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Monahans City Zoning Code

§ 9.03.005 R-2 district

Two-family.

In a R-2 district no building or land shall be used and no building shall be hereafter erected or structurally altered which is arranged or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses:
(1) 
One-family dwelling.
(2) 
Two-family dwelling.
(3) 
Churches.
(4) 
Farming and truck gardening, nurseries (no sales office).
(5) 
Water supply reservoirs, towers and deep wells.
(6) 
Telephone exchange (no business office).
(7) 
Accessory buildings will be permitted, including a private garage and servants’ quarters when located not less than sixty (60) feet from the front lot line, nor less than five (5) feet from any other street line, nor less than three (3) feet from either side line. The servants’ quarters, however, shall not be leased or rented to anyone other than to the family of a bona fide servant giving more than fifty (50) percent of his or her time to the family occupying the premises to which the servants’ quarters is an accessory building.
(8) 
Incidental uses customarily incident to any use, authorized by this section, may be carried on in not more than one room or compartment, when located within the same building or upon the same lot in which or on which the use authorized by this section is actually made of the premises, if the following conditions are strictly fulfilled: Such incidental use must be definitely incidental and not a principal use, and must be indispensable necessary to the enjoyment of the premises of any one of the uses permitted by this section. The incidental use must be customary according to the then prevailing custom in the area and adjacent areas which are exclusively residential in character. Nothing herein shall authorize or be construed to permit the use of any part of the premises within a single-family dwelling district for the purpose of conducting or carrying on the business, trade or professional practice, or carrying on the business of practice of rendering personal trade or professional service for which a charge is made or for which any kind of remuneration is required or received by occupants of the premises, except that professional services may be rendered in unusual and occasional emergency cases when such service is essential to the preservation of life or to the rendering of first aid.
(9) 
No advertising sign of any character shall be permitted in any R-2 district, excepting, however, that a name plate not exceeding one (1) square foot in area and a temporary bulletin board or sign not exceeding twelve (12) feet in area, pertaining to the lease, hire or sale of a building of the premises, may be permitted.
(10) 
Any use not specifically included in, or excluded from, any of the other use classifications herein, provided such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of dust, odor, smoke, gas fumes, noise or vibration.
(Ordinance 486, sec. 5, adopted 3/26/62; 1972 Code, sec. 27-5)