The R-3 multifamily residential district is a district with a limited number of multifamily residences designed to maintain, preserve and protect a character of development on lots with a minimum net area of six thousand square feet and with no more than one dwelling unit and customary accessory buildings for every two thousand square feet of net lot area, not to exceed eighteen dwelling units per acre. This zone is consistent with the high-density designation of the Wheatland general plan.

Separate dwellings with common party walls may be authorized on separate sublots, when the same are specifically approved with appropriate safeguards to ensure development consistent with the purposes of this zone.

Keeping of not more than two household pets for each dwelling unit;

Guesthouses and servants' quarters.

Hotels, motels, roominghouses and boardinghouses;

Mobile home parks;

Rest homes, hospitals, and hospital offices;

Professional offices;.

Day care centers and day care-family facilities;

Sheltered care facilities;

Noncommercial recreational facilities and health clubs, gymnasiums and racket clubs where compatible with the neighborhood.

Minimum lot area: six thousand square feet with a maximum density of thirty dwelling units per net acre.

Maximum ground coverage: sixty percent.

Minimum lot width: sixty feet.

Minimum lot depth: ninety feet.

Maximum lot depth: three times the lot width.

Minimum Yards.