The purpose of the R-20,000 Residence District
is to provide a location for single-family residential development,
the individual lots of which contain a minimum of 20,000 square feet
or approximately two families per acre. The larger lot size in relation
to other residential districts of the Town affords a lower overall
density, and as a result, individual open space is obtained and more
noticeable in this Residence District than others.
The following regulations and the applicable
regulations contained in other articles shall apply in the R-20,000
Residence District.
The principal permitted uses in this district
shall be as follows:
B.
Churches, schools and colleges.
C.
Dwellings, single-family, subject to §§ 180-14
and 180-19.
D.
Buildings and properties of a cultural, civic, educational,
social or community service type such as libraries, ponds and playgrounds,
community centers, fire, ambulance and rescue centers, but not storage
yards, warehouses or service garages.
The conditional uses requiring Board authorization
in this district shall be as follows:
A.
Antique shops, beauty parlors or barbershops within
a building on the same premises of a principal permitted use, or detached
building on the same premises.
B.
Nursing and/or retirement homes, hospitals (Class
A), medical and dental clinics subject to prior approval of the site
development plan and exterior design of the structure by the Commission.
C.
Funeral establishments.
D.
Golf courses, country clubs, private clubs of a nonprofit
nature and similar recreational uses privately owned and/or operated.
E.
Nursery schools or child-care centers.
F.
Public utility buildings, structures or uses not considered
essential utility equipment as enumerated in 180-122.
G.
The professional office of a resident physician, subject
to site plan approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission and provision
for any landscaping, screening, off-street parking or other facilities
or improvements as may be deemed necessary by the Commission.
H.
Only communication towers, freestanding towers, guyed
towers for amateur radio communications licensed by the federal communications
commission as defined in this chapter and as regulated as provided
hereinafter.
[Added 5-28-1996 by Ord. No. 207]
The accessory uses allowed in this district
shall be as follows:
A.
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental
to any principal permitted use or authorized conditional use.
B.
Accessory dwellings for a domestic employee or relative,
on the same lot with the principal dwelling.
C.
Incidental home or farm occupations.
D.
Existing cemeteries, when accessory to a church.
E.
Guesthouse in an accessory building.
F.
Swimming pools, tennis and other similar courts when
accessory to a residence.
G.
The keeping of not more than four roomers or boarders
by a resident family.
I.
A private parking area, not including commercial parking lots, on the same premises of any permitted, conditional or nonconforming use, provided that said permitted, conditional or nonconforming use, as the case may be, and the private parking area accessory thereto on the premises are both completely located within the district; and private parking areas off-premises subject to § 180-88A(10).
J.
A satellite television antenna, defined as any device
used or designed to receive television signals from one or more orbitally
based satellites, may be allowed, in this district, provided the following
requirements are met:
[Added 1-28-1991 by Ord. No. 182[1]]
(1)
The television satellite antenna shall be located
in the rear or side yard only;
(2)
The television satellite antenna shall be set back
at least 10 feet from the property line or public right-of-way line
or any other easements of record;
(3)
The television satellite antenna shall be screened
to minimize visual impact on surrounding properties and public rights-of-way
and public property. Such screening may include architectural or landscape
treatments along the antennas nonreception window axis and low level
landscape treatment along the reception window axis providing minimum
opaqueness without interfering with signal reception, or any other
similar type of screening approved by the Zoning Administrator;
(4)
A zoning permit shall be obtained from the Town Zoning
Administrator prior to the installation of the satellite television
antenna in accordance with the requirements of this Zoning ordinance;
and
(5)
The installation and use of the satellite television
antenna shall meet all other applicable local, state and federal laws.
[1]
Section 1 of this ordinance provided as follows:
“This ordinance is intended to comply with any and all applicable
federal and state laws and regulations to the extent that any such
federal and state laws and regulations validly pre-empt local zoning
regulations with respect to satellite television receiving antenna,
including but not necessarily limited to, the Report and Order of
the Federal Communications Commission dated January 14, 1986 (FCC
86-28) and the Federal Communications Rules and Regulations found
in 47 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 25.104. This ordinance
shall further be construed and administered so as not to unduly hamper
reasonable reception of television signals by satellite television
receiving antenna while taking into account that the bulk and visual
impact of such antennas make it appropriate to place some limitations
as such antennas.”
No principal structure shall exceed 2 1/2 stories or 35 feet in height, and no accessory structure shall exceed two stories or 20 feet in height, except as provided in § 180-100.
