§ 5.10. Additional use provisions, restrictions and requirements.
A.
Uses permitted in districts.
1.
Accessory buildings and uses and those customarily incidental to permitted uses including public and private ways and easements, essential services, dwelling units for servants employed on the premises or for private guests, private garages, pump houses, boathouses, docks and other noncommercial marine facilities, structures for yard and garden ornamentation, and private recreation purposes are permitted in any district except that:
(a)
No accessory use shall be dangerous, obnoxious or offensive to persons residing in the vicinity thereof, or impair the use, enjoyment or value of any property, and
(b)
No accessory dwelling unit in any P-O-C-, R-1, or R-2 District shall be let for living purposes for compensation.
2.
Crop raising and flowers, shrub, tree, fruit, berry, vegetable growing and similar home gardening may be an accessory use on any dwelling lot or the principal use on any vacant lot or parcel.
3.
A home occupation or home professional office, as defined herein, is permitted in a dwelling in any district provided there be no external evidence thereof except the display of a name plate.
B.
Basement dwellings. No basement dwelling shall hereafter be permitted in any district, unless specifically permitted under other applicable ordinance. Existing basement dwellings shall be subject to time limits and other requirements heretofore or hereafter established for completion of whole dwellings as permitted in the districts in which located.
C.
Restriction of buildings within planned highway and road rights-of-way. Whenever the city council shall adopt by resolution a plan, map or description of any planned highway or road right-of-way, including a relocation, extension or widening of an existing state highway, county road or town road, or location of a new highway, or road, and shall order in such resolution that no permits except special use permits shall be issued for any building or uses within such planned rights-of-way, except only agricultural uses of land and similar upon uses of land, the following regulations shall apply:
1.
Such buildings and uses shall require special use permits as provided herein.
2.
Prior to approval of the issuance of such permit by the board of adjustment, the state or county highway department or other department interested shall be notified of the application for such permit and shall be requested to submit a report and recommendations with respect thereto.
3.
If such report is not received within sixty (60) days, the board of adjustment shall proceed with its consideration of the application for the issuance of a special use permit as provided in section 5.11 and other sections hereof.
D.
Group homes. The following are required prior to the issuing of a building permit for all group homes in any zoning:
1.
A complete engineering or architectural set of blueprints.
2.
Blueprints shall indicate that the completed group home and all associated structures will, on the exterior appearance, blend in with the existing structures in the immediate area.
(Ord. No. 965, 2-1-88)