R-7
Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right19
- Single-family detached dwellings
- Single-family attached dwellings (townhouse dwellings of two (2) to eight (8) dwelling units)
- Multiple-family dwellings (no more than 64 units per building, under conditions)
- 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
- Manufactured homes (with conditions)
Conditional / special use10
- Private clubs and golf courses
- Home for the aged (max 3 persons)
- Major family day home
- Short-term rentals
- Walls and fences greater than height
- Drive-through facility
- Reducing required parking areas
- Public uses deviating from requirements
- Concealed wireless telecommunications facilities, industrial microcells, distributed antenna systems, and macrocells
- Recovery residence of more than 8 adults
Prohibited1
- Telecommunications towers (except for emergency communications center)
Extracted standards
11 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.
- Maximum antenna heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.40 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 dimension variation from master planComprehensive planThe long-range policy document zoning is meant to implement; it is not itself binding law.5 pct
the ground dimension of any feature (length, width or area) shown on the master development plan, may vary up to five (5) percent of the scaled dimension
- Maximum floorplate area for nonresidential 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 multiple-family building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.50 ft
fifty (50) feet (four (4) stories) for multiple-family dwellings.
- Maximum percentage of multiple-family units50 pct
Multiple-family units shall not exceed fifty (50) percent of all the residential units in the community.
- Maximum nonresidential land area10 pct
Land area within the planned community shown on the master development plan as dedicated to uses permitted under subsection 10-3-57.3(i) and (j) shall not exceed ten (10) percent of the total land area of the planned community.
- Maximum percentage of any single housing type70 pct
no one housing or lot size/configuration type may exceed a total of seventy (70) percent of all the residential units in the community.
- Minimum number of housing types2 types
At least two (2) types of residential housing types (single-family detached of varying lot sizes/configurations, single-family attached, multiple-family) shall be provided and no one housing or lot size/configuration type may exceed a total of seventy (70) percent of all the residential units in the community. Multiple-family units shall not exceed fifty (50) percent of all the residential units in the community.
- Property owners' association required
A property owners' association shall be established to provide for the ownership, care and maintenance of all common open space areas and other common facilities and improvements.
- 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).
From the ordinance
Maximum density: Fifteen (15) dwelling units per acre. Maximum building height: Forty (40) feet (three (3) stories) for all uses except multiple-family dwellings, fifty (50) feet (four (4) stories) for multiple-family dwellings. Minimum common open space or park: Fifteen (15) percent.