Bethel Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VI
R-1 Residential District
§ 480-39 General.
In R-1 Residence District, the following regulations shall apply.
§ 480-40 Use regulations.
A building may be erected, altered or used, and a lot or premises may be used, for any of the following purposes and for no other:
A.
Single-family detached dwelling.
B.
Educational, religious or philanthropic use, hospital, when authorized as a special exception.
C.
Municipal recreational use, railway or bus passenger station.
D.
Agricultural use including the keeping of livestock, animal and/or poultry, customarily incidental to such use or nursery; provided, however, that the following specialized uses will be permitted only when authorized as a special exception: animal farms, riding academy, mushroom house, commercial greenhouse, permanent roadside stand for sale of farm products, and provided any such use is in compliance with state statutes and Township ordinances, and provided, further, that no piggery shall be permitted. The minimum lot area for agricultural use is 10 acres. A veterinary office is permitted by special exception.
E.
The sale of farm products produced on the property where offered for sale, provided that no building or structure other than a portable stand shall be constructed for such sale, and provided that any such stand shall be removed during seasons when products are not being offered for sale.
F.
Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses, shall include a professional use or studio for home occupation if located in a dwelling in which a practitioner resides, or in a building accessory thereto, if no goods are publicly displayed on the premises, when authorized as a special exception.
§ 480-41 Area and height regulations.
A.
Lot area and width.
(1)
For every principal building hereafter erected or used for any use permitted in this district, a lot without either an approved public sanitary sewage system and/or an approved public water supply shall have an area of not less than 40,000 square feet and a lot width of not less than 140 feet at the building line and a frontage not less than 25 feet wide at the street line.
(2)
For every principal building hereafter erected or used for any use permitted in this district, a lot served by both an approved public sanitary sewer system and an approved public water supply shall have an area of not less than 30,000 square feet and a lot width of not less than 125 feet at the building line and a frontage not less than 25 feet wide at the street line.
B.
Building area. The building area shall not exceed 15% of the lot area.
C.
Front yards. There shall be a front yard on each street or road on which the lot abuts the depth of which shall be at least 60 feet measured from the street or road line.
D.
Side yards.
(1)
For any building or use served with either on-site water and on-site sewer facilities there shall be two side yards not less than 75 feet in aggregate width and neither less than 30 feet in width.
(2)
For any building or use served with public water and sewer facilities, there shall be two side yards not less than 60 feet in aggregate width and neither less than 25 feet in width.
E.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard, the depth of which shall be at least 30 feet.
F.
Height regulations. The height of any principal building shall not exceed 35 feet.
H.
Uses accessory to dwellings.
(1)
Private garage, private parking space.
(2)
Swimming pool, tennis courts for use of family and guests only.
(3)
Private greenhouse and storage buildings for garden tools.
(4)
Stables; barn; shelter for pets, gazebos and applicable in residential districts.
(5)
Living quarters for household employees, caretakers, or watchmen.
(6)
Uses authorized in this chapter as necessary to a dwelling shall not be deemed to include a hospital, clinic, barbershop, beauty parlor, mortuary, other personal service shop, tearoom, hotel or any other similar use.
(7)
The renting of rooms within the same dwelling in which the lessor resides, or in a building accessory thereto for not more than four nontransient persons, with or without the provisions of table board for such persons by special exception.
(8)
Offices of physician, dentist, minister, lawyer, teachers tutoring a maximum of three students at one time, accountant and other similar type uses, provided that such offices may only be situated in the dwelling of such practitioner, and shall be regularly employed therein, and no colleagues or associates shall use such office. Approval for these accessory uses must be granted by special exception of the Zoning Hearing Board.