1123.04 R-3 MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENCE DISTRICT.
   (a)   Principal Uses Permitted. Any principal use permitted and as regulated in the R-1 and R-2 Districts and as hereinafter specified in this section: multi-family dwellings for any number of families or housekeeping units.
 
   (b)   Conditionally Permitted Uses. The following uses shall be permitted only if expressly authorized by the Board of Building and Zoning Appeals in accordance with the provisions of Section 1139.02 , any conditionally permitted use as regulated in an R-2 District and as hereinafter specified:
      (1)   Motels, motor hotels and tourist homes, on premises only that front on a street officially designated as a state or federal highway or primary thoroughfare as designed on the Thoroughfare Plan, and subject to the provisions of Section 1126.02.
      (2)   Fraternities, sororities, private clubs, lodges, and meeting places for other similar organizations, not including those that are ordinarily conducted as a gainful business; provided all buildings in which such organizations or activities are housed shall be located at least twenty feet from any lot in any R-1 District.
      (3)   Planned development projects, subject to the provisions of Section 1126.05.
      (4)   Apartment hotels, lodging houses, boarding houses for any number of guests, but not primarily for transients; dormitories.
      (5)   Clinics for human care, convalescent homes, nursing homes, homes for the aged, group retirement homes, children's nurseries and preschool facilities.
      (6)    Professional offices, and offices of financial, insurance, real estate, civic, educational, religious, and philanthropic establishments or organizations, funeral homes, when located only on premises that front on an officially designated state or federal highway, or on a street designated as a primary or secondary thoroughfare under the Thoroughfare Plan.
      (7)   Private noncommercial recreation areas and facilities, including tennis courts and/or swimming pools, provided that no such swimming pool is located nearer than twenty-five feet from any other lot in any R District.
      (8)   Dwelling groups.
      (9)   Any general hospital for human care, religious and charitable institutions, not less than 100 feet distant from any lot in any R District.
      (10)   Attached single-family dwellings
      (11)   Patio homes.
   (c)   Accessory Uses. Any accessory use or structure permitted and as regulated in the R-2 district, and any accessory use or structure customarily incident to accessory to a principal permitted use or conditionally permitted use in the R-3 District.
 
   (d)   Height Regulations. No principal structure shall exceed three stories or forty feet in height and no accessory structure shall exceed two stories or twenty-five feet in height except as provided in Section 1137.02 .
 
   (e)   Lot Area, Frontage and Yard Requirements.
   
Lot Area
(Sq. Ft.)
Lot
Frontage
(Ft.)
Lot Area
Per Family
(Sq. Ft.)
Front Yard
Depth
(Ft.)
Side Yards
Rear Yard
Depth (Ft.)
Least Width
(Ft.)
Sum of Width (Ft.)
One and Two-Family
Dwellings and Dwelling Groups
 
Same as R-2
 
Attached Single Family
Dwellings
3,500
35
3,500
25
0*
0*
30
Patio Homes
3,500
50
3,400
25
0*
16**
10
Multi- Family Dwellings Stories
1-1 ½
8,000
60
3,000
25
6
16
40
2-2 ½
8,000
60
3,000
25
10
20
40
3
8,000
60
3,000
25
12
25
45
In the case of cul-de-sac turnaround or curvilinear streets or where unusual circumstances force irregular lots, the minimum width of the lot shall be sixty feet measured at the building setback lines, provided, however, that the frontage at the street shall be not less than thirty feet.
 
 
Lot Area
(Sq. Ft.)
Lot
Frontage
(Ft.)
Lot Area
Per Family
(Sq. Ft.)
Front Yard
Depth
(Ft.)
Side Yards
Rear Yard
Depth (Ft.)
Least Width
(Ft.)
Sum of Width (Ft.)
Motels
10,000
80
-
25
10
20
40
Other Uses
Same as R-2
*   Zero-lot-line; minimum of 10 feet at end units.
**   16 feet minimum between buildings where not zero-lot-line.
(Ord. 2010-42. Passed 12-14-10.)