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Galena Park City Zoning Code

ARTICLE 12

1000. - DISTRICT "F"

[Sec. 12.1001. - District "F" regulations.]

In District "F" - Business District, as shown on said zoning map, the following shall apply:

(a)

Use regulations. No building or land shall be used, and no building shall be hereafter erected, moved or altered except for one or more of the following uses:

(1)

Uses as permitted in District E.

(2)

Retail stores; restaurants; theater; bank; lumber yard; retail community center; offices; hotels; cleaning and pressing plants; laundries; filling station; garages; hospitals; mortuary; private clubs; plumbing shops; tin shops; studios and parking lots; and any other uses not included in the above classes, but similar in nature, provided such use shall not be noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, vibration, smoke, gas or noise or other offensives which would constitute a nuisance.

(b)

Height and area regulations. Applicable to residential structures only:

(1)

Height. Not to exceed 35 feet or 2½ stories.

(2)

Building area.

(A)

No building used as a single-family dwelling shall contain less than 520 square feet of floor area.

(B)

No building used as a two-family dwelling shall contain less than 1,000 square feet of floor area.

(3)

Lot size. Not less than 47 front feet or size of lot as platted, whichever is less.

(4)

Front yard. Twenty feet set back, provided that 25 percent of the block frontage is improved with buildings, but in no case less than 15 feet set back.

(5)

Side street yard. Ten feet set back, except concrete driveways.

(6)

Side yard. Five feet to side of main building.

(7)

Rear yard. Five feet from main building to rear of lot.

(Cod 1975, § 12-10; Code 1996, art. 12.1000; Ord. No. 99-05, 7-20-1999)