Footville Village City Zoning Code
§ 370-4
R First Single-Family Residence District.
[Added 5-3-1990 by Ord. No. 5-3-1990; amended 7-3-1997 by Ord. No. 7-4-97; 4-5-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-101]
A.
Purpose. The R District is intended to provide a quiet, pleasant and relatively spacious living area protected from traffic hazards and intrusion of incompatible land uses.
B.
Permitted uses. The following uses of land are permitted in the R District:
(1)
Single-family dwellings and attached garages.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
(2)
Churches and all affiliated uses, all graded schools, libraries and hospitals, water storage facilities and related structures.
(3)
Municipal buildings, except the following: sewage plants, garbage incinerators, warehouses, garages, shops, and storage yards.
(4)
Public parks, playgrounds, recreational and community center buildings and grounds.
(5)
Telephone buildings, exchanges and lines and transformer stations, excepting service garages and storage yards, and excepting microwave radio relay structures unless their location is approved by the Plan Commission.
(6)
Unlighted signs and bulletin boards of up to four square feet for advertisement for a lease or sale of the premises, and eight square feet for public or religious announcements; provided that all such signs must be located directly on the premises involved and at least 15 feet from the nearest sidewalk or street.
(7)
One attached private garage is required. Refer to Garage Ordinance.[1]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
[1]
Editor's Note: See § 370-2I.
(8)
Accessory buildings. Refer to Garage Ordinance.[2]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
[2]
Editor's Note: See § 370-2I.
(9)
Uses customarily incident to any of the above uses; provided that no such use generates traffic or noise that would create a public or private nuisance.
C.
Conditional uses. The following are conditional uses within the R District:
(1)
Home occupations.
(2)
Licensed nursery schools, licensed day-care centers and licensed preschools.
(3)
Parks and playgrounds.
(4)
Uses clearly similar in character or customarily incident to any of the above uses.
D.
Area, height, yard and other requirements.
(1)
Lot.
(a)
Area: minimum 8,500 square feet per family.
(b)
Width: minimum 70 feet measured at rear of front yard. (Minimum 50 feet for a lot fronting on a cul-de-sac.)
(2)
Height of buildings and other structures: maximum 35 feet.
(3)
Yards.
(a)
Minimum front yard setback: 25 feet.
(b)
Minimum rear yard setback: 25 feet.
(c)
Minimum side yard setback, principal building: eight feet minimum, total 20 feet. Accessory buildings, 192 square feet or less: three feet on each side.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
(4)
Area.
(a)
Minimum living floor area per family: 1,200 square feet, excluding garage.
(b)
Minimum area of required attached garage: 576 square feet (either dimension of which shall not be less than 22 feet).
(5)
Parking.
(a)
Parking, off-street residential: 1.5 space per family.
(b)
Parking, places of public gathering: one space per five seats.