Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. must be outside 100-year floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions.
Lot area, minimum means the minimum area of land outside a 100-year floodplain that is permitted within a zoning district and is used for creating a residential lot.
Other
- Number of animals that triggers kennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. definition5 animals
Kennel means the use of land where five or more canines, felines, or hybrids of either are kept for the purpose of breeding, hunting, training, renting, buying, boarding, selling, or showing.
- Maximum customers at one time for home occupationHome occupationA business run from a dwelling, permitted so long as it stays subordinate to living there.1 persons
Home occupation means an accessory use conducted within a dwelling unit by residents of that unit which is clearly incidental and secondary to the principal residential use and where no more than one customer at any given time comes to the dwelling unit. No employees shall be permitted to come to the dwelling unit.
- Maximum floor area for cottage court dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.1,200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Cottage court means a group of smaller single-family detached dwelling units, not to exceed 1,200 gross square feet, with their front facades oriented toward a common open space such as a courtyard.
- Maximum residents in a group homeGroup homeA dwelling shared by unrelated residents receiving supervision or care.8 persons
Group home means the use of land for a residential facility in which no more than eight mentally ill, intellectually disabled, or developmentally disabled persons, or no more than eight aged, infirmed or disabled persons reside, with one or more resident counselors or other resident or nonresident staff persons.
- Maximum number of unrelated persons in a family3 persons
Family means: ... 3. A number of persons, not exceeding three, living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit though not related by blood, marriage, adoption, or guardianship; or 4. Not more than two unrelated persons and their dependent children living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit.
From the ordinance
Definitions for cottage court, home occupation, family, group home, kennel, and lot area minimum.