In a One-Family District, the following buildings and uses and their accessory buildings and uses are permitted:
(a) Dwelling houses, each occupied by not more than one (1) family and not more than two (2) roomers or boarders;
(b) Playgrounds, parks;
(c) The extension of existing cemeteries;
(d) Railroad rights-of-way, not including switching, storage or freight yards or industrial sidings;
(f) The following buildings and uses, if located not less than fifteen (15) feet from any adjoining premises in a Residence District not used for a similar purpose:
(1) Churches and other places of worship, but not including funeral chapels or mortuary chapels;
(2) Telephone exchanges and static transformer stations, provided there is no public business office or any storage yard or storage building operated in connection therewith;
(3) Bus turn-around and layover areas operated by a public transit agency provided that no buildings other than a passenger shelter and restroom are located at each site, and provided, further, that any layover space accommodates no more than two (2) buses.
(g) The following buildings and uses, if approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals after public notice and public hearing, and if adequate yard spaces and other safeguards to preserve the character of the neighborhood are provided, and if in the judgment of the Board such buildings and uses are appropriately located and designed and will meet a community need without adversely affecting the neighborhood:
(1) A temporary or permanent use of a building by a nonprofit organization for a dormitory, fraternity or sorority house, for the accommodation of those enrolled in or employed by an educational institution permitted in the District;
(2) Fire stations, police stations;
(3) The following buildings and uses, if located not less than thirty (30) feet from any adjoining premises in a Residence District not used for a similar purpose, and subject to the review and approval of the Board of Zoning Appeals as stated above:
A. Public libraries or museums, and public or private schools or colleges including accessory laboratories, provided such private schools or colleges are not conducted as a gainful business;
B. Recreation or community center buildings, parish houses and grounds for games and sports, except those of which a chief activity is one customarily carried on primarily for gain;
C. Day nurseries, kindergartens;
D. Hospitals, sanitariums, nursing, rest or convalescent homes, not primarily for contagious diseases nor for the care of drug or liquor patients, nor for the care of the insane or developmentally disabled;
E. Orphanages;
F. Homes for the aged or similar homes;
G. Charitable institutions not for correctional purposes.
(4) The following buildings and uses, if located not less than fifty (50) feet from adjoining premises in a Residence District not used for a similar purpose, and subject to the review and approval of the Board of Zoning Appeals as stated above.
A. Municipal recreation buildings;
B. Municipal swimming pools;
(5) Crematories in existing cemeteries, provided they are not less than three hundred (300) feet from any boundary that abuts a Residence District, and subject to the review and approval of the Board of Zoning Appeals as stated above.
(h) A residential facility, as defined in Chapter 325 of this Zoning Code, for one (1) to five (5) unrelated persons, provided it is located not less than one thousand (1,000) feet from another residential facility. Residential facilities shall comply with area, height, yard and architectural compatibility requirements of this Zoning Code applicable to residences in One-Family Districts.
(Ord. No. 586-16. Passed 7-13-16, eff. 7-17-16)