To provide for areas in appropriate locations where neighborhoods of varying degrees of density may be established, maintained, and protected. The regulations of this district are designed to promote and encourage an intensively developed residential environment suitable primarily for adult living. To this end, the regulations permit, in accordance with stated regulations, dwellings ranging from single-family to multiple and necessary public services and activities subject to proper controls.

All permitted and conditional uses in an R-M Zone District, except for single-family and two-family (duplex) dwellings, temporary buildings and temporary offices, and the keeping of farm animals, shall be subject to a site plan review as specified in KCC 18-4. On a case-by-case basis, the Planning Commission may also require temporary buildings and temporary offices to obtain site plan approval.

1.

Single-family dwellings.

2.

Multiple dwellings.

3.

Public parks and playgrounds, and privately-owned parks, playgrounds, and recreational grounds not operated as a business in whole or part and to which no admission is charged.

4.

Minor home occupations subject to the provisions of KCC 17-26.

5.

Major Home Occupation 'C' subject to the provisions of KCC 17-26.

6.

Private swimming pools subject to the provisions of KCC 17-31-9.

7.

Accessory uses and accessory buildings customarily appurtenant to a permitted use subject to the provisions of KCC 17-31-2.

8.

Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work subject to the provisions of KCC 17-30-7, which buildings must be removed upon the completion or abandonment of the construction, subject to administrative review.

9.

Temporary tract offices and development signs subject to the provisions of KCC 17-30-7 and KCC 17-33, subject to administrative review.

(Ord. 19-07-01, 7/2/2019; Ord. 22-07-02, 7/21/2022; Ord. 23-01-01, 1/5/2023)

Compliance with standards shall be determined by the Planning Commission by reference to KCC 17-30.

1.

Public or quasi-public buildings of the educational, recreational, religious, cultural, or public service type; not including storage or repair yards, warehouses, and similar uses.

2.

Major home occupations A and B subject to the provisions of KCC 17-26.

3.

Residential child care subject to the provisions of KCC 17-26.

4.

Twin homes subject to the provisions of KCC 17-28.

5.

Public utility substations subject to the provisions of KCC 17-31-15.

6.

Farm animals subject to the provisions of KCC 17-24.

7.

Business, professional, and government offices.

8.

Swimming clubs subject to the provisions of KCC 17-3-10.

9.

Farm stands, subject to the provisions of KCC 17-31-5.

(Ord. 22-07-02, 7/21/2022; Ord. 25-03-02, § 10, 3/6/2025)

1.

No building shall exceed thirty feet (30') in height, except as provided in KCC 17-25-2.

2.

No accessory building shall exceed fifteen feet (15') in height, except as provided in KCC 17-25-2 and KCC 17-31-2.

3.

No main building shall be less than ten feet (10') in height, and no accessory building less than six feet (6') in height.

1.

Multiple dwellings shall provide usable functional open space, excluding planting strips, for outdoor leisure of at least: Eight hundred (800) square feet per unit per one- and two-family dwellings; six hundred (600) square feet per unit per three- and four-family dwellings, and four hundred (400) square feet per unit per each additional dwelling unit.

2.

Multiple dwellings shall provide enclosed outside storage space of at least twenty (20) square feet for each dwelling unit.

The following minimum requirements shall be observed, except where increased for conditional uses.

1.

The lot area shall be not less than eight thousand (8,000) square feet for a one or two-family dwelling, ten thousand (10,000) square feet for a three-family dwelling, twelve thousand (12,000) square feet for a four-family dwelling, fourteen thousand (14,000) square feet for a five-family dwelling, sixteen thousand eight hundred (16,800) square feet for a six-family dwelling, and not less than two thousand eight hundred (2,800) square feet per dwelling unit.

2.

The minimum width of any lot for a main building shall be seventy feet (70') at a distance thirty feet (30') back from the front lot line.

3.

The front yard for any building shall be at least twenty-five feet (25').

4.

The side yard for any dwelling shall be not less than eight feet (8') and the total width of the two (2) required side yards shall be not less than sixteen feet (16'). For each additional dwelling unit above two (2) units in a building, each side yard shall be increased by two (2) additional feet.

5.

Other main buildings shall have a side yard of not less than twenty feet (20') and the total width of the two (2) required side yards shall be not less than forty feet (40').

6.

On corner and multiple frontage lots, the yards which abut a street shall be not less than twenty feet (20') for both main and accessory buildings.

7.

The minimum rear yard for any main building shall be fifteen feet (15'). *See exception: 17-31-2.

(Ord. 20-09-02, 9/17/2020)