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(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.
(Ord. 3-86, passed 6-12-1986; Ord. 7-1-99, passed 7-1-1999; Ord. 5-6-04, passed 5-6-2004)
(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.
(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)
(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)
(A) Front yards.
(1) In the R1 District, there shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 25 feet from the property line to the front line of the building, covered porch, covered terrace or attached accessory building.
(2) In the R2 or R3 District, there shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 15 feet from the property line to the front line of the building, covered porch, covered terrace or attached accessory building.
(3) In the CR and CI Districts, no front yard is required, except to comply with the off-street parking and loading regulations set out in this chapter, and unless a building is erected or structurally altered for dwelling purposes, in which event a front yard of not less than 15 feet in depth is required.
(B) Rear yards.
(1) In all districts where buildings are erected or structurally altered for dwelling purposes, there shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 20% of the depth of the lot, provided the rear yard need not exceed 25 feet.
(2) In the CR District, there shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 20% of the depth of the lot provided the rear yard need not exceed 25 feet.
(3) In the CI District, when property is not used for dwelling purposes, and when not abutting on the rear of a residential district, no rear yard is required. If abutting on the rear of a residential district or a dwelling, then a rear yard of at least ten feet is required.
(4) In computing the required depth of a rear yard for any building or such yard abutting an alley, the depth of the lot may be considered to the center of the alley and the required depth of a rear yard measured from the center of the alley.
(5) An accessory building not exceeding one story in height may occupy not more than 60% of minimum required rear yard.
(6) An accessory building exceeding one story in height may occupy not more than 40% of a minimum required rear yard.
(C) Side yards.
(1) In Districts R1, R2 and CR where a building is erected or structurally altered for dwelling purposes, there shall be two side yards, one on each side of the building, having a combined width of not less than 20% of the width of the lot, provided that in no case shall either side yard be less than five feet, and provided further that the combined widths of the two side yards need not exceed 12 feet. However, in the CI and CR Districts where a building is erected or structurally altered for dwelling purposes, the building shall have side yards of not less than seven feet from the property line.
(2) In the CR District where a building is erected or structurally altered for dwelling purposes for buildings more than three stories in height, but not exceeding six stories in height, each of the two side yards shall be increased three feet in width for each additional story above the third. For buildings more than six stories, or 80 feet in height, there shall be an additional setback as provided in the height regulations above.
(3) In the CR and CI Districts, if the property is not used for dwelling purposes, no side yards are required unless a lot abuts upon the side of a lot zoned for dwelling purposes, there shall be a side yard provided for the business or industrial building, of not less than four feet.
(4) For the purpose of side yard regulations, two or more detached one- or two-family dwellings shall be considered as one building when occupying one lot, provided, however, there shall be a minimum of ten feet between the sides of the building on the same lot.
(D) General yard regulations.
(1) In the case of group houses or court apartments, when buildings rear faces upon the side yard, the width of the yard shall be increased by one foot for each building or apartment abutting thereon. If any stairways open onto or are served by the side yard, the minimum width of the side yard shall be ten feet.
(2) The width of a place or court shall not be less than 40 feet measured between buildings or from buildings to the opposite property line, provided that open or unenclosed porches may project into the required place or court not more than 20% of the width of the place or court.
(3) All other requirements including front, side and rear yards shall be complied with in accordance with the district in which the group houses or court apartments are located.
(4) Every part of a required yard or court shall be open from its lowest point to the sky unobstructed except for the ordinary projections of sills, belt courses, cornices, provided, however, the above projections shall not extend into a court more than 24 inches nor into a minimum side yard more than 24 inches.
(5) The side and front yards requirements for dwellings shall be waived where dwellings are erected above stores or shops.
(6) On corner lots the side yard regulations shall be the same as for interior lots, except in the case of side street or reversed frontage (where the corner lot faces an intersecting street), in which case there shall also be a side yard on the street side equal to the front yard on the lots in the rear. No accessory building on the corner lot shall project beyond the front yard line on the lots in the rear. This regulation shall not be so interpreted as to reduce the buildable width of a corner lot facing an intersection street, and of record at the time of passage of this subchapter to less than 28 feet, nor to prohibit the erection of an accessory building where the regulation cannot reasonably be complied with. In no event shall there be a corner lot with a building situated thereon which is closer than ten feet to either street.
(Ord. 3-86, passed 6-12-1986)
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