Section XI, R-C District, C. Uses permitted by right, D. Uses permitted by special use permit, E.16, F.5
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right10
- Accessory uses and structures
- Bed and breakfast home stay
- Churches and places of worship
- Community gardens
- Duplex (subject to residential lot development plan approval)
- Group homes (eight (8) or fewer residents)
- Home occupations
- Public parks, playgrounds, and open space
- Residential cluster development
- Single family detached dwellings
Conditional / special use22
- Accessory residential dwelling unit
- Assisted living facilities
- Attached dwellings
- Bed and breakfast inn
- Cemetery or mausoleum
- Commercial pool, tennis, or recreation facility
- Community recreation uses for subdivision residents
- Day care, for children
- Day care, for adults
- Golf course
- Group home (nine (9) or more residents)
- Library
- Live-work residence
- Multifamily dwelling in a cluster development
- Museums or historic site
- Nursing home
- Private club, lodge, or fraternal organization
- Public buildings, infrastructure, and other facilities
- Residential uses in accord with Table 11.1
- Schools, colleges and academic institutions
- Temporary marketing offices for new residential development
- Waiver of minimum district size for cluster subdivisions
Accessory1
- Accessory residential dwelling unit (max 1 per lot, by SUP)
Extracted standards
18 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Facade variation required
The facades of single family attached dwellings in a group shall be varied by changed setbacks or variations in exterior architectural materials or design so that no more than three (3) abutting dwellings will have the same or essentially the same architectural treatment of facades and rooflines.
Other
- Active recreation share of open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.25 pct
Twenty-five (25) percent of the required open space area shall be developed as active recreational space
- Attached building max units8 units
A single-family attached building shall contain at least two (2) but no more than eight (8) side-by-side dwelling units.
- Attached building min units2 units
A single-family attached building shall contain at least two (2) but no more than eight (8) side-by-side dwelling units.
- Attached building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from parking10 ft
Single family attached dwellings shall maintain a minimum setback of ten (10) feet from on- or off-street parking areas, sidewalks, and pedestrian trails.
- Attached building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street15 ft
Single-family attached buildings shall maintain a minimum setback of fifteen (15) feet of separation from private streets, alleys, travel aisles.
- Cluster open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.20 pct
Twenty (20) percent of the gross site area of a cluster subdivision shall be common open space dedicated to common usage and ownership.
- Driveway separation60 ft
A residential dwelling lot may be served by more than one driveway entrance from the same street only where driveway entrances are separated by a horizontal distance equal to or greater than sixty (60) feet at the front property line
The outside edge of a driveway may be no closer than three (3) feet to any side yard property boundary.
- Equipment screening required
All exterior maintenance equipment... shall be screened from off-site and on-site common area view in an architecturally integrated manner
- Max attached+MF share75 pct
The combined number of single family attached and multifamily dwellings shall not exceed seventy-five (75) percent of the total number of approved residential units in the R-C cluster subdivision.
- Max lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. constrained20 pct
not greater than twenty (20) percent of the required minimum lot area for each lot is comprised of one or more of the following physical land units
- Max open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. constrained33 pct
No more than thirty-three (33) percent of the required common open space in a cluster subdivision shall consist of land classified as one hundred-year floodplain, stream valleys, wetlands, water features, stormwater management and BMP facilities, adverse geological, soils or terrain characteristics, slopes greater than thirty (30) percent, and/or drainage easements.
- No private well/septic
No private domestic well and septic systems shall be permitted on any lot approved after the date of adoption of this ordinance.
Overlay
- EC-O overlayOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it. applies
For R-C zoned land that is located within a designated Entrance Corridor Overlay District, EC-O, the guidelines and requirements of the EC-O District shall be applied in addition to the R-C regulations
- TND-O overlayOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it. applies
For R-C zoned land that is located within the Traditional Neighborhood Development Overlay district, the guidelines and regulations of the overlay district provide more flexible development options.
Parking
- ADUAccessory dwelling unit (ADU)A second, smaller home on a lot that already has one — a garage flat, basement flat or backyard cottage. parking additional
Parking spaces for an accessory unit shall be in addition to standard parking requirements for the primary residential dwelling.
- RV parking prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. in front/side yards
Recreational vehicle parking shall not be permitted within front yard and side yard setbacks.
From the ordinance
With conventional subdivision lots sizes of six thousand (6,000) square feet and greater... All R-C District uses shall require public water and sewer service... nine (9) DU/AC