The R3 Multiple-Family Residence District is composed of certain medium-density residential areas of the City representing a compatible mingling of single-unit and multiple-unit dwellings. The regulations for this District are designed to stabilize and protect the essential characteristics of the District; to promote and encourage a suitable environment for family life; and to prohibit all activities to a commercial nature, except those having also some aspects of residential use such as home offices of doctors or ministers, funeral homes, and membership clubs, controlled by specific limitations governing the size and extent of such semi-commercial activities. To these ends, development is limited to a medium concentration, and permitted uses are typically single and two-unit dwellings, row dwellings and low-rise apartments, providing homes for residents in a variety of dwelling types, plus certain additional uses such as schools, parks, churches, hospitals, and public facilities which serve the residents of the District. However, high-rise apartments, with corresponding proportions of open space, may be developed under prescribed standards of density and open space.
(a) Permitted Uses. In an R3 Multiple-Family Residence District, the land and structures may be used, and structures may be erected, altered, enlarged and maintained, for the following uses only:
(1) Any use permitted in the R2 District;
(2) Multi-family dwellings,
(3) Planned residential developments;
A. Hospitals, sanitariums or nursing homes or unit group buildings thereof; and
B. Medical buildings for certain uses auxiliary to a hospital, or the location of such uses in a portion of a hospital building;
C. Unit group residential development.
A. Funeral homes;
B. Membership clubs;
C. Mobile home parks;
D. Home-based occupation - major impact;
E. Family day care home;
F. Group day care home;
G. Group home;
H. Boarding house;
I. Halfway house.
(b) Exceptions to Height Requirements. The height of a multi-family dwelling, other than a row house, may be increased, provided that:
(1) The building is set back from the permitted side and rear building lines five feet, plus three feet for each story over three, or five feet, plus one foot for each three feet or fraction thereof of building height over 45 feet, whichever results in the greater dimension.
(2) The building is set back from the permitted front building lines three feet for each story over three, or one foot for each three feet or fraction thereof of building height over 45 feet, whichever results in the greater dimension.
(3) No portion of the building is closer than 100 feet to any property in an R1 or R2 District.
(c) Yard; Lot Area. Yard and lot area requirements for an R3 Multiple-Family Residence District shall be the same as set forth in Section 1260.062
(b) for an R2 District.
(d) Other Provisions. Provisions regarding height, yard setback, lot area, and general rules are included in Appendix A
- Schedule of Heights and Area Regulations.
(Ord. 5139. Passed 11-27-13.)