Centralia City Zoning Code
ARTICLE IV
"R-3" Multiple-Family Dwelling District
Section 31-23 Use regulations. [1]
[Ord. No. 738 § 8, 1-9-1961; Ord. No. 946 § 1, 11-9-1970; Ord. No. 1423 § 2, 3-21-1988; Ord. No. 1579 § 1, 10-15-1990; Ord. No. 1603 §§ 12 — 15, 3-18-1991; Ord. No. 2211 § 3, 9-16-2002; Ord. No. 2382 §§ 2 — 3, 12-19-2005]
A.
Permitted Uses. In District "R-3", no building, structure or land shall be used, and no building or structure shall be hereafter erected, constructed, reconstructed or altered, except for one or more of the following uses:
1.
Any use which is a permitted use in District "R-2", including the regulations as established therein for garages, stables, servants' quarters and accessory buildings and uses; except that in District "R-3", no private garage shall provide space for storage for more than one (1) vehicle for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of lot area, and further provided that no business, occupation or service connected with motor vehicles, except washing, shall be permitted.
2.
Apartment house.
3.
Bed-and-breakfast establishments.
4.
Boarding houses or lodging houses.
5.
Fraternity or sorority houses and dormitories.
6.
Nursing homes.
7.
Non-commercial parking lots for off-street parking of motor passenger vehicles.
8.
Philanthropic or eleemosynary use, or institutions other than penal or correctional institutions.
9.
Private clubs or fraternal orders; except, those whose chief activity is a service customarily carried on as a business.
10.
Private schools.
11.
Hotels and apartment hotels, including only such facilities as are customarily required for the operation of a hotel or apartment hotel or for the use of or entertainment of guests or tenants; provided, such facilities are conducted and entered from within the building and provided, no window or other display or sign is used to advertise the same.
B.
Conditional Uses. The following uses shall be permitted in District "R-3" only after the issuance of a conditional use permit pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-65:
1.
Offices used for the practice, following and carrying on of one or more of the following professions and businesses: Medical doctor, osteopathic doctor, dentist, chiropractor, optometrist, podiatrist, chiropodist, lawyer, engineer, certified public accountant, security broker, financial planner or consultant, bookkeeping service, secretarial service, insurance sales, real estate sales, computer programming and software service and/or data processing service (excluding product sales), or health and/or exercise center (excluding product sales).
2.
Family day care homes, day-care centers, child playcare centers, child education centers, or child development institutions (sometimes collectively referred to hereafter as "day care facilities") being any building or structure conducted or maintained by a person who provides care for five (5) or more children under the age of eighteen (18) away from their home, for compensation, excluding those children who are related by blood, marriage or adoption to the child care provider or residents of the house or building, and excluding those children who are under guardianship with or in the legal custody of the child care provider or residents of the house or building. No regularly established public or parochial school, college, university, academy, seminary, nursery school, or other school or institution organized under Federal or State law shall be considered a day care facility. Day care facilities, as defined above, shall be permitted provided the following provisions are complied with:
a.
A day care facility shall keep no greater number of children at any one (1) time than that number which may be set forth as a condition within the conditional use permit. Such maximum number of children may be included by the issuing authority in any conditional use permit after consideration of site conditions and the oral and documentary evidence receiving during the process required before a conditional use permit may be issued;
b.
The rear yard of every day care facility is enclosed with fences at least three (3) feet in height and has a depth of not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the depth of the lot, provided that the depth of the rear yard need not be more than a total of twenty-five (25) feet, and further provided that no part of any alley abutting the rear yard of a day care facility shall be considered a portion of the rear yard for the purposes of this subsection; and
c.
All applicable State and Federal laws and regulations concerning day care facilities are met and required licenses are obtained and maintained. If provisions of this Section are more restrictive than State and Federal laws or regulations, the terms of this Section shall govern.
3.
Hospitals, sanitariums or clinics.
4.
Commercial parking lots for off-street parking of motor passenger vehicles; provided, any fee charged by the owner or operator for such parking shall be only on a monthly or yearly basis and provided that such parking lot is improved as herein otherwise required.
5.
Any use which is a conditional use in District "R-2".
Section 31-24 Height, yard, area and sign regulations. [1]
[Ord. No. 738 § 8, 1-9-1961; Ord. No. 1423 § 3, 3-21-1988]
In District "R-3", the height of buildings, the minimum dimensions of lots and yards, the minimum lot area per family permitted upon any lot, the floor area and sign restrictions shall be as follows:
A.
Height. No building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall exceed three (3) stories or forty-five (45) feet in height; except, as provided hereafter.
B.
Rear Yard. The depth of the rear yard shall be not less than twenty-five (25) percent of the depth of the lot; provided, such depth need not be more than a total of twenty-five (25) feet.
C.
Front Yard. Same as District "R-1".
D.
Side Yard. Same as District “R-1," including provision for corner lots adjacent to platted interior lots on a side street. Except, no side yard shall be required for a one-family dwelling attached to another one-family dwelling when it is in an approved Planned Dwelling District as set forth in Article XVIII of this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 3030, 10-21-2019]
E.
Vision Clearance. Same as District "R-1".
F.
Width of Lot. Same as District "R-1".
G.
Lot Area (permitted and conditional use). Every building or portion of building hereafter erected or structurally altered for residence purposes in District "R-3" shall provide a minimum lot area of six thousand (6,000) square feet, and not less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet per family; provided, that, where a lot has less area than herein required in single ownership, but not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet as of January 9, 1961, this regulation shall not prohibit the erection of a one-family dwelling. Where a public or community sewer is not available and in use for the disposal of sanitary sewage, each lot shall provide not less than fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet per family. In addition to meeting the other requirements in this Section, the lot area for each lot where a conditional use permit is applied or shall otherwise be appropriate for the conditional uses to be made of the property, as judged by the governmental body making the final decision on the application, the Planning and Zoning Commission or the Board of Adjustment.
[Ord. No. 3046, 3-16-2020]
H.
Floor Area. Every single or two-family dwelling hereafter erected, constructed, reconstructed or altered in District "R-3" shall have a floor area as required in District "R-2". In addition to meeting the other requirements in this Section, the floor area for each lot where a conditional use permit is applied for shall otherwise be appropriate for the conditional uses to be made of the property, as judged by the governmental body making the final decision on the application, the Planning and Zoning Commission or the Board of Adjustment.
I.
Signs. Buildings or structures on a lot where commercial uses are permitted in District "R-3" may have one or more identification signs not to exceed twelve (12) square feet each and not to exceed a total cumulative square footage of twenty five (25) square feet for all such signs on said buildings or structures on said lot. Advertising signs shall not be permitted. All said identification signs shall be non-illuminated and shall be flush-mounted against the side of the buildings or structures.