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• (b) Nursing homes, convalescent homes, extended care facilities provided that such buildings be located not less than 50 feet from any other lot in a residential district. (c) Institutions for children. (d) Group Foster Homes (3) BUIIDING HEIGHT LIMIT (a) For single family dwellings and duplexes the maximum building height shall be two and one-half (21) stories or thirty-five (35) feet. (b) For apartments the maximum building height shall be four (4) stories. (Li) AREA, FRONTAGE AND POPULATION DENSITY REGULATIONS (a) For unplatted lands where public sewer is not available: 1. For single family dwellings the minimum lot area shall be determined by percolation tests according to formulas of the state board of health, but no such lot or building site shall have a width of less than sixty (60) feet or an area of less than eight thousand (8,000) square feet. 2. For multiple family dwellings, apartment houses and apartment house complexes, the minimum lot area shall be determined by percolation tests according to formulas of the state board of health, but no such lot or building site shall have a width of less than sixty (60) feet or an area of less than five thousand (5,000) square feet per dwelling unit. 3. For duplexes the lot width and area shall be the same as for the R-2 Residence District. (b) For plats and unplatted lands where public sewer is available: 1. For single family dwellings the minimum lot width shall be sixty (60) feet and the minimum lot area shall be eight thousand (8,000) square feet. • 2. For duplexes the lot width and area shall be the same as for the R-2 Residence District. 3. For multiple family dwellings, apartment houses and apartment house complexes containing efficiency or one bedroom apartments, the minimum lot width shall be sixty (60) feet and the minimum lot area shall be two thousand (2,000) square feet per unit. 4. For multiple family dwellings, apartment houses and-apartment house complexes containing two bedroom apartments the minimum lot width shall be sixty (60) feet and the minimum area two thousand (2,000) square feet per unit. 5. For multiple family dwellings, apartment houses and apartment house complexes containing apartments of more than two bedrooms the minimum lot width shall be sixty (60) feet and the minimum lot area shall be two thousand two hundred fifty (2,250) square feet per unit. 6. If apartment houses or apartment house complexes contain a mixture of one, two or more than two bed- rooms then the lot area shall be prorated. 7. When computing the minimum areas for apartment house complexes, driveways which are not through streets, parking spaces, swimming pools and facilities which are common to all of the buildings in the complex shall be considered part of the total area of the complex. (5) SETBACK REQUIREMENTS (a) Setback from front lot line or highway right-of-way shall conform to the requirements of Section 10.17; provided, however, that driveways within an apartment house complex, leading to buildings or parking spaces, which are not through streets, shall not be considered streets for the purpose of determining setback. (6) SIDE YARD REQUIREMENTS (a) The minimum side yard on each side of a building not exceeding two and one-half (2�) stories in height shall be ten (10) feet on each side. (b) For buildings exceeding two and one-half (21) stories in height the side yard.on each side shall be increased by (10) ten feet for each full story over two stories. ,(c) For apartment house complexes, where each building is not on a separate parcel of land, the minimum distance between buildings shall be the.sum of the side yards which would be required if the buildings were on separately described parcels. (7) REAR YARD REQUIREMENTS •