(1)
General requirements.
(a)
Uses of land or buildings listed in the A Agriculture
District shall be permitted under conditions specified herein. No
land or building shall be devoted to any use other than a use permitted
in the A Agriculture District, with the exception of the following:
(b)
Uses lawfully established on the effective date of
this chapter (April 8, 1964).
(d)
Uses lawfully established on the effective date of
this chapter (April 8, 1964) and rendered nonconforming by the provisions
thereof shall be subject to regulations of Wisconsin Statutes governing
nonconforming uses.
(2)
Permitted uses.
(a)
Agriculture, but not including commercial feed lots
or buildings for fattening swine, cattle or poultry for market, except
when such operations are incidental and accessory to the pursuit of
agriculture.
(b)
Nurseries, growing of farm and truck garden crops,
accessory buildings and structures, including greenhouses, wholesale
sales and incidental seasonal retail sales of plant materials, farm
and garden crops a substantial percentage of which is grown on the
premises on a lot not less than five acres in area, provided that
there are no dwellings or permanent business or commercial buildings
on the lot.
(c)
Filling of holes, pits and natural lowlands subject
to flooding with noncombustible material free from refuse or food
waste when the method and scope of such operations are approved by
the Village Board, based upon an agreement signed by the applicant
for a permit that the filling operations shall not extend beyond the
area or above the grade shown on topographic and finished grading
maps accompanying the application. Mining, quarrying or extraction
of sand, gravel or other building aggregate and soil shall not be
permitted.
(d)
Temporary buildings for construction purposes for
a period not to exceed such construction and when located on the same
lot where such construction is being undertaken or a contiguous lot
thereto.
(3)
Accessory uses. Those customarily accessory to the
pursuit of agriculture, provided that operations thereof conform to
applicable performance standards set forth in the Manufacturing District
regulations. Temporary roadside stands, provided that each roadside
stand shall have a floor area of not more than 600 square feet and
a height of not more than one story or 17 feet, whichever is lower.
Such stand shall be located not less than 50 feet from a street or
highway right-of-way line, and only one such stand shall be located
on a lot.
(4)
Special uses. The following allowable special uses
shall be permitted only in accordance with procedures, regulations
and standards set forth in this chapter. When applicable, more restrictive
federal, state, county or other Village regulations and standards
and additional regulations and standards may be recommended by the
Plan Commission and required by the Village Board. Development plans
and specifications, when required by the Village Board, shall be submitted
at the time of application for a special use permit. Such plans and
specifications shall show, when applicable, utility installations;
site and land improvements; locations of vehicular ingress and egress
and traffic control facilities; other improvements; and duration of
use, whether for a specified number of years or perpetually. Any special
use allowed may be limited as to time.
(a)
Educational and institutional uses. Each of the following
special uses shall be located on a lot not less than 10 acres in area:
1.
Colleges, junior colleges and universities, including
fraternity and sorority houses, dormitories and other accessory structures
and facilities necessary to the operation of a college or university,
but not business colleges or trade schools.
2.
Schools, boarding-nursery, elementary, junior high
and high, and accessory uses, buildings and structures.
3.
Hospitals and sanitariums and accessory uses, buildings,
and structures, but not including institutions for the care or treatment
of the mentally ill, feeble-minded, alcoholic or drug-addicted patients.
4.
Institutions for the care of the aged and for children
and accessory uses, buildings and structures.
5.
Philanthropic and charitable institutions and accessory
uses, buildings and structures, but not including businesses sponsored
by such institutions, except such as are accessory or incidental to
and located in the principal building of such institution.
(b)
Cemeteries.
(c)
Churches, chapels, temples and synagogues.
(d)
Golf courses, standard or par three, semipublic or
private, provided that a golf course being only par three hole occupy
not less than 25 acres for each eighteen-hole course and that the
clubhouse and other accessory buildings on standard or par three golf
courses shall be located not less than 200 feet from any side lot
line and that such golf courses shall not include commercial miniature
golf courses or golf driving ranges.
(e)
Convents, seminaries, monasteries and nunneries.
(f)
Parks, playgrounds and recreation areas (publicly
owned or operated).
(g)
Schools, nonboarding, nursery, elementary, junior
high, high or junior college. Space in vacant school buildings not
presently being used for educational purposes may be rented on a year-to-year
basis, provided that this use of the property is approved by the Village
Board after public hearing and receipt of a Plan Commission recommendation.
Board approval is required for each proposed tenant, but a public
hearing is only required for the initial application to use the building
for rental purposes.
[Amended by Ord. No. 571]
(h)
Uses, buildings and structures accessory to publicly
owned educational and recreational uses. Playgrounds, play fields,
athletic fields and stadiums, auditoriums, gymnasiums, swimming pools,
heating plants, provided that operations conform to performance standards
as set forth in the Manufacturing District regulations,[1] and administration and recreation buildings, including
sale of food and refreshments.
(i)
Uses, buildings and structures accessory to institutional
uses, parsonages, rectories or parish houses. Housing for faculty,
students and others residing on the premises, stores or commissaries
for incidental retail sales of commodities for use only by persons
residing on the premises, and heating plants, provided that operations
conform to performance standards as herein set forth in the Manufacturing
District regulations.
(j)
Uses, buildings and structures accessory to all permitted
or special uses. Individual sewerage and water systems and signs,
provided that installations conform to applicable regulations of this
chapter.
(5)
Public service uses. The following public service
uses on lots having areas and widths recommended by the Plan Commission
and required by the Village Board shall be permitted only in accordance
with procedures, regulations and standards set forth in this chapter.
When applicable, more restrictive federal, state, county or other
Village regulations and standards and additional regulations and standards
that may be recommended by the Plan Commission and determined by the
Village Board shall be required. Development plans and specifications,
when required by the Village Board, shall be submitted at the time
of application for a special use permit and such plans and specifications
shall show, when applicable, utility installations, site and land
improvements, locations, architectural elevations and construction
details of buildings and structures; location of vehicular ingress
and egress and traffic control facilities; duration of use, whether
for a specified number of years or perpetually; and other improvements.
(a)
Electric and telephone substation and distribution
centers.
(b)
Filtration plan, pumping station and water reservoirs,
public or community.
(c)
Sewage treatment plant, public or community.
(d)
Police and fire station.
(e)
Telephone exchange buildings and radio and television
receiving-transmitting or relay station towers.
(f)
Other governmental and public utility service uses.
(6)
Recreational uses. Outdoor recreation (privately or
publicly owned or operated in unified ownership) on a lot not less
than 10 acres in area, one or more of the following uses: polo field,
equestrian sports, horse shows and hunter trials; dog shows and field
trials; hunt clubs and gun clubs; conservation clubs; Girl Scout and
Boy Scout camps and lodges; archery ranges; swimming clubs and tennis
clubs; private or semipublic parks and accessory uses, buildings or
structures such as off-street parking and loading spaces; and administration,
maintenance and clubhouse buildings, including sale of food and beverages,
provided that such accessory buildings are located no less than 200
feet from a residence district boundary line and such building and
off-street parking and loading spaces shall be set back from any lot
line in accordance with requirements set forth by the Village Board.
(7)
Residential uses. Single-family detached dwellings
on any lot of record (April 8, 1964) and on a lot recorded after the
effective date of this chapter (April 8, 1964) containing not less
than 10 acres in area and accessory uses customarily incidental thereto,
including also growing of farm crops, vegetable gardens and orchards
and keeping of horses, other livestock and poultry, provided that
buildings or structures for sheltering livestock and poultry are located
no less than 150 feet from a lot line adjoining a street and 50 feet
from an interior lot line.
(8)
Lot area. Not less than 10 acres, except as otherwise
regulated herein for a specific permitted or special use.
(9)
Lot width. Not less than 300 feet, except as otherwise
regulated herein for a specific permitted or special use.
(10)
Floor area ratio. Not to exceed 0.1.
(11)
Yards. Except as otherwise regulated herein for a
specific permitted or special use, yards shall be provided as follows:
(12)
Signs. Nonflashing, nonilluminated signs are permitted under the
conditions specified.
[Amended by Ord. No. 682; 5-20-2008 by Ord. No. 840; 10-16-2018 by Ord.
No. 899]
(a)
Nameplate and identification signs, subject to the following:
1.
Agricultural use. One nameplate not more than six square feet in
area for each principal farm dwelling; on a corner lot, two such nameplates,
one facing each street.
2.
Nonagricultural use. A single identification sign, not exceeding
24 square feet in area; on a corner lot, two such signs, one facing
each street.
3.
Location. A sign or nameplate shall project higher than one story
or 15 feet above curb level, whichever is lower.
(b)
Temporary signs. Temporary signs are subject to the requirements of § 17.365(11) of this chapter.
(c)
Temporary business signs accessory to roadside stands, subject to
the following:
1.
(Reserved)
2.
Area and number. The signs shall be on the same lot as the roadside
stand, and there shall be no more than two signs per lot. No sign
shall exceed 12 square feet in area nor be closer than 50 feet from
any other lot.
3.
Location. No sign shall project beyond the property line into the
public way.
4.
Height. No sign shall project higher than 15 feet above curb level.
(d)
(Reserved)
(e)
Temporary signs shall be governed according to §§ 17.12(3)(e) and 17.365(11) of this chapter.
(f)
Maximum sign area. The total sign area allowed on the lot shall
be 13 square feet for every 200 lineal front feet of the lot line
abutting the public roadway. In making this calculation, the lineal
front feet of the lot line shall be rounded down to the nearest number
divisible by 200 notwithstanding the foregoing, if the lot abuts less
than 200 feet of public roadway, the total sign area allowed on the
lot is 13 square feet.
(14)
Site plan, landscape plan, and lighting plan submission and Village review required. Detailed site plan(s), landscape plan(s), and lighting plan(s) are required to be submitted to the Village and shall be reviewed by the Village as set forth and required under the provisions of § 17.10(6), Site plan, landscape plan, and lighting plan review required in all zoning district; and § 17.38, Site plan, § 17.39, Landscape plan, and § 17.40, Lighting plan, of the Village of Greendale Zoning Code. All single-family dwellings on lots (and their associated accessory structures) and two-family dwellings on lots (and their associated accessory structures) are hereby deemed exempt from the requirements of site plan, landscape plan, and lighting plan review.
[Added 12-21-2010 by Ord. No. 854]