R-3
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 29.04 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 1,500 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
- Maximum units
- 100
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right13
Conditional / special use11
- funeral chapels
- day nurseries
- child care nurseries
- nursery schools (not exceeding 10 children, on single-family lot only)
- electrical distribution station
- private schools
- rest homes
- subdivision signs
- temporary or permanent telephone booths
- water pump stations
- developmentally disabled housing (8 or fewer)
Accessory1
- accessory buildings and uses incidental to any permitted use
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. depth requiring site plan review50 ft
Where a front yard is proposed to be greater than fifty feet, a site plan review shall be required.
- Private garage setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side street on reversed corner lot20 ft
Private garages located in the side yard shall be at least twenty feet from the property line on the side street, and not less than five feet from the rear property line on said reversed corner lot.
- Maximum 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.12 ft
No accessory building shall have a height greater than one story, not to exceed twelve feet to plate height.
- Site plan review required
Before any building or structure, with the exception of a one-family dwelling, is erected on any lot in the R-3 district, a site plan pursuant to Chapter 17.56 of this code shall have been submitted to and approved by the City Manager, or his designee.
- Street sideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for reversed corner lots10 ft
The side yard abutting the street shall not be less than ten feet.
From the ordinance
The R-3 district is intended to provide for the development of high density multiple family residential structures