Article 11, Sec. 15-181-15-186
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right9
- Dwelling, manufactured home
- Dwelling, single-family
- Assisted living facility; group home for eight or fewer
- Family day home, four children or fewer
- Fire and rescue station
- Museum; historical and cultural exhibit; library; similar uses
- Park; playground
- School, public
- Utility distribution facility, public, and all accompanying appurtenances and structures
Conditional / special use6
- Dwelling, two-family
- Audio studio in a soundproof building
- Club; lodge
- School, private
- Utility - gas transmission line, compressor station, measurement station, regulator station
- Utility transmission substation; transmission line, other than normal distribution facility
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Parking area screening fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.7 ft
Parking areas adjacent to residential uses must be appropriately screened by a masonry wall or solid fence between five and seven feet high.
Lighting
- Lighting compliance
Lighting must comply with article 25, Sec. 15-391 through 15-399.
Noise
- Amplification prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
No public address systems, or devices for reproducing or amplifying voices or music, may be mounted outside any building or be audible beyond the property line.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
Accessory structures: Less than main building height.
Exceptions to the height requirement include: church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennas and radio aerials.
- Hours of operation
Except for emergency activities, no use may be open for business between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
- Landscape requirements
Refer to Sec. 15-377 for landscape requirements.
- Maximum structure gross floor area7,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
no individual structure may have a gross floor area exceeding 7,500 square feet.
- Outdoor storage prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
There shall be no outdoor display or outdoor storage.
- Parapet wall maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Parapet walls may rise up to six feet above the finished roof surface.
- Trash storage prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
There cannot be any garbage or trash containers, exposed garbage or trash, or outdoor storage in any portion of any outdoor space.
- Underground utilities required
Distribution lines and service connections must be installed underground.
- Vegetative screening allowed
Dense vegetative screening with evergreens may be substituted for all or a portion of the fence or wall.
Parking
- Parking surface material
All driveways and off-street parking areas must be covered with bituminous surface treatment, bituminous concrete, concrete or equivalent paving material.
From the ordinance
R-O district: single-family and manufactured homes by right, two-family by CUP; special conditions for offices include max 7,500 sq ft structure, screening, and hours.