(A) Zone 1. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
(1) One-family detached dwellings meeting the standards of the Uniform Building Code, placed on permanent foundations and having no horizontal axis less than 18 feet in length;
(2) Home occupation, as defined in § 155.003;
(3) Public utility buildings and structures; and
(4) Community-based family-care home, day-care home licensed under M.S. § 245.812 or a home for the care of the mentally or physically handicapped licensed by the state.
(B) Zone 2. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
(1) One-family detached townhouse dwellings meeting the standards of the Uniform Building Code, placed on permanent foundations and having no horizontal axis less than 18 feet in length;
(2) Home occupation, as defined in § 155.003;
(3) Public utility buildings and structures; and
(4) Community-based family-care home, day-care home licensed under M.S. § 245.812 or a home for the care of the mentally or physically handicapped licensed by the state.
(C) Zone 3. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
(1) Townhouse multiple dwellings provided no single structure contains more than 12 dwelling units;
(2) Home occupation, as defined in § 155.003;
(3) Public utility buildings and structures; and
(4) Community-based family-care home, day-care home licensed under M.S. § 245.812 or a home for the care of the mentally or physically handicapped licensed by the state.
(D) Zone 4. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
(1) Dairy, grocery or convenience store not to exceed 5,000 square feet of floor area;
(2) Neighborhood restaurant. A drive-through window is permissible (but shall not be deemed a fast food restaurant as defined in this code), subject to the drive-through window provisions in division (D)(7);
(3) Offices for doctors, dentists, lawyers, realtors, veterinarians (no outdoor animal pens allowed), insurance agents, and similar uses to serve the adjoining residential area. Individual professional office buildings within the neighborhood center project shall not exceed 3,000 square feet in gross building area. The aggregate total of all professional office space within the project shall not exceed 25% of the gross building floor area within the project;
(4) Day-care centers;
(5) Retail operations selling personal services or goods over-the-counter as limited to the following uses unless otherwise specifically approved by the City Council: antiques, art and school supplies, bakeries, barbershop, beauty parlor, bicycles, books and stationery, candy, cameras and photographic supplies, catering establishments, china and glassware, clothes pressing, custom dressmaking, drugs, dry goods, florists, garden supplies, gifts, hardware, hats, hobby shops, household appliance repair, interior decorating studio (no retail furniture sales), jewelry and watch repair, laundry and dry cleaning, locksmith shops, musical instruments, off-sale liquor, paint and wallpaper, phonograph records and equipment, photography studio, shoes, sporting goods, tailoring, tanning salon, tobacco, toys, variety stores, video tape and equipment sales or rental and wearing apparel; and
(6) Banks and savings and loan in a freestanding building, not to exceed 3,000 square feet in gross building area. Drive-up tellers shall be screened and oriented as required by the City Council.
(7) One drive-through window per lot, provided all of the following conditions are met:
(a) The drive-through window shall be screened and oriented to minimize any adverse affect to the neighboring residential properties as required by the City Council,
(b) The hours of operation shall be limited to between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. daily, and
(c) A business installing any outdoor speakers in conjunction with a drive-through window shall demonstrate to the city's satisfaction that they will not negatively impact the adjacent residential properties.
(Ord. 629, passed 8-21-97; Am. Ord. 671, passed 4-27-00; Am. Ord. 807, passed 4-26-07)