Itasca City Zoning Code
§ 7.06
R-3 GENERAL RESIDENCE DISTRICT.
1. Purpose: The R-3 General Residence District is established to provide for a wider variety of dwelling accommodations with a higher density of dwelling units; to provide for multiple-family dwellings with open space for family living; and to provide for a transition between non-residential areas and single-family areas of lower density.
2. Permitted Uses: The following uses are permitted:
a. Any of the uses permitted in the R-1 and R-2 Single-Family Residence Districts.
b. Two-family dwellings.
c. Semi-detached dwellings. (Two-family).
d. Multiple-family dwellings with not more than six (6) dwelling units per building.
e. Single-family attached (row dwellings or townhomes), single-family row dwellings (party-wall) with not more than five (5) dwellings in a row or a building, or not more than six (6) dwellings in a building if in combination with two-family dwellings or multi-family dwellings.
f. Libraries, public.
g. Signs (allowable). (See Section 13.00).
h. Accessory uses as permitted and regulated in R-1 Family Residence District.
3. Special Uses: The following uses may be allowed by Special Use Permit in accordance with the provision of Administrative Section 14.00.
a. The Special Uses allowed in R-1 and R-2 Single-Family Resident Districts, except libraries.
b. Hospitals and clinics.
c. Institutions for older adults and children.
d. Municipality-operated health centers.
e. Multiple Family Dwellings with more than six (6) dwelling units in a building, or single family attached with more than five (5) dwellings in a row or building.
f. Off-street parking areas, provided there is a need for this facility in the interest of public necessity and convenience and that no appropriate site is available in nearby business or manufacturing district.
g. Planned developments under single ownership or control may include incidental business or recreational facilities for the convenience of the occupants. For such developments, the Village Board may vary the regulations herein, provided such variations are consistent with the general purpose and intent of the Ordinance and will result in better site planning and thus, be of greater benefit to both the occupants of the development and to the community.
h. Private clubs, or lodges, except those the chief activity of which is a service normally carried on as a business.
i. Sanitariums and nursing homes, but not for the care of people with intellectual disabilities or mental health issues.
j. Schools, non-boarding, elementary, junior high, and high.
k. Schools, nursery schools, day nurseries, and child care centers.
l. Schools, public, denominational, or private, elementary and high, including playgrounds and athletic fields auxiliary thereto.
m. Swimming pools, public.
n. Undertaking establishments, funeral parlors.
o. Public utility and/or service uses.
(1) Essential services including fully automated gas stations and telephone exchanges. Private or public utility substations or transmission corridors with a capacity of not greater than thirty-four (34) kilovolts.
(2) Railroad passenger stations when not located on railroad property.
(3) Sewage treatment plants.
(4) Waterworks, reservoirs, pumping stations, filtration plants and wells.
(5) Telephone exchanges, microwave relay towers, and telephone transmission equipment buildings.
(6) Water filtration plants, pumping stations, reservoirs, and sewage treatment plants - public.
(7) Other public or private utility service uses.
(8) Electric vehicle charging stations.
p. Accessory uses to the above allowable Special Uses, including, but not limited to, off-street parking and off-street loading.
4. Off-Street Parking and Loading: Off-street parking and loading facilities shall be provided as required or permitted in Section 12.00.
5. Minimum Lot Size:
a. There shall be provided a lot area for each single-family detached dwelling of not less than eight thousand one hundred (8,100) square feet; for each two-family semi-detached dwelling, or attached dwelling, the following minimum lot areas shall be provided:
Type of Single-Family Dwelling | Minimum Lot Area per Dwelling in Square Feet | |
Semi-Detached or 2 Family | Attached | |
4 bedroom | 5,000 | 3,500 |
3 bedroom | 4,500 | 3,100 |
2 & 1 bedroom | 4,000 | 2,700 |
b. There shall be provided a lot area for each single-family detached dwelling of not less than eight thousand one hundred (8,100) square feet; for each two-family semi-detached dwelling, or attached dwelling, the following minimum lot areas shall be provided:
Type of Single-Family Dwelling | Minimum Lot Area per Dwelling in Square Feet |
4 bedroom | 4,060 |
3 bedroom | 3,930 |
2 bedroom | 3,630 |
1 bedroom & efficiency | 3,630 |
c. The dwelling unit density in the R-3 General Residence District shall not be greater than twelve (12) dwelling units per gross acre. Existing residential buildings in the R-3 District may be altered to provide for not more than four (4) dwelling units, providing that no existing residential building is altered in such a way as to conflict with or further conflict with the foregoing requirements.
6. Yard Requirements: 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: A front yard of not less thank twenty-five (25) feet in depth, except for single-family attached, detached, semi-detached, or two (2) family dwellings a front yard of not less than thirty (30) feet shall be required.
b. Side Yards: There shall be provided two (2) side yards having a combined width of sixteen (16) feet and neither side yard shall be less than six (6) feet in width, except on a corner lot, a side yard adjoining a street shall be not less than twenty-five (25) feet wide. However, if a corner lot, subdivided and duly recorded prior to the effective date of this Ordinance, has insufficient width to provide such yard of twenty-five (25) feet width and still maintain a buildable width of twenty-seven (27) feet, provided such side yard adjoining the street is not reduced to less than thirty percent (30%) of the width of the lot.
c. Rear Yard: A rear yard of not less than thirty (30) feet in depth.
d. Coinciding Lot Line: When a front, corner, side and/or rear lot line coincides with a front, corner, side, and/or rear lot line in an adjacent single-family residence district, the required size of the front, corner, side, and/or rear yard provided along such lot line shall be equal to the more restrictive yard requirement under this Ordinance for the applicable Residence District.
7. Yards, General: For permitted uses and special uses, each front, side, and rear yard as heretofore required shall be increased in depth or width by two (2) feet for each additional one (1) foot or building height over thirty (30) feet.
8. Floor Area Ratio: Non-residential Permitted and Special Uses shall not exceed zero point six (0.6).
9. Building Height: Residential: No building shall exceed a height of thirty (30) feet or two in one half (2-1/2) stories, whichever is lower except as follows: a building not to exceed thirty-four (34) feet, or three (3) stories in height may be permitted when recommended by the Plan Commission (See Section 4.04.5.) and approved by the Village Board and only in cases where the building is compatible with adjacent buildings. (See Definitions, Section 3.02
).
10. Maximum Lot Coverage: Not more than sixty-seven percent (67%) of the lot area may be occupied by buildings and structures including accessory buildings or covered by walks, driveways, or patios. The balance of the remaining portion of the zoning lot shall be suitably landscaped.
(Ord. 963-97, passed 4-8-97; Am. Ord. 1932-20, passed 1-21-20; Am. Ord. 2170-26, passed 3-16-26)