(A) Permitted uses. In the R-3 Residential District, no building or premises shall be used and no building shall hereafter be erected or altered except for one or more of the following purposes:
(1) Single-family dwellings;
(2) A managed limited access residential community of single-family dwellings;
(3) Churches, but only when off-street parking space is provided upon the lot, or within 200 feet thereof, which space is adequate to accommodate one car for every four persons for which seating is provided in the main auditorium of the church;
(4) Publicly owned or utilized buildings, including schools, police or fire stations, libraries, community centers or other public buildings, except township, county, state or federal offices; and
(5) Parks or playgrounds.
(B) Height regulations. In the R-3 Residential District, no building shall exceed one and one-half stories or shall exceed 45 feet in height.
(C) Area regulations. In the R-3 Residential District, the minimum dimensions of yards, the maximum percentage of lot occupancy and minimum lot area per dwelling shall be as follows.
(1) Front yard. There shall be a front yard on the front of each building having a depth of not less than 25 feet; provided, however, that where the average depth of the front yard fronting on any one side of the street within a distance of 300 feet on each side of a particular lot exceeds or is less than 25 feet, the depth of the front yard required under this chapter for such a lot shall be such average depth. When the street is curved, the line shall follow the curve rather than to be a straight line.
(2) Corner lot - double frontage. No accessory building shall be constructed nearer than ten feet to the side lot line facing the side street on a corner lot having a double frontage.
(3) Side yard. There shall be a side yard on each side of a building or an accessory building having a width of not less than five feet.
(4) Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard having a depth or not less than 25 feet or 162/3% of the depth of the lot, whichever is smaller.
(5) Intensity of use. Every lot or tract of land upon which a building is erected shall have an area of not less than 5,000 square feet and an average depth of not less than 75 feet.
(6) Minimum size of dwelling unit. Every dwelling unit constructed shall have not less than 1,400 square feet of floor area.
(7) Off-street parking regulations. Whenever any structure or building is altered or erected on premises used for one of the purposes permitted in this district, there shall be provided off- street parking spaces in the ratio of not less than two parking spaces for each family or dwelling unit.
(Ord. 16-06-01, passed 6-14-2016) Penalty, see § 154.999