Article IV, Sec. 21-400 to 21-408
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right10
- Accessory uses and structures
- Churches, schools, libraries, parks, playgrounds and athletic fields
- Class A home occupations
- Commercial and noncommercial agricultural raising of crops
- Facilities and structures necessary for the rendering of public utility service
- Individual mobile homes and/or manufactured homes
- Single-family dwellings
- Small scale solar energy facilities
- Temporary uses
- Waste collection and recycling centers
Conditional / special use8
- Class B home occupations
- Clubs, fraternities, lodges and meeting places
- Homeless shelters or transitional living facilities, community correctional facilities, and halfway houses
- Mobile home and/or manufactured home park
- Multiple-family (apartments) and single-family attached (duplexes and townhouses) dwellings
- Nursery schools, day care centers, and family day care homes
- Rest homes
- Riding horse barns
Prohibited2
- Manufactured or mobile homes as accessory uses
- Buses, trailer sections of tractor-trailer combinations or any other vehicle designed to transport people or goods on highways as accessory uses
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near party lot line1 story
Accessory buildings which are situated within twenty (20) feet of any party lot line shall not be more than one story in height.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. relative to main
All accessory buildings shall not exceed the main building in height.
- Dwelling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception45 ft
Dwelling units may be increased to a height of forty-five (45) feet and up to three (3) stories provided each required side yard is fifteen (15) feet or more plus an additional one foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height exceeding thirty-five (35) feet.
Spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, roof mounted television antennae, and roof mounted radio aerials are exempt.
- Maximum parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above building4 ft
Parapet walls may be up to four (4) feet above the height of the building.
- Public building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception60 ft
Public and semi-public buildings may be erected up to a height of sixty (60) feet from grade provided that required front, side, and rear yards be increased by one foot for each additional foot of height exceeding thirty-five (35) feet.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
The front setback of all accessory structures shall equal or exceed that of the main structure.
- Corner lot side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. facing side street25 ft
The minimum side yard facing the direction of the side street shall be twenty-five (25) feet or more for both main and accessory buildings.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. based on street width
The front setback line shall be located thirty-five (35) feet from any street right-of-way which is fifty (50) feet or greater in width or sixty (60) feet from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than fifty (50) feet in width.
- Individual water/sewage system approval
For permitted uses utilizing an individual water or sewage disposal system, the required area for any such use shall be approved by the Health Official.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. floor area as % of principal50 pct
The total floor area of all accessory structures shall be less than fifty (50) percent of that of the principal structure.
- Minimum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line3 ft
No accessory building may be closer than three (3) feet to any property line.
From the ordinance
The minimum required lot area for permitted uses shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet or more.