Within any P district, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following principal uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
(A) Elementary, middle, junior high, and senior high schools having a regular course of study accredited by the Minnesota State Department of Education;
(B) Public libraries and public or private museums;
(C) Parks and playgrounds, including other structures and buildings necessary for the operation of or directly serving the park or park facilities;
(D) Public recreational facilities or athletic fields operated by a political subdivision or school accredited by the Minnesota State Department of Education;
(E) Recreational buildings, community centers and swimming pools;
(F) Churches, chapels, temples and synagogues;
(G) Golf courses, but not inlcuding commercially operated driving ranges, “pitch-and-putt” miniature golf courses;
(H) Cemeteries including mortuaries;
(I) Municipal government administrative buildings and maintenance buildings and facilities including outdoor storage of municipal vehicles, equipment and materials, municipal utility facilities, fire stations and police stations;
(J) Governmental service centers, administrative offices and maintenance facility buildings (outdoor storage in connection therewith shall be a conditional use), utility or waste water facilities, and courthouses;
(K) Academies, colleges, junior colleges and universities, including dormitories and other structures and facilities necessary in the operation of an academy, college or university;
(L) Clubs and lodges, non-profit and not engaged primarily in providing a service customarily carried on in a business such as the serving of food and drink;
(M) Public hospitals, nursing homes and convalescent centers;
(N) Day-care centers and nurseries; and
(O) Retail sales of product, goods or materials that are ancillary and complimentary to a use that is a permitted or an approved conditional use on the same property, subject to the following requirements:
(1) Retail sales operation is not allowed as an exclusive use within its own stand-alone building; the retail sales shall occur within a building occupied by one or more other institutional uses.
(2) The gross floor area of the retail sales operation is not more than 15% of the total gross floor area or 4,500 square feet, whichever is less, of the building in which it occupies.
(3) The parking requirements as set forth in this chapter for the principal use(s) and the retail sales operation on the property are met.
(4) Hours of operation are limited to 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
(5) No sales operations shall occur or otherwise be permitted to occur outdoors notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter permitting outdoor sales.
(6) Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, no signs, banners, posters or other placards shall be placed on any exterior window or door.
(7) Retail sale of services is prohibited.
(‘81 Code, § A1-44) (Ord. 291, passed 4-21-83; Am. Ord. 514, passed 5-23-91; Am. Ord. 900, passed 9-23-10; Am. Ord. 957, passed 12-26-13; Am. Ord. 1086, passed 4-22-21)