For the purposes of this chapter, the Village
is divided into four districts, as follows:
D. Land Conservancy District.
E. Planned Unit Development District (PUD).
[Added 5-8-2007]
Where uncertainty exists as to the boundaries
of districts as shown on the Zoning Map, the following rules shall
apply:
A. Boundaries indicated as approximately following the
center lines of streets, highways, or alleys shall be construed to
follow such center lines.
B. Boundaries indicated as approximately following platted
lot lines shall be construed as following such lot lines.
C. Boundaries indicated as approximately following Village
boundaries shall be construed as following municipal boundaries.
D. Where a district is bounded by a navigable body of
water, the regulations and restrictions which apply upon the uplands
are intended to apply also to the adjacent riparian rights.
E. Boundaries indicated as parallel to or extensions
of features indicated in the preceding subsections shall be so construed.
Distances not specifically indicated on the Zoning Map shall be determined
by the scale of the map.
[Amended 6-10-2014; 4-11-2017]
A. Purpose. The "A" Business District is intended to be a limited local
business district to provide for the day-to-day consumer services
and goods that are necessary to serve a residential area. High-traffic-generating
and traffic-oriented uses are restricted because of their undesirable
influence on adjacent residential areas.
B. Use regulations.
(1) Permitted uses. In the "A" Business District, the following uses
are permitted, subject to all terms of this Code: Any of the following
retail and customer service establishments: retail stores and services
conducted wholly within enclosed buildings and devoted to supplying
neighborhood needs, including but not limited to grocery stores, drugstores,
hardware stores, barber and beauty shops, movie houses, book stores,
veterinary clinics and any similar use are subject to the determination
of the Plan Commission.
(2) Conditional uses. The following land uses shall be the only conditional
uses allowed in the "A" Business District, subject to all terms of
this Code:
(a)
Banks, service businesses or professional offices.
(b)
Medical or dental clinics in which one or more physicians and/or
dentists and/or their allied professional assistants are associated
for the purpose of carrying on their professions. The clinic may include
an accessory dental or medical laboratory but shall not include inpatient
care.
(d)
Taverns, liquor stores or other establishments selling intoxicating
liquors or fermented malt beverages (by the drink or otherwise).
(e)
Establishments for the sale of gasoline and/or other petroleum
products and/or automotive repairs and maintenance.
(f)
Any retail or customer service establishment, if the hours of
operation extend outside of 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on any day.
(g)
Accessory buildings and uses and miscellaneous structures approved
by the Building Board as being incidental to the primary permitted
use and deemed when constructed or used as not being detrimental to
the neighboring properties or the Village in terms of use, appearance,
materials, design and location.
(3) Prohibited uses. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained
in this Code, the following uses are expressly excluded in the "A"
Business District:
(a)
Wrecker services, junkyards, mini-warehouses, open/outdoor storage.
(b)
Adult bookstores. For the purpose of this chapter, "adult bookstore"
is defined as any establishment which sells or loans, for monetary
consideration, as a significant part of its business, any of the following
materials: books, pamphlets, magazines, printed matter, verbal descriptions,
narrative accounts, pictures, photographs, drawings, sculptures, motion-picture
films or other visual representations or images depicting human nudity
and sexual conduct. "Nudity" is defined as the showing of the human
male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a full
opaque covering. "Sexual conduct" is defined as acts of sexual intercourse
between humans, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, and acts
of sexual perversion mentioned in § 944.17, Wis. Stats.
(c)
Retail establishments selling large and heavy products which
involve substantial trucking, such as furniture and major electrical
appliances.
C. Building and site development standards.
(1) New or expanded buildings. The construction of any new building, or the expansion of the floor area of any existing building, shall require a conditional use permit regardless of the intended use. All requirements of Article
IX shall be met.
(2) Height regulations. No building shall be erected or structurally
altered to exceed 40 feet in height.
(3) Minimum required yards. Except where the Village Board may establish
different yards (setbacks) by conditional use permit, the following
are the minimum required yards for each structure constructed after
March 1, 2017, and for the expanded portion of any structure expanded
after March 1, 2017:
(a)
For principal buildings:
[1]
Street yard: none, for buildings exclusively with a nonresidential
use; five feet, for buildings with a residential use. The Village
Board may require greater street yards at intersections where necessary
to assure proper traffic visibility.
[2]
Non-street side yard: five feet, except per Subsection
C(3)(a)[4] and for buildings where a common party fire wall is approved by the Building Inspector.
[4]
Any side or rear yard abutting a residence district: 12 feet,
except the setback for any part of a third building story or greater
shall be 20 feet.
(b)
Minimum required yards associated with detached accessory structures shall be per §
225-46.
(c)
Every part of a required yard shall be open and unobstructed
from its lowest level to the sky, except for the ordinary projection
of sills, belt courses, chimneys, flues, buttresses, ornamental features
and eaves, provided that none of such projections shall project into
any yard more than 24 inches.
(4) Minimum lot area per dwelling unit. Every building with a residential
use shall be provided with a lot area not less than 1,250 square feet
per dwelling unit.
(5) Maximum floor area ratio (FAR): 100% maximum coverage.