For the purpose of this chapter, present and future, provision
is hereby made for the division of the Village of Stratford into the
following basic zoning districts:
R-1
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Single-Family Residential District
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R-2
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Single-Family Residential District
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R-2A
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Two-Family Residential District
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R-3
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Multiple-Family Residential District
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R-4
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Rural Development District
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B-1
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General Commercial District
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B-2
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Convenience Commercial District
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B-3
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Highway Commercial District
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I-1
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General Industrial District
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G-1
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Institutional District
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C-1
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Conservancy District
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R-MH
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Residential-Mobile Home District
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MW
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Municipal Well Recharge Area Overlay District
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I-2
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Business/Industrial Park District
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A.
Vacation of streets. Vacation of public streets and alleys shall
cause the land vacated to be automatically placed in the same district
as the abutting side to which the vacated land reverts.
B.
Annexations. Annexations to or consolidations with the Village subsequent
to the effective date of this chapter shall be placed in the R-1 Single-Family
District, unless the annexation ordinance places the land in another
district.
A.
The Village of Stratford is hereby divided into zoning districts
as shown upon a map designated as the Official Zoning Map of the Village
of Stratford and made a part of this chapter. The Official Zoning
Map and all the notations, references and other information shown
hereon are a part of this chapter and shall have the same force and
effect as if the matters and information set forth by said map were
fully described herein. The Official Zoning Map shall be properly
attested and kept on file along with the text of the official zoning
regulations in the office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Stratford.
B.
The district boundaries shall be determined by measurement from and
as shown on the Official Zoning Map, and in case of any question as
to the interpretation of such boundary lines, the Plan Commission
shall interpret the map according to the reasonable intent of this
chapter. Unless otherwise specifically indicated or dimensioned on
the map, the district boundaries are normally lot lines; section,
quarter-section or sixteenth-section lines; or the center lines of
streets, highways, railways or alleys.
Where uncertainty exists as to the boundaries of districts as
shown on the Zoning Map, the following rules shall apply:
A.
Boundaries indicated as approximately following the center lines
of streets, highways or alleys shall be construed to follow such center
lines.
B.
Boundaries indicated as approximately following platted lot lines
shall be construed as following such lot lines.
C.
Boundaries indicated as approximately following Village boundaries
shall be construed as following municipal boundaries.
D.
Boundaries indicated as following railroad lines shall be construed
to be midway between the main tracks.
E.
Boundaries indicated as following shorelines shall be construed to
follow such shorelines and, in the event of change in the shoreline,
shall be construed as moving with the actual shoreline; boundaries
indicated as approximately following the center lines of streams,
rivers, canals, lakes or other bodies of water shall be construed
to follow such center lines.
F.
Boundaries indicated as parallel to or extensions of features indicated
in the preceding shall be so construed. Distances not specifically
indicated on the Zoning Map shall be determined by the scale of the
map.
A.
Permitted uses and structures. Single-family dwellings and their
accessory structures or uses.
B.
Conditional uses and structures. Parks, greenways and open spaces, playgrounds, public and private schools, bed-and-breakfast establishments, hospitals, cemeteries, governmental and community service buildings and functions, utility lines, pumping stations, golf courses, churches, libraries, single-family planned residential development, home occupations, agricultural uses, multiple-family uses, provided that they conform to the regulations of § 590-20F, and mobile home developments and mobile home parks.[1]
D.
Building height: 35 feet maximum.
F.
Floor area and width. Buildings used in whole or in part for residential
purposes which are hereafter erected, moved, or structurally altered
shall have the following minimum floor areas and widths:
(1)
One-story houses shall have a minimum floor space of 1,000 square
feet exclusive of basement, breezeway, porch and garage.
(2)
Split-level, two-story and bi-level houses shall have a minimum floor
space of 1,500 square feet exclusive of basement, breezeway, porch
and garage.
(3)
No single side of any building used in whole or in part for residential
purposes shall be less than 24 feet in width.
A.
Permitted uses and structures. Single-family dwellings and their
accessory structures or uses.
B.
Conditional uses and structures. Parks, greenways and open spaces, playgrounds, public and private schools, bed-and-breakfast establishments, hospitals, cemeteries, governmental and community service buildings and functions, utility lines, pumping stations, golf courses, churches, libraries, single-family planned residential development, home occupations, agricultural uses, multiple-family uses provided that they conform to the regulations of § 590-20F, and mobile home developments and mobile home parks.[1]
D.
Building height: 35 feet maximum.
F.
Floor area and width. Buildings used in whole or in part for residential
purposes which are hereafter erected, moved, or structurally altered
shall have the following minimum floor areas and widths:
(1)
One-story houses shall have a minimum floor space of 1,000 square
feet exclusive of basement, breezeway, porch and garage.
(2)
Split-level, two-story and bi-level houses shall have a minimum floor
space of 1,500 square feet exclusive of basement, breezeway, porch
and garage.
(3)
No single side of any building used in whole or in part for residential
purposes shall be less than 24 feet in width.
A.
Permitted uses. Single-family residential uses and two-family residential
uses, provided that they conform to the regulations set forth below.
B.
Conditional uses and structures. Parks, greenways, and open spaces,
playgrounds, public and private schools, bed-and-breakfast establishments,
hospitals, cemeteries, governmental and community service buildings
and functions, utility lines, pumping stations, golf courses, churches,
libraries, single-family planned residential development, home occupations,
agricultural uses, mobile home developments and mobile home parks.[1]
D.
Building height: 35 feet maximum.
F.
Floor area and width. Buildings used in whole or in part for residential
purposes which are hereafter erected, moved, or structurally altered
shall have the following minimum floor areas and widths:
(1)
One-story houses shall have a minimum floor space of 1,000 square
feet exclusive of basement, breezeway, porch and garage.
(2)
Split-level, two-story and bi-level houses shall have a minimum floor
space of 1,500 square feet exclusive of basement, breezeway, porch
and garage.
(3)
Two-family houses (duplexes) shall have a minimum floor space of
750 square feet in each of the two units exclusive of basements, breezeways,
porches and garages.
(4)
No single side of any building used in whole or in part for residential
purposes shall be less than 24 feet in width.
A.
Permitted uses. Single-family residential uses and structures conforming
at least to the minimum and maximum requirements of the R-2 Residential
District and multiple-family uses provided that they conform to the
regulations below.
B.
Conditional uses and structures. Parks, greenways and open spaces,
playgrounds, public and private schools, bed-and-breakfast establishments,
hospitals, cemeteries, governmental and community service buildings
and functions, utility lines, pumping stations, golf courses, churches,
libraries, single-family planned residential development, home occupations,
agricultural uses, mobile home developments and mobile home parks.[2]
D.
Building height: maximum 72 feet or six stories, whichever is the
least.
F.
Other requirements.
(1)
The recreation space ratio, defined as the minimum square footage
of recreation space required for each square foot of floor area, shall
not be less than 0.16.
(2)
The floor area ratio, defined as the maximum square footage of total
floor area permitted for each foot of land area, shall not be more
than 0.32.
(3)
The open space ratio, defined as the minimum square footage of open
space required for each square foot of floor area, shall not be less
than 2.0.
(4)
The living space ratio, defined as the minimum square footage of
nonvehicular outdoor space required for each square foot of floor
area, shall not be less than 1.2.
(5)
The occupant car ratio, defined as the minimum number of off-street
parking spaces without parking time limits required for each living
unit, shall not be less than 1.2.
A.
Permitted uses and structures. Single-family residences, home occupations,
parks, open spaces, agriculture and general farming (except farms
feeding offal or garbage and mink farms), dairying, livestock raising,
truck farming, forestry, poultry raising, airport and golf courses.[1]
B.
Conditional uses and structures. Mink farms, cemeteries, municipal service functions and structures, pumping stations, churches, restaurants, resorts, taverns, grocery stores, service stations, multiple-family uses provided that they conform to the regulations of § 590-20F, mobile home developments, mobile home parks, trailer parks and campgrounds, mini warehouses, and commercial and industrial uses permitted in the B-2 and I-1 Districts, respectively.
D.
Building height: 35 feet maximum except for barns, silos and other
buildings and structures which are customarily higher and accessory
uses to farming.
F.
Floor area and width. Buildings used in whole or in part for residential
purposes which are hereafter erected, moved, or structurally altered
shall have the following minimum floor areas and widths:
(1)
One-story houses shall have a minimum floor space of 1,000 square
feet exclusive of basement, breezeway, porch and garage.
(2)
Split-level, two-story and bi-level houses shall have a minimum floor
space of 1,500 square feet exclusive of basement, breezeway, porch
and garage.
(3)
No single side of any building used in whole or in part for residential
purposes shall be less than 24 feet in width.
A.
Permitted uses and structures. Hardware and feed stores, auto sales,
furniture stores, barbershops, bakeries, bars, cocktail lounges, restaurants,
motels, hotels, fruit stores, dry goods stores, luggage shops, stationary
stores, personal and business service establishments, pet shops, small
animal clinic, clothing stores, public passenger transportation terminals,
taxi stands, gift stores, variety stores, garages, theaters, professional
offices, organization headquarters, newspaper and magazine publishers,
jewelry stores, banks, shoe stores, religious goods stores, packaged
beverage stores, drive-through service establishments, appliance sales
and repair, sporting goods, insurance and real estate offices, radio
and television sales and service, catalog order stores, savings and
loan and finance companies, department stores, bowling alleys, churches,
tobacco and magazine stores, beauty salons, music shops, radio stations
(without antenna), public and private schools, single-family residential
dwellings, multiple-family residential dwellings, residential dwellings
(single and multiple-family) above and adjacent to commercial establishments,
parking areas, open spaces and parks and mini storage buildings.
B.
Conditional uses. Wholesale outlets, secondhand stores, professional
laundry and dry-cleaning establishments, gas stations and other uses
similar or customarily incidental to the above uses.
C.
Lot size: no minimum.
D.
Building height: five stories or 60 feet maximum.
E.
Setbacks: no minimum.
A.
Permitted uses and structures. Any use or structure permitted in
the B-1 District, drugstores, neighborhood groceries, coin-operated
laundromats, supermarkets, coffee shops, soda fountains, laundry and
dry cleaners, and taverns.[1]
B.
Conditional uses and structures. Gas stations.
C.
Lot size: no minimum.
D.
Building height: 35 feet maximum.
A.
Permitted uses and structures. Any use or structure permitted in
the B-2 District, gas stations, automobile sales and service stations
and public garages, drive-in establishments serving food and beverages
for consumption on premises, drive-in theaters, amusement parks, and
parking.[1]
C.
Building height: 35 feet maximum.
A.
Permitted uses and structures. Automotive body repairs, automotive
upholstery, cleaning, pressing and dyeing establishments, commercial
bakeries, commercial greenhouses, distributors, farm machinery, food
locker plants, laboratories, machine shops, manufacture and bottling
of nonalcoholic beverages, painting, printing, publishing, storage
and sale of lumber, machinery and equipment, trade and contractors'
offices, warehousing and wholesaling, manufacturing, fabrication,
packing, packaging and assembly of products from furs, glass, leather,
metals, paper, plaster, plastics, textiles and wood, manufacture,
fabrication, processing, packaging and packing of confections, cosmetics,
electrical appliances, electronic devices, food except cabbage, fish
and fish products, meat and meat products, and pea vining, instruments,
jewelry, pharmaceuticals, tobacco and toiletries, freight yards, freight
terminals and transshipment depots, inside storage, breweries, agriculture,
parking and open areas and auto sales.
B.
Conditional uses and structures.
(1)
Dumps, disposal areas, incinerators and sewage disposal plants, and
earth and sanitary landfill operations.
(2)
Manufacture and processing of abrasives, acetylene, acid, alkalies,
ammonia, asbestos, asphalt, batteries, bedding, bleach, bone, cabbage,
candles, carpeting, celluloid, cement, cereals, charcoal, chemicals,
chlorine, coal tar, coffee, coke, cordage, creosote, dextrine, disinfectant,
dye, excelsior, felt, fish, fuel, furs, gelatin, glucose, gypsum,
hair products, ink, insecticide, lime, lime products, linoleum, matches,
meat, oil cloth, paint, paper, peas, perfume, pickles, plaster of
paris, plastics, poison, polish, potash, pulp, pyroxylin, radium,
rope, rubber, sausage, size, starch, stove polish, textiles and varnish.
(3)
Manufacturing,
processing and storage of building materials, explosives, dry ice,
fat, fertilizer, flammables, gasoline, glue, grains, grease, lard,
radioactive materials, shellac, soap, turpentine, vinegar and yeast.
(4)
Bag
cleaning, bleacheries, canneries, cold storage warehouses, electric
and steam generating plants, electroplating, enameling, forges, foundries,
garbage incinerators, lacquering, lithographing, offal, rubbish or
animal reduction, oil, coal and bone distillation, refineries, road
test facilities, slaughterhouses, smelting, stockyards, tanneries
and weaving.
(5)
Outside storage and manufacturing areas. Wrecking, junk, demolition
and scrap yards shall be surrounded by a solid fence or evergreen
planting screen completely preventing a view from any other property
or public right-of-way and shall be at least 600 feet from residential
or commercial structures.
(6)
Commercial service facilities, such as restaurants and fueling stations,
provided that all such services are physically and sales oriented
toward industrial district users and employees and other users are
only incidental customers.
D.
Building height: 60 feet maximum.
A.
Purpose. The G-1 Institutional District is intended to eliminate
the ambiguity of maintaining, in unrelated use districts, areas which
are under public or public-related ownership and where the use for
public purpose is anticipated to be permanent.
B.
Permitted uses. Cemeteries, churches, fraternal organizations, hospitals,
sanatoriums, nursing homes and clinics, libraries, museums and art
galleries, municipal parking lots, public administrative offices and
public service buildings, including fire and police stations, public
or private schools, colleges and universities, public utility offices,
utilities, water storage tanks, towers and wells, amphitheaters, amusement
parks, aquariums, arenas and field houses, art galleries, auditoriums,
boat rentals and boat access sites, botanical gardens and arboretums,
exhibition halls, fairgrounds, forest reserves (wilderness areas),
forest reserves (wilderness refuges), golf courses with or without
country club facilities, golf driving ranges, group or organized camps,
historic and monument sites, hunting and fishing clubs, ice skating,
libraries, miniature golf, museums, parks (general recreation), parks
(leisure and ornamental), picnicking areas, planetariums, play fields
or athletic fields, playgrounds, play lots or tot lots, recreation/community
centers, skiing and tobogganing, stadiums, swimming beaches, and tennis
courts.
C.
Permitted accessory uses. Essential services, garages for storage
of vehicles or materials used in conjunction with the operation of
a permitted use, off-street parking and loading areas, residential
quarters for administrators, caretakers or clergy, service buildings
and facilities normally accessory to the permitted uses, service-oriented
offices or shops located within institutional buildings.
D.
Conditional uses. Archery ranges, athletic clubs and health resorts,
drive-in movies, gymnasiums, public emergency shelters, roller skating,
and skeet and trap shooting ranges, provided that the firing of rifle
arms and shotgun slugs shall not be permitted directly toward or over
any highway, road or navigable water, toward any building or structure
or toward any population concentration within 1 1/2 miles of the site.[1]
E.
Lot area and width. There are no minimum lot requirements.
F.
Building height. No building or parts of a building shall exceed
45 feet in height.
G.
Setbacks.
(1)
Street: minimum 25 feet.
(2)
Side: minimum 10 feet.
(3)
Rear: minimum 25 feet.
(4)
Exception. In the case of ownership by a school district or organization
or by a church or religious society of more than 50% of the frontage
on intersection streets and more than 50% of the area of the square
block wherein such property is located, the minimum setback line for
building on such school or church property shall be 15 feet.
A.
Purpose. The C-1 Conservancy District is intended to be used to prevent
disruption of valuable natural or man-made resources and to protect
wetland areas and lands which are subject to periodic flooding, where
development would result in hazards to health or safety or would deplete
or destroy natural resources or be otherwise incompatible with the
public welfare.
B.
Permitted uses.
(1)
Agricultural uses, provided that they do not involve extension of
cultivated areas or extension of or creation of new drainage systems,
and further provided that they do not substantially disturb or impair
the natural fauna, flora, topography or water regimen.
(2)
Forest and game management.
(3)
Forest reserves (wilderness areas).
(4)
Forest reserves (wildlife areas).
(5)
Open space uses, including preserves, scenic areas, historic and
scientific areas, fishing, soil and water conservation practices,
sustained yield forestry, stream bank protection and water retention
and control; provided, however, that no such uses involve structures,
fill, soil or peat removal or disruption of the natural flow of any
watercourse or natural topography.
D.
Conditional uses.
The requirements for property in the R-MH District shall be as provided in Article XII of this chapter.
A.
Purpose. The Village recognizes that consequences of certain land
use activities, whether intentional or accidental, can seriously impair
groundwater quality. The purpose of the Municipal Well Recharge Area
Overlay District (MW) is to protect municipal groundwater resources
from certain land use activities by imposing appropriate restrictions
upon lands located within the approximate groundwater recharge area
of the Village's municipal wells. The restrictions imposed herein
are in addition to those of the underlying residential, commercial
or industrial zoning districts or any other provisions of this chapter.
B.
Overlay zones. The Municipal Well Recharge Area Overlay District
is hereby divided into Zone A and Zone B as follows:
(1)
Zone A is identified as the primary source of water for the municipal
well aquifer and as the area most likely to transmit groundwater contaminants
to the municipal wells. Zone A is more restrictive that Zone B.
(2)
Zone B is identified as a secondary source of water for the municipal
well aquifer and as an area where there is a lower probability of
surface contaminants reaching the municipal well fields. Zone B is
less restrictive than Zone A.
C.
Zone A prohibited uses. The following land uses are hereby found
to have a high potential to contaminate or have already caused groundwater
contamination problems in Wisconsin and elsewhere. The following principal
or accessory uses are hereby prohibited within Zone A of the Municipal
Well Recharge Area Overlay District:
(1)
Areas for dumping or disposing of garbage, refuse, trash or demolition
material.
(2)
Asphalt products manufacturing plants.
(3)
Automobile laundries.
(4)
Automobile service stations.
(5)
Building materials and products sales.
(6)
Cartage and express facilities.
(7)
Cemeteries.
(8)
Chemical storage, sale, processing or manufacturing plants.
(9)
Dry-cleaning establishments.
(10)
Electronic circuit assembly plants.
(11)
Electroplating plants.
(12)
Exterminating shops.
(13)
Fertilizer manufacturing or storage plants.
(14)
Foundries and forge plants.
(15)
Garages for repair and servicing of motor vehicles, including
body repair, painting or engine rebuilding.
(16)
Highway salt storage area.
(17)
Industrial liquid waste storage areas.
(18)
Junkyards and auto graveyards.
(19)
Metal reduction and refinement plants.
(20)
Mining operations.
(21)
Motor and machinery service and assembly shops.
(22)
Motor freight terminals.
(23)
Paint products manufacturing.
(24)
Petroleum products storage or processing.
(25)
Photography studios, including the developing of film and pictures.
(26)
Plastics manufacturing.
(27)
Printing and publishing establishments.
(28)
Pulp and paper manufacturing.
(29)
Residential dwelling units on lots less than 15,000 square feet
in area. However, in any residential district on a lot of record on
the effective date of this chapter, a single-family dwelling may be
established regardless of the size of the lot, provided that all other
requirements of this chapter are complied with.
(30)
Septage disposal sites.
(31)
Sludge disposal sites.
(32)
Storage, manufacturing or disposal of toxic or hazardous materials.
(33)
Underground petroleum products storage tanks for industrial,
commercial, residential or other uses.
(34)
Woodworking and wood products manufacturing.
D.
Zone A conditional uses. The following conditional uses may be allowed in the Municipal Well Recharge Area Overlay District, subject to the provisions of Article V:
[Added 9-12-1989]
A.
Purpose. The Village recognizes that there can be significant economic
benefit to the Village and to certain businesses and industries which
comes about by placing the businesses and industries in a defined
portion of the community subject to certain development restrictions
to encourage a harmonious and park-like setting. For this purpose
the Village has created the Business/Industrial Park District.
B.
Permitted uses. Any use or structure which is a permitted use in
an I-1 General Industrial District and business offices, laboratories
or other facilities related to such uses.
C.
Conditional uses and structures. Any use or structure which is a
conditional use in an I-1 General Industrial District, except dumps,
disposal areas, sewage disposal plants, and earth and sanitary landfill
operations.
[Added 3-12-1996]
A.
The purpose of this section is to comply with Ch. NR 110, Wis. Adm.
Code, in regard to the isolation of sewage treatment plants in order
to minimize any potential odor, noise and disturbance which may be
caused by such facilities and to enhance plant security and reliability.
B.
There is hereby created a Wastewater Treatment Plant Zone, which
zone shall constitute an area within 500 feet from any portion of
the Stratford Wastewater Treatment Plant.
C.
No future construction of commercial establishments or buildings
occupied or intended for residential use shall be permitted within
the Wastewater Treatment Plant Zone.
D.
This section is recommended by the Public Works Committee of the
Village of Stratford.