Fort Walton Beach Ordinance — 1861--Adoption of the 2012 Land Development Code — reading text

provided that no more than two (2) students are instructed at any one ( 1) time. 3. Administrative or clerical support services, such as transcription, court reporting, stenography, notary public, or word processing, data entry, or addressing services. 4. Authors, composers, or creators of intellectual property. 5. Telephone answering services. 6. Beauty salons, barber shops, nail technicians, or similar personal service, limited to one ( 1) chair or station. 7. Similar uses. An interpretation that a use is similar shall be based on the tasks and activities normally associated with the proposed use and the similarity of those tasks and activities with the tasks and activities of a listed use. C. The following uses are specifically prohibited as home occupations: 1. Appliance and motor repairs ( small or large). 2. Automotive, vehicle, or watercraft repairs. 3. Florist. 4. Veterinary clinic. 5. Office for a doctor, dentist, or other medical practitioner. 6. Repair of radios, televisions, computers, CD or DVD players, or other similar equipment. 7. Any occupation involving hazardous materials. 8. Restaurants. 9. Any other occupation which does not meet the standards in Section 5. 01. 01. D. All home occupations shall comply with the following standards: Du, " I ..... r[ Puw" S - 4 I ort o afon Land D', I'unment 00' 1. Employees of the home occupation shall be limited to the residents of the dwelling in which the occupation is located. 2. A home occupation shall be required to have a City Business Tax Receipt ( BTR). There shall be one ( 1) BTR for each business conducted in the dwelling. 3. The use of the dwelling unit for the home occupation shall be clearly incidental and subordinate to its use for residential purposes, and shall not change the residential character of the structure. 4. Not more than twenty -five ( 25) percent of the habitable floor area of the dwelling unit shall be used in the conduct of the home occupation. 5. There shall be no change in the outside appearance of the building or premises or other visible evidence of the conduct of such home occupation including outside storage or signs pertaining to the home occupation. However, one ( 1) unlighted nameplate, not more than one ( 1) square foot in area, may be attached to the front wall of the dwelling unit identifying the name of the business which constitutes the home occupation. 6. No home occupation shall be conducted in any accessory building, except for the permissible parking of vehicles in a garage or carport. 7. No open storage of equipment shall be permitted except that which is of a quantity and configuration normally used for purely domestic purposes. S. The home occupation shall not generate noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors, or electrical interference to adjacent properties. 9. Up to two ( 2) passenger vehicles, which may be commercially marked, are permissible in association with the home occupation. All permissible vehicles shall be parked within a lawful garage, lawful carport, or on the driveway. However, vehicles with a primary purpose of commercial use are prohibited; such vehicles include well -drilling trucks, tow -trucks, cement mixers, semi -trailers, tractors, refrigerated trucks or vans, graders, or other earth moving equipment. Lawn equipment trailers and similar vehicles are permissible provided that they are screened from public view and limited to one ( 1) per dwelling. Taxi cabs may be permissible, provided that all such vehicles can be parked within a garage, or carport, or on the driveway. 10. No traffic shall be generated by such home occupation in greater volumes than would normally be expected in a residential neighborhood. The basis for evaluating traffic generated shall be data available from the Institute of Transportation Engineers. 1L Any need for parking generated by the conduct of such home occupation shall be met by the parking areas serving the residential use, such as the driveway, garage, or carport. No vehicle shall block access to the driveway or pedestrian movement on a sidewalk. 5. 01. 02 Accessory Structures and Uses in All Zoning Districts A. Accessory uses and structures may be located on a parcel, provided that the following requirements are met: 1. There shall be a permitted principal structure or use on the development site, located in full compliance with all standards and requirements of this LDC. 2. Accessory structures shall be included in all calculations of impervious surface D, dopnrenl S landard, R", 5- 5 I ", t lt:dlun 13ureh Laud 1)" d...mmul t ndr and stormwater runoff. 3. Accessory structures shall be on the same development site, which may consist of combined lots, and shall be subordinate to the principal use or structure. 4. Permanent accessory structures shall not be located within or on any required easement. 5. Accessory structures, other than fences and flagpoles located in compliance with the requirements of Sections 5. 01. 08 and 5. 03. 07, shall not be located within any required buffer or landscaping area, parking lot, or protected area. The applicant shall demonstrate that accessory structures proposed in a stormwater management area shall have no negative impact on the intended function of the area. B. Accessory uses and structures that contain recreation facilities, gyms and health club facilities, parks, playgrounds, play courts, and play fields shall not be open to the general public. Such accessory uses and structures are intended for the use of the residents or employees of the principal use. 1. There shall be no signage advertising the uses and structures. 2. Parking to support the accessory use or structure shall be provided as set forth in Section 6. 04.02. 3.Accessory structures shall be designed for consistency and compatibility with the principal building( s) on the site. C. Site development standards for accessory buildings 1. An accessory building in the R -IE, R -1, R -2, YC, MVI, and MX -2 zoning districts shall not exceed one ( 1) story, except where an accessory dwelling unit is approved in the second story above a garage. 2. An accessory building in the R -IE, R -1, R -2, YC, MX -1, and MX -2 zoning districts shall have a roof pitch of 4: 12 or shall match the roof pitch of the principal building. 3. An accessory building in the R - IE, R - 1, R -2, YC, MX -I, and MX -2 zoning districts shall not exceed 600 s. f. in floor area. The required side and rear yard setbacks for accessory buildings in the R -lE, R -1, R -2, YC, MX -1, and MX -2 zoning districts are shown below. a. Accessory buildings up to 200 s. f. in floor area shall be setback three ( 3) feet from side and rear property lines. b. Accessory buildings of 201 to 600 s. f. in floor area shall be setback seven and one -half (7 1l2) feet from side and rear property lines. c. Accessory buildings on a corner lot shall have a setback of fifteen ( 15) feet from the properly line abutting a street. 4. An accessory building in the YC zoning district shall be setback from the rear property line ten ( 10) feet when the cumulative total square feel of floor area in all buildings is less than five ( 5) percent of the land area required for the wetland buffer. When the cumulative total square feet of floor area in all buildings exceeds five ( 5) percent, the rear setback shall be fifty (50) feet. 5. Accessory buildings in the CF and CG zoning districts shall have a minimum rear yard setback of seven and one -half (7 1/ 2) feet. D. Standards for specific accessory structures are set forth in Section 5. 01. 03 through 5. 01. 17. De. rlopurenl Slu n. hol, P:µ! e8 6 I ort N altrm B'." h I a" d Pcerfaomrnl Code 5.01. 03 Accessory Dwellings in Residential Zoning Districts A. Purpose 1. The purpose of this section is to help ensure a wide variety of housing choices to City residents and allow opportunities for extended family living. 2. This section provides for accessory dwellings, also called accessory apartments, guesthouses, helper quarters, mother -in -law suites, and granny flats. 3. The intent of this section is to ensure that the establishment of an accessory dwelling in a residential zoning district maintains compatibility of the area by minimizing or avoiding potential negative impacts from a secondary dwelling unit. B. Applicability Accessory dwelling units are permissible in R -] E and R -I when established in compliance with the standards set forth in this section. C. No more than one ( 1) accessory dwelling shall be established on a single- family tot. D. Standards for an accessory dwelling located within the principal dwelling 1. An accessory dwelling shall be an integral part of the principal dwelling structure. It shall not be construed to be located within a principal dwelling when it is connected to the principal dwelling only by a breezeway or roofed passageway. 2. An accessory dwelling shall not be permissible within a nonconforming dwelling. 3. The establishment of an accessory dwelling shall only be permissible when the principal dwelling can