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B-1 Downtown Business image/svg+xml

The purpose of the Downtown Business District is to provide for the maintenance and orderly growth of a traditional, pedestrian friendly, compact district of retail, service, office, and higher density residential uses in the central area of the City. A wide range of office, retail, and lodging land uses are permitted within this district. Development within the B1 District is intended to promote the rehabilitation and full utilization of existing older structures as well as appropriate redevelopment to assist in maintaining the long-term viability of the center of the community.

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Neighborhood Business - The purpose of the Neighborhood Business District is to provide locations for small-scale service, retail and office uses that primarily serve the convenience needs of neighborhoods. The B2 District permits a mix of uses, but care must be taken to ensure that adequate access, parking and screening is provided so as not to negatively impact adjoining residential neighborhoods.

I1 General Industrial image/svg+xml

This district is intended to provide for the same type of manufacturing and industrial development as in the PI District, but in those areas where the relationship to surrounding land use would create fewer problems of compatibility and would not necessitate as stringent regulatory controls. This district should not normally abut directly upon residential uses without the use of increased setbacks or extensive landscape buffers.

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The purpose of the Heavy Industrial District is to provide areas suitable for primary and secondary processing, manufacturing and remanufacturing or reprocessing of all types, with related outdoor storage and incidental sales. The I2 District is appropriate where the location has access to an arterial street or highway, an active rail corridor, and where uses will not create significant adverse impacts on residential, commercial or other nonindustrial uses in the area. It must be emphasized that this is not a district where virtually any land use is permitted.

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Planned Business - The purpose of the Planned Business District is intended to provide for the orderly and attractive grouping at appropriate locations of commercial activities of a more general retail and wholesale nature, and of the office and service facilities serving a larger community trade area. Uses in the PB District have the potential to generate significant automobile traffic, and therefore care must be taken to properly design access and parking facilities. Since this district is located along the roads that serve as gateways, quality building architecture, landscaping and other site improvements are necessary to ensure this type of development enhances Lake Mills' image. The size and location of such districts shall be based upon relationship of the community need and economy. Uncoordinated, piecemeal development of small parcels that do not fit into a larger context are discouraged in the PB District. Compatible land uses, access, traffic circulation, stormwater management and natural features, all should be integrated into an overall development plan. Because this district is primarily at high-visibility locations, quality building architecture, landscaping and other site improvements are required to ensure superior aesthetic and functional quality.

PI Planned Industrial image/svg+xml

Planned Industrial - The Planned Industrial District is intended to provide for the orderly and attractive grouping in appropriately landscaped grounds of any manufacturing or industrial operation which, on the basis of actual physical and operational characteristics, would not be detrimental to the surrounding area or to the community as a whole by reason of noise, dust, smoke, odor, traffic, physical appearance or other similar factor; and to establish such regulatory controls as will reasonably insure compatibility with the surrounding area.

R1-4 Single-Family Residential-4 image/svg+xml

The purpose of the Single-Family Residential-4 District is to accommodate lower-density single-family residential development in the City. This district primarily consists of post-World War II residential neighborhoods that have a suburban character, and has a maximum density of approximately four units per acre.

R1-6 Single-Family Residential-6 image/svg+xml

The purpose of the Single-Family Residential-6 District is to accommodate medium-density single-family residential development in the City. This district primarily consists of post-World War II residential neighborhoods that have a urban character, and has a maximum density of approximately six units per acre.

R1-8 Single-Family Residential-8 image/svg+xml

The purpose of the Single-Family Residential-8 District is to accommodate higher-density single-family residential development in the City. This district primarily consists of older platted residential neighborhoods that have a urban character, and has a maximum density of approximately eight units per acre.

R2-8 Multi-Family Residential-8 image/svg+xml

The purpose of the Two-Family Residential-8 District is to preserve higher-density single- and two-family residential development in older neighborhoods of the City, and to accommodate new residential development with a similar character. The R2-8 District also provides for auxiliary dwelling units compatible with surrounding residential neighborhoods. The district is intended to provide the principal location for single-family attached dwelling types, including duplexes, twin houses, and two-flats. This district has a maximum density of approximately eight units per acre.

R3-12 Multi-Family Residential-12 image/svg+xml

The purpose of the R3-12 Multifamily Residential District is to accommodate a range of housing densities and a variety of housing types and styles, with a maximum density of approximately 12 units per acre.

RD Rural Development image/svg+xml

This district is intended to permit development which is solely of a rural community character. The land use standards for this district permit very low density single-family detached residential development, as well as a variety of agricultural and agriculture-supporting land uses. Density and intensity standards for this district are designed to ensure that development which requires even a minimum of urban services does not occur until such services are available. As such, the Rural Development District shall either serve as a designation which preserves and protects agricultural activities, or as a "holding zone" which provides for an interim land use (agriculture) that will easily permit further development (with rezoning to another district) at the appropriate time. In this manner, even if all property were developed in a given area with the RD District designation, the rural community character of that area would still be maintained. This district has a maximum density of one dwelling unit per 35 acres of land area.