Institutional districts are areas designed to serve the public and quasi-public uses.

(‘81 Code, § A1-44) (Ord. 291, passed 4-21-83; Am. Ord. 514, passed 5-23-91)

   Within any P district, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following principal uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:

   (A)   Elementary, middle, junior high, and senior high schools having a regular course of study accredited by the Minnesota State Department of Education;

   (B)   Public libraries and public or private museums;

   (C)   Parks and playgrounds, including other structures and buildings necessary for the operation of or directly serving the park or park facilities;

   (D)   Public recreational facilities or athletic fields operated by a political subdivision or school accredited by the Minnesota State Department of Education;

   (E)   Recreational buildings, community centers and swimming pools;

   (F)   Churches, chapels, temples and synagogues;

   (G)   Golf courses, but not inlcuding commercially operated driving ranges, “pitch-and-putt” miniature golf courses;

   (H)   Cemeteries including mortuaries;

   (I)   Municipal government administrative buildings and maintenance buildings and facilities including outdoor storage of municipal vehicles, equipment and materials, municipal utility facilities, fire stations and police stations;

   (J)   Governmental service centers, administrative offices and maintenance facility buildings (outdoor storage in connection therewith shall be a conditional use), utility or waste water facilities, and courthouses;

   (K)   Academies, colleges, junior colleges and universities, including dormitories and other structures and facilities necessary in the operation of an academy, college or university;

   (L)   Clubs and lodges, non-profit and not engaged primarily in providing a service customarily carried on in a business such as the serving of food and drink;

   (M)   Public hospitals, nursing homes and convalescent centers;

   (N)   Day-care centers and nurseries; and

   (O)   Retail sales of product, goods or materials that are ancillary and complimentary to a use that is a permitted or an approved conditional use on the same property, subject to the following requirements:

      (1)   Retail sales operation is not allowed as an exclusive use within its own stand-alone building; the retail sales shall occur within a building occupied by one or more other institutional uses.

      (2)   The gross floor area of the retail sales operation is not more than 15% of the total gross floor area or 4,500 square feet, whichever is less, of the building in which it occupies.

      (3)   The parking requirements as set forth in this chapter for the principal use(s) and the retail sales operation on the property are met.

      (4)   Hours of operation are limited to 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

      (5)   No sales operations shall occur or otherwise be permitted to occur outdoors notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter permitting outdoor sales.

      (6)   Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, no signs, banners, posters or other placards shall be placed on any exterior window or door.

      (7)   Retail sale of services is prohibited.

(‘81 Code, § A1-44) (Ord. 291, passed 4-21-83; Am. Ord. 514, passed 5-23-91; Am. Ord. 900, passed 9-23-10; Am. Ord. 957, passed 12-26-13; Am. Ord. 1086, passed 4-22-21)

   Within any P district, no accessory structure or use shall be permitted, except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:

   (A)   Clubhouses, maintenance buildings, or other related structures on the grounds of golf courses.

   (B)   Convents, seminaries, monasteries and nunneries, rectories, parsonages and parish houses and religious retreats when accessory to a church, chapel, temple or synagogue.

   (C)   Accessory uses as permitted in § 155.093.

   (D)   Concession, restroom, ticket booth, press box, and warming house buildings and dugouts and score boards when directly serving park facilities, recreational facilities or athletic field(s) on the same site.

   (E)   One storage building not larger than 750 square feet in area that is necessary in the operation of any permitted use within the institutional district.

   (F)   Fuel dispensing facility in connection with a municipal maintenance or governmental maintenance facility.

(‘81 Code, § A1-44) (Ord. 291, passed 4-21-83; Am. Ord. 514, passed 5-23-91; Am. Ord. 957, passed 12-26-13)

   Within any P district, no structure or land shall be used for the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council, except by conditional use permit:

   (A)   Any structure otherwise permitted but exceeding 40 feet in height.

   (B)   Public utility building, structure, or service facility, including electric substations occupying in excess of 500 square feet of land area, under the following conditions:

      (1)   When located adjacent to a designated utility corridor as identified in the utility chapter of the city’s comprehensive plan or utility location plan as adopted by the City Council, if in existence;

      (2)   When adequate security is provided through the use of appropriate fencing and/or windowless building walls. Preferred fencing shall be a solid masonry wall, unless it can be demonstrated that the fenced facility requires the movement of air for cooling purposes which would be inhibited by a solid wall. Unless otherwise required by federal or state regulations, barbed wire shall not be used unless specifically approved by the City Council;

      (3)   When adequate screening and buffering is provided through the use of appropriate landscape materials and in accordance with § 155.348;

      (4)   When the facility or outside edge of any fencing is located at least 100 feet from any residential dwelling in existence at the time of the facility’s establishment;

      (5)   When the facility is not adjacent to the city’s “Ring Route” central business district road system, as identified in the city’s comprehensive plan;

      (6)   When the City Council determines that the proposed location will not adversely affect adjacent residential or commercial uses because the traffic generation, noise, glare, appearance or other nuisance characteristics; and

      (7)   When the City Council determines that the proposed facility will not generate nuisances which will have an adverse effect upon existing adjacent uses or the future development of adjacent vacant properties.

   (C)   Towers as regulated in § 155.385.

   (D)   An accessory storage building larger than 750 square feet in area or any accessory storage building regardless of size if an accessory storage building currently exists on the property, provided the building is necessary in the use and operation of the permitted primary use on the property subject to the following conditions:

      (1)   All minimum area standards as set forth herein shall be met;

      (2)   Any building or structure to be used for storage of moveable property, which is not in connection with a maintenance facility located on the site as the primary use, shall not exceed 1,400 square feet;

      (3)   The exterior finish and materials of any accessory building shall be architecturally compatible with the principal building, if any, otherwise all buildings shall comply with exterior finish and materials regulations set forth elsewhere in this code;

      (4)   No more than two accessory storage buildings shall be permitted on a lot or parcel unless otherwise permitted in § 155.246.

   (E)   (1)   Outdoor storage of motor vehicles, equipment or materials in connection with the use and operation of a governmental maintenance facility on the property, subject to the following conditions:

         (a)   All motor vehicles shall be licensed and have current registration for road operation;

         (b)   All motor vehicles and motorized equipment shall be operational and in working condition;

         (c)   All motorized vehicles or equipment shall be stored on an impervious surface; and

         (d)   The outdoor storage area shall be fenced in accordance with the fence regulations herein and property screened as set forth in the screening regulations set forth herein.

      (2)   This division (E) shall not apply to the vehicles impounded and in the possession of the city and located on city-owned property in the course of its public safety and law enforcement duties.

(‘81 Code, § A1-44) (Ord. 291, passed 4-21-83; Am. Ord. 514, passed 5-23-91; Am. Ord. 760, passed 10-14-04; Am. Ord. 957, passed 12-26-13)

   The following minimum area standards and requirements shall be met.

   (A)   Area requirements. No improvements shall be placed on lands unless the lands to be so used or improved shall meet the following minimum area and dimensional requirements:

   Minimum Lot Dimensions

   Lot area (sq. ft.)   10,000

   Lot width (ft.)        80

   Minimum Building Setbacks

   Along principal or minor

    arterial streets (ft.)        50

   Along community or

    neighborhood collector

    streets (ft.)           40

   Along other streets      35

   Along side lot line (ft.)        10

   Along rear lot line (ft.)        20

   Abutting R or M districts   20

   Minimum Parking Setbacks

   Along public street (ft.)        20

   Abutting R or M districts

    (ft.)              20

   Side or rear lot line (ft.)        5

   Maximum Building Coverage

   Coverage of lot (%)        20

   Maximum Building Height

   Maximum height, except

    by conditional use

    permit (ft.)           40

   (B)   Maximum impervious surface. See § 155.350.

   (C)   Screening. See § 155.348.

   (D)   Landscaping. See § 155.349.

   (E)   Parking. See §§ 155.370 through 155.379.

(‘81 Code, § A1-45) (Ord. 291, passed 4-21-83)