Regulations governing the use of land with in the various districts shall be as follows:
DISTRICT | COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES | USES | ||
PERMITTED PRINCIPAL | PERMITTED ACCESSORY | SPECIAL | ||
R-1 Residential | To identify those areas in the City where predominantly low- density residential development has taken place and will be encouraged in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan. | Single-Family detached dwelling | Private garages, swimming pools, other accessory uses and structures customarily appurtenant to a principal permitted use, including home gardening, but not the raising of livestock or poultry, or any similar objectionable activity. | Church, Sunday school and other places of worship, Planned Residential Development, public park, playground, firehouse and library, Bed and Breakfast Inn. Home Occupation |
DISTRICT | COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES | USES | ||
PERMITTED PRINCIPAL | PERMITTED ACCESSORY | SPECIAL | ||
R-2 Residential | To identify those areas which have been developed with one and two-family structures. To protect the areas from the intrusion of incompatible land uses. | Single-Family detached dwelling Two-Family dwelling | All accessory uses permitted in the R-1 District. Home occupation. | All special uses in R-1 district. Public schools, community buildings, social organizations, and other similar uses. Multi-family dwellings. |
R-3 Residential | To identify areas in the community for higher density development, as well as for mobile homes and mobile home parks. | Single-Family detached dwelling. Two-Family dwelling. Mobile Homes. Mobile home park. Multi-Family dwellings | All accessory uses permitted in the R-2 district. | All special uses provided in the R-2 district. |
C-1 Commercial | To identify an area for concentrated retail commercial activity to serve the needs of the residents of the City. | Appliance sales and repairs. Banks and other financial institutions. Barber shops and beauty parlors. Book and stationery stores. Cigar stores. Department stores and specialty stores. Drug stores. Dry goods and variety stores. | Accessory uses and building customarily appurtenant to a principal permitted use, such as incidental storage. Off-street parking and loading facilities. Signs. | Multi-family dwellings. Rooming houses. |
DISTRICT | COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES | USES | ||
PERMITTED PRINCIPAL | PERMITTED ACCESSORY | SPECIAL | ||
C-1 (Cont.) | Dry cleaning and clothes pressing establishments, provided that nonflammable cleaning agents are used. Eating and drinking places. Florists. “Enclosed” hardware stores. Furniture stores. Laundries, coin operated or commercial. Locksmiths. Offices, business and professional. Paint and wallpaper stores. Photographic equipment, supplies and services. Professional business and technical schools, and schools and studios for photography, art, music and dance. | Club or lodge halls. Advertising signs. Automobile repair garages, automobile service stations, gasoline stations. Churches or places of assembly. Indoor amusement enterprises, including theaters, billiards or pool parlors, bowling alleys or other similar places of assembly. Tattoo parlors | ||
DISTRICT | COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES | USES | ||
PERMITTED PRINCIPAL | PERMITTED ACCESSORY | SPECIAL | ||
C-1 (Cont.) | Radio and television sales and repair. Parking lots and parking garages. Shoe repair shops. Soda fountains. Tailors and dressmakers. Massage parlors Telephone exchange and installations. Wearing apparel stores. Commercial/ residential mixed use buildings. Car washing establishments. New and used car dealers and show rooms without an auto repair garage. The following limited light industrial uses when totally conducted within enclosed buildings: Manufacturing of apparel, jewelry, toys, novelties, photo processing, printing and laboratories. Food stores. Hotels, motels. Sporting and athletic goods. Storage units. | The sale of beer, wine, and other alcoholic beverages will be permitted in clubs, pubs, craft beer breweries, and other establishments, all of which must also serve prepared foods, after a Special Use Permit has been issued by the City. Application for such a Special Use Permit shall first be submitted to the City’s Zoning Board of Appeals and, if granted, be referred to the City Clerk for issuance of a license. The Special Use Permit shall be revoked if there are valid complaints referred by the Police Department to the Zoning Board of Appeals and Council. Provided, that upon request by the owner and at the discretion of the Zoning Board of Appeals, an exemption to the prepared foods requirement may be granted to craft beer breweries and tap houses. | ||
(12-17-79; 8-5-85; 1-23-89; 3-16-92; 10-13-98; 4-9-07; 10-9-12; 7-17-17; 10-10-17.)
DISTRICT | COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES | USES | ||
PERMITTED PRINCIPAL | PERMITTED ACCESSORY | SPECIAL | ||
C-2 Commercial | To identify those areas in the City generally within walking distance of major residential areas for convenience goods and services to serve the everyday needs of the residents, as well as areas along highway traffic routes for auto and highway related retail and commercial use. | Any C-1 Permitted Use. Retail sales with outside storage merchandise. | Any C-1 Permitted accessory use. Accessory uses and buildings customarily appurtenant to a principal permitted use, such as incidental storage. Off-street parking and loading facilities. Signs. | Any C-1 Special Use. Gasoline stations, automobile repair garages, automobile service stations. Mobile offices. Liquor stores. New and used car dealers and showrooms, with auto repair garage. |
(12-17-79; 11-16-81; 8-5-85; 1-23-89; 3-16-92; 7-5-94; 12-4-95; 4-9-07; 10-10-17.)
DISTRICT | COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES | USES | ||
PERMITTED PRINCIPAL | PERMITTED ACCESSORY | SPECIAL | ||
C-2 (Cont.). | The sale of beer, wine, and other alcoholic beverages will be permitted in clubs, pubs, craft beer breweries, and other establishments, all of which must also serve prepared foods, after a Special Use Permit has been issued by the City. Application for such a Special Use Permit shall first be submitted to the City’s Zoning Board of Appeals and, if granted, be referred to the City Clerk for issuance of a license. The Special Use Permit shall be revoked if there are valid complaints referred by the Police Department to the Zoning Board of Appeals and Council. Provided, that upon request by the owner and at the discretion of the Zoning Board of Appeals, an exemption to the prepared foods requirement may be granted to craft beer breweries and tap houses. | |||
C-R | To identify those areas of the City where concentrated residential use of property exists in or near concentrated commercial use of land. To protect existing residential property from the intrusion of incompatible land uses in close proximity to existing residential development. | Any O-I permitted principal use. | Any O-I permitted accessory use. | Any C-2 Permitted principal, accessory or special use. |
(11-16-81; 4-9-07; 10-10-17.)
DISTRICT | COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES | USES | ||
PERMITTED PRINCIPAL | PERMITTED ACCESSORY | SPECIAL | ||
O-I Office and Institutional | To identify areas within the City where offices, institutions and higher density residential construction will be encouraged. | Single-family detached dwelling. Two-family dwelling. Multi-family dwelling. Professional, business and government offices. Banks and investment houses. Hospitals, nursing homes, and medical clinics. Funeral homes. Private, public or professional schools. Veterinarian clinics or animal hospital. Recreational uses. Shops. Commercial schools. Restaurants. | Accessory uses incidental to the principal permitted use. | |
(7-5-94; 10-10-17.)
DISTRICT | COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES | USES | ||
PERMITTED PRINCIPAL | PERMITTED ACCESSORY | SPECIAL | ||
I-1 Industrial | To identify those areas in the City best suited for industrial development by virtue of location, topography, supporting facilities and relationship to other land uses. | Any R-3 or C-2 Permitted Use. Includes general industrial uses, the manufacture, assembly, packing, storage or treating of merchandise. Mobile offices. The following uses are specially prohibited from locating in the City: Abattoirs or slaughterhouses. Dead animal, offal reduction. Junkyards. Fertilizer manufacture. Massage parlors and adult book stores. Cell phone towers, as limited by Article 1389, are expressly permitted provided that all other requirements of this Zoning Code and any other applicable laws are met. | Any R-3 or C-2 Permitted Accessory Use. Accessory storage within a wholly enclosed permanent building, of materials, goods, and supplies intended for sale, processing or consumption upon the premises. Customary buildings and uses accessory to the main use or building. Private garage or private parking area. Truck loading space subject to recommended standards. Signs. Mobile offices. | Any R-3 or C-2 Permitted Special Use. Storage of materials, goods and supplies outside of a building as an accessory to a permitted use provided that no storage space shall be located within the front yard nor within twenty-five feet* of a side lot line or a rear lot line, and further that no such outside storage shall be for the primary purpose of displaying for sale or advertising benefit, other than signs. |
* 50 feet abutting a residential property line.
(12-17-79; 11-16-81; 7-5-94; 1-13-03.)