In this zone, a building or land shall be used only for one or more of the following purposes:
(A) Uses permitted.
(1) Any use permitted in the R8 Residential Zone;
(2) Modular homes;
(3) Multi-family dwellings, excluding mobile homes and mobile home parks;
(4) Guest houses and boarding houses;
(5) Nursing homes, convalescent homes and homes for the aged;
(6) Public and private cemeteries;
(7) Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above permitted uses; and
(8) Notwithstanding the prohibition above against the sale of merchandise or commodities as a part of a home occupation, in the R6 Residential Zone, a greenhouse may be maintained for the purpose of growing and selling plants, subject to the following restrictions.
(a) The square footage of the greenhouse shall not exceed 504 square feet.
(b) Sales shall be limited to plants grown and propagated in the greenhouse and shall not be used for the purpose of selling plants grown or propagated at other sites.
(c) Sales from the greenhouse shall not exceed the annual gross amount of $5,000. The owner of the greenhouse shall file with the Town Clerk a sworn affidavit on February is in each year setting forth the gross sales for the previous calendar year.
(d) The greenhouse must be located on the lot where the owner’s house is situated.
(e) The greenhouse shall be located on the lot in such a manner as to not distract from the overall appearance of the neighborhood and shall be maintained by the owners in neat and orderly fashion.
(f) Violation of any provision herein shall constitute grounds for prohibition of further sales from the greenhouse as well as all other criminal and civil penalties provided by the zoning ordinance. A false gross sales affidavit shall also constitute grounds for prohibition of further sales as well as other criminal and civil penalties as provided by law.
(B) Building height limit. No structure shall exceed 35 feet in height unless the depth of front and total width of side yards required herein shall be increased five feet for each story, or fraction thereof, of building height in excess of 35 feet.
(C) Building site area required for one- and two-family residences. The minimum building site area shall be one lot or parcel of land 6,000 square feet in area for each main building. Such parcel of land shall have an average width of at least 60 feet at the front building line. When a lot or parcel of land has an area of less than the above required minimum area and width and was of record at the time of passage of this chapter, said lot may be occupied by one family; provided, however, that the minimum side and front yard requirements set out in this section are conformed to provided, however, that duplexes or other multi-dwelling units shall, in addition to the above area requirements, increase the minimum building site area as follows: for each additional family unit in excess of the first family unit, 3,000 square feet per family, in addition to the 6,000 square feet required above.
(D) Front yard required.
(1) There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 25 feet measured from the front property line to the front line of the main building. Where lots comprising 25% or more of the frontage on the same street within the block are already developed, an average front yard shall be computed for the existing buildings. No buildings hereafter erected or structurally altered shall project beyond the average front yard so established, provided this regulation shall not be so construed as to require a front yard depth of more than 25 feet provided, further, no front yard depth need exceed the average provided for the two adjoining buildings, one on either side thereof, if such two adjoining buildings are less than 200 feet apart. Provided, further, that when the geographic grade or contour of a lot is such that compliance with this section is impossible or will impose an undue hardship upon the property owner, the Board of Adjustment will establish a front yard depth suitable and practical for such lot.
(2) Where lots have a double frontage, the required front yard shall be provided on both streets.
(E) Side yard required. There shall be a side yard on each side of the main building having a width of not less than eight feet and the total width of the side yards shall not be less than 16 feet. No accessory building on a corner lot shall extend beyond the front yard line of the lots in rear thereof; provided, further, that this regulation shall not be so interpreted as to reduce the building width of a corner lot facing an intersecting street and as of record at the time of the passage of this chapter to less than 28 feet, nor to prohibit the erection of an accessory building where this regulation cannot be complied with.
(F) Signs. A billboard, signboard or advertising sign shall in no case be permitted as an accessory use. The placing of a “for sale” or “for rent” sign not exceeding four square feet in area shall, however, be permitted. Signs not exceeding one square foot in area shall be permitted in connection with a home occupation as defined in § 153.003.
(1993 Code, § 91.017) Penalty, see § 153.999