§165-402.02-§165-402.09
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right33
- single-family detached rural traditional
- single-family detached traditional
- single-family detached urban
- single-family detached cluster
- single-family detached zero lot line
- single-family small lot
- multiplex
- townhouse
- back-to-back townhouse
- rear alley townhouse
- garden apartment
- multifamily residential building
- age-restricted multifamily housing
- school
- fire station
- rescue squad
- group home
- home occupation
- public utility (excluding energy-generating)
- accessory use
- recreational facility
- public park
- neighborhood park
- playground
- noncommercial recreational facility
- business sign
- temporary model home
- library
- public building
- temporary family health care structure
- short-term lodging
- church
- place of worship
Conditional / special use19
- convalescent home
- nursing home
- adult care residence
- assisted living care facility
- cottage occupation
- fraternal lodge
- civic club
- social center
- day-care facility
- rooming house
- boardinghouse
- tourist home
- veterinary office
- veterinary clinic
- veterinary hospital
- museum
- medical office
- dental office
- health practitioner office
Extracted standards
12 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. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
Accessory structures shall be set back from all property lines a minimum of five feet, except for uses with a required enclosed yard.
- Age-restricted multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. housing requirements
Age-restricted multifamily housing shall only be permitted within proffered age-restricted developments. Elevator service shall be provided to each floor.
- Garden apartmentMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. requirements
Garden apartments shall be at least two stories high but no more than four stories and shall contain six or more units in a single structure, not to exceed 16 units within a single structure.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure size for single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. small lot150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Detached accessory structures may not exceed 150 square feet.
- Minimum landscape plantings for single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. small lot20 plantings
A minimum of 20 landscape plantings shall be provided on each individual lot. At least 1/4 of the landscape plantings shall be trees, with the remainder being shrubs. The trees shall be a minimum of two inches in caliper at time of planting, and the shrubs shall be a minimum of three.
- MultifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. residential building location
Multifamily residential buildings shall only be located in areas designated in the Comprehensive Plan as neighborhood villages, urban centers or other areas planned for high-density residential.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. environmental limits50 pct
No more than 50% of the required open space shall be within lakes and ponds, floodplain, wetlands or steep slopes.
- Pipestem lot requirements
Pipestem lots shall have a minimum road frontage of 20 feet. Minimum yards: front, side and rear 20 feet; accessory buildings 20 feet; side yard of lots adjoining pipestem driveway yard 15 feet. Pipestem lot driveways shall access only one lot. Total number of pipestem lots may not exceed 5% of total lots.
- Recreation facility phasing
Common recreational facilities and improvements shall be started not later than when that section reaches fifty-percent occupancy and completed by sixty-percent occupancy.
- Recreation unit requirement30 dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.
Single-family small lot, multiplex, townhouse, back-to-back townhouse, garden apartment and multifamily building housing types shall provide recreational units or equivalent recreational facilities for each 30 dwelling units.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from business/industrial uses50 ft
All proposed structures shall be set back 50 feet from the boundary of land zoned for business or industrial uses or land currently containing business or industrial uses.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. group limits
Rows of townhouses shall contain no more than eight dwelling units in a group. Back-to-back townhouses shall contain no more than 16 dwelling units in a group.
From the ordinance
Unless otherwise specified, all housing types shall be served by public sewer and water.