18.20.010 Use Regulations

In residential zone R-1, no building or structure or land shall be used, and no building shall be erected which is arranged, intended or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses: A. Single-family dwellings; B. Churches, except temporary revival tents or buildings; C. Libraries, museums, art galleries; D. Public schools; private educational institutions having a curriculum similar to that ordinarily given in public schools; child day care or nursery; E. Public parks, public recreational grounds and buildings; public utilities; private recreational grounds and facilities, not open to the general public, and to which no admission charge is made; F. Agriculture: nurseries and greenhouses, provided sale of goods is limited to materials produced on the premises and there is no retail shop operated in connection therewith; G. Household pets; H. Name plates and signs as follows: 1. Name Plate. One name plate for each dwelling unit, not exceeding two square feet in area, indicating the name of the occupant and/or permitted home occupation, 2. Identification Sign. One sign, not exceeding eight square feet in area for conforming building or conforming uses other than dwellings, boarding or lodging houses, and multiple dwellings, 3. Property Signs. One or more signs not exceeding eight square feet in combined total area for each street frontage of the lot, appertaining to lease or sale of the property. In addition one or more signs of a temporary nature for each approved subdivision under development, or main buildings, or uses under development other than dwellings, provided such signs shall not exceed in combined total area two hundred square feet and that no one sign shall exceed one hundred square feet in area, 4. Service Signs. One or more service signs not exceeding twenty-four square feet in combined total area for each commercial or residential use lawfully occupying the premises, provided no one sign shall exceed eight square feet in area, 5. Business Signs. One or more signs not exceeding in total area two square feet for each one linear foot of street frontage occupied by a nonconforming commercial or industrial use, provided the combined total area of such designs shall not exceed one hundred square feet; such uses not occupying frontage may have one or more signs not exceeding forty square feet in combined total area. In addition, temporary business signs not exceeding one hundred square feet in total area are permitted, provided, that no such temporary sign shall be erected for more than thirty days, 6. Location of Signs. a. Identification or business signs shall not be located in any required front or side yard except that signs attached to a building may project not more than six feet into a required yard, not less than ten feet above the ground. b. Property signs or service signs shall be located not closer than ten feet to any property line. Name plates may be located anywhere on the property, 7. Lighting of Signs. Signs may be illuminated or floodlighted by direct lighting only and the source of light shall not be visible beyond the property upon which located, nor constitute a nuisance. Visible luminous tubes shall be considered as direct lighting. Animated signs are prohibited, 8. Height of Signs. No roof sign shall be erected higher than the height of the main building to which it is attached; I. Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work, which buildings must be removed upon the completion or abandonment of the construction work; J. Home occupations; K. Accessory uses and buildings customarily and normally incidental and subordinate to the above and devoted exclusively to the main permitted use of the premises. (Ord. 87-17.03 (part), 1987: prior code §34-7-1)