§ 32-31. Residential district regulations.

(a)

Applicability. This section applies to residential and mobile home residential districts.

(b)

Permitted uses.

(1)

In residential and mobile home residential districts, no building or premises shall be used and no building or mobile home shall be erected, moved or structurally altered except for one or more of the following uses:

a.

One-family dwellings, (buildings or mobile homes).

b.

Two-family dwellings.

c.

Churches, schools, public libraries, public museums and municipal buildings, except sewage disposal plants, garbage incinerators and municipal shops.

d.

Family gardening, except chickens, fir and stock farms and farms operated for the disposal of garbage, rubbish and offal, and greenhouses.

e.

Accessory buildings situated in the rear of dwellings and occupying not more than ten percent of the lot area.

(2)

Uses customarily incidental to any use specified in this subsection shall be permitted in these districts when located on the same lot and not involving the conduct of a business, including home occupations not involving a business on the premises and professional offices, provided no advertising sign of any character shall be permitted in these districts except one nameplate not exceeding one square foot in area or one sign not exceeding four square feet in area pertaining to the lease, hire or sale of the building or premises.

(c)

Setback requirements. In residential and mobile home residential districts, no building or premises shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected, moved or structurally altered except in accordance with the following regulations:

(1)

Front yard. No building or mobile home shall hereafter be erected, and no existing building shall be reconstructed or altered in such a way that any portion thereof shall be closer to the street line than 25 feet; except that where a lot is located between two lots, each of which has a principal building located thereon, the front yard requirements on such lot shall be the same setback from the street line of the existing buildings, and where a lot adjoins only one lot having a principal building located thereon, the front yard requirement shall not be less than the average of the setback from the street line of the existing building and the 25-foot front yard setback line prescribed herein.

(2)

Side yard. There shall be provided on every lot two side yards, each of which shall be at least ten feet wide.

(3)

Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than 50 feet in depth.

(d)

Accessory buildings and structures. An accessory building or structure shall be located only in the rear yard or side yard of the lot, in compliance with the following restrictions:

(1)

Detached accessory buildings. Where the accessory building or structure is a detached private garage or other accessory building or structure, such accessory building or structure when located in the rear yard shall be placed not less than four feet from any adjoining or rear lot line and four feet from any alley lot line when access is from the alley, except that any portion of the accessory building or structure which is closer to the front lot line than one-half the average depth of the lot shall provide the same yard as required for the principal building or structure, provided that only the front 120 feet shall be used as the depth of the lot when applying this regulation. When located in the side yard of the lot, such accessory building or structure shall provide a side yard between the accessory building or structure and the side lot line equal to that required for the principal building or structure. When located in the rear yard of a corner lot, the required setback along the side street line shall not be less than 20 percent of the width of the lot.

(2)

Attached accessory buildings. Where the accessory building or structure is an attached private garage, carport or other attached accessory building or structure, the same front, rear and side yards shall be required as for the principal building.

(e)

Maintenance of existing yards. The lot or yard areas of buildings existing at the time of the enactment of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived shall not be diminished below the requirements of this section.

(Prior Code, § 10.06)