§ A18-2. PERMITTED USES.  


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  • (A) Zone 1. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
    (1) Dairy, grocery or convenience store not to exceed 5,000 square feet of floor area;
    (2) Class I restaurant;
    (3) Offices for doctors, dentists, lawyers, realtors, veterinarians (no outdoor animal pens allowed), insurance agents and similar uses to serve the adjoining residential area;
    (4) Day-care centers;
    (5) Retail operations selling personal services or goods over-the-counter as limited to the following uses unless otherwise specifically approved by the City Council: antiques, art and school supplies, bakeries, barbershop, beauty parlor, bicycles, books and stationery, candy, cameras and photographic supplies, catering establishments, china and glassware, clothes pressing, custom dressmaking, drugs, dry goods, florists, garden supplies, gifts, hardware, hats, hobby shops, household appliance repair, interior decorating studio (no retail furniture sales), jewelry and watch repair, laundry and dry cleaning, locksmith shops, musical instruments, paint and wallpaper, phonograph records and equipments, pets (no outdoor animal pens allowed), photography studio, shoes, sporting goods, tailoring, tanning salon, tobacco, toys, variety stores, video tape and equipment sales or rental and wearing apparel;
    (6) Movie theaters, bowling alleys, athletic clubs, skating rinks, coin-operated amusement devices and similar commercial recreation facilities when contained within a building;
    (7) Class II restaurant, lunch counter or delicatessen facilities within a multi-tenant building. No Class II fast food restaurants or drive-through restaurant facilities may be located as a separate, stand-alone building; and
    (8) On-sale liquor in conjunction with a restaurant facility.
    (B) Zone 2. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
    (1) Municipal buildings including police, fire, emergency management, transit/transfer stations, park-and-ride lots, and the like, but no public works;
    (2) Professional offices, banks and savings and loan;
    (3) Offices of a general nature where the operations do not include over-the-counter retail sales or warehousing from the site;
    (4) Clinics for human care;
    (5) Institutional uses, such as library, swimming pool, church, public schools, religious centers, health centers and community building;
    (6) On-sale wine and/or 3.2% liquor in conjunction with a restaurant facility;
    (7) Coin-operated amusement devices in conjunction with a restaurant facility of private club;
    (8) Farmers’ market;
    (9) Apartment buildings, at least two stories in height, provided they are serviced by public sanitary sewer and water systems;
    (10) Home occupations, as defined by § 155.003;
    (11) Public utility buildings and structures; and
    (12) Community-based family-care home, day-care home licensed under M.S. § 245.812 or a home for the care of the mentally or physically handicapped licensed by the state.
    (C) Zone 3. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
    (1) Townhouse dwellings, provided they are serviced by public sanitary sewer and water systems and provided that no single structure contains in excess of 12 dwelling units;
    (2) Home occupation, as defined in § 155.003;
    (3) Public utility buildings and structures; and
    (4) Community-based family-care home, day-care home licensed under M.S. § 245.812, or a home for the care of the mentally or physically handicapped licensed by the state.
    (D) Zone 4. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
    (1) Townhouse dwellings, provided they are serviced by public sanitary sewer and water systems and provided that no single structure contains in excess of 12 dwelling units;
    (2) Home occupation, as defined in § 155.003;
    (3) Public utility buildings and structures; and
    (4) Community-based family-care home, day-care home licensed under M.S. § 245.812, or a home for the care of the mentally or physically handicapped licensed by the state.
    (E) Zone 5. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
    (1) Townhouse dwellings, provided they are serviced by public sanitary sewer and water systems and provided that no single structure contains in excess of 12 dwelling units;
    (2) Home occupation, as defined in § 155.003;
    (3) Public utility buildings and structures; and
    (4) Community-based family-care home, day-care home licensed under M.S. § 245.812, or a home for the care of the mentally or physically handicapped licensed by the state.
    (F) Zone 6. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
    (1) Townhouse dwellings, provided they are serviced by public sanitary sewer and water systems and provided that no single structure contains in excess of 12 dwelling units;
    (2) Home occupation, as defined in § 155.003;
    (3) Public utility buildings and structures; and
    (4) Community-based family-care home, day-care home licensed under M.S. § 245.812 or a home for the care of the mentally or physically handicapped licensed by the state.
    (G) Zone 7a. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
    (1) Transit stations for exclusive use by public transit providers.
    (2) A minimum 300-space structured parking ramp.
    (H) Zone 7b. Within this zone, no structure or land shall be used except multi-story, mixed use development, either vertical or horizontal, which shall consist of multiple residential apartments, and one or more of the following uses, or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
    (1) The following retail uses: antique or gift shops; appliance store (sales and/or repair); art and school supply store; bakery; bank; savings and loan (drive-up teller service and outdoor ATM service are subject to conditional use permit), barbershop; beauty salon; bicycle sales; books; stationary and office supplies; candy; camera and photographic supplies; carpet and rug sales; catering services; china and glassware sales; clothing and costume sales and rental; coin operated amusement devices and similar facilities; department store; drugstore; dry cleaning; dry goods; electronic sales and/or service; florist; furniture store; garden supplies; grocery; hardware store; hobby store; interior decorating; jewelry and watch repair; laundromat; leather goods and luggage; locksmith; musical instruments; nail salon, off-sale liquor store paint and wallpaper sales; photography studio; pipe and tobacco shop; recorded music sales; class I, II, or III restaurant (no drive-through facilities allowed), subject to the installation of state of the art ventilation equipment in restaurants where applicable; shoe sales or repair; sporting goods; tailoring; toy store; video rental and sales.
    (2) Professional offices for doctors, dentists, lawyers, realtors, insurance agents, and similar uses.
    (3) Offices of a general nature where the operations do not include over-the-counter retail sales or warehousing from the site
    (4) Community-based family care home, day care home licensed under M.S. § 245.812 or such home for the care of the mentally or physically handicapped licensed by the state.
    (5) Public utility buildings and structures.
    (6) Home occupation as defined in § 155.003.
    (7) Parks and playgrounds.
    (8) Public libraries.
    (9) Municipal government administrative buildings.
    (10) Parking ramps and structures in conjunction with a commercial retail building, residential structure, or residential/commercial mixed use structure.
    The apartment multiple residential building shall be serviced by public sanitary sewer and water systems and the minimum density shall be at least 24 units per acres and the maximum density shall not exceed 54 units per acre.
    (11) Bus layover facilities for the exclusive use of public transit providers.
    (‘81 Code, § A18-2) (Ord. 507, passed 4-25-91; Am. Ord. 628, passed 6-26-97; Am. Ord. 853, passed 12-23-08; Am. Ord. 970, passed 6-26-14; Am. Ord. 1034, passed 10-26-17)