The Attached Single-Family Residential District (R-T) is intended to permit and to relate the type, design, and layout of attached and detached single-family residential development to the particular site in a manner consistent with the preservation of the property values in established residential areas. This district is also intended to encourage a more efficient and more desirable use of land.

This district is specifically intended to prohibit multiple-family buildings where entry to individual dwelling units is from an interior common area, to require that units be separated from any abutting dwelling unit by a party wall extending up from the ground the full height of the building, and to require each dwelling unit to have direct access from outdoors from at least the front and rear or side of the unit.

No building, structure or land shall be erected or used in an Attached Single-Family Residential District (R-T) unless the site plan therefor has been approved per the provisions of section 5.22.

(Ord. No. 1793, § 4, 8-19-24)

(1)

One-family attached dwellings (townhouses) with not less than three (3) attached units.

(2)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the above-permitted uses.

(3)

The entire area of the site shall be treated to service the residents of the development and any accessory buildings, uses or services shall be developed solely for the use of the residents. Uses considered herein as accessory uses include: swimming pools, recreation areas, pavilions, cabanas, and other similar uses.

The city council may, after a recommendation from the planning commission, permit one-family detached dwellings and one-family attached dwellings of less than three (3) attached units when they are found to be:

(1)

Reasonably necessary or convenient for the satisfactory and efficient development of a complete townhouse district, and

(2)

Necessary for the creation of an effective density development, and

(3)

Necessary for the extension of a single-family character in a single-family residential area.

Dwelling units per acre shall be determined by the required land area in square feet per number of bedrooms as follows:

(1)

One-bedroom unit - Three thousand, six hundred thirty (3,630) square feet (twelve (12) dwelling units per acre)

(2)

Two-bedroom unit - Four thousand, three hundred fifty (4,350) square feet (ten (10) dwelling units per acre)

(3)

Three-bedroom unit - Five thousand, four hundred, forty-five (5,445) square feet (eight (8) dwelling units per acre)

(4)

Four-bedroom unit - Seven thousand, two hundred, sixty (7,260) square feet (six (6) dwelling units per acre)

(Ord. No. 1642, § 1, 7-19-15)

(1)

See article 22, schedule of regulations, which limits the height and bulk of buildings, determines the permitted development area and provides minimum setback requirements.

(2)

No building shall be less than thirty (30) feet (9.15 meters) from a perimeter lot line; all other yard requirements shall be determined and controlled by the site plan.

(3)

No building or structure within one hundred fifty (150) feet (45.75 meters) of a perimeter lot line shall exceed twenty-five (25) feet (7.625 meters) or two (2) stories in height. All other buildings shall not exceed thirty-five (35) feet (10.675 meters) or three (3) stories in height.

(4)

Automobile parking spaces are to be provided as required in section 5.30.

(5)

Provide a minimum of four hundred (400) square feet (37.2 square meters) of landscaped open space adjacent to each unit.

(6)

Attached single-family units shall not exceed two hundred fifty (250) feet (76.25 meters) in total length.

(7)

Dwelling units may be attached by other than side walls when the attachment does not exceed eighty (80) percent of the plan view overlap of any wall in common with an abutting dwelling unit or attached garage.

(Ord. No. 1539, 10-10-06)

A six-foot (one and eighty-three hundredths meters) high solid masonry wall of similar material as the principal buildings may be required wherever parking areas are adjacent to single-family residentially zoned property.

When approving a site plan for an attached single-family residential development, the approving person or body shall prescribe such additional conditions as are, in its opinion, necessary to secure the objectives of an attached single-family residential site plan which are as follows:

(1)

The development is compatible with the future land use plan.

(2)

The development is an effective and unified treatment of the development possibilities of the subject property.

(3)

The development will harmonize and be compatible with any existing or proposed development in the area surrounding the subject property.

(4)

Landscape plans and green infrastructure/low impact development methods required per article 4section 5.31(21)(b).

The violation of any conditions so imposed shall constitute a violation of this chapter.

(Ord. No. 1678, § 3, 7-6-17; Ord. No. 1793, § 4, 8-19-24)