The R-1 Moderate Density District is established in order to provide for a variety of housing types and compatible land uses subject to zoning criteria, designed to provide reasonable opportunities for residential development.
A building may be used, erected, or altered and a lot or premises may be used for any of the following purposes, subject to off-street parking regulations as set forth in Article XV.
Permitted uses:
A. 
Single-family detached dwellings.
B. 
Municipal and public utility structures.
C. 
Agricultural operations. See § 172-115.
D. 
Forestry.
E. 
Duplex, triplex and quadraplex.
F. 
Townhouse.
G. 
Public or private elementary schools.
H. 
Communications towers. See § 172-124.
I. 
Private recreation facilities.
J. 
The breeding and raising of nondomesticated animals.
K. 
Accessory uses and accessory buildings incidental to the permitted principal uses and located on the same lot, except as otherwise provided. Any greenhouse facility for personal use as an accessory use for noncommercial purposes, i.e., for the private use of the occupant of the principal use, shall not exceed an area of 256 square feet. Permitted accessory buildings shall be set back not less than 10 feet from the closest side or rear property lines.
L. 
Assembly hall.
[Added 7-11-2011 by Ord. No. 44A]
M. 
Bed-and-breakfast.
[Added 7-11-2011 by Ord. No. 44A]
N. 
No-impact home-based businesses.
[Added 8-13-2012 by Ord. No. 2-2012]
Public hearing shall be required to be held by the Board of Supervisors. All conditions specified herein shall be met:
A. 
Educational or religious uses. See § 172-134.
B. 
Structures used for and in conjunction with municipal or county recreation programs, provided the architecture is in harmony with existing materials in use in the district. See § 172-144.
C. 
Public parks and playgrounds. See § 172-140.
D. 
Planned residential developments. See Article XI.
E. 
Home occupation. See § 172-136.
F. 
Two principal uses limited to those allowed under the permitted and conditional uses of this zoning district. No property shall have more than two principal uses under this conditional use provision.
[Added 9-12-2011 by Ord. No. 44]
G. 
RV campers, mobile or modular homes, RV campgrounds, mobile home parks, and/or campers. See Chapter 103, Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks, of the Code of the Township or Darlington. See also § 172-125.
[Added 5-12-2014 by Ord. No. 2-2014]
Uses by special exception:
A. 
Temporary second dwelling. See § 172-145.
B. 
Private kennel. See § 172-147.
C. 
Nonresidential storage building. See § 172-146.
Lot area of not less than 15,000 square feet shall be required when approved sanitary sewers are provided. Where approved sanitary sewers are not available, no lot shall be less than one acre (43,560 square feet) in area.
A. 
There shall be a front yard, the depth of which shall be at least 40 feet from the front lot line if such is also the right-of-way line, or 65 feet from the center line of the street or road, etc., whichever is greater. In the case of a corner lot, the provisions of Article XII, § 172-121A, shall dictate.
B. 
There shall be two side yards, one on each side of the property, neither of which shall be less than 10 feet from the closest place along a structure wall to the property line.
C. 
Rear yard. No principal use shall be constructed less than 30 feet from the rear property line; and no accessory or supplementary structure shall be constructed any closer than 10 feet to the rear lot line unless the lot abuts an alley in which case a fifteen-foot setback shall be required.
A. 
No building shall be erected to a height in excess of 36 feet.
B. 
See Article XII, § 172-118 (supplemental regulations).
A. 
The total area of the footprints of all permitted buildings shall not exceed an area equal to 20% of the lot area.
B. 
The lot shall have a width of at least 100 feet at the building setback line.
See Article XV.
See Article XIV.
See Article XIX.
See Article IV.