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Fayette "RS-1" Single-Family Residential District ordinance (§ 405.170)

Chapter 405: Zoning Regulations · Article III. District Use Regulations

A. Permissive Uses.

1. Single-family dwelling.

2. Public park or playground.

3. Church.

4. Public school, elementary and high, or private school having a curriculum equivalent to a public elementary or public high school and having no rooms regularly used for housing or sleeping purposes.

5. Golf courses, except miniature golf course and driving tees operated for commercial purposes.

6. Large scale development in accordance with the provisions of Article IV.

7. Modular or manufactured homes on a permanent foundation.

8. Any home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally or physically handicapped persons reside, and which may include two (2) additional persons acting as house parents or guardians who need not be related to each other or to any of the mentally or physically handicapped persons residing in the home.

9. Any private residence licensed by the Division of Family Services or Department of Mental Health to provide foster care to one (1) or more but less than seven (7) children who are unrelated to either foster parent by blood, marriage or adoption.

B. Conditional Uses.

1. Private recreational facility where structures do not occupy more than ten percent (10%) of the site area.

2. Public buildings erected by any government agency, except jails.

3. Hospital (except criminal, mental, or animal), nursing home, educational, philanthropic, or religious institution on site of not less than five (5) acres, provided not more than fifty percent (50%) of the site area may be occupied by building(s), and provided further, that the building(s) shall be set back from all required yard lines an additional foot for each foot of building height.

4. College in which no rooms are regularly used for housing or sleeping purposes.

5. Parking lot.

6. Nursery, pre-kindergarten, play, special and other private school.

7. Non-commercial greenhouse or nursery.

8. Bed-and-breakfast establishment.

9. Boardinghouse.

Official source: City of Fayette official Code of Ordinances (online), § 405.170

Last checked October 30, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.