(A) Purposes. In addition to the objectives prescribed in § 155.001, the RR Rural Residential, R-1 One-Family and R-2 Two-Family Residential Districts are included in the zoning ordinances to achieve the following purposes:
(1) To reserve appropriately located areas for family living at a reasonable range of population density consistent with sound standards of public health and safety;
(2) To ensure adequate light, air, privacy, and open space for each dwelling;
(3) To protect 1-family and 2-family dwellings from the congestion and lack of privacy associated with multi-family dwellings;
(4) To provide space for semi-public facilities needed to complement urban residential areas and for institutions that require a residential environment;
(5) To minimize traffic congestion and to avoid the overloading of utilities by preventing the construction of buildings of excessive size in relation to the land around them;
(6) To provide necessary space for off-street parking of automobiles and where appropriate, for off-street loading of trucks;
(7) To protect residential properties from noise, illumination, unsightliness, odors, dust, dirt, smoke, vibration, heat, glare, and other objectionable influences; and
(8) To protect residential properties from fire, explosion, noxious fumes, and other hazards.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 400, passed 3-18-1993)
(B) Required conditions.
(2) No use shall be permitted and no process, equipment, or material shall be employed which is found by the Village Board of Trustees to be objectionable to persons residing or working in the vicinity or injurious to property located in the vicinity by reason of odor, insect nuisance, fumes, dust, smoke, cinders, dirt, refuse, water-carried wastes, noise, vibration, illumination, glare, unsightliness, or traffic or to involve any hazard of fire to explosion.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 401, passed 3-18-1993)
(C) Permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted:
(1) RR, R-1 and One-Family Residential Districts.
(a) One-family dwellings in which not more than 3 paying guests may be lodged or boarded. Not more than 1 dwelling unit shall be located on each site;
(b) Raising of fruit and nut trees, vegetables, and horticultural specialties;
(c) Home occupations conducted in accord with the regulations prescribed in § 155.125;
(d) A lone accessory structure located at the same site with a permitted use including private garages and carports, 1 guest house or accessory living quarters without a kitchen, storehouses, garden structures, greenhouses, recreation rooms, and hobby areas within an enclosed structure. If the premises has a detached garage, the square footage of the garage plus the new accessory structure shall not exceed a total of 650 square feet in area. If the premises has an attached garage, the new accessory shall not exceed 300 square feet in area; and
(Am. Ord. 2004-13, passed 6-24-2004)
(e) Swimming pools used solely by persons resident on the site and their guests, provided that no swimming pool or accessory mechanical equipment shall be located in a required front yard or less than 10 feet from a property line.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 402.1, passed 3-18-1993)
(2) R-2 Two-Family Residential Districts.
(a) Two-family dwellings or two 1-family dwellings in which not more than 3 paying guests may be lodged or boarded in any 1 dwelling unit. Not more than 2 dwelling units shall be located on each site.
(b) Home occupations conducted in accord with the regulations prescribed in § 155.125.
(c) 1. A lone accessory structure located at the same site with a permitted use including private garages and carports, 1 guest house or accessory living quarters without a kitchen, storehouses, garden structures, greenhouses, recreation rooms, and hobby areas within an enclosed structure. If the premises has a detached garage, the square footage of the garage plus the new accessory structure shall not exceed a total of 650 square feet in area. If the premises has an attached garage, the new accessory shall not exceed 300 square feet in area.
2. A single-car garage is required on the same lot with a 1,199 square feet or less size 1-family dwelling.
3. A 2-car garage or greater is required on the same lot with a 1,200 square feet or greater 1-family house.
(Am. Ord. 2004-14, passed 6-24-2004)
(d) Swimming pools used solely by persons resident on the site and their guests, provided that no swimming pool or accessory mechanical equipment shall be located in a required front yard or less than 10 feet from a property line.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 402.2, passed 3-18-1993; Am. Ord. 1994-15, passed - -)
(1) Churches, convents, monasteries, parish houses, parsonages, and other religious institutions;
(2) Golf courses, public parks, and playgrounds;
(3) Hospitals, sanitariums and nursing homes, not including hospitals, sanitariums, or nursing homes for mental, drug addict, or liquor addict cases;
(4) Daycare facilities and nursery schools;
(5) Private recreation parks and swim clubs;
(6) Public and parochial schools and colleges;
(7) Public utility, public facility, and public services, pumping stations, power stations, equipment buildings and installations, water storage tanks found by the Village Board of Trustees to be necessary for the public health, safety, or welfare;
(8) A lone accessory structure and use located on the same site as a special use;
(Am. Ord. 2004-15, passed 6-24-2004)
(9) Bed and breakfast; and
(10) Community-based housing (R-2 only).
(Ord. 1992-10, § 403, passed 3-18-1993)
(E) Setback and yard requirements. In the R-2 District, 2 buildings each designed as a 1-family dwelling may be permitted on a zoning lot. In addition to the yards and setbacks established for the District, the following additional setbacks between buildings shall be required where there is more than 1 building containing a dwelling unit on a zoning lot.
(1) Side to side: a minimum of 20 feet is required;
(2) Side to back: a minimum of 30 feet is required;
(3) Front to front: a minimum of 64 feet is required;
(4) Front to side: a minimum of 30 feet is required;
(5) Front to back: a minimum of 64 feet is required; and
(6) Back to back: a minimum of 40 feet is required;
(Ord. 1992-10, § 404, passed 3-18-1993)
(F) Driveways.
(1) A driveway is any paved hard-surfaced, manmade area used to access any garage or accessory building, or leads to a garage, outdoor or indoor parking area, or is an established and surfaced portion of the lot, the use of which is for the purpose of ingress or egress to a carport, garage, accessory structure, parking area, or loading and unloading station for vehicles, whether the driveway crosses the Village right-of-way or not.
(2) All driveways must comply with the following standards, in addition to those set forth in the Village subdivision code and code of ordinances:
(b) Only 1 driveway is permitted for each lot in the RR and R-1 Districts, unless a variance is granted by the Village Board of Trustees;
(c) All driveways must be constructed directly from the public road to the attached garage or to the primary detached garage if there is no attached garage if situated in the front or side yard; and
(d) No driveways may be built to any accessory structure (excluding the attached garage or to the primary detached garage if there is no attached garage if situated in the front or side yard) unless a variance is granted by the Board of Trustees.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 405, passed 3-18-1993; Am. Ord. 2002-33, passed 4-18-2003; Am. Ord. 2008-15, passed 3-20-2008)
Editor’s note:
This section was also amended by Ord. 1999-9, passed August 5, 1999.