(A) Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the R-1 One-Family Dwelling District.
(1) One-family detached dwellings.
(2) Home occupations as defined herein.
(3) Truck gardening and other horticultural uses where no buildings are involved and when no sale of products is conducted on the premises.
(4) Churches.
(5) Convents, monasteries, rectories or parish houses to be occupied by not more than 15 persons.
(6) Transitional uses - two-family dwellings, principal offices of physicians, dentists, lawyers, architects, real estate brokers, and other professional occupations, when conducted in a residential structure used primarily as a home and when located on lots having a side line adjoining a lot in a business or manufacturing district; or on lots having a side lot line adjacent to a railroad right-of- way or directly across a street or alley from a business or manufacturing district, provided that:
(a) The lot on which the transitional use is located does not extend more than 75 feet from the adjoining business or manufacturing district, or more than 120 feet in depth from the street line in cases where the lot does not adjoin but faces a business or manufacturing district;
(b) There is a minimum lot area of 8,700 square feet for each two-family dwelling;
(c) The home occupations are conducted in conjunction with the use of a dwelling unit as a home by the occupant thereof, with not more than 2 employees other than members of the related family, and that the residential character of the exterior of the dwelling is not changed.
(7) Temporary buildings and uses for construction purposes for a period not to exceed 1 year.
(9) Signs, as regulated by § 155.150.
(11) Active solar energy systems, building integrated solar energy systems, grid-intertie solar energy systems, off-grid solar energy systems, passive solar energy system, photovoltaic systems, solar collectors, solar energy system, solar energy system, additions, solar heat exchangers, solar hot air systems, and/or solar hot water systems of ten kilowatts or less, installed in compliance with this ordinance and in compliance with applicable local, state and federal law shall be an allowable use, in addition to all others, in R-1 One Family Dwelling and R-2 General Residence Districts.
(B) Height of buildings. The maximum height of buildings permitted shall be as follows:
(1) One-family detached dwellings: 25 feet and not over 2½ stories.
(2) Churches: 75 feet for towers or steeples, and not more than 45 feet for the main structure.
(C) Lot sizes.
(1) Every 1 family detached dwelling hereafter erected or structurally altered shall be on a lot having an area of not less than 6,000 square feet, and a width at the established building line of not less than 60 feet; provided however that lots existing at the time of the passage of the Zoning Code whose width is not less than 50 feet at the established building line and whose total area is less than 6,000 square feet may be used in conformance with and for the purposes permitted under this R-l zoning classification.
(2) Churches, convents and monasteries hereafter erected or structurally altered shall be on a lot having an area of not less than 10,000 square feet and a width at the building line of not less than 75 feet.
(D) Yard areas. No building shall be erected or enlarged unless the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with the building, structure or enlargement.
(1) Front yard. Each lot upon which a dwelling is constructed shall have a front yard of not less than 25 feet. Where lots comprising 40% of the frontage between 2 intersecting streets are developed with buildings having front yards with a variation of more than 15 feet in depth, the average of the front yards shall establish the minimum front yard depth for the entire frontage. In no case, shall a front yard of more than 50 feet be required.
(2) Side yards.
(a) On each lot upon which a dwelling is constructed, there shall be a side yard on each side of the principal building of not less than 10% of the width of the lot. The combined total of side yards shall be not less than 15 feet. On corner lots, there shall be maintained a side yard of not less than 10 feet on the side adjacent to the street, and in the case of a reversed corner lot there shall be maintained a setback from the side street of not less than 50% of the front yard required on the lots in the rear of the corner lots, but the setback need not exceed 15 feet. No accessory building on the reversed corner lot shall project beyond the front yard required on the adjacent lot to the rear, nor be located nearer than 5 feet to the side lot line of the adjacent lot, nor less than 10 feet from a principal building on an adjacent lot.
(b) On lots upon which a church is constructed or extensions made to an existing church, there shall be a side yard of not less than 10 feet on each side of the main structure and a combined total of side yards of not less than 25 feet.
(3) Rear yard. Every lot or parcel of land upon which a building is constructed shall have a rear yard of not less than 25 feet.
(E) Permitted obstructions. The following shall not be considered as obstructions when located within or over required yards:
(1) Open terraces;
(2) Awnings and canopies;
(3) Steps;
(4) Chimneys not exceeding 2% of the width of the yard;
(5) Arbors and trellises;
(6) Fences or walls (rear yards only). Side yard privacy fences shall not extend past front corners of home. Fencing of front yards shall not restrict view of traffic;
(7) Breezeways and open porches (rear yards only);
(8) Open parking areas.
(1992 Code, § 155.041) (Ord. passed 5- -1969; Am. Ord. 010578, passed 1-5-1978; Am. Ord. 122794A, passed 12-27-1994; Am. Ord. 102698A, passed 10-26-1998; Am. Ord. 2021-MC12, passed 12-13-2021) Penalty, see § 155.999