(A) Purpose. The Single-Family Residential Zoning District is established for the following purposes:
(1) To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for residential development, and to meet the present and future housing needs of the city, with allowance for a diversity of sites;
(2) To protect residential areas from pollution, environmental hazards and other objectionable influences;
(3) To protect residential areas, as much as possible, from heavy and through non-residential traffic;
(4) To protect residential areas from congestion by managing the density of population in and around them, by providing for off-street parking spaces and by providing open areas for nearby recreation to thus provide a more desirable living environment;
(5) To provide for privacy and access for light and flowing air by managing a structure’s building setbacks from each other as well as regulating a building’s height; and
(6) To promote the most desirable use of land and direction of building development, not in conflict with the city’s forthcoming Comprehensive Plan; to promote the stability of residential development; to protect the character of the R-1 District; to conserve the value of land and buildings; and to protect or enhance the city’s tax base.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) One single-family dwelling per lot and typical accessory uses;
(2) Signs in accordance to the prevailing sign regulations;
(3) One portable building not more than 3% of the lot’s net square footage used for either storage, hobby or other similar accessory use; and
(4) Temporary sales office for the sale of lots; if a modular structure, it shall have skirting and paved parking.
(C) Conditional uses.
(1) Home occupations; (See § 156.072(A) of this code of ordinances on related home occupation regulations.)
(2) Guest houses or legitimate separate servant quarters; such uses shall not have separate water meters, but shall be linked to the main residential dwelling;
(3) A mobile home on an unsubdivided tract of five acres or more;
(4) Portable buildings larger than 3% of the lot’s net square footage. No second portable building shall be permitted without first obtaining an approved conditional use permit;
(5) Facilities for railroads or those utilities holding a franchise under the city; and
(6) Bed and breakfast facility.
(D) Prohibited uses.
(1) Any new building erected or land used for other than one or more of the preceding specified uses; and
(2) Unless otherwise grandfathered, any use of property that does not conform with the minimum area requirements; or exceeds the maximum height or building density per gross acre.
(E) Area requirements.
(1) Minimum lot area for lots with a functioning sanitary sewer system: internal lot: 6,000 square feet; corner lot: 7,000 square feet; however, if there is no sanitary sewer system, lot sizing shall comply with the county’s minimum lot size; also, in the existing Municipal Utility District where lots have been platted below this threshold, lots may be reduced to assimilate with what has been used before;
(2) Maximum number of single-family dwellings per lot: one;
(3) Minimum lot frontage on a public or private street:
(a) Internal lot: 60 feet; and
(b) Corner lot: 65 feet.
(4) Minimum lot depth: 100 feet;
(5) Minimum front yard building setback: 20 feet;
(6) Minimum rear yard building setback: ten feet or off any wider easement;
(7) Minimum side yard building setback:
(a) Inner lot: six feet or off any wider easement; and
(b) Corner lot: ten feet.
(8) Minimum distance from the public right-of-way (property line) to the entrance to a garage or enclosed carport shall not be less than 18 feet;
(9) Maximum height of structures: 35 feet. Where a structure exceeds 25 feet in height, it shall set back one additional foot for each foot above 25 feet, not to exceed the 35-foot maximum;
(10) Minimum number of paved off-street parking spaces shall be two; and
(11) See § 156.087 of this chapter for any further clarification, modification and/or exception.
(Ord. 2016-07, passed 8-9-2016)