The purpose of this district is to:
A. Provide
for the orderly expansion of areas that offer residential neighborhoods
at a medium density.
B. Carefully
control the types of housing to ensure compatibility with existing
houses.
C. Carefully
protect these areas from uses that may not be fully compatible.
Only the following uses are permitted by right in the MDR 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.
(5) Publicly owned recreation.
(10)
Plant nursery, including retail sales only of
items grown on the premises.
(11)
The following uses if both public water and
public sewer service is provided:
(b)
Single-family semidetached dwelling.
(12)
Group home within a lawful dwelling unit.
(13)
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 apartment within an existing single-family
detached dwelling.
(7) Accessory use or structure permitted under §
275-190C.
(8) 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 MDR District, which shall meet the requirements of Article
XX:
A. Limited office conversion meeting the requirements of §
275-41.
C. Home occupation, major.
[Amended 12-20-2004 by Ord. No. 10-04]
Only the following uses are permitted as conditional
uses in the MDR District:
A. Public or private primary or secondary school.
B. Emergency services station.
C. Single-family cluster development meeting the requirements of Article
XXII.
Lot and setback regulations for uses in the MDR 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 in §
275-24.
A. Lot area.
(1) For a single-family detached dwelling with public
water and public sewer service: 10,000 square feet minimum.
(2) For a single-family semidetached dwelling: 7,000 square
feet minimum for each dwelling unit.
(3) For any principal use (including, but not limited to, a single-family detached dwelling) that does not meet either of the above Subsection
A(1) or
(2): 43,560 square feet (one acre).
B. Minimum lot depth: 100 feet.
C. Minimum lot width: 80 feet at the minimum front yard
setback line and 40 feet at the street right-of-way line, except:
(1) For a single-family semidetached dwelling (per dwelling
unit): 60 feet at the minimum front yard and 30 feet at the street
right-of-way.
(2) One hundred eighty feet at the existing right-of-way
line for any new lot with a driveway entering directly onto an arterial
or connector street.
(3) One hundred fifty feet for a lot required to have
a minimum lot area of one acre or larger.
D. Maximum lot coverage: 40% maximum building coverage,
60% maximum total impervious coverage.
E. Minimum front yard setbacks: 25 feet for all principal
and accessory structures.
F. Minimum side yard setback.
(1) Principal structure: 10 feet for each required side
yard and 25 feet total when two side yards are required.
(2) Accessory structure or use: six feet, except three
feet for a storage shed of less than 100 square feet of floor area,
and except zero feet along the shared lot line of attached dwellings,
provided that no structure shall obstruct a drainage swale.
G. Minimum rear yard setback.
(1) Principal structure: 35 feet, except see §
275-171 for exceptions for decks and other extensions.
(2) Accessory structure or use: four feet, except 10 feet
for any building from any alley that the building will have vehicle
access onto.
H. Minimum setback from expressway. The requirements of §
275-34H shall also apply to the MDR district.
I. Maximum height: 3 1/2 stories or 35 feet, whichever
is more restrictive.
J. 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.
L. Setback from arterial streets. For all principal buildings
from the future right-of-way line of an arterial street: 40 feet minimum
setback.
All of the requirements of §§
275-57 and
275-59 that relate to townhouses shall also apply to townhouses in the MDR District, except the following:
A. Density. Section
275-59D(3) is replaced by the following: An average minimum of 9,000 square feet of buildable area is required for each townhouse dwelling.
B. Units attached. A maximum of four dwelling units may
be attached in any form.
C. A life-care center is not permitted.
The provisions of §
275-36 shall also apply within the MDR District.