The R-M Multiple-Family Residential District is intended to provide a proper environment for families who live in low-rise multiple family dwellings. Such families normally are smaller in size than those living in single-family dwellings. The RM District, in addition to being designed to furnish sites for various types of multiple-family dwelling structures, (including townhouses, row houses, and apartments), also generally serves as a zone of transition between non-residential districts and lower density one-family residential districts.

(a)

Schools. Public, parochial and other private elementary, intermediate and/or high schools offering courses in general education, subject to the following condition: No building shall be closer than fifty (50) feet to any property line when said property line abuts or is adjacent to land zoned for residential purposes. Within the Village Overlay District, no building shall be closer than ten (10) feet to any property line when said property line abuts or is adjacent to land zoned for residential purposes.

(b)

Places of worship.

(1)

Buildings of greater than the maximum height allowed in this district may be permitted provided front, side, and rear yards are increased above the minimum required yards by one (1) foot for each foot of building height that exceeds the maximum height allowed.

(c)

Attached wireless communications facilities, collocation of an attached wireless communications facility, and attached wireless communications facilities consisting of a utility pole, all subject to the standards in Article XVI.

(d)

Day care, group home (seven (7) to twelve (12) children) subject to the following conditions:

(1)

The lot upon which the nursery school is located contains at least three hundred (300) square feet of land area per pupil, and is at least fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet in area.

(2)

Play space for children shall have a minimum area of five thousand (5,000) square feet, and shall be fenced and screened from any adjoining residential area with planting.

(3)

No dormitory accommodations shall be provided.

(e)

Colleges, universities, and other such institutions of higher learning, public and private, offering courses in general, technical, or religious education, provided no building other than a structure for residential purposes shall be closer than fifty (50) feet to any property line which abuts or is adjacent to land zoned for residential purposes.

(f)

Storage lots (boats and recreational vehicles).

(1)

Docking space shall be limited to the maximum number of boats allowed by the Department of Environmental Quality marina operating permit, subject to site plan and special land use review and approval by the City Council.

(2)

All boats and personal watercraft must be currently registered in the name of a current owner and/or occupant residing on the property.

(3)

All waterfront structures, appurtenances, and recreational vehicles shall comply with the requirements of Section 15.15, Waterfront yards.

(4)

There shall be no repair or dismantling of boats on the site.

(5)

Boats stored out of water shall not exceed twenty-two (22) feet in length, provided pontoon boats may be allowed up to thirty-five (35) feet in length and twelve (12) feet in height.

(6)

All watercraft shall be stored a minimum distance of ten (10) feet from abutting residential zoned property lines, and be screened from adjacent residential properties and the public right-of-way by a greenbelt or screen fence, seven (7) feet in height. Where possible, watercraft shall be setback from the road at least twenty (20) feet, and shall be stored a minimum of twenty (20) feet from the shoreline.

(g)

General hospitals, except those for criminals and those solely for the treatment of persons who are mentally ill or have contagious diseases, not to exceed a height of three (3) stories or forty (40) feet subject to the following conditions:

(1)

All ingress to and egress from the site shall be directly onto a major thoroughfare, having and existing or planned right-of-way width of at least one hundred twenty (120) feet as indicated on the Major Thoroughfare Plan.

(2)

Ambulance delivery and service areas when visible from adjacent land zoned for residential purposes shall be obscured from view by a wall at least six (6) feet in height.

(3)

The minimum distance between any structure and a property line shall be seventy-five (75) feet.

(h)

Nursing homes.

(1)

All ingress to and egress from the site shall be directly onto a major or secondary thoroughfare, having an existing or planned right-of-way width of at least eighty-six (86) feet as indicated on the Major Thoroughfare Plan.

(2)

The minimum distance between any structure and a property line shall be forty (40) feet.

(i)

Bed and breakfast/tourist homes. See Articles IV and IV(A).

(j)

Wireless communications support structures subject to the requirements specified in Article XV.

(Ord. No. 2023-02, § 1.02(Exh. A), 3-16-2023; Ord. No. 2024-06, pt. 5, 7-17-2024)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2024-06, pt. 5, adopted July 17, 2024, repealed § 5.02, which pertained to principal uses permitted subject to special conditions and derived from Ord. 338, adopted Feb. 19, 1998.

Accessory buildings and uses, including:

(a)

Community garages; tool houses; swimming pools not exceeding sixty (60) feet in length which are part of a multiple-family project.

(b)

Off-street parking.

(c)

Any other uses customarily incidental to the principal uses in Sections 5.01 and 5.02 are permitted.

(d)

Home occupations subject to the provisions of Section 15.29, Home occupations.

(Ord. 377, 11/15/2001)

Notes to Development Standards:

(1)

Minimum land area per dwelling unit for R-M District as follows:

(2)

Properties abutting water shall also comply with Section 15.15, Waterfront land setbacks.

(3)

Front yard setbacks are measured from the edge of the existing and/or planned right-of-way, said planned right-of-way as shown on the officially adopted Master Plan. For sites which are corner lots or have frontage on more than one (1) street, only one (1) front yard setback is required along the principal street.

(4)

Spacing of multiple dwellings shall be controlled by the following schedule:

Parking may be permitted in up to fifty (50) percent of the required yard provided that there shall be at least twenty (20) feet of yard space between said parking area and the multiple family building.

(Ord. No. 2023-02, § 1.02(Exh. A), 3-16-2023)

Where the RM District directly abuts a single-family district, the RM uses constructed therein shall provide a ten-foot wide greenway in those areas where the required screen wall is not required. The greenway shall be constructed in accordance with Section 15.23 of this Ordinance.