Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right1
Conditional / special use15
- Residential human care facility
- Residential uses located above a business use
- Any residential use permitted in R-1, R-2, or R-3 upon showing
- Pool halls, bowling alleys, dance halls, and amusement centers
- Mobile home parks
- Child care centers
- Hotels and motels
- Service stations
- General service, automobile repair, other repair shops
- Auction houses
- Hospitals
- Warehouses and commercial storage facilities
- Other neighborhood retail business uses
- Wide-area public utilities
- Telecommunications towers and antennas
Accessory1
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Common wall fire resistance
Common walls enclosing attached townhouse units shall be of noncombustible construction or other approved assembly of materials giving a minimum fire resistance as required by the statewide building code or if no such requirement is in such code, then of not less than two hours duration.
- Corner lot yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
Corner lots shall provide a yard equal to the front yard on each street.
- Individual unit sale without regard to area requirements
Wherever a structure containing townhouses is constructed in accordance with the regulations of this chapter and the structure as a whole meets the requirements of this chapter, individual units may be sold without regard to the area requirements of the underlying zoning classification. No such sale of individual townhouses shall be deemed a subdivision.
- Maximum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. units per cluster10 units
In the R-3 and B-1 zones, clusters of up to ten townhouse units may be constructed.
- Minimum distance between townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. groups30 ft
In the case of townhouse projects of two or more groups the minimum distance between groups of structures shall be 30 feet.
Parking
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. parking prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Front yard parking areas are prohibited unless waived in writing by the planning commission.
From the ordinance
Townhouses permitted in B-1. Clusters of up to ten townhouse units may be constructed. Same dimensional standards.