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Town of Ledgeview, WI
Brown County
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New Laws (7) Index Notes (3)
The purpose of the Institutional Overlay (IO) District is to regulate the development of larger public and semipublic uses in a manner harmonious with surrounding uses. The IO District designation is intended to provide an area for activities relating to necessary important public services, provide for continued operation and facilitate managed growth of existing institutions, and provide and protect the park and open space assets of the community.
Permitted uses shall be as follows:
A. 
Small-scale indoor institutional. Small-scale indoor institutional uses of 10,000 gross square feet or less, including indoor public and not-for-profit recreational facilities (such as gyms, swimming pools, libraries, museums, lodges and assembly halls, and community centers), municipal facilities, clinics, pre-K through high schools, college or trade schools, religious institutions, nonprofit clubs, nonprofit fraternal organizations, funeral homes, and similar land uses. Does not include boarding facilities, dormitories, parsonage, rectory, or similar associated with a small-scale indoor institutional use.
B. 
Outdoor open space institutional. Cemeteries, privately held permanently protected green space areas, open grassed areas not associated with any particular active recreational land use, and similar land uses.
C. 
Passive outdoor recreation. Recreational land uses which involve passive recreational activities, such as arboretums, natural areas, wildlife areas, hiking trails, bike trails, cross-country ski trails, horse trails, picnic areas, picnic shelters, botanical gardens, fishing areas, and similar land uses.
D. 
Active outdoor recreation. Recreational land uses which involve active recreational activities. Such land uses include tennis courts, basketball courts, ball diamonds, football fields, soccer fields, neighborhood parks, playgrounds, tot lots, outdoor swimming pools, fitness courses, golf courses, and similar land uses.
E. 
Small-scale public services and utilities. Small-scale city, county, state, and federally owned facilities, such as light stations, pump houses, water towers, public and/or private utility substations, utility and public service related distribution facilities, and similar land uses. This does not include uses listed under large-scale public services and utilities.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See § 135-117E, Large-scale public services and utilities.
F. 
Institutional residential. Residential development of 10,000 gross square feet or less designed to accommodate institutional residential land uses, such as senior housing, retirement homes, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospices, convents, monasteries, nursing homes or convalescent homes, personal care facilities, rehabilitation centers, transitional housing for the homeless, and similar land uses not considered to be community living arrangements (see separate listings).
G. 
Community living arrangement (one to eight residents). Facilities including community living arrangements for adults, community living arrangements for children, and community-based residential facilities per Wisconsin Statutes.
H. 
Communications tower. Any structure that is designed and constructed for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas for communication purposes, such as cellular telephones or similar, including self-supporting lattice towers, guyed towers, or monopole towers.
I. 
Parking facilities. Parking lots or parking structures.
Permitted accessory uses shall be as follows:
A. 
Playgrounds, athletic fields, swimming pools, stadiums, gymnasiums and field houses accessory to educational facilities or religious institutions.
B. 
Ramps or other accessibility accommodations in compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).
C. 
Garden, public or community (flowers, vegetables, or related).
D. 
Garages and service buildings for storage and maintenance of vehicles used in conjunction with the operation of a permitted use.
E. 
Satellite dish antennas less than 12 feet in diameter.
F. 
Water storage tanks and water towers.
G. 
Solid waste facility that only accepts "yard waste" materials as defined in § 83-9 of the Ledgeview Code of Ordinances.
[Added 7-20-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-08]
Conditional uses shall be as follows:
A. 
Artificial lakes.
B. 
Recreational sport shooting facility (indoor facilities only).
C. 
Caregiver support center.
D. 
Large-scale indoor institutional. Large-Scale indoor institutional uses with greater than 10,000 gross square feet, including indoor public and not-for-profit recreational facilities (such as gyms, swimming pools, libraries, museums, and community centers), municipal facilities, hospitals, large-scale clinics, pre-K through high schools, college or trade schools, religious institutions nonprofit clubs, nonprofit fraternal organizations, convention centers, funeral homes, and similar land uses, and outdoor facilities ancillary to such uses (such as sports fields and outdoor gathering spaces).
E. 
Large-scale public services and utilities. Large-scale city, county, state, and federally owned facilities such as public works facilities and garages, wastewater treatment plants, potable water treatment plants, public and/or private utility substations, utility and public service related distribution facilities, and similar land uses. This does not include uses listed under small-scale public services and utilities.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See § 135-115E, Small-scale public services and utilities.
F. 
Correctional institutional. A facility for the detention, confinement, treatment, or rehabilitation of persons arrested or convicted for the violation of the law, including adult detention centers, juvenile delinquency centers, jails, prisons, and similar land uses.
G. 
Institutional residential. Residential development of 10,000 gross square feet or more designed to accommodate institutional residential land uses, such as senior housing, retirement homes, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospices, convents, monasteries, dormitories, nursing homes, or convalescent homes, limited personal care facilities, physical rehabilitation centers, transitional housing for the homeless, and similar land uses not considered to be community living arrangements.
H. 
Community living arrangement (nine to 15 residents). Facilities including community living arrangements for adults, community living arrangements for children, and community-based residential facilities per Wisconsin Statutes.
I. 
Boarding facilities, dormitories, parsonage, rectory, or similar in association with a permitted small-or large-scale indoor institutional use.
J. 
Day-care facilities, adult.
K. 
Day-care facilities, child.
L. 
Military installations.
M. 
Parking lots and parking structures in excess of the required number of parking spaces.
Lot requirements shall be as follows:
A. 
Area: 10,000 square feet minimum.
B. 
Zoning lot frontage: 80 feet minimum. Such minimum lot frontage may be measured at the building setback line if said lot is located on the outer radius of a street, such as a cul-de-sac. In no case shall frontage measured at the right-of-way line of a cul-de-sac or curved street be less than 60 feet.
C. 
Lot width: 80 feet minimum.
Height regulations shall conform to requirements as set forth § 135-13, Height regulations.
A. 
Building setbacks shall be as follows:
Building Setback (feet)
Principal Structure
Accessory Building
Front yard
30 minimum from right-of-way
30 minimum from right-of-way
Side yard
10 minimum each side
10 minimum
Rear yard
20 minimum
10 minimum
Corner side
30 minimum from right-of-way
30 minimum from right-of-way
NOTES:
Exceptions: Bases for light standards (i.e., parking lot lights) may be located at the lot line, provided that no part of the base or light extends into the public right-of-way.
B. 
Transitional yards.
(1) 
If the lot abuts an R-1, R-2, or R-3 District at any point along the rear lot line, it must maintain the same rear yard setback of the principal building as required in that abutting zone.
(2) 
Where a side or rear lot line in an IO District coincides with a side or rear lot line in any adjacent residential district, a yard shall be provided along such side or rear lot line not less than 15 feet in depth and shall contain landscaping and planting to provide an effective screen.
Forty-five percent of the total lot area may contain building coverage.
Parking shall conform to requirements as set forth in Article XXI, Off-Street Parking Requirements.