Article IV, Sec. 66-91 through 66-101
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 30,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.69 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right49
- single-family dwellings
- mobile/manufactured homes
- two-family dwellings
- agriculture
- schools
- golf course and country clubs
- churches
- professional offices
- gift shops and antique shops
- general country stores
- beauty shops and barbershops
- sawmills and planing mills
- boat docks
- preserves and conservation areas
- lodges, hunting clubs and recreational campsites
- commercial stables and livestock markets
- cemeteries
- home occupations
- public utilities and facilities
- accessory uses
- farm structures
- service station
- restaurants
- pottery and ceramics manufacturing
- cabinet/furniture/upholstery/wood products shops
- state DOT maintenance facilities
- garage apartments
- garden center/plant nursery
- public safety facilities
- family day care home
- hog farms
- intensive livestock/dairy/poultry facilities
- commercial transmitter towers (minor)
- public water and sewer systems
- public recreation areas
- retail stores and shops
- service establishments
- flea markets
- bed and breakfast homestays
- residential garages
- group homes
- shooting/game preserves
- museums and cultural facilities
- automobile repair shop (major)
- automobile repair shop (minor)
- convenience store
- storage facilities
- solar generation facilities (small)
- solar generation facilities (agriculture)
Conditional / special use30
- airstrips
- mobile home parks
- vehicle graveyards
- mining and quarrying
- equipment rental, sales and service
- warehousing (storage only)
- contractor's equipment storage or yard
- coal and wood yards
- animal hospitals, veterinary offices and kennels
- sheet metal, blacksmith, welding or machine shop
- commercial transmitter towers (intermediate and major)
- auction house
- residential assisted living facility
- junkyards
- recycling facility
- sanitary landfills
- hospitals
- airports
- hotels, motels and bed and breakfast inns
- amusement parks
- penal institutions and detention facilities
- meat, poultry and fish processing
- transfer stations
- abuse shelters
- multifamily dwellings
- automobile repair shop (major) if less than 300 feet from residence
- nightclub, bar or tavern
- bottling plant and beverage distributor
- assisted living facility, life care facility, senior/elderly housing facility
- solar generation facilities (utility-scale)
Accessory5
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
No accessory building may be located within the main structure's front setback.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building side/rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
No accessory building may be closer than five feet to any side or rear property line.
- Additional lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. per additional use30,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
For lots containing more than one use or structure, excluding accessory structures, the minimum lot area shall be an additional 30,000 square feet per use or structure.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from centerline for narrow roads65 ft
or 65 feet or more from the centerline of a street or road right-of-way less than 50 feet in width
- Health official may require greater lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
The health official and the zoning administrator may require a greater area if considered necessary by soil and site conditions.
- Minimum buffer width10 ft
a minimum of ten feet buffering and screening is required where uses, other than residential, are within 100 feet of an R-1 or R-2 zone classification.
- Minimum distance between main structures35 ft
Where more than one main structure or use is permitted on the same lot, there shall be a minimum of 35 feet separation between building or use.
Signage
signs advertising the sale or rent of premises may be erected up to the property line.
From the ordinance
In the agricultural-rural residential (AR) zoning district, the minimum lot area shall be 30,000 square feet for lots utilizing public or private water and sewage disposal systems.