R-5
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
- prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right14
Conditional / special use19
- multiple-family dwelling >12 units per building
- multiple-family building >4 stories or >52 ft height
- private club
- golf course
- retail store
- convenience shop
- personal service establishment
- restaurant (excluding drive-through)
- medical clinic
- business and professional office
- wall or fence exceeding height limit
- reduction of required parking
- public use deviating from requirements
- concealed wireless telecommunications facility
- industrial microcell
- distributed antenna system
- macrocell
- short-term rental
- recovery residence >8 adults
Accessory2
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum multiple-family units per building12 units
Multiple-family dwellings of not more than twelve (12) units per building.
- Maximum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. units per building8 units
Townhouses of not more than eight (8) units per building.
Other
- Antenna heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limit52 ft
Attached or detached private radio and television antennas... shall not exceed the maximum height otherwise permitted in this district and shall not be permitted in front yards.
- Front facade orientation
The front facade of each principal building shall face a dedicated public street or the limits of a private parking unit and no building shall have the rear facade facing a dedicated public street.
- Maximum floorplate for nonresidential uses7,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Buildings shall be residential in design and scale with floorplates not exceeding seven thousand five hundred (7,500) square feet.
- Maximum unrelated occupants per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.4 persons
Dwelling units may be occupied by a family or not more than four (4) persons.
- Minimum building separation10 ft
The open space between each building as measured at the closest point between building walls shall not be less than ten (10) feet.
- Private refuse collection facilities
Private refuse collection facilities shall be provided at a designated point and shall meet the requirements in section 10-3-110(h).
Parking
- Parking reduction requires open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
Reducing required parking areas... provided that an amount of open space equal to the amount of space that would have been used for the required number of vehicle parking spaces is left available for parking.
From the ordinance
The regulations set forth in this article... are the regulations for the 'R-5' High Density-Residential District.