Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 120 - Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission
Chapter 10 - Zoning Regulations for the Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning District
Subchapter 3 - Specific District Regulations
Section 120:10-3-21 - Low Density General Residential District (RD-2)

Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 120:10-3-21

Current through Vol. 41, No. 7, December 15, 2023

(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.

Added by Oklahoma Register, Volume 34, Issue 24, September 1, 2017, eff. 9/11/2017

Amended by Oklahoma Register, Volume 35, Issue 24, September 4, 2018, eff. 9/14/2018

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