R-2
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right21
- Accessory uses
- Agriculture (excluding hogs and concentrated animal operations)
- Cemeteries
- Churches
- Cluster development of single-family dwellings
- Drainage, erosion and flood control facilities
- Dwelling, single-family
- Dwelling, two-family
- Forestry
- Home occupations
- Libraries
- Manufactured homes, individual (with conditions)
- Museums
- Recycling location (dropoff) with total capacity of 10 cubic yards or less
- Schools
- Short-term vacation rental
- Signs
- Subdivisions, major
- Subdivisions, minor
- Utility use, minor
- Wayside stands, roadside stands, and wayside markets
Conditional / special use23
- Aviation facility
- Bed-and-breakfast establishment
- Community-operated playgrounds, parks and similar community recreational facilities
- Conditional sewage disposal permits
- Country clubs, golf courses and tennis clubs
- Day-care centers
- Governmental offices
- Farmer's market
- Fire, rescue squad and police stations
- Home enterprise
- Light manufacturing and craft industries
- Manufactured homes, individual (not permitted by right)
- Office buildings
- Post offices
- Professional offices in occupant's dwelling
- Recycling location (dropoff) with total capacity in excess of 10 cubic yards
- Rehabilitation and group homes or centers
- Retail stores and shops, including storage facilities and neighborhood grocery stores
- Schools
- Sewage treatment systems (private) outside floodplain
- Travel trailers (licensed) for temporary habitation
- Utility use, major
- Youth center, private
Prohibited2
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Sewage treatment floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. restriction
Private sewage treatment systems must be located outside the 100-year floodplain per Floodplain Management Ordinance.
Height
Public utility buildings, church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flag poles, television antennae and radio aerials are exempt; parapet walls up to 4 ft above building height.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Side yard 5 ft, rear yard 5 ft for accessory buildings.
- Corner lot side street setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.40 ft
Minimum side yard on side street shall be 40 ft for both main and accessory buildings.
Home occupations permitted by right subject to §175-15.5A; home enterprise conditional per §175-15.5B.
Minimum lot size and width as well as front, side and rear yards setback shall be doubled; maximum height 25 ft; electricity meter base not attached; skirting and permanent steps required.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. with central sewer/water25,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
25,000 sq ft if central sewer or both central water and sewer are provided.
- Short-term vacation rental
Short-term vacation rental permitted by right subject to §175-15.28.
Two-family dwelling permitted by right subject to §175-15.15.
Parking
Off-street parking shall be provided in conformance with Article 12.
Signage
- Sign regulations
Sign regulations shall conform to Article 13.
From the ordinance
R-2 District: min lot area 25,000/35,000 sq ft; setbacks 50 ft front/rear, 10 ft side; height 50 ft; uses per §175-7.2 and §175-7.3.