2001-69REVISED ORDINANCE NO. 2001-69
An ordinance creating the 03, Neighborhood Office District, with a penalty and injunctive
relief for a violation thereof as set forth in Section 18.28.010 of the Code of General
Ordinances of the City of Janesville.
THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JANESVILLE DO ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. Purpose. It is hereby declared that enactment of the provisions outlined in Section
II of this Ordinance is essential to establish an Office Zone District that encourages the creation
and location of office and institutional uses that are compatible with residential development. Said
district is intended to be used as a transition zone between more intensive business and service
uses and residential areas. The desired affects of the ordinance can be achieved by the provisions
that limit the size and type of uses within the 03 District as proposed by this ordinance.
SECTION II. Section 18.36.030 B.3. of the Code of General Ordinances of the City of
Janesville is hereby created to read as follows:
3. 03-Neighborhood Of. rice District. This district is intended to accommodate high quality
office and institutional land uses at intensities compatible with residential districts in locations
where traffic volumes and adjacent land use dictate a transition between residential and more
intensive nonresidential uses.
General provisions:
i. Generally, the 03 District shall be mapped in quantities not exceeding five
acres.
ii. Residential uses arc
iii. Retail and commercial services are prohibited except where clearly
accessory to a listed permitted use.
iv. Drive-in facilities, drive-up facilities or any other type of service providing
or offering goods, service or products directly to customers waiting in motor
vehicles are not permitted including drive-up telephones.
v. The outside conduct, display or storage of any ret2!! product:, inventory,
materials, ~ or service is prohibited including but not limited to seasonal
merchandise, beverage machines, ice machines, LP gas tank storage, ~,
landscape plants or materials, and children's amusement rides. This prohibition
does not apply to outside trash and recyclable storage when in an approved screen
enclosure.
Permitted uses.
i. Offices--business, professional and public;
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Medical and dental clinics;
Funeral homes;
Churches;
Day Care Centers (9 er mere ck;.!dren);
Public libraries;
Underground public utility uses such as: electric sub-stations, water
reservoirs, telephone transmission equipment, gas regulator stations,
sewage lift stations, water pumping stations and other similar utility use;
Conditional uses. The following may be allowed in the 03 District subject to the
provisions of Section 18.24.040, conditional uses:
i. Above ground public utility uses such as: electric sub-stations, water
reservoirs, telephone transmission equipment, gas regulator stations, sewage lift
stations, water pumping stations and other similar utility use.
ii. Planned unit developments as provided in Section 18.24.060 for permitted
and conditional uses in the 03 District.
iii. Retail and commercial service uses accessory to listed permitted or
conditional uses.
iv. Large Developments as defined by having any one of the following
characteristics;
I. Any development on a single site containing 5 or more acres or the
development of multiple sites that collectively total 5 acres or more when said
multiple sites are developed with any common link or nexus including but not
limited to shared infrastructure or physical site improvements.
II. Any development that contains more than one building per site, lot
or pamel.
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Minimum lot area: none.
Minimum lot width fronting a public street: !00.9 feet ~.
Maximum building size: Principal buildings - 5,000 square feet per floor
Accessory
buildings - 750 square feet. Only one accessory building is permitted per lot or
parcel.
The maximum height of any building, structure or use shall not exceed .....
feet and any such building shall not contain more than two stories above grade.
Minimum setbacks required from the property line to principal and accessory
buildings, structures, and uses and off-street parking:
i. Front yard, corner yard and any other property line adjoining a public street
right-of-way line, twenty-five feet;
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ii. Side yard, ten feet;
iii. Rear yard, twenty-five feet except for corner lots, which shall be treated as
having two side yards.
iv. Adjoining a residence district, 25 feet or equal in dimension to the height of
the building, whichever is greater.
v. Parking shall be set back a minimum of 15 feet from any front or corner
yard property line and 5 feet from all other property lines
Green area: Not less than 20 percent of the gross lot area shall be permanently set
aside, planted and maintained as
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Site access: Vehicle access for non-residential development is prohibited from a
local residential street unless said point of access is within 500 feet of a Through or
Connecting Arterial Street as enumerated in Chapter 10 of the Janesville Code of
General Ordinances or, in the opinion of the City Engineer, said local street will
eventually be classified as a Through or Connecting Arterial Street.
Signs: The intent of the following provisions is to reduce the impacts of sign
installation and associated lighting on properties surrounding development on sites
located within the 03 district. The standards contained herein recognize that the
general sign provisions found within Chapter 14 of the Janesville Code of General
Ordinances allow a multitude of under regulated sign options that are not
compatible with development intended to adjoin residential land uses. As such the
following standards regarding sign installation shall apply in addition to those
applicable from said Chapter 14.
i. Standards of this section that are more restrictive than those found in
Chapter 14 of the Janesville Code of General Ordinances shall prevail.
ii. Installation or use of any of the following types of sign, as they are defined
in Chapter 14 of the Janesville Code of General Ordinances, is prohibited:
Attention getting devices, Banners, Directional signs, Electronic Message signs,
Instructional signs, Mobile signs, Off-premises signs, Roof signs.
iii. On-premises ground signs shall comply with the following regulations:
I. The ground sign is located where otherwise permitted but in no
event less than two(2)feet from a parking lot, driveway, highway, other
right-of-way, sidewalk, or property line and in no event within a vision
triangle as defined in Section 18.32.020 A. for uncontrolled intersections,
which shall be applied to the following areas of the property:
(a)All property corners located at street intersections
and along all side property lines; and
(b) At all intersections of driveways and sidewalks
leading from the site to the adjoining property line
or right-of-way lines. For these locations, the
outside pavement, curb or sidewalk edges shall be used
as the interior leg of the vision triangle and the
intersecting property line as the other; and
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II. The ground sign shall not exceed thirty-two (32) square feet of total
area including the sign base except for parcels having 600 lineal feet or
more of frontage on public streets, in which case the ground sign area may
not exceed on forty-eight (48) square feet including the sign base. The
surface area of the sign base shall be calculated based on the total perimeter
boundary of the base from ground plane to the bottom of the sign area and
from outside edge to outside edge of the vertical sides. Any openings in the
base shall be included within the area calculation.
III. No more than one (1) such ground sign shall be permitted or located
per parcel.
IV. Ground signs shall not exceed six (6) feet in height.
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No internally illuminated wall sign shall be placed on a wall
or building elevation that adjoins or is opposite a residential zone district, x3.r2!!
v. Within this district window signs shall be considered wall sigm and thus
subject to all regulations perta~ng to wall signs.
SECTION III. Section 14.28.015 of the Code of General Ordinances of the City of Janesville is
hereby created to read as follows:
14.28.015 Special regulations applying to the 03 and B1 Zoning Districts. In addition to the
regulations contained herein, signs proposed within the 03, Neighborhood Office District and the
BI, Neighborhood Convenience District are also subject to regulations found within Chapter 18,
Zoning of the Janesville Code of General Ordinances. Said regulations are more restrictive than
those found herein and limit the types of signs that may be used within those districts. As such,
both the regulations contained herein and those of said Chapter 18 should be consulted for signs
proposed within the 03 and B1 districts.
SECTION IV. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Common Council of the City of
Janesville that the provisions of this ordinance are severable in accordance with the following:
1. If any court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge any provision of this title to be
invalid, such judgement shall not affect any other provision of this title not specifically
included in the judgement.
2. If any court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge invalid the application of any
provision of this title to a particular property, building, or structure, such judgement
shall not affect the application of said provision to any other property, building, or
structure not specifically included in the judgement.
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SECTION V. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon adoption by the Common
Council, the public health, welfare, peace, tranquility, good order, public benefit, and police
power so requiring.
ADOPTED: May 29, 2001
APPROVED:
~'%ven E. Sheiffer~City M//anager
ATTEST:
J~Ann Wul~, City Clerk-Treasurer
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City A~orney I ·
MOTION BY: Murphy
SECOND BY: Williams
COUNCILMEMBER AYE NA PASS ABSENT
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DAMRON X
WILLIAMS X
STEEBER X
BRIEN X
MURPHY X
O'LEARY X
DEGARMO X
Proposed by:
Prepared by:
Planning Department
Planning Department
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