The purpose of this district is to:
A. Provide
for the orderly expansion of areas that offer neighborhoods of single-family
detached houses at a low density.
B. Carefully
protect these areas from uses that may not be fully compatible.
Only the following uses are permitted by right in the LDR District, provided that the requirements for specific uses in Article
XX are met:
A. The following principal uses:
(1) Single-family detached dwelling.
(a)
Mobile/manufactured home.
(4) Swimming pool, public or semipublic.
(5) Publicly owned recreation.
(10)
Plant nursery, including retail sales only of
items grown on the premises.
(11)
Group home within a lawful dwelling unit.
(12)
Co-located commercial communications antenna.
[Added 3-19-2001 by Ord. No. 03-01]
B. The following accessory uses, within the requirements of §
275-190:
(1) No-impact home-based business.
[Amended 12-20-2004 by Ord. No. 10-04]
(2) Accessory use or structure clearly customary and incidental
to a permitted by right, approved special exception or conditional
use.
(4) Recreational facilities limited to use by residents
of a development and their occasional guests.
(6) Accessory use or structure permitted under §
275-190C.
(7) Home occupation, minor.
[Added 12-20-2004 by Ord. No. 10-04]
C. Planned residential development, within the requirements of Article
XXIII.
Only the following uses are permitted by special exception in the LDR District, provided that the requirements for specific uses in Article
XX are met:
A. Limited office conversion within the requirements of §
275-41.
B. Home occupation, minor.
[Amended 12-20-2004 by Ord. No. 10-04]
Only the following uses are permitted conditional uses in the LDR District, provided that the requirements for specific uses in Article
XX are met:
A. Public or private primary or secondary school.
B. Emergency service station.
C. Single-family cluster development, within Article
XXII.
Lot and setback regulations for uses in the LDR District shall be as follows; unless a more restrictive requirement is stated in Article
XX for a particular use or elsewhere in this chapter. See definitions of these terms in Article
II.
A. Lot area.
(1) For a single-family detached dwelling with public
water and public sewer service: 15,000 square feet minimum.
(2) For any use, other than a single-family detached dwelling
with public water and public sewer service: 43,560 square feet minimum
(one acre).
B. Minimum lot depth: 120 feet.
C. Minimum lot width: 100 feet at the minimum front yard
setback line and 40 feet at the street right-of-way, except:
(1) One hundred fifty feet at the street right-of-way
line for any use with a driveway entering directly onto an arterial
or connector street.
(2) One hundred fifty feet at the minimum front yard setback
line if a lot area of one acre or more is required.
D. Maximum lot coverage: 35% for buildings, 60% for total
impervious surfaces.
E. Minimum front yard building setbacks.
(1) Principal and accessory structures: 35 feet.
(2) Variation. Up to 50% of the principal residential
buildings may be located up to five feet forward of the front yard
building setback line; provided that an equal or greater number of
principal residential buildings in the same stage of construction
will be five feet or greater behind the front yard building setback
line. This variation shall only be permitted if approved at the time
of approval of the subdivision plan.
F. Minimum side yard setback.
(1) Principal building: 15 feet for each of two side yards
and 40 feet minimum for the two side yards combined.
(2) Accessory building: six feet for each of two side
yards.
G. Minimum rear yard setback.
(1) Principal building: 35 feet.
(2) Accessory structure or use: four feet, except 10 feet
for any building from any alley it has vehicular access onto.
H. Minimum setback from expressways. The requirements of §
275-34H shall apply.
I. Maximum height: 3 1/2 stories or 35 feet, whichever
is less.
J. One use. No lot shall include more than one principal
use.
K. Minimum setback from industrial districts. For any
new principal residential building from the zoning boundary of a GI,
OB, LI or LI(P) District: 80 feet.
M. Setback from arterial streets. For all principal buildings
from the future right-of-way line of an arterial street: 40 feet minimum
setback.
N. Minimum width of dwellings. Each building containing
one or more dwelling units shall have a minimum building width and
a minimum building length each of 16 feet.