The regulations set forth in this chapter or set forth elsewhere in this article, when referred to in this chapter, are the district regulations in the R-1 residence district. The permissible uses hereinafter designated in this article are subject to the special use provisions of article XI of this chapter.

(Code 1978, § 5-3-1; Code 1997, § 98-40; Ord. No. 08-06-12, § 1, 6-17-2008)

A building or premises in the R-1 residence district shall be used for the following purposes:

(1)

Single-family dwellings;

(2)

Parks, playgrounds and community buildings owned or operated by public agencies and used solely for recreational purposes;

(3)

Public schools, elementary, high, junior college and college, or private schools having a curriculum the same as ordinarily given in public, elementary, high, junior college or college and having no rooms regularly used for housing or sleeping purposes, except as provided in subsection (6) of this section;

(4)

Public libraries;

(5)

Churches, temples, religious reading rooms, rectories and parish houses, including nursery schools operated in any of such buildings;

(6)

Convents and monasteries;

(7)

Home occupations, subject to the restrictions provided under the definition of home occupations in section 56-370;

(8)

Parking for the uses allowed in the R-1 district;

(9)

Signs, limited to advertising premises for sale or for rent; and

(10)

Accessory buildings, subject to the accessory building regulations of this chapter.

(11)

Educational facility, vocational school.

(Code 1978, § 5-3-2; Code 1997, § 98-41; Ord. No. 22-08-11, § 5, 8-2-2022)

No building in the R-1 district shall exceed 2½ stories nor shall it exceed 35 feet in height except as provided in section 56-368. In no event, however, shall the height for any single-family residence exceed 30 feet in height nor shall those exceptions identified in section 56-368 be construed as a permitted use for the erection of any separate tower or structure not permitted within a single-family residence district. In no event shall a television, radio or receptor type antenna be affixed to the roof of any single-family residence, which antenna exceeds a total of eight feet in height.

(Code 1978, § 5-3-3; Code 1997, § 98-42)

(a)

Front yard. There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 30 feet except for the following:

(1)

Where lots comprising 40 percent or more of the frontage between two streets are developed with buildings, the minimum front yard shall be the average of such existing front yards, but in no case greater than 30 feet except that in a planned subdivision of six or more lots, a staggered setback line exceeding 30 feet may be established providing that any staggered setback line returns to the established setback line at any contiguous subdivision which is not under the same ownership as that where a staggered building line has been used;

(2)

Where lots have a double frontage, the required front yard shall be provided on both streets;

(3)

On a corner lot, there shall be a front yard on each side of such lot, except that the front yard on the side street may be reduced in depth to the extent necessary to permit a buildable width on the lot of 40 feet, provided the depth of the yard shall not be reduced to less than 15 feet.

(b)

Side yard. The following rules apply to side yards:

(1)

There shall be a side yard on each side of the lot of not less than five feet or ten percent of the lot width, whichever is greater.

(2)

There shall be a side yard of not less than ten feet in width, when same is used as a side drive.

(3)

Where side lot easements occur adjacent to a driveway, there shall be not less than ten feet of unobstructed area between the easement line and the extreme projection of the building structure.

(c)

Rear yard. Except as provided in section 56-368, there shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 30 feet or 20 percent of the depth of the lot, whichever amount is smaller. In no event shall an accessory building be permitted within three feet of the rear lot line or within easements.

(Code 1978, § 5-3-4; Code 1997, § 98-43; Ord. No. 02-11-19, § 3, 11-4-2002)

(a)

Every lot or tract of land upon which a residential building is erected shall be at least 50 feet wide at the building setback line for interior lots and 60 feet wide for corner lots and shall be at least 6,250 square feet in area for interior lots and 7,500 square feet in area for corner lots.

(b)

No more than 35 percent of the area of the lot may be covered by a dwelling and its accessory buildings; except a corner lot may be covered by a dwelling and its accessory buildings up to 40 percent of the area of the lot.

(Code 1978, § 5-3-5; Code 1997, § 98-44)

(a)

No two single-family dwellings of identical front elevation, or facade, shall be constructed or located on adjacent lots, nor shall there be constructed or located more than 25 percent of single-family dwellings on the same elevation or facade in any block.

(b)

A change of front elevation or facade shall be deemed to exist when there is a substantial difference in roofline, type and location of windows and kind and arrangement of materials.

(Code 1978, § 5-3-6; Code 1997, § 98-45)

Buildings, premises and uses permitted in this district are subject to the applicable performance standards in section 56-229.

(Code 1978, § 5-3-7; Code 1997, § 98-46)

(a)

Area. The required off-street parking space shall be at least ten feet in width and at least 20 feet in length and shall have a vertical clearance of at least seven feet.

(b)

Location. The required parking space shall be located inside of and within all building lines.

(c)

Construction. Parking space and access drive shall be constructed with a minimum base of four inches of granular material surfaced with five inches of reinforced Portland cement concrete with six bag mix, or with a base of six inches of compacted stone and screenings surfaced with two and one-half inches of hot mix asphalt surface course.

(d)

Number required. See section 56-344 for number of parking spaces required.

(Code 1978, § 5-3-8; Code 1997, § 98-47; Ord. No. 11-07-12, § 1, 7-19-2011)