(A) The city is hereby divided into zoning districts, as shown on the official zoning district map, which may be subsequently amended by the procedures of § 150.013.
(B) The boundaries are generally on the center of the streets, on lot lines, on shorelines, on the center of streams or rivers, and following the contour of the land.
(C) The following districts are hereby established:
Agricultural | A |
Central Business | C-1 |
Floodplain Overlay | FP |
Highway Business | C-2 |
Light Industrial | I-1 |
Public | P |
Residential Storage | RS |
Rural Residential | RR |
Single Family Residential | R-1 |
Shoreland Overlay | SO |
Urban Residential | R-2 |
(D) The jurisdiction of this chapter shall include all land within the municipal boundaries of the city.
(E) The following provisions apply to all zoning districts.
(1) Except where specifically stated, all accessory structures or uses require the prior establishment of a principal structure.
(2) Unless specifically allowed, no more than four leases per year, per dwelling, are allowed.
(F) Criteria for land use categories:
(1) Preservation of natural sensitive areas;
(2) Present ownership and development;
(3) Shoreland soil types and their engineering capabilities;
(4) Topographic characteristics;
(5) Vegetative cover;
(6) In-water physical characteristics;
(7) Recreational use of surface water;
(8) Road and service center accessibility;
(9) Socio-economic development needs of the public;
(10) Availability of public sewer and water utilities;
(11) The necessity to reserve and restore certain areas having significant historical or ecological value;
(12) Conflicts between land uses and Impacts of commercial uses or higher densities on adjacent properties;
(13) Alternatives available for desired land use;
(14) Prevention of spot zoning;
(15) Conformance to the City Comprehensive Plan; and
(16) Conformance to the city’s future land use map and any other official maps of the city.
(G) Regardless of existence of purported copies of the official zoning map, which may from time to time be made or published, the official zoning map, which shall be located in the office of the City Clerk-Treasurer, shall be the final authority as the current zoning status of land and water areas, buildings, and other structures in the city.
(1) The location and boundaries of the districts established by this chapter are set forth on the official zoning map. District boundary lines as indicated on the zoning map follow lot lines, property lines, right-of-way or center lines of streets or alleys, right-of-way center lines of streets or alleys projected, the city limit lines, shorelines, all as they exist upon the effective date of this chapter. If said boundary lines do not follow any of the above, the district boundary lines are established as drawn on the zoning map.
(2) Whenever any street, alley, or other public way is vacated in the manner authorized by law, the zoning district adjoining each side of such street, alley, or public way shall be automatically extended to the center of such vacation, and all included in the vacation shall then and henceforth be subject to all regulations of the extended districts.
(3) Appeals concerning the exact location of a zoning district boundary line shall be heard by the Board of Adjustment.
(Ord. passed 4-10-2017)