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Ramsey City Zoning Code

34-28.2 Required

conditions.

[Ord. No. 584; 1972 Code § 130.1602; Ord. No. 841 § 2; Ord. No. 1017-A §§ 3-4; Ord. No. 1030 § 4; Ord. No. 1017-B § 1 Ord. No. 1017-C § 1; Ord. No. 1233 § 6]
The following requirements shall be complied with in addition to those set forth above for all uses in the B-2 Turnpike District, except for single-family residential uses, which shall comply with the requirements of the R-3 Zone as aforesaid:
a. 
Height. No building shall exceed a maximum of three stories or 35 feet in height, whichever is the lesser.
b. 
Front yard. No building shall be closer than 30 feet to a street right-of-way nor shall any parking space be located within 10 feet of a street right-of-way.
c. 
Side yard. Except as provided for in Paragraph e below, no building shall be closer than 20 feet and no parking area shall be closer than five feet to any building excepting residential buildings nor 20 feet to an adjoining residence zone boundary line. The aforesaid separation area between the parking area and any adjoining residence zone boundary line shall constitute a buffer zone.
d. 
Rear yard. No building shall be closer than 40 feet and no parking area shall be closer than 20 feet to any rear lot line. The aforesaid separation area between the parking area and any adjoining residence zone boundary line shall constitute a buffer zone.
e. 
Zone district boundary line restrictions. In all side yards bounding upon the R-1, R-2, R-3 or R-4 Zones, no building shall be closer than 70 feet and no parking shall be closer than 40 feet to any of the zone lines. Public lands shall not be considered as lying in any of these zones for the purpose of this specific paragraph and the normal side and rear yard requirements shall apply where the yards abut such publicly owned lands.
f. 
Landscaping. Those portions of all front, rear and side yards that are not used for off-street parking shall be attractively planted with trees, shrubs, plants, and grass lawns as required by the Planning Board and the Shade Tree Commission.
g. 
Maximum lot coverage. The total ground floor area of all structures on a lot shall not exceed 30% of the area of the lot.
h. 
Minimum lot area and frontage. There shall be a minimum lot area of 20,000 square feet with a minimum street frontage of 100 feet and a minimum depth of 125 feet.
i. 
Minimum building size. No building shall have a ground floor area of less than 3,6000 square feet. Parking areas shall be adequately paved and marked. Outdoor lighting is permitted provided it shall be arranged so as to eliminate the glare of lights toward nearby residential lots. Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, public garages and service stations shall comply with the one-thousand-six-hundred-square-foot minimum ground floor area as set forth above.
j. 
Signs. Signs permitted in the B-2 Turnpike Districts shall be as set forth in Subsection 34-7.3 with the additional limitation that the total sign area for the sign permitted on the face of any wall shall not exceed 20% of the area of the face of the wall upon which such sign is attached.
k. 
Existing nonconforming lots may be developed in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 34-4.7.
l. 
Minimum open landscaped area. Minimum open landscaped area on the site shall be provided in the proportion of 30% for sites under one acre and 35% for sites over one acre.