The R-3, Multiple-Family Residential District, as herein established, is intended to provide sites for multiple-family dwelling structures and related uses, which will generally serve as zones of transition between nonresidential districts and lower density single or two-family districts. The Multiple-Family District is further provided to serve the limited needs for the apartment type of unit in an otherwise high density, single-family community.

In all R-3 Districts, no building or land, except as otherwise provided in this Ordinance, shall be erected or used except for one or more of the following uses:

A.

All uses permitted and as regulated in ARTICLE V. SEC. 5.01.

B.

Multiple-family dwellings.

C.

Boarding houses and rooming houses.

D.

Adult foster care large group home.

E.

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses when located on the same zoning lot and subject further to the provisions of ARTICLE III, SEC. 3.11.

The following uses shall be permitted, subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use:

A.

All uses permitted and as regulated in ARTICLE V, SEC. 5.02.

B.

Home for the aged (congregate care facility) when the following conditions are met:

1.

The building height shall not exceed a height of two and one-half (2.5) stories, or thirty-five (35) feet.

2.

No building shall be located closer than twenty-five (25) feet to any property line.

3.

The site shall be so located as to have at least one (1) property line abutting a paved major thoroughfare.

4.

All ingress and egress to the off-street parking area, for guests, employees and staff, as well as other users of the facility, shall be directly from a paved major thoroughfare.

5.

There shall be provided on the site, not less than five hundred (500) square feet of land area for each bed in the care facility. The five hundred (500) square feet of land area shall provide for landscape setbacks, yard requirements and space request for accessory uses, but shall not include the area covered by the principal building.

6.

An obscuring landscaped greenbelt not less than ten (10) feet wide shall be provided in those yards abutting a residential zone, or the Site Committee may require that a masonry or other permanent wall built in accordance with Section 3.16 be provided and maintained along the entire property line abutting such zone. In those instances where such yard abuts a major thoroughfare, the centerline of which forms the boundary of such zones, no greenbelt or wall is required, except as required by item g. below.

7.

Off-street parking shall be permitted to occupy a portion of the required front yard provided that there shall be maintained an obscuring landscaped greenbelt of not less than ten (10) feet wide between the nearest point of the off-street parking area, exclusive of access driveways, and the right-of-way line.

C.

Housing for the elderly, when the following conditions are met:

1.

All housing complexes for the elderly shall be constructed on parcels of at least one (1) acre and may provide for the following:

(a)

Cottage type one-story dwellings and/or low-rise (2.5 stories or less) apartment type dwelling units; and,

(b)

Common service areas containing, but not limited to, central dining rooms, recreational rooms, central lounge, and workshops.

2.

A minimum dwelling unit size of four hundred (400) square feet of living area per unit shall be provided.

D.

Convalescent or nursing homes when the following conditions are met:

1.

The building shall not exceed a building height of two (2) stories.

2.

No building shall be closer than twenty-five (25) feet to any property line.

3.

All access to the site shall be directly from a paved major thoroughfare or collector street.

4.

There shall be provided on the site, not less than five hundred (500) square feet of land area for each bed in the home. The five hundred (500) square feet of land area shall provide for landscape setting, yard requirements and accessory uses, but shall not include the area covered by main or accessory buildings.

See ARTICLE XVI, "SCHEDULE OF REGULATIONS" limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lot permitted by land use, the maximum density permitted, and providing minimum yard setback requirements.