Georgetown City Zoning Code

The following regulations shall apply in all R-2 districts:

1. USE REGULATIONS

In residential district R-2 no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected which is arranged, intended, or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses:

A. All uses permitted in R-1 districts.

B. Multiple dwellings

C. Boarding and lodging houses.

D. Hotels and funeral parlors, but only on lots which are contiguous to the boundary of a C district.

E. Private clubs, fraternities and lodges; excepting those selling or furnishing the members beer, wine or intoxicating liquors, and also excepting those the chief activity of which is a service customarily carried on as a business.

F. In a hotel designed, constructed or used for fifty or more guest rooms, there may be conducted a business incidental thereto for the convenience of the occupants and guests thereof; provided that there shall be no entrance to such business except from the inside of the building in which the same is coated, and that the floor area used for business purposes shall not exceed twenty-five (25) percent of the ground area of such building, and sued for any such business and that no sign shall be exhibited on the outside of any such building in connection with such business.

G. Accessory buildings and accessory uses.

H. Hospitals, rest homes, sanitariums, clinics, etc. Except those for inebriates, the insane and those suffering from mental diseases; provided, however, that no such use shall be established on a parcel of land of less than one-half (½) acre in area, and provided, further, that no part of any such use shall be conducted at a distance of less than fifty (50) feet from any interior lot line.

I. AGRICULTURE: as defined under definitions of this ordinance.

2. AREA REGULATIONS

The minimum lot area shall be not less than eight thousand (8000) square feet for each one-family dwelling, with one thousand (1000) square feet additional for each additional dwelling unit in a building having more than one dwelling unit.

3. FRONT YARD REQUIRED

Each lot shall have a front yard not less than fifteen (15) feet in depth and no farm buildings or corral shall be permitted closer than fifteen (15) feet to the front property line. Corrals shall be screened with a board fence six (6) feet high or suitable shrubs.

4. YARD AND HEIGHT REGULATIONS

Same as for R-1 except side yard of corner lots which shall be not less than fifteen (15) feet.

5. REQUIRED COURT DIMENSIONS

A. Outer Courts:

1. Each outer court on which windows open from any room other than a kitchen, a bathroom or a closet shall have a width equal to not less than the height of the building above the floor level of the story containing such room, but no such court shall have a width of less than twenty (20) feet; and each court shall have a depth of not more than one and one-half (1 ½) times its actual width; provided, however, that any such outer court with depth of not more than six (6) feet need not have a width exceeding twenty (20) feet.

2. Any other outer court shall have a width equal to not less than one-third (1/3) the height of the building above the floor level of the lowest story served by such court, but no such court shall have a width of less than ten (10) feet; and each such court shall have depth not greater than twice its actual width; provided, however, that any such outer court with a depth of not more than six (6) feet need not have a width exceeding ten (10) feet.

3. Inner Courts:

An inner court shall not have any horizontal dimension, measured at right, angles to any wall in which are located windows which open from any room other than a kitchen, a bathroom or a closet, which is less than the height of the building above the floor level of the story containing such room. No other dimension of such court shall be less than one-third (1/3) the height of the building above the floor level of the lowest story served by such court. The horizontal area of any inner court shall be not less than twice the square of its width.