Flanagan City Zoning Code
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL
DISTRICTS
§ 152.050 PURPOSE.
The Residential District set forth herein is established in order to protect the public health and promote public safety, convenience, comfort, morals, prosperity, and welfare.
(Ord. passed 7-6-1976)
§ 152.051 PERMITTED USES.
(A) Buildings and premises shall be used only for the following and other similar purposes:
(1) Churches;
(2) Dwellings, single-family;
(3) Growing crops;
(4) Land filling with non-odorous and non-combustible materials;
(5) Libraries and museums;
(6) Professional and home occupations engaged in by the occupants of a dwelling but not involving the conduct of a retail business and providing that no more than one sign with a maximum area of two square feet is displayed, setting forth such occupation;
(7) Signs, not more than six feet in area and pertaining only to the sale or lease of a building lot or premises, and church bulletins, not exceeding ten square feet in area; and
(8) Utility easements, but excluding power plants or substations.
(B) An accessory building being a subordinate building or use which is located on the same lot on which the dwelling is situated and which is reasonably necessary and incidental to the use of the dwelling.
(C) (1) A MOBILE HOME is defined as a dwelling unit, factory-built and assembled, designed for conveyance after fabrication on streets and highways on its own wheels or on a flatbed or other trailer, and delivered to the site where it is to be occupied as a dwelling unit complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembling operations. A prefabricated home similar to the customary structure of homes wholly or nearly wholly erected upon a lot shall not be included in this definition.
(2) MOBILE HOMES as defined herein are prohibited within the corporate limits of the Village of Flanagan.
(Ord. passed 7-6-1976; Ord. 24-07, passed 4-16-2024)
§ 152.052 LOT SIZE.
Every lot or tract of land upon which a single-family dwelling is to be constructed shall have an area of not less than 5,000 square feet and a minimum frontage of 50 feet, but elsewhere a small lot officially on record at the time of the passage of this chapter may be occupied by a single-family dwelling.
(Ord. passed 7-6-1976)
§ 152.053 DWELLING SIZE.
One story dwelling shall be constructed with not less than 750 square feet of living area. Dwellings with two or more stories shall be constructed with not less than 1,750 square feet of living space area.
(Ord. passed 7-6-1976)
§ 152.054 YARD AREAS.
No building shall be erected or enlarged unless the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with such building structure or enlargement.
(A) Front yard. Each lot upon which a dwelling is constructed shall have a front yard of not less than 30 feet. Where lots comprising 40% of the frontage between two intersecting streets are developed with buildings having front yards with a variation of more than 15 feet in depth, the average of such front yards shall establish the minimum front yard depth for the entire frontage. In no case shall a front yard of more than 50 feet be required.
(B) Side yard. On each lot upon which a dwelling is constructed, there shall be a side yard on each side of not less than five feet. The combined total of the side yards for interior lots shall not be less than 12 feet and the combined total of side yards for corner lots shall not be less than 15 feet. On corner lots, there shall be maintained a side yard of not less than ten feet on the side adjacent to the street which intersects the street upon which the building or structure maintains frontage and, in the case of a reversed corner lot, there shall be maintained a setback from the side street of not less than 50% of the front yard required on lots in the rear of such corner lots, but such setback need not exceed 15 feet. No accessory building on said reversed corner lots shall project beyond the front yard required on the adjacent lot to the rear, nor be located nearer than five feet to the side lot line of said adjacent lot.
(C) Rear yard. Every lot or parcel of land upon which a building is constructed shall have a rear yard of not less than 30 feet.
(Ord. passed 7-6-1976)