R-3 Residential Districts are designed to afford the most intensive residential uses. No R-3 use which is not permitted in R-1 or R-2 Districts shall be permitted unless sanitary sewer is available, and accordingly R-3 Districts are designed to be zoned where such services are already in place, unless the owner or developer of uses in an R-3 District installs such services prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy.
Following are the principal permitted uses for the R-3 Residential Districts:
A.
All uses permitted in R-1 and R-2 Districts.
B.
Medical clinics and doctors' offices for the treatment of human beings, provided they are constructed in appearance as a residence.
C.
Multiple dwellings, excluding hotels, motels, and similar transient residence buildings.
D.
Wireless communication antenna - with site plan.
Following are the special land uses for the R-3 Residential Districts:
A.
Special land uses allowed in R-1 and R-2 Districts.
B.
Hotels, motels and other multi-occupancy transient residential buildings.
C.
Restaurants, not to include fast food, takeouts, and traffic generators.
D.
Private clubs, fraternities, and lodges, excepting those of which the chief activity is a service customarily carried on as a business.
When the majority of buildings built on one side of the street between two intersecting streets at the time of the passage of this chapter have been built with a minimum setback different from that required by this chapter, no building hereafter erected or altered shall project beyond the minimum resulting setback so established, provided that no single-family dwelling shall be required to maintain a setback more than 40 feet. No accessory building shall be located in a side yard, the side yard distance being mandatory and not including accessory buildings.
No building shall be erected in an R-3 Residential District which exceeds 2 1/2 stories, or 30 feet in height.