One-family dwellings.

Two-family dwellings.

Farms, nurseries or truck gardens, limited to the propagation and cultivation of plants, provided no retail or wholesale business is conducted on the property.

Churches and other places of worship.

Real estate sales offices during the development of residential subdivisions not to exceed two (2) years. Display residential houses with sales offices, provided that if said display houses are not moved within a period of one year, specific permission must be obtained from the city council for said display houses to remain on their locations.

Accessory buildings and uses, customarily incident to the above uses and located on the same lot therewith, not involving the conduct of a retail business with such accessory building and use being as defined herein.

Off-street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in Section 12.

Any use permitted in District R.

Apartment, Row, Townhouse or Condominium Dwellings and/or rental offices or accessory buildings used in conjunction therewith.

Off street parking shall be required and one (1) space shall be provided for each one bedroom apartment, row, townhouse or condominium; two (2) spaces for each unit with two bedrooms; two and one-half (2-1/2) spaces for each three bedroom apartment, plus an additional two (2) parking spaces for each three (3) units. Front yard may be used for off street parking, provided such parking otherwise complies with the provisions hereof and as may otherwise be embodied in the Code of Ordinances, City of La Grange, Texas, applicable to such parking. Irrespective of existing requirements, no front yard parking shall be allowed within fifteen (15) feet of the intersection of public streets as measured from the property line.

The parking area shall be landscaped and permanently maintained. This shall be in addition to required landscaping.

Any lighting of drives or parking areas shall be so designated as not to cause any glare on any other residential, multi-family, apartment, row, townhouse or condominium zoned area in the vicinity.

Any use permitted in District R.

Day care, boarding, lodging, bed and breakfast and similar uses in which either day care for individuals is provided or care and/or lodging with meals is provided in a home setting.

This section shall not restrict the uses contemplated hereby where otherwise permitted in District B or District I and any such use in any such other district shall be as permitted in such districts.

Any property zoned R-2 shall be further subject to the grant of a special use permit by the Board of Adjustments.

The special use permit shall set forth the parking requirements necessary to utilization of the premises.

The special use permit shall also set forth open space requirements for those utilizing the premises.

The special use permit shall also set forth the limits of permissible signs identifying the facility.

The special use permit may limit the times of operation.

When the permitted zoning is in an existing District R or adjoining an existing District R, the special use permit shall set forth such other limits as will maintain the character, nature, use and occupancy in District R while also allowing use for day care, boarding, lodging and bed and breakfast facilities.

Any use permitted in District R.

Administrative offices.

Art studio or gallery.

Doctor or dentist offices, hospitals, medical clinics and uses related to the delivery of medical and dental services.

Photographer’s studio.

Real estate office.

Same as District R.

No building shall exceed in height the width of the street on which it faces plus the depth of the front yard. On a lot adjoining an R District, no building shall exceed forty-five (45) feet in height, except that this height may be increased up to the maximum allowed elsewhere in District B at the rate of two (2) feet of additional height for each one foot of additional set back from required yard lines.

Any use permitted in District R-1.

Automobile parking lots.

Automobile or trailer display and sales, repair garages, tire and seat cover shops, car wash.

Bakeries.

Bank.

Boarding and lodging houses.

Bowling alleys, drive-in restaurants, other similar places of entertainment or amusement, provided such use is located not less than one hundred (100) feet from any R District.

Building material storage yards.

Carpentry, painting, plumbing or tinsmithing shop.

Creamery, ice cream manufacturing and dairy operations.

Farm implement display and sales room.

Florist shop or greenhouses.

Frozen food lockers for individual or family use.

Gasoline service stations, provided that the activities permitted do not include the storage or dismantling of old or wrecked motor vehicles, the sale of used automobile parts, or the sale of new or used motor vehicles.

Hospitals, clinics and sanitariums, except a criminal, mental or animal hospital.

Hotels and motels.

Ice plants.

Institutions of a religious, educational, charitable or philanthropic nature, but not a penal or mental institution.

Laundries, self-service.

Milk distributing station.

Mobile home parks (trailers). Mobile home parks must conform to the current ordinance regulating same.

Mortuaries.

Nursing and convalescent homes.

Offices and office buildings.

Personal service uses including barber shops, beauty parlors, photographic or artist studios, messengers, taxicabs, newspaper or telegraphic service stations, dry cleaning and pressing, dressmaking, tailoring, shoe repairing, repair of household appliances and bicycles, catering, restaurants, and other personal service uses of similar character.

Printing, engraving and newspaper plants.

Public utilities substations.

Radio or television broadcasting station or studio.

Retail stores.

Signs (advertising) used in connection with and on the same lot as the business establishments to which they refer, except that they shall not be placed within any required yard nor within twenty-five (25) feet of any R District.

Theater.

Upholstering shop, not involving furniture manufacturing.

Veterinarian or animal hospital provided that no such building, kennel or exercise runway shall be closer than fifty (50) feet to any R District.

Any similar uses as determined by the board of adjustment which are not likely to create any more offensive noise, vibration, dust, heat, smoke, odor, glare or other objectionable influences than the minimum amount normally resulting from other uses permitted, such permitted uses being generally wholesale and retail trade, service industries and light industries that manufacture, process, store and distribute goods and materials and are in general dependent on raw materials refined elsewhere.

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above uses provided that such use be not objectionable because of odor, dust, noise, vibration or similar nuisance.

Alcohol manufacture (Business or Commercial District, Industrial District and any premises in an Historic District situated within a Business and Commercial District pursuant to compliance with all applicable City of La Grange ordinances and the appropriate permit issued by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission)

Beer, Wine and Mead manufacture (Business or Commercial District and Industrial District, including Historic District)

Same as District R.

No building shall exceed in height the width of the street on which it faces plus the depth of the front yard. On a lot adjoining an R District, no building shall exceed forty-five (45) feet in height, except that this height may be increased up to the maximum allowed elsewhere in District B at the rate of two (2) feet of additional height for each one foot of additional set back from required yard lines.

County clubs or golf courses, but not including miniature golf courses, driving ranges or similar forms of commercial amusement.

Parks, playgrounds, community buildings and other public recreational facilities, owned and/or operated by the municipality or other public agency.

Public buildings and grounds including, but not restricted to churches, libraries, museums, police and fire stations.

School, public elementary or high.

Schools, private, with curriculum equivalent to that of a public elementary or high school.

Water supply reservoirs, pumping plants or towers.

No limitations.

No limitations.

Any use permitted in District B.

Apparel and other products assembled from finished textiles.

Bottling works.

Carting, express, hauling or storage yard.

Coal, coke or wood yard.

Contractor’s yard.

Cosmetic manufacture.

Drugs and pharmaceutical products manufacturing.

Electronic products assembly.

Fur goods manufacture, but not including tanning or dyeing.

Glass products, from previously manufactured glass.

Household appliance products assembly and manufacture from prefabricated parts.

Industrial and manufacturing plants including the processing or assembling of parts for production of finished equipment where the process of manufacturing or treatment of materials is such that only a nominal amount of dust, odor, gas, smoke or noise is emitted and not more than ten per cent (10%) of the lot or tract is used for the open storage of products, materials or equipment.

Plastic products manufacture, but not including the processing of raw materials.

Sporting and athletic equipment manufacture.

Testing and research laboratories.

Other uses similar to the above listed uses except that the following uses are specifically prohibited:

Same as District R.

No building shall exceed in height the width of the street on which it faces plus the depth of the front yard.

Same as District B.

Same as District B.

Bowling alley: Two (2) parking spaces for each alley.

Business or professional office, studio, bank, medical, dental clinic: Three (3) parking spaces plus one (1) additional parking space for each four hundred (400) square feet of floor area over one thousand (1,000).

Church or other places of worship: One (1) parking space for each eight (8) seats in the main auditorium.

Community center, library, museum or art gallery: Five (5) parking spaces plus one (1) additional space for each six hundred (600) square feet of floor area in excess of two thousand (2,000) square feet. If an auditorium is included as a part of the building, its floor area shall be deducted from the total and additional parking provided on the basis of one (1) space for each four (4) seats that it contains.

Dance hall, assembly or exhibition hall without fixed seats: One (1) parking space for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor area used therefor.

Dwellings, including single, two-family and multifamily: Two (2) parking spaces for each family housed in each living unit.

Fraternity, sorority or dormitory: One (1) parking space for each bed.

Furniture or appliance store, hardware store, wholesale establishments, machinery or equipment sales and service, clothing or shoe repair or service shop: Two (2) parking spaces plus one (1) additional parking space for each six hundred (600) square feet of floor area over one thousand (1,000).

Hospital: Four (4) parking spaces plus one (1) additional parking space for each eight (8) beds.

Hotel: One (1) parking space for each sleeping room or suites plus one (1) space for each four hundred (400) square feet of commercial floor area contained therein.

Manufacturing or industrial establishment, research or testing laboratory, creamery, bottling plant, warehouse, printing or plumbing shop or similar establishment: One (1) parking space for each four (4) employees on the maximum working shift plus space to accommodate all trucks and other vehicles used in connection therewith, but not less than one (1) parking space for each twelve hundred (1200) square feet of floor area.

Mortuary or funeral home: One (1) parking space for each fifty (50) square feet of floor space in slumber rooms, parlors or individual funeral service rooms.

Motor vehicle sales rooms and used car lots: One (1) parking space for each eight hundred (800) square feet of sales floor or lot area.

Private club, lodge, country club or golf club: One (1) parking space for each three hundred (300) square feet of floor area or for every ten (10) members, whichever is greater.

Retail store or personal service establishment, except as otherwise specified herein: One (1) parking space for each four hundred (400) square feet of floor area.

Restaurant, night club, cafe or similar recreation or amusement establishment: One (1) parking space for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor area.

Rooming or boarding house: One (1) parking space for each two (2) sleeping rooms.

Sanitarium, convalescent home, home for the aged or similar institution: One (1) parking space for each six (6) beds.

School, elementary: One (1) parking space for each twenty (20) seats in the auditorium or main assembly room, or one (1) space for every two (2) classrooms, whichever is greater.

School, secondary, and college: One (1) parking space for each sixteen (16) seats in the main auditorium or two (2) spaces for each classroom, whichever is greater.

Theater, auditorium (except school), sports arena, stadium, or gymnasium: One (1) parking space for each four (4) seats or bench seating spaces.

Tourist home, cabin or motel: One (1) parking space for each sleeping room or suite.

“Floor area” shall mean the gross floor area of the specific use.

Where fractional spaces result, the parking spaces required shall be construed to be the nearest whole number.

The parking space requirement for a use not specifically mentioned herein shall be the same as required for a use of similar nature.

Whenever a building or use constructed or established after the effective date of this ordinance is changed or enlarged in floor area, number of employees, number of dwelling units, seating capacity or otherwise, to create a need for an increase of ten per cent (10%) or more in the number of existing parking spaces, such spaces shall be provided on the basis of the enlargement or change. Whenever a building or use existing prior to the effective date of this ordinance is enlarged to the extent of fifty per cent (50%) or more in floor area or in the area used, said building or use shall then and thereafter comply with the parking requirements set forth herein.

In the case of mixed uses, the parking spaces required shall equal the sum of the requirements of the various uses computed separately.

Where an increase in the number of spaces is required by a change or enlargement of use or where such spaces are provided collectively or used jointly by two (2) or more buildings or establishments, the required spaces may be located not to exceed three hundred (300) feet from an institutional building served and not to exceed five hundred (500) feet from any other nonresidential building served.

Not more than fifty per cent (50%) of the parking spaces required for (1) theaters, bowling alleys, dance halls, night clubs or cafes, and not more than eighty per cent of the parking spaces required for a church or school auditorium may be provided and used by (2) banks, offices, retail stores, repair shops, service establishments and similar uses not normally open, used or operated during the same hours as those listed in (1); provided, however, that written agreement thereto is properly executed and filed as specified below. In any case where the required parking spaces are not located on the same lot with the building or use served, or where such spaces are collectively or jointly provided and used, a written agreement thereby assuring their retention for such purposes, shall be properly drawn and executed by the parties concerned, approved as to form by the city attorney and shall be filed with the application for a building permit.

Each parking space shall be not less than nine (9) feet wide nor less than twenty (20) feet in length. Maneuvering space shall be in addition to parking space and shall be not less than twenty-four (24) feet perpendicular to the building or parking line.

Each parking space shall be not less than nine (9) feet wide perpendicular to the parking angle nor less than seventeen (17) feet in length when measured at right angles to the building or parking line. Maneuvering space shall be in addition to parking space and shall be not less than twenty (20) feet perpendicular to the building or parking line.

Each parking space shall be not less than nine (9) feet wide perpendicular to the parking angle nor less than sixteen (16) feet in length when measured at right angles to the building or parking line. Maneuvering space shall be in addition to parking space and shall be not less than eighteen (18) feet perpendicular to the building or parking line.

When off-street parking facilities are located adjacent to a public alley, the width of said alley may be assumed to be a portion of the maneuvering space requirement.

Where off-street parking facilities are provided in excess of the minimum amounts herein specified, or when off-street parking facilities are provided but not required by this ordinance, said off-street parking facilities shall comply with the minimum requirements for parking and maneuvering space herein specified.

In District B, one (1) loading space for each ten thousand (10,000) square feet or fraction thereof, of floor area in the building.

In District I, one (1) loading space for the first five thousand (5,000) to fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet, or fraction thereof, of floor area in excess of fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet.

Each required loading space shall have a minimum size of ten (10) feet by twenty-five (25) feet.

The height regulations prescribed herein shall not apply to television and radio towers, church spires, belfries, monuments, tanks, water and fire towers, stage towers or scenery lofts, cooling towers, ornamental towers and spires, chimneys, elevator bulkheads, smokestacks, conveyors, flag poles, electric display signs and necessary mechanical appurtenances.

Public or semi-public service building[s], hospitals, institutions or schools, where permitted, may be erected to a height not exceeding sixty (60) feet and churches and other places of worship may be erected to a height not exceeding seventy-five (75) feet when each of the required yards are each increased by one foot for each foot of additional building height above the height regulation for the district in which the building is located.

No structure may be erected to a height in excess of that permitted by the regulations of such airfield zoning ordinance as may exist at the time and whose regulations apply to the area in which the structure is being erected.

Where twenty-five per cent (25%) or more of the frontage upon the same side of a street between two (2) intersecting streets is occupied or partially occupied by a building or buildings with front yards of less depth than required by this ordinance, or where the configuration of the ground is such that conformity with the front yard provisions of this ordinance would work a hardship, the board of adjustment may permit modifications of the front yard requirements.

In District R, where twenty-five per cent (25%) or more of the frontage upon the same side of a street between intersecting streets is occupied or partially occupied by a building or buildings having front yards of greater depth than is required by this ordinance, no other lot upon the same side of such street between such intersecting streets shall be occupied by a building with a front yard of less than the least depth of any such existing front yards, unless by permission of the board of adjustment.

In a residential district no fence, structure, or shrubbery higher than three and one-half (3-1/2) feet above the established street grades shall be maintained within twenty (20) feet of any street intersection.

Open and unenclosed terraces or porches and eave and roof extensions may project into the required front yard for a distance not to exceed four (4) feet; provided, however, that no supporting structure for such extensions may be located within the required front yard. An unenclosed canopy for a gasoline filling station may extend beyond the building line but shall never be closer to the property line than twelve (12) feet. The building line of a gasoline filling station shall mean the actual wall of the building and shall not be interpreted as being the curb of a walk or driveway or as the front of a canopy or the columns supporting same.

Where an official line has been established for future widening or opening of a street upon which a lot abuts, then the width of a front or side yard shall be measured from such official line to the nearest line of the building.

On a corner lot the width of the yard along the side streets shall not be less than any required front yard on the same side of such street between intersecting streets, provided, however, that the buildable width of a lot of record shall not be reduced to less than thirty (30) feet.

No accessory building shall project beyond a required yard line along any street.

For the purpose of side yard regulations, a two-family dwelling or multi-family dwelling shall be considered as one building occupying one lot.

Where a lot of record at the time of the effective date of this ordinance [December 20, 1971] is less than fifty (50) feet in width the required side yard may be reduced to provide a minimum buildable width of thirty (30) feet, provided, however, that no side yard shall be less than five (5) feet.

The area required in a yard shall be open to the sky, unobstructed except for the ordinary projections of window sills, belt courses, cornices or other ornamental features.

A roof overhang, an open fire escape or an outside stairway may project not more than three (3) feet into a required side yard, but no closer than three (3) feet to a property line.