The B-2 Business District is designed primarily to accommodate
commercial activities and service needs of area residents, with the
service area not confined to any one neighborhood. Businesses may
range from small-scale to large in size.
A.
The following uses shall be permitted in B-2 Business Districts:
(1)
All uses permitted in B-1 Business Districts, except residences only
allowed as a conditional use.
(2)
Adjusters.
(3)
Architects' materials and supplies.
(4)
Army and navy goods sales.
(5)
Art gallery, commercial sales.
(6)
Artificial limbs sales and service.
(7)
Artists' materials and supplies.
(8)
Barbers' supplies, distributors and dealers.
(9)
Bathroom accessories display and sales.
(10)
Beauty shop equipment sales.
(11)
Bicycle sales and repair.
(12)
Blood banks.
(13)
Blueprinting.
(14)
Bookstores.
(15)
Braces, orthopedic sales.
(16)
Brushes, sales.
(17)
Business machines, distribution and sales.
(18)
Butchers' supplies, sales.
(19)
Candy shops (retail).
(20)
Canvas goods, sales.
(21)
Caskets, retail sales.
(22)
Caterers.
(23)
Chairs, physiotherapy sales.
(24)
Civic, school and fraternal organizations.
(25)
Clinic (e.g., medical, dental).
(26)
Clothing, retail.
(27)
Computer data processing services.
(28)
Conservatory.
(29)
(Reserved)
(30)
Dance instruction.
(31)
Desks, sales.
(32)
(Reserved)
(33)
Draperies, sales.
(34)
Drawing materials, sales.
(35)
Dry cleaning.
(36)
Electrical appliances, wholesale.
(37)
Electronic store.
(38)
Employment agencies.
(39)
Engineering, architectural and surveying services.
(40)
Entertainment bureaus.
(41)
Floor covering retail sales and installation service.
(42)
Food stores.
(43)
Funeral homes.
(44)
Fruit stores and vegetable markets.
(45)
Furriers and fur shops.
(46)
Gift shops.
(47)
Golf, miniature.
(48)
Greenhouses.
(49)
Grocery stores.
(50)
Guns, sales and repair.
(51)
Gymnasiums.
(52)
Hardware, retail sales, new and used.
(53)
Health food products, sales.
(54)
Ice skating rinks (indoor commercial).
(55)
Interior decorators, display and sales.
(56)
Jewelers and clocks, retail sales/custom manufacturing and repair.
(57)
Key shops.
(58)
Labs (e.g., medical, dental).
(59)
Landscape consulting and planning.
(60)
Lawn furniture, sales.
(61)
Leather goods, sales.
(62)
Liquor stores.
(63)
Meat and fish markets.
(64)
Merchandise general stores.
(65)
Messenger service.
(66)
Monuments, sales and displays.
(67)
Multigraphing, commercial.
(68)
Music instruction, commercial.
(69)
Musical instruments, repairing and sales.
(70)
(Reserved)
(71)
Notions and novelties, retail.
(72)
Nurseries, lawn and garden supply stores, retail.
(73)
Nut shops.
(74)
Office equipment sales.
(75)
Optical care sales and service center.
(76)
Orthopedic appliances, sales.
(77)
Oxygen equipment, rental and distribution.
(78)
Paint products, glass and wallpaper/retail sales.
(79)
Pet shops and groomers.
(80)
Pharmacy.
(81)
Recordings, sales.
(82)
Photo-finishing laboratories.
(83)
Photographers, commercial studios.
(84)
Photographic equipment and supplies, retail sales.
(85)
Photo printers, retail.
(86)
Piano sales.
(87)
Picture framing, custom.
(88)
Poster illustration, studio.
(89)
Protection service.
(90)
Pumps, retail sales and display.
(91)
Radio, television and music stores.
(92)
Radio and television repair shops.
(93)
Real estate office.
(94)
Religious organizations.
(95)
Restaurant equipment and supplies, sales.
(96)
Reupholstery and furniture repair shops.
(97)
Roller-skating and skateboard rinks, commercial.
(98)
Salvation Army.
(99)
Sewing machines, sales and repairing.
(100)
Shoe stores.
(101)
Sound systems and equipment sales.
(102)
Sportswear, retail sales.
(103)
Stationers retail sales.
(104)
Surveyors.
(105)
Tattoo parlors.
(106)
Tennis courts, commercial.
(107)
Tents and awnings sales.
(108)
Theaters, indoor.
(109)
Theatrical agencies.
(110)
Toys, retail sales.
(111)
Uniforms, rental.
(112)
Upholsterer's supplies, sales.
(113)
Used merchandise stores.
(114)
Vacuum cleaners, sales and repairing.
(115)
Weaving, handicraft.
(116)
Wheelchairs, rentals and service.
(117)
Women's accessory and specialty stores.
B.
The following uses may be permitted as conditional uses:
(1)
Any size community living arrangements, licensed and operated
under the authority of the Department of Health and Family Services,
are permitted as a conditional use in accordance with § 62.23(7)(i),
Wis. Stats.
(2)
Amphitheaters.
(3)
Amusement arcades.
(4)
Antique sales.
(5)
Apparel and accessory stores, miscellaneous.
(6)
Appliance sales and repair.
(7)
Art schools, commercial.
(8)
Artists, commercial and display.
(9)
Asbestos products, sale.
(10)
Assembly halls.
(11)
Auditoriums.
(12)
Auto and home supply stores.
(14)
Automotive dealers, not elsewhere classified.
(15)
Automobiles, parts and supplies (new).
(16)
Ballrooms.
(17)
Baseball parks, private.
(18)
Beauty culture schools.
(19)
Boardwalk, amusement, commercial.
(20)
Boat dealers.
(21)
Boilers sales.
(22)
Bowling alleys and billiard and pool establishments.
(23)
Broadcasting studios.
(24)
Bus depots.
(25)
Cafes (restaurants only).
(26)
Car washes.
(27)
Cigars, manufacturing, custom hand-rolled.
(28)
Civic, school and fraternal organizations.
(29)
Clothing, wholesale and distribution.
(30)
Clubs, supper and amusement.
(31)
Clubs, private, social or fraternal.
(32)
Coin-operated amusement devices.
(33)
Community centers.
(34)
Convenience stores.
(35)
Day-care center.
(36)
Department stores.
(37)
Driving schools, auto.
(38)
Electric equipment sales.
(39)
Exhibition buildings.
(40)
Freezer and locker meat provisioners.
(41)
Funeral service and crematories.
(42)
Furniture, home furnishings and equipment display and sales.
(43)
Grocery stores.
(44)
Halls, commercial.
(45)
Hardware, commercial.
(46)
Hardware, retail sales, new and used.
(47)
Heating and ventilating apparatus, sales and showroom.
(48)
Hobby shops.
(49)
Hotels, motels.
(50)
Hotel equipment, supplies and sales.
(51)
Imported goods, retail sales.
(52)
Labor unions and similar labor organizations.
(53)
Lawn mower sales, repair and shops.
(54)
Membership organizations not elsewhere classified.
(55)
Motion-picture and allied services.
(56)
Motion-picture equipment, sales and display.
(57)
Motion-picture theaters, including drive-ins.
(58)
Museums.
(59)
News services.
(60)
Nightclubs.
(61)
Noncommercial educational scientific and research organizations.
(62)
Nursing homes.
(63)
Office buildings.
(64)
Office service (stenographic service, letter preparation, addressing
and mailing, duplicating, multigraphing, mimeographing, machine tabulation,
research and statistical).
(65)
Opera houses.
(66)
Painting equipment and supplies, retail sales.
(67)
Parks, amusement, private.
(68)
Plastic and plastic products, sales and demonstrations.
(69)
Plumbing fixtures and supplies, display and sales.
(70)
Political organizations.
(71)
Radio studios.
(72)
Residence of the owner or operator of the business on the premises.
(73)
Restaurants, including drive-ins.
(74)
Retail stores and shops (not otherwise listed).
(75)
Riding equipment sales.
(76)
Saddle shops, custom handmade.
(78)
Service stations (fueling stations).
(79)
Sign sales, banner and poster.
(80)
Social services, not elsewhere classified.
(81)
Soil testing lab.
(82)
Sporting goods, retail sales.
(83)
Studios and offices for uses regarding communication.
(84)
Tavern/nightclub.
(85)
Tool sales.
(86)
Variety stores, retail.
(87)
Wharf, amusement piers.
(88)
Yacht clubs.
(89)
Any of the above-noted uses in a nonsewered area.
(90)
Other uses determined by the Town Zoning Administrator or designee
to be of a similar nature to the above-listed uses.
(91)
Recreational sport shooting facility (indoor facilities only).
(92)
Breweries, manufacturers and rectifiers (distilleries), and wineries
and brewpubs.
[Added 10-7-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-18]
Lot requirements with public sewer shall be as follows:
A.
Area: 20,000 square feet minimum.
B.
Zoning lot frontage: 150 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 lot frontage measured at the right-of-way line of a cul-de-sac
or curved street be less than 85 feet.
Lot requirements without public sewer shall be as follows:
A.
Area: 60,000 square feet minimum.
B.
Zoning lot frontage: 150 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 curved street or a cul-de-sac. In no case
shall the lot frontage measured at the right-of-way line of a cul-de-sac
or curved street be less than 85 feet.
Height regulations shall be as follows:
A.
Building setbacks shall be as follows:
(1)
With curb and gutter:
|
Building Setback (in 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
|
25 minimum
|
10 minimum
|
|
Corner side
|
30 minimum from right-of-way
|
30 minimum from right-of-way
|
(2)
Without curb and gutter:
|
Building Setback (in feet)
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
Principal Structure
|
Accessory Building
| |
|
Front yard
|
35 minimum from right-of-way
|
35 minimum from right-of-way
|
|
Corner side
|
35 minimum from right-of-way
|
35 minimum from right-of-way
|
|
NOTES:
|
|
Exceptions: (1) 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 or across property
lines; (2) The setback for vacuum islands accessory to a car wash
is six feet from any lot line.
|
B.
Transitional yards.
(1)
If the lot abuts an R-1, R-2, R-3 or RR zone at any point along
the rear lot line, it must maintain the same rear yard as required
in that abutting zone.
(2)
Where a side or rear lot line in a B-2 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. Such screening shall consist of a landscaped
area at least six feet wide, planted with a mixture of deciduous and
evergreen trees and shrubs, and shall be an effective barrier. All
trees shall be a minimum of 1 1/2 inch caliper when planted.
Forty-five percent of total lot area may contain building coverage.
Parking shall conform to requirements as set forth in Article XXI, Parking Requirements.
[Amended 5-17-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-10]
Additional structures and buildings allowed in the B-2 Business
District shall meet the requirements of this district and other articles
of this chapter as determined by the Town Zoning Administrator and/or
Town Board.
A.
All business, service repair, storage or merchandise display shall
be conducted wholly within an enclosed building, except for automobile
parking and loading.
B.
Outside trash bins shall be screened from view by use of solid screening
or fencing material with gates on rollers or wheels and must be kept
in good repair.
C.
Building appearance shall be complementary to a neighboring district,
i.e., no post-frame-construction type building.
D.
Buildings shall be maintained structurally and kept in good repair.
Outside appearance shall be maintained in accordance with originally
approved appearance and design.
E.
Parking or storage of commercial vehicles shall not be permitted
in the front of the principal structure.
F.
Open storage.
(1)
Open storage of commodities and materials shall be permitted
as an accessory use, provided that such open storage shall:
(a)
Be located behind the required building line.
(b)
Observe all yard requirements.
(c)
Have a maximum height not to exceed the height of the main building.
(d)
Not exceed 20% coverage of the lot area which lies behind the
building line.
(e)
Be screened from view from any street or any adjacent residentially
zoned lot, with solid screening.
(f)
All storage areas must be paved (asphalt or concrete).
