A. General Purposes: The residential districts are designed to:
1. Achieve the residential objectives of the comprehensive plan.
2. Protect the character of residential areas by excluding inharmonious commercial and industrial activities.
3. Achieve a suitable environment for families by permitting in residential areas appropriate neighborhood facilities, such as churches, schools, and certain cultural and recreational facilities.
4. Preserve openness of the living areas and avoid overcrowding by requiring minimum yards, open spaces, lot areas, and by limiting the bulk of structures.
5. Permit a variety of dwelling types and densities to meet the varying needs of families.
6. Control the density of residential development to facilitate the planning for an economical provision of streets, utilities, and other public facilities.
B. RE Residential Estate District: The RE district is designed to permit the development and conservation of single-family detached dwellings in a suitable environment for family life on large parcels of land at a low population density. It is the intent of this district to prohibit any other use which would substantially interfere with the stated purposes of this district, and discourage any use that generates traffic and creates congestion on neighborhood streets other than the normal traffic serving the residents on those streets. (Ord. 165, 12-6-1983)
C. RS Residential Single-Family Districts: The RS-1, RS-2, and RS-3 districts are designed to permit the development and conservation of detached dwellings on individual lots in suitable environments in a variety of densities to meet the varying requirements of families. (Ord. 165, 12-6-1983; amd. Ord. 257, 12-8-2008)
D. RD Residential Duplex District: The RD district is designed to permit a more intense yet compatible use of tracts in or near single-family residential and other neighborhoods which because of size, topography, or adjacent land use are not ideally suited for single-family use.
E. RM Residential Multi-Family Districts:
1. The RM-1 and RM-2 districts are designed to permit the development and conservation of multi-family dwelling types, such as garden apartments and townhouses, in suitable environments in a variety of densities to meet the varying requirements of families.
2. The RM-T district is designed to permit the development of attached single-family townhouse dwellings, on separate lots, which are designed expressly for separate ownership, in suitable residential environments at a higher density than conventional detached single-family dwellings.
F. RMH Residential Mobile Home Park District: The RMH district is designed for the development of managed mobile home parks providing internal mobile home spaces on a rental basis and situated upon a contiguous tract of land under one ownership, properly designed to ensure a suitable living environment. (Ord. 165, 12-6-1983)