R-5
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right28
- Accessory structures and uses
- 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
- Family division
- Home day care
- Home occupation
- Large lot division
- Off-street parking
- Parks and playgrounds
- Portable sawmills and chippers
- Preserve and conservation areas
- Public utilities (extension)
- Schools, churches, libraries
- Single cut subdivision
- Single-family dwelling
- Subdivision, major
- Subdivision, minor
- Temporary family health care structure
- Wayside stand
- Wireless support structures up to 80 feet
Conditional / special use21
- 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
- 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
- Public utilities (new)
- Pulpwood yard
- Service and repair of farm, yard, garden, blacksmith and logging implements and equipment
- 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 line
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.
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.
- Dwelling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase
Dwellings may be increased 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.
- 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
R-5 Residential District: Permitted uses, special exceptions, area, frontage, and height requirements.