New Franklin "Rs-1" Single-Family Residential District ordinance (§ 405.070)

A. The "RS-1" District is intended and designed to provide for low density residential development. This district is designed to protect residential areas now developed with single-family detached dwellings and adjoining vacant areas likely to be developed for such purposes. The regulations are designed to stabilize such areas and to promote a suitable environment for family life.

B. Permitted Uses.

1. Single-family detached dwellings.

2. Group homes. No group home shall be located within two thousand five hundred (2,500) feet of another group home. The exterior appearance of the home and property shall be in reasonable conformance with the general neighborhood standards. Group homes shall be eleemosynary or not-for-profit in nature.

3. Customary accessory buildings including private garages, carports, swimming pools, fireplaces and similar accessory uses.

4. Public, private and parochial schools.

5. Homes where child care is provided to no more than four (4) children not related to the day care provider by blood, marriage or adoption, for any part of the twenty-four (24) hour day.

6. Public buildings erected by any public agency except those buildings used primarily for maintenance and storage purposes.

7. Electric substations, public utility pumping stations, water and sewage treatment facilities, water storage facilities and devices for the metering of electrical, gas or water services to dwellings.

8. Public parks, playgrounds, cemeteries, swimming pools, community centers, athletic fields and recreation buildings therein.

9. Churches or other places of worship, including religious education buildings or other associated structures. Church signs shall be a permitted use.

10. Agricultural uses, including nurseries and truck gardening, provided that no offensive odors or dust are created and no livestock is housed within twenty-five (25) feet of a property line and provided further, that gross retail sales in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per year not be permitted on the premises. Commercial feed lots shall not be permitted in this district.

11. Temporary buildings to house offices, equipment storage or other functions incidental to construction and development activities, provided that such buildings shall be removed within twelve (12) months from date of permit for their erection.

12. One (1) sign not exceeding thirty-six (36) square feet in area referring to the construction, lease, hire or sale of a building, premise or subdivision lot, which sign shall refer to the subdivision or property on which the sign is located, and shall be removed as soon as the premises are sold or leased or construction is completed.

13. Customary home occupations.

14. Bed and breakfast establishments.