Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
(a)
General Description. The Low
Rise General Residential District (RD-3) is intended to provide areas for low
intensity multiple family housing which will be compatible, in terms of
limitations of bulk and the provision of open space, with adjoining single,
two, and three-family residential development. These areas are intended to
facilitate conversion and in fill development of various low rise residences
including garden apartments and townhouses.
(b)
Uses Permitted. Property and
buildings in an RD-3, Low Rise General Residential District, shall be used only
for the following purposes:
(1) Any use
permitted in the RD-2, Low Density General Residential District.
(2) Townhouse.
(3) Three-family residence.
(4) Multiple-family residence.
(5) Boarding or rooming house.
(6) Accessory buildings and uses when
customarily incident to any of the uses in (1) through (5) of this Section when
located on the same lot.
(c)
Conditional Uses Permitted Upon
Review. The following uses may be permissible on review in accordance
with the provisions contained in
120:10-13-19.
(1) Any conditional use permitted on review
in an RD-2, Low Density General Residential District.
(2) Fraternity or sorority house.
(3) Institutions of a religious,
philanthropic or eleemosynary character.
(d)
Height Regulations. 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 the 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 (2) 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 sides.
(2)
Side Yard. Except as
hereinafter provided in OAC
120:10-5-4.1,
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 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 five thousand
(5,000) square feet.
(B) A lot
occupied by a two-family dwelling or single family dwelling and garage
apartment shall have not less than six thousand (6,000) square feet.
(C) For each additional family unit in excess
of two family dwellings, two thousand (2,000) square feet shall be added to the
size of the lot.
(5)
Coverage. Main and accessory building shall not cover more than
thirty percent (30%) of the lot area on interior lots and thirty-five percent
(35%) of the lot area on corner lots.
(6)
Limit on buildings. The
density of main buildings shall be in accordance with the area requirements set
forth in (e) of this Section.
(f)
Storage of Building
Materials. Outside storage of building or other materials or supplies
for a time period over 60 days is prohibited.
