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Permitted Uses-In the R-2 Residence District, no building or land shall be used, and no building shall be erected, converted, or structurally altered, unless otherwise provided herein, except for one or more of the following uses: (A) Any use permitted in R-1, Residence District (Single Dwelling) and no other. (B) Double dwellings, either one or two stories, double bungalows with court or patio, each living quarter having a minimum of eight hundred (800) square feet of floor area. Each must have a private front and rear entrance. Duplexes must have a minimum of sixteen hundred (1600) square feet of floor area. Height Regulations-No duplex shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered hereafter to exceed thirty (30) feet in height measured from the front or street side grade of the site. Other buildings under this classification are limited to the same height of thirty (30) feet unless variation is authorized by the Council. Area Regulations-No duplex or double bungalow shall be built or struc- turally altered hereafter on a site less than fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet in area. The width of the lot at the street shall not be less than one hundred (100) feet. No existing lot shall be sub-divided unless all of the resulting lots comply in size with the provisions hereof. Front Yard Requirements-Each lot shall have a front yard of not less than thirty (30) feet in depth facing any street or road. If, at the time this ordinance becomes effective, fifty (50) percent or more of the then existing dwellings having frontages on the same street or road have a predominant front yard setback different from that specified herein, then all buildings thereafter erected, altered, or moved shall conform to that predominant front yard depth, unless a different setback is ap- proved in writing by owners of not less than fifty-one (51) percent of all the then existing buildings within two hundred (200) feet of the proposed building location. Side Yard Requirements-Each lot shall have two side yards, one on each side of the building. For every building erected or structurally altered, each side yard shall have a width of not less than ten (10) feet. The foregoing requirements for side yards shall be subject to the following modifications: (A) On a corner lot the side yard on the street side of such corner lot shall have a width of not less than thirty (30) feet. (B) A church, public, parochial, or private school shall have a side yard of not less than fifty (50) feet on each side adjoining other property. (C) When two or more adjoining lots are used as a single building site the side yard requirements shall apply only to the outside lot lines. Rear Yard Requirements- (A) The rear yard for each lot shall have a depth equal to or greater -22-