New Sturgeon Bay Zoning Allows Studio Apartments

This drawing depicts what the planned Muse music venue and school, with apartments on the second floor and public restrooms on the west end, will look like at the northeast corner of 3rd Avenue and Jefferson Street in Sturgeon Bay. Submitted.

The city’s zoning code now includes a provision to construct efficiency or studio apartments. Prior to the change, the city code did not allow multiple-family housing to have a floor area per dwelling unit of fewer than 500 square feet with one bedroom. 

The Sturgeon Bay Common Council gave final approval April 18 to an ordinance to create a minimum floor area of 450 square feet in all zoning districts where multiple-family dwellings would be allowed. 

The impetus for the change is the planned, two-story music venue and school to be known as Muse near the intersection of 3rd Avenue and Jefferson Street, which will have 11 studio apartments on the second floor.