(A) Establishment of districts. The following zoning districts are established and continued:
(1) Traditional Residential;
(2) Suburban Residential;
(3) Historic Downtown;
(4) Highway Mixed Use;
(5) Prospective Interchange Development;
(6) Professional/Light Industrial;
(7) Business Park;
(8) Industrial;
(9) Public Recreation/Open Space;
(10) Kettle River Wild and Scenic Floodplain;
(11) General Shoreland;
(12) Commercial Planned Unit Development;
(13) Residential Planned Unit Development;
(14) Recreational Vehicle Park;
(15) Manufactured Home Park; and
(16) Heliport.
(B) Map.
(1) The location and boundaries of the districts established by this section are set forth on the zoning map entitled “Zoning Map of Sandstone”. The zoning map is on file with the Zoning Administrator. The zoning map and the notations, references and other information shown on the map have the same force and effect as if fully set forth herein and are made a part of this section by reference.
(2) If a use is not specifically permitted in a zoning district, the use is prohibited. The City Council or the Planning Commission, as the case may be, on its own initiative or upon request of the property owner, may conduct a study to determine if the proposed use is acceptable and if so what zoning district would be most appropriate and to determine conditions and standards relating to development of the use.
(3) The City Council, Planning Commission or property owner, upon completion of the study, may, if appropriate, initiate an amendment to this section to provide for the use under consideration.
(C) Annexation; detachment. If changes in the city limits remove land from the city, district boundaries are construed as moving with the city limits. If land is annexed to the city, the land is designated by the comprehensive plan of the city.
(D) Zoning district boundaries.
(1) Boundaries indicated approximately following the center lines of streets, highways, alleys or railroad lines are to be construed as following those center lines.
(2) Boundaries indicated approximately following platted lot lines are to be construed as following those lot lines.
(3) Boundaries indicated as following shorelines are to be construed following those shorelines, and if the shoreline is changed, are to be construed as moving with the actual shoreline; boundaries indicated approximately following the center lines of streams, rivers, lakes or other bodies of water are to be constructed as following those center lines.
(4) Boundaries indicated approximately following the city limits are to be construed as following the city limits.
(5) Where a district boundary line divides a lot that was in a single ownership on the effective date of this section, the extension of the regulations for either portion of the lot beyond the district line into the remaining portion of the lot may be interpreted by the Planning Commission upon request of the owner.
(E) District regulations. Except as otherwise provided, the regulations of this section within each district are minimum regulations and apply uniformly to each class or kind of structure or land.
(1) Buildings, structures or land may not be used or occupied, and a building structure or part thereof may not be erected, constructed, reconstructed, moved or structurally altered, except in conformity with the regulations for the district in which it is located.
(2) A building or other structure may not be erected or altered to exceed the height or bulk, to accommodate or house a greater number of families, to occupy a greater percentage of lot area, to have narrower or smaller rear yard, front yard, side yard or other open spaces than herein required; or in any other manner contrary to the provision of this section.
(3) A yard or lot existing on the effective date of this section may not be reduced in dimension or area below the minimum requirements of this section.
(Ord. passed - -2007)