(A) Purpose. This district is intended to establish an area of low density residential uses.
(B) Special requirements. Conversion of any use to other than a permitted or conditional use is prohibited unless that use is determined to be in compliance with the spirit and intent of the chapter.
(C) Permitted uses. The following are permitted uses:
(1) One-family dwellings;
(2) Golf courses, country clubs, tennis courts, swimming pools and additional private and private-club recreational uses, all non-commercial;
(3) Churches, parish houses, convents, child nurseries; and
(4) Public buildings and uses of the following kind: elementary and secondary schools (public and private), parks, playgrounds, libraries, museums, community centers.
(D) Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted:
(1) Air navigation facilities, cemetery, crematory, mausoleum, government, public utilities and public service uses, hospitals, sanitariums, homes for the aged and similar institutions and institutions of an educational, philanthropic or charitable nature when required for the public health, safety or welfare;
(2) Automobile parking lots when required for off-street parking spaces for any use not more than 500 feet distant therefrom;
(3) The extension of a use into a district where it would otherwise be prohibited, in a case where a district boundary line is so located that a lot is in more than one district;
(4) Public buildings and public uses including multiple public housing units, temporary and permanent;
(5) Apartments within existing single-family dwellings;
(6) Planned unit developments; and
(7) Other residential and commercial uses determined by the Planning Agency to be of the same general character as the principal uses above and found not to be detrimental to the general public health and welfare.
(E) Accessory uses. The following uses may be permitted:
(1) Accessory uses incidental to and on the same zoning lot as the principal use are allowed (for example, swimming pools, fallout shelters, conservatories);
(2) Accessory uses shall not be located in any required side yard;
(3) Accessory buildings are permitted in any rear yard. Accessory buildings shall not be erected within three feet of any lot boundary or alley; and
(4) Home occupations. Any gainful occupation or profession engaged in by an occupant of a dwelling unit as a use which is clearly incidental to the use of the dwelling unit for residential purposes and subject to the following requirements.
(a) No manufacturing business shall be allowed.
(b) Only members of the family occupying the premises and one person outside the family, acting as an aid, shall carry on the home occupation.
(c) No mechanical or electric equipment not customarily found in a home shall be employed, installed or maintained.
(d) No interior or exterior alterations shall be permitted and no construction features shall be permitted which are not customarily found in a dwelling.
(e) There shall be no exterior display, no exterior sign, except as permitted for a dwelling unit in the district, and no other exterior indication of the home occupation.
(f) There shall be no exterior storage of equipment or materials used in the occupation.
(g) The home occupation must be conducted entirely within a building.
(h) No truck or similar vehicle used in conjunction with a home occupation shall be parked unhoused upon a residential lot.
(i) Offices, clinics, doctors’ offices, hospitals, barber shops, beauty parlors, dress shops, millinery shops, tea rooms, restaurants, tourist homes, animal hospitals and kennels, music and dance schools, among others, shall require conditional use permits.
(j) Such occupations as architects, artists, writers, clergy, lawyers, teachers, dressmaking and similar domestic crafts shall be permitted.
(F) Minimum lot size.
(1) Lot area of not less than 11,250 square feet for a dwelling unit is required.
(2) Lot width of not less than 75 feet is required.
(G) Front, side and rear yard requirements.
(1) Front yards: a front yard of not less than 30 feet is required. Unenclosed decks are subject to a 25-foot setback.
(2) Side yards: two side yards required, each with a width of not less than seven and one-half feet.
(3) Rear yards: a rear yard with a depth of not less than 30 feet is required. Unenclosed decks are subject to a ten-foot setback.
(H) Maximum ground coverage. No more than 33% of lot shall be covered by main and all accessory buildings.
(I) Maximum building heights. Building heights permitted are two and one-half stories, but not exceeding 35 feet. Accessory buildings shall not exceed one and one-half stories or 18 feet in height.
(J) Minimum ground floor area. Minimum ground floor area shall be 960 square feet for a three bedroom, single-family dwelling unit and 860 square feet for a two-bedroom single-family dwelling unit. Houses having one and one-half or more stories shall have at least 720 square feet on the main floor.
(K) Existing 50-foot lots. No building permit will be issued unless development exists on both sides of proposed lot. Existing 50-foot lots on subdivision plats recorded prior to this chapter will be considered for development on a case-by-case basis by the Planning Commission.
(Prior Code, § 155.24) (Ord. 560, passed 6-6-1978; Ord. 599, passed 6-6-2000; Ord. 613, passed 3-6-2002; Ord. 630, passed 12-7-2004)