(A)   This district is intended primarily for multiple-family residential uses together with certain institutional and other compatible uses under specified conditions.

   (B)   It is the express purpose of these regulations to provide multiple-family dwellings, ranging from moderate to higher density character where adequate public and private services and facilities are available to accommodate higher population concentrations. The following are minimum criteria for R-3 development sites.

      (1)   Sites must have access to a principal arterial, minor arterial or collector street as to avoid adverse traffic impacts in surrounding low-density residential areas.

      (2)   The site must be served by essential public facilities and services, such as water and sewer facilities, drainage structures, refuse disposal, police, fire protection and schools.

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006; Ord. 16-05, passed 5-16-2016)

   The following are the principal uses permitted by right within an R-3 district when they are connected to a public sanitary sewer. Without this service connection, no development of the land shall be permitted:

   (A)   Conservation development, in accordance with standards in § 155.405 through § 155.417;

   (B)   Public parks, public playgrounds, public recreational grounds and grounds for games and sports, except those carried on as a business;

   (C)   Religious institutions;

   (D)   Single-family dwelling when associated with a religious institution;

   (E)   Single-family dwelling structures not to exceed one single-family dwelling per lot;

   (F)   Single-family dwelling structures in the townhome style, not to exceed a density factor of eight units per acre;

   (G)   State licensed residential facilities which provide resident service for six or fewer persons, such as family day care homes, adult foster care family homes, foster family homes, or foster family group homes, subject to the regulations in Section 206(3) of Public Act 110 of 2006, as amended;

   (H)   Customary home occupations;

   (I)   Two-family dwellings.

   (J)   Day nurseries;

   (K)   Housing for religious personnel associated with a religious or educational institution;

   (L)   Institutional uses, including education, social institutions, public buildings and service installations; and

   (M)   Customary accessory uses to any permitted use listed above.

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006; Ord. 16-05, passed 5-16-2016)

   The following uses of land and buildings may be permitted in the R-3 districts by the application for issuance of a special use permit when all the provisional requirements specified in this chapter together with all applicable standards cited in §§ 155.305 through 155.317 are met:

   (A)   Funeral homes and mortuaries;

   (B)   Boarding and rooming houses;

   (C)   Manufactured housing community, in accordance with development standards in § 155.027;

   (D)   Planned residential unit development;

   (E)   Institutions for human care;

   (F)   Wireless communication facilities; and

   (G)   Multiple-family dwellings, in accordance with development standards in § 155.028.

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006; Ord. 09-02, passed 10-20-2009; Ord. 16-05, passed 5-16-2016)

   (A)   Minimum lot size.

      (1)   For single-family dwellings: the lot shall contain a minimum of 11,050 square feet.

      (2)   For two-family dwelling structures: the lot shall contain 11,050 square feet.

      (3)   Multiple-family dwelling lot shall contain 43,560 square feet and shall not exceed a density of eight units per acre.

      (4)   Each lot, unless otherwise cited, shall have a minimum of 75 feet frontage at the street for single-family, 85 feet frontage at the street for two-family and 150 feet frontage at the street for multiple-family.

   (B)   Minimum yard requirements.

      (1)   Each lot shall have a minimum front yard of 30 feet.

      (2)   Each lot shall have a total side yard of 20 feet with a minimum of eight feet on one side.

      (3)   In the case of a corner lot, the side yard on the street side shall not be less than 25 feet and the remaining side yard shall not be less than ten feet.

      (4)   Each lot shall have a minimum rear yard of 30 feet.

   (C)   Minimum floor area per dwelling unit. Each dwelling structure shall have a minimum floor area per dwelling unit in accord with the following schedule:

      (1)   Single-family detached. Each dwelling unit shall have a minimum finished living area of 1,100 square feet of floor area.

      (2)   Single-family attached, including two-family townhouse. Each dwelling unit shall have a minimum finished living area of 1,100 square feet of floor area.

      (3)   Multiple-family dwelling.

 

 

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006; Ord. 09-02, passed 10-20-2009; Ord. 16-05, passed 5-16-2016)