The permitted uses of premises or buildings located in each category of the districts established in Article I are hereby classified. No premises or building shall be used except in conformance with one or more of the permitted uses for the respective district in which such premises or building is located; and any use shall conform to all regulations hereby made for such respective district.
A.
The following uses shall be permitted in R Residential Districts:
(1)
Dwellings: single-family, two-family and apartments.
(2)
Churches or similar places of worship.
(3)
Public parks or public playgrounds and essential accessory buildings thereon.
(4)
Public libraries and museums and similar public buildings.
(5)
Public or parochial schools, elementary and high and private schools.
(6)
Church or public building bulletin boards not exceeding 24 square feet in area.
(7)
Those residence which may be zoned BT Temporary Business.
(8)
Electric transmission lines, distributive lines, telephone lines, and accessory uses.
(9)
The renting of rooms to persons in private residences. This may include furnishing of table board to such person only.
(10)
Signs advertising the sale or rental of the premises upon which they are located. Such signs shall not be illuminated and not in excess of 12 square feet in area.
(11)
Hospitals, clinics and nursing homes, excepting animal hospitals and/or clinics.
(12)
Professional offices, such as physicians, dentists, attorneys, engineers and architects, and home occupations carried on by the occupant at his or her place of residence and within the residential structure.
(13)
Funeral homes and mortuaries, except crematoria.
B.
Building and lot regulations, R Residential District.
(2)
Lot area regulations in R Residential Districts shall be as follows:
(a)
No single-family dwelling shall be erected on any lot, having an area of less than 3,750 square feet, or a mean or average width of less than 50 feet;
(b)
No two-family dwelling shall be erected on any lot, having an area of less than 3,000 square feet per family dwelling unit, or a mean or average width of less than 50 feet;
(c)
No multiple-family dwelling shall be erected on any lot, having an area of less than 2,000 square feet per family dwelling unit, or a mean or average width of less than 50 feet.
(3)
Lot coverage and building area regulations in R Residential Districts, shall be as follows:
(4)
Front yard regulations in R Residential Districts shall be as follows:
(a)
On a street frontage on either side of a street where 50% of such frontage between two intersecting streets is improved with residence buildings which are set back from the street line, the front yard line shall be at least a distance back from the street line equal to the average distance of existing residence buildings back from the street line, or 25 feet, whichever is the greater.
(b)
On a street frontage on either side of a street between two intersecting streets where the front line is not established by the provisions of Subsection B(4)(a), the distance of the front yard line back from the street line shall be not less than 25 feet.
(c)
Where the lot is a corner lot, the depth of the front yard shall equal the front yard depth of the adjoining lot, or 25 feet, whichever is the lesser.
(d)
Whenever any parcel of land now separately owned and which was so owned at the time of the passage of this chapter is of such restricted area that it cannot be improved appropriately without building beyond the front yard line established by the above sections, the Zoning Commission may, on application in a specific case, authorize the construction of a building beyond said front yard line to an extent necessary to secure an appropriate improvement of such parcel of land, which shows building lines along any frontage for the purpose of creating front yard areas, the building lines thus shown shall, along such frontage, apply in place of any front yard lines herein established.
(5)
Rear yard regulations in R Residential Districts shall be as follows:
(a)
Each lot shall have a rear yard between the rear building line of the principal building and the rear lot line, not less than the following:
(6)
Side yard regulations in R Residential Districts shall be as follows:
(a)
Each lot shall have a side yard between the lot line and the adjoining side building line, as follows:
[1]
A minimum width of four feet on either side of the principal building.
[2]
An aggregate minimum width on both sides of the principal building of not less than 20% of the lot width, or 16 feet, whichever is the lesser, except on lots platted in the original plat of the Village of Forrest, such lots, the minimum width on either side of the building shall be two feet.
A.
The following uses shall be permitted in B Business Districts:
(1)
Such uses as are limited, in the main, to individual exchange of merchandise, goods, money, property, entertainment, service, fees, information, or counseling on the premises; and excluding those operations where, in the main, the exchange of merchandise, goods, or commodities is dependent on bulk delivery from storage; such as:
(a)
Automobile service as in filling station, commercial parking lot, garage, sales room, enclosed repair service, etc.
(b)
Business service as in bank, office, post office, public service or utility office.
(c)
Clothing service as in laundry collection agency, self-service laundry, tailor shop, shoe repair, dressmaking, dry cleaning and pressing, millinery, tailor or alteration shop.
(d)
Equipment service as in electronic sales or repair shop, appliance sales and repair.
(e)
Food service as in grocery, supermarket, delicatessen, bakery, meat market, restaurant, roadside sales stand, cold storage locker for individual use, tavern or cocktail lounge in conformity with laws and ordinances governing such use.
(f)
Personal service as in barber shop, beauty salon, reducing/fitness salon, photography studio.
(g)
Retail service as in retail stores generally, drugstore, department store, news dealer, card and stationary store, printing shop, flower shop, jewelry store, and miscellaneous sales shops.
(h)
Railway and bus passenger stations.
(i)
Hotel, motel, bed-and-breakfast, museum.
(j)
Commercial recreation uses conducted only within buildings so constructed as in theater, billiard room bowling, alley, dance academy.
(k)
Apartment over a store building, apartment located in rear of a store building and occupied by the family of a person employed on the premises.
(l)
Private club or lodge.
(m)
Billboard or advertising sign.
B.
Building and lot regulations, B Business District.
(2)
Front yard requirements. On a street frontage between two street intersections, each lot fronting on such street shall have a front yard, between the street line and the front building line, as follows:
(a)
Where all lots are unimproved, the front yard depth shall be 15 feet.
(b)
Where one or more lots are improved, the front yard depth need not be more than the average depths of the existing front yards of the lots adjoining on either side and, in no case need it exceed 15 feet, except:
[1]
When the lot fronts on a state or federal highway, yard depth shall be not less than 30 feet in any case.
A.
The following uses shall be permitted in C Commercial District:
(1)
All uses permitted under B Business Districts.
(2)
Concrete plant.
(3)
Bakeries for whose products are not sold at retail on the premises.
(4)
Bottling works.
(5)
Contractors supplies, plant and storage yards.
(6)
Laundries.
(7)
Lumber yards.
(8)
Warehousing.
(9)
Dairies and creameries.
(10)
Wholesale produce.
(11)
Wholesale florists and nurseries.
(12)
Machine shops and blacksmith shops.
(13)
Lumber and coal storage.
(14)
Bulk gasoline and oil stations.
(15)
Truck and rail freight terminals.
(16)
Grain elevators.
(17)
Ice plants.
(18)
Farm implements sales and service.
(19)
Seed processing, chemical processing and warehousing.
(20)
Manufacture or industrial operation of any kind not included in other districts and which is not noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, or vibration carrying beyond the confined of the premises, or not hazardous to health or safety.
(21)
All other uses of a manufacturing or fabricating nature and which are not listed under other classifications except those uses which may be hereafter listed in this chapter as requiring special action of the Zoning Commission, or which are prohibited by this chapter. Also excluded are those uses, which may be prohibited, controlled or limited by other existing ordinances of the Village of Forrest.