Rock Port City Zoning Code
SECTION 400
040 "R-A" Rural Agricultural District Regulations.
[Ord. No. 530, Art. IV, 11-2-1965]
A.
The regulations set forth in this Section or set forth elsewhere in this Chapter, when referred to in this Section are the regulations in the "R-A" Agricultural District.
B.
Use Regulations. A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:
1.
General farming and ranching, truck gardens, cultivation of field crops, orchards, groves, or nurseries for growing or propagation of plants, trees, and shrubs, including use of heavy cultivating machinery, spray planes, or irrigating machinery, dairy farming, keeping or raising for sale of large or small animals, reptiles, fish, birds, or poultry, and including structures for processing and sale of products raised on the premises.
2.
Single-family dwelling.
3.
Country club or golf course, except miniature course or practice tee operated for commercial purposes.
4.
Roadside stand for display or sale of agricultural products raised on the premises, provided that there shall be no more than one (1) such stand on each lot, and provided, further, such stands shall not exceed four hundred (400) square feet in floor area.
5.
Church and incidental facilities.
6.
Extraction of oil and gas.
7.
Home occupations.
8.
Hospital and institution of an educational, religious, charitable or philanthropic nature, not including penal or correctional institutions, provided, that the site for such building shall contain not less than five (5) acres.
9.
Public elementary and high school, or private school with curriculum the same as ordinarily given in public elementary and high schools.
10.
Publicly-owned or operated building, except sewage treatment plant, garbage incinerator, warehouse, garage, shop and storage yard.
11.
Installation for sewer, water, gas, electric, and telephone mains and incidental appurtenances including electrical substations.
12.
Public recreation area, park, playground, wildlife preserve, forest preserve, and such buildings and structures as are related thereto.
13.
Railroad right-of-way, tracks and yards.
14.
Temporary sign with an area of not more than thirty (30) square feet pertaining to the lease, hire, or sale of a building or premises on which such sign is located.
15.
Accessory identification sign or sign advertising products raised on the premises having an area of not more than thirty (30) square feet.
16.
Accessory open or enclosed storage of oil, gas, ranch or farm materials, products or equipment, accessory farm buildings, including barns, stables, sheds, toolrooms, shops, bins, tanks, and silos, and other accessory buildings and uses, including, but not limited to, accessory private garages, servants' quarters, guest houses, swimming pools, home barbecue grills, customary church bulletin boards or identification signs not exceeding thirty (30) square feet in area for permitted public and semi-public uses, accessory storage, and accessory off-street parking and loading spaces.
C.
Parking Regulations. Off-street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in Section 400.130.
D.
Height Regulations. No building shall exceed two and one-half (2-½) stories nor shall it exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height except as provided in Section 400.120.
E.
Area Regulations.
2.
Minimum lot area.
a.
A lot occupied by a single-family dwelling shall contain not less than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet, and shall be not less than one hundred (100) feet wide.
b.
A lot having an area or width less than herein required and which was recorded under separate ownership from adjoining lots on November 2, 1965 may be occupied by a single-family dwelling or by any other permitted non-residential use.