Utica City Zoning Code
ARTICLE V
R-2, TWO-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
Section 500.- Intent.
The R-2, two-family residential districts are designed to afford a transition of use in existing housing areas by permitting new construction or conversion of existing structures between adjacent residential and commercial, office, thoroughfares or other uses which would affect residential character. This district also recognizes the existence of older residential areas of the city where larger houses have been or can be converted from single-family to two-family residences in order to extend the economic life of these structures and allow the owners to justify the expenditures for repairs and modernization.
Section 501. - Principal uses permitted.
In a two-family residential district, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this ordinance.
1.
All uses in the one-family residential districts, permitted and as regulated under section 401. The standards of the schedule of regulations applicable to the R-1A through R-1B one-family residential district, shall apply as minimum standards when one-family detached dwellings are erected.
2.
Two-family dwellings.
3.
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above permitted uses.
Section 502. - Principal uses permitted subject to special conditions.
The following special conditions uses shall be permitted, subject to the conditions hereinafter required for each use, subject to any and all reasonable conditions which may be imposed in accordance with section 4c.(2) of the city-village zoning act, as may be amended, and further subject to the review and approval by the planning commission and city council as specified in section 1802, "review and approval of conditional uses," and section 1800, "site plan review," of this zoning ordinance.
1.
All special condition uses for the one-family residential districts, permitted and as regulated under section 402.
Section 503. - Area and bulk requirements.
See article XIII, schedule of regulations limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lot permitted by land use, the maximum density permitted and providing minimum yard setback requirements.