R-10
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.1 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.
- 435,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (10 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right24
- Agriculture, general
- Agriculture, intensive, expansion of existing
- Agriculture, limited (on less than 10 acres), excluding horses
- Antique shops
- Assembly hall
- Bed-and-breakfast
- Beekeeping
- Cemeteries
- Custom meat cutting
- Day-care center and nursery
- Home day care
- Home occupation
- Mobile home, double-wide and single-wide
- Off-street parking
- Parks and playgrounds
- Portable sawmills and chippers
- Preserve and conservation areas
- Public utilities (extension)
- Schools, churches, libraries
- Single-family dwelling
- Subdivisions
- Temporary family health care structure
- Wayside stand
- Wireless support structures up to 80 feet
Conditional / special use26
- Adult-care facility
- Agriculture, intensive
- Airport and private air strip
- Amusement park/commercial recreational facility
- Auction barn
- Blacksmith shop
- Cabinet and furniture making
- Church campground
- Country general store/convenience store
- Dog kennel
- Farm machinery sales and service
- Feed and flour mills
- Feed and seed stores
- Golf driving range
- Greenhouse and nursery
- Hunt, golf or boat clubs and lodges
- Mining of minerals other than coal
- Public utilities (new)
- Pulpwood yard
- Restaurants
- Sand excavation
- Service and repair of farm, yard, garden, blacksmith and logging implements and equipment
- Stationary sawmill and chipper
- Turkey shoots
- Wholesale business/storage warehouse
- Wireless support structures in excess of 80 feet
Extracted standards
5 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. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near lot line1 story
No accessory building which is less than 20 feet from any lot line shall be more than one story high.
- 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. relative to main
All accessory buildings shall be less than the main building in height except when located on a parcel of 10 acres or more.
- Dwelling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase45 ft
The height limit for dwellings may be increased up to 45 feet and up to three stories, provided there are two side yards for each permitted use, each of which is 20 feet or more, plus one foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over 35 feet.
Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, silos, barns, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, and wireless support structures are exempt. Parapet wall may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
- Public building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.60 ft
A public or semipublic building such as a school, church, or library may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade, provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot of building height over 35 feet.
From the ordinance
Permitted uses: ... Single-family dwelling. ... Wireless support structures up to 80 feet.