The R-I-A Residential District is established to provide areas of primarily low density single-family residential development along with other uses that are compatible with a residential environment such as recreational, educational, and religious facilities. This district is intended to implement the city comprehensive plan's suburban, medium-density residential future land use category with a density not to exceed two dwelling units per acre.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-1-1)

Permitted and special uses shall be as provided in table 9-5-1, permitted and special uses for residential zoning districts.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-1-2)

Dimensional requirements shall be as provided in table 9-5-2, dimensional requirements for residential zoning districts.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-1-3)

The R-I Residential District is established to provide areas of primarily low- to moderate-density, single-family residential development along with other uses that are compatible with a residential environment such as recreational, educational, and religious facilities. This district is intended to implement the city comprehensive plan's suburban, medium-density residential future land use category with a density not to exceed two dwelling units per acre). This district is also intended to provide for new, high-quality infill residential development that maintains community character, and ensures stable, long-term property values and neighborhoods, at higher densities than the base density of the zoning district, subject to compatibility standards and/or pursuant to a specific neighborhood plan.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-2-1)

Permitted and special uses shall be as provided in table 9-5-1, permitted and special uses for residential zoning districts.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-2-2)

Dimensional requirements shall be as provided in table 9-5-2, dimensional requirements for residential zoning districts.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-2-3)

The N-C Neighborhood Conservation District is established to allow the transition of older residential areas to primarily low- to moderate-density, single-family residential development, along with other uses that are compatible with a residential environment such as recreational, educational and religious facilities. This district is intended to implement the city comprehensive plan's suburban, medium-density residential future land use category with density not to exceed two dwelling units per acre. This district is also intended to provide for new, high-quality infill residential development that maintains community character, and ensures stable, long-term property values and neighborhoods, at higher densities than the base density of the zoning district, subject to compatibility standards and/or pursuant to a specific neighborhood plan.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-3-1)

Permitted and special uses shall be as provided in table 9-5-1, permitted and special uses for residential zoning districts.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-3-2)

Dimensional requirements shall be as provided in table 9-5-2, dimensional requirements for residential zoning districts.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-3-3)

The R-II Residential District is established to provide for single-family, two-family and multifamily residential development, along with other uses that are compatible with a residential environment such as recreational, educational and religious facilities. This district is intended to implement the following categories of the city's future land use map: urban residential low, including areas containing or planned for urban residential development at a density range of four to five dwelling units per acre; urban residential medium, including areas containing or planned for urban residential development at a density range of five to ten dwelling units per acre; and urban, high-density residential, including areas containing or planned for urban residential development at a density range of ten to 12 dwelling units per acre.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-4-1)

Permitted and special uses shall be as provided in table 9-5-1, permitted and special uses for residential zoning districts.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-4-2)

Dimensional requirements shall be as provided in table 9-5-2, dimensional requirements for residential zoning districts.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-4-3)

(a)

The basic character of this district is one which encourages and ensures a compatible mixture of residential, office and specialty retail types of land uses. This district is identified as one in which the physical character and design of existing and proposed new structures play an important role in ensuring the compatibility of the various uses. The provisions of this district are set forth with a goal of allowing greater flexibility of use for older existing structures and encouraging their continued viability by permitting new structures whose design is compatible within the district. Special procedures for the review of building design and uses are recognized as essential for the establishment and maintenance of the character of this district.

(b)

Dimensional requirements for R-O zoning districts are configured on the basis of the platted lot, and such requirements are intended to allow for mixed-use buildings and nonresidential development at scales compatible with residential neighborhoods.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-5-1)

Permitted and special uses shall be as provided in table 9-5-1, permitted and special uses for residential zoning districts. Business service establishments and Personal service establishments are special uses in this zoning district.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-5-2; Ord. No. 2009-47, § II, 12-15-2009)

Dimensional requirements shall be as provided in table 9-5-2, dimensional requirements for residential zoning districts.

Table 9-5-1. Permitted and Special Uses for Residential Zoning Districts

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Use	Definition		Specific Regulations	R-I-A	R-I	N-C	R-II	R-O
Agricultural Uses
Agriculture	Agriculture: Farming, including plowing, tilling, cropping, utilization of best management practices, seeding, cultivating or harvesting for the production of food and fiber products (except commercial logging and timber harvesting operations); aquaculture; sod production; orchards; Christmas tree plantations; nurseries; and the cultivation of products as part of a recognized commercial enterprise. The term "agriculture" specifically includes "horticulture," (i.e., orchards), or the growing of fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers or ornamental plants. The term "agriculture" also includes plant nurseries and greenhouses, where lands or structures are used primarily to cultivate trees, shrubs, flowers or other plants.		•	X	X	X	X
Animal quarters for horses only, with an allowable intensity of one horse per two acres (principal use)	Animal quarters: Any building or structure which surrounds or is used to raise, breed (husbandry), house, shelter, care for, feed, exercise, train, exhibit, display, or show any animals or livestock other than domestic pets. This is not intended to apply to nonstructural, fenced land for grazing. This includes the term "barn" when used to shelter livestock or other animals.		Section 9-10-3-8	•	X	X	X	X
Forestry	Forestry: An operation involved in the growing, conserving, and managing of forests and forest lands. Forestry operations or practices include the raising and harvesting of timber, pulp woods and other forestry products for commercial purposes, the construction of roads, insect and disease control, fire protection, and may include the temporary operation of a sawmill and/or chipper to process the timber cut from the parcel or parcels. The term "forestry" does not include the cutting of timber associated with approved land development.		•	X	X	X	X
Riding academy or equestrian center	Riding academy or equestrian center: An establishment where horses are kept for riding or are kept for competition or educational purposes incidental to a club, association, ranch, educational institution or similar establishment but which does not involve commercial sales and is not open to the general public for a fee.		O	X	X	X	X
Residential Uses
Dwelling, single-family, detached, fee-simple		Dwelling, single-family, detached, fee-simple: A site-built residential building, or a single-family residential industrialized building designed for occupancy by one family only, where each dwelling is located on its own lot. The term "dwelling, single-family, detached, fee-simple," does not include manufactured homes or mobile homes.	Section 9-10-2-6	•	•	•	•	•
Dwelling, single-family, detached, condominium		Dwelling, single-family, detached, condominium: A site-built residential building, or residential industrialized building designed for occupancy by one family only, where more than one dwelling is located on a single lot and the land is owned in common. The term "dwelling, single-family, detached, condominium," does not include manufactured homes or mobile homes.	Section 9-10-2-3	X	X	X	•	•
Dwelling, single-family attached (townhouse)		Dwelling, single-family attached, fee-simple (townhouse): One of a group of three or more single-family, attached dwelling units under fee-simple ownership. Attached single-family dwellings that are not under fee-simple ownership are considered row houses (multifamily dwellings).	Section 9-10-2-5	X	X	X	•	•
Dwelling, two-family (duplex)		Dwelling, two-family (duplex): A building designed or arranged to be occupied by two families living independently of each other. The building contains two dwelling units either on one lot, or, each dwelling is located on its own lot in fee-simple title and the two dwelling units are attached along a common property line.	Section 9-10-2-6	X	X	X	•	•
Dwelling, multifamily, including apartments, condominiums, and cooperatives		Dwelling, multifamily, including apartments, condominiums, and cooperatives: A building other than a duplex, designed for or occupied exclusively by three or more families with separate household facilities for each family. The term "dwelling, multiple-family, including apartments, condominiums, and cooperatives" includes attached residential condominiums, row houses (not fee-simple ownership) and apartments.	Section 9-10-2-3	X	X	X	•	•
Industrialized building (home)	Industrialized building home: Any structure or component thereof which is wholly or in substantial part made, fabricated, formed, or assembled in manufacturing facilities for installation or assembly and installation on a building site and has been manufactured in such a manner that all parts or processes cannot be inspected at the installation site without disassembly, damage to, or destruction thereof.			X	X	X	•	•
Infill residential development project		Infill residential development project: A development containing detached, site-built, single-family dwellings or single-family residential industrialized buildings constructed on property in an established residential area containing detached, single-family dwellings on individual lots. This use does not prevent the redevelopment or further subdivision of property within the R-I-A, R-II and R-O zoning districts.	Chapter 9-10-12, section 9-10-2-6	X	•	•	X	X
Model home	Model home: A principal residential building, temporarily open to viewing by prospective homebuyers, on property containing or proposed to contain a residential subdivision, and which may also be used temporarily as real estate sales office for lots in the residential subdivision.		•	•	•	•	•
Relocated residential structure	Relocated residential structure: A detached, site-built, single-family dwelling or single-family residential industrialized building (i.e., excluding a manufactured home or mobile home) that is moved or disassembled into more than one structure and moved to another site, whether temporarily or permanently.		Sections 9-10-2-4, 9-10-2-6	•	•	•	•	•
Recreational Uses
Community recreation facility	Community recreation facility: A private recreational facility for use solely by the residents and guests of a particular residential development and located within the boundaries of such development, which may include any of the following: indoor facilities such as community meeting rooms; and outdoor facilities such as swimming pools, tennis courts, and playgrounds.		Section 9-10-2-1	•	•	•	•	•
Conservation area	Conservation area: Any land set aside for conservation of the land in its natural state.			•	•	•	•	•
Golf course as part of residential subdivision	Golf course as part of residential subdivision: A recreational facility involving the game of golf, designed within or around but on the same development site as a residential subdivision, for members which include, but may not be limited to, residents of the residential subdivision of which it is a part.		O	O	O	O	X
Institutional Uses
Cemetery	Cemetery: The use of property as a burial place.			X	O	O	O	O
Church, temple, synagogue, or place of worship	Church, temple, synagogue, or place of worship: A building or structure, or group of buildings or structures, which, by design and construction, are primarily intended for conducting organized religious services. Associated accessory uses include, but are not limited to, schools, meeting halls, indoor recreational facilities, unlighted outdoor recreational facilities, day care, counseling, and kitchens. The term "church, temple, synagogue, or place of worship" includes synagogues, temples, and other places of worship.		Section 9-10-5-1	•	•	•	•	•
Club or lodge, nonprofit	Club or lodge, nonprofit: A building or premises, used for associations or organizations of an educational, fraternal, or social character, not operated or maintained for profit. Representative organizations include Elks, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Lions and for youth activities such as boys and girls clubs. The term "club or lodge, nonprofit" includes civic, social, fraternal organizations operating on a nonprofit basis. The term "club or lodge, nonprofit" shall not include casinos, nightclubs, bottle clubs, or other establishments operated or maintained for profit.		Section 9-10-5-2	O	O	O	O	O
Continuing care retirement community	Continuing care retirement community: A residential facility providing multiple, comprehensive services to older adults. Such facility normally contains a combination of independent living units, assisted living, and skilled nursing care units.		Section 9-10-5-3	X	X	X	O	O
Crisis center	Crisis center: A facility or portion thereof and premises that are used for the purposes of emergency shelter, crisis intervention, including counseling, referral, hotline response, and similar human social service functions. Said facility may include meal preparation, distribution, or service for residents of the center as well as nonresidents, merchandise distribution, or shelter, including boarding, lodging, or residential care. The term "crisis center" includes domestic violence and centers, homeless shelters, and halfway houses.			X	X	X	O	O
Group home	Group home: A single household of four or more unrelated persons, whether or not they are developmentally disabled, and whether or not they are under the supervision of a resident manager.		Section 9-10-5-5	X	X	X	O	O
Institutionalized residential living and care facilities, serving 18 persons or less	Institutional residential living and care facility, serving 18 persons or less: An umbrella term that encompasses the following uses: assisted living facility, convalescent home, personal care home, intermediate care home, nursing home, and skilled nursing care facility.		Section 9-10-5-4	X	X	X	O	O
Roominghouse	Roominghouse: A single household within which a resident family or manager offers lodging or lodging and meals to two or more unrelated adults in exchange for monetary compensation or other consideration.		Section 9-10-5-5	X	X	X	O	O
School, private: elementary, middle, or high	School, private, elementary, middle, or high: An educational use for students in grades K through 12 or for only certain ranges of grades K through 12, not operated by the city school system or the county board of education, which has a curriculum at least equal to a public school with regard to the branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools of the state.			•	•	•	•	•
School, professional	School, professional: An educational institution with a curriculum and offering instruction in a profession devoted primarily to business, such as, but not limited to, dancing, acting, barbers and beauticians, broadcasting, bartending, and including medical specialties (e.g., therapeutic massage). This is distinguished from a trade school and other types of schools, as defined.			X	X	X	X	•
School, special	School, special: An educational use not operated by the city school system or the county board of education that provides special education to more than two students at a time, including, but not limited to, the training of gifted, learning disabled, and mentally or physically handicapped persons.			O	O	O	O	•
Office and Commercial Uses
Adaptive reuse of a detached, single-family dwelling for an office	Adaptive reuse of a detached, single-family dwelling for an office: The conversion of a detached, single-family dwelling to a new, different use.			X	X	X	X	•
Adaptive reuse of a detached, single-family dwelling for personal service establishment	Adaptive reuse of a detached, single-family dwelling for personal service establishment: The conversion of a detached, single-family dwelling to a new, different use.			X	X	X	X	O
Adaptive reuse of a detached, single-family dwelling for a restaurant without drive-through	Adaptive reuse of a detached, single-family dwelling for a restaurant without drive-through: The conversion of a detached, single-family dwelling to a new, different use.			X	X	X	X	O
Adaptive reuse of a detached, single-family dwelling for an enclosed retail establishment	Adaptive reuse of a detached, single-family dwelling for an enclosed retail establishment: The conversion of a detached, single-family dwelling to a new, different use.			X	X	X	X	O
Bed and breakfast inn	Bed and breakfast inn: A business establishment operated within a dwelling by the owner-occupant, offering temporary lodging and one or more meals to the traveling public while away from their normal places of residence.		Section 9-10-6-2	X	X	X	X	O
Business service establishment, not exceeding 2,500 square feet of gross floor area	Business service establishment, not exceeding 2,500 square feet of gross floor area: The use of a building or premises primarily for rendering a service to other business establishments on a contract or fee basis, such as advertising, credit reporting, computer programming and data processing, photocopying, blueprinting and duplication services, commercial art and graphic design, mailing agencies, employment services, detective, protective, and security system services, accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services, messenger services and couriers, business consulting firms, interior decorating, and locksmiths. This use is distinguished from an "office" use in that business service establishments have frequent visitations by patrons or clients of such business services.			X	X	X	X	O
Clinic	Clinic: An institution or professional office, other than a hospital or nursing home, where persons are counseled, examined, and/or treated by one or more persons providing any form of healing or medical health service. Persons providing these services may offer any combination of counseling, diagnostic, therapeutic or preventative treatment, instruction, or services, and which may include medical, physical, psychological, or mental services and facilities for primarily ambulatory persons. Patients are not lodged overnight and are admitted for examination or treatment requiring only short (e.g., a matter of a few hours) recovery time.			X	X	X	X	O
Custom order shop	Custom order shop: A business establishment that offers merchandise but which maintains no merchandise inventory on site other than display items (which shall not be visible from the exterior of the building).			X	X	X	X	O
Day care center serving 18 persons or less	Day care center serving 18 persons or less: Any place operated by a person, society, agency, corporation, institution or group, and licensed or registered by the state as a group day care home or day care center, wherein are received for pay for group supervision and care, for fewer than 24 hours per day, seven or more children under 18 years of age.		Section 9-10-6-4	X	X	X	O	O
Museum	Museum: A building having public significance by reason of its architecture or former use or occupancy, or a building serving as a repository for a collection of natural, scientific, literary curiosities or objects of interest, or works of art, and arranged, intended, and designed to be viewed by members of the public with or without an admission fee, and which may include as an accessory use the sale of snacks and goods to the public as gifts or for their own use.			X	X	X	X	•
Office	Office: A building or portion thereof wherein services are performed involving predominantly administrative, professional or clerical operations and not involving retail sales or other sales of any kind, or business service establishments on the premises.			X	X	X	X	•
Personal service establishment, 2,500 square feet or less of gross floor area per establishment	Personal service establishment, 2,500 square feet or less of gross floor area per establishment: A facility engaged in the provision of services to persons and their apparel, including, but not limited to, barbershops and beauty shops, coin-operated laundromats, full-service laundries, dry cleaners, photographic studios, massage therapy, shoe repair and shoeshine shops, tattoo parlor and travel agencies.			X	X	X	X	O
Short-term rental	Short-term rental: The occupancy of all or a portion of a residential structure, rented to the public for a fee for the purpose of overnight lodging for a period not more than 15 days. The term "short-term rental" includes Airbnb, Vrbo and the like.			X	X	X	X	•
Special event facility	Special event facility: A facility or assembly hall available for lease by private parties or special events such as weddings.			X	X	X	X	O
Other Uses
Mixed-use building	Mixed-use building: A building designed, planned and constructed as a unit, used partially for residential use and partially for office, personal service, retail, entertainment or public uses. The term "mixed-use building" includes live-work units, which are jointly used for commercial and residential purposes but where the residential use of the space is secondary or accessory to the primary use as a place of work.			X	X	X	X	O
Public use	Public use: Any building, structure, or use owned and/or operated by the federal government, state, county or other county, the city, another municipality, or any authority, agency, board, or commission of the above governments, that is necessary to serve a public purpose, such as, but not limited to, the following: government administrative buildings, post offices, police and fire stations, schools, libraries and publicly operated museums, public health facilities and public hospitals, public works camps, parks and community centers, public roads and streets, airports, water and sanitary sewerage intake, collection, pumping, treatment, and storage facilities, emergency medical facilities, and jails and correctional facilities.			•	•	•	•	•
Utility company substation	Utility company substation: A facility used for the transmission or distribution of services provided by a utility company, such as an electrical transformer station, telephone junction box, cable box, television box, or natural gas regulator station.		Section 9-10-10-4	•	•	•	•	•
Accessory Uses
Accessory use or structure	Accessory use or structure: A use or structure that is permitted on a property in conjunction with a principal use. An accessory use or structure is incidental to the principal use and would not exist independent of the principal use.		Sections 9-10-1-1, 9-10-3-2	•	•	•	•	•
Accessory apartment, detached		Accessory apartment, detached: A second dwelling unit that is added to an existing accessory structure (e.g., residential space above a detached garage), or as a new freestanding accessory building, for use as a complete, independent living facility for a single household, with provision within the accessory apartment for cooking, eating, sanitation and sleeping. Such a dwelling is considered an accessory use to the principal dwelling. The term "accessory apartment, detached," includes the term "garage apartment."	Section 9-10-3-4	X	X	X	•	•
Accessory apartment, attached	Accessory apartment, attached: A second dwelling unit that is added to the structure of an existing site-built single-family dwelling or residential industrialized building, for use as a complete, independent living facility for a single household, with provision within the accessory apartment for cooking, eating, sanitation and sleeping (e.g., "in-law suite"). Such a dwelling is considered an accessory use to the principal dwelling.		Section 9-10-3-4	X	X	X	•	•
Construction field office	Construction field office: A building or structure temporarily located on a site under development and/or construction which houses offices of the construction contractor. The term "construction field office" includes the term "construction trailer."			•	•	•	•	•
Family day care home	Family day care home: A private residence in which a business, registered by the state, is operated by any person who receives therein (for pay) for supervision and care for fewer than 24 hours per day, three to not more than six children under 18 years of age who are not residents in the same private residence. For purposes of this Unified Land Development Code, a family day care home may be operated as a home occupation, subject to the requirements of this article.		Chapter 9-10-4	•	•	•	•	•
Guesthouse	Guesthouse: An accessory use to a dwelling designed and intended for the occasional housing of visitors to a property at the behest of the property residents for no fee or other consideration, not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.		Section 9-10-3-3	•	•	•	•	•
Home occupation	Home occupation: Any use, occupation or activity conducted entirely within a dwelling by the residents thereof, which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residence purposes and does not change the character thereof.		Chapter 9-10-4	•	•	•	•	•
Tower, amateur radio	Tower, amateur radio: A freestanding or building-mounted structure, including any base, tower or pole, antenna, and appurtenances, intended for airway communication purposes by a person holding a valid amateur radio (HAM) license issued by the Federal Communications Commission.			O	O	O	O	O
Yard sale	Yard sale: The temporary sale of home furniture, appliances, clothing and/or domestic items owned by an occupant of a residential dwelling and taking place on the premises on which such occupant resides, whether in the yard or in a carport or garage. Yard sales which do not take place on the premises where such occupant resides are considered open-air businesses, except that this shall not be construed to prevent the sale of such items by another family or household in connection with an event where such items are sold by the occupant of a residence on the premises where the yard sale occurs. The term "yard sale" includes garage sales.		Section 9-10-3-6	•	•	•	•	•

 

Table 9-5-2. Dimensional Requirements For Residential Zoning Districts

NP = Not Permitted

*Lot size may be reduced in this zoning district to 10,000 square feet within infill residential development projects, subject to the requirements of chapter 9-10-12.

**Required zoning buffers may be reduced in width with installation of a structural buffer as provided in chapter 9-16-2.

(ULDC 2005, § 9-5-5-3; Ord. No. 2008-43, § III, 11-18-2008; Ord. No. 2009-47, §§ III, IV, 12-15-2009; Ord. No. 2011-02, § II, 1-18-2011; Ord. No. 2013-10, § I, 6-13-2013; Ord. No. 2022-09, § I, 3-1-2022)