(a) Purpose and Scope. It is the purpose of the R-3 District to conserve value for family living in areas predominantly single-family but with scattered two-family homes in areas where the two-family home is the principal type. The District is also applicable to developed areas where conversions to many dwelling units per building would result in overcrowding and deterioration of the neighborhood.
(b) Principal Permitted Uses.
(1) General. Principal permitted uses, as permitted and regulated in the R-2 District, except as otherwise specified.
(2) Residential.
A. New two-family dwellings.
B. Conversion into a two-family dwelling of an existing one-family dwelling having a gross floor area of not less than 1, 500 square feet for a two-story house and not less than 2,500 square feet for a three-story house, the gross floor area to be exclusive of the basement in any case. (Ord. A-3886. Passed 1-23-79.)
(3) Institutional. Residential care communities pursuant to West Virginia State Code, Chapter 16, Article 15N.
(Ord. 0-1064. Passed 2-11-03.)
(c) Principal Conditional Uses. When authorized by the Board of Zoning Appeals in accordance with Section 1329.05(b).
(1) General. Principal conditional uses, as authorized and regulated in the R-2 District, except as otherwise specified.
(2) Residential. Group Housing Projects as defined and regulated in Appendix B. (Ord. A-3886. Passed 1-23-79.)
(3) Institutional.
A. Clubhouses, fraternity and sorority houses, lodge halls, charitable organizations and meeting places for similar organizations of a noncommercial nature, provided that the buildings shall be no less than twenty feet distant from every abutting property line in an R- District, except where the lot line abuts other institutional uses or nonresidential districts.
B. Colleges, universities, educational institutions and private schools, for academic instruction, provided that the buildings shall be no less than twenty feet distant from every abutting property line in an R- District, except where the lot line abuts other institutional uses or nonresidence districts.
C. Nursery schools, day care centers or day nurseries, provided that:
1. The lot shall contain not less than 500 square feet of area per child enrolled per session.
2. No outdoor play area or play equipment shall be located or installed in any front yard.
D. Monasteries, convents and similar group dwellings for members of religious orders, provided that every building shall be no less than thirty feet distant from every abutting property line in an R District.
E. Homes for the aged, orphanages and similar custodial homes containing more than six sleeping rooms, provided that:
1. The premises shall be used primarily for permanent residential purposes.
2. The area of the parcel of ground so used shall be no less than 50,000 square feet.
3. The total number of occupants, including employees shall not exceed a density of fifty persons per acre.
4. Every building shall be no less than thirty feet distant from every abutting property line in an R District.
F. Hospitals for human care, clinics, sanitariums, religious or charitable institutions, exclusive of institutions primarily for the care of drug addicts, the feeble-minded or insane, and exclusive of penal or correctional institutions, provided that:
1. The lot area shall be no less than 50,000 square feet.
2. Every building for patients shall be no less than fifty feet distant from every abutting property line in an R District.
3. Service areas for receiving supplies and loading wastes shall be screened, by a five-foot masonry wall, or other fire retarding material, from the view of residences on abutting properties.
(d) Accessory Permitted Uses. An accessory use customarily incidental to a principal permitted use, including the following: accessory permitted uses, as permitted and regulated in the R-2 District, except as otherwise specified.
(e) Accessory Conditional Uses. Any accessory use customarily incidental to a principal conditional use, including the following, when authorized by the Board of Zoning Appeals, after a finding that such accessory use meets the requirements and conditions specified in this section, and provided further that any accessory conditional use shall meet the requirements and conditions specified in Section 1329.05(b).
(1) General. Accessory conditional uses, as authorized and regulated in the R-2 District, except as otherwise specified.
(f) Requirements. The following requirements shall be observed, except as modified, hereinbefore, in accordance with the provisions of Article 1361.
(1) Maximum height. Two and one-half stories or thirty-five feet, whichever is less.
(2) Minimum lot area. 6,000 square feet.
(3) Minimum lot area per dwelling unit. 3, 000 square feet.
(4) Minimum yards.
A. Minimum front yard: twenty-five feet.
B.
Minimum side yards (stories) | Least width (feet) | Sum of least widths (feet) |
1 | 5 | 12 |
2 or 2-1/2 | 6 | 14 |
C. Minimum rear yard.
1. One story: thirty feet.
2. Two or two and one-half stories: thirty-five feet.
(Ord. A-2530. Passed 2-27-73.)