(a)

H Hamlet District. The H district is intended to accommodate historic or planned future collections of small-scale commercial, office, institutional, residential, and open space uses in which community character is protected through building scale, appearance, and signage. This district should be generally mapped at or near road crossings that serve as gathering points for rural communities, which are often referred to as hamlets or unincorporated communities. The district best corresponds with the downtown/unincorporated village and neighborhood commercial future land use category within the county comprehensive plan.

(b)

C-C Commercial-Community District. The C-C district is intended for areas appropriate for indoor commercial, retail, service, tourism-oriented, office, and community facility uses, excluding manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution uses. Development in this district should be characterized by high-quality site, building, landscape, signage, lighting design, and other techniques to manage impacts on surrounding land uses and the rural community. It should be mapped in accordance with adopted town and county comprehensive plans, generally in areas identified within the community commercial or neighborhood commercial future land use categories in the county comprehensive plan.

(c)

C-G Commercial-General District. The C-G district is intended to accommodate a wide range and scale of commercial, office, institutional, light industrial, warehousing, distribution, telecommunication, and outdoor display land uses with moderate attention towards site, building, landscape, signage, and lighting design. It should be mapped in accordance with adopted town and county comprehensive plans, generally in areas identified within the general commercial or light industrial future land use categories in the county comprehensive plan.

(d)

M Manufacturing District. The M district is intended to accommodate a range of manufacturing, assembly, office, storage, and other compatible industrial and related land uses. It should be mapped in accordance with adopted town and county comprehensive plans, generally in areas identified within the light industrial or heavy industrial future land use categories in the county comprehensive plan.

(e)

PUD Planned Unit Development District. The PUD district is intended to promote improved design and innovative land uses in the county in accordance with adopted county and town comprehensive plans. This district allows variation in the relationship of uses, structures, and open spaces in developments that are conceived and implemented as cohesive, unified projects. These unified projects must be developed in accordance with detailed site plans approved only following a careful review process. In exchange for this detailed planning, the PUD district offers flexibility from standards required in other zoning districts. The procedure and standards for establishing a PUD district on the zoning map and determining the appropriate range and character of land uses within each individual PUD district are specified in sections 40-230(b)(11) and 40-232(d)(8) and (9).

(Ord. No. 7-14, § X.4.1, 1-28-2022)

(a)

Table 40-98 indicates all of the permitted and conditional uses in the commercial, industrial, and mixed use zoning districts. Land uses designated with a "P" are permitted by right in the associated zoning district. Land uses designated with a "C" are conditional uses in the associated zoning district. If a cell is empty, the associated land use is prohibited in that zoning district. Also prohibited are land uses that are not listed at all in Table 40-98, except that the planning, development, and zoning committee is authorized to determine that such an unlisted land use is similar enough to one of the land uses listed in Table 40-98 to have the same permitted by right, conditional, or prohibited status as that listed use.

(b)

Within the PUD planned unit development district, a range of different land uses may be permitted and shall be specified within the approved general development plan (see section 40-230(b)(11)) for each individual PUD district.

(c)

Permitted uses should not be considered the equivalent of uses that require a land use permit, as that term is defined in section 40-265. While many permitted (and conditional) uses require a land use permit, others do not. See section 40-232 for the types of uses, structures, and other activities that require a land use permit.

Table 40-98. Permitted and Conditional Uses; Commercial, Industrial, and Mixed Use Zoning Districts

¹ Placement of between 18 and 199 cubic yards of fill is a permitted-by-right use that requires a land use permit. For lots two acres or less in size: placement of 200 cubic yards of fill or greater require a conditional use permit. For lots greater than two acres in size: placement of 500 cubic yards of fill or greater may require a conditional use permit. See section 40-265 for additional performance standards.

² If a transportation, utility, communication, or other use is required under state or federal law to be located in a specific place or is authorized to be located in a specific place under a state or federal law, that use shall be a permitted use. In all other cases, such a use shall require a conditional use permit.

(Ord. No. 7-14, § X.4.2, 1-28-2022; Ord. No. 5-24, 5-22-2024)

Tables 40-99A and 40-99B indicate dimensional, yard, and other development regulations in commercial, industrial, and mixed use zoning districts. For additional dimensional standards applicable to lands within the shoreland zone, see the shoreland regulations of this chapter. In the event of conflict, the more restrictive standard applies. Within the PUD planned unit development district, a range of different dimensional standards may be permitted and shall be specified within the approved general development plan for each individual PUD district.

Table 40-99A. Dimensional, Yard, and Other Development Regulations; Commercial, Industrial, and Mixed Use Zoning Districts

Notes:

SF = Single-family dwelling.

TF = Two-family dwelling.

POWTS: If lot is served by private on-site waste treatment system, or PCWTS servicing four or fewer lots.

PSSS: If lot is served by public sanitary sewer service.

PCWTS: If lot is served by private community waste treatment.

¹  For lots created before the effective date of this chapter April 19, 2011, see section 40-199.

²  Within the H Hamlet District, the maximum gross floor area per building is 10,000 square feet.

³  For lots that are less than 100 feet in width, a plat of survey and field demarcation by a professional land surveyor is required for buildings proposed to be within five feet of any minimum required yard or setback (see section 40-232(h) for further details).

⁴  For storage sheds and other accessory buildings 200 square feet or less in gross floor area, a five-foot minimum rear and interior side yard setback shall instead be permitted. Structures 150 square feet or less in gross floor areas do not require a land use permit except within the shoreland area.

Table 40-99B. Minimum Required Setback for Front and Street Side Yards

Exceptions:

(1)

In no case shall a building be set back less than 25 feet from the nearest state trunk or U.S. highway right-of-way line.

(2)

Where each of the two adjoining lots on either side of a lot contains at least one pre-existing principal building, the minimum required front yard setback on the lot may be reduced to a number equal the average setback of the closest principal buildings to the public street on the adjoining lots, except where such setback would be in violation of exception (1).

(Ord. No. 7-14, § X.4.3, 1-28-2022; Ord. No. 4-24, 5-22-2024)