(A) Purposes. In addition to the objectives prescribed in § 156.002 of this chapter, the RS-6,000 and RS-12,000 Residential Districts are included in the zoning regulations to achieve the following purposes:
(1) To reserve appropriately located areas for family living at reasonable population densities consistent with sound standards of public health and safety;
(2) To ensure adequate light, air, privacy, and open space for each dwelling;
(3) To protect one-family dwellings from the lack of privacy associated with multi-family dwellings;
(4) To provide space for semi-public facilities needed to complement urban residential areas and for institutions that require a residential environment;
(5) To minimize traffic congestion and to avoid the overloading of utilities by preventing the construction of buildings of excessive size in relation to the land around them;
(6) To preserve the natural beauty of hillsides and avoid slide and drainage problems by encouraging retention of natural vegetation and discouraging mass grading;
(7) To provide necessary space for the off-street parking of automobiles and, where appropriate, for the off-street loading of trucks;
(8) To protect residential properties from the hazards, noise, and congestion created by commercial and industrial traffic;
(9) To protect residential properties from noise, illumination, unsightliness, odors, dust, dirt, smoke, vibration, heat, glare, and other objectionable influences;
(10) To protect residential properties from fire, explosion, noxious fumes, and other hazards; and,
(11) To reserve appropriately sized lots for family living at reasonable population densities in areas with limited public service (RS-12,000).
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(B) Required conditions.
(2) No use shall be permitted, and no process, equipment, or material shall be employed which is found by the Planning Commission to be objectionable to persons residing or working in the vicinity or injurious to property located in the vicinity by reason of odor, insect nuisance, fumes, dust, smoke, cinders, dirt, refuse, water-carried wastes, noise, vibration, illumination, glare unsightliness, or traffic or to involve any hazard of fire or explosion.
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(C) Permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted:
(2) Raising of fruit and nut trees, vegetables, and horticultural specialties;
(3) Home occupations conducted in accord with the regulations prescribed in § 155.215 of this title;
(4) Temporary subdivision sales offices conducted in accord with the regulations prescribed in § 155.217 of this title;
(5) Accessory structures located on the same site with a permitted use, including private garages and carports, one guest house or accessory living quarters without a kitchen, storehouses, garden structures, greenhouses, recreation rooms, and hobby areas within an enclosed structure;
(6) Swimming pools used solely by persons resident on the site and their guests, provided that no swimming pool or accessory mechanical equipment shall be located in a required front yard or less than five feet from a property line;
(7) Keeping horses, rabbits, poultry, and bees in accord with the provisions of Chapter 91 of this code; and,
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(2) Charitable institutions;
(3) Churches, convents, monasteries, parish houses, parsonages, and other religious institutions;
(4) Commercial nursery growing grounds;
(5) Golf courses;
(6) Nursery schools;
(7) Nursing homes for not more than three patients;
(8) Parking facilities improved as prescribed in §§ 155.115 through 155.124 of this title, on a site having a side property line which adjoins an OR, C, or M District, or is opposite and separated therefrom only by an alley, or on a site that has a rear property line adjoining an OR, C, or M District and has access therefrom, provided that the site of the parking facility shall not extend more than 150 feet from the boundary of the OR, C, or M District;
(9) Private recreation parks and swim clubs;
(10) Private schools and colleges, not including art, craft, music, dancing, business, professional, or trade schools and colleges;
(11) Public utility and public service pumping stations, power stations, equipment buildings and installations, drainageways and structures, storage tanks, and transmission line found by the Planning Commission to be necessary for the public health, safety, or welfare;
(12) Accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a conditional use;
(13) Bed and breakfast inns in which not more than 15 paying transient guests may be lodged or boarded, provided that the site of such inn shall not be less than one acre in area;
(14) Timber harvest of less than three acres; and
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(15) Wireless telecommunication facilities subject to the provisions of
Chapter 159
.
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(I) Density standards.
(1) RS-6,000. In an RS-6,000 District, the site of a one-family dwelling shall contain at least 6,000 square feet, including at least 4,000 square feet with a natural slope of less than 20%; provided, however, the portion of the site having a slope of less than 20% may be reduced by 500 square feet for each 3,000 square feet of additional site area, except that each site shall contain at least 2,500 square feet with a natural slope less than 20%. The maximum gross density in the RS-6,000 District shall be seven units per acre.
(2) RS-12,000. In an RS-12,000 District, the site of a one-family dwelling shall contain at least 12,000 square feet, including at least 5,000 square feet with a natural slope of less than 25%; provided, however, the portion of the site having a slope of less than 25% may be reduced by 500 square feet for each 3,000 square feet of additional site area, except that each site shall contain at least 3,000 square feet with a natural slope less than 25%. The maximum gross density in the RS-12,000 District shall be 3.7 units per acre.
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(Ord. 417-C.S., passed 12-6-84; Am. Ord. 518-C.S., passed 8-26-90; Am. Ord. 519-C.S., passed 8-26-90; Am. Ord. 526-C.S., passed 6-20-91; Am. Ord. 757-C.S., passed 10-19-10; Am. Ord. 786-C.S., passed 8-21-12; Am. Ord. 840-C.S., passed 7-5-16) Penalty, see § 150.999