A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:

Single-family dwellings. Residential use of temporary structures and mobile homes is prohibited, except as provided in sections 30-176 and 30-177 of this chapter.

Public parks, public libraries, public elementary and high schools and public buildings.

Private schools with a curriculum similar to public elementary and secondary schools.

Churches.

Golf courses, but not miniature courses or driving tees, such telephone facilities as are provided for in the Acts of the Fortieth Legislature, 1927, Chapter 283, Section 8a.

Editor's note— The act cited above has been repealed. The present Public Utility Regulatory Act is found in Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. Art. 1446c.

Fire station, police station, artesian well, pumping station, lake, boat docks, boathouse, water supply reservoir, filter bed, water tank, tower or standpipe.

Railroad right-of-way, railroad tracks, bridges, water tanks, signals and other railroad appurtenances, but not including railroad yards, classification tracks, storage tracks, passenger station, freight stations, coaling facilities, fuel oil tanks or roundhouses.

Electrical facilities and electrical energy facilities, transformers, relay and substations, poles, wires and electrical transmission and/or distribution lines and distributions appurtenances, but not including office buildings or storage facilities.

Transitional uses as may be permitted by the board of adjustment.

Two-family dwellings provided that not less than one-third of the block frontage of that side of the block in which the two-family dwelling is proposed or of the block frontage directly opposite thereto is, at the time of request for a building permit, comprised of lots used for two-family, multiple-family, commercial and/or industrial purposes.

Two-family dwellings by special permit as provided in Article XII of this chapter.

Home occupations.

(Code 1962, § 11-3-1)

No building shall exceed thirty-five (35) feet or two and one-half (2½) stories in height.

(Code 1962, § 11-3-2)

(a)

Size of yards.

(1)

Front yard. There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than twenty-five (25) feet. Where lots have double frontage, running through from one street to another, the required front yard shall be provided on both streets. No parking shall be allowed within the required front yard.

(2)

Side yard and rear yard. No structure shall be closer to a side or rear lot line than seven (7) feet or a distance equal to forty (40) per cent of the height of the structure, whichever distance shall be the greater. A detached accessory building may be located within three (3) feet of the rear lot line, provided that the rear lot line is also a right-of-way line for a public alley or a public or utility easement which easement shall have a width of not less than ten (10) feet.

(3)

Lot coverage. No more than forty (40) per cent of the total area of a lot shall be covered by structures. Structures include all buildings, principal and accessory, sheds and shelters.

(b)

Size of lot.

(1)

Lot area, lot width and lot depth. No lot shall be used for residential purposes and no building for residential use shall be constructed or moved upon any lot having an area of less than five thousand five hundred (5,500) square feet, having a width of less than fifty (50) feet measured at a distance of twenty-five (25) feet behind the front lot line, or having an average depth of less than one hundred (100) feet.

(2)

Where a lot having less area, width and/or depth than herein required existed in separate ownership upon the effective date of this chapter, the above regulations shall not prohibit the erection of one single-family dwelling thereon.

(c)

When a subdivision is submitted and approved pursuant to Chapter 26 of the City Code of Del Rio, Texas, then that approval shall constitute compliance with the appropriate area regulations of the zoning ordinance.

(Code 1962, § 11-3-3; Ord. No. 80-20, 8-12-80)

Off-street parking space shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in section 30-226.

(Code 1962, § 11-3-4)