The Floodplain and Drainageway District is designed to meet the needs of storm water channels to carry abnormal flows of water in time of flood; to prevent encroachments into the district which will unduly increase flood heights and damage; and to prevent the loss of life and excessive damage to property in the area of greatest flood hazard. Within the Floodplain and Drainageway District, the following regulations shall apply:

A.

The following are the permitted uses for the S-1 Floodplain and Drainageway District.

1.

Agriculture, including customary agricultural buildings and structures but not including permanent dwellings.

2.

The following uses may be permitted upon application to the city clerk in accordance with the procedures set out in article XV herein, when such uses are authorized by the city council after a determination that the use for which application was made will not encroach on or reduce the effectiveness of drainageways and established ponding areas.

a.

Public parks, playgrounds and community centers; private recreation areas and facilities, including country clubs, golf courses, fishing lakes and boat docks.

b.

Baseball, football stadium, or sports arena, provided that the location of any structure used for such purposes shall comply with two times the distance requirements in paragraph B. below.

c.

Drive-in theatres and other similar commercial recreation establishments, provided that those are located on premises abutting on a highway or primary thoroughfare, and so as to comply with two times the distance requirement in paragraph B. below.

d.

Outdoor rifle or skeet shooting ranges on premises so located as to comply with three times the distance requirement in paragraph B. below and which premises, in addition, are deemed suitable by the governing body for such use, for reasons, among others, of topography, screening by trees, or other features, and also in consideration of the present and potential use of adjacent properties.

e.

Equipment and materials storage yards, and junk yards, provided these are enclosed on all sides by a solid fence or wall not less than eight feet high; petroleum or inflammable liquids storage. Provided, further, that any of the foregoing uses should by [be] authorized only on premises adjoining and within 1,000 feet of a railroad or a highway or primary thoroughfare, and so located as to comply with three times the distance requirement in paragraph B. below and which premises, in addition, are deemed suitable by the governing body for the intended use, for reasons, among others, of topography, screening by trees, or other features, and in consideration of the present and potential use of adjacent properties.

f.

Commercial mines, quarries, gravel pits and sawmills, provided that any lot or tract of land for such use, other than for a sawmill, should be not less than ten acres in area.

g.

Any other use which, in the judgment of the governing body will not, when located, constructed and operated as proposed, be inconsistent with the purposes intended to be served by the provisions prescribed in this section for the Floodplain District, among others, of protecting human life, preventing material losses and reducing the cost to the public of relief or rescue efforts occasioned by the unwise occupancy of areas subject to floods, and which use, at the same time, will not impair the present or potential use of adjacent properties.

B.

All uses, buildings or premises, for which compliance with the distance requirement in this subsection is stipulated in the foregoing subsections of this article, should be distance at least 400 feet from any lot in any residential district, or any lot occupied by a dwelling or by any school, church, or institution for human care.

(Ord. No. 234, § 12-1, 8-2-71)