The purpose of the R-S Residential Suburban District is to provide for a low-density single-family residential district.
(A) Permitted uses.
(1) Single-family detached structures;
(2) Churches;
(3) Day care, family;
(4) Home occupation;
(5) Public open space including customary public parks;
(6) Schools, public, denominational or private accommodating nursery, elementary, or high school grades with adjacent playgrounds and athletic fields, dormitories and other accessory uses required for operation;
(7) Seminaries, convents, monasteries and similar religious institutions including dormitories and other accessory uses required for operation;
(8) Temporary buildings or trailers at construction site but only during period of construction; and
(9) Accessory uses.
(1) Agricultural uses;
(2) Bed and breakfast inns;
(3) Boarding house;
(4) Cemeteries including mausoleums or crematories;
(5) Colleges or universities;
(6) Day care, commercial;
(7) Electric and telephone substations;
(8) Family care homes;
(9) Filtration plants, sewage treatment plants, dumping stations and water reservoirs;
(10) Libraries;
(11) Nurseries, not including greenhouses;
(12) Police and fire stations;
(13) Public and private outdoor recreation centers including accessory buildings and structures for administration, operation and maintenance, and club house or pavilion facilities including sale of food and soft drinks; and
(14) Unrelated group family homes.
(C) Required lot area and width. All buildings erected or structurally enlarged in the R-S Residential Suburban District shall be on a lot of not less than 14,500 square feet and have a lot width at the building line of not less than 90 feet.
(D) Required yard areas. All buildings erected or structurally enlarged in the R-S Residential Suburban District shall provide or maintain the following minimum yards.
(1) Front yard. Thirty feet.
(2) Side yard.
(a) No side yard of less than eight feet; and
(b) For the side street side of a corner lot, a minimum yard of not less than 30 feet.
(3) Rear yard. Fifteen feet. Corner lots will not be considered to have rear yards, but only front and side yards.
(E) Building heights. No building hereafter erected or structurally enlarged shall exceed 35 feet in height.
(F) Floor area ratio. No building shall hereafter be erected or structurally enlarged to provide a floor area ratio exceeding thirty-one-hundredths.
(2009 Code, § 40-5-2) (Ord. 15-08, passed 8-31-2015)