Marinette City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XII
B-1 Local Shopping District
§ 465-71 Purpose.
The B-1 Local Shopping District is intended to provide for individual or small groups of low-intensity retail and customer service establishments. This type of district is generally located away from the traditional central business district and highway commercial district. The Local Shopping District typically serves a neighborhood or a group of neighborhoods in which it is located. The district should provide such amenities to make the permitted uses more compatible with the character of adjacent land uses.
§ 465-72 Use.
In the Local Shopping District no buildings or premises shall be used and no building shall be erected or structurally altered after the adoption of this chapter, unless otherwise provided in this chapter, except for one or more of the following listed permitted principal uses, permitted accessory uses, or special exceptions.
§ 465-73 Permitted principal uses.
Commercial establishments, retail stores and professional offices, as follows:
Art shop |
Auto parts store |
Bakery |
Banks and savings institutions |
Barbershop, beauty parlor |
Bed-and-breakfast establishments - residential and commercial |
Beer and liquor stores selling in less than package units |
Bookstore |
Business and professional office |
Candy store, confectionery store |
Churches, public and parochial schools, colleges and universities, including dormitories, public libraries, public museums and art galleries |
Cleaning and custodial services |
Clinic |
Coffee shop [Added 5-2-2023 by Ord. No. 2508] |
Day-care centers |
Dress shop, clothing store, notion shop, dry goods store, hosiery shop, tailor shop, sporting goods, stationery and office supply store |
Drugstore, pharmacy |
Electrical shop (no outside storage exposed to public view) |
Filling station and sporting goods |
Florist shop |
Food products (retail) |
Furniture store |
Gasoline service stations |
Gift shop |
Grocery store (retail), delicatessen, meat and fish market, fruit and vegetable market |
Hardware store and appliance store |
Hobby, toy and game shops |
Ice cream store, soda fountain, soft drink stand |
Jewelry store |
Medical and dental laboratories |
Municipal buildings, except sewage disposal plants, garbage incinerators, public warehouses, public garages, public shops and storage yards and penal or correctional institutions and asylums. |
Public recreational and community center buildings and grounds. |
Motels |
Music and radio store |
Newsstand, cigar and tobacco store |
Office of dentist |
Office of other health practitioners |
Office of physicians |
Paint store. |
Parking lots |
Pet grooming (no boarding) |
Pet store |
Photographer and photographer's supplies |
Plumbing shop (no outside storage exposed to public view) |
Print shop, the business of which serves the general public and which utilizes presses smaller than the web type or similar sized presses |
Professional offices |
Radio and television repair |
Real estate offices |
Restaurants, except drive-ins |
Shoe repair |
Single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, and multifamily dwellings |
Telephone offices, exchanges and lines and static transformer stations, provided there is no service garage or storage yard |
Tobacco and pipe shop |
Truck accessory sales - retail |
Video rental store |
Veterinary |
Watch, clock and jewelry repair |
§ 465-74 Permitted accessory uses.
Such accessory uses as are customary in connection with the foregoing principal uses and are incidental thereto.
§ 465-75 Conditional uses.
A.
Auto and farm machinery sales and service.
B.
Car rental agency.
C.
Commercial radio, television and communication towers.
D.
Mini warehouses.
E.
Mortuaries and funeral homes.
F.
Taverns.
G.
Temporary structures.
H.
Used merchandise stores.
I.
Upholstery/furniture repair.
J.
Tattoo establishments.
[Amended 5-4-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-2174]
K.
Educational and/or training facilities that may accommodate light assembly, fabrication and necessary equipment required to complete contracted production tasks.
[Amended 4-15-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-2240]
L.
Community living arrangements with a capacity for greater than 15 persons, which are in conformance with § 62.23(7)(i), Wis. Stats.
[Amended 11-7-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-2384]
M.
Elderly multifamily units, elderly and handicapped community living arrangements and assisted living facilities. Assisted living facilities shall be in conformance with § 50.034, Wis. Stats., and Ch. DHS 89, Wis. Adm. Code.
[Amended 11-7-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-2384]
N.
Brewpub or winery, accessory to a restaurant, tavern, cocktail lounge or package beverage store, provided that no greater than 30% of the gross floor area is devoted to any manufacturing or processing, or storage of beverages produced on premises, and provided that brewpubs produce no greater than 3,000 barrels of fermented malt beverages per year or that wineries produce no greater than 20,000 gallons of wine per year, in conformance with Ch. 125, Wis. Stats., and the City's Code.
O.
Automobile body shop.
P.
Light machining and fabrication.
Q.
Trailer storage for dump-style trailer rental business. Twenty-foot maximum length of trailer.
R.
Car wash.
S.
Pawnbroker/pawn shop
[Added 5-2-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-2508]
§ 465-76 Height.
§ 465-77 Yard requirements.
In the Local Shopping District, the height of buildings, the minimum dimensions of yards and the minimum lot area shall be as follows, except that for single-family, two-family and multiple-family dwellings the height and area requirements of the RM-1 Multiple-Family Residential District shall apply.
A.
Front setback. There shall be a minimum setback of 25 feet from the street right-of-way. Subject to all other statutes, ordinances and rules governing signs, a sign shall be allowed in the setback, provided it does not obstruct the vision or passage of pedestrians or operators of bicycles or motor vehicles. Except that no sign shall be allowed in the portion of the setback of a corner lot at the intersection of two streets described as follows: a triangle formed by the corner point of the lot and points on the front and side lot line 20 feet in from the corner.
B.
Side yard. There shall be a minimum side yard of seven feet on each side of all buildings.
C.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard having a minimum depth of 20 feet for a building 1 1/2 stories or less in height. For each additional story or fractional story in height, the depth of such rear yard shall be increased five feet.
D.
Lot area. Lots shall have a minimum area of 7,200 square feet.
E.
Lot width. No such lot shall be less than 60 feet in width.
F.
Lot occupancy. The ground area occupied by the principal and accessory buildings shall not exceed 50% of the total area of the lot.
§ 465-78 Plan Commission approval.
[Amended 3-5-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-2238]
To encourage individual or small groups of low-intensity retail and customer service establishments that are compatible with existing land uses, the City's Comprehensive Plan and the intent of this chapter, no building permit shall be issued without the review and approval of the Plan Commission, except those items listed in the Plan Commission Approval Matrix.[1] Said review and approval shall be concerned with the location of the use in addition to the site plan review and approval procedures required under this chapter.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Plan Commission Approval Matrix is an attachment to this chapter.