(A) Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the R-2 General Residence District.
(1) Any use permitted in the R-1 One- Family Dwelling District.
(2) Two-family dwellings.
(3) One-family row dwellings (party-wall type) with not more than 6 dwelling units in a building.
(4) Multiple-family dwellings and apartments.
(5) Offices of physicians, dentists, lawyers, architects, real estate brokers, and other professional occupations, including funeral homes when conducted in a residential structure, providing the residential character of the building is not altered extensively.
(6) Signs, as defined and regulated in § 155.150.
(7) Boarding and lodging houses.
(8) 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. No building shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered to exceed 3 stories nor shall it exceed 45 feet in height.
(C) Lot size.
(1) No building hereafter erected or structurally altered in this R-2 General Residence District shall have a total lot area of less than 6,600 square feet, nor have a total lot width of less than 66 feet. Every building hereafter erected or structurally altered as a multiple-family dwelling of more than 2 dwelling units shall provide a lot area per dwelling unit of 1,500 square feet. One-family row houses hereafter erected or structurally altered shall have a total lot area of 2,000 square feet per dwelling unit except that corner and end dwelling units of a row unit building shall have not less than 2,500 square feet of total lot area.
(2) Lots whose width is not less than 50 feet and whose total lot area is not less than 6,200 square feet may be used in conformance with and for the purposes permitted under this R-2 zoning classification; provided however that the lots existed at the time of the passage of the Zoning Code.
(D) Yard areas. No building or structure nor the enlargement of any building or structure shall be hereafter erected or maintained unless the following yards and lot areas are provided and maintained in connection with the structure or enlargement.
(1) Front yard. For multiple-family dwellings other than one-family row dwellings, there shall be a front yard of not less than 25 feet. For row dwellings, two-family dwellings and one-family dwellings, the same regulations shall apply as required in the R-1 District.
(2) Side yards.
(a) Multiple-family dwellings. On interior lots there shall be a side yard on each side of the principal building equal to not less than 10% of the width of the lot and a combined total of side yards of not less than 15 feet for all multiple-family dwellings of not more than 2 stories in height. On corner lots, the side yard on the intersecting street side shall be not less than 10 feet, except in the case of a reversed corner lot, where there shall be a side yard on the street side of the corner lot of not less than 50% of the front yard required in the lots in the rear of the corner lot. No accessory building on the reversed corner lot shall project beyond the front yard line required on the adjacent lot to the rear, nor be located nearer than 5 feet to the side lot line of the adjacent lot.
(b) One-family dwellings. The same regulations shall apply as required in the R-1 District.
(c) Two-family dwellings. The same regulations shall apply as required in the R-1 District.
(d) One-family row dwellings. The same regulations as govern side yards of multiple- family dwellings, except that there may be not less than 15 feet between adjacent row buildings.
(3) Rear yard. For multiple-family dwellings, other than one-family row dwellings, there shall be a rear yard of not less than 25 feet for interior lots nor less than 15 feet for corner lots. For other type dwellings, the same rear yard regulations shall apply as required in the R-1 District.
(E) Permitted obstructions. The same regulations shall apply as required or permitted in the R-1 District.
(1992 Code, § 155.042) (Ord. passed 5- -1969; Am. Ord. 010578, passed 1-5-1978; Am. Ord. 2021-MC12, passed 12-13-2021)