A building may be erected, altered or used, and a lot may be used or occupied only for the following purposes in any "R-3" Residential District:
(a) A use permitted in an "R-2" Residential District.
(b) Single-family semidetached dwellings.
(c) Two-family detached dwellings.
(d) Town houses (also known as row houses and which consist of three or more completely separate single-family dwelling units having common walls joining them into one structural unit), not to exceed six dwellings per structural unit.
(e) Multiple-family dwellings and apartment houses.
(f) Accessory uses.
(g) Special Permit Uses. The following uses are not permitted as a right but require special permits granted by the Planning Commission, which permits shall be issued only when the Commission is satisfied the contemplated use is not in conflict with the primary residential use.
(1) Health Centers.
(2) Medical offices or group medical centers, including the practice of dentistry, osteopathy, podiatry, psychology or chiropody, limited to a location below the level of the first story ceiling, except that in multiple family dwellings such uses may be located on the second floor, if separate access to the outside is provided.
(3) Nonprofit or voluntary hospitals or related hospital facilities including animal hospitals.
(4) Philanthropic or nonprofit institutions with sleeping accommodations, including nursing homes or sanitariums, provided that not more than twenty-five percent of the floor area shall be used for central office purposes.
(5) Proprietary nursing homes or sanitariums.
(6) Residential facilities for the mentally retarded or developmentally disabled as licensed by the State of Ohio.
(Ord. 280(00-01). Passed 12-6-01.)