R-8
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right12
- Accessory buildings and structures
- Accessory uses
- Group home or residential facility, for eight or fewer adults
- Site-built single-family detached dwellings and modular homes
- Home occupations
- House museums
- Nurseries
- Slaughter of animals for personal use
- Petroleum storage on a farm as an accessory use
- Storage and repair of heavy equipment as accessory use to a farm
- Wineries, including a shop for retail sale of wine
- Preserves and conservation areas for protection of natural features and wildlife
Conditional / special use52
- Group homes or residential facilities for nine or more adults
- Group quarters for agricultural workers
- Home care facilities
- Manufactured home parks
- Two-family dwellings
- Adult day-care centers
- Airports and landing fields, helistops or heliports
- Barber and beauty shops
- Business, governmental and professional offices
- Campgrounds
- Cemeteries and memorial gardens
- Child day-care centers
- Community recreation facilities
- Drug stores
- Farm equipment sales and service establishments
- Feed, seed and farm supplies
- Flea markets, temporary or seasonal
- Food processing and storage
- Food processing and storage in a residence
- Golf courses and country clubs
- Greenhouses, commercial
- Horse show areas, polo fields
- Hospitals
- Hotels and motels
- Hunting clubs
- Kennels
- Medical clinics or offices
- Nursing homes and facilities for the residence and/or care of the aged
- Photography, artist and sculptor studios
- Railroad facilities
- Rental of rooms to a maximum of three rooms
- Restaurants, taverns
- Retail shops associated with community recreation facilities
- Retreat facilities
- Tourist homes
- Veterinary hospitals
- Yacht clubs and marinas
- Fish farming and aquaculture
- Raising of hogs
- Fire stations or rescue squad stations
- Neighborhood Resource Centers
- Places of public assembly
- Post offices and public buildings generally
- Schools, libraries, museums and similar institutions
- Seminaries
- Radio and television stations or towers
- Telephone exchanges and telephone switching stations
- Transmission pipelines
- Utility substations
- Water facilities (public or private), and sewer facilities (public)
- Excavation or filling, borrow pits, extraction, processing and removal of sand and gravel
- Manufacture and sale of wood products
Accessory1
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase to 45 feet with increased side yards45 ft
The height limit for buildings may be increased to 45 feet and to three stories; provided, that the two side yards for the building are increased to a minimum of 15 feet plus one foot for each additional foot of the building's height over 35 feet.
- Public or semipublic 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 the required front, rear and side yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height above 35 feet.
Other
- 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.45 ft
In no case shall an accessory building be more than 45 feet in height; except that silos, barns and other structures normally associated with and accessory to farming operations are controlled by subsection (3) above and may exceed the height of the main structure and may exceed 45 feet in height.
- Buffer planting requirement2 trees per 400 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
If the buffer is non-wooded as defined for the purpose of this article as having no mature trees, then a minimum of two trees per 400 square feet of area shall be planted with a minimum 50 percent of said trees being evergreen.
- Right-of-way buffer on Community Character Corridor150 ft
The minimum right-of-way buffer on Community Character Corridor roads as defined in the Comprehensive Plan shall be 150 feet.
- Right-of-way buffer on non-Community Character Corridor75 ft
The minimum right-of-way buffer on all non-Community Character Corridor roads shall be 75 feet.
- Minimum lot size for parcels <=25 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. recorded before Jan 1, 2022130,680 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
For parcels of 25 acres or less recorded or legally in existence as of January 1, 2022, the minimum lot size shall be three acres.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot size, unless otherwise specified herein, shall be 20 acres. Structures shall be located a minimum of 35 feet from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width.