ordinance will be updated to ban long-term parking of vehicles in front yards and to limit the time a recreational vehicle or moving truck could park at a home's front yard ...