(a)

Vision setback lines at the intersection of public streets and of a street with a railroad, where the grade is not separated, are hereby established as follows:

(1)

Across each sector between the intersection of a street with a railroad a vision setback line shall be established by a straight line connecting points on the street right-of-way line and the railroad right-of-way line, which points are located 30 feet from the intersection of the street right-of-way line and the railroad right-of-way line.

(2)

Across each sector between intersecting streets a vision setback line shall be established by a straight line connecting two points of the intersecting street right-of-way lines, which points are located 25 feet from the intersection of said right-of-way lines.

(b)

In the vision setback area, no structure of any kind shall be permitted which exceeds a height of two feet above the elevation of the center of the intersection, except for necessary highway and traffic signs and public utility lines, nor shall any plant material or natural growth be permitted which obscures safe vision of the approaches to the intersection.

(c)

The requirements for vision setback lines shall not apply within the Central Business District.

(Code 2005, § 13-1-80)

(a)

Loading space requirements. On every lot on which a business, commercial or industrial use is hereafter established, loading space with access to a public street or alley shall be provided as indicated below for the loading and unloading of vehicles off the public right-of-way:

(b)

Multiple or mixed uses. Where a building is devoted to more than one use or for different uses and where the floor area for each use is below the minimum required for a loading space but the aggregate floor area of such uses is above such a minimum, then off street loading space shall be provided as if the entire building were devoted to that use in the building for which the most loading spaces are required.

(c)

Location. Required off-street loading spaces shall be located on the same lot with the principal use requiring such space. No loading space shall be located within 30 feet of the nearest point of intersection of two streets or require any vehicle to back into a public street.

(d)

Surfacing. All open off-street loading berths shall be improved with a compacted gravel base, not less than seven inches thick, surfaced with not less than two inches of asphalt or treated with some comparable all-weather dustless material.

(e)

Size. An individual loading space shall be at least 12 feet wide by 45 feet long and have a minimum high clearance of 14 feet.

(f)

Utilization. Space allocated to any off-street loading berth shall not, while so allocated, be used to satisfy the space requirements for any off-street parking facilities or portions thereof.

(g)

Central loading. Central loading facilities may be substituted for loading berths on the individual zoning lots provided the following conditions are fulfilled:

(1)

Each zoning lot served shall have direct access to the central loading area without crossing streets or alleys at grade.

(2)

Total berths provided shall meet the requirements based on the sum of the several, types of uses served. Areas of types of uses may be totaled before computing number of loading berths.

(3)

No zoning lot served shall be more than 300 feet removed from the Central Loading Area.

(4)

The tunnel or ramp connecting the central loading area with the zoning lot served shall be not less than seven feet in width and have a clearance of not less than seven feet.

(Code 2005, § 13-1-81)

The off-street parking provisions of this chapter shall apply to all buildings and structures erected after the effective date of this chapter, accessory parking shall be according to the provisions of this article; where an intensity of the use of any building structure or premises shall be increased, additional parking to match the increased intensity of use shall be provided; or wherever an existing building or structure is converted to a new use, parking shall be provided according to the requirements of the new use. All new nonresidential parking lots and all alterations of existing lots shall be subject to the approval of the Zoning Administrator. Requests for said parking lots shall be accompanied with detailed plans on landscaping, parking layout, drainage provisions and driveway locations. In all districts, there shall be provided at the time any use or building is erected, enlarged, extended, or increased off street parking stalls for all vehicles in accordance with the following:

(1)

Access. Each off-street parking space shall open directly upon an aisle or driveway designed to provide safe and efficient means of vehicular access to such parking space. All off-street parking facilities shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in a manner which will least interfere with traffic movement.

(2)

Design standards. Each parking space shall not be less than 180 square feet in area, 18 feet in length and ten feet in width, exclusive of aisles and access drives. No parking area of more than two spaces shall be designed as to require any vehicle to back into a public street. Any parking area of more than five spaces shall be sufficiently screened in the form of a solid fence or shrubbery to protect adjacent residential uses. Large expanses of unchanneled parking areas shall be avoided by interior landscaping and safety islands.

(3)

Location. All parking spaces required herein shall be located on the same lot with the building or use served, except that where an increase in the number of spaces are provided collectively or used jointly by two or more buildings or establishments, the required spaces may be located not to exceed 300 feet from an institutional building served and not to exceed 500 feet from any other nonresidential building served.

(4)

Surfacing. All off-street parking areas, except a single parking space accessory to a single-family dwelling, shall be surfaced with a reasonably dustless all-weather material.

(5)

Landscaping.

a.

Accessory landscape area. All public and private off-street parking areas which serve four vehicles or more, are located within 15 feet of any lot line or public right-of-way and are created or redesigned and rebuilt subsequent to the adoption of this Code shall be provided with accessory landscape areas totaling not less than ten percent of the surfaced area. The minimum size of each landscape area shall not be less than 100 square feet.

b.

Location. Location of landscape areas, plant materials and protection afforded the plantings, including curbing and provision for maintenance by the property owner, shall be subject to approval by the Zoning Administrator.

c.

Plans. All plans for such proposed parking areas, at the discretion of the Zoning Administrator, shall include a topographic survey or grading plan which shows existing and proposed grades and location of improvements. The preservation of existing trees, shrubs and other natural vegetation in the parking area may be included in the calculation of the required minimum landscape area.

d.

Special residential requirements. Those parking areas for five or more vehicles if adjoining a residential use shall be screened from such use by a solid wall, fence, evergreen planting of equivalent visual density or other effective means, built and maintained at a minimum height of five feet. Where a solidly constructed decorative fence is provided along the interior lot line, the minimum setback for the parking, area shall be five feet from said lot line. Said fence shall be located a minimum of one foot from the said lot line.

e.

Repair and service. No motor vehicle repair work or service of any kind shall be permitted in association with parking facilities provided in residential districts.

f.

Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate off-street parking areas shall be directed away from residential properties and public streets in such a way as not to create a nuisance. However, in no case shall such lighting exceed three footcandles measured at the lot line.

g.

Street setback area. No parking shall be permitted between the street right-of-way line and the building setback line prevailing in the zone in which the proposed parking area is to be located. The resulting open area shall be planted in grass or otherwise landscaped to create a permanent green area.

(6)

Curbs. Curbs or barriers shall be installed a minimum of four feet from a property line so as to prevent the parked vehicles from extending over any lot lines.

(7)

Number of stalls. Number of parking stalls required are shown in the following table:

(8)

Uses not listed. In the case of structures or uses not mentioned the provision for a use which is similar shall apply, as determined by the Plan Commission.

(9)

Computing requirements. In computing the number of spaces required, the following rules shall govern:

a.

Floor space shall mean the gross floor area of the specific use.

b.

For structures containing more than one use, the required number of spaces shall be computed by adding the space required for each use.

c.

Where parking spaces are calculated according to the use of the parcel.

(10)

Combined uses. Combinations of any of the uses of this section shall provide the total of the number of stalls required for each individual use. Two or more uses may provide required off-street parking spaces in a common parking facility less than the sum of the spaces required for each use individually, provided such uses are not operated during the same hours. The following conditions must be met for any joint use:

a.

The proposed joint parking space is within 500 feet of the use it will serve.

b.

The applicant shall show that there is no substantial conflict in the principal operating hours of the two buildings or uses for which joint use of off-street parking facilities is proposed.

c.

A properly drawn legal instrument approved by the Common Council, executed by the parties concerned, for joint use of off-street parking facilities shall be filed with the City Clerk-Treasurer. Said instrument may be a three-party agreement, including the City and all private parties involved. Such instrument shall first be approved by the City Attorney.

(11)

Handicapped parking requirements. In addition to any other requirements relating to parking spaces contained in this Code, the provisions contained in Wis. Stats. §§ 101.13, 346.503 and 346.56, and any Wisconsin Administrative Code sections adopted pursuant thereto are hereby adopted by reference and made applicable to all parking facilities whenever constructed.

(12)

Changes in buildings or use. Whenever a building or use is changed, structurally altered or enlarged to create a need for an increase of 25 percent or more in the number of existing parking spaces, such spaces shall be provided on the basis of the enlargement or change. Whenever a building or use is enlarged to the extent of 50 percent or more in the floor area, said building or use shall then comply with the parking requirements set forth in the district in which it is located.

(13)

Off-lot parking.

a.

Required off-street parking spaces shall be located on the same lot with the principal use, or when this requirement cannot be met, such parking spaces may be located off-lot provided the parking spaces are located in the same district and not over 500 feet from the principal use. In cases where off-street parking facilities are permitted on land other than the same lot as the principal use, such facilities shall be in the same possession as the lot occupied by the use to which the parking facilities are necessary or in the possession of the controller of the principal use to which the parking facilities are accessory. Such possession shall be by deed whereby the owner of the land on which the parking facilities are to be located shall be bound by a covenant filed and recorded in the Office of the County Register of Deeds requiring such owner, his heirs or assigns to maintain the required facilities for the duration of the use served.

b.

Off-lot parking spaces for residential uses shall be within 250 feet of the principal entrance or the entrance for the individual occupants for whom the spaces are reserved while the farthest portions of a parking lot for all other uses shall be within 400 feet of the entrance of the establishment.

c.

Accessory parking may be located in residential districts provided that said lots or property are immediately adjacent to a commercial, business or industrial zoning district.

d.

All off-street parking lots adjoining lots zoned for residential use shall have a minimum setback of ten feet from any interior lot line, except if the adjoining lot is used for legally conforming parking purposes.

(14)

Signs. Signs located in parking areas necessary for orderly operation of traffic movement shall be permitted in addition to others permitted in this chapter.

(15)

Lighting. Lighting used to illuminate, off-street parking shall have no direct source of light visible from a street or adjacent land.

(16)

Reduction of parking areas. Off-street parking spaces shall not be reduced in number unless said number exceeds the requirement set forth herein.

(Code 2005, § 13-1-82)

(a)

Restrictions. No direct private access shall be permitted to the existing or proposed rights-of-way of expressways, nor to any controlled access arterial street without permission of the highway agency that has access control jurisdiction. No direct public or private access shall be permitted to the existing or proposed rights-of-way of freeways, interstate highways and their interchanges or turning lanes nor to intersecting or interchanging streets within 1,500 feet of the most remote end of the taper of the turning lanes, such as exit and entrance ramps. No driveway openings shall be permitted within 100 feet of the intersection of an arterial street right-of-way line.

(b)

Access barriers. Access barriers, such as curbing, fencing, ditching, landscaping or other topographic barriers shall be erected to prevent unauthorized vehicular ingress or egress to the above specified streets or highways.

(c)

Temporary access. Temporary access to the above rights-of-way may be granted by the Zoning Administrator after review and recommendation by the highway agencies having jurisdiction. Such access permit shall be temporary, revocable and subject to any conditions required and shall be issued for a period not to exceed 12 months.

(Code 2005, § 13-1-83)

(a)

Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this section shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Boat means every description of watercraft used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water.

Length of a mobile home means the distance from the exterior of the front wall, nearest to the exterior of the drawbar and coupling mechanism, to the exterior of the rear wall, at the opposite end of the home, where such walls enclose living or other interior space and such distance includes expandable rooms but not bay windows, porches, drawbars, couplings, hitches, wall and roof extensions or other attachments.

Mobile home means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is eight body feet or more in width and is 32 body feet or more in length, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein.

Recreational vehicle means any of the following:

(1)

Boat or snowmobile trailer means a vehicle on which a boat or snowmobile may be transported and is towable by a motor vehicle. When removed from the trailer, a boat or snowmobile, for purposes of this article, is termed an unmounted boat or snowmobile.

(2)

Camping trailer means a canvas or folding structure mounted on wheels and designed for travel, recreation, vacation or other uses.

(3)

Chassis mounts, motor homes andmini-motor homes means recreational structures constructed integrally with a truck of motor-van chassis and incapable of being separated therefrom.

(4)

Converted and chopped vans means recreational structures which are created by altering or changing an existing auto van to make it a recreational vehicle.

(5)

Motor home means a portable, temporary dwelling to be used for travel, recreation, vacation or other uses, constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled

(6)

Pickup coach means a structure designed to be mounted on a truck chassis for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation, vacation or other uses.

(7)

Travel trailer means a vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis and on wheels that is between ten and 36 feet long, including the hitch, and eight feet or less in width, designated to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation, vacation or other uses and towed by a car, station wagon or truck. It includes so-called fifth-wheel units.

Width of a mobile home means the distance from the exterior of one side wall to the exterior of the opposite side wall where such walls enclose living or other interior space and such distance includes expandable rooms but not bay windows, porches, wall and roof extensions or other attachments.

Yard, front, means that part of a lot between the front lot line and front of the principal building on the lot and extended to both side lot lines.

Yard, rear, means that part of a lot between the rear lot line and the back of the principal building on the lot and extended to both side lot lines.

Yard, side, means that part of a lot not surrounded by a building and not in the front or rear yard.

(b)

Permitted parking or storage of recreational vehicles. In all residential and commercial districts provided for in this chapter, it is permissible to park or store a recreational vehicle or boat and boat trailer on private property in the following manner:

(1)

No part of the unit may extend over the public sidewalk or public right-of-way.

(2)

Parking is permitted only for storage purposes. Recreational vehicles or boats shall not be:

a.

Used for dwelling purposes, except for overnight sleeping for a maximum of 14 days in any one calendar year. Cooking is not permitted at any time.

b.

Permanently connected to sewer lines, water lines or electricity. The recreational vehicle may be connected to electricity temporarily for charging batteries and other purposes.

c.

Used for storage of goods, materials, or equipment other than those items considered to be part of the unit or essential for its immediate use.

(3)

Notwithstanding the Subsections (1) and (2) of this section, a unit may be parked anywhere on the premises during active loading or unloading, and the use of electricity or propane fuel is permitted when necessary to prepare a recreational vehicle for use.

(4)

The recreational vehicle or boat shall be owned by the resident on whose property the unit is parked for storage.

(Code 2005, § 13-1-84)

(a)

Truck parking in residential areas. No motor vehicle over 12,000 gross vehicle weight rated capacity bearing a commercial license, including school buses, and no commercially licensed trailer, including semitrailers, shall be parked or stored in a residential district, except when loading, unloading or rendering a service.

(b)

Tractors and road machinery. No person shall park, keep or maintain on properties zoned as residential or multiple residential dwellings the following types of vehicles: tractors, tractor-trailers, semi-trailers, farm tractors in excess of six feet in width, dump trucks, and road machinery. Said vehicles may not be kept or parked on said premises whether or not they are in enclosed buildings, except for the purposes of unloading or servicing the premises.

(Code 2005, § 13-1-85)