§ 3.7. Footnotes to schedule of regulations.

A.

In single-family residential, multiple-family residential, mobile home residential, commercial and industrial districts, the required front yard setbacks shall not be used for off-street parking and shall remain as open space unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except for landscaping, plant materials, or vehicle access drives. All yards abutting public streets shall be considered as front yards for setback purposes.

B.

Minimum front yard setback is measured from the edge of the proposed right-of-way, based upon information and standards set forth by the City of Montrose.

C.

All yards abutting upon a public street shall be considered as front yard for setback purposes.

D.

Where a front yard of lesser depth than specified in the schedule of regulations exists in front of dwellings on more than 50 percent of the lots of record on one side of the street in any one block in a single-family residential district, the depth of front yard for any building thereafter erected or placed on any lot in such block need not be greater than the average depth of front yards of such existing building.

E.

The minimum land area required for each dwelling unit in the MFR district shall be in accordance with the following schedule:

Dwelling Unit Type	Land area required (square feet)
	Multiple dwelling	Townhouses/duplexes
Efficiency or/one-bedroom unit	3,000	4,200
Two-bedroom unit	4,200	5,000
Three-bedroom unit	5,100	5,700
Four-bedroom or more unit	5,700	6,000

 

F.

The minimum floor area per dwelling unit shall not include area of basements, breezeways, porches, or attached garages.

G.

The minimum required floor area per dwelling unit in the MFR district shall be:

Efficiency	400 square feet
One-bedroom apartment	550 square feet
Two-bedroom apartment	750 square feet
Three-bedroom apartment	850 square feet
Four-bedroom apartment	1,040 square feet

 

H.

Each side yard shall be a minimum of ten feet and this space shall be increased beyond ten feet by two feet for each ten feet or part thereof by which said dwelling structure exceeds 40 feet in overall dimension along the adjoining lot line. Maximum building length shall not exceed 200 feet. In the multiple-family zoning district, there shall be maintained a minimum distance between adjacent buildings on the same lot equal to the height of the taller building.

I.

Mobile home park developments are subject to the minimum requirements and standards as established in the Mobile Home Commission Act, Public Act 419 of 1976 [see now MCL 559.101 et seq.], and any and all rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to Act 419, as may be amended.

J.

Off-street parking shall be permitted to occupy a portion of the required front yard provided that there shall be maintained a minimum unobstructed and landscaped setback of ten feet between the nearest point of the off-street parking area, exclusive of access driveway, and the nearest edge of the proposed right-of-way line.

K.

No side yards are required along the interior side lot lines of the district, or adjacent to other nonresidential use districts except as otherwise specified in the building code, provided that if walls of structures facing such interior side lot lines or districts contain windows or other openings, side yards of not less than ten feet shall be provided.

L.

Off-street parking shall be permitted in a required side yard setback provided that there shall be maintained a screening wall between the nearest point of the off-street parking area and the side lot line, when said property line abuts any residential district.

M.

A privacy fence six feet in height must be placed on all property lines abutting a residential district.

N.

All storage shall be in the rear yard and shall be completely screened with an obscuring wall or fence, not less than six feet high, or with a chain-link type fence and a greenbelt planting so as to obscure all view from any adjacent residential, commercial district or from a public street.

O.

A lot depth to lot width ratio of 4:1 shall be the maximum permitted for the single-family residential districts.

(Ord. No. 320, § 2, 7-14-1998)