R-1
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right9
- Detached single-family dwellings
- Modular homes
- Home occupations, urban
- School bus passenger shelter without advertising
- Wireless communication facilities (per Sec. 18-427)
- Yard sale or garage sale (with conditions)
- Churches and Sunday schools, rectories, parish houses, convents and monasteries, temples and synagogues and cemeteries accessory thereto
- Public utility service facilities (poles, wires, transformers, etc.)
- Radio or television transmission or receiving station or tower less than 125 feet in height
Conditional / special use13
- Bed and breakfast inn
- Cemeteries not accessory to a church
- Convalescent homes, nursing homes or homes for the aged, and family care homes
- Utility buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations
- Hospital or clinic for humans
- Housing or dormitory facilities associated with schools, churches, and recognized nonprofit organizations
- Nursery schools, kindergartens, child care centers, day nursery, child day care centers or adult day health care center
- Private schools, colleges or universities
- Public or governmental buildings and uses (schools, fire stations, parks, etc.)
- Radio or television tower more than 125 feet in height
- Recreational uses or facilities (golf courses, country clubs, etc.)
- Stable, private (for keeping horses, etc.)
- Livestock
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum dwelling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. with increased side yards45 ft
The height limit of dwellings may be increased ten (10) feet and up to three (3) stories; provided, that there are two (2) side yards for each permitted use, each of which is fifteen (15) feet or more plus one (1) foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over thirty-five (35) feet.
- Maximum public/semi-public building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.60 ft
A public or semi-public building such as a school, church, library or hospital may be erected to a height of sixty (60) feet from grade.
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.15 ft
No accessory building shall be more than fifteen (15) feet in height.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code. within 20 ft of party lot line1 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
No accessory building which is within twenty (20) feet of any party lot line shall be more than one (1) story high.
- Maximum landscaping heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. on street sideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. of corner lot3 ft
Landscaping of corner lots shall be limited to plantings, fences or other landscaping features of no more than three (3) feet in height within the space between the setback line and the property line on the street side of the lot.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. with public water or sewer20,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The minimum lot area shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet for lots having either public water or sewer facilities.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. without public water or sewer30,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
thirty thousand (30,000) square feet for lots having neither public water nor sewer facilities.
- Minimum width at setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. line for corner lots125 ft
Each corner lot shall have a minimum width at the setback line of one hundred twenty-five (125) feet.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on side street for corner lots35 ft
The side yard on the side facing the side street shall be thirty-five (35) feet or more for both main and accessory building.
Setback
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from primary highway right-of-way75 ft
On a primary highway at least seventy-five (75) feet.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from U.S. highway right-of-way100 ft
On a U.S. highway structures other than signs shall be set back at least one hundred (100) feet from the street right-of-way.
Signage
- Maximum name plate sign area2 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A name plate or directional sign, limited in area to two (2) square feet.
- Maximum sign area for home occupationHome occupationA business run from a dwelling, permitted so long as it stays subordinate to living there.32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A sign limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet for identification of a permitted home occupation.
From the ordinance
The purpose of residential district, R-1, is to provide for low-density single-family detached residential development... Minimum lot area 20,000 sq ft with public water/sewer, 30,000 without. Setbacks: 50 ft from street, side 10 ft, rear 35 ft. Height 35 ft.