STATEMENT OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT
The R-1 Single-family Residential District is established to provide for detached single-family dwellings in areas in the City where this type of housing has traditionally prevailed and developed as well as other areas suitable for such development.
(a) Principal Permitted Uses.
(1) One-family dwellings having a minimum of twenty-three feet in width across their narrowest point
(2) Public and nonprofit schools
(3) Churches and similar places of worship, parish houses and convents
(4) Public parks and playgrounds, not including an amusement park operated for profit
(b) Permitted Accessory Uses.
(1) A private garage, located not less than sixty feet from the front lot line, if a separate building; or in a suitable room within or attached to the dwelling and may include a driveway necessary to provide ingress and egress, provided that, on a through lot less than 120 feet long, it may be so located as to be not closer than thirty feet to either street.
(2) Any form of agriculture or horticulture except the keeping of livestock, poultry or bees.
(3) Other customary accessory uses provided such uses are in conformance with the proper definition and in connection with the operation of a home occupation, it shall not be permitted:
A. To sell upon the premises articles produced elsewhere than on the premises
B. To have exterior displays, a display of goods visible from the outside, an advertising sign or other business identification
C. To store materials or products outside of a principal building
D. To make external structural alterations which are not customary in residential buildings
E. To generate traffic by such home occupation in greater volume than would normally be accepted in a particular residential neighborhood; any need for parking generated by the conduct of such home occupation shall be met off the street and other than in a required front yard
F. To produce offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust or other particular matter, odorous matter, heat, humidity, glare or other objectionable effects
(4) Examples of home occupations:
A. Fine arts studios
B. Professional offices for lawyers, professional engineers or land surveyors, architects or City planners, clergymen or writers
C. Teaching of not more than two pupils simultaneously, or in the case of musical instruction, not more than a single pupil at a time
D. Seamstresses
E. Real estate agents
F. Insurance agents
G. Foster family care for not more than two children simultaneously
H. Barber shops and beauty parlors
(5) However, home occupations shall not include:
A. Commercial stables, kennels, animal hospitals, nurseries or farms
B. Mortuary establishments
C. Boarding or rooming houses or tourist homes
D. Commercial repair or storage of automobiles or watercraft
E. Dance studios
F. Cabinetmakers
G. Tanning salons
Any accessory building or use shall be located on the same parcel as the principal building.
(6) Rear yards may include parking area so long as other requirements of this Ordinance are complied with.
(c) Permitted Special Uses.
(1) Public utility installations (Ord. 310. Passed 9-16-96.)
(2) Historically established business locations.
(Ord. 445. Passed 10-21-19.)
(e) Off-Street Parking Spaces.
(1) Dwellings (As provided in Section 1317.06)
(2) School (As provided in Section 1317.06)
(3) Church (As provided in Section 1317.06)
(Ord. 310. Passed 9-16-96.)