A-12
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
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 right12
- Agricultural and horticultural uses except for the keeping of poultry, livestock, bees, fish ponds and fish hatcheries
- Child care education centers in conjunction with public or private elementary schools or religious uses
- Day-care centers
- Dwellings, attached (townhouses)
- Dwellings, duplex
- Dwellings, multiple-family
- Dwellings, semidetached
- Dwellings, single-family additions
- Public parks, recreational areas, botanical and zoological gardens and other public buildings and uses
- Public elementary, intermediate and high schools; colleges and universities
- Public utility installations and substations
- Small wireless facilities not placed on existing structures
Conditional / special use21
- Assembly uses
- Bed and breakfast inns
- Borrow pits
- Communication towers standard process
- Facilities for the production of live theater and allied purposes including education in the theater arts
- Family day-care homes, foster homes or group homes
- Fraternity and sorority houses, student centers and student dormitories
- Home occupation
- Hospitals and sanitariums
- Housing for seniors and disabled persons
- Marinas, noncommercial and community boat docks
- Maternity homes
- Mobile home parks
- Museums and art galleries when not operated by a public agency
- Nurse's homes and similar housing for institutional employees, monasteries and convents
- Private schools when having academic curriculums similar to public schools
- Religious uses
- Single room occupancy facility
- Television or other broadcasting stations
- Wind energy conversion systems, freestanding
- Wind energy conversion systems, roof-mounted
Accessory7
- Garages
- Tool sheds
- Greenhouses
- Swimming pools
- Barbecue facilities
- Tennis courts
- Rental of rooms in a dwelling or the entire dwelling thirty (30) consecutive days or more
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Air navigation heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limit
no building or other structure shall exceed the height limit established by section 202(b) regarding air navigation.
Other
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. activity sign area1 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
one (1) nonilluminated identification sign not more than one (1) square foot in area mounted flat against the residence
- APZ-1 compatibility required
No use or structure shall be permitted on any property located within Accident Potential Zone 1 (APZ-1) unless such use is designated as compatible in APZ-1 in Table 2 of section 1804.
- Minimum yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjoining residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.10 ft
a ten-foot minimum yard shall be required along all lot lines adjoining the residential district. Category IV landscape screening shall be required within the yard area.
Parking
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. parking setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from right-of-way20 ft
no parking area on any lot shall extend farther than twenty (20) feet from the right-of-way line and no area within a garage, or an enclosed or covered space shall be counted toward meeting off-street parking requirements.
Signage
- Maximum for sale/lease/rent sign area8 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A maximum of two (2) signs located on property for sale, lease or rent, provided that no such sign shall exceed eight (8) square feet in area.
- Maximum new multiple-family sign area150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
one (1) sign not exceeding one hundred fifty (150) square feet in area at each principal entrance. Any such sign shall be removed when seventy (70) percent of the property is occupied or leased, or after a period of twenty-four (24) months from the date on which a certificate of occupancy is first issued, whichever comes first.
- Maximum subdivision sign area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
one (1) sign not greater than thirty-two (32) square feet in area at each principal entrance or frontage of any use.
From the ordinance
The following chart lists those uses permitted within the A-12 through A-36 Apartment Districts... For the A-12 and A-18 Apartment Districts, the maximum-height for all buildings and structures is thirty-five (35) feet.
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"conditional_uses": [
"Recreation and amusement facilities of an outdoor nature other than those specified as principal uses, which may be partially or temporarily enclosed on a seasonal basis, with the approval of city council, except that riding academies and recreational campgrounds shall not be allowed"
]
}
}