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Rome City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XXIII

SP Special Purpose District

§ 360-104 Purpose.

The SP District is designed to provide for a use which presents a special problem or hazard. Included are those land uses which require extremely large expanses of land, those which tend to create serious hazards to the health, safety, and general welfare of the Town residents, and those for which it is inappropriate or undesirable to have more than one instance of a given land use within a community.

§ 360-105 Permitted uses.

Forestry.

§ 360-106 Conditional uses.

A. 
Facilities for the production, mining, processing, or storage of concrete, blacktop, asphalt, or other paving or road-surfacing materials.
B. 
Sand or gravel quarries, or other mineral extraction operations, or facilities for the manufacture or processing of such products as sand, gravel, stone, or crushed stone.
C. 
Sanitary landfill operations provided that standards set forth in Ch. NR 151 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code are complied with.
D. 
Communication towers, provided the specific conditional use requirements in Article XXIV are satisfied.
E. 
Signs, subject to the requirements of Article XXV.
F. 
Wind energy systems.
[Amended 9-19-2019 by Ord. No. 19-12]

§ 360-107 Height, setbacks, area and other requirements.

A. 
Lot requirements.
(1) 
Frontage: minimum 500 feet.
(2) 
Area: minimum 30 acres.
(3) 
Depth/width: maximum 4:1.
B. 
Roadway setback.
(1) 
State highway (whichever is greater).
(a) 
From center of roadway: minimum 133 feet.
(b) 
From lot line: minimum 100 feet.
(2) 
County road (whichever is greater).
(a) 
From center of roadway: minimum 133 feet.
(b) 
From lot line: minimum 100 feet.
(3) 
Town road (whichever is greater).
(a) 
From center of roadway: minimum 133 feet.
(b) 
From lot line: minimum 100 feet.
C. 
Building setbacks (from the furthest building projection).
(1) 
Side: minimum 100 feet.
(2) 
Rear: minimum 100 feet.
(3) 
Waterfront: minimum 200 feet.
D. 
Other requirements.
(1) 
Building height: maximum 45 feet.
(2) 
See Article XXVI, Design Standards.
(3) 
See Article XXV, Signs and Billboards.
(4) 
Storage.
(a) 
Temporary semitrailer parking and portable container units are permitted in all yards of a special purpose district, except that no parking shall be closer than 60 feet to a property line. Duration of any storage cannot exceed 30 days; extensions may be granted, but not to exceed 90 days.
(b) 
Outdoor storage in conjunction with the special purpose must be screened from public right-of-way and residential property.