The R-1 limited residential district is composed of certain quiet, low-density residential areas plus certain open areas where similar residential development appears likely to occur. The regulations for this district are designed to stabilize and protect the essential characteristics of the district, to promote and encourage a suitable environment for family life where there are children and to prohibit all activities of a commercial nature. To these ends, development is limited to relatively low concentration, and permitted uses are limited primarily to single-family dwellings providing homes for residents plus certain additional uses, such as schools, parks, churches and certain public facilities that serve the residents of the district.

(Code 1988, § 17-81; Ord. No. O-13-01 (01-14-2014), § 1, 1-14-2014; Ord. No. O-13-04, § 1, 1-14-2014; Ord. No. O-22-01, § 3, 1-2-2022)

In the R-1 limited residential district, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be one or more of the following uses:

(1)

Single-family dwellings.

(2)

Schools.

(3)

Churches.

(4)

Parks and playgrounds.

(5)

Offstreet parking as required by this chapter.

(6)

Public utilities such as poles, lines, distribution transformers, pipes, meters, and other facilities necessary for the provision and maintenance including water and sewer facilities in accordance with a conditional use permit and provisions contained in this chapter.

(7)

Business signs erected only to advertise the sale or rent of the premises upon which erected.

(8)

Church bulletin boards and identification signs.

(9)

Nonbusiness directional signs.

(10)

Home occupations:

a.

Office.

b.

Home occupation child care.

(11)

Maintaining horses, mules, donkeys and ponies as defined in 90-1035.

(12)

Maintaining poultry and bees as defined in 90-1035.1.

(13)

Animal boarding place, private, on parcels of more than one acre in size.

(Code 1988, § 17-82; Ord. No. O-02-012, 10-22-2002; Ord. No. O-17-04, § 1, 4-25-2017; Ord. No. O-13-01 (01-14-2014), § 1, 1-14-2014; Ord. No. O-13-04, § 1, 1-14-2014; Ord. No. O-22-37, § 7, 12-13-2022)

The following uses and structures are permitted by special exception in the R-1 limited residential district:

(1)

Golf course, country club.

(2)

Removal of topsoil, in accordance with the requirements of section 54-6.

(3)

Family day care home (large).

(4)

Home professional and trade offices.

(5)

Home occupation in an accessory building.

(Code 1988, § 17-83; Ord. No. O-02-012, 10-22-2002)

(1)

Animal boarding place, private, on parcels of one acre or less in size.

(Ord. No. O-12-37, § 1, 11-27-2012; Ord. No. O-22-37, § 8, 12-13-2022)

(a)

For lots in an R-1 limited residential district served by public water and sewage disposal systems, the minimum lot area shall be 15,000 square feet.

(b)

For lots served by either public water or public sewage disposal systems, but not both, the minimum lot area shall be 17,500 square feet.

(c)

For lots served by individual water and sewage disposal systems, the minimum lot area shall be 20,000 square feet.

(Code 1988, § 17-84)

Structures in an R-1 limited residential district shall be located 35 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width or 60 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width. This shall be known as the setback line.

(Code 1988, § 17-85)

The minimum frontage of permitted uses in the R-1 limited residential district at the setback line shall be 100 feet or more.

(Code 1988, § 17-86)

(a)

The minimum side yard in an R-1 limited residential district for each main structure shall be 15 feet or more, and the total width of the two required side yards shall be 30 feet or more.

(b)

Each main structure shall have a rear yard of 35 feet or more.

(Code 1988, § 17-87)

Buildings in an R-1 limited residential district may be erected up to 35 feet in height, except that:

(1)

The height limit for dwellings may be increased up to 45 feet and up to three stories if there are two side yards for each permitted use, each of which is 15 feet or more, plus one foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over 35 feet.

(2)

A public or semipublic building such as a school, church, library or general hospital may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade, provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 35 feet.

(3)

Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennae and radio aerials are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.

(4)

No accessory building which is within 20 feet of any party lot line shall be more than one story high. All accessory buildings shall be less than the main building in height.

(Code 1988, § 17-88)

(a)

Of the two sides of a corner lot in an R-1 limited residential district, the front shall be deemed to be the shortest of the two sides fronting on streets.

(b)

The side yard on the side facing the side street shall be 35 feet or more for both main and accessory buildings.

(c)

For subdivisions platted after July 1, 1965, each corner lot shall have a minimum width at the setback line of 125 feet or more.

(Code 1988, § 17-89)

(a)

In the R-1 limited residential district, accessory uses and structures are permitted as defined. No accessory structure may be closer than five feet to any property line.

(b)

The following are considered accessory uses with the R-1 limited residential district, but are subject to the noted provisions:

(1)

Roof- or ground-mounted small solar energy facility or large-scale solar energy facility as defined by section 90-1, provided that the solar facility only generates energy for that structure.

(2)

Accessory buildings; however, garages or other accessory buildings, such as carports, porches and stoops, attached to the main building shall be considered part of the main building.

(Ord. No. O-17-04, § 1, 4-25-2017)