Conventional residential development. Description: This land use includes, but is not limited to, all residential developments which do not provide permanently protected green space areas. Property which is under common ownership of a property owners' association is permitted but is not a required component of this type of development. Up to 10% of a conventional residential development's gross site area (GSA) can contain natural resource areas which must be protected (or other permanently protected green space areas) without a reduction in maximum gross density (MGD). (See Subsection F below.) Conventional residential development can be made up of the following dwelling unit types:

Institutional residential development. See § 550-51F.

Mobile home subdivision residential development. Description: This land use is a form of residential development which is exclusively reserved for individually sold lots containing mobile home units. Each of the lots and mobile home units must meet the requirements for mobile homes listed in Subsection A(8) of this section. Under this development option, approximately 10% of a development's gross site area (GSA) can contain natural resource areas which must be protected (or other permanently protected green space areas) without a reduction in maximum gross density (MGD).

Mobile home park residential development. Description: This land use is a form of conventional residential development which is exclusively reserved for individually sold or rented air right pads containing mobile home units. Each of the pads and mobile home units must meet the requirements for mobile homes listed in Subsection A(8) of this section. Under this development option, approximately 10% of a development's gross site area (GSA) can contain natural resource areas which must be protected (or other permanently protected green space areas) without a reduction in maximum gross density (MGD).

Regulation of mobile home park or subdivision legally established before 2002.

Note regarding percentage of green space and maximum density yield. This estimate is provided as a general rule of thumb for the convenience of the users of this chapter. Such a yield is not to be considered as ensured by the provisions of this chapter.

Central business apartments (more than 12 dwelling units). Description: This dwelling unit type consists of an attached, multifamily residence that takes access from a shared entrance or hallway. Dwelling units are allowed on the first floor. A minimum building code required fire-rated wall assembly division, separating living areas from the lowest level to the underside of the roof is required between each dwelling unit. No fewer than 12 dwelling units may be located in a building. Central business apartments shall only be allowed within the Central Business Zoning District.

Cultivation. Description: Cultivation land uses include all operations primarily oriented to the on-site, outdoor raising of plants. This land use includes trees which are raised as a crop to be replaced with more trees after harvesting, such as in nursery or Christmas tree operations. The raising of plants for consumption by farm animals is considered cultivation if said plants are consumed by animals which are located off site.

Husbandry. Description: Husbandry land uses include all operations primarily oriented to the on-site raising and/or use of animals at an intensity of less than one animal unit (as defined in § 550-15) per acre. Apiaries shall not be considered a husbandry land use.

Intensive agriculture. Description: Intensive agricultural land uses include all operations primarily oriented to the on-site raising and/or use of animals at an intensity equal to or exceeding one animal unit (as defined in § 550-15) per acre and/or agricultural activities requiring large investments in structures. Examples of such land uses include feed lots, hog farms, poultry operations, fish farms, commercial greenhouse operations and certain other operations meeting this criterion.

Agricultural service. Description: Agricultural service land uses include all operations pertaining to the sale, handling, transport, packaging, storage or disposal of agricultural equipment, products, by-products or materials primarily used by agricultural operations. Examples of such land uses include agricultural implement sales, storage or repair operations; feed and seed stores; agricultural chemical dealers and/or storage facilities; animal feed storage facilities; commercial dairies; food processing facilities; canning and other packaging facilities; and agricultural waste disposal facilities (except commercial composting uses, see § 550-53F).

On-site agricultural retail. Description: On-site agricultural retail land uses include land uses solely associated with the sale of agricultural products grown exclusively on the site. The sale of products grown or otherwise produced off site shall not be permitted within on-site agricultural retail operations, and such activity constitutes retail sales as a commercial land use. Packaging and equipment used to store, display, package or carry products for the convenience of the operation or its customers (such as egg cartons, baskets, containers and bags) shall be produced off site.

Selective cutting. Description: Selective cutting land uses include any operation associated with the one-time, continuing or cumulative clearing, cutting, harvesting or other destruction of trees (including by fire) where the extent of such activity is limited to an area (or combined areas) of less than or equal to 30% of the woodlands on the property (or up to 100% for developments approved prior to the effective date of this chapter). Selective cutting activity shall be limited to areas located within development pads which are designated on recorded plats or certified survey maps. The destruction of trees in an area in excess of this amount of the woodlands on the property shall be considered clear-cutting (see Subsection G below).

Clear-cutting. Description: Clear-cutting land uses include the one-time, continuing or cumulative clearing, cutting, harvesting or other destruction (including by fire) of trees in an area (or combined areas) of more than 30% of the woodlands on a property (or up to 100% for developments approved prior to the effective date of this chapter). Clear-cutting is permitted only as a conditional use within the jurisdiction of this chapter. Areas which have been clear-cut as a result of intentional action following the effective date of this chapter without the granting of a conditional use permit are in violation of this chapter, and the property owner shall be fined for such violation (in accordance with the provisions of § 550-158) and shall be required to implement the mitigation standards required for the destruction of woodlands solely at his/her expense, including costs associated with site inspection to confirm the satisfaction of mitigation requirements. Areas which have been clear-cut unintentionally as a result of fire shall not subject the owner of the property to fines associated with the violation of this chapter but shall require the satisfaction of mitigation requirements at the owner's expense, including costs associated with site inspection to confirm the satisfaction of mitigation requirements.

Passive outdoor public recreational. Description: Passive outdoor public recreational land uses include all recreational land uses located on public property which involve passive recreational activities. Such land uses include arboretums, natural areas, wildlife areas, hiking trails, bike trails, cross-country ski trails, horse trails, open grassed areas not associated with any particular active recreational land use (see Subsection B below), picnic areas, picnic shelters, gardens, fishing areas, and similar land uses.

Active outdoor public recreational. Description: Active outdoor public recreational land uses include all recreational land uses located on public property which involve active recreational activities. Such land uses include play courts (such as tennis courts and basketball courts), play fields (such as ball diamonds, football fields, and soccer fields), tot-lots, outdoor swimming pools, swimming beach areas, fitness courses, public golf courses, and similar land uses.

Indoor institutional. Description: Indoor institutional land uses include all indoor public and not-for-profit recreational facilities (such as gyms, swimming pools, libraries, museums and community centers), schools, colleges, churches, nonprofit clubs, nonprofit fraternal organizations, convention centers, hospitals, jails, prisons and similar land uses.

Outdoor institutional. Description: Outdoor institutional land uses include public and private cemeteries, privately held permanently protected green space areas, country clubs, nonpublic golf courses, and similar land uses.

Public service and utilities. Description: Public service and utilities land uses include all City, county, state and federal facilities (except those otherwise treated in this section), emergency service facilities such as fire departments and rescue operations, wastewater treatment plants, public and/or private utility substations, water towers, utility and public-service-related distribution facilities, and similar land uses.

Institutional residential. Description: This land use is a form of residential development designed to accommodate institutional residential land uses, such as retirement homes, nursing homes, convents, dormitories, group homes, monasteries, convalescent homes, limited care facilities, rehabilitation centers, and similar land uses not considered to be community living arrangements under the provisions of § 62.23, Wis. Stats. No individual lots are required, although the development shall contain a minimum of 800 square feet of gross site area for each occupant of the development. A minimum of 30% of the development's gross site area (GSA) shall be held as permanently protected green space (see § 550-49F above). The density of institutional residential land uses shall be regulated on a case-by-case basis as determined by the Plan Commission through the site plan review and conditional use process. Factors such as on-site conditions, uses and development intensity and such as off-site conditions, uses and development intensity shall be considered.

Community living arrangement (one to eight residents). Description: Community living arrangement land uses include all facilities provided for in § 46.03(22), Wis. Stats., including child welfare agencies, group homes for children, and community-based residential facilities. Community living arrangements do not include day-care centers (see separate listing); nursing homes (an institutional residential land use); general hospitals, special hospitals, prisons or jails (all indoor institutional land uses). Community living arrangement facilities are regulated depending upon their capacity as provided for in § 62.23, Wis. Stats.

Community living arrangement (nine to 15 residents). Description: See Subsection G above.

Community living arrangement (16 or more residents). Description: See Subsection G above.

Office. Description: Office land uses include all exclusively indoor land uses whose primary function is the handling of information or administrative services. Such land uses do not typically provide services directly to customers on a walk-in or on-appointment basis.

Personal or professional service. Description: Personal service and professional service land uses include all exclusively indoor land uses whose primary function is the provision of services directly to an individual on a walk-in or on-appointment basis. Examples of such uses include professional services, insurance or financial services, realty offices, medical offices and clinics, veterinary clinics, barbershops, beauty shops, and related land uses.

Indoor sales or service. Description: Indoor sales and service land uses include all land uses which conduct or display sales or rental merchandise or equipment or nonpersonal or nonprofessional services entirely within an enclosed building. This includes self-service facilities such as coin-operated laundromats. Depending on the zoning district, such land uses may or may not display products outside of an enclosed building. Such activities are listed as "outdoor display incidental to indoor sales" under accessory uses (§ 550-56F). A land use which contains both indoor sales and outdoor sales exceeding 15% of the total sales area of the building(s) on the property shall be considered as an outdoor sales land use (see Subsection D below). Artisan studios are regulated in Subsection R.

Outdoor display. Description: Outdoor display land uses include all land uses which conduct sales or display sales or rental merchandise or equipment outside of an enclosed building. Example of such land uses include vehicle sales, vehicle rental, manufactured and mobile housing sales and monument sales. The area of outdoor sales shall be calculated as the area which would be enclosed by a fence installed and continually maintained in the most efficient manner which completely encloses all materials displayed outdoors. Such land uses do not include the storage or display of inoperative vehicles or equipment or other materials typically associated with a junkyard or salvage yard. (See § 550-53 below also.) (Land uses which conduct or display only a limited amount of product outside of an enclosed building are listed separately in § 550-56F as "outdoor display incidental to indoor sales.")

Indoor maintenance service. Description. Indoor maintenance services include all land uses which perform maintenance services (including repair) and contain all operations (except loading) entirely within an enclosed building. Because of outdoor vehicle storage requirements, vehicle repair and maintenance is considered a vehicle repair and maintenance land use (see Subsection Q).

Outdoor maintenance service. Description: Outdoor maintenance services include all land uses which perform maintenance services, including repair, and have all or any portion of their operations located outside of an enclosed building.

In-vehicle sales or service. Description: In-vehicle sales and service land uses include all land uses which perform sales and/or services to persons in vehicles or to vehicles which may or may not be occupied at the time of such activity (except vehicle repair and maintenance services, see Subsection Q). Such land uses often have traffic volumes which exhibit their highest levels concurrent with peak traffic flows on adjacent roads. Examples of such land uses include drive-in, drive-up and drive-through facilities, vehicular fuel stations, and all forms of car washes. If performed in conjunction with a principal land use (for example, a convenience store, restaurant or bank), in-vehicle sales and service land uses shall be considered an accessory use (see § 550-56G).

Indoor commercial entertainment. Description: Indoor commercial entertainment land uses include all land uses which provide entertainment services entirely within an enclosed building. Such activities often have operating hours which extend significantly later than most other commercial land uses. Examples of such land uses include restaurants, taverns, theaters, health or fitness centers, all forms of training studios (dance, art, martial arts, etc.), small-scale alcoholic beverage production, bowling alleys, arcades, roller rinks, and pool halls.

Outdoor commercial entertainment. Description: Outdoor commercial entertainment land uses include all land uses which provide entertainment services partially or wholly outside of an enclosed building. Such activities often have the potential to be associated with nuisances related to noise, lighting, dust, trash and late operating hours. Examples of such land uses include outdoor commercial swimming pools, driving ranges, miniature golf facilities, small-scale alcoholic beverage production, amusement parks, drive-in theaters, go-cart tracks, and racetracks.

Commercial animal boarding. Description: Commercial animal boarding facility land uses include land uses which provide short-term and/or long-term boarding for animals. Examples of these land uses include commercial kennels and commercial stables. Exercise yards, fields, training areas, and trails associated with such land uses are considered accessory to such land uses and do not require separate consideration.

Commercial indoor lodging. Description: Commercial indoor lodging facilities include land uses which provide overnight housing in individual rooms or suites of rooms, each room or suite having a private bathroom. Such land uses may provide in-room or in-suite kitchens and may also provide indoor recreational facilities for the exclusive use of their customers. Restaurants, arcades, fitness centers and other on-site facilities available to nonlodgers are not considered accessory uses, and therefore require review as a separate land use.

Bed-and-breakfast establishment. Description: Bed-and-breakfast establishments are exclusively indoor lodging facilities which provide meals only to paying lodgers. Such land uses may provide indoor recreational facilities for the exclusive use of their customers.

Group day-care center (nine or more children). Description: Group day-care centers are land uses in which qualified persons provide child-care services for nine or more children. Examples of such land uses include day-care centers and nursery schools. Such land uses shall not be located within a residential building. Such land uses may be operated on a for-profit or a not-for-profit basis. Such land uses may be operated in conjunction with another principal land use on the same environs, such as a church, school, business or civic organization. In such instances, group day-care centers are not considered as accessory uses, and therefore require review as a separate land use.

Campground. Description: Campgrounds include any facilities designed for overnight accommodation of persons in tents, travel trailers, or other mobile or portable shelters or vehicles.

Boardinghouse. Description: Boardinghomes include any residential use renting rooms which do not contain private bathroom facilities (with the exception of approved bed-and-breakfast facilities).

Sexually oriented business. Description: Sexually oriented business includes, but shall not be restricted to, adult arcades, adult bookstores, adult video stores, adult booths, adult theaters and adult cabarets, as defined in this subsection, to which public patrons or members are invited or admitted for the purpose of viewing, purchasing or renting sexually oriented material, including any business or establishment which has a significant part of its business or its stock-in-trade devoted to a primary or dominant theme matter depicting, illustrating, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, as defined in this subsection.

Vehicle repair and maintenance service. Description: Vehicle repair and maintenance services include all land uses which perform maintenance services (including repair) to motorized vehicles and contain all operations (except vehicle storage) entirely within an enclosed building.

Artisan studio or artisan production shop. Description: A building or portion thereof used for the preparation, display and sale of individually crafted artwork, jewelry, furniture, sculpture, pottery, leathercraft, hand-woven articles and related items, as either a principal use or accessory use. A studio is used by no more than three artists or artisans. An artisan production shop is an artisan studio used by more than three artists or artisans.

Convenient cash businesses. Description: Convenient cash businesses include, but are not restricted to, businesses licensed pursuant to § 138.09 or 218.05, Wis. Stats., and pawnshops.

Indoor storage or wholesaling. Description: Indoor storage and wholesaling land uses are primarily oriented to the receiving, holding and shipping of packaged materials for a single business or a single group of businesses. With the exception of loading and parking facilities, such land uses are contained entirely within an enclosed building. Examples of this land use include conventional warehouse facilities, long-term indoor storage facilities, and joint warehouse and storage facilities. Retail outlets associated with this use shall be considered accessory uses per § 550-56H below.

Outdoor storage or wholesaling. Description: Outdoor storage and wholesaling land uses are primarily oriented to the receiving, holding and shipping of packaged materials for a single business or a single group of businesses. Such a land use in which any activity beyond loading and parking is located outdoors is considered an outdoor storage and wholesaling land use. Examples of this land use include contractors' storage yards, equipment yards, lumberyards, coal yards, landscaping materials yard, construction materials yards, and shipping materials yards. Such land uses do not include the storage of inoperative vehicles or equipment or other materials typically associated with a junkyard or salvage yard (see Subsection D below).

Personal storage facility. Description: Personal storage facilities are land uses oriented to the indoor storage of items entirely within partitioned buildings having an individual access to each partitioned area. Such storage areas may be available on either a condominium or rental basis. Also known as "mini warehouses."

Junkyard or salvage yard. Description: Junkyard or salvage yard facilities are any land or structure used for a salvaging operation, including but not limited to the aboveground outdoor storage and/or sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal, and any other discarded materials intended for sale or recycling, and/or the collection, dismantlement, storage or salvage of two or more unlicensed and/or inoperative vehicles. Recycling facilities involving on-site outdoor storage of salvage materials are included in this land use.

Waste disposal facility. Description: Waste disposal facilities are any areas used for the disposal of solid wastes, including those defined by § 281.01(15), Wis. Stats., but not including composting operations (see Subsection F below).

Composting operation. Description: Composting operations are any land uses devoted to the collection, storage, processing and/or disposal of vegetation.

Off-site parking lot. Description: Off-site parking lots are any areas used for the temporary parking of vehicles which are fully registered, licensed and operative. See also § 550-107 for additional parking regulations.

Airport/heliport. Description: Airports and heliports are transportation facilities providing takeoff, landing, servicing, storage and other services to any type of air transportation. The operation of any type of air vehicle (including ultralight aircraft, hang gliders, parasails and related equipment, but excepting model aircraft) within the jurisdiction of this chapter shall occur only in conjunction with an approved airport or heliport.

Freight terminal. Description: Freight terminals are defined as land and buildings representing either end of one or more truck carrier lines which may have some or all of the following facilities: yards, docks, management offices, storage sheds, buildings and/or outdoor storage areas, freight stations, and truck maintenance and repair facilities, principally serving several or many businesses and always requiring transshipment.

Distribution center. Description: Distribution centers are facilities oriented to the short-term indoor storage and possible repackaging and reshipment of materials, involving the activities and products of a single user. Retail outlets associated with this use shall be considered accessory uses per § 550-56H below.

Light industrial land use. Description: Light industrial land uses are industrial facilities at which all operations (with the exception of loading operations) are conducted entirely within an enclosed building; are not potentially associated with nuisances such as odor, noise, heat, vibration and radiation which are detectable at the property line; do not pose a significant safety hazard (such as danger of explosion); and comply with all of the performance standards listed for potential nuisances in Article XI. Light industrial land uses may conduct retail sales activity as an accessory use, provided that the requirements of § 550-56H below are complied with.

Heavy industrial land use. Description: Heavy industrial land uses are industrial facilities which do not comply with one or more of the following criteria: are conducted entirely within an enclosed building; are not potentially associated with nuisances such as odor, noise, heat, vibration and radiation which are detectable at the property line; and do not pose a significant safety hazard (such as danger of explosion). More specifically, heavy industrial land uses are industrial land uses which may be wholly or partially located outside of an enclosed building; may have the potential to create certain nuisances which are detectable at the property line; and may involve materials which pose a significant safety hazard. However, in no instance shall a heavy industrial land use exceed the performance standards listed in Article XI. Examples of heavy industrial land uses include meat product producers; large-scale alcoholic beverage production; paper, pulp or paperboard producers; chemical and allied product producers (except drug producers) including poison or fertilizer producers; petroleum and coal product producers; asphalt, concrete or cement producers; tanneries; stone, clay or glass product producers; primary metal producers; heavy machinery producers; electrical distribution equipment producers; electrical industrial apparatus producers; transportation vehicle producers; commercial sanitary sewage treatment plants; railroad switching yards; and recycling facilities not involving the on-site storage of salvage materials.

Communication tower. Description: Communication towers include all freestanding broadcasting, receiving or relay structures, and similar principal land uses, and any office, studio or other land uses directly related to the function of the tower.

Extraction use. Description: Extraction uses include any land uses involving the removal of soil, clay, sand, gravel, rock, minerals, peat or other material in excess of that required for approved on-site development or agricultural activities.

Commercial apartment. Description: Commercial apartments are dwelling units which are generally located above the ground floor of a building used for a commercial land use (as designated in § 550-52 above), most typically an office or retail establishment. The primary advantage of commercial apartments is that they are able to share required parking spaces with nonresidential uses.

Farm residence. Description: A farm residence is a single-family detached dwelling unit located on the same property as any of the principal agricultural land uses listed in § 550-50 above.

Residential accessory structure. Description: Attached or detached residential garages and carports; freestanding utility sheds, gazebos, and pergolas; children's play structures; or similar structures.

For the purposes of this section, a residential garage, carport, or utility shed is a structure which primarily accommodates the sheltered parking of a passenger vehicle and/or the storage of residential maintenance equipment and/or personal possessions associated with the subject property and shall count towards the total number of residential accessory structures. See § 550-85 for requirements applicable to legal nonconforming garages.

For the purposes of this section, gazebos, pergolas, and children's play structures, including playhouses or elevated play structures and climbing gyms, shall count towards the total number of residential accessory structures and shall comply with the requirements of this section whether such structures are placed on a foundation or not. Individual swing sets, slides, and sandboxes are not considered children's play structures or residential accessory structures for purposes of this section. A building permit is not required for construction of gazebos, pergolas, or play structures. A gazebo, pergola, or play structure shall not be used for storage or be constructed out of materials that would constitute a nuisance. A gazebo, pergola, or play structure may be located on the same lot as a residential unit or units or on a separate adjacent lot in conjunction with a residential land use.

For the purposes of this section, detached accessory dwelling units under § 550-56AA(9) and chicken coops and runs under § 550-56X(1)(e) shall count towards the total number of residential accessory structures.

For the purposes of this section, walks, drives, paved terraces, and purely decorative garden accessories such as ponds, fountains, statuary, sundials, flagpoles, or similar items do not count toward the total number of residential accessory structures and do not require a building permit. Placement of these items is permitted within setback areas but not closer than three feet to an abutting lot line.

For the purposes of this section, deck boxes and similar structures with 32 square feet of gross floor area or less do not count toward the total number of residential accessory structures and do not require a building permit. Placement of deck boxes is permitted within side and rear yard setback areas but not front or street side yard setback areas and not closer than three feet to an abutting lot line. Limit of one deck box or similar structure per residential unit.

(Also, see the first paragraph of this § 550-56.)

Company cafeteria. Description: A company cafeteria is a food service operation which provides food only to company employees and their guests, which meets state food service requirements and is located on the same property as a principal land use engaged in an operation other than food service.

Company-provided on-site recreation. Description: A company-provided on-site recreational facility is any active or passive recreational facility located on the same site as a principal land use and reserved solely for the use of company employees and their guests.

Outdoor display incidental to indoor sales and service (more than 12 days). Description: see § 550-52D.

In-vehicle sales and services incidental to on-site principal land use. Description: see § 550-52G.

Indoor sales incidental to storage or light industrial land use. Description: These land uses include any retail sales activity conducted exclusively indoors which is incidental to a principal land use such as warehousing, wholesaling or any light industrial land use on the same site.

Light industrial activities incidental to indoor sales or service land use. Description: These land uses include any light industrial activity conducted exclusively indoors which is incidental to a principal land use such as indoor sales or service on the same site.

Home occupation. Description: It is the intent of this subsection to provide a means to accommodate a small home-based family or professional business without the necessity of a rezoning from a residential to a commercial district. Approval of an expansion of a home occupation at a future time beyond the limitations of this subsection is not to be anticipated; relocation of the business to an area that is appropriately zoned may be necessary. Home occupations are economic activities performed within any single-family detached residence which comply with the following requirements. Examples include personal and professional services and handicrafts which comply with all of the following requirements:

Family day-care home (four to eight children). Description: Family day-care homes are occupied residences in which a qualified person or persons provide child care for four to eight children. The care of fewer than four children is not subject to the regulations of this chapter.

Intermediate day-care home (nine to 15 children). Description: Intermediate day-care homes are occupied residences in which a qualified person or persons provide child care for nine to 15 children.

Migrant labor camp. Migrant labor camps include any facility subject to the regulation of § 103.90, Wis. Stats.

On-site parking lot. Description: On-site parking lots are any areas located on the same site as the principal land use which are used for the temporary parking of vehicles which are fully registered, licensed and operative. Refer also to § 550-107.

Private residential recreational facility. Description: This land use includes all active outdoor recreational facilities located on a private residential lot which are not otherwise listed in Appendix B. Materials and lighting shall limit light levels at said property line to be equal to or less than 0.5 footcandle (see § 550-110). All private residential recreation facilities and their attendant structures shall comply with the bulk requirements for accessory structures (see Article VIII). Common examples of these accessory uses include swing sets, tree houses, basketball courts, tennis courts, swimming pools, and recreation-type equipment.

Private residential kennel. Refer to Chapter 228, Article III, Keeping of Domestic Animals.

Private residential stable. Description. A private residential stable is a structure facilitating the keeping of horses (or similar animals) on the same site as a residential dwelling.

Drainage structure. Description: These include all improvements, including but not limited to swales, ditches, culverts, drains, tiles, gutters, levees, basins, detention or retention facilities, impoundments and dams, intended to affect the direction, rate and/or volume of stormwater runoff, snowmelt and/or channelized flows across, within and/or away from a site.

Filling. Description: Filling includes any activity in an area over 4,000 square feet, or greater than 500 cubic yards of fill, involving the modification of the earth's surface above that in its undisturbed state.

Lawn care. Description: Lawn care includes any activity involving the preparation of the ground for installation and maintenance of vegetative ground cover (including gardens) which complies with the City of Watertown's Code. Lawn care is not permitted in certain permanently protected green space areas; see § 550-58E.

Individual septic disposal system. Description: This land use includes any state-enabled, county-approved septic disposal system.

Exterior communication devices. Description: This land use includes any antennas used for communication reception use, including any towers and antennas used for communication reception by an amateur radio operator licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (e.g., satellite dishes, ham radio towers, television antennas).

Caretaker's residence. Description: This land use includes any residential unit which provides permanent housing for a caretaker of the subject property in either an attached or detached configuration.

Keeping and raising of chickens. Description. The keeping and raising of chickens in the City of Watertown.

Short-term rentals.

Tourist rooming house.

Accessory dwelling unit: a dwelling unit that is located on the same lot as a principal residential structure to which it is accessory, and that is subordinate in area to the principal dwelling, not including an in-family suite under § 550-79B. Internal, attached, and detached accessory dwelling units shall be allowed accessory to a principal residential structure, subject to the following:

Outdoor commercial entertainment incidental to indoor commercial entertainment. Description: This land use includes any outdoor commercial entertainment activity conducted incidental to the principal land use of indoor commercial entertainment on the same site.

Nonresidential accessory structure. Structures primarily used to shelter business vehicles or to store maintenance equipment of the subject property. Regulations:

General temporary outdoor sales. Description: Includes the display of any items outside the confines of a building which is not otherwise permitted as a permitted or conditional use or a special event otherwise regulated by the City Code. Examples of this land use include but are not limited to: seasonal garden shops, tent sales, bratwurst stands and garage sales; however, up to two garage sales are exempt from the provisions of this subsection.

Outdoor assembly. Description: Includes any organized outdoor assembly of more than 100 persons. (See Chapter 428 of the City of Watertown Municipal Code.)

Contractor's project office. Description: Includes any structure containing an on-site construction management office for an active construction project.

Contractor's on-site equipment storage facility. Description: Includes any structure or outdoor storage area designed for the on-site storage of construction equipment and/or materials for an active construction project.

Relocatable building. Description: Includes any manufactured building which serves as a temporary building for less than six months. (Facilities serving for more than six months shall be considered conditional uses and subject to the general standards and procedures presented in § 550-142.)

On-site real estate sales office. Description: Includes any building which serves as an on-site sales office for a development project.

Seasonal outdoor sales of farm products. Description: Includes any outdoor display of farm products not otherwise regulated by the City of Watertown Code.

Cultivation.

Passive outdoor public recreational area.

Active outdoor public recreational area.

Outdoor institutional.

Lawn care.

Golf course.

Any permitted temporary use.

Drainage structure.

Filling.

Individual septic disposal system.

Road and/or bridge.

Utility lines and related facilities.

Piers and wharfs.