Article 8 — R-4 General Apartment District—Regulations.

The following specific regulations and the general rules set forth in Article 32 shall apply in all R-4 districts. It is intended that this district classification be applied in areas where multifamily dwellings are the logical and desirable uses.

(Ord. No. 505, § 26, 10-21-2014)

(a)

Uses permitted in the R-1, R-2, and R-3 districts, and multifamily dwellings.

(b)

Incidental and accessory buildings and uses on the same lot with and necessary for the operation of any permitted use.

(c)

Advertising signs pertaining directly to a permitted non-residential use on the property, and not to exceed one sign of a maximum area of six square feet for any such use, or as specified in use permit.

(d)

Private garages, or parking lots uncovered and screened by suitable walls or planting, when operated by or in conjunction with a permitted use.

(e)

Single room occupancy.

(f)

Farmworker housing.

(Ord. No. 505, § 26, 10-21-2014)

(a)

Hotels, motels, hospitals, large residential care facilities, sanitariums, mortuaries, and professional offices for doctors, dentists, architects, engineers, accountants, artists, authors, attorneys, real estate and insurance offices, medical and dental clinics, and other uses which, by formal action of the planning commission, are found to be similar to the foregoing; and clubs, lodges and fraternities, except those operated as a business or for profit.

(b)

Parks, playgrounds, public and private schools, churches and religious institutions, libraries and public buildings.

(c)

Boarding houses.

(Ord. No. 505, § 26, 10-21-2014)

(a)

Home occupations.

(b)

Temporary real estate offices, tract sales offices and advertising signs, and tract construction offices and equipment yards, for a period of not more than twelve months.

(c)

Uses permitted in Section 8.02(a) on legal non-conforming parcels less than six thousand square feet.

(Ord. No. 505, § 26, 10-21-2014)

(a)

Lot Area: Six thousand square feet and otherwise as provided for R-3 Districts. One thousand five hundred square feet per unit for multifamily structures containing five or more dwelling units.

(b)

Lot Dimensions: Sixty feet wide; one hundred feet deep.

(c)

Maximum Main Building Coverage: Sixty percent of lot area, but within required setbacks.

(d)

Front Yard Setback: Twenty feet (reduced to ten feet for High Density Combining District Zoning).

(e)

Side Yard Setback:

1.

Each interior side yard shall be not less than five feet on one side and ten percent of the lot width on the other side, but the total of both need not exceed fifteen feet.

2.

The side yard on the street side of a corner lot shall be not less than fifteen percent of lot width, but the total of both need not exceed fifteen feet.

(f)

Rear Yard Setback: Twenty percent of lot depth, may not be less than fifteen feet, need not exceed thirty feet (reduced to ten feet for High Density Combining District Zoning).

(g)

Distances Between Main Buildings on Same Lot: Ten feet.

(h)

Loading Area: As specified in use permit.

(i)

Building Height Limit: Four stories, but not exceed fifty feet.

(j)

Off-Street Parking: As required in Article 29.

(Ord. No. 505, § 26, 10-21-2014)