The R-4 Residence District is hereby established as a district
in which regulations are intended to permit and encourage a variety
of housing types in an attempt to provide for the expanding regional
population.
A building or group of buildings may be erected or used and
a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following purposes, and
no other:
A. Any use permitted in R-1 Residence District subject to all regulations contained in Article
VI.
B. Low-density multifamily dwellings, after approval of the plan in
accordance with planned development provisions, and provided that
the proposed use complies with the special area, buffer and other
requirements.
C. Single-family semidetached.
G. Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to
the above permitted use. Accessory use shall not include a business,
except as permitted below where such use is located within an apartment
building.
(1) Private garage or off-street parking lot or area.
(2) In conjunction with an apartment development, accessory office of
commercial use, such as a restaurant or personal service shop, and
provided that:
(a)
Each accessory use is located entirely within an apartment building
and is located on the ground floor.
(b)
The total area devoted to accessory use shall not exceed 5%
of the total floor area of the building in which located, excluding
basement and garage, except that in the case of a building four stories
or more in height, an additional 5% of the total floor area of a building
may be utilized for accessory use.
(c)
The gross floor area of any one office, store, shop, or similar
use, except in the case of a restaurant, shall not exceed 1,500 square
feet.
(d)
There shall be no entrance to any office, store, shop, restaurant,
or similar use except from inside the apartment building.
(3) There shall be no display of merchandise, signs, or advertising visible
from the street or property line.
H. Accessory building. Accessory buildings shall comply with Article
XIX, §
480-136. Minimum setback shall comply with Article
XIX, §
480-137. All accessory buildings must be behind the dwelling or main building.
I. Uses accessory to dwellings:
(1) Private garage, private parking space.
(2) Swimming pool, tennis courts for use of family and guests only.
(3) Private greenhouse and storage buildings for garden tools.
(4) Stables; barn; shelter for pets, gazebos and applicable in residential
districts.
(5) Living quarters for household employees, caretakers, or watchmen.
(6) Uses authorized in this chapter as necessary to a dwelling shall
not be deemed to include a hospital, clinic, barbershop, beauty parlor,
mortuary, other personal service shop, tearoom, hotel or any other
similar use.
(7) The renting of rooms within the same dwelling in which the lessor
resides, or in a building accessory thereto for not more than four
nontransient persons, with or without the provisions of table board
for such persons by special exception.
(8) Offices of physician, dentist, minister, lawyer, teachers tutoring
a maximum of three students at one time, accountant and other similar
type uses, provided that such offices may only be situated in the
dwelling of such practitioner, and shall be regularly employed therein,
and no colleagues or associates shall use such office. Approval for
these accessory uses must be granted by special exception of the Zoning
Hearing Board.