Village of Bear Creek, WI: Zoning Districts

Vacation of streets. Vacation of public streets and alleys shall cause the land vacated to be automatically placed in the same district as the abutting side to which the vacated land reverts.

(2)

Annexations. Annexations to or consolidations with the Village subsequent to the effective date of this chapter shall be placed in the R-1 District, unless the annexation ordinance places the land in another district.

Zoning Map.

(1)

The Village of Bear Creek is hereby divided into zoning districts as shown upon a map designated as the Official Zoning Map of the Village of Bear Creek, and made a part of this chapter. The Official Zoning Map and all the notations, references and other information shown thereon are a part of this chapter and shall have the same force and effect as if the matters and information set forth by said map were fully described herein. The Official Zoning Map shall be properly attested and kept on file along with the text of the Official Zoning Regulations in the office of the Village Administrator of the Village of Bear Creek.

(2)

The district boundaries shall be determined by measurement from and as shown on the Official Zoning Map, and in case of any question as to the interpretation of such boundary lines, the Plan Commission shall interpret the map according to the reasonable intent of this chapter. Unless otherwise specifically indicated or dimensioned on the map, the district boundaries are normally lot lines; section, quarter section or sixteenth section lines; or the center lines of streets, highways, railways or alleys.

§ 390-31 Interpretation of district boundaries.

Where uncertainty exists as to the boundaries of districts as shown on the Zoning Map, the following rules shall apply:

Boundaries indicated as approximately following the center lines of streets, highways or alleys shall be construed to follow such center lines.

Boundaries indicated as approximately following platted lot lines shall be construed as following such lot lines.

Boundaries indicated as approximately following Village boundaries shall be construed as following municipal boundaries.

Boundaries indicated as following railroad lines shall be construed to be midway between the main tracks.

Boundaries indicated as following shorelines shall be construed to follow such shorelines and, in the event of change in the shoreline, shall be construed as moving with the actual shoreline; boundaries indicated as approximately following the center lines of streams, rivers, canals, lakes or other bodies of water shall be construed to follow such center lines.

Boundaries indicated as parallel to or extensions of features indicated in the preceding shall be so construed. Distances not specifically indicated on the Zoning Map shall be determined by the scale of the map.

§ 390-32 Low- to Medium-Density Residential Districts.

Permitted uses and structures.

(1)

R-1 Low-Density Residential District.

(a)

Permitted uses.

[1]

Single-family dwellings.

[2]

Churches, public schools, parochial schools, public libraries, public museums and art galleries.

[3]

Municipal buildings, except sewage disposal plants, garbage incinerators, public warehouses, public garages, public shops and storage yards, and penal or correctional institutions and asylums.

[4]

Public recreational and community center buildings and grounds.

[5]

Telephone buildings, exchanges and lines, and static transformer stations, provided there is no service garage or storage yard. This regulation, however, shall not apply to microwave radio relay stations unless and until the location thereof shall first have been approved by the Plan Commission.

[6]

Uses customarily incident to any of the above uses when located on the same lot and not involving the conduct of a business, including home occupations not involving the conduct of a business on the premises.

[7]

Professional or announcement signs not over one square foot in area, except that public or religious institutions may have, for their own use, an announcement sign or bulletin board not over eight square feet in area; signs not over four square feet in area pertaining to the lease, hire or sale of a building or premises, provided that no advertising sign of any other character shall be permitted in the R-1 Residential District; provided, further, that all permitted signs shall be located within the lot lines and at least 15 feet from the inside sidewalk line.

[8]

Pursuant to § 66.1017, Wis. Stats., a family child-care home, defined as a dwelling licensed as a child-care center by the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families providing care for not more than eight children, provided that the proposed family child-care home shall meet all zoning regulations applicable to all other dwellings within this zoning district.

(2)

R-2 Moderate-Density Residential District.

(a)

Permitted uses.

[1]

Any use permitted in the R-1 Low-Density Residential District.

[2]

(3)

R-3 Medium-Density Residential District.

(a)

Permitted uses.

[1]

Any use permitted in the R-2 Moderate-Density Residential District.

[2]

Two-family dwellings.

[3]

[4]

Single-family attached dwelling units, zero-lot-line duplexes.

[a]

The height, area and setback requirements for two-family dwellings (duplexes) shall remain as previously set forth in the table of height, area and setback requirements as found in the presently existing Village ordinances, with the exception of minimum frontage, which shall hereinafter be established as ninety-foot minimum lot width, and minimum area, which shall hereinafter be established as 9,500 square feet, for single-family attached dwelling units, zero-lot-line duplexes.

[b]

Zero-lot-line duplexes can be implemented within the Village of Bear Creek. All certified survey maps and subdivision plats creating zero-lot-line duplexes shall have the following restrictive endorsement placed upon same: "When attached dwelling units are created, matters of mutual concern to the adjacent property owners due to construction, catastrophe and maintenance shall be guarded against by private covenants and deed restrictions, and no approving authority shall be held responsible for the enforcement of same."

[c]

Easements shall be provided across zero lot lines when necessary for provision of water, sewer and utility services.

[d]

Zero-lot-line duplexes shall share a common wall. Wherever improvements abut on the common boundary line between adjoining units, there shall be a one-hour fire wall running from the lowest floor level, including the basement if it is the common wall, to the underside of the roof sheathing. Such basement wall, if any, shall be waterproofed masonry.

[e]

When attached dwelling units are created, the plans, specifications and construction of such buildings shall require the installation and construction of separate sewer, water and other utility services to each dwelling unit.

[f]

The side yard setback may be zero on one side, provided that:

[i]

The lot adjacent to that side yard is held under the same ownership at the time of initial construction;

[ii]

The adjoining side yard setback of the lot adjacent to the zero side yard is also zero;

[iii]

The opposite side yard is not less than six feet; and

[iv]

Both units of duplex exterior finish shall be completed within one year of the issuance date of the building permit.

[g]

In the event of the total destruction of the zero-lot-line duplex building, it shall be determined by agreement of both unit owners whether to rebuild, restore or sell the property. If damage is only to the unit on one parcel and such damage does not affect the other unit, the damaged unit shall be repaired by the owner of that damaged unit.

§ 390-33 R-4 High-Density Residential District.

Permitted uses.

(1)

Any use permitted in the R-3 Medium-Density Residential District.

(2)

Multiple-family dwellings.

Prohibited uses: boardinghouses and lodging houses.

§ 390-34 B. Business District.

Permitted uses.

(1)

Any use permitted in the R-3 Medium-Density Residential District.

(2)

Art, antique or gift shop.

(3)

Automobile sales and service, except car laundries and service stations.

(4)

Bakery, retail (employing not more than five persons per shift on the premises).

(5)

Bank or other financial institution, except drive-in facilities.

(6)

Barbershop and beauty parlor.

(7)

Book and stationery store, newsstand.

(8)

Bowling alley, pool and billiards room.

(9)

Clinic or medical office building.

(10)

Clothing store.

(11)

Confectionery store, except drive-in.

(12)

Convention and exhibition hall, sports arena.

(13)

Dairy.

(14)

Dance hall, gymnasium, skating rink.

Department store.

Drugstore, pharmacy.

Florist shop.

Funeral home.

Furniture store, office equipment store.

(20)

Grocery store.

(21)

Hardware store.

(22)

Home appliance store, paint store, plumbing, heating and electrical supplies stores.

(23)

Hotel, motel.

(24)

Jewelry store.

(25)

Laundry and dry cleaning.

(26)

Liquor store, taverns.

(27)

Music store, radio and television sales and service.

(28)

Pet shop.

(29)

Photographer's studio, camera store.

(30)

Private clubs, fraternities and lodges.

(31)

Professional and business offices.

(32)

Radio and television broadcasting studio, towers.

(33)

Railroad and bus depot.

(34)

Restaurants, except drive-in.

(35)

Sporting goods store.

(36)

Theater, except outdoor drive-in.

(37)

Tobacco and pipe shop.

(38)

Any other uses similar in character and the processing or treatment of products clearly incidental to the conduct of a retail business on the premises.

(39)

Such accessory uses as are customary in connection with the foregoing uses and are incidental thereto.

§ 390-35 I. Limited Industrial District.

Permitted uses.

(1)

Any use permitted in the B-1 General Business District, except residential, educational and charitable uses, provided that there may be a residence for a watchman or caretaker and members of his family in connection with any industrial use when located on the same premises.

(2)

Animal hospital, veterinary.

(3)

Blacksmithing, tinsmithing, sheet metal working, plumbing and heating shops.

(4)

Enameling and painting.

Feed manufacture.

Food locker plant.

Hatchery.

Hydroelectric-generating plants.

(9)

Knitting mills and the manufacture of products from finished fabrics.

(10)

Laboratories.

(11)

Manufacture and bottling of nonalcoholic beverages.

(12)

Manufacture of cigars, cigarettes and smoking tobacco.

(13)

Manufacture of jewelry and cosmetics.

(14)

Manufacture of products from cement, concrete and plaster.

(15)

Manufacture of products from leather, but not the tanning of hides or manufacture of leather.

(16)

Manufacture of products from plastics, but not the manufacture of plastics.

(17)

Manufacture of products from wood, except cooperage works, planing mills, and the manufacture of pulp.

(18)

Manufacture of sporting goods, home and office appliances and supplies.

(19)

Printing and publishing.

(20)

Processing, packing and manufacture of food, except meat and meat products, fish and fish products.

(21)

Railroad switching yards and structures.

(22)

Repair, service and assembly of motor-propelled or non-motor-propelled vehicles, including the repair and storage of automotive accessories and the sale and servicing of farm machinery, except the wrecking of motor-propelled vehicles.

(23)

Warehousing and storage of materials and fuel, contractors' yards, except the storage of wrecked and dismantled vehicles, junk, explosives or inflammable gases or liquids.

(24)

Wholesale business.

(25)

Such accessory uses as are customary in conjunction with the foregoing uses.

Height, area and setback requirements.

Vision clearance. On all corner lots, vision clearance of not less than 15 feet.

§ 390-36 Migrant labor housing/camps.

[Added 8-12-2024]

The Village of Bear Creek prohibits migrant labor housing within Village boundaries.

(1)

This includes the migrant labor camps of any kind.

§ 390-37 through § 390-38. (Reserved)