Minerva City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1141
R-1 Single Family Residence District
1141.01 PERMITTED AND ACCESSORY USES.
The following regulations and the regulations contained in Chapter 1137 shall apply in R-1 Single Family Residence Districts:
(a) Permitted Uses.
(1) Single family dwellings.
(2) Churches and parish houses.
(3) Schools and colleges for academic instruction, customary residential and recreational facilities and fraternity and sorority houses, if located on the same unit of property upon which the school or college buildings are situated and provided that any stadium, gymnasium, ball park, auditorium, dormitory, fraternity house, sorority house or multiple living unit shall be at least 250 feet from any lot in any R District.
(4) Library.
(5) Museum.
(6) Park; (not including an amusement park operated for profit).
(7) Hospitals and sanitariums when authorized by the Board of Zoning Appeals subject to the provisions of Section 1161.09(b), but not including those for persons suffering from insanity, liquor or drug addicts, and persons suffering from diseases such as are commonly isolated in a separate building.
(8) Nursery schools and child care centers when authorized by the Board subject to the provisions of Section 1161.09(b), and provided that any building be located not less than twenty feet from any other lot in any R District, and that there is established and maintained in connection therewith a completely fenced and screened play lot.
(b) Accessory Uses.
(1) Summer houses and other customarily incidental structures.
(2) Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work, which buildings shall be removed upon the completion or abandonment of construction work.
(3) One bulletin board or sign not exceeding twelve square feet in area for any permitted church, school or other public or semi-public institution.
(4) The office or studio of a physician or surgeon, dentist, artist, lawyer, architect, engineer, teacher or other member of a recognized profession, in his place of abode, but not including a beauty parlor, barber shop or similar activity, provided that not more than one-half of the area of one floor shall be used for such purpose. An indirectly lighted sign, not over one square foot in area and attached flat against the building, shall be permitted.
(5) Customary home occupations, such as handicraft, dressmaking, millinery, laundering, preserving and home cooking, provided that such occupations are conducted solely by resident occupants in their place of abode and that not more than one-quarter of the area of one floor shall be used for such purpose. Such occupation shall not require external or internal alterations, or the use of mechanical equipment not customary in dwellings. An indirectly lighted sign of not more than one square foot in area and attached flat against the building shall be permitted.
(6) The keeping of not more than two roomers or boarders by a resident family.
(Ord. 11-71. Passed 5-25-71.)
1141.02 HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS.
No principal structure shall exceed two and one-half stories or thirty-five feet in height, and no accessory structure shall exceed one story or twenty feet in height; except as provided in Section 1157.03(a).
(Ord. 11-71. Passed 5-25-71.)
1141.03 LOT AREA, FRONTAGE AND YARD REQUIREMENTS.
(a) The following minimum requirements shall be observed subject to the modified requirements contained in Section 1157.03.
SCHEDULE OF MINIMUM LOT, FRONTAGE AND YARD SIZES | |||||||
Use | Lot Area (Sq.Ft.) | Lot Area Per Family (Sq.Ft.) | Minimum Required Front Yard Depth (Ft.) | Lot Width at Min- imum Required Front Yard Depth (Ft.) | Side Yard Least Width (Ft.) | Widths Sum of Widths (Ft.) | Rear Yard Depths (Ft.) |
Single Family (R-1-60) 1 & 1-1/2 stories | 7,500 | 7,500 | 40 | 60 | 8 | 20 | 40 |
(R-1-80) 2 & 2-1/2 stories | 10,000 | 10,000 | 40 | 80 | 10 | 25 | 50 |
Other Permitted Uses | 15,000 | 40 | 80 | 16 | 35 | 40 | |
1 & 1-1/2, 2 & 2-1/2 stories | 15,000 | 40 | 80 | 22 | 50 | 40 | |
(Ord. 11-71. Passed 5-25-71.)
(b) A minimum 1200 square feet of living floor area and construction of at least a one car garage.
(Ord. 24-01. Passed 8-28-01.)
(Ord. 24-01. Passed 8-28-01.)
(c) Minimum Foundation Requirements.
(1) Foundation walls to be minimum of 8" thick except 12" block will be required on foundation wall subject to pressures greater than expected by ordinary back fill (i.e., hillsides, high water table etc.)
(2) All 8"foundation footers shall be 16" wide and 8" thick.
(3) Footers under 12" walk to be 20" wide by 8" deep.
(4) All footers must be below frost level at exposed evaluation (three foot).
(5) There shall be a minimum of eleven (11) courses of block on all required foundations including both 8" block and 12" block walls.
Individuals of builders where zoning application is denied by the Zoning Inspector due to failure to meet said requirements may file an application for a building variance which will be heard by the Board of Zoning Appeals in accordance with Village Zoning variance procedures. (Ord. 27-02. Passed 8-13-02.)