The "ROR" Residential/Office/Retail District is established to provide areas for residential or commercial uses, or a compatible mixture of these uses at a medium density and low commercial intensity. It is not the intent of this district to encourage strip commercial areas. It is the intent of this district to encourage multi-family development on large lots. This district is appropriate for areas designated on the Official Land Use Plan Map as Residential/Office/Retail (R/O/R) on lots of forty-three thousand five hundred sixty (43,560) square feet or more.

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 4079, § 1(Att. A)65., 3-14-2019)

A maximum of twelve and one-half (12.5) dwelling units per net acre shall be permitted in the "ROR" Residential/Office/Retail District.

Public/semi-public uses (except Public Educational Facilities) shall not exceed a maximum area of five (5) gross acres. Ancillary nonresidential or Transportation/Utility uses shall not exceed a maximum of three (3) acres. Any such use, alone or when added to existing abutting or functionally abutting like uses, which exceeds the thresholds stated above shall require a Land Use Plan Map amendment to Institutional (I), Transportation/Utility (T/U) or other Land Use Plan Map category (as appropriate), which shall include such use and all abutting or functionally abutting like uses.

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 4079, § 1(Att. A)66., 3-14-2019)

No buildings or land in the "ROR" District shall be used, and no building shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered or enlarged, except for the permitted and conditional uses listed below. The uses listed as conditional uses may be permitted if their site locations and proposed development site plans are first approved, as provided in the procedure for approval of conditional uses under Section 18-1531, "Conditional Use Regulations", of this Article. Uses that are similar to any permitted or conditional use, as determined by the Planning and Development Services Director, shall be permitted in the same manner (i.e. permitted versus conditional) as the listed use to which it is similar, provided that any similar use specifically permitted in another zoning district shall not be permitted. Permitted (P) and conditional (C) uses shall be subject to the conditions established in the following Table 18-1517.3 and other applicable conditions of this district and Article.

Table 18-1517.3 Authorized Uses in ROR District

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 3928, § 13, 1-22-2015; Ord. No. 4079, § 1(Att. A)67., 3-14-2019; Ord. No. 4106, § 3, 3-12-2020; Ord. No. 4205, § 13, 7-27-2023)

(A)

MINIMUM LOT REQUIREMENTS.

1.

Lot area: Forty-three thousand five hundred sixty (43,560) square feet of net lot area (for residential uses, three thousand four hundred eighty-five (3,485) square feet per dwelling unit).

2.

Lot Width: One hundred fifty (150) feet.

3.

Lots of record not meeting the lot area or width requirements of this Section and having been of record prior to November 24, 1992, may be used for a permitted or conditional use provided that all other dimensional regulations will apply.

(B)

MINIMUM YARD SETBACK REQUIREMENTS.

1.

Front Yard Setback: Thirty (30) feet.

2.

Secondary Front Yard Setback: Fifteen (15) feet.

3.

Side Yard Setback: Fifteen (15) feet.

4.

Rear Yard Setback: Twenty (20) feet.

5.

For corner, double frontage and multiple frontage lots, see Section 18-1503.7 "Yard Determinations."

6.

Refer to Section 18-1503.8 for measurement of yard setbacks on lots adjacent to rights-of-way of insufficient width.

7.

Refer to Section 18-1504.3(G)(2) for special yard setbacks for additions to buildings in existence as of August 14, 1997.

(C)

MINIMUM BUILDING SEPARATION. Must meet Florida Building Code separation requirements.

(D)

MINIMUM LIVABLE FLOOR AREA.

1.

Efficiency: Four hundred fifty (450) square feet.

2.

One-bedroom: Five hundred fifty (550) square feet.

3.

Two-bedroom: Six hundred fifty (650) square feet.

4.

Three-bedroom: Eight hundred fifty (850) square feet.

(E)

MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT. Forty (40) feet. See Section 18-1503.13, "Exclusion from Height Limits", for height limit exclusions.

(F)

MAXIMUM LOT COVERAGE. Seventy-five (75) percent.

(G)

FLOOR AREA RATIO.

1.

Nonresidential Uses:

(a)

Thirty-hundredths (0.30).

(H)

MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT. Maximum allowable development intensity of mixed uses involving residential uses with other permitted or conditional uses shall be determined by the required lot area for residential uses plus the nonresidential (commercial) floor area divided by the F.A.R. equaling the lot area. See the "R-6" District for the equation for mixed use development.

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 4079, § 1(Att. A)68., 3-14-2019; Ord. No. 4279, § 12, 11-26-2024)

(A)

FENCES. See Section 18-1530.10, "Fences, Walls and Hedges" for fence regulations and setbacks.

(B)

LANDSCAPING AND BUFFERING. See Section 18-1533, "Landscaping Regulations."

(C)

DUMPSTER ENCLOSURES (See Section 18-1530.20, "Dumpsters"), AND ALSO SUPPLEMENTAL USE REGULATIONS (See Section 18-1530, "Accessory Use and Supplementary District Regulations").

(D)

OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING. See Section 18-1532, "Parking and Loading Regulations."

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010)