R-6
Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right16
- single-family detached dwellings
- home occupations
- community buildings
- public and private schools
- child day care centers
- adult day care centers
- retail stores, convenience shops, personal service establishments, restaurants (excluding drive-through facilities, unless permitted by special use permit), food and drug stores
- medical clinics, governmental, business and professional offices and financial institutions
- churches
- parks
- common open space
- public uses
- accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental
- parking lots and parking garages
- small cell facilities
- homestays
Conditional / special use10
- private clubs and golf courses
- home for the aged (max 3 non-family persons)
- major family day home
- short-term rentals
- walls and fences greater than height otherwise permitted
- drive-through facility
- reducing required parking areas
- public uses deviating from title 10, chapter 3
- concealed wireless telecommunications facilities, industrial microcells, distributed antenna systems, macrocells
- recovery residence of more than 8 adults
Prohibited1
- telecommunications towers (except for emergency communications center up to 200 ft)
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Antennas prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. in front yards
Attached or detached private radio and television antennas, including dish antennas, shall not exceed the maximum height otherwise permitted in this district and shall not be permitted in front yards.
- Antenna heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limit35 ft
Attached or detached private radio and television antennas, including dish antennas, shall not exceed the maximum height otherwise permitted in this district and shall not be permitted in front yards.
- Maximum floorplate for retail/office buildings7,500 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 percentage of any single lot type70 pct
At least two (2) types of single-family detached residential lot sizes/configurations shall be provided and no one lot size/configuration type may exceed a total of seventy (70) percent of all the residential units in the community.
- Maximum land area for retail/office uses5 pct
Land area within the planned community shown on the master development plan as dedicated to uses permitted under subsections 10-3-56.3(g) and (h) shall not exceed five (5) percent of the total land area of the planned community.
- Minimum common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.15 pct
Minimum common open space or park: Fifteen (15) percent.
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. size2 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Minimum district size: Two (2) contiguous acres, which may include properties located directly across public or private street or alley rights-of-way from one another.
- Minimum number of single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. lot types2 types
At least two (2) types of single-family detached residential lot sizes/configurations shall be provided and no one lot size/configuration type may exceed a total of seventy (70) percent of all the residential units in the community.
From the ordinance
Maximum density: Six (6) dwelling units per acre. Maximum building height: Thirty-five (35) feet (three (3) stories). Minimum common open space or park: Fifteen (15) percent.