215 Wertz Rd, Johnstown, PA 15902

Multiple-Family Residence District

The R3 Multiple-Family Residence District is composed of certain medium-density residential areas of the City representing a compatible mingling of single-unit and multiple-unit dwellings. The regulations for this District are designed to stabilize and protect the essential characteristics of the District; to promote and encourage a suitable environment for family life; and to prohibit all activities to a commercial nature, except those having also some aspects of residential use such as home offices of doctors or ministers, funeral homes, and membership clubs, controlled by specific limitations governing the size and extent of such semi-commercial activities. To these ends, development is limited to a medium concentration, and permitted uses are typically single and two-unit dwellings, row dwellings and low-rise apartments, providing homes for residents in a variety of dwelling types, plus certain additional uses such as schools, parks, churches, hospitals, and public facilities which serve the residents of the District. However, high-rise apartments, with corresponding proportions of open space, may be developed under prescribed standards of density and open space.