Town of Rome

A-1 General Agricultural

This district is intended to preserve and enhance land for agricultural uses. Confined livestock operations are regulated as conditional uses to ensure compatible land use. The district's uses and regulations are designed to implement Comprehensive Plan goals by encouraging agricultural uses in areas where soil and other conditions are best suited to these agricultural pursuits, and controlling residential development to avoid potential conflict with agricultural uses. The A-1 District is generally compatible with the Exclusive Agricultural and Open Space land use designations of the Comprehensive Plan.

A-2 Secondary Agricultural

This district is designed to foster the preservation of agricultural land and provide for agricultural uses and uses compatible with agriculture.

B-1 Business

This district is designed to allow for businesses servicing a community-wide need. Convenient business areas are on the main highways, making accessibility and visibility a practical consideration.

B-2 Secondary Business

This district is intended to provide areas for light manufacturing and related activities that do not require or discharge large volumes of water and do not create substantial smoke, odor, noise, vibration or dust. The District is also intended to locate the enumerated businesses and industries in areas that are buffered from residential areas. With regard to sexually oriented businesses, the Town also relies on the intent and findings set forth in §§ 110-1 and 110-2 of the Code of the Town of Rome.

CV Conservancy

This district provides for the protection of the ecology and conservation of natural resources of the Town. Generally, this includes swamps, marshlands and areas where the groundwater is at or near the surface of the ground.

FR Forest and Outdoor Recreation

This district is designed to further promote and conserve existing forest areas within this district, together with wildlife, water and mineral resources, and to provide for certain limited recreational activities which do not substantially interfere with or impair these objectives.

LA Lake Amenity

This district is intended to provide an area, surrounded by or near the LD District, in which nonresidential uses ancillary to the uses in the LD District are permitted. The uses permitted in this district consist primarily of amenities offered by lake associations to their members and, occasionally, the public.

LD Lake District

This district is intended to provide regulations that address the unique concerns of residential developments in waterfront and near waterfront areas. The limited number of permitted and conditional uses are intended to foster neighborhoods that protect the environmentally sensitive nature of lakefront areas.

PSP Public and Semipublic

This district is intended to establish and preserve areas for certain public uses.

PUD-01 Sand Valley (verify name)

R-1 Single-Family Residence

This district is designed to encourage a suitable environment for family life by protecting the residential character against noncompatible uses. The district is intended to avoid overcrowding by requiring certain minimum yards, open spaces and site area while making available dwellings designed for and occupied exclusively by one family.

R-1C Single-Family Conservation Residence (both lots and outlots)

This district is designed to require the use of nontraditional residential subdivision design known as conservation subdivision, that will cluster the residential parcels and preserve open space and forest land, but so designed to be spacious and protected from encroachment of noncompatible land use, noise and traffic hazard. The district is also intended to avoid overcrowding by requiring certain minimum yards, open spaces and site area while making available dwellings designed for and occupied exclusively by one family and constructed under the Wisconsin Uniform Dwelling Code.

R-2 One- and Two-Family and Manufactured Dwelling

This district is designed to provide a mixed development of housing and to protect residents from traffic hazard and the intrusion of noncompatible land use.

R-3 Multiple-Family Residence

This district is designed to provide a living area with a greater density than the R-1 and R-2 Districts, but so designed to be spacious and protected from encroachment of noncompatible land use, noise and traffic hazard.

R-4 Rural Residence

This district is designed to provide a district in which density can be reduced and at the same time allow the broader use of hobby, and recreational activities that normally would not be compatible in a more densely populated area.

R-5 Rural Estate Residence

This district is designed to provide a district that allows for larger homes and accessory structures and provide an environment for hobby, and recreational activities which require larger tracts of land so as not to interfere with home owners in the more densely populated areas of the Town

RTC-1 Rome Town Center - Commercial "A"

Development in the Commercial "A" Subdistrict will have the following general characteristics:
(1) A diverse blend of development where no single use shall dominate.
(2) Restricts areas for building, parking and septic for higher-density development.
(3) Reduced setbacks and encroachments in setbacks for architectural elements such as porches.
(4) Requires more aesthetic measures, including architectural requirements on all building elevations (faces) as required in the Rome Town Center Design Plan.
(5) Additional landscaping requirements.

RTC-2 Rome Town Center - Mixed Town Center

Development in the Mixed Town Center Subdistrict will have the following general characteristics:
(1) A diverse blend of mixed-use development between nonresidential and residential land uses, with no single use dominating.
(2) Pedestrian-oriented designs with wide sidewalks between buildings and streets, with multi-use pathways connecting the Mixed Town Center Subdistrict to the remainder of Rome Town Center.
(3) Reduced setbacks allowing for increased proximity between buildings and sidewalks.
(4) Smaller residential designs compatible with the character of Rome Town Center and the housing needs of the greater community.
(5) Residential units and/or lodging facilities shall comprise no more than 40% of the built environment, excepting those mixed-use units sharing a structure with a different land use category.

RTC-3 Rome Town Center - Senior Living

Development in the Senior Living Subdistrict will have the following general characteristics:
(1) Single- or multi-unit age-restricted housing and assisted-living facilities, where at least one person who is 55 or older must live in at least 80% of the occupied units.
(2) Restricts areas for building, parking and septic.
(3) Housing complexes may total no more than 20 units in any given residential development.
(4) Requires more aesthetic requirements, including architectural requirements on all building elevations.
(5) Landscaping requirements similar to Commercial "A" Subdistrict.
(6) Requires buffering/screening from adjacent subdistricts and properties.
(7) Provides for higher-density housing in the Town with close access to essential services and goods.

RTC-4 Rome Town Center - Mixed Multifamily

Development in the Mixed Multifamily Subdistrict will have the following general characteristics:
(1) Providing a variety of housing options beyond single-family homes.
(2) Conventional multistory apartment complexes and single-family homes are prohibited.
(3) Smaller residential designs compatible with the character of Rome Town Center and the housing needs of the greater community.

RTC-5 Rome Town Center - Mixed Commercial-Light Industrial

Development in the Mixed Commercial/Light Industrial Subdistrict will have the following general characteristics:
(1) Accommodates businesses that create minimal off-site impacts and are compatible with nearby residential and retail areas.
(2) Requires less aesthetic architectural requirements than the Commercial "A" Subdistrict. Architectural detail is primarily required only on street front.
(3) Outdoor storage is restricted.
(4) Requires landscaping on street frontage and restricts signage use.
(5) Requires buffering/screening from adjacent subdistricts and properties.
(6) Allows for retailing with attached warehousing/industrial component.

SP Special Purpose

This district is designed to provide for a use which presents a special problem or hazard. Included are those land uses which require extremely large expanses of land, those which tend to create serious hazards to the health, safety, and general welfare of the Town residents, and those for which it is inappropriate or undesirable to have more than one instance of a given land use within a community.

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