To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for residential development, and to meet the present and future housing needs of the city, with allowance for a diversity of moderate density sites.

To protect moderate density residential areas from pollution, environmental hazards, and other objectionable influences.

To protect moderate density residential areas, as much as possible, from heavy and through non-residential traffic.

To manage congestion in residential areas by managing the density of population in and around them, by providing for off-street (on-lot) parking spaces, and by providing open areas for nearby recreation to thus provide a more desirable living environment.

To provide for privacy and access for light and flowing air by managing a structure’s building setbacks from each other as well as regulating a building’s height.

To promote the most desirable use of land and direction of building development; to promote the stability of moderate density residential development; to conserve the value of land and buildings; and to protect and enhance the city’s tax base.

One single-family dwelling per lot, and typical accessory uses.

Signs in accordance to the prevailing sign regulations.

One portable building not more than 3% of the lot’s net square footage used for either storage, hobby, or other similar accessory use.

Temporary sales office for the sale of lots; if a modular structure, it shall have skirting and paved parking.

Home occupations. See home occupation regulations.

Portable buildings larger than 3% of the lot’s net square footage. No second portable building shall be permitted without first obtaining an approved conditional use permit.

Any new building erected or land used for other than one or more of the preceding specified uses.

Unless otherwise grandfathered, any use of property that does not conform with the minimum area requirements; or exceeds the maximum height or building density per gross acre.

Minimum lot area for lots with a functioning sanitary sewer system: internal lot - 5000 sq. ft. Corner lot - 5400 sq. ft.; however, if there is no sanitary sewer system, lot sizing shall comply with the County of Hidalgo’s minimum lot size.

Maximum number of single-family dwellings per lot: one (1).

Minimum lot frontage on a public or private street: internal lot - 50 feet; corner lot - 54 feet.

Minimum lot depth: 100 feet.

Minimum front yard building setback: 20 feet.

Minimum rear yard building setback: 10 feet or off any wider easement.

Minimum side yard building setback: inner lot - 5 feet or off any wider easement; corner lot 10 feet. However, if there is an abutting ‘public’ tract, such as a drainage ditch, park, etc., the setback on that side may be reduced to be not less than 3'.

Minimum distance from the public right-of-way (property line) to the entrance to a garage or enclosed carport shall not be less than 18 feet.

Maximum height of structures: 35 feet.

Minimum number of paved off-street parking spaces shall be 2.

Editor’s note–Ordinance 2019-11 adopted 6/4/19 amended the zoning ordinance by adding provisions establishing the Moderate Density - Single-Family Residential district but did not specify the manner of inclusion. Inclusion of these provisions as article 6A above was at the discretion of the editor. Numbering was revised for consistency.