(A) Generally.
(1) The regulations herein established within each zoning district shall be the minimum regulations for promoting and protecting the public health, safety, and general welfare and shall be uniform for each class of land, buildings, structure, or uses throughout each district.
(2) No building shall hereafter be erected, altered, or moved, nor shall any building or premises hereafter be used for any purpose other than is permitted in the district in which the building or premises is located, except by appeal as herein described by this chapter. Wherever the requirements of this chapter are at variance with the requirements of any other adopted regulations, or ordinances, the most restrictive or those imposing the higher standards shall govern. Except as hereinafter provided, district regulations shall be applied in the following manner.
(B) Uses in districts.
(1) Permitted uses. Permitted uses shall be permitted by right only if specifically listed as principal permitted uses in the various zoning district or are similar to the listed uses.
(2) Accessory uses and buildings. Accessory uses are permitted only if the uses are clearly incidental to the permitted principal uses.
(3) Conditional uses. Conditional uses are permitted as listed or if similar to the listed conditional uses.
(C) Application of area and width regulations.
(1) The area or width of a lot shall not be reduced below the minimum requirements herein established for the district in which the lot is located.
(2) Every parcel of land shall meet the minimum lot width requirements set forth in Appendix B and shall have frontage on and direct access to a public street which has been accepted for maintenance by the village.
(3) Except in the R-1A District, access to a single-family dwelling shall be limited to 1 individual driveway.
(D) Application of yard regulations.
(1) No part of a yard required for any building for the purposes of compliance with this chapter shall be included as a part of a yard or other open space similarly required for another building.
(2) All front yard setback lines shall be the minimum perpendicular distance measured from the right-of-way of the road upon which a lot or parcel fronts to the nearest point of the principal structure.
(3) All side and rear yard setback lines shall be the minimum perpendicular distance between the nearest point on the side or rear of the structure and the side or rear lot line parallel thereto.
(4) On corner lots the required front yards shall be provided along both street frontages.
(5) No building, structure, fence, or other permanent improvement shall be permitted to be erected or located within a public right-of-way except for those improvements authorized by the village.
(E) Application of height regulations.
(1) No building shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed, or structurally altered to exceed the height limit hereinafter established for the district in which the building is located, as set forth in Appendix B.
(2) Roof structures for the housing of elevators, stairways, tanks, ventilating fans, or similar equipment required to operate and maintain the building, and fire or parapet walls, skylights, towers, steeples, and screens, flagpoles, chimneys, smokestacks, water tanks, or similar structures may be erected above the height limits herein prescribed. No structure shall exceed by more than 15 feet the height limit of the district in which it is located.
(3) Communications towers shall be subject to the regulations set forth in § 151.087.
(F) Location and number of buildings on lot of record.
(1) Every building erected, altered, or moved shall be located on a lot of record as defined herein.
(2) (a) There shall be only 1 single-family dwelling permitted per lot.
(b) Where there is more than 1 single-family dwelling located on a lot of record at the time of adoption of this chapter, the dwelling shall not be divided from the lot except in conformity with the requirements of this chapter.
(Ord. 239, passed 3-5-2001, § 4.3) Penalty, see § 151.999