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§ 154.009 DISTRICT R1; RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY.
   (A)   Use regulations. Buildings or land, in any portion of the city may be used for any of the uses listed under this classification, but in an R1 District no building or structure shall be hereafter erected which consists of less than 1,250 square feet of floor space, exclusive of garages and out-buildings or attached garages, or structurally altered, which is arranged or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses:
      (1)   Single-family dwellings, excluding mobile or manufactured homes;
      (2)   Churches or other places of worship;
      (3)   Colleges, universities or other institutions of higher learning;
      (4)   Country clubs or golf courses, but not including miniature golf courses, driving ranges or similar forms of commercial amusement;
      (5)   Parks, playgrounds, community buildings and other public recreational facilities, owned and/or operated by the municipality or other public agency;
      (6)   Public buildings, including libraries, museums, police and fire stations;
      (7)   Real estate sales offices during the development of residential subdivisions but not to exceed two years. Display residential houses with sales offices, provided that if the display houses are not moved within a period of one year, specific permission must be obtained from the City Council for display houses to remain on their locations;
      (8)   Schools: public, elementary, middle or high;
      (9)   Schools: private, with curriculum equivalent to that of a public elementary, middle or high school;
      (10)   Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work on the premises, which buildings shall be removed upon the completion or abandonment of construction work;
      (11)   Water supply reservoirs, pumping plants and towers; and/or
      (12)   Accessory buildings and uses, customarily incident to the above uses located on the same lot therewith, not involving the conduct of a retail business.
         (a)   The term ACCESSORY USE shall include customary home occupations such as the office of a milliner, dressmaker, musician or artist, provided that such uses are located in the dwelling used by such a person as his or her private residence, and provided that no assistant not a member of the family residing on the premises is employed, and no window display or sign is used to advertise the same.
         (b)   A billboard, signboard or advertising sign shall not be permitted as an incidental use, except that the placing of an unilluminated "For Sale" or "For Rent" sign not more than eight square feet in area may be permitted as an accessory use, and except that churches and other institutions may display signs showing names, activities and services therein provided, and that during construction of a building one unilluminated sign advertising contractors or architects on the premises shall be permitted, provided that the sign shall not be more than eight square feet in area and shall be set back of the established or customary building line, and the sign shall be removed immediately upon completion of the building.
         (c)   A private garage, with or without storeroom and/or utility room, shall be permitted as an accessory building, provided that the garage shall be located not less than 50 feet from the front lot line nor less than five feet from any side or rear lot and in the case of corner lots not less than the distance required for residences from side streets. A garage or servants’ quarters constructed as an integral part of the main building shall be subject to the regulations affecting the main building.
   (B)   Parking regulations. Off-street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in § 154.018 below.
   (C)   Area regulations. Lot area regulations and set back requirements shall be provided in accordance with the requirements set forth in §§ 154.040 through 154.059 below.
   (D)   Pre-existing mobile or manufactured homes. Mobile or manufactured homes situated within the R1 District on the effective date of this subchapter may be replaced, renovated or remodeled with manufactured homes on a permanent foundation of more than 1,250 square feet of living space.
(Ord. 3-86, passed 6-12-1986; Ord. 7-1-99, passed 7-1-1999)
§ 154.010 DISTRICT R2; RESIDENTIAL MULTI-FAMILY.
   (A)   Use regulations. Buildings or land may be used for any of the uses listed under this classification, but in an R2 District no building or structure shall be hereafter erected, or structurally altered, which consists of less than 1,250 square feet of floor space, exclusive of garages and out-buildings or attached garages, which is arranged or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses:
      (1)   Any use permitted in District R1;
      (2)   Two-family dwelling-duplexes, with the minimum of 800 square feet of floor space in each family dwelling;
      (3)   Multi-family dwellings, including apartment houses and group houses, with a minimum of 800 square feet of living space per dwelling unit (or apartment);
      (4)   Play schools or day nurseries, when enrolling fewer than five pupils;
      (5)   Parking automobile areas, as accessory use only;
      (6)   Telephone exchanges (no business office);
      (7)   Water supply reservoirs and towers, gas and electric public utility regulator stations, but the size, heights and location of the stations to be fixed by the City Council;
      (8)   Institutions of a religious, educational, charitable or philanthropic nature, but not penal or mental institutions; and
      (9)   Accessory buildings and uses, customarily incident to the above uses located on the same lot therewith, not involving the conduct of a retail business.
         (a)   The term ACCESSORY USE shall include customary home occupations such as the office of a milliner, dressmaker, musician or artist, provided that the uses are located in the dwelling used by such a person as his or her private residence, and provided that no assistant not a member of the family residing on the premises is employed, and no window display or sign is used to advertise the same.
         (b)   A billboard, signboard or advertising sign shall not be permitted as an incidental use, except that the placing of an unilluminated "For Sale" or "For Rent" sign not more than eight square feet in area may be permitted as an accessory use, and except that churches and other institutions may display signs showing names, activities and services therein provided, and that during construction of a building one unilluminated sign advertising contractors or architects on the premises shall be permitted, provided that the sign shall not be more than eight square feet in area and shall be set back of the established or customary building line, and the sign shall be removed immediately upon completion of the building.
         (c)   A private garage, with or without storeroom and/or utility room, shall be permitted as an accessory building, provided that the garage shall be located not less than 60 feet from the front lot line nor less than five feet from any side or rear lot and in the case of corner lots not less than the distance required for residences from side streets. A garage or servants’ quarters constructed as an integral part of the main building shall be subject to the regulations affecting the main building.
   (B)   Parking regulations. Off-street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in § 154.018 below.
   (C)   Area regulations. Lot area regulations and set back requirements shall be provided in accordance with the requirements set forth in §§ 154.040 through 154.059 below.
(Ord. 3-86, passed 6-12-1986; Ord. 2-7-98, passed 7-9-1998; Ord. 7-1-99, passed 7-1-1999)
§ 154.011 DISTRICT R3; MOBILE OR MANUFACTURED HOMES, MOBILE OR MANUFACTURED HOME PARKS.
   (A)   Use regulations. Any use permitted in District R1 or R2.
      (1)   Certain manufactured homes situated on a permanent foundation with a minimum of 750 square feet of living space upon obtaining an indefinite special use permit to locate one such special manufactured home on an "R3" residential lot in conformity with §§ 154.040 through 154.059 below, in lieu of the single-family dwelling and further conforming to the regulations for permanent manufactured home set out in the ordinances of the city. Special use permits shall be requested by application to the City Secretary who shall submit the request to the City Council as provided by § 154.020 below.
      (2)   Mobile or manufactured homes located in mobile or manufactured home parks conforming to the regulations set forth in the ordinances of the city.
   (B)   Parking regulations. Off-street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in § 154.018 below.
   (C)   Area regulations. Lot area regulations and set back requirements shall be provided in accordance with the requirements set forth in §§ 154.040 through 154.059 below.
(Ord. 3-86, passed 6-12-1986; Ord. 2-7-98, passed 7-9-1998)
§ 154.012 DISTRICT CR; COMMERCIAL RETAIL.
   (A)   Use regulations. Residential usage is limited to living quarters or apartment as part of the business, not detached; and only if authorized by the City Council. In District CR, no building, structure or land shall be used and no building or structure shall hereafter be erected, or structurally arranged or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses:
      (1)   Automobile parking lots (not storage), automobile and trailer display and sales (new or used);
      (2)   Bakeries, banks, barber shops, beauty shops, billboards and advertising signs, boarding and lodging houses, bowling alleys, building materials, lumber yards (provided not more than 20% of the area of the lot is used for the open storage of products, material or equipment); bus terminals, business offices and office buildings, business or commercial schools;
      (3)   Camera stores, candy manufacturing for retail sales on premises only, canvas awning, Venetian blinds or shade shops, car washes, cleaning, pressing and laundry establishments;
      (4)   Day nurseries and play schools, properly licensed by the state, and enrolling more than five students, and drug stores;
      (5)   Electric appliance repair and sales;
      (6)   Feed and seed stores, retail, (provided that not more than 20% of the lot area is used for the open storage of products, materials or equipment); florist shops or greenhouses;
      (7)   Grocery stores, retail;
      (8)   Hospitals, clinics and sanitariums, (except a criminal, mental or large animal hospital); hotels and motels;
      (9)   Jewelry manufacturing for retail sales on premises only;
      (10)   Laundries, self-service;
      (11)   Miniature golf courses, mini-warehouses, mortuaries;
      (12)   Nursing and convalescent homes;
      (13)   Office and office complexes for professionals, such as physicians, dentists and the like;
      (14)   Pet shops; photographic shops, public utilities substations;
      (15)   Radio shops or studios, restaurants, cafés and cafeterias; retail stores, shopping centers, automobile and truck repair garages, tire stores for sale, mounting and repair of tires, shops, stores and markets for retail business, provided that the use is not noxious nor offensive by reason of vibrations, noise, nor the emission of odors, smoke or gas;
      (16)   Second hand furniture stores, shops for custom work or for making articles to be sold at retail on the premises (including cabinet shops with retail sales on site), small animal hospitals;
      (17)   Taxi stands, theaters, except open air (drive in);
      (18)   Upholstering shops, not involving furniture manufacturing; and
      (19)   Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above uses, provided that such be not objectionable because of odor, smoke, dust, noise, vibration or similar nuisance.
   (B)   Parking regulations. Off-street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in § 154.018 below.
   (C)   Area regulations. Lot area regulations and set back requirements shall be provided in accordance with the requirements set forth in §§ 154.040 through 154.059 below.
(Ord. 3-86, passed 6-12-1986; Ord. 7-1-99, passed 7-1-1999; Ord. 5-6-04, passed 5-6-2004)
§ 154.013 DISTRICT CI; COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL.
   (A)   District CI, Commercial Industrial.
      (1)   Use regulations. All current uses in a CI District may continue. Light industrial assuages that do not produce off site noise, light, vibrations, dust or odors. In District CI, no building, structure or land shall be used and no building or structure shall hereafter be erected, or structurally arranged or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses:
         (a)   Apparel and other products assembled from finished textiles, and artificial flavor manufacture;
         (b)   Bag cleaning, billboard or advertising signs (pertaining to business conducted on site); blacksmith and machine shops, book binding, bottling works, brewery, broom factory, building materials, sand, gravel and machinery supply storage or sale yards;
         (c)   Cement warehouses and storage, cheese factory clothing manufacture, commercial amusement park, contractor’s offices and storage yards, cosmetic manufacture, cotton gins, compresses and oil mills;
         (d)   Dance halls, dirt contractors, dry goods (wholesale and storage), drug manufacturing, dye stuff manufacture, and dyeing;
         (e)   Electrical sign manufacturing, electronic products assembly, engraving and blue printing shops, envelope and stationery manufacture;
         (f)   Feed mills (manufacturing and wholesale); food canning, food processing or food preserving; freight, carting, express, hauling or storage yards, freight depots or garages; furniture and office equipment manufacture;
         (g)   Mini-warehouses;
         (h)   Heavy trucks and dirt moving equipment repairs, household appliance assembly and manufactured household goods storage and other storage warehouses;
         (i)   Ice cream and milk, processing and distribution centers, ice plants and ice storage houses;
         (j)   Grain elevators;
         (k)   Livestock auction sales, barns and temporary concentration, shipping, loading and unloading facilities;
         (l)   Manufacturing plants including the processing or assembling of parts or production of finished equipment where the process of manufacture or treatment of materials is such that only a nominal amount of dust, odor, gas, smoke or noise is emitted; mattress renovation and manufacture, motorcycle and scooter repairing, motor freight terminal, musical instruments assembly and manufacture;
         (m)   Optical goods manufacture;
         (n)   Paint shops, painting and body shops, paper box manufacture, penal or correctional institutions; petroleum products, refineries and wholesale bulk storage, pickle manufacture, pharmaceutical products manufacturing, planning mills and wooden box manufacture, plastic, celluloid and similar cellulose material manufacture and processing, plumbing shops, printing, publishing and engraving;
         (o)   Quick freeze locker service;
         (p)   Railroad roundhouses, shops and yards, refrigerator manufacture, riding academy or livery stables;
         (q)   Sheet metal shops, shoe polish manufacture, sporting and athletic equipment manufacture, stone cutting and monument works, stone mills or quarries, storage warehouses, storage yards, stove polish manufacture;
         (r)   Testing and research laboratories, trade schools-mechanical or agricultural, trucking contractors;
         (s)   Well servicing, woodwork and cabinet making; and
         (t)   Veterinary or small animal hospitals.
      (2)   Parking regulations. Off-street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in § 154.018 below.
      (3)   Area regulations. Lot area regulations and set back requirements shall be provided in accordance with the requirements set forth in §§ 154.040 through 154.059.
   (B)   District HI, Heavy Industrial; use regulations. In District HI, no building, structure or land shall be used and no building or structure shall hereafter be erected, or structurally arranged or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses: This district is for those industries that produce loud noises, vibrations, light, dust, odors and other conditions that make this use incompatible with residential and commercial uses. The following are authorized in this district: alcohol manufacture, agricultural implements manufacture, automobile wrecking yards, blast furnaces, boiler works, brick, tile, pottery or terra cotta manufacture, cereal mills, automobile wrecking yards, chicken hatcheries, coal, coke and wood yards, including coal hoists, coal pockets or coal tar trestles, cooperage works, disinfectants and insecticides manufacture, emery cloth and sand paper manufacture, fishsmoking and curing, foundries-iron, steel, brass or copper; fur goods manufacture including tanning or dyeing: galvanizing, glass manufacture, including glass products from previously manufactured glass; junk or salvage yards, trunk manufacture iron, steel or copper fabrication plants, iron, steel, brass or copper foundries; linoleum, vinyl or oil cloth manufacture; mini-warehouses oil or rubber goods manufacture, potash works, poultry killing, cleaning and dressing, storage of live poultry; rock crushers and asphalt plants, rock wool manufacture, rolling mills, roofing materials manufacture, soap, fertilizer and wash compound manufacture, storage or bailing of rags, iron, junk or paper; textile manufacture, tile roofing or water proof roofing manufacture, wool pulling or scouring; yeast plants.
   (C)   Plan Unit Development (PUD) District; use regulations. In a PUD District, no building, structure or land shall be used and no building or structure shall hereafter be erected, or structurally arranged or designed to be used for other than those authorized for this district: the Plan Unit Development District is a special area that is being developed in a manner not provided in any other district. It may vary requirements for uses, lot sizes, yards, parking and management requirements. Uses may be mixed to carry out a development plan that the City Council has authorized. In this zoning district the City Council must approve any change or deviation from the requirements of this section.
(Ord. 3-86, passed 6-12-1986; Ord. 2-7-98, passed 7-9-1998; Ord. 7-1-99, passed 7-1-1999; Ord. 5-6-04, passed 5-6-2004)
§ 154.014 REGULATIONS FOR BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES.
   (A)   The height of buildings in the R1 and R2 Districts shall not exceed 35 feet or two and one-half stories in height.
   (B)   The height of buildings in the CR District shall not exceed 75 feet and the height of buildings in the CI District shall not exceed 100 feet; but to the height permitted above four feet, may be added to the height of the building for each one foot that the building or portion thereof is set back from the required yard lines; one additional foot may be added to the height provided, however, that the cubical content of the building shall not exceed the cubical content of a prism having a base equal to the area of the lot and height of 125 feet.
   (C)   In the CR District, a tower may be constructed without reference to the above limitations, provided the largest horizontal dimension of any size of the tower shall not exceed 60 feet, and provided the horizontal area shall not exceed 25% of the area of the lot, and provided the tower shall be removed at least 25 feet from all lot lines and at least 50 feet from any other such tower.
   (D)   Chimneys, water towers, sugar refineries, monuments, cupolas, spires, domes, standpipes, false mansards, parapets walls, similar structures and necessary mechanical appurtenances may be erected as to their height in accordance with existing or hereafter adopted ordinances of the city.
   (E)   On through lots 150 feet or less in depth, the height of a building may be measured from the curb level on either street. On through lots more than 150 feet in depth, the height regulation and basis of height measurement for the street permitting the greater height shall apply to a depth of more than 150 feet from that street.
(Ord. 3-86, passed 6-12-1986; Ord. 7-1-99, passed 7-1-1999)
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