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Katy City Zoning Code

§ 8

“R-3” MULTIPLE-FAMILY DISTRICT.

The “R-3” residential district is designed to provide higher density residential development and provide the religious, recreational and educational uses normally associated with residential areas. The following regulations shall apply to all “R-3” Districts:
8.1 
Uses Permitted.
8.1-1 
Any use permitted in the foregoing “R-1” and “R-2” Districts in accordance with requirements of each respective district.
8.1-2 
Multiple-family dwellings and apartment houses.
8.1-3 
Boarding and lodging houses.
8.1-4 
Hotels and apartment hotels.
8.1-5 
Hospitals, sanitariums or homes for convalescence or aged other than for the insane or feeble-minded or alcoholics.
8.1-6 
Schools (private, elementary, high, college and universities)
8.1-7 
Churches.
8.1-8 
Libraries, museums, art galleries.
8.1-9 
Fire stations, police stations, public administrative offices.
8.1-10 
Private clubs, fraternal orders, or civic organizations, except those whose chief activity is carried on as a business.
8.1-11 
Public recreation buildings, community buildings, little theater groups.
8.1-12 
Golf courses (except miniature golf courses, driving ranges, and other similar activities operated as a business).
8.1-13 
Agriculture, nurseries, and truck gardens limited to the propagation and cultivation of plants; provided no retail or wholesale business shall be conducted upon the premises and provided that no obnoxious fertilizer is stored upon the premises, and no obnoxious soil or fertilizer renovation is conducted thereon.
8.2 
Regulations.
8.2-1 
Height.
Same as “R-1” for single-family structures. Buildings or structures for multiple-family dwellings shall not exceed forty-five (45) feet.
8.2-2 
Floor Area.
Every multiple-family dwelling hereinafter erected, constructed, reconstructed or altered in a District “R-3” shall have a floor area, excluding common corridors, basements, open and screened porches and garages, of not less than eight hundred (800) square feet for each efficiency or one (1) bedroom unit, eleven hundred (1,100) square feet for each two (2) bedroom unit, fourteen hundred (1,400) square feet for each three (3) bedroom unit.
8.2-3 
Dwelling Unit Density.
No more than one (1) dwelling unit per each one thousand eight hundred fifty (1,850) square feet of area to be developed shall be constructed in an “R-3” District.
8.2-4 
Common Open Space.
There shall be a minimum of five hundred (500) square feet of usable common open space per dwelling unit in each development. Common open space must be usable for recreational activities of the residents of the development. Such space shall be assembled in contiguous areas of not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet. Common open space shall not include streets and parking areas.
(Ordinance 621 adopted 3/24/83; Ordinance 664 adopted 3/22/84; Ordinance 2158 adopted 6/11/01)