(A) Purposes. In addition to the objectives prescribed in § 155.002 of this title, the RM Multi-Family Residential Districts are included in the zoning regulations to achieve the following purposes:
(1) To reserve appropriately located areas for family living in a variety of types of dwellings at a reasonable range of population densities consistent with sound standards of public health and safety;
(2) To preserve as many as possible of the desirable characteristics of the one-family residential district while permitting higher population densities;
(3) To ensure adequate light, air, privacy, and open space for each dwelling unit;
(4) To provide space for semi-public facilities needed to complement urban residential areas and space 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 provide necessary space for the off-street parking of automobiles and, where appropriate, for the off-street loading of trucks;
(7) To protect residential properties from the hazards, noise, and congestion created by commercial and industrial traffic;
(8) To protect residential properties from noise, illumination, unsightliness, odors, dust, dirt, smoke, vibration, heat, glare, and other objectionable influences; and,
(9) To protect residential properties from fire, explosion, noxious fumes, and other hazards.
('63 Code, § 10-5.2990)
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted in the RM-2,500 and RM-1,000 Districts:
(1) Any use permitted under § 155.052(C) of this title, in RS-6,000 One-Family Residential Districts;
(2) Combinations of attached or detached dwelling units, including duplexes, multi-family dwellings, dwelling groups, row houses, and townhouses;
(3) Lodging houses in which not more than 15 paying guests may be lodged or boarded;
(4) Nursing homes for not more than three patients; and,
(5) Accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a permitted use.
('63 Code, § 10-5.2991)
(1) Charitable institutions;
(2) Churches, convents, monasteries, parish houses, parsonages, and other religious institutions;
(3) Commercial nursery growing grounds;
(4) Golf courses;
(5) Nursery schools;
(6) Nursing homes, not including nursing homes for mental, drug addict, or liquor addict cases;
(7) Parking facilities improved as set forth in §§ 155.115 through 155.124 of this title on a site having a side property line which adjoins on OR, NM, 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, NM, C, or M District and has access therefrom; provided, however, the site of the parking facility shall not extend more than 1,500 feet from the boundary of the OR, HM, C, or M District;
(8) Private recreation parks and swim clubs;
(9) Private schools and colleges, not including art, craft, music, dancing, business, professional, or trade schools and colleges;
(10) Private noncommercial clubs and lodges, not including employment offices;
(11) Public utility and public service pumping stations, power stations, equipment buildings and installations, drainage ways and structures, storage tanks, and transmission lines found by the Planning Commission to be necessary for the public health, safety, or welfare;
(13) Timber harvest of less than three acres;
('63 Code, § 10-5.2992)
(14) Wireless telecommunication facilities subject to the provisions of
Chapter 159
.
('63 Code, § 10-5.2993)
('63 Code, § 10-5.2994)
('63 Code, § 10-5.2995)
(F) Site plan review and architectural review. All permitted uses, except one-family dwellings, multi-family dwellings containing not more than six dwelling units, and dwelling groups containing not more than six units, shall be subject to site plan review as set forth in §§ 155.180 through 155.188 of this title. All conditional uses shall be subject to architectural review.
('63 Code, § 10-5.2996)
(Ord. 417-C.S., passed 12-6-84; Am. Ord. 518-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) Penalty, see § 150.999