The Town of Falmouth is divided into the following types of zoning districts.
(1) 
Agricultural Districts
a. 
Agricultural AA
b. 
Agricultural A
c. 
Agricultural B
(2) 
Business Districts
a. 
Business 1 (Central)
b. 
Business 2 (Outlying)
c. 
Business 3 (Limited)
d. 
Business Redevelopment - BR
(3) 
Industrial Districts
a. 
Light Industrial A
b. 
Light Industrial B
c. 
Light Industrial C
(4) 
Marine District
(5) 
Public Use District
(6) 
Residence Districts
a. 
Single Residence AA
b. 
Single Residence A
c. 
Single Residence B
d. 
Single Residence C
e. 
General Residence - GR
f. 
Senior Care Retirement - SCR
(1) 
Accident Prevention Overlay District
(2) 
Coastal Pond Overlay District
(3) 
Floodplain Overlay District
(4) 
Large Scale Ground Mounted Solar Overlay District
(5) 
Mixed Residential and Commercial Overlay District
(6) 
Search and Rescue Corridor Overlay District
(7) 
Water Resource Protection Overlay District
(8) 
Wildlife Corridor Overlay District
Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC)
In addition to the districts listed in § 240-4.1B through § 240-4.1D, there is an Historic District established by Chapter 654 of the Acts of 1975, regulated by Chapter 36 of the Town Code.
(1) 
Zoning map - Districts are shown, defined, and bounded on the maps accompanying this bylaw collectively entitled "Town of Falmouth - Zoning Map", filed with the Town Clerk. The Zoning Map shall use the January 1, 2006, Town of Falmouth Assessors Sheets as a base map. The Zoning Map, as may be amended from time to time by Town Meeting, and all explanatory matter therein, are hereby made part of this bylaw.
(2) 
Additional maps - The following maps are incorporated by reference into the official Zoning Bylaw and Zoning Map:
a. 
Accident Prevention Overlay District - The Accident Prevention Overlay District (Zones I and II) as shown on the plan entitled "Dept. of the Air Force, Director of Engineering and Services-DCS P & R, Washington, D.C.; ANGSC Master Plan Air Installation Compatible Use Zone (AICUZ), Otis Air Force Base, Falmouth, Massachusetts, scale one inch equals 2,000 feet; dated October 26, 1979".
b. 
Coastal Pond Overlay District - The Coastal Pond Overlay District as shown on a map entitled "Recharge Areas of Coastal Ponds in Falmouth" dated August 1, 2001, scale 1" = 2000' on file with the Town Clerk.
c. 
Floodplain Overlay District - The Floodplain Overlay District as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map, dated July 16, 2014, published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and adopted by Town Meeting.
d. 
Search and Rescue Corridor Overlay District Map - The Search and Rescue Overlay District as shown on a map entitled: "Search & Rescue Corridor USCG Air Station Cape Cod Emergency Visual Routes", dated June 5, 2007, scale one inch equals 2,000 feet, and on file with the Town Clerk.
e. 
Water Resource Protection Overlay District - The Water Resource Protection Overlay District, as shown on the Town of Falmouth map, dated March 29, 2011, at a scale of one inch to 1,500 feet.
Whenever a road, way, right-of-way, railroad, or comparable human-made or human-designed area or feature, or a pond, stream, river, swamp, bog, marsh, or other body of water or comparable natural or quasi-natural geographic feature is shown on the Zoning Map as a boundary between districts of different zoning, the geographic district boundary shall be on the center line of that feature. A feature lying totally within a designated zone shall be zoned as the other land around it. No part of the land or water area within the Town shall be unzoned.