Tilden Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE III
R-1 Rural Residential Districts
§ 500-9 Purpose and intent.
The purpose of R-1 Rural Residential Districts is to protect the natural environment and preserve the ecological balance in areas of the Township which contain extensive tree cover, steep slopes and other natural features which would be destroyed by extensive and intensive development; to discourage the scattering of residential subdivision development and commercial, industrial and other urban-type uses in predominately undeveloped areas of the Township where public services are neither currently available nor anticipated in the immediate future, and to otherwise create conditions conducive to carrying out the purposes of this chapter as set forth in § 500-2.
§ 500-10 Use regulations.
[Amended 11-6-2004 by Ord. No. 152]
A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following purposes and no other:
A.
Single-family detached dwelling.
B.
Farm and accessory farm buildings, including a greenhouse, provided that any building used for keeping or raising livestock or poultry shall be situated not less than 100 feet from any street line, proposed street line, or dwelling other than the owners dwelling and not less than 50 feet from any other property line.
C.
Roadside stand for the sale of farm or nursery products, 75% of which are produced on the property where offered for sale, provided:
D.
Public building, public park or public recreation area.
E.
Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the foregoing permitted uses.
G.
Accessory office of a physician, lawyer, clergyman, teacher or other profession of like character, excluding undertakers, when conducted in accordance with the provisions of § 500-74.
H.
Utility substation when authorized as a special exception.
I.
The following uses when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board as a special exception, provided that any such use be located on a site of not less than two acres:
J.
Forestry as a use permitted by right.
K.
No-impact home-based business as a use permitted by right.
§ 500-11 Area and height regulations.
[Amended 1-2-2007 by Ord. No. 172]
A.
Lot area and width. A lot area of not less than five acres since it is primarily mountainous area, with a width of not less than 200 feet at the building line, shall be provided for each dwelling and for every other principal use or building permitted in this district.
B.
Building area. Not more than 15% of the area of any lot shall be occupied by buildings.
C.
Front yard. There shall be a front yard along each street or proposed street on which a lot abuts which shall have a depth of not less than 60 feet in depth, provided that the front yard on the long side of a corner lot may be reduced to a depth of not less than 35 feet.
D.
Side yards. There shall be two side yards on each lot neither of which shall be less than 40 feet in width with an aggregate of 90 feet.
E.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard on each lot which shall be not less than 50 feet in depth.
F.
Height regulations. The height of any building shall not exceed 35 feet or two stories.