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(A) Purpose. The purpose of the agricultural residential district is to establish and maintain a district that is rural in character.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) Agriculture, including farm dwellings and agricultural buildings;
(2) Forest and production of woodland products including portable sawmills for cutting timber grown on the premises;
(3) One- and two-family dwellings; and
(4) Public and private parks.
(C) Conditional uses.
(1) Commercial outdoor recreation areas;
(2) Organized group camps;
(3) Extraction of gravel and minerals; and
(4) Other rural residential uses determined by the Planning Commission to be of the same general character as the principal uses above and found not to be detrimental to the general public health and welfare.
(D)Accessory uses. Uses incidental to the principal uses are allowed.
(E) Minimum lot area, lot width and yard requirements.
(1) Lot width and depth is 200 feet.
(2)Lot area is 2½ acres.
(3) There are no yard requirements.
(F) Height requirements. There are no height requirements.
(Ord. passed 4-24-78) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) Purpose. The R-1 district is intended for low density residential development in those areas where development fits the land use plan and policies.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) One- to four-family unit dwellings;
(2) Parks and recreational areas owned or operated by governmental agencies;
(3) Public elementary or high schools or private schools with an equivalent curriculum;
(4) Churches, parish houses, convents, children’s nurseries and schools;
(5) Crop farming, other than livestock on unplatted land not involving a sales structure;
(6) Home occupations and offices of professional persons when the use does not exceed one- third of the floor space of a dwelling or accessory building and does not employ more than one person not residing on the premises;
(7) Public golf courses, public swimming pools, private recreational clubs, tennis courts, except those operated for commercial purposes; and
(8) Manufactured homes built in conformance with M.S. §§ 327.31 to 357.35 (the Manufactured Home Building Code) that comply with all other zoning provisions promulgated by the city.
(C) Accessory buildings and accessory uses.
(1) Private garage, carport, boathouse, one of each depth designation;
(2) Private swimming pools when completely enclosed by a fence five or more feet high;
(3) Boarding or rental of rooms shall be subject to providing off-street parking, as regulated in §§ 151.35 through 151.38;
(4) Maintenance of dogs and cats or other household pets, subject to licensing requirements and applicable ordinances of the city;
(5) Off-street parking, as regulated in § 151.38;
(6) Parking of one commercial motor vehicle of not over 26 feet in length used by the resident occupant and parking of passenger cars, but not including the storage of vehicles which are inoperable for sale or rent; and
(7) Signs, as regulated in § 151.37.
(D) Conditional uses. The following uses are permitted by conditional use permit within an R-1 district. Buildings or land may be used for the following if granted a conditional use permit, as provided in § 151.50.
(1) Municipal administration buildings, police and fire stations, libraries, museums, art galleries, post offices and other municipal service buildings, except those customarily considered industrial or commercial in use;
(2) Water supply buildings, reservoirs, wells, elevated tanks and similar essential public utility and service structures;
(3) Commercial country club, commercial swimming pool, private swimming pool serving more than one dwelling;
(4) Apartment buildings and multiple dwelling units housing four to eight families with appropriate off-street parking facilities;
(5) Boarding or rental of rooms for three to eight persons on a premise; and
(6) Manufactured home park developments, subject to manufactured home park development regulations in the general requirements of this chapter.
(E) Height, yard and lot requirements.
(1) Height requirements. No structure shall exceed 2½ stories or 35 feet whichever is less in height. Except that church spires, belfries, domes which do not contain usable space, chimneys and similar structures not intended for human occupancy may be of any height.
(2) Front yard regulations.
(a) Single- through multi-family new lots shall be 20 feet. Corner lots, where both yards are bordering a street, will be considered front yards.
(b) Corner lots shall be 15 feet. The front yard bordering a side street may be reduced to ten feet.
(3) Rear yard regulations.
(a) Existing lots, single- through multi-family, shall be one-fifth of the lot.
(b) New lots, single- through multi-family, shall be one-fourth of the lot depth.
(4) Side yard requirements.
(a) Existing lots, single- through multi-family, shall be two yards at ten feet each.
(b) New lots, single- through multi-family, shall be 2 yards at 15 feet each.
(5) Lot size regulations.
(a) Lot area with public sewer, one or two units, shall be 9,000 square feet. Units in excess of two shall be 2,000 additional square feet per unit.
(b) Lot are without public sewer, one or two units, shall be 20,000 square feet. Units in excess of two shall be 2,000 additional square feet for each additional unit.
(6) Lot width regulation.
(a) With a public sewer, the width shall be 75 feet.
(b) Without a public sewer, the width shall be 150 feet.
(7) Lot depth regulations.
(a) With a public sewer, the depth shall be 120 feet.
(b) Without a public sewer, the depth shall be 150 feet.
(8) The lot area, width and depth regulations of this section shall not apply to lots platted prior to the adoption of this chapter. However, the lots shall not be altered in any way which would further reduce their dimensions below minimum requirements.
(F) (1) The purpose of this section is to establish general development standards to assure compatible land uses, to prevent blight and deterioration and to enhance the health safety and general welfare of the city.
(2) No cellar, basement, garage, tent or accessory building shall at anytime be used as an independent residence or dwelling unit, temporarily or permanent, except in multiple-family dwellings with additional living units located above ground.
(3) Basements may be used as living quarters or rooms as a portion of residential dwellings.
(4) Tents, playhouses or similar structures may be used for play or recreational purposes.
(5) All dwellings other than manufactured homes located in the manufactured home residence district, pursuant to § 151.23, shall be located upon a foundation that meets the requirements of the state building code.
(6) Site built dwellings and manufactured homes shall be no less than 30 feet in length and no less than 20 feet in width over the entire minimum length. All single-family dwellings, including site- built homes and manufactured homes, shall contain a ground floor living area of no less than 800 square feet and shall have exterior siding extending from within six inches of the dirt or two inches from concrete, which siding shall be of a conventional exterior dwelling type material. All dwellings shall have a pitched roof covered with shingles or tile and have eaves of not less than six inches.
(7) The architectural design, color, roof pitch or lack of it, roof overhang or lack of it and exterior material of all building and structures shall not be so dissimilar to or inconsistent with surrounding buildings and areas as to constitute a blighting influence. The Council may refuse to grant a permit for construction or location of any building in a manner as to significantly diminish neighboring
property values or otherwise impair the health, safety and welfare of the community. The Council shall also have the additional power to require appropriate screening to the extent that the screening sufficiently ameliorates deficiencies of design and construction.
(Ord. passed 4-24-78; Am. Ord. passed - -82) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) Purpose. The R-2 district is intended for apartments, row houses, townhouses, dormitories and other buildings of three or more dwelling units. Any use permitted in the R-1 district is permitted in the R-2 district.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) Multiple dwellings, apartment buildings, townhouses and group of row houses;
(2) Boarding and lodging houses;
(3) Hospitals, convalescent and nursing homes and elderly housing projects;
(4) Institutions or a religious, educational, charitable or philanthropic nature;
(5) Private clubs or lodges, except those whose chief activity is a service customarily carried on as a business for profit;
(6) Signs, as regulated in § 151.37; and
(7) Parking, as regulated in § 151.38.
(C) Accessory buildings and accessory uses. Accessory storage garages or other accessory uses or buildings customarily incidental to uses are permitted in this section.
(D) Conditional uses.
(1) Manufactured home park developments, subject to minimum manufactured home park requirements (M.S. § 327.15 and Minnesota Rules, parts 4630.0200 to 4630.2210, as the may be amended from time to time);
(2) Mortuaries, medical, dental offices and clinics;
(3) Offices or administrative, executive, professional, research or similar organizations. Laboratories having only limited contact with the public, provided no merchandise or merchandising services are sold on the premises, except such as are incidental or accessory to the permissible use; and
(4) Grocery, delicatessen, drug stores, laundry and dry cleaning collection, and clothes storage centers, tailor shops, hobby shops, small home appliance repair and hardware stores and specialty shops, provided that the floor space for the principal use is not more than 3,500 square feet and no more than four employees are required at any given time.
(E) Height, yard and lot coverage regulation.
(1) Height requirements. Three stories or 45 feet in height whichever is less. Structures which are not designed for human occupancy such as steeples, belfries, chimneys, and the like may be of any height.
(2) Front yard requirements. Same as R-1, except on double frontage lots, where both yards will be regarded as front yards.
(3) Side yard requirements. Same as R-1.
(4) Rear yard requirements. Same as R-1.
(5) Lot area, depth and width requirements. Same as R-1.
(6) The lot area, width and depth requirements of the section shall not apply to lots platted prior to the adoption of this chapter. However, the lots shall not be altered in any way which would further reduce their dimensions below minimum requirements.
(Ord. passed 4-24-78) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) Purpose. The C-B district is intended for retail stores and offices which are mutually compatible and can benefit from and contribute to a compact shopping area serving the city and surrounding area.
(B) Permitted use.
(1) Antique shops;
(2) Apparel shops;
(3) Appliance stores;
(4) Art and school supplies;
(5) Art galleries;
(6) Art studios;
(7) Auction rooms;
(8) Auto accessory stores;
(9) Bakeries, provided the room or rooms containing the preparation and baking process shall not have a gross floor area in excess of 2,400 square feet;
(10) Barber parlors;
(11) Beauty parlors;
(12) Beverage stores;
(13) Bicycle sales, rental and repairs;
(14) Book and stationery stores;
(15) Camera and photo stores;
(16) Candy and ice cream stores;
(17) Carpet and rug stores;
(18) Catering establishments;
(19) Clothes pressing and tailoring shops;
(20) Clothing stores;
(21) Coin and philatelic stores;
(22) Decorating studios;
(23) Delicatessens;
(24) Department stores;
(25) Drug stores;
(26) Dry cleaning and laundry receiving and pick-up stations, excluding laundering and dry- cleaning processing stores;
(27) Dry goods or notions stores;
(28) Electrical appliance sales and service;
(29) Employment agencies;
(30) Fabric shops;
(31) Florist shops;
(32) Financial institutions;
(33) Foods, groceries, meats, fish, bakeries and delicatessens;
(34) Furniture stores;
(35) Furrier shops;
(36) Gift shops;
(37) Grocery, fruit, vegetable or meat stores;
(38) Hardware stores;
(39) Hobby shops;
(40) Hotels;
(41) Jewelry stores;
(42) Leather goods and luggage shops;
(43) Libraries;
(44) Liquor stores or taverns;
(45) Loan offices and finance companies;
(46)Locksmith shops;
(47) Medical and dental offices;
(48) Mail order stores;
(49) Millinery shops;
(50) Music stores;
(51) Newsstands;
(52) Offices, professional;
(53) Office supply stores;
(54) Optical stores;
(55) Orthopedic and medical appliance stores;
(56) Paint and wallpaper stores;
(57) Parking and garages, other than those accessory to a principal use for the parking and storage of private passenger automobiles only;
(58) Personal apparel stores;
(59) Pet shops;
(60) Phonograph, record and sheet music stores;
(61) Photography studios;
(62) Physical culture and health services, reducing salons and masseurs;
(63) Picture framing and picture stores;
(64) Pipe and tobacco shops;
(65) Post offices;
(66) Plumbing sales stores;
(67) Public utility service stores;
(68) Radio and television sales and repair stores;
(69) Record shops;
(70) Rental agencies for the rental of clothing, appliances, automobiles, and household fixtures, furnishing and accessories;
(71) Restaurants, excluding drive-ins;
(72) Service stations;
(73) Sewing machine sales and service shops;
(74) Shoe and hat sales and repair shops;
(75) Stationery shops;
(76) Stock and brokerage firms;
(77) Taxi stands;
(78) Telephone booths;
(79) Theaters, excluding drive-in;
(80) Ticket agencies;
(81) Tea, spice and condiment specialty shops;
(82) Toy stores;
(83) Travel bureaus and transportation ticket offices;
(84) Variety, gift, notion and soft good stores; and
(85) Vending machines, which are coin or card operated.
(86) A single and/or two family dwelling be allowed above, behind, or below a commercial business, and the dwelling area must be directly accessible from outside the business/dwelling structure through an entrance dedicated solely to the dwelling. An entrance which is only accessible through the business area of the structure does not qualify, nor does an entrance that is shared with the business area.
(C) Accessory uses.
(1) Any accessory use, except signs, customarily incidental to the above are permitted uses; and
(2) Signs, as regulated in § 151.37.
(D) Height, yard and lot coverage regulations.
(1) Height regulations. Same as R-2.
(2) Lot coverage and yard regulation. In the C-B district, there shall be no specific yard requirements or lot coverage requirements, except for off-street parking and loading, as regulated in the general regulations of this chapter.
(E) Additional regulations.
(1) Lighting shall be directed away from public rights-of-way and residential districts.
(2) Any awning suspended from a building has to be less than two feet from the edge of the curb and at least eight feet from the ground grade line or the sidewalk, the owner of a structure is responsible for its safe construction and maintenance.
(3) Additional regulations are set forth in the §§ 151.35 through 151.38.
(Ord. passed 4-24-78; Am. Ord. 1108-2010, passed 11-8-10) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) Purpose. The C-1 district is intended to provide suitable locations for commercial retail and wholesaling administrative servicing and related activities dealing more in convenience goods and services.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) Those uses as permitted in the C-B district shall be permitted uses;
(2) Armories, convention halls or exhibition halls, including fairgrounds exhibition areas;
(3) Automobile display enclosed showrooms and sales areas and automotive repairs;
(4) Bakeries;
(5) Bowling alleys, billiard or pool halls;
(6) Building materials sales and storage establishments;
(7) Bus stations with service and/or garage facilities;
(8) Cabinet, carpenter, upholstering or furniture repair shops and services;
(9) Dry cleaning, dyeing and laundry establishments;
(10) Electrical contractors and equipment repair and services;
(11) Farm implement dealers with enclosed showrooms and sales areas;
(12) Frozen food lockers and commercial slaughtering establishments;
(13) Engraving, printing, publishing, cartographic and bookbinding establishments;
(14) Greenhouses, nurseries and garden supply stores;
(15) Laboratories, medical, dental and optical;
(16) Lumber sales and yards;
(17) Marine and boat sales display and servicing establishments;
(18) Miniature golf courses, par three golf courses or archery or golf driving ranges operated for commercial purposes;
(19) Monuments, processing and sales;
(20) Mortuaries, vault and casket establishments;
(21) Municipal and government buildings and structures;
(22) Newspaper printing and distribution agencies;
(23) Public utility structures;
(24) Plumbing, heating and air conditioning shops, service and showrooms;
(25) Radio and television service and repair shops;
(26) General retail and wholesale sales establishments;
(27) Restaurants, excluding drive-in type;
(28) Office and home furniture manufacture and warehousing; and
(29) Theaters, enclosed structures only.
(C) Conditional uses.
(1) Any business activity of the same general character as those listed in this section;
(2) Multiple dwelling units or complexes;
(3) New or used automobile sales or storage lots, new or used implement sales or storage lots, automobile laundries or car washes, provided:
(a) Plans for the arrangements of entrances, exits, screening of exterior storage lots and parking stalls shall accompany the request for a conditional use permit;
(b) A screen of acceptable design shall be constructed along the property line when the use is abutting any residential district.
(4) Drive-in theaters, restaurants or similar uses that provide goods and services to patrons in automobiles, provided they comply with the same regulations as subsections (3)(a) and (b) above.
(D) Height, yard and lot coverage.
(1) Height regulation. Forty-five feet or three stories whichever is less, except structures not for human occupancy such as chimneys, church steeples, belfries, and the like, can be of any height.
(2) Yard regulation and lot coverage. No specific yard requirements or lot coverage requirements, except as necessary to provide off-street parking and loading where applicable as regulated in the general regulations of this chapter.
(E) Performance standards.
(1) Vehicular and pedestrian circulation, as required in the general regulations of this chapter;
(2) Artificial lighting and glare shall be directed away from any public right-of-way and any residential district.
(Ord. passed 4-24-78) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) Purpose. The purpose of the C-2 district is to develop highway-oriented business areas without detriment to the flow of traffic on any arterial highway or street.
(B) Permitted uses. Same as C-1.
(C) Height, yard and lot coverage regulations.
(1) Height regulations. Same as C-1.
(2) Yard and lot coverage requirements. Same as C-1, except that a front yard setback of 66 feet is required on any lot in a C-2 district which has frontage on a primary thoroughfare. The land involved in the 66 foot setback will be deeded to the city for use as frontage road.
(D) Performance requirements. Same as C-1.
(Ord. passed 4-24-78) Penalty, see § 10.99
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