R-2A
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right13
Conditional / special use18
- apartment
- condominium
- cluster-home development
- bed and breakfast
- cemetery
- childcare center
- church
- group care facility
- keeping horses (accessory to multifamily)
- planned unit development
- private school
- electrical facility
- transmission pipeline
- water/sewer facility
- railroad facility
- single-family conversion to two-family
- two-family dwelling
- water impoundment (≥50 acres, dam ≥25 ft)
Accessory1
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for radio, television or communication towers50 ft
Radio, television or communication towers not exceeding 50 feet in height and satellite dishes, provided that any of these uses are located in the rear yard of a principal permitted use.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.5 ft
Accessory buildings in the R-2, R-2A district shall have a side and rear yard of not less than five feet.
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. grass strip along rights-of-way and streams5 ft
Maintain a five-foot wide grass strip on-site along all rights-of-way and streams to slow down runoff waters and filter out sediment.
- Churches must be on residential collectors
Churches, synagogues and other houses of worship shall only be located on rights-of-way classified as residential collectors.
- Commercial timbering requires approved plan
No commercial timbering of lands zoned R-2, R-2A shall commence until a plan for development has been approved by the planning commission or the zoning administrator.
- Communication towers and satellite dishes must be in rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
Radio, television or communication towers not exceeding 50 feet in height and satellite dishes, provided that any of these uses are located in the rear yard of a principal permitted use.
- No commercial timbering after lot sold
No commercial timbering shall be allowed in any development once any lot in the development has been sold.
- Reforestation bond required
Any plan for reforestation shall require a posting of a bond in an amount sufficient to reforest the area based on current per acre estimate of reforestation by the state department of forestry.
- Temporary structure extension
Upon evidence that the completion of construction is imminent, the zoning administrator may grant one 30-day time extension.
- Temporary structure not used as living quarters
The temporary structure shall not be used as temporary living quarters at any time.
- Temporary structure removal
The zoning administrator retains the right to have the use removed if, at any time, the applicant violates the conditions set forth in this section.
- Temporary structure site plan
The zoning administrator retains the right to require a site plan.
- Temporary structure time limit
The use shall be allowed for a period of one year or 30 days beyond the date of the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for the permanent structure, whichever occurs first.
- Water impoundment size threshold for conditional useConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.
Water impoundments for public or private use of 50 acres or more and a dam height of 25 feet or more with an approved site plan.
From the ordinance
In the general residential R-2 or R-2A district, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses: ... Single-family dwellings. ... Apartments, condominiums and cluster-home developments ... permitted only after the issuance of a conditional use permit.