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Town of Sykesville, MD
Carroll County
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The purpose of the R-10,000 District is to provide for relatively smaller lot sizes (minimum 10,000 square feet) for residential dwellings, based on availability of public water and sewerage facilities. This would essentially permit more dwellings per acre and less open area than the R-20,000 Residence District. The district likewise provides for, where determined suitable, planned unit development wherein multifamily units may be provided as part of a housing mix.
The following regulations and applicable regulations contained in other articles shall apply in the R-10,000 Residence District.
The principal permitted uses in this district shall be as follows:
A. 
Any use or structure permitted and as regulated as a principal permitted use in the R-20,000 District, except as hereinafter modified.
B. 
Conversion or alteration of a building existing at the time of the enactment of this chapter to accommodate no more than three families, provided that the requirements of § 180-88 and the requirements of the Health Department are complied with.
C. 
Planned unit development, subject to the provisions of § 180-93 and cluster subdivision subject to § 180-90.
The conditional uses requiring Board authorization in this district shall be as follows:
A. 
Any conditional use permitted and as regulated in the R-20,000 District, except as hereinafter modified.
B. 
Boarding or rooming houses or tourist homes.
C. 
Clubs, fraternities, lodges, or similar organizations not conducted as a gainful business, provided that any buildings or structures are located subject to the distance requirements specified in § 180-16.
D. 
Community centers and swimming pools associated therewith.
E. 
Dwellings, two-family.
F. 
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 or uses customarily incidental to any principal permitted use or authorized conditional use.
B. 
Keeping of roomers or tourists by a resident family.
C. 
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 1-28-1999 by Ord. No. 182]
D. 
The television satellite antenna shall be located in the rear or side yard only;
E. 
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;
F. 
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;
G. 
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 chapter; and
H. 
The installation and use of the satellite television antenna shall meet all other applicable local, state and federal laws.
The height regulations shall be the same as specified in the R-20,000 District.
The following minimum requirements shall be observed, subject to the modified requirements in Articles XIV and XV: [1]
[1]
Editor's Note: These requirements may be found in the R-10,000 District table at the end of this chapter.