A.

The R-3, neighborhood apartment district classification is intended to be applied where it is reasonable to permit and protect garden-type low density apartment developments. This district is consistent with urban residential designation or category of the land use and housing elements of the county general plan.

B.

The specific regulations of this chapter and the general rules set forth in Chapter 17.08 shall apply in all R-3 district.

(Ord. 1228 §2(Ch. 16, Art. 1), 1983)

(Ord. No. 1951, §§ 28, 29, 10-19-2010)

Uses permitted in an R-3 district shall be as follows:

A.

Uses permitted in the R-1 and R-2 districts, except that one-family dwellings and two-family dwellings may be permitted only upon securing a use permit;

B.

Parks, playgrounds, public and private schools, churches, and religious institutions, libraries, day care centers and public buildings;

C.

Group buildings, multiple-family dwellings, apartments;

D.

Boardinghouses and lodginghouses;

E.

Private garages or parking lots uncovered and screened by suitable walls or planting, when operated by or in conjunction with a permitted use.

(Ord. 1556 §4(part) 1992; Ord. 1514 §4(part), 1991; Ord. 1228 §2(Ch. 16, Art. 2), 1983)

(Ord. No. 1951, §§ 30, 31, 10-19-2010)

Uses requiring use permits in an R-3 district shall be as follows: recreational vehicle park or mobile home park.

(Ord. 1683 §2(part), 1997)

Minimum height, bulk and space requirements in an R-3 district shall be as follows: none.

(Ord. 1228 §2(Ch. 16, Art. 4(part)), 1983)

Yard requirements in an R-3 district shall be as follows:

A.

Front yard, fifty feet from the centerline of roadway or twenty feet from the property line, whichever is greater;

B.

Side Yards. Side yards shall total not less than twenty percent of the lot width, and no side yard may be less than six feet; three feet shall be added to each required side yard for each story above the first story of any building; the side yard on the street side of each corner lot shall be not less than ten feet;

C.

Rear yards, twenty feet.

(Ord. 1683 §2(part), 1997; Ord. 1228 §2(Ch. 16, Art. 4(part)), 1983)

Lot requirements in an R-3 district shall be as follows:

A.

Lot area, six thousand square feet, each permitted use, not less than one thousand five hundred square feet of lot area for each unit in multiple or apartment dwellings, and not less than two thousand square feet for each unit in group dwellings;

B.

Lot width, sixty feet.

(Ord. 1228 §2(Ch. 16, Art. 4(part)), 1983)

Distances between buildings in an R-3 district shall be as follows:

A.

Main buildings on same lot, twelve feet;

B.

Group dwellings in a single row "side to side" series facing a side lot line; side yards to the rear of buildings, between buildings, ten feet;

C.

Group dwellings in a double row "side to side" series facing a central court; side yards to the rear of buildings, eight feet; width of central court, twenty-four feet; distance between buildings;

D.

The rear yard on a lot on which a dwelling group is constructed may be reduced to not less than twelve feet; no building in a group dwelling development shall have the rear thereof abutting upon a street.

(Ord. 1228 §2(Ch. 16, Art. 4(part)), 1983)

Building requirements in an R-3 district shall be as follows:

A.

Building height limit, two and one-half stories, but not to exceed thirty-five feet;

B.

Maximum building coverage, fifty percent of lot area.

(Ord. 1228 §2(Ch. 16, Art. 4(part)), 1983)

Automobile parking in an R-3 district shall be one space for each dwelling unit in residential buildings, one space for each two guestrooms in each boardinghouse or lodginghouse, and spaces for all vehicle parking, loading and unloading on the lot and clear of public streets and roads for other uses.

(Ord. 1228 §2(Ch. 16, Art. 4(part)), 1983)