Except as hereinafter provided:

1. No building shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed, or structurally altered, nor shall any building or land be used except for a purpose permitted in the district in which the building or land is located;
2. No building shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed, or structurally altered to exceed the height limit herein established for the district in which the building is located;
3. No building shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed, or structurally altered, except in conformity with the area regulations of the district in which the building is located;
4. The minimum yards and open spaces, including lot area per family, required by this chapter for each and every building existing at the time of passage of this chapter or for any building hereafter erected shall not be encroached upon or considered as yard or open space requirements for any other building, nor shall any lot area be reduced beyond the district requirements of this chapter; and
5. Every building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall be located on a lot as defined in this chapter, and in no case shall there be more than one main building on one lot, except as otherwise provided in this code.

(1978 Code, § 9-2-15) Penalty, see § 10.99

1. “A” residence district regulations. The regulations set forth in this section, or set forth elsewhere in this chapter when referred to in this section, are the district regulations in the “A” residence districts.
   
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-16)
   
2. Use regulations. A building or premises shall be used for the following purposes:
   1. Truck gardening, and nurseries;
   2. Single-family dwellings, except trailers as defined in this chapter;
   3. Recreational vehicles (RVs) can be connected as long as they are not occupied as a permanent dwelling
      
   4. Parks, playgrounds, and community buildings;
   5. Public schools, elementary and high, or private schools having a curriculum equivalent to a public elementary school or public high school and having no rooms regularly used for housing or sleeping purposes;
   6. Churches, but any church that is established on a new site after the effective date of this chapter shall provide off-street parking space upon the lot or within 200 feet thereof, which space is adequate to accommodate one car for every ten persons for which seating is provided in the main auditorium of the church, exclusive of the seating capacity of Sunday School and other special rooms;
   7. Golf courses, except miniature courses and driving tees; and
   8. Accessory buildings and accessory uses, customarily incident to the above uses (not involving the conduct of a business), including a private garage, home occupations, the use of a lot or portion thereof for a vegetable or flower garden, and the keeping of animals and fowl as provided in this code. Any accessory building that is not a part of the main structure shall be located not less than 60 feet from the front lot line. Accessory uses shall also include church or public building bulletin boards and temporary signs pertaining to the lease, hire, or sale of a building or premises, not exceeding ten square feet in area, which temporary signs shall be removed upon conclusion of the lease, hire, or sale.
   9. It shall be unlawful to keep harbor or maintain any cows, pigs, goats, sheep, swine and all other domesticated livestock. It also is unlawful to keep more than six (6) fowl from the Gallus Domesticus family (commonly called chickens.) It shall also be maintained no closer than one hundred (100) feet to any motel, restaurant, retail food or building used for educational, religious or hospital purposes.
      
      1. Every structure or yard housing fowl shall be constructed in such a manner that it can be cleaned.
         
      2. This ordinance does not permit the keeping and raising of the male of the species (commonly called roosters.)
         
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-17)
   
3. Height regulations. No building shall exceed two and one-half stories or 35 feet in height, except as hereinafter provided.
   
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-18)
   
4. Area regulations.
   1. Front yard.
      1. There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 30 feet, except as hereinafter provided, and, except that lots of record at the time of the passage of this chapter need not provide a front yard of a depth greater than 20% of the lot depth.
      2. Where lots have a double frontage, the required front yard shall be provided on both streets.
      3. Where a lot is located at the intersection of two or more streets, there shall be a front yard on one street and a side yard setback having a depth of not less than ten feet on the side street; provided, however, that where the rear lot line is also a side lot line of the next lot, then there shall be a front yard on each street side of a corner lot; provided further, that the buildable width of a lot of record at the time of the passage of this chapter need not be reduced to less than 35 feet, except where necessary to provide a yard along the side street with a depth of not less than five feet. No accessory building shall project beyond the front yard on either street.
   2. Side yard.
      1. Except as hereinafter provided in the following paragraph and in this code, there shall be a side yard on each side of a building, having a width of not less than five feet.
      2. Wherever a lot of record existing at the time of the passage of this chapter has a width of less than 100 feet, the side yard on each side of a building may be reduced to a width of not less than 10% of the width of the lot, but in no instance shall it be less than three feet.
   3. Rear yard. Except as hereinafter provided in this code, there shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 40 feet or 30% of the depth of the lot, whichever amount is smaller.
   4. Intensity of use. Every lot or tract of land shall have an area of not less than 6,000 square feet per family and a width of not less than 50 feet at the building line, except that if a lot or tract has less area or width than herein required and was a lot of record on the effective date of this chapter, the lot may be used for a single-family dwelling.

(1978 Code, § 9-2-19) Penalty, see § 10.99

1. “B” residence district regulations. The regulations set forth in this section, or set forth elsewhere in this chapter, where referred to in this section, are the district regulations in the “B” residence district.
   
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-20)
   
2. Use regulations. A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:
   1. Any use permitted in the “A” residence district;
   2. Two-family dwellings;
   3. Multiple dwellings;
   4. Garage apartments when located not less than 60 feet from the front lot line and not less than ten feet from all other lot lines;
   5. Boarding houses and lodging houses;
   6. Recreational Vehicle (RV) can be hooked up to live in but not if there is an existing dwelling on the property;
      
   7. Religious, educational, and philanthropic institutions, but not penal or mental treatment institutions;
   8. Hospitals and clinics, but not animal hospitals, animal clinics, or mental hospitals;
   9. Private clubs and lodges, excepting those the chief activity of which is a service customarily carried on as a business;
   10. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above uses, including storage garages, where the lot is occupied by a multiple dwelling, hospital, or institutional building. If a storage garage is not a part of the main building, it shall be located not less than 60 feet from the front line. Where a lot is occupied by a two-family dwelling, multiple dwelling, or garage apartment, there shall be provided accessible parking space on the lot adequate to accommodate one car for every dwelling unit on the lot; and
   11. Trailer homes, mobile homes, and modular homes.
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-21)
3. Height regulations. A building may be erected to any height provided that the total floor space provided on a lot does not exceed one-half of the area of the lot and except as hereinafter provided.
   
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-22)
   
4. Area regulations.
   1. Front yard.
      1. There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 30 feet, except as hereinafter provided, and except that lots of record at the time of the passage of this chapter need not provide a front yard of a depth greater than 20% of the lot depth.
      2. Where lots have a double frontage, the required front yard shall be provided on both streets.
   2. Side yard.
      1. Except as hereinafter provided in the following paragraph and hereinafter in this code, there shall be a side yard on each side of a building, having a width of not less than five feet.
      2. Wherever a lot of record existing at the time of the passage of this chapter has a width of less than 100 feet, the side yard on each side of a building may be reduced to a width of not less than 10% of the width of the lot, but in no instance shall it be less than three feet.
   3. Rear yard. Except as hereinafter provided, there shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 30 feet or 20% of the lot depth, whichever amount is smaller.
   4. 1. A lot on which there is erected a single-family dwelling, a dormitory, or a rooming house or lodging house where no cooking is done in individual rooms or apartments, shall contain an area of not less than 6,000 square feet, and a minimum width at the building line of 50 feet.
      2. A lot on which there is erected a two-family dwelling or a garage apartment shall contain an area of not less than 3,000 square feet per family and a minimum width at the building line of 50 feet.
      3. A lot on which there is erected a multiple dwelling shall provide an area of not less than 1,800 square feet per family and a minimum width at the building line of 50 feet.
      4. Where a lot has less area than herein required and was of record at the time of the passage of this chapter, that lot may be used only for single-family dwelling purposes, or for any other non-dwelling use permitted in this section.Intensity of use. Except as hereinafter provided, all dwellings hereafter erected, enlarged, relocated, or reconstructed shall be located upon lots containing the following areas.

(1978 Code, § 9-2-23) Penalty, see § 10.99

The “B1” residence district shall allow all uses allowed in the “B” residence district and will be subject to all restrictions of the “B” residence district, but shall be the only district in which a property owner is allowed to keep livestock and shall be subject to the laws of § 95.09 of this code.

(Ord. 124, passed 9-10-1984)

1. “C” commercial district regulations. The regulations set forth in this section, or elsewhere in this chapter, where referred to in this section, are the regulations in the “C” commercial district.
   
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-24)
   
2. Use regulations. A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes; provided, however, that any articles or materials that are kept, stored, or displayed outside the confines of a building must not be kept, stored, or displayed within required front, side, or rear yards and must be fenced or screened by plantings in a manner so that they cannot be seen from a public street or from adjacent property in a residential district; and provided further, that uses such as creameries and bottling works requiring large amounts of water shall obtain a written statement from the City Engineer certifying that adequate sanitary sewer facilities are available before the permit is granted:
   1. Any use permitted in the “B” residence district;
   2. Bakery;
   3. Bottling works and creamery;
   4. Medical or dental clinic;
   5. Lumber yard;
   6. Bank;
   7. Dry- or steam-cleaning shop or plant;
   8. Barbershop, beauty parlor, chiropody, massage, or similar personal service shop;
   9. Bicycle sales and repair;
   10. Bowling alley;
   11. Filling station;
   12. Food storage locker;
   13. Farm equipment sales and repair;
   14. Garage and automobile repair, including automobile accessories;
   15. Hospital and clinic for animals, but not open kennels;
   16. Hospital and clinic;
   17. Laundry;
   18. Office;
   19. Restaurant;
   20. Custom dressmaking, millinery, tailoring, shoe repairing, repairing of household utility articles, or similar trade;
   21. Store or shop for the conduct of a retail business;
   22. Shop for the repair of plumbing, radio, and electric equipment;
   23. Undertaking establishments;
   24. Photographer’s studio;
   25. Pool hall;
   26. Shop for the repair of electrical and radio equipment and other similar commodities, shoes, furniture, and similar personal or household commodities;
   27. Storage of dry goods;
   28. Theater, church, or auditorium; provided, however, that no new theater, church, or auditorium shall be erected unless there is provided on the same lot or within 300 feet thereof a space for off-street parking which contains an area adequate to accommodate one automobile for every four seats in the theater, church, or auditorium;
   29. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to the above uses, including signs or bulletin boards not exceeding one square foot in area for each foot of street frontage, relating only to the lease, hire, or sale of a building, or character, proprietorship, or name of the establishment, or to services, articles, and products offered within the building to which the sign is attached or to which the sign refers, and only when:
       1. Attached to a building and extending not more than one foot from the front of the building; or
       2. Set back from the front lot line a distance of not less than one foot for each one square foot in the sign.
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-25)
3. Parking regulations.
   1. Where a lot is occupied by a two-family dwelling, multiple dwelling, or garage apartment, there shall be provided accessible parking space on the lot adequate to accommodate one car for every dwelling unit on the lot.
   2. Where any structure is erected, reconstructed, or converted for any of the business purposes permitted in this section, there shall be provided parking space in the ratio of not less than one parking space for each 300 square feet of floor space in the building which is used for commercial purposes. This parking space shall be located on the same lot as the building or within 300 feet thereof.
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-26)
4. Height regulations. A building may be erected to any height provided that the total floor space provided on a lot does not exceed the area of the lot, except as otherwise hereinafter provided.
   
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-27)
   
5. Area regulations.
   1. Front yard. No front yard shall be required, except that where the frontage on one side of a street between two intersecting streets is partly in a residence district and partly in a commercial district the front yard regulations of the residence district shall apply.
   2. Side yard. The side yard regulations for dwellings are the same as those in the “A” residence district. Where a lot is used for any of the commercial purposes permitted in this district, a side yard is not required, except:
      1. On the side of a lot abutting on a dwelling district; and
      2. On the side street of a corner lot where lots in a residential district also front on the same side street, in which case there shall be a side yard of not less than five feet.
   3. Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 20 feet or 20% of the depth of the lot, whichever amount is smaller.
   4. Intensity of use. When a lot is improved with a single-family dwelling, two-family dwelling, garage apartment, or multiple dwelling, or when living units are erected above other uses, the intensity of use regulations are the same as those required in the “B” residence district.

(1978 Code, § 9-2-28) Penalty, see § 10.99

1. “D” business district regulations. The regulations set forth in this section, or set forth elsewhere in this chapter, where referred to in this section, are the district regulations of the “D” business district.
   
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-29)
   
2. Use regulations. A building or premises may be used for any purpose except the following; provided, however, that laundries, creameries, and other uses requiring large amounts of water shall obtain a written statement from the City Engineer certifying that the existing sanitary sewers are adequate to accommodate the proposed use before a permit is granted:
   1. Acetylene gas manufacture or storage;
   2. Acid manufacture;
   3. Alcohol manufacture;
   4. Ammonia, bleaching powder, or chlorine manufacture;
   5. Arsenal;
   6. Asphalt manufacture or refining;
   7. Auto wrecking or salvage;
   8. Bag cleaning;
   9. Blast furnace;
   10. Boiler works;
   11. Brick, tile, pottery, or terra cotta manufacture other than the manufacture of handcraft products only;
   12. Cement, lime, gypsum, or plaster of Paris manufacture;
   13. Coke oven;
   14. Creosote manufacture or treatment;
   15. Disinfectants manufacture;
   16. Distillation of bones, coal, or wood;
   17. Dyestuff manufacture;
   18. Explosives or fireworks manufacture or storage;
   19. Fat rendering;
   20. Fertilizer manufacture;
   21. Forge plant;
   22. Garbage, offal, or dead animals reduction or dumping;
   23. Gas manufacture or storage;
   24. Glue, size, or gelatine manufacture;
   25. Iron, steel, brass, or copper foundry or fabrication plant;
   26. Junk, iron, or rags storage or baling;
   27. Oilcloth or linoleum manufacture;
   28. Oiled rubber goods manufacture;
   29. Ore reduction;
   30. Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine, or varnish manufacture;
   31. Paper and pulp manufacture, but not treatment;
   32. Petroleum or its products, refining or wholesale storage of;
   33. Rock crusher;
   34. Rolling mill;
   35. Rubber or gutta-percha manufacture or treatment;
   36. Shoe polish manufacture;
   37. Smelting of tin, copper, zinc, or iron ores;
   38. Stockyard or slaughter of animals or fowl;
   39. Stone or mill quarry;
   40. Tanning, curing, or storage of raw hides or skins;
   41. Tar distillation or manufacture;
   42. Tar roofing or waterproofing manufactures;
   43. Yeast plant; and
   44. Uses as are or may be defined and declared by ordinance or resolution of the city as public nuisances.
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-30)
3. Parking regulations. Every hospital, institution, hotel, business, commercial, or industrial building hereafter erected shall have permanently maintained loading spaces on the lot of not less than ten feet in width, 20 feet in length, and 12 feet in height, in the following ratios:
   1. Buildings occupying corner lots having a first floor area of 5,000 square feet or more and total floor area of less than 40,000 square feet shall provide one off-street loading space;
   2. Buildings occupying interior lots having a first floor area of 6,000 square feet or more and total floor area of less than 40,000 feet shall provide one off-street loading space;
   3. All buildings having a total floor area of between 40,000 and 80,000 square feet shall provide two off-street loading spaces; and
   4. All buildings having a total floor area in excess of 80,000 square feet shall provide one additional loading space for each 40,000 square feet, or fraction thereof, in excess of 80,000 square feet.
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-31)
4. Height regulations. A building may be erected to any height provided that one off-street parking space shall be provided on the lot or within 300 feet thereof for each 300 square feet of floor area that is in excess of two times the area of the lot, and except as otherwise hereinafter provided.
   
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-32)
   
5. Area regulations.
   1. Front yard. No front yard is required, except where the frontage on one side of a street between two streets is partly in the “D” business district, and partly in a residence district, in which event the front yard regulations of the residence district shall apply.
   2. Side yard. None.
   3. Rear yard. A rear yard is not required except where there is no alley, in which case there shall be a rear yard of not less than 15 feet in depth.
   4. Intensity of use. The intensity of use regulations shall be the same as in the “B” residence district.

(1978 Code, § 9-2-33) Penalty, see § 10.99

1. “E” industrial district regulations. The regulations set forth in this section, or set forth elsewhere in this chapter, when referred to in this section, are the “E” industrial district regulations.
   
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-34)
   
2. Use regulations. A building or premises may be used for any purpose not in conflict with any ordinance or code provision of the city regulating or declaring nuisances.
   1. Provided, however, that no building shall be erected, reconstructed, or structurally altered for residential purposes;
   2. Provided further, that no building or occupancy permit shall be issued for any of the uses set forth in §§ 154.35(B)(1) through 154.35(B)(44) of this code, inclusive, until and unless the location of that use shall have been approved by the City Council after report by the City Planning Commission; and
   3. Provided further, that explosives or fireworks manufacture or storage is prohibited within the city limits.
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-35)
3. Height regulations. Except as hereinafter provided, a building may be erected to any height not in conflict with other ordinances or code provisions.
   
   (1978 Code, § 9-2-36)
   
4. Area regulations.
   1. Front yard. Where all the frontage on one side of a street between two intersecting streets is located in the “E” industrial district, no front yard shall be required. Where the frontage on one side of a street between two intersecting streets is located partly in the “E” industrial district and partly in a residence district, the front yard requirements of the residence district shall apply to the “E” industrial district.
   2. Side yard. The side yard regulations are the same as in the “C” commercial district.
   3. Rear yard. The rear yard regulations are the same as in the “D” business district.

(1978 Code, § 9-2-37) Penalty, see § 10.99