The D Residential Apartment District is designed to make special
provisions for apartment development. The district is also designed
to permit other uses related to apartments and to establish regulations
to maintain or improve the character of the district.
A building may be erected, altered or used and a lot or premises may be used or occupied, subject to the provisions of Article
XIII, for any one of the following uses and no other:
A. Permitted principal uses.
(1) Any use permitted in the A Residence District in accordance with Article
IV.
(2) Apartment house or unified apartment development, subject to the special requirements of §
143-30.
(3) Public transit station, exclusive of any transit vehicle storage,
garage or service areas.
B. Permitted accessory uses.
(1) Any permitted accessory use in the A Residence District in accordance with Article
IV.
(2) Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to
any of the above-permitted uses and not detrimental to a residential
neighborhood.
(4) Signs in accordance with Article
XVI.
(5) No impact Home-based business, as detailed in §
143-9, Terms defined, provided the following eight requirements are satisfied.
(a)
The business activity shall be compatible with the residential
use of the property.
(b)
The business shall employ no employees other than family members
residing in the dwelling.
(c)
There shall be no display or sale of retail goods and no stockpiling
of inventory.
(d)
There shall be no outside appearance of a business.
(e)
The business or activity may not use any equipment or process
which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electronic
interference, including interference with radio or television reception.
(f)
The business activity may not generate any solid waste or sewage
discharge which is not normally associated with residential use.
(g)
The business activity conducted may not occupy more than 25%
of the floor area.
(h)
The business activity may not involve any illegal activity.
(6) Communications antennas, when mounted on one of the following existing
locations: public utility transmission tower; public or municipal
structure; public or municipal building; other building or structure.
Proposed locations shall be considered in the order listed. After
all viable options for that alternative have been exhausted, the next
location may be considered. The applicant shall not propose one of
the latter locations if a preceding alternative is available within
a 1/2 mile radius of the proposed location. Equipment buildings associated
with communications antennas shall be permitted as a Conditional Use
and shall be a maximum of 250 square feet.
(7) Public transit station parking area for commuters and employees,
provided that such parking area shall not exceed 50,000 square feet
nor be created, maintained or otherwise established by any transit
company unless in conjunction with an existing or planned station,
and provided further that such parking area is entirely within 500
feet of said station and such parking area and its approaches are
surfaced in a manner satisfactory to the Code Enforcement Officer.
It shall be the duty of any transit company desiring to create, establish
or alter any such parking area to present to the Code Enforcement
Officer detailed specifications of the surfacing materials to be used
and plans showing the size of the proposed parking area, its distance
from the station and the location of the proposed means of ingress
and/or egress, and no permit shall be issued until the Code Enforcement
Officer has determined that the proposed parking area is in complete
conformity with the terms of this ordinance, the Subdivision and Land
Development Ordinance and the Stormwater Management Ordinance.
C. Uses by special exception.
(1) Educational use and religious use as more fully set forth in §
143-14C(1).
D. Any uses proposed in a TND Overlay District shall be in accordance with Article
XIV.
The maximum height of dwellings and other structures erected, enlarged or used shall be 35 feet and two stories, except as provided in Article
XVII, §§
143-104 and
143-111, or when proposed in a TND Overlay District, shall be in accordance with Article
XIV.