Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
(a)
General Description. Low
Density General Residential District (RD-2) is a residential district intended
to provide for a slightly higher population density than an RD-1 district. It
is intended to preserve and stabilize those neighborhoods characterized by a
mixture of residential structures by allowing the conversion and in fill
development under specific conditions whereby existing neighborhood scales
maintained. These areas are intended to be defined and protected from the
encroachment of uses not performing a function appropriate to the residential
environment. Internal stability, attractiveness, and efficiency are encouraged
by providing for adequate light and air for residences and related facilities
and through the consideration of the proper functional relationship and
arrangement of each element.
(b)
Uses Permitted. Property and buildings in an RD-2, Low Density
General Residential District shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Any uses permitted in an RD-1, Single
Family Residential District.
(2)
Two-family dwelling.
(3) Garage
apartment, provided, however, that the building be setback at least ten (10)
feet from all lot lines.
(4)
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the uses in (1)
through (3) of this Section when located on the same lot.
(c)
Conditional Uses Permitted on
Review. Any conditional uses permitted on review in an RD-1, Single
Family Residential District in accordance with the provisions contained in OAC
120:10-3-20,
and three-family dwelling.
(d)
Height Regulations. The height regulations shall be the same as those in the
RD-1, Single Family Residential District.
(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 lot 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
the 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 district shall not require a front yard of 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
120:10-5-4.1,
there shall be a side yard on each side of the 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 street a distance of fifteen
(15) feet in case such lot is back to back with another corner lot, and twenty
(20) feet in every other case.
(3)
Rear Yard. Except as hereinafter provided in OAC
120:10-5-4.1,
there shall be a rear yard which shall have a depth of not less than
twenty-five (25) feet or twenty percent (20%) of the average depth of the lot,
whichever is smaller.
(4)
Intensity of Use.
(A) A lot
occupied by a single family dwelling shall contain not less than six thousand
(6,000) square feet.
(B) A lot
occupied by a two-family dwelling or a single-family dwelling and a garage
apartment, shall contain an area of not less than six thousand (6,000) square
feet.
(5)
Coverage. Main and accessory buildings shall not cover more than
thirty percent (30%) of the lot area on interior lots and thirty-five (35%) of
the lot area on corner lots.
(6)
Limit on Building. Not more than one main building shall be
constructed on any one lot, except that a garage apartment may be constructed
on any lot with a single-family dwelling provided the area requirements set
forth in (e) of this Section are complied with.
(f)
Storage of Building
Materials. Outside storage of building or other materials or supplies
for a time period over 60 days is prohibited.
