(A) General purpose. The residential districts are designed to:
(1) Achieve the residential objectives of the Comprehensive Plan;
(2) Protect the character of residential areas by excluding inharmonious commercial and industrial activities;
(3) Achieve a suitable environment for the family by permitting in residential areas appropriate neighborhood facilities, such as churches, schools, and certain cultural and recreational facilities;
(4) Preserve openness of the living areas and avoid overcrowding by requiring minimum yards, open spaces, lot areas, and by limiting the bulk of structures;
(5) Permit a variety of dwelling types and densities to meet the varying needs of families; and
(6) Control the density of residential development to facilitate the planning for and economical provision of streets, utilities, and other public facilities.
(B) Purpose of RS or R-1, Residential Single-Family Detached District. This district is designed to permit the development and conservation of detached dwellings on individual lots.
(C) Purpose of RT, Residential Townhouse District. The RT district is designed to permit the development of fee simple townhouse dwellings. The district is intended to provide suitable areas for attached single-family dwellings on individual lots at medium densities.
(D) Purpose of R-2, Residential Two Family District. The district is intended to provide suitable areas for single-family attached dwellings at medium densities. While this district allows traditional two single-family attached dwellings on the same lot, it also allows a variety of innovative single-family attached dwelling unit types on individual fee simple lots including zero lot-lines, duplexes with one common wall on one lot or two separate lots, and quadruplexes with two common walls on four separate lots.
(E) Purpose of RM or R-3, Residential Multiple-family District. The district is designed to provide suitable areas for single-family, two-family, and multiple-family dwelling types in suitable environments in a variety of densities to meet the varying requirements of families. The types of uses permitted are:
(1) Single-family attached (patio homes, townhouses, condominiums);
(2) Two-family dwellings (duplexes);
(3) Multifamily (apartments); and
(4) Group quarters (apartment hotel, rooming/boarding house, group home, elderly/retirement housing, fraternity/sorority home, convent/monastery, nursing homes, college resident halls).
(F) Purpose of RMH, Residential Mobile Home District. The RMH district is intended to provide an alternative to conventional single-family detached housing. To achieve this, the RMH district allows two different types of mobile home settings.
(1) Mobile home park. This designation is intended for commercial rental development. This designation provides for the location of mobile home parks and the leasing, regulation and control of mobile homes within a park site. It is further intended that mobile home parks be designed and adhere to high standards of development to insure compatibility with surrounding areas and safety for occupants of the mobile homes.
(Ord. 12-16, passed 8-8-12)