In R-1 Residential District the regulations which follow in this Article
IV and the regulations which are set forth in Articles
IX and
X shall apply.
[Amended 5-19-1975 by Ord. No. 75-6; 3-24-1986 by Ord. No. 86-2; 1-11-2021 by Ord. No. 2020-8]
A. Single principal building or single principal use. A lot may be used
only for one of the following principal buildings or principal uses:
(2) Cemetery; church; public library; public museum; public school; nonprofit
charitable or religious hospital, or municipal or public hospital,
which does not primarily treat patients with contagious diseases,
drug or alcohol patients, or mentally ill or mentally retarded patients.
(3) Playground; municipal recreation park.
(4) Electric substation; telephone exchange; or any other like utility
station or exchange.
B. Accessory buildings and accessory uses. The accessory buildings and
accessory uses permitted on a lot are those which are customarily
incidental to the principal building or principal use on the lot.
By way of example, in the case of a single-family house the following
accessory buildings and accessory uses are permitted on the lot with
the house: off-street parking spaces, private garage, carport, storage
shed, toolshed, residential swimming pool, cabana, gazebo, garden,
garden house, greenhouse, plant nursery, tree nursery.
C. Special exceptions. A lot may be used for the following principal
building or principal use: Senior citizens center (which primarily
provides at least three of the following activities, programs or services
for the elderly: counseling, education, health, nursing, nutrition,
recreation, referral, religious, self-development or social welfare
activities, programs or services for the elderly) when authorized
as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board and under such
appropriate safeguards and conditions attached by the Zoning Hearing
Board as it deems necessary. In determining whether a special exception
is to be granted or denied, the Zoning Hearing Board shall take into
consideration whether such building or use will be appropriately located
and designed in light of the surrounding uses in the neighborhood
and the character of the neighborhood, will meet a community need
without substantially adversely affecting the essential character
of the neighborhood, and will be consistent with the surrounding uses
in the neighborhood and the character of the neighborhood so as to
conserve the objective value of maintaining existing local groupings
of consistent uses and yet encourage the most appropriate or effective
use of the land.
D. Conditional uses. A home occupation may be conducted in a house or
in an accessory building, or a professional office or professional
studio may be maintained in a house or in an accessory building, when
authorized as a conditional use by Borough Council and under such
appropriate safeguards and conditions attached by Board Borough Council
as it deems necessary.
E. Prohibited uses.
(1) No garden produce and no greenhouse or nursery product shall be sold
at retail. No garden produce and no greenhouse or nursery product
shall be permitted to be sold at wholesale unless:
(a)
The sale is made from the lot or a house or accessory building
permitted on the lot where the produce or product was grown; and
(b)
The sale is made during the season the produce or product was
grown.
(2) No stand, display booth, table or the like shall be maintained outdoors
for the sale.
[Amended 3-24-1986 by Ord. No. 86-2]
A. Single-family house. The building height of a single-family house
shall not exceed 35 feet.
B. Other principal buildings. The building height of a principal building
other than a single-family house shall not exceed 45 feet.
C. Accessory buildings. The building height of an accessory building
shall not exceed the height of the principal building or 21 feet,
whichever is less.
The building area on a lot shall not exceed 30% of the lot area.
[Amended 3-24-1986 by Ord. No. 86-2]
A. Front yard. There shall be a front yard, the depth of which to the building line shall be not less than 25 feet. However, the depth of the front yard to the building line may be decreased under §
240-53A in the case where more than 50% of the residential frontage of a block has been improved as of September 13, 1954.
B. Side yards.
(1) A single-family house shall have two side yards (one at each side
of the lot), the width of each of which shall be not less than five
feet.
(2) A principal building other than a single-family house shall have
two side yards (one at each side of the lot), the width of each of
which shall be not less than 10 feet. If the building height of the
building is over 35 feet, the width of each side yard shall be increased
two feet for each five feet, or fraction thereof, by which the building
height exceeds 35 feet.
(3) In the case of a corner lot at the intersection of two streets, the width of the side yard on the street side shall be not less than 15 feet or the depth established under §
240-53A, whichever is less.
(4) In every case under Subsection
B(1),
(2) or
(3) above, the total width of the two side yards in the aggregate shall equal not less than 20% of the lot width measured at the building line.
C. Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard, the depth of which shall be
not less than five feet.
[Amended 5-19-1975 by Ord. No. 75-6; 3-24-1986 by Ord. No. 86-2]
A. Spaces required. Off-street parking spaces for passenger motor vehicles
shall be provided in the following amounts for the following principal
buildings or principal uses:
(1) For a single-family house, one off-street parking space shall be
provided.
(2) For a church, off-street parking spaces shall be provided at the
rate of one parking space for each nine seats or each 15 feet of benches
or pews in the sanctuary and one parking space for each church official
residing on the premises.
(3) For a public library or a public museum, off-street parking spaces
shall be provided at the rate of one parking space for each two employees
and such additional parking spaces for patrons or visitors as shall
be determined by the Department.
(4) For a public school, off-street parking spaces shall be provided
at the rate of: one parking space for each two employees (including
teachers and administrators) and such additional parking spaces for
students and visitors as shall be determined by the Department.
(5) For a hospital, off-street parking spaces shall be provided at the
rate of one parking space for each four patient beds; one parking
space for each resident doctor or staff doctor; one parking space
for each doctor with hospital privileges; and one parking space for
each two employees (including nurses) on the largest work shift.
(6) For a playground or a municipal recreation park, or for an electric
substation or telephone exchange, off-street parking spaces shall
be provided as determined by the Department, taking into consideration
all the parking generating factors involved.
(7) For a senior citizens center, off-street parking spaces shall be
provided at the rate of one parking space for each administrator,
executive director or staff member; one parking space for each two
employees who are not administrators, executive directors or staff
members; one parking space for each visiting doctor, visiting nurse
or other like visiting specialist; one parking space for each 300
square feet of floor space used for dining rooms, game rooms, activity
rooms, counseling rooms, clinics, health stations, lounges, meeting
rooms, or assembly rooms; and one parking space for each passenger
or commercial motor vehicle used in connection with the operation
of the senior citizens center.
B. Location of off-street parking spaces. The off-street parking spaces required by Subsection
A of this section shall be provided on the same lot with the principal building or principal use and may be provided by a private garage on the lot. The location on the lot of an off-street parking space and the design of an off-street parking space shall be governed by the regulations in §§
240-51,
240-53 and
240-54.