§ 2.04.02. RSF residential single-family.  


Latest version.
  • These districts are intended to be single-family residential areas. Certain structures and uses designed to serve governmental, educational, religious, noncommercial recreational, and other immediate needs of such areas are permitted or are permissible as special exceptions, subject to restrictions and requirements necessary to preserve and protect their single-family residential character.

    A.

    Permitted principal uses and structures.

    1.

    Single-family dwellings subject to densities described in this Code.

    2.

    Schools with conventional academic curriculums.

    3.

    Public parks, playgrounds, playfield and county buildings; public libraries.

    4.

    Existing cemetery, columbarium or mausoleum with boundaries existing at the date of this Code.

    5.

    Railroad right-of-way, utilities rights-of-way.

    6.

    Home occupations as defined in this Code.

    7.

    Houses of worship, provided minimum parcel size shall not be less than five acres.

    B.

    Prohibited uses and structures. Any use or structure not specifically, provisionally or by reasonable implication permitted herein or permissible by special exception.

    C.

    Accessory uses and structures. Uses and structures which:

    1.

    Are customarily accessory and clearly incidental and subordinate to permitted or permissible uses and structures.

    2.

    Do not involve the conduct of business (except home occupation on the premises).

    3.

    Are located on the same lot as the permitted or permissible principal use or structure or on a contiguous lot in the same ownership.

    4.

    Are not of a nature likely to attract visitors in larger numbers than would normally be expected in a residential neighborhood.

    5.

    Do not involve operations or structures not in keeping with the character of a single-family residential development.

    6.

    Noncommercial plant nurseries and greenhouses, gardens, servants' quarters, private garages, toolhouses and garden sheds, garden work centers, children's play areas and play equipment, private barbecue pits, private swimming pools, docks and wharves, and the like are permitted as accessory uses in these districts.