RM-3
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right9
- One-family dwellings
- Multi-family dwellings
- Raising of fruit and nut trees, vegetables and horticultural specialties
- Small family day care home
- Alcoholic recovery facility
- State-authorized family care home, foster home or group home
- Fenced or enclosed swimming pools
- Incidental and accessory structures and uses
- Second dwelling units
Conditional / special use16
- Enclosed temporary construction materials storage yards
- Gas and electric transmission lines
- Rest homes and nursing homes
- Boarding or rooming houses
- Garden structures
- Private clubs and lodges
- Mobile homes on permanent foundations
- Second housing unit attached to existing single-family residence
- Home occupations
- Public and quasi-public uses
- Public and private charitable institutions
- Public uses
- Mobile home parks
- Modest expansion of nonconforming use
- Keeping more than five total fowl
- State-authorized licensed day care center for thirteen or more children
Accessory1
Extracted standards
11 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. structures in rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
Accessory and garden structures less than seven feet in height may be located within any portion of a required rear yard. Accessory and garden structures greater than seven feet, and less than fifteen feet must be located a minimum of five feet from the rear property line.
- Fences, walls and hedges per Section 18.06.050
Fences, walls and hedges shall be permitted in accordance with Section 18.06.050.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. distance from street centerline45 ft
The distance from the center line of a public street to the rear of the required front yard shall not be less than forty-five feet.
- Mechanical equipment setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line5 ft
Any mechanical equipment shall not be located closer than five feet from an adjoining property line.
- Minimum distance between structures10 ft
The minimum distance between a dwelling unit and another structure shall be ten feet.
- Swimming pools not in utility easement
No swimming pool shall be located within a utility easement.
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. increase per additional story5 ft
Where construction involves more than one story, the rear yard shall be increased by five feet for each additional story.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. increase per additional story5 ft
Where construction involves more than one story, the side yard shall be increased by five feet for each additional story.
- Site plan review required for multi-familyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. uses
No multi-family use, except for second dwelling units, may be established until a site plan shall have been approved consistent with Chapter 18.18.
Parking
- Off-street parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. per Chapter 18.13
Off-street parking and off-street loading facilities shall be provided on the site for each use as prescribed in Chapter 18.13.
Signage
- Signs prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. except per Chapter 18.14
No sign or outdoor advertising structure of any character shall be permitted except as provided in Chapter 18.14.
From the ordinance
Minimum site area 5,000 sq ft; front yard 15 ft; rear yard 10 ft; side yard 5 ft; height 35 ft.