RO-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right21
- Any principal use permitted in the R-1 district
- Single-family attached dwellings
- Two-family dwellings
- Multifamily dwellings
- Nursing homes
- Day nurseries
- Tourist homes situated on Federal highways
- Parking areas serving uses permitted in this district
- Parking decks serving uses permitted in this district
- Offices, including business, professional and administrative offices, medical and dental offices and clinics, and studios of writers, designers and artists engaged in the graphic arts
- Private schools offering instruction in skills practiced in connection with the operation of uses permitted in this district
- Banks and savings and loan offices, including accessory automated teller machines
- Funeral homes
- Hospitals, but not psychiatric hospitals for the care of patients committed by a court
- Radio broadcasting studios and offices, including accessory antennas
- Communications centers and telephone repeater stations operated by public service corporations
- Adult day care facilities
- Short-term rental
- Adult care residences
- Permanent supportive housing
- Transitional housing
Conditional / special use1
Accessory5
- Any accessory use or structure permitted in the R-1 district
- Guest units in multifamily developments
- Restaurant facilities, automated teller machines and shops for the sale of gifts, flowers, drugs and similar items for the convenience of patients and visitors within hospital buildings
- One dwelling unit located in an accessory building, containing two or more stories, which is existing at the effective date of the ordinance
- Emergency housing
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Minimum play area fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.4 ft
The play area shall be enclosed with a continuous opaque structural fence or wall not less than four feet in height
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. on lots of two acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. or more60 ft
additional height shall be permitted on lots of two acres or more in area ... No building shall exceed 60 feet in height.
Other
- Maximum guest units ratio50 dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. per guest unit
the total number of such guest units shall not exceed one for each 50 dwelling units within the development
- Minimum spacing between buildings with dwelling use15 ft
Where two or more buildings, at least one of which contains a dwelling use, are erected on the same lot, the distance between any two such buildings shall be not less than 15 feet.
- Minimum spacing between buildings without dwelling use10 ft
Where two or more buildings, neither of which contains a dwelling use, are erected on the same lot, the distance between any two such buildings shall be not less than ten feet.
- Minimum outdoor play area per child100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A minimum outdoor play area of 100 square feet for each child enrolled shall be furnished on the premises, but not within a required front yard
Parking
- Minimum exit and entrance lanes per 300 parking spaces1 lane per 300 spaces
Not less than one exit lane and one entrance lane shall be provided for each 300 parking spaces or major fraction thereof contained within the structure
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. screen opacity45 pct
Parking spaces contained therein shall be screened from view from abutting streets by structural material of not less than 45 percent opacity
- Minimum stacking spaces for access control device1 spaces
any card reader or other access control device at an entrance to a parking area shall be provided with not less than one stacking space situated off the public right-of-way
From the ordinance
Multifamily dwellings shall be located on lots of not less than 5,000 square feet in total area and not less than 1,250 square feet in area for each dwelling unit. ... front yard with a depth of not less than 25 feet ... Side and rear yards for newly constructed multifamily dwellings ... not less than 15 feet ... usable open space of not less than 40 percent ... Maximum lot coverage ... shall not exceed 60 percent ... No building or structure ... shall exceed 35 feet in height