Folsom Municipal Code Ch. 17.16 R-3, Neighborhood Apartment District

The specific regulations and the general rules set forth in Chapter 17.58 apply in all R-3 districts. It is intended that this district classification be applied in areas where homes and small apartments are the desirable uses.

(Prior code § 3107.01)

The following uses shall be permitted in the R-3 district:

A. Uses as permitted in the R-1 and R-2 districts except:

1. Standard single-family detached dwelling units;

2. Small family day care homes, unless in single-family detached dwelling units; and

3. Large family day care homes, unless in single-family detached dwelling units and with an administrative permit issued pursuant to Chapter 5.100;

B. Three- or four-family dwellings and apartments, not to exceed four units per lot;

C. Boarding and lodging houses;

D. Private garages, or parking lots uncovered and screened by suitable walls or planting, when operated by or in conjunction with a permitted use;

E. Incidental and accessory buildings and uses on the same lot with and necessary for the operation of any permitted use;

F. Advertising signs pertaining directly to a permitted nonresidential use on the property, and not to exceed one sign of a maximum area of six square feet for any such use;

G. Emergency shelters in accordance with Chapter 17.108.

(Prior code § 3107.02; Ord. 904 § 2 (part), 1999; Ord. 1144 § 3 (part), 2011; Ord. 1218 § 11, 2015; Ord. 1286 § 8, 2018)

A. Uses requiring a use permit in R-1 districts (Section 17.12.030);

B. Motels, hospitals, rest homes, group homes of more than six individuals, day care centers, sanitariums, and professional offices for doctors, dentists, architects, engineers, accountants, artists, authors, attorneys, real estate and insurance offices, medical and dental clinics, and other uses which, in the opinion of the planning commission, are similar to the foregoing; and clubs, lodges and fraternities, except those operated as a business or for profit.

(Prior code § 3107.03; Ord. 1144 § 3 (part), 2011; Ord. 1218 § 12, 2015)

Lot area requirements are six thousand square feet for interior lots; seven thousand five hundred square feet for corner lots.

(Prior code § 3107.11)

Lot width requirements are sixty feet for interior lots; seventy-five feet for corner lots.

(Prior code § 3107.12)

The maximum main building coverage requirement is fifty percent of lot area.

(Prior code § 3107.13)

The front yard requirement is twenty feet.

(Prior code § 3107.14)

The side yard requirement is five feet on one side of the lot and ten feet on the other side of the lot at the option of the owner, developer or subdivider, except the side yard on the street side of each corner lot shall be not less than twenty percent of the lot width, but need not exceed fifteen feet; however, it cannot be less than ten feet as measured from the overhang of the building.

(Prior code § 3107.15; Ord. 311 (part), 1974; Ord. 323 § 24 (part), 1975)

Rear yard requirement is twenty percent of lot depth; may not be less than ten feet, need not exceed twenty feet as measured from the overhang of the building.

(Prior code § 3107.16; Ord. 323 § 24 (part), 1975)

Distances between main buildings on same lot requirements are:

A. Group dwellings in a single row side-to-side series facing a side lot line: side yards to the rear of buildings, eight feet; side yards in front of buildings, fourteen feet; distance between buildings, ten feet;

B. Group dwellings in a double row side-to-side series facing a central court: side yards to the rear of buildings, eight feet; width of central court, twenty-four feet; distance between buildings, ten feet;

C. The rear yard on a lot on which a dwelling group is constructed may be reduced to not less than twelve feet. No building in a group dwelling development shall have the rear thereof abutting on a street.

(Prior code § 3107.17)

Parking requirements are set forth in Chapter 17.57 and summarized for major uses in this district as follows:

(Prior code § 3107.18; Ord. 509 § 7, 1983; Ord. 1187 § 7, 2013)

The building height limit is two stories, but not to exceed thirty-five feet.

(Prior code § 3107.19)

Notwithstanding Section 17.16.110, where any residential unit or group constructed upon any building lot consists of four or more residential units, there shall be provided one and one-half times the parking required by Section 17.16.110.

(Prior code § 3107.20)