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Falcon Heights Sec. 113-174. One-family R-1 residential district. (a) Scope. The provisions of this section apply to the R-1 one-family residential district. (b) Permitted Uses. Within any R-1 one-family residential district, no structure or land shall be used except for one or more of the following uses: one-family detached dwellings. (c) Conditional Uses. Within any R-1 one-family residential district, no structure or land shall be used for the following uses except by conditional use permit: (1) Public parks and playgrounds. (2) Schools, provided no buildings shall be located within 50 feet of any lot line of an abutting lot in an R use district. Any fence erected around a play area shall be not less than 15 feet from a street line when said fence would be across the street from an R use district. (3) Municipal buildings and structures, excluding storage of maintenance equipment and trucks over 1 1/2 tons, stockpiling of aggregate and open storage of material, but including firefighting apparatus, provided these shall not be located within 30 feet of any lot line of an abutting lot in an R use district. (4) Essential service structures, provided no building shall be located within 50 feet from any lot line of an abutting lot in an R use district. The architectural design of service structures should be compatible to the neighborhood in which they are to be located. (5) Golf courses, country clubs, tennis clubs, public swimming pools serving more than one family. (6) Off-street parking: when the proposed site of the off-street parking abuts on a lot which is in a B district and subject to those conditions set forth in article VI, division 2, subdivision II, and such other conditions as found necessary by the council to carry out the intent of this chapter. However, such off-street parking shall be permitted as a conditional use in any R-1 one-family use district for church parking purposes. (7) Room and/or board for up to four persons. (8) Home occupations not meeting the definitions and requirements of section 113-391. (d) Permitted accessory uses. No accessory structures or use of land shall be permitted except for one or more of the following uses: (1) Home occupations meeting the definitions and requirements of section 113-391. (2) Private tennis courts, provided no portion of the paved or fenced area is within a required front yard or less than ten feet from a property line. (3) One private garage or carport and parking space as regulated in section 113-240. (4) Private automobile repair or reconditioning as regulated in section 113-250. (5) Gardening and other horticultural uses where no retail sale of products is conducted on the premises. (6) Keeping of domestic pets as required in the Code. (7) Signs as provided in subsection (g) of this section. (8) Decorative landscape features and fences as regulated herein. (9) Accessory buildings other than detached private garages as regulated herein. The design and placement of the accessory buildings must be approved by the planner as being in harmony with the surrounding residential neighborhood. (10) Buildings temporarily located for purposes of constructing on the premises for a period not to exceed the time necessary for such construction (approved by zoning administrator).