Ordinance No. 131 Consolidated Land Use Ordinance

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1. Compatibility with the surrounding neighborhood is maintained and required setback and side yard setbacks and side yard requirements are met. Architectural standards for all buildings shall be consistent with those in adjacent residential property. 2. Any equipment is completely screened in a permanent structure with no outside storage. 3. Adequate screening from neighboring uses and landscaping is provided in compliance with other sections of this Ordinance. 3. Public recreational facilities provided that: 1. The site is landscaped; 2. The use is available to the "public"; 3. The land area of the property containing such uses or activity meets the minimum established for the district; 4. Adequate screening from neighboring uses and landscaping is provided in compliance with other sections of this ordinance. 4. Publicly owned or cultural buildings, such as libraries, city offices, auditoriums, public administration offices and historical developments, but excluding public works type facilities and uses, provided that: 1. Compatibility with the surrounding neighborhood is maintained and required setbacks and side yard requirements are met. Architectural standards for all buildings shall be consistent with those in the adjacent residential property; 2. Any equipment is completely screened in a permanent structure with no outside storage; 3. Adequate screening from neighboring uses and landscaping is provided in compliance with other sections of this ordinance. 5. Day care, social services or other non -directly related worship activities, as an accessory use within a religious building, provided that: 1. Compatibility with the surrounding neighborhood is maintained and required setbacks and side yard requirements are met. Architectural standards for all buildings shall be consistent with those in the adjacent residential property; 2. Any equipment is completely screened in a permanent structure with no outside storage; 3. Adequate screening from neighboring uses and landscaping is provided in compliance with other sections of this ordinance and the Landscape Ordinance. 6. Accessory buildings with a cumulative total greater than one -thousand (1,000 sq. ft.) square feet. 5. Lot Area and Setback Requirements. The following minimum requirements shall be observed in an Institutional Overlay District subject to additional requirements, exceptions and modifications set forth in this ordinance: 1. The minimum land area for an Institutional Overlay shall be two and three quarter (2.75) acres of buildable area. For the purposes of this Ordinance, buildable area means two and three quarter (2.75) acres of land, not including wetlands and land seasonally flooded on an annual basis, land containing drainage ways or surface water or land containing aquatic vegetation, and land with slopes in excess of twelve (12%) percent. 2. Lot Width. 1. Two hundred (200) feet of frontage which must be located on a County or State maintained roadway. Updated January 2025 — Gem Lake Consolidated Land Use Ordinance No. 131 66