(A) Statement of purpose. The RM, Multiple-Family Residential District is designed to permit a more intensive residential use of land with various types of attached single-family houses, townhouses and garden apartments. For the Multiple-Family Residential District, in promoting the general purpose of this chapter, the specific time is:
(1) To encourage multiple-family development in locations where:
(a) Sewage disposal can be safely accommodated;
(b) In areas with immediate access to county primary roads; and
(c) In areas where multiple-family development can be compatible with adjacent development.
(2) To prohibit business, commercial or industrial uses of land; and to prohibit any other use of land which would substantially interfere with multiple-family development; and
(3) To encourage the discontinuance of existing uses that would not be permitted as new uses under the provisions of this chapter.
(B) Permitted principal uses. The following provisions apply in all RM, Multiple-Family Residential Districts. Any use not expressly permitted is prohibited.
(1) Two-family dwellings;
(2) Multiple-family dwelling units including townhouses (single-family attached dwellings), apartments and row or terrace dwellings; and
(3) Accessory uses and buildings customarily incidental to the above permitted principal uses.
(C) Special land uses. The following special land uses shall be permitted subject to the standards hereinafter imposed and § 154.045:
(1) Hospitals, provided the following conditions are met.
(a) All such hospitals shall be developed only on sites consisting of at least ten acres in area.
(b) The proposed site shall have at least one property line abutting a county road. All ingress and egress to the off-street parking area, for guests, employees, staff as well as other users of the facilities, shall be directly onto said county road.
(c) In the event one or more boundaries of the proposed site lies opposite or contiguous to a residential district, the minimum distances between any hospital structure or accessory use and the residential district boundary shall be at least 100 feet for buildings containing two stories, the building shall be set back from the initial 100-foot setback an additional one foot for each foot of additional height above two stories.
(d) The minimum distance from any street line shall not be less than 40 feet for buildings containing two stories or less, while buildings above two stories shall be set back an additional one foot for each five feet of height above two stories.
(e) The minimum distance from any nonresidential lot line shall not be less than 25 feet.
(f) Ambulance and delivery areas shall be obscured from all residential view with a wall at least six feet in height.
(g) Development plan shall show any future construction and projected maximum patient census.
(h) Noise producing activities, such as ambulance and delivery areas, shall be located not less than 500 feet from any residential area.
(2) Convalescent and/or nursing homes, when the following conditions are met.
(a) The site shall be so developed as to create a land to building ratio on the parcel whereby for each one bed in the convalescent home there shall be provided not less than 1,500 square feet of land area.
(b) No building shall be closer than 40 feet from any property line.
(D) Site design requirements. All permitted uses shall conform to the following site design requirements.
(1) Density. Two-family and multiple-family dwellings and adult foster care group homes shall be subject to the following density requirements based on gross site acreage, not including public road rights-of-way:
Unit Type | Site Area per Dwelling Unit |
First bedroom | 6,000 sq. ft. |
Each additional bedroom | 3,000 sq. ft. |
(2) Setbacks and distance between buildings. All developments shall be subject to the following yard requirements:
Min. Setback From Internal Drive/Street | Min. Setback From Perimeter Prop. Line | Min. Distance Between Buildings | Min. Setback From Internal Parking |
25 ft. | 50 ft. | 35 ft. | 10 ft. |
(3) Recreational space. All multiple-family developments in RM Districts shall contain an area or areas provided for common recreation of 3,000 square feet per dwelling unit. Such common recreation areas shall be located and designed in a manner which is appropriate to meet the recreational needs of the prospective residents of the development. Such recreational facilities may include, but not limited to, swimming pools, tennis courts, playground, picnic areas, playfields and jogging trails.
(E) Area, height, bulk and placement requirements. Area, height, bulk and placement requirements unless otherwise specified are provided in § 154.044.
(Ord. 1, passed 11-13-2000, § 3.6)