Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
(a)
General Description. Single
Family Residential District (RD1) is the most restrictive residential district.
The principal use of land is reserved for single-family dwellings. However,
related uses are appropriate in the district in order that a suitable
environment is preserved for family life by permitting neighborhood uses, such
as churches, schools, and certain cultural and recreational facilities. This
district is intended to preserve and stabilize those neighborhoods which are
basically single-family by allowing for two family conversions under specified
conditions whereby existing neighborhood development scales are maintained. The
area is intended to be protected from inharmonious functions that are
inappropriate to the residential environment. Internal stability,
attractiveness, order, and efficiency are encouraged by preserving openness of
the living areas and avoidance of overcrowding by requiring minimum yards, open
spaces, lot areas, by limiting the bulk of structures and through consideration
of the proper functional relationship of each element of the
district.
(b)
Uses
Permitted. Property and buildings in an RD-1, Single Family Residential
District, shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Single-family detached
dwelling.
(2) Church.
(3) Park or playground, public school or an
educational institution having a curriculum the same as ordinarily given in
public schools, and having no rooms regularly used for housing and
sleeping.
(4) Accessory buildings
which are not a part of the main building, including a private garage or
servant's quarters, when located not less than five (5) feet away from any side
lot line, or accessory buildings which are part of the main buildings,
including a private garage or servant's quarters.
(5) Home occupation in accordance with OAC
120:10-5-22.
(6) Temporary buildings for uses incident to
construction work, which building shall be removed upon completion or
abandonment of the construction work.
(7) Bulletin board or sign, not exceeding
twelve (12) square feet in area appertaining to the lease, hire or sale of a
building or premises, which board or sign shall be removed as soon as the
premises are leased, hired or sold.
(c)
Conditional Uses Permitted on
Review. The following uses may be permitted on review in accordance with
the provisions contained in OAC
120:10-13-19:
(1) Accessory dwelling unit.
(2) Swimming pool.
(3) Public utilities.
(4) Child care home in accordance with the
provision in OAC
120:10-5-21.
(5) Convalescent home or rest home.
(6) Drilling rigs, tanks and other necessary
appurtenances to a producing oil well.
(7) Off-street parking lots associated with
public or commercial uses as regulated under the provisions contained in
Subchapter 7 of this Chapter.
(d)
Height Regulations. Except
as hereinafter provided in
120:10-5-2.1,
no building shall exceed two and one-half (2 1/2) stories or thirty-five (35)
feet in height.
(e)
Area
Regulations.
(1)
Front
Yard. All buildings shall be setback from street right-of-way lines to
comply with the following front yard requirements:
(A) The minimum depth of the front yard shall
be twenty-five (25) feet.
(B) If
twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the lots on one side of the street between
two intersecting streets is improved with buildings all of which have observed
an average setback line of greater than twenty-five (25) feet, and no building
varies more than six (6) feet from this average setback line, then no building
shall be erected closer to the street line than the minimum setback so
established by the existing building; but this Section shall not require a
front yard of a greater depth than seventy-five (75) feet.
(C) When a lot has double frontage, the front
yard requirements shall be complied with on both streets.
(2)
Side Yard. Except as
hereinafter provided in OAC
120:10-5-4,
there shall be a side yard on each side of a building which shall have a width
of not less than five (5) feet. On any corner lot a building shall be setback
from the street line of the intersecting streets a distance of fifteen (15)
feet in case such lot is back with another corner lot, and twenty (20) feet in
every other case.
(3)
Rear
Yard. Except as hereinafter provided in OAC
120:10-5-4,
there shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than thirty (30) feet or
twenty percent (20%) of the depth of the lot, whichever amount is
smaller.
(4)
Intensity of
Use. There shall be a lot area of not less than six thousand (6,000)
square feet, except that where the lot has less area than herein required and
all the boundary lines of that lot touched lands under the ownership of the
effective date of these Regulations that lot may be used for any of the uses
permitted in this Section.
(5)
Coverage. Main and accessory buildings shall not cover more than
twenty-five percent (25%) of the lot area of interior lots, and thirty percent
(30%) of the area on corner lots.
(f)
Storage of Building
Materials. Outside storage of building or other materials or supplies
for a time period over 60 days is prohibited.
