Chapter 25.40 RG-20 GENERAL RESIDENCE ZONE
Section 25.40.020 Principal permitted uses.
The following principal uses are permitted as of right in the RG-20 zone:
1. Single-family detached dwellings subject to the following
standards:
a. For all building permits issued after
July 31, 1984, the principal structure shall have a
floor area of not less than six hundred forty square feet; and a minimum width for any building
elevation of not less than twenty feet, and
b. All principal structures shall be
roofed with a nonmetal type of roofing material, and
c. All principal structures shall be
sided with material other than flat or corrugated sheet
metal;
2. Two-family dwellings;
3. Multiple-family dwellings and single-family or two-family
dwellings, attached;
4. Rest homes and nursing homes;
5. Roominghouses and boardinghouses;
6. Apartment hotels;
7. Private residential clubs including fraternity houses, sorority
houses and lodges;
8. Medical clinics and prescription pharmacies, when operated
as an accessory service to a
medical clinic; offices of lawyers, accountants, architects, planners, engineers, realtors, land
developers, insurance agents, management consultants and appraisers. Specifically prohibiting
any office operations that involve retail sales, wholesale sales or product displays; or product
inventories; or requires on-site storage of service or delivery vehicles;
9. Private recreational clubs;
10. Public and private schools located on a site of at least
three acres, including those
providing overnight accommodations for students, monasteries and colleges;
11. Churches, synagogues, chapels and similar places of religious
worship or instruction when
located in a permanent structure;
12. Community centers, cultural and administrative functions
of public or private
eleemosynary institutions and offices of social welfare establishments;
13. Child care centers;
14. Public parks and playgrounds subject to the following standards:
a. Buffer. All public park areas
designed and intended for active recreational use shall be
separated from abutting residential property by a passively used strip of land not less than thirty
feet in width; or, if the size of the park or playground makes such a strip unfeasible, by a buffer
of evergreen trees or other suitable buffer sufficient to screen the adjoining residential property
from the active recreational area.
b. Access. Access to parking areas for
over fifty cars and to service areas shall be from
arterial or collector streets or service roads;
15. Railroad through and spur tracks, but no sidings or other
terminal-type facilities and no
service, repair or administrative facilities;
16. Hospitals;
17. Scientific laboratories;
18. Transitional service facilities;
19. Fire stations;
20. Banks and savings and loan associations, credit unions and
other financial offices and
credit bureaus;
21. Employment agencies, travel agents, offices and meeting
rooms of labor unions, and
beauty and barber shops.
22. Bed and breakfast homes, subject to the following standards:
a. Minimum gross habitable floor area:
750 square feet per rooming unit
b. Minimum total lot area: 5000 square
feet
c. Meals: Meals to overnight guests
only
d. Private events: Allowed by Conditional
Use Permit, as per Chapter 25.94
e. Maximum number of non-resident employees:
Three
f. Screening: Parking lots for more
than three vehicles shall be screened from neighboring
residentially zoned or used properties. The screening shall be continuous, six feet in height,
and
shall consist of a fence, foliage or a combination of such materials.
23. Bed and breakfast inns, subject to the following standards:
a. Minimum gross habitable floor
area: 500 square feet per rooming unit
b. Minimum total lot area: 5000
square feet
c. Meals and private events: Meals to
overnight guests only. Non-guest meals and/or private
events may be allowed by Conditional Use Permit, as per Chapter 25.94.
d. Maximum number of non-resident employees:
Three
e. Screening: Parking lots for more
than three vehicles shall be screened from neighboring
residentially zoned or used properties. The screening shall be continuous, six feet in height,
and
shall consist of a fence, foliage or a combination of such materials.
24. Mortuaries, funeral homes, and funeral chapels subject
to the following standards:
a. All height and setback requirements
relating to single family residences in the RG-20
zoning district shall be met.
b. The combined maximum lot coverage
of the principal structure, accessory structures, and
parking lot shall not exceed 80%.
25. Radio and television studios and stations subject to
the following standards:
a. All height and setback requirements
relating to single family residences in the RG-20
zoning district shall be met.
b. The combined maximum lot coverage
of the principal structure, accessory structures, and
parking lot shall not exceed 80%. (Ord. 98/U-6496; 91/T-10465; 91/T-9568; 86/T-4395; 84/T-3095;
84/T-3040; S-41565, 1981; S-38220, 1979; S-37019, 1978; S-30424, 1976)