The regulations set forth in this chapter, or set forth elsewhere in this title when referred to in this chapter, are the regulations of the R-1 single-family residential district. The purpose of the R-1 single-family residential district is to provide areas more or less exclusively for single-family housing with relatively larger lot sizes and relatively more open space, with other allowed uses designed primarily to serve residential areas.

(Prior code § 29-4 (part))

A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:

A.

Detached single-family dwellings; modular units; nonconventional residential construction.

B.

Publicly owned or operated parks, playgrounds, community buildings, museums, libraries or art galleries, similar uses of an institutional nature and municipal facilities, including police and fire stations;

C.

Golf courses, except miniature golf courses, and driving ranges operated for commercial purposes, with a special use permit only;

D.

Public schools, or private schools having a curriculum similar to that ordinarily given in a public school, including religious instruction in parochial schools, with a special use permit only;

E.

Churches and similar places of worship, including Sunday school buildings, with a special permit only;

F.

Child- or day-care center, or nursery school, with a special use permit only;

G.

Fraternal organizations and other private clubs, with special use permit only, and excluding skeet or gun clubs and those whose chief activity is a service customarily carried on as a business;

H.

Home occupations, customary (see Section 17.04.020);

I.

Private swimming pools appurtenant to single-family dwellings on the same lot, when they meet the yard depth and width requirements for principal buildings in the district in which they are located, and when the swimming pool or the property on which it is located is adequately fenced (see Section 17.56.010(C)) to prevent access by small children, and the swimming pool meets all applicable health and sanitary requirements;

J.

Hospitals and institutions of an educational, religious, charitable or philanthropic nature, with a special use permit only; provided, however, that such buildings shall not be located upon sites containing an area of less than five acres, may occupy not over ten percent of the total area of the lot, and that the buildings shall be set back from all yard lines a distance of not less than two feet for each foot of building height;

K.

Cemeteries, including mausoleums, with special use permit only; provided that mausoleums shall be distant at least two hundred (200) feet from every street line and adjoining lot lines, and provided, further, that any new cemetery shall contain an area of twenty (20) acres or more;

L.

Accessory buildings and accessory uses customarily incidental to the above uses and not involving the conduct of a business, including one private garage or carport, when located not less than sixty (60) feet from the front lot line and not less than ten feet from any other street line, or a private garage constructed as a part of the main building. Accessory buildings and uses are subject to the restrictions established in Section 17.56.010;

M.

Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work, which building shall be removed upon occupancy of the completed structure, or completion or abandonment of the construction work, whichever occurs first;

N.

Bulletin boards and signs, not exceeding ten square feet in area, appertaining to the lease, hire or sale of a building or premises, which boards or signs shall be removed as soon as the premises are leased, hired or sold, or temporary signs pertaining to the sale of products grown on the premises. Church bulletin boards or identification signs for permitted public and semipublic uses may not exceed thirty-two (32) square feet. All signs shall be located on the same lot as the main building and not less than ten feet from any property line, and not more than one sign of the above character shall be permitted on any lot or tract. All signs shall also be in conformance with Section 17.56.010.

O.

Agricultural (farm) uses, such as field crops, truck gardening, berry or bush crops, tree crops, flower gardening, nurseries, orchards, aviaries and apiaries, including a greenhouse or roadside stand offering for sale only farm products that are produced on the premises. Permitted uses include the normal storage of grain and the raising and housing of farm animals but exclude confined feeding operations for cattle, sheep, poultry or swine.

(Prior code § 29-4(1); Ord. No. 6141, § 3, 4-16-19)

Off-street parking space shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in Chapter 17.60.

(Prior code § 29-4(2))

In addition to the specific requirements for the R-1 single-family residential district, all height, area and lot size regulations and exceptions set forth in Chapter 17.52, as they apply to uses in the R-1 single-family residential district, shall be observed.

A.

Height. The maximum height of buildings permitted shall be as follows:

1.

Detached single-family dwellings and all buildings other than churches and similar places of worship: thirty-five (35) feet and not over two and one-half stories.

2.

Churches and similar places of worship: seventy-five (75) feet for towers or steeples and not more than forty-five (45) feet for the principal building.

B.

Area. No building or structure shall be erected or enlarged, unless the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with such building, structure or enlargement:

1.

Front Yard. Each lot upon which a building is constructed shall have a front yard of not less than thirty (30) feet.

2.

Side Yard. On each lot upon which a dwelling is constructed, there shall be a side yard on each side of not less than fifteen (15) feet. On lots upon which a church or similar place of worship, community building, museum, library, art gallery, school, fraternal or other private club, or other similar building is constructed, there shall be a side yard of not less than thirty (30) feet on each side of the main structure.

3.

Rear Yard. Every lot or parcel of land upon which a building is constructed shall have a rear yard of not less than thirty (30) feet, or twenty (20) percent of the depth of the lot, whichever is greater, but it need not exceed fifty (50) feet.

C.

Lot Size. The minimum lot size permitted shall be as follows:

1.

Detached single-family dwellings shall be on a lot having an area of not less than twelve thousand (12,000) square feet and a width at the front lot line of not less than one hundred (100) feet.

2.

Churches and similar places of worship, community buildings, museums, libraries, art galleries, schools, fraternal and other private clubs, and other similar buildings shall be on a lot having an area of not less than one acre and a width at the front lot line of not less than one hundred and fifty (150) feet.

D.

Percentage of Lot Coverage. All buildings, including accessory buildings, shall not cover more than thirty (30) percent of the area of the lot.

(Prior code § 29-4(3))