(a) Purpose and Scope. It is the purpose of the R-4 District to provide for a high quality multi-family residence district by limiting conversions and to encourage new construction.
(b) Principal Permitted Uses.
(l) General. Principal permitted uses, as permitted and regulated in the R-3 District, except as otherwise specified.
(2) Residential.
A. New multi-family dwellings.
B. New row houses.
C. Garden-type apartments.
(3) Institutional. Residential care communities pursuant to West Virginia State Code, Chapter 16, Article 15N.
(c) Principal Conditional Uses. When authorized by the Board of Zoning Appeals in accordance with Section 1329.05(b).
(l) General. Principal conditional uses, as authorized and regulated in the R-3 District, except as otherwise specified.
(2) Residential.
A. Conversion into a multi-family dwelling of an existing dwelling having a gross floor area of not less than 2,500 square feet and a gross floor area for each dwelling unit of not less than 750 square feet, provided further that means of ingress and egress shall be as required by the Codified Ordinances.
B. Rooming houses.
(3) Institutional. Nursing homes, rest homes and convalescent homes.
(4) Parking lots.
A. Parking lots serving principal permitted or conditional uses, when such parking lots are not located on the same premises as the principal use, provided that:
1. The parking lot shall be not more than 200 feet from the uses it is required to serve.
2. The parking lot shall be used solely for the parking of passenger automobiles.
3. The parking lot shall not be used for repair work or servicing of any kind.
B. Parking lots serving and abutting less restrictive districts, or separated therefrom by an alley, provided that:
1. The parking lot shall be for use in connection with uses located in abutting less restrictive districts.
2. The parking lot shall abut at least fifty feet on the abutting less restrictive district or that part of an alley constituting the boundary or portion thereof of the abutting less restrictive district.
3. The parking lot shall be used solely for the parking of passenger automobiles.
4. The parking lot shall not be used for repair work or servicing of any kind.
5. Entrances and exits must: be located in the abutting less restrictive district; or if located in an R District, be within twenty feet of the boundary line of such abutting less restrictive district; or be to or from that part of an alley constituting the boundary or portion thereof of the abutting less restrictive district.
6. No signs of any kind shall be erected on the lot other than directional signs.
(d) Accessory Permitted Uses. Any accessory use customarily incidental to a principal permitted use, including the following:
(1) General. Accessory permitted uses, as permitted and regulated in the R-3 District, except as otherwise specified.
(2) Accessory buildings. Built with or after the construction of the principal building, including uses customarily incidental to any principal permitted uses when located on the same lot and not involving the conduct of any business; also including storage garages for the storage of automobiles of the tenants of the principal building exclusively, when such garage is owned and operated exclusively by the owner and operator of the principal building, and does not involve the conduct of any business separate from the service of the tenants of the principal building. Such services may include cleaning, refueling and retiring, but may not include repair.
(3) Off-street parking facilities. Provided that off-street parking areas located in front yards shall be no less than ten feet from the street line.
(4) Off-street loading facilities.
(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-3 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. The maximum height of elderly high rise housing shall be 10 stories or 120 feet, whichever is less.
(2) Minimum lot area. 5,000 square feet.
Minimum lot area per dwelling unit: 2, 000 square feet.
(3) Minimum lot area per dwelling unit. 3,000 feet. Elderly high rise housing: 375 square feet.
(4) Minimum yards. Except for row houses which shall have minimum yards as determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
A. Minimum front yard.
1. Under three stories: twenty feet.
2. Three stories and over: twenty-two feet plus an additional two feet per story.
B.
Minimum side yards (stories) | Least width (feet) | Sum of least widths (feet) |
1 | 5 | 12 |
2 or 2-1/2 | 6 | 14 |
Over 2-1/2 | 10 plus an add’l 5 per story | 22 plus an add’l 10 per story |
C. Minimum rear yard.
1. Under three stories: thirty feet.
2. Three stories and over: thirty-five feet plus an additional five feet per story.
(Ord. A-2530. Passed 2-27-73; Ord. A-3129. Passed 2-17-76; Ord. 0-1064. Passed 2-11-03.)