Division 4: R-2, Multifamily Residential Districts

The following regulations apply to R-2 districts.

The following uses are permitted:

Any use permitted in the R-1 district;

Two-family duplex, apartment, condominium, townhouse and other dwellings that are connected by a common wall, such as patio home and garden home;

HUD-code manufactured home; mobile home only if the mobile home is located in a mobile home park;

Kindergarten, play school or day nursery;

Telephone exchange (no business office);

Fire station;

Gas and electric public utility regulator stations, but the size, height and location of the stations to be fixed by the city council;

Accessory building (the accessory building shall not be used for commercial purposes including part-time business);

Hospital, clinic and convalescent home, excepting veterinary hospital and clinic;

Institutions of philanthropic nature other than penal or correctional institution;

Library and museum;

Boardinghouse and lodginghouse;

Fraternity, sorority, lodge, excepting those whose chief activities are services customarily carried on as a business; and

Nameplates and signs shall be attached flat to the walls, not exceeding six square feet in area, and with only direct nonintermittent lighting.

(2002 Code, sec. 152.045; Ordinance 659, sec. 3, adopted 2/14/16)