Pleasant Valley City Zoning Code
SECTION 400
100 District "R-4" - Apartment House District.
[Ord. No. 284 §10, 9-21-1964]
A.
Permitted Uses. In District "R-4" no building, structure, land or premises shall be used, and no building or structure shall be hereafter erected, constructed, reconstructed, or altered, except for one (1) or more of the following uses: (For exceptions see Section 400.180, "Non-Conforming Uses"; and Section 400.290, "Powers and Duties of the Board of Zoning Adjustment").
1.
Any use permitted in District "R-3".
2.
Apartment houses or multiple dwellings.
3.
Boarding and lodging houses.
4.
Fraternity or sorority houses and dormitories.
5.
Hotels or apartment hotels.
6.
Hospitals, sanitariums or homes for convalescents or aged, other than for the insane or feeble minded or alcoholics or drug addicts.
7.
Private clubs or fraternal orders, except those whose chief activity is carried on as a business.
8.
Philanthropic or eleemosynary institutions, other than penal institutions.
9.
Accessory uses customarily incident to any of the above uses, and located on the same lot, not involving the conduct of a business or industry.
a.
There shall be permitted such facilities as are required for the operation of a hotel or apartment hotel, when conducted and entered from within the building, providing no window or other display or sign on the exterior of the building is used to advertise such use.
b.
Private or storage garages, located as provided in District "R-1" for private garages, may provide space for not more than one (1) motor vehicle for each one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet of lot area. No business occupation or service connected with motor vehicles, except washing, shall be permitted. The same provisions regarding community garages applies as in District "R-1".
B.
Dimensions Of Lots And Yards. In District "R-4" the height of buildings, the minimum dimensions of lots and yards and the minimum lot area per family permitted on any lot shall be as follows: (For exceptions see Section 400.200, "Height and Area Exceptions").
1.
Height. Buildings or structures shall not exceed forty-five (45) feet and shall not exceed three (3) stories in height.
2.
Front yards. Same as District "R-1".
3.
Side yards. Same as District "R-1", including regulations for corner lots adjacent to reversed frontage, provided the width shall be increased one (1) foot for each of height of building above thirty-five (35) feet.
4.
Rear yards. Same as District "R-1".
5.
Width of lot. Same as District "R-1".
6.
Lot area per family. No building shall be erected, altered or enlarged to accommodate or make provision for less than the following number of square feet of lot area per family.
b.
When connected to a public sewer system the area per family on the ground floor shall be ten thousand (10,000) square feet for the first family and three thousand (3,000) square feet for each additional family, subject to approval of the Board of Aldermen of Pleasant Valley and the City Sanitary Engineer. The basement must not be used for living quarters and the upper floors shall not have more units than the ground floor.