(A) Purpose. The R-2 district is intended for apartments, row houses, townhouses, dormitories and other buildings of three or more dwelling units. Any use permitted in the R-1 district is permitted in the R-2 district.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) Multiple dwellings, apartment buildings, townhouses and group of row houses;
(2) Boarding and lodging houses;
(3) Hospitals, convalescent and nursing homes and elderly housing projects;
(4) Institutions or a religious, educational, charitable or philanthropic nature;
(5) Private clubs or lodges, except those whose chief activity is a service customarily carried on as a business for profit;
(6) Signs, as regulated in § 151.37; and
(7) Parking, as regulated in § 151.38.
(C) Accessory buildings and accessory uses. Accessory storage garages or other accessory uses or buildings customarily incidental to uses are permitted in this section.
(D) Conditional uses.
(1) Manufactured home park developments, subject to minimum manufactured home park requirements (M.S. § 327.15 and Minnesota Rules, parts 4630.0200 to 4630.2210, as the may be amended from time to time);
(2) Mortuaries, medical, dental offices and clinics;
(3) Offices or administrative, executive, professional, research or similar organizations. Laboratories having only limited contact with the public, provided no merchandise or merchandising services are sold on the premises, except such as are incidental or accessory to the permissible use; and
(4) Grocery, delicatessen, drug stores, laundry and dry cleaning collection, and clothes storage centers, tailor shops, hobby shops, small home appliance repair and hardware stores and specialty shops, provided that the floor space for the principal use is not more than 3,500 square feet and no more than four employees are required at any given time.
(E) Height, yard and lot coverage regulation.
(1) Height requirements. Three stories or 45 feet in height whichever is less. Structures which are not designed for human occupancy such as steeples, belfries, chimneys, and the like may be of any height.
(2) Front yard requirements. Same as R-1, except on double frontage lots, where both yards will be regarded as front yards.
(3) Side yard requirements. Same as R-1.
(4) Rear yard requirements. Same as R-1.
(5) Lot area, depth and width requirements. Same as R-1.
(6) The lot area, width and depth requirements of the section shall not apply to lots platted prior to the adoption of this chapter. However, the lots shall not be altered in any way which would further reduce their dimensions below minimum requirements.
(Ord. passed 4-24-78) Penalty, see § 10.99