This district is intended to provide a setting for single-family
residential uses, together with such related uses as schools, churches
and recreational uses. The regulations are designed to encourage a
residential environment of compatible low density dwellings located
on individual lots.
The following are the principal permitted uses by right within
an R-1 District.
A. Single-family dwelling structures not to exceed one single-family dwelling per lot subject to Article
III.
B. Public parks, public playgrounds, public recreational grounds, and
grounds for games and sports, except those the chief activity of which
is carried on, or is customarily carried on, as a business.
C. Religious uses, providing the site shall have a minimum lot size
of four acres.
D. Clustered residential development, with a minimum of 10 acres, subject to §
300-43.
E. Housing for religious personnel, when attached to the religious use.
F. Customary accessory uses to any of the permitted uses in the R-1 District, and as defined in Article
II, §
300-6, and Article
III, §
300-11.
G. Customary home occupations as defined in Article
II, §
300-6.
The following uses of land and structure may be permitted in the R-1 Districts by application for an issuance of a special land use permit when all the procedural requirements specified in Article
XII, together with all applicable standards as cited in Article
XII, are met.
A. Institutional uses for human care, education and social institutions,
as well as public buildings and service installations, excluding facilities
for the treatment of drug and alcohol, and incarceration facilities.
C. Golf courses and country clubs and associated accessory uses.
D. Public utility transformer stations and substations, as well as gas
regulator stations.
E. Cemeteries, public and private.
F. Residential planned unit development.
G. Sand, gravel or clay pits and quarries subject to the standards cited in Chapter
240, Soil Removal, of the Code of the Charter Township of Midland.