When authorized by the Planning Commission, the following uses are permitted in R-4 Districts:
(a) Two-Family dwellings;
(b) Branch telephone exchanges excluding cellular transmission towers, static transformer stations, and booster or pressure regulating stations, without service yard storage;
(c) Country clubs, golf courses, swimming clubs, tennis courts and similar recreational uses, provided that any principal building or swimming pool shall be located not less than one hundred feet (100 ft.) from any other lot in any residential district; and
(Ord. 7139-99. Passed 7-6-99.)
(d) Any buildings or structures occupied by or used for the meeting or congregating of clubs, including fraternal, patriotic, political or religious organizations and institutions; veterans groups; churches; Sunday schools; parish houses; public, private and parochial schools (including dormitories); public libraries; museums; art galleries and similar cultural uses; and community centers. Such structures shall be located the minimum of 30 feet from any side or rear lot line bordering a residential district, and the minimum of 35 feet from any public right-of-way. Said setbacks may be used to the extent possible and with the approval of the Planning Commission for parking, landscaping or approved signage. Landscaping and buffering shall be installed according to a plan approved by the Planning Commission as set forth in Section 1931.08. Said uses shall include off-street parking on contiguous lots conforming with the requirements of Chapter 1957, Parking.
(Ord. 7435-01. Passed 2-18-02.)
(e) Day care home as defined in Section 1915.13;
(f) Group homes as defined in Section 1915.24;
(g) Home offices, subject to the following provisions:
(a) Office of a physician, dentist, lawyer, architect, consultant or engineer within his dwelling, provided such is not operated as the principal office. No office shall require internal or external alterations or involve construction features or the use of mechanical equipment not customarily found in a dwelling;
(b) Customary incidental home occupations such as handicraft, dressmaking, millinery, but not including beauty parlor, barber shop, dancing or music school with organized classes, or similar activity, carried on solely by resident occupants within their residence, subject to the following provisions:
(1) That not more than one (1) room is used for such purposes by any resident family;
(2) That no such use shall require internal or external alterations or involve construction features or the use of mechanical equipment not customary in dwellings;
(3) That only those items that are produced on the premises are sold or offered for sale; and
(4) That no display of goods or services pertaining to such use is visible from the street.
(h) Cemeteries of ten (10) acres or more in size.
(i) Boarding or lodging houses;
(j) Editor’s Note: Former subsection (j) hereof was repealed by Ordinance 7435- 01.;
(k) Day-care home, type A, Kindergartens, day nurseries, or nursery schools, provided that any play lot used in connection therewith is suitably fenced and screened in accordance with requirements of the Board;
(l) Editor’s Note: Former subsection (l) hereof was repealed by Ordinance 7435-01;
(m) Tourist homes; motels or motor hotels on lots abutting on Broadway Avenue and Northfield Road, subject to the applicable provisions of Section 1937.12;
(n) The following on lots abutting on Broadway Avenue and Northfield Road:
(1) Office of civic, religious or charitable organizations and financial or insurance institutions conducting their activities primarily by mail and not handling merchandise or rendering services on the premises;
(2) Offices devoted to real estate, insurance, management, and similar enterprises when conducting their activities primarily by mail or telephone and not displaying or handling merchandise on the premises; and
(3) Professional offices of architects, engineers, lawyers.
(o) Parking areas accessory to a use in an adjoining less restricted district, when abutting or directly across an alley, subject to the applicable conditions stipulated in Section 1957.02, and such further conditions as may be stipulated by the Board; and
(p) Private hospitals, sanitariums and nursing homes not for contagious diseases, mental health facilities, provided that any such buildings shall be at least fifty feet (50 ft.) from any other lot in any residence district and other hospitals or sanitariums for human care provided that any buildings used for the treatment of contagious diseases, addictions, or the mentally ill shall be at least one hundred feet (100 ft.) from any other lot in any residential district. Hospitals shall be located on lots of five (5) acres or more, sanitariums on lots of ten (10) acres or more and nursing homes on lots of twenty thousand square feet.
(q) Apartment hotels for any number of guests, but not primarily for transients, including therein incidental accessory services, such as restaurants and newsstands, when conducted and entered from within the building, provided there is no exterior display of such accessory services. For such hotels where no cooking is done in individual rooms or apartments, the regulations hereinafter concerning lot area per family shall not apply;
(r) Other R-4 compatible uses as deemed appropriate by the Planning Commission.
(Ord. 7139-99. Passed 7-6-99.)