The regulations set forth in this chapter shall apply to all R-3 districts and shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter
21.08.
(Ord. CS 106 §6, 1984)
Uses permitted in the R-3 districts:
A. Single-family
dwelling on any one parcel; or
B. Two
dwelling units on any parcel;
C. Accessory
uses and buildings normally incidental to residential use;
D. One
apartment house, dwelling group, dormitory, fraternity house, rooming
or boarding house or sorority house, hospital, orphanage or residential
care home; provided, that public sanitary sewer and water systems
are connected thereto;
E. Day
care centers and schools offering general academic instruction equivalent
to the standards prescribed by the State Board of Education, and seminaries;
F. Clubhouses,
community centers, fraternal lodges, public and quasi-public buildings,
public parks and social halls and similar uses as determined by the
director of planning and community development;
H. Racing homing pigeons as regulated in Chapter
21.92;
J. Where
there is a recorded subdivision map, there may be maintained one advertising
sign of not more than two hundred square feet in area, illuminated
but nonflashing and nonanimated, and one temporary sales office for
a period of two years immediately following the recording date of
the subdivision map; however the time for maintaining the sign and
temporary sales office may be extended for an additional two-year
period provided a use permit is first secured. Such sign and offices
shall be subject to all yard requirements and located within the boundary
of the subdivision;
K. A mobile home in lieu of a permitted single-family dwelling as regulated by Chapter
21.72;
L. Home occupations as regulated by Chapter
21.94;
M. Accessory dwellings as regulated by Chapter
21.74.
(Ord. CS 106 §6, 1984; Ord. CS 350 §1, 1989; Ord. CS 1290 §18, 2021)
Uses permitted, subject to first securing a use permit in each
case:
A. Mobile
home parks provided, that all units are connected to a public sanitary
sewer and public water system;
B. Facilities
for public utilities;
C. Churches
(excluding tent and open-air churches).
(Ord. CS 106 §6, 1984)
Height limit in R-3 districts:
A. Maximum
of forty-five feet for main buildings;
B. Maximum
height of detached garages and accessory buildings, fifteen feet;
C. No
fence, hedge, or screen planting shall be constructed or permitted
to grow in excess of eight feet in height within any required side
or rear yard, nor in excess of three feet within any required front
yard, or side yard of a corner lot except fences within the side and
rear yard which enclose electrical substations which may be constructed
to the height required by law or unless the director determines that
visibility will not be obstructed.
(Ord. CS 106 §6, 1984)
Building site area and lot width required in R-3 districts:
A. Sites
serviced by public sewer and water facilities, six thousand square
feet;
B. Sites
serviced by public water and septic tank facilities or private well
and public sewer facilities, twenty thousand square feet;
C. Sites
serviced by private well and septic tank facilities, one acre;
D. Minimum
lot width, sixty-five feet.
(Ord. CS 106 §6, 1984)
Percentage of lot coverage, for aggregate buildings, maximum
sixty percent.
(Ord. CS 106 §6, 1984)
Yards required in R-3 districts:
A. Front
yard.
1. Not
less than seventy feet from the existing centerline of the street
nor less than fifteen feet from the planned street line on a major
street or expressway, whichever is the greater. The vehicle opening
of any building shall be no closer than twenty feet to the property
line toward which the opening faces,
2. Not
less than forty-five feet from the existing centerline of the street
on a collector street (sixty feet wide), nor less than fifteen feet
from the planned street line where a specific plan has been adopted.
The vehicle opening of any building shall be no closer than twenty
feet to the property line toward which the opening faces,
3. Not
less than forty feet from the existing centerline of the street on
a minor street (fifty feet wide), nor less than fifteen feet from
the planned street line where a specific plan has been adopted. The
vehicle opening of any building shall be no closer than twenty feet
to the property line toward which the opening faces;
B. Side
Yard, Interior Lot Line and Rear Yard. Five feet;
C. Side
Yard, Corner Lot. The main building and garage or accessory buildings
not having direct vehicular access to the street may be located five
feet closer to the planned right-of-way line than at the front yard;
D. Distance
Between Buildings in a Building Group. Minimum ten feet side to side;
twenty feet front to side or rear to rear and forty feet front to
rear;
E. Side
Yard Providing Access to Single Row of Dwellings and Interior Court
Providing Access to Double Row of Dwellings. Twenty feet.
(Ord. CS 106 §6, 1984; Ord. CS 663 §40, 1998)
See Chapter
21.76 for off-street parking requirements for all uses in all districts.
(Ord. CS 106 §6, 1984)
Two dwelling units are permitted on the first six thousand square
feet of a lot with one additional unit permitted for each additional
fifteen hundred square feet of the lot to a maximum density of twenty-five
units per net acre.
(Ord. CS 106 §6, 1984)