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Village of Hobart, WI
Brown County
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The following uses are permitted in the I-1 District:
Air transport services
Automotive body repairs, upholstery, and cleaning establishments
Automotive service stations and garages
Building materials sales and storage
Cabinet shop
Commercial bakeries
Contractors, architects, and engineer offices, shops and yards
Cosmetic production
Electronic and scientific precision equipment
Feed and seed sales
Fuel and ice sales
Glass products production and sales
Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment trade
Office buildings, corporate, business, and professional
Printing and publishing establishments
Restaurants, drugstores, barber shops, located in an office building and accessible to the public only through the lobby; no advertising or display for the accessory use should be visible from outside the building
Upholstering shop
The following are permitted accessory uses in the I-1 District:
A. 
Satellite dish antennas less than 38 inches in diameter.
B. 
Uses incidental to and on the same zoning lot as the principal use.
C. 
Telephone and public utility installations, and cable television installations.
The following are conditional uses in the I-1 District:
A. 
Light machinery production - appliances, business machines, etc.
B. 
Machine shops.
C. 
Manufacturing and bottling of nonalcoholic beverages.
D. 
Miscellaneous textile goods and products manufacture.
E. 
Pet boarding facility.
F. 
Planned industrial unit development.
G. 
Recycling dropoff centers.
H. 
Religious institutions in the form of convents, seminaries, monasteries, churches, chapels, temples, synagogues, rectories, parsonages, and parish houses.
I. 
Sewage treatment plants.
J. 
Sign manufacture.
K. 
Stadiums, auditoriums, and arenas open or enclosed.
L. 
Stone products manufacture.
M. 
Toy and sporting goods equipment manufacture.
N. 
Warehousing, storage, and distribution facilities.
O. 
Woodworking and wood products.
P. 
Keeping of large domestic livestock, including horses, cows, goats, sheep, fowl and llamas, but not including hogs, fur-bearing animals, provided there is not more than one head of such livestock for each acre of lot area unless otherwise approved by the Village Board. This conditional uses is not intended to be used for intensive raising and boarding of livestock. A barn to house the animals is not to exceed 864 square feet.
Q. 
Public utility and service uses, and civic buildings as follows:
(1) 
Substations.
(2) 
Fire stations.
(3) 
Gas regulator stations.
(4) 
Police stations, public works facilities.
(5) 
Railroad right-of-way but not including railroad yards and shops, other than for passenger purposes.
(6) 
Telephone exchanges, transmission equipment buildings and microwave relay towers.
R. 
Other manufacturing, processing, or storage uses as determined acceptable by the Village Zoning Administrator/Building Inspector and the Village Planning and Zoning Commission.
A. 
With public sewer.
(1) 
Area: 40,000 square feet minimum.
(2) 
Zoning lot frontage: 100 feet minimum.
B. 
Without public sewer:
(1) 
Area: 40,000 square feet minimum.
(2) 
Zoning lot frontage: 100 feet minimum.
Principal structures: 60 feet maximum except as provided by § 295-13, Height regulations.
Principal Structure
Accessory Building
Driveways
Front yard
40 feet minimum from right-of-way
40 feet minimum from right-of-way
10 feet from property line
Side yard
15 feet minimum
15 feet minimum
10 feet from property line
Rear yard
20 feet minimum
20 feet minimum
10 feet from property line
Corner lot
40 feet minimum from right-of-way
40 feet minimum from right-of-way
75 feet from center line of intersection
All accessory buildings hereinafter constructed in the I-1 District shall meet the district requirements and those identified in § 295-11, Building and uses.
Parking shall conform to the requirements as set forth in Article XXVIII, Off-Street Parking Requirements.
Signs shall be regulated as set forth in § 295-361, Regulation of signs.
A. 
Structures and buildings allowed in the I-1 Limited Industrial District shall meet the regulations of this district and the other articles of this chapter, as determined by the Village Zoning Administrator/Building Inspector and approved by the Site Review Committee.
B. 
All business, services, and storage (except for motor vehicles in operable condition) shall be conducted within a completely enclosed structure.
C. 
The parking or storage of operable motor vehicles, if not within an enclosed building structure, shall be effectively screened by shrubbery, or solid wall or fence if not less than six feet. Walls and fences shall not exceed eight feet in height.
D. 
Any use found and determined by the Village Planning and Zoning Commission to be incompatible with the purpose of the I-1 District may be prohibited by the Village Board, including but not limited to outdoor wood burners/solid-fuel heating devices.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
E. 
A detailed landscaping plan, showing placement of shrubbery, trees and other vegetative plantings, shall be submitted to the Village Board for approval prior to the issuance of a building permit to insure appropriateness and compatibility with adjoining development.
F. 
With respect to any warehousing, storage and distribution facilities granted a conditional use permit, said permit shall be subject to the following if at any time the property subject to the condition use permit is subjected to the condominium form of ownership in accordance with Chapter 703 of the Wisconsin Statutes:
(1) 
The condominium declaration and plat must be reviewed and approved by the Village of Hobart. The review and approval shall be limited to compliance with this chapter. The Village of Hobart shall have 30 days from submission of the condominium declaration and plat to conduct its review and notify the proposed declarant of any objection or the declaration and plat shall be deemed approved.
(2) 
The condominium declaration shall specifically provide that the condominium association may be cited and/or fined for any violation of this chapter by any unit owner.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection F(3) and (4), regarding submission of site plan and permits required, respectively, which immediately followed this subsection, were repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
(3) 
Facilities used for business (non-personal) uses allowed by the conditional use permit shall adhere to the restrictions identified in Subsection F(3)(a) through (d) below, in addition to all other codes, rules and regulations applicable to the business use, whichever are more restrictive. Facilities used for personal (non-business) use shall adhere to Subsection F(3)(a) through (d) as follows:[3]
(a) 
Outside storage of any equipment, materials, vehicles or other personal property of any type shall not be allowed.
(b) 
Fertilizer storage shall not be allowed.
(c) 
No business shall be conducted from any unit which:
[1] 
Utilizes employees stationed at any unit for a majority of the employee's workday;
[2] 
Is inconsistent with warehousing, storage and distribution uses as provided by the approved conditional use permit referenced in Subsection F.
(d) 
Storage of fuels shall adhere to the following:
[1] 
Fuel storage contained within fuel cells and storage tanks installed as original or replacement equipment and maintained in compliance with any vehicle, recreational vehicle, camper, equipment, appliance or fuel tank and delivery system or fuel cell and delivery system manufacturer's specifications shall be allowed.
[2] 
There shall be no more than one thirty-pound maximum propane tank stored on site in addition to those allowed by Subsection F(3)(d)[1].
[3] 
There shall be no more than 15 gallons of other flammable fuels stored in five-gallon-maximum ASTM-, ANSI- or NFPA-approved containers, tanks or fuel cells on site which are not addressed by Subsection F(3)(d)[1].
[3]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
G. 
Absent a permit for a special occasion, businesses may not be open to the public between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. This provision does not apply to emergency-type facilities.