An accessory use customarily incidental to a use permitted in a Class I Residential District, a Class II Residential District or a Class III Residential District shall be permitted in, respectively, a Class I Residential District, a Class II Residential District or a Class III Residential District, subject to the limitations stated herein:
(A) Billboards and Advertising Signs. A billboard, signboard or advertising sign shall in no case be permitted as an accessory use, except:
(1) "For sale," "For lease," and "For rent" signs that are twelve square feet in area or less; and
(2) Nameplates that are two square feet in area or less and that display only the name and occupation of physicians, surgeons, dentists, artists, musicians or other professional persons, real estate or insurance salesmen or brokers or other persons carrying on a customary home occupation. However, such signs shall not project from or be placed in advance of the dwelling or principal building on the premises.
(B) Offices and Home Occupations. The office of a physician, dentist, surgeon or other professional person may be located in the dwelling or apartment used by such person as his private residence or in an accessory building on the lot. Customary home occupations, including only uses conducted in dwellings or in accessory buildings on the rear of the lot, involving only the services of persons using the premises as their private residences and entailing no external changes in the building and no internal changes in the structural form of the building, such as the removal of partitions or floors or parts thereof, shall be permitted. Such permitted uses shall be restricted to those that are not offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise or vibration, those that are not accompanied by an unreasonable number of calls or stops by either pedestrians or vehicles and to those that may be unsightly or otherwise objectionable, such as by reason of accumulation of materials or debris.
(C) Special Structures. No structure, other than the accessory buildings on the rear of a lot, shall be erected that is designed or constructed with any special structural appearance for use as a business, trade, industry or other use conducted for gain.
(D) Accessory Buildings. "Accessory buildings" shall not include, whether or not modified, vehicles, trailers, box cars, water craft, or other commercial and portable storage units. Accessory buildings less than 240 square feet may only be located in the rear yard of the property and must be a minimum of five feet from the side and rear lot lines. (For accessory storage buildings great than 240 square feet see Chapter 1262.01(A) "Private Garages.")
(E) Private Pools. Pools constructed as accessory uses in Residential Districts may only be located in the rear yard of the property and must be a minimum of five feet from the side and rear lot lines. Private pools must also be fenced in compliance with Chapter 1262.02(G) "Swimming Pools, Spas and Hot Tubs."
(F) Employing Additional Persons. No use shall be conducted in a Class I Residential, Class II Residential or Class III Residential District that employs the services of persons not residing on the premises and that is of a commercial nature involving sales or any operation or transaction of manufacture, distribution, sale, collection, accounting or clerical record, except as specified herein as a permitted accessory use.
(G) Renting Rooms; Table Board; Accessory Use in Hotels and Apartment Houses. In a dwelling or apartment occupied as a private residence, one or more rooms may be rented or table board furnished. A restaurant, public dining room, newsstand or other customary service may be located in a hotel use, provided that the public entrance to such dining room or restaurant is within the building and further provided that no window or other display or sign is used to advertise such use. Such facilities as are required for the operation of a hotel or apartment house or for the use or entertainment of guests or tenants of the hotel or apartment house shall be permitted when conducted or entered only from the interior of the building, provided that no window or other display or sign is used to advertise such use.
(H) Services in Railway Passenger Stations; Private Garages. A newsstand or other customary service may be located in a railway passenger station as an accessory use. A private garage shall not be permitted as an accessory use except as provided in Section 1262.01.
(1956 Code Sec. 1319.11)
(Ord. 210-04. Passed 11-8-04; Ord. 163-20. Passed 9-14-20.)