In the Residence District the following regulations
shall apply.
No building may be erected, altered or used,
and no lot or premises may be used, except for one or more of the
following purposes:
A. Detached single-family dwelling.
C. Railroad passenger station.
D. Municipal Hall or Firehouse.
E. The secondary office of a doctor, dentist, teacher,
attorney or other professional person residing on the premises. By
"secondary office" is meant an office other than that at which such
professional person regularly practices his profession and shall be
in addition to a primary office maintained by or for such professional
person at a location other than that of the secondary office. No office
shall be considered as such secondary office if the professional person
maintains regular office hours thereat, maintains capital equipment
thereat or maintains an employee thereat, whether on a part-time or
full-time basis, and no office shall be considered as such secondary
office if it is more than 250 square feet in size or if it or any
part of the structure within which it is contained is devoted to a
waiting room or area for patients or clients of the professional person.
F. Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily
incidental to any of the above permitted uses, including a private
garage for not more than two cars. Except as above permitted, accessory
uses shall not include any use customarily carried on as a business
or industry or any driveway or walk giving access thereto. A fence
or other structure deemed by the Building Inspector to be designed
primarily to cause annoyance or damage to an adjoining owner shall
in no case be permitted as an accessory use. The word "structure,"
as used in this subsection, shall include hedges and growths of plant
life.
[Amended 8-30-1976 by L.L. No. 3-1976]
No building shall be constructed on a lot of
an area less than 6,000 square feet, unless in replacement of an existing
building.
There shall be a rear yard, the depth of which
shall not be less than 30 feet.
There shall be two side yards, one on each side
of the main building, the aggregate width of which shall be at least
16 feet. Neither side yard shall be less than eight feet wide.
No dwelling shall exceed 30 feet in height.
In the case of a corner lot, a building shall
comply with the front yard requirements on both streets. However,
where two other yards exist, either of the said other yards may be
considered a side yard.
The building area shall not be less than 30%
nor more than 35% of the lot area.
No building shall be erected on any lot or plot
which has a frontage upon any street of less than 50 feet.
No trailer, boat, tractor, truck, camper, mobile
home or any other motor vehicle shall be permitted to remain on an
open lot or upon any open spot in or about a dwelling within the Residence
District, except temporarily while going to and from the dwelling.
However, nothing in this section shall prohibit the parking of a passenger
motor vehicle, which is used solely for noncommercial purposes, in
the driveway of any premises within the Residence District. For the
purposes of this chapter, a "driveway" shall be defined as a path
leading directly from the street to a garage and shall not include
slabs, chevrons or aprons built to the side of the driveway. If any
dwelling shall not have a garage, a "driveway" shall be defined as
one path, not exceeding eight feet in width, leading directly from
the street to or alongside the dwelling and shall not include slabs,
chevrons or aprons built to the side of such path.