Reno Parker County City Zoning Code

No portion of a child care center site may be located within three hundred (300) feet of gasoline pumps or underground gasoline storage tanks, or any other storage area for explosive or highly combustible materials.

Child care centers shall be located adjacent to a street having a pavement width of twenty-seven (27) feet or greater.

Site plan approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission shall be required for all child care center sites, whether or not a Specific Use Permit is required.

Child care centers located within any single-family or two-family residential district shall be required to plat in multiples of the minimum lot width of the district classification requirements. The lot depth shall meet the minimum district requirements and must be platted in a configuration which can be converted into standard lots for residential development.

All child care centers shall comply with the following standards:

No radio, television, or microwave tower shall be located within a distance equal to at least the height of such tower from any residential structure or from any area zoned residential, or shown as residential on the current Comprehensive Plan. Such distance shall be measured as the shortest possible distance in a straight line from the closes point of the tower to the closest point of such area or residence.

No commercial, radio, television, or microwave reflector antenna support structure shall be closed to any residential district boundary line or any area shown as residential on the current Comprehensive Plan than a distance equal to the sum of the required yard specified for the zoning district in which such building or structure is located, plus 25 feet, plus twice the height of the portion of the structure above two (2) stories. Such distance shall be measured as the shortest possible distance in a straight line from the structure to the closest point of such area or residence.

The location of radio, television, or microwave reflectors, antennas, or support structures and associated foundations and any support wires shall be prohibited within any required front or side yard.

All commercial communication operations or radio, television, or microwave reflectors, antennas, or structures shall be prohibited in residential districts.

All commercial signs, flags, lights and attachments other than those required for communications operations, structural stability, or as required for flight visibility by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) shall be prohibited.

Garden (patio) home developments shall be developed as zero-lot-line homes. One side yard shall be reduced to zero feet, while the other side yard shall be increased to a minimum of ten feet. A minimum three-foot wide maintenance easement shall be placed on the adjacent lot to enable the property owner to maintain his house. Side yards and maintenance easements shall be placed on the subdivision plat. A minimum separation between patio homes of ten (10) feet shall be provided. The combined area of all structures shall not exceed sixty-five (65) percent of the lot area.

The minimum front yard shall be fifteen (15) feet, provided that in no case shall a garage or carport fronting onto a street be less than twenty (20) feet from the property line adjacent to the street. The front yard setback may be staggered, varied, or reduced to a minimum setback of ten (10) feet for lots facing cul-de-sac or loop streets not exceeding four hundred (400) feet in length, with the approval of a site plan or subdivision plat. Under this provision the maximum setback shall be twenty-five (25) feet. A minimum lot depth of sixty-five (65) feet, as measured from front building line to the rear lot line, shall be maintained.

The minimum rear yard shall be five (5) feet for a single-story structure and fifteen (15) feet for any two-story structure. If access is from an alley, the minimum setback will be twenty (20) feet for garages or carports.

The minimum side yard shall be zero (0) feet except that there shall be at least ten (10) feet of separation between structures. When garden (patio) homes are constructed with a zero (0) side yard, five (5) feet on the lot adjacent to the zero (0) setback shall be dedicated as an access easement for the zero (0) setback garden (patio) home. There shall be a minimum of twenty (20) feet from any property line adjacent to a street.

The minimum frontage of any garden (patio) home shall be twenty-five (25) feet on residential streets and thirty-five (35) feet on collector and thoroughfare streets.

The minimum lot area for any development lot for garden (patio) homes shall be two thousand eight hundred (2,800) feet.

No zero-lot-line structure shall have an overall length exceeding two hundred and fifty (250) feet.

No structure shall exceed two (2) stories or thirty-five (35) feet in height.

Two (2) off-street spaces per dwelling unit plus one-half (1/2) space per dwelling unit for visitor parking within six hundred (600) feet of each dwelling unit. The visitor parking requirements may be eliminated or reduced at the time of site plan or subdivision plat approval with a finding that there is adequate on-street parking for visitors.

To insure the long-term maintenance of common land and facilities in patio home developments, the following shall be required:

Each parcel of land developed under patio home standards shall provide usable open space totaling fifteen percent (15%) of the area of a patio home development. Such open space shall have a maximum slope of ten percent (10%) and shall be exclusive of street and alley rights-of-way and/or easements, individually platted lots without open space easements, private yards and patios. The fifteen percent (15%) shall be computed on the percentage of total platted area in a patio home subdivision, excluding right-of-way for major and secondary thoroughfares (as described in the current Comprehensive Plan). At the time of site plan and/or subdivision plat approval, the City Council may give full or partial credit for open areas that exceed the maximum slope or which are otherwise unusable if it is determined that such areas are environmentally or aesthetically significant and that their existence enhances the development.

In addition to any required landscaping for common areas, the front yard and parkway areas shall be landscaped and permanently maintained.

Where an apartment building is erected so as to create inner courts, the faces of all opposite walls in such courts shall be a minimum distance of thirty (30) feet apart and no balcony or canopy shall extend into such court area for a distance greater than five (5) feet.

Each lot or parcel of land which is used for multiple-family residences shall provide on the same lot or parcel of land usable open space (as defined in Section 34.2.101), in accordance with the table below:

No swimming pool shall be constructed or used until a swimming pool building permit has been issued therefor. No building permit shall be issued unless the proposed sanitary facilities and water supply comply with applicable local and State health departments regulations.

A swimming pool erected below ground or above ground with a depth of two (2) feet or greater may be constructed and operated when:

Metal fences shall not be allowed in the required front yard in any district.

No fence or hedge shall exceed three (3) feet height in the required front yard in any district.

No fence shall exceed eight (8) feet in height.

Fences shall be constructed of customary urban fencing materials and shall be aesthetically consistent with buildings and fences in the area.