(A) In a Class I Residential District no building shall be erected or altered to accommodate or make provision for more than one family. Provision shall not be made for more than one family for each 4,800 square feet of the area of an interior lot or for each 3,600 square feet of a corner lot. However, a single, easily detached dwelling may be erected on any lot separately owned on June 6, 1949, or on any lot in a recorded subdivision that was on record on June 6, 1949.
(B) In a Class II Residential District no building shall be erected or altered to accommodate or make provision for more than one family for each 2,400 square feet of the area of an interior lot or for each 1,800 square feet of a corner lot. However, one dwelling for either one or two families may be erected on any lot that was separately owned on June 6, 1949, or on any lot in a recorded subdivision that was on record on June 6, 1949.
(C) In a Class III Residential District no building shall be erected or altered to, accommodate or make provision for more than one family for each 1,200 square feet of the area of an interior lot or for each 900 square feet of a corner lot. However, one dwelling for one or two families may be erected on any lot that was separately owned on June 6, 1949, or on any lot in a recorded subdivision that was on record on June 6, 1949.
(D) In a Business or Industrial District no requirements as to the number of square feet of a lot area per family are specified.
(E) For the purposes of this section, any area of a corner lot in excess of 7,200 square feet shall be considered as an interior lot, and any provision of this Zoning Code pertaining to interior lots shall apply thereto.
(F) In computing the lot area for the purposes of this section, the lot shall be deemed to extend to the center of any alley adjoining the rear line or side line of such lot.
(G) In a 4,800 square foot Area District, in computing the area of the lot for the purposes of this section, if the depth of such lot is more than three times the width of such lot, a depth of only three times such width shall be used.
(H) For the purposes of this section, the number of families which a building is designed to accommodate shall be determined by the number of separate housekeeping units in such building. A suite of rooms or apartment without a kitchen or facilities for cooking meals shall not be deemed a housekeeping unit for the purposes of this section.
(I) Every dwelling shall face upon a public street of not less than fifty feet in width and no dwelling shall be built on a plat of ground less than fifty feet in width, subject, however, to the provisions of subsections (a) to (c), inclusive, hereof.
(J) No plat, subdivision or territory outside the corporate limits established after June 6, 1949, shall later be incorporated into the City, which plat, subdivision or territory has lots less than fifty feet in width, except lots designated and zoned for business purposes, or has streets less than fifty feet in width.
(1956 Code Sec. 1335.01; Ord. 9-52. Passed 2-11-52 )