R-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right8
- Detached single-family dwellings
- General agriculture, farming and forestry (on parcels >5 acres)
- Livestock and animals (on farms of 10+ acres or small animals on 5+ acres)
- Public utility facilities, structures and rights-of-way
- Public parks, parkways, playgrounds, and athletic fields
- Yard sales or garage sales
- Accessory buildings and uses
- Boat houses, covered docks and piers (≤20 ft height)
Conditional / special use18
- Additional dwelling units
- Duplexes or two-family dwellings
- Bed and breakfasts
- Cemeteries
- Churches and Sunday schools, rectories, parish houses, convents and monasteries, temples, and synagogues
- Home occupations
- Nursery schools, kindergartens, child care centers, day nursery, or day care centers
- Private schools, colleges, or universities
- Public or governmental buildings and uses
- Publicly or privately operated parks, playgrounds, and athletic fields
- Recreational uses or facilities for a private membership
- Recreational vehicle storage (longer than 6 months)
- Trailers used for storage or work space
- Convalescent homes, rest homes, nursing homes or homes for the aged
- Family care homes, foster homes or group homes (9+ persons)
- Hospital or clinic
- Private stable for horses, ponies or other livestock
- Radio or television transmission or receiving tower >50 ft
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for public or semi-public buildings45 ft
A public or semi-public building such as a school, church, or library, may be erected to a height of 45 feet from grade, provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 35 feet.
Other
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. within 10 ft of party line12 ft
No accessory structure which is within ten feet of any party lot line shall be more than one story or 12 feet in height.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from party lot line8 ft
No accessory structure may be within eight feet of any party lot line.
- DuplexTwo-family dwellingTwo dwelling units in one building — a duplex. lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. and width if sold separately5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
If units are to be sold separately, minimums for each unit for lot area and lot width are one-half of values above.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. with neither public water nor sewer20,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Each dwelling, together with its accessory buildings, having neither public water nor sewer, hereafter erected shall be located on a lot having an area of not less than 20,000 square feet and a front width of not less than 80 feet.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. with either public water or sewer15,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Each dwelling, together with its accessory buildings, with either public water or sewer, hereafter erected shall be located on a lot having an area of not less than 15,000 square feet and a front width of not less than 80 feet.
From the ordinance
Each dwelling, together with its accessory buildings, with public water and sewer, hereafter erected shall be located on a lot having an area of not less than 10,000 square feet and a front width of not less than 80 feet.