[Ord. No. 945, 2-11-2002]
This district was established for the purpose of single-family
dwellings and to allow certain public facilities. It is intended that
no use be permitted in this district that will tend to devaluate property
for residential purposes or interfere with the health, safety, order
or general welfare of persons residing in the district. Regulations
are intended to control density of population and to provide adequate
open space around buildings and structures in the district to accomplish
these purposes.
[Ord. No. 945, 2-11-2002]
No structure or land shall be used and no structure shall be
erected, altered, or enlarged which is arranged, intended or designed
for other than one of the uses listed in the use regulations.
[Ord. No. 945, 2-11-2002; Ord. No. 1155 § 3, 11-3-2014]
A.
Use Regulations.
1.
Single-family dwelling or a factory-built home with a minimum
square footage of nine hundred (900) square feet and with floor joists
currently used in construction practices. Factory-built homes must
be on a solid foundation, have a pitched roof with shingles or galvanized
steel/tin covering, and have siding.
[Ord. No. 2022-1423, 10-3-2022]
2.
Public parks and recreation areas and community buildings owned
and operated by a public agency.
4.
Accessory buildings cannot use more than fifty percent (50%)
of the lot area. Mobile homes, trailers or boxed truck beds, or semi-trailers
cannot be used for storage.
5.
Home occupations (only within the principal residential structures). (See definitions in Section 405.010.)
6.
Mobile homes, trailers, or trailer homes will not be permitted
to be used as a dwelling in this district.
B.
Special Use Permit. The Planning and Zoning Commission may, by special
use permit, authorize the following exceptions subject to such conditions
as the Board deems necessary to include, but not restricted to, proper
setbacks, landscaping, screening, fencing, maintenance provisions,
and other requirements.
1.
Any public building erected on land used by any department of
the Town, County, State, or Federal Government.
2.
Telephone exchange, electric substation, cable TV or other similar
public utilities.
3.
Churches and synagogues in converted residential structures.
4.
Group daycare homes.
5.
Golf courses, except miniature and pitch and putt golf courses
and driving tees operated for commercial purposes.
6.
Short-term rentals of a residential home for residential purposes,
including rentals to more than one (1) family and bed-and-breakfast
operations [defined as a dwelling in which rooms are rented to guests
with no more than one (1) meal served daily, and the entire service,
food and lodging are to be included in one (1) stated price], on conditions
approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission to reduce parking issues,
congestion or adverse effects to the surrounding residences.
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A.
Every building or portion of building hereafter erected or altered
for residence purpose in District "R-1" shall provide a lot area of
not less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet per family in single-family
residences, provided that where a lot has less area than herein required
in separate ownership at the time of the passage of this Article,
this regulation shall not prohibit the erection of a single-family
dwelling. Where a public or community sewer is not available and in
use for the disposal of all sanitary sewage, each lot shall provide
an area not less than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet per residence.
B.
Accessory buildings may be erected prior to the main residential
structure; provided, however, the main structure is completed no later
than twenty-four (24) months after starting construction of the accessory
building.
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No building shall exceed forty-five (45) feet in height without
the approval of the Board of Adjustment.
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The minimum width of a lot shall be one hundred (100) feet at
the building line, provided that where a recorded lot has less width
than herein required at the time of passage of this Article, the regulations
will not prohibit the erection of a single-family dwelling.
[Ord. No. 945, 2-11-2002]
A.
Front Yards.
1.
The front yard shall be a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet in
depth measured from the front property/lot line to the outermost projection
of the building. However, where the frontage upon the same side of
a street between blocks is occupied by a building or buildings having
front yards of greater depth than are required by this Chapter, no
other lot upon the same side of such street between such blocks shall
be occupied by a building with a front yard of more than one hundred
(100) feet.
2.
Where lots have double frontage, the required front yard shall
be provided on both streets.
B.
Side Yards.
1.
There shall be a side yard having a width of not less than ten
(10) feet as measured from the outer projection on each side of the
principal residential building.
2.
Whenever a lot of record existing at the time of the passage
of this Chapter has a width of less than one hundred (100) feet, the
side yard on each side of a building may be reduced to a width of
not less than ten percent (10%) of the width of the lot, but in no
instance shall it be less than five (5) feet as measured from the
outer projection of the side of the building.
3.
Accessory buildings constructed entirely behind the rear building
shall maintain a side yard of not less than five (5) feet as measured
from the outer projection of the side of the building.
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See definitions in Section 405.010.
