These regulations are adopted under the authority granted by
§§ 61.35 and 62.23(7), Wis. Stats.
This chapter shall be known as, referred to or cited as the
"Zoning Code, Village of Baldwin, Wisconsin."
The purpose of this chapter is to promote the health, safety,
prosperity, aesthetics and general welfare of the Village of Baldwin.
It is the general intent of this chapter to regulate and restrict
the use of all structures, lands and waters and to:
A.Â
Regulate lot coverage and the size and location of all structures
so as to prevent overcrowding and to provide adequate sunlight, air,
sanitation, and drainage;
B.Â
Regulate population density and distribution so as to avoid sprawl
or undue concentration and to facilitate the provision of adequate
public service and utilities;
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Regulate parking, loading and access so as to lessen congestion in
and promote the safety and efficiency of streets and highways;
D.Â
Secure safety from fire, flooding, pollution, contamination, and
other dangers;
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Stabilize and protect existing and potential property values;
F.Â
Preserve and protect the beauty of the Village of Baldwin;
G.Â
Prevent and control erosion, sedimentation, and other pollution of
the surface and subsurface waters;
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Further the maintenance of safe and healthful water conditions;
I.Â
Provide for and protect a variety of suitable commercial and industrial
sites;
J.Â
Protect the traffic-carrying capacity of existing and proposed arterial
streets and highways;
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Implement those municipal, county, watershed, and regional comprehensive
plans or components of such plans adopted by the Village of Baldwin;
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Provide for the administration and enforcement of this chapter; and
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Provide penalties for the violation of this chapter.
It is not intended by this chapter to repeal, abrogate, annul,
impair or interfere with any existing easements, covenants, deed restrictions,
agreements, ordinances, rules, regulations or permits previously adopted
or issued pursuant to law. However, wherever this chapter imposes
greater restrictions, the provisions of this chapter shall govern.
In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this
chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements and shall be liberally
construed in favor of the Village and shall not be deemed a limitation
or repeal of any other power granted by the Wisconsin Statutes.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
shall be used:
A use or detached structure subordinate to the principal
use of a structure, land, or water and located on the same lot or
parcel serving a purpose customarily incidental to the principal use
or the principal structure.
A structural poster panel or painted sign, either freestanding
or attached to the outside of a building, for the purpose of conveying
information, knowledge or ideas to the public about a subject either
related or unrelated to the premises upon which located.
Anything constructed or erected, either freestanding or attached
to the outside of a building, for the purpose of conveying information,
knowledge or ideas to the public about a subject either related or
unrelated to the premises upon which located.
A special public right-of-way affording only secondary access
to abutting properties.
A portion of a residential or commercial building used as
a separate housing unit.
See "dwelling, multiple."
A public street or highway used or intended to be used primarily
for fast or heavy through traffic. Arterial streets and highways shall
include freeways and expressways as well as arterial streets, highways
and parkways.
A residential care institution that provides resident rooms,
or residential units, to handicapped or elderly persons. The facility
provides, or contracts to provide, supervisory care services, personal
care services, or directed care services on a continuous basis.
[Added 8-13-2014]
A person, committee, or board to whom or to which the power
to issue a permit or make a determination, decision, or judgment has
been delegated.
A story partly underground but having at least 1/2 of its
height, or five or more feet, below the mean level of the adjoining
ground. See Chs. SPS 320, 321 and 322, Wis. Adm. Code.
A facility providing mental health or substance abuse services
in an inpatient, residential or ambulatory setting.
[Added 8-13-2014]
A building other than a hotel or restaurant where meals or
lodging is regularly furnished by prearrangement for compensation
for four or more persons not members of a family, but not exceeding
12 persons and not open to transient customers.
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls
used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons,
animals, equipment, machinery or materials.
Any change or rearrangement of the supporting members, such
as bearing walls, beams, columns or girders, of a building, an addition
to a building, or movement of a building from one location to another.
The total area bounded by the exterior walls of a building
at the floor levels, but not including basement, utility rooms, garages,
porches, breezeways and unfinished attics.
A line parallel to the street intersecting the foremost point
of the building, excluding uncovered steps.
The vertical distance from the mean elevation of a finished
grade along the front of the building to the highest point of a flat
roof, or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or to the mean height
between eaves and ridge for gable, hip or gambrel roofs.
A building in which the principal use of the lot on which
it is located is conducted.
An occupation, employment, or enterprise which occupies time,
attention, labor and materials, or wherein merchandise is exhibited
or sold, or where services are offered, other than home occupations.
See "garage."
A building used by a group of doctors for the medical examination
or treatment of persons on an outpatient or nonboarding basis only.
Shops where clothing is repaired, such as shoe repair shops,
seamstress, tailor shops, shoe shine shops, and clothes pressing shops,
but not employing over five persons.
Retail stores where clothing is sold, such as department
stores, dry goods and shoe stores, and dress, hosiery and millinery
shops.
A building owned, leased or hired by an association of persons
who are bona fide members, the use of which is restricted to said
members and their guests.
Confinement of 200 or more head of livestock on a farm or
other site for the purpose of intensive feeding prior to slaughter
or shipment in such concentration that ground vegetation is substantially
destroyed where:
The following facilities licensed or operated or permitted
under the authority of Wisconsin Statutes: child welfare agencies
under § 48.60, Wis. Stats., foster homes and group homes
under § 48.02(6) and (7), Wis. Stats., and community-based
residential facilities under § 50.01, Wis. Stats., but does
not include nursing homes, general hospitals, special hospitals, prisons
and jails. The establishment of a community living arrangement shall
be in conformity with applicable sections of the Wisconsin Statutes,
including §§ 46.03(22), 59.69(15) and 62.23(7)(i) and
(7a), and amendments thereto, and also the Wisconsin Administrative
Code.
[Amended 3-13-2013]
Uses of a special nature as to make impractical their predetermination
as a principal use in a district, allowed only under conditions specified
under this chapter.
Any lawful use of a building or lot which complies with the
provisions of this chapter.
An open, unoccupied space, other than a yard, on the same
lot with a building and which is bounded on two sides by the building.
Any interruption or break in the line of a street curb in
order to connect a driveway to a street or otherwise to provide vehicular
access to abutting property.
The level of the established curb in the front of the building
measured at the center of such front.
A place or home which provides care for four or more children
under the age of seven years for less than 24 hours a day and is licensed
as provided for in § 48.65, Wis. Stats.
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including but not limited to construction of or additions or substantial
improvements to buildings, other structures, or accessory uses, mining,
dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations,
or disposition of materials.
A part or parts of the Village for which the regulations
of this chapter governing the use and location of land and buildings
are uniform.
A building intended or principally used for sleeping accommodations
where such building is related to an educational, health care, or
public institution, including religious institutions.
[Added 8-13-2014]
A mobile home consisting of two mobile home sections combined
horizontally at the site while still retaining their individual chassis
for possible future movement.
An establishment used for the sale, dispensing or serving
of food, refreshments, or beverages in or on disposable plates and
cups, including those establishments where customers may serve themselves
and may eat and drink the food, refreshments, and beverages on or
off the premises.
See "pharmacy."
[Added 8-13-2014]
A building designed or used exclusively as a residence or
sleeping place, but does not include boarding or lodging houses, motels,
hotels, tents, cabins, or mobile homes.
A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room with no
separate sleeping rooms.
A building or portion thereof used or designated as a residence
for three or more families as separate housekeeping units, including
apartments, attached townhouses and condominiums, with the number
of families in residence not to exceed the number of dwelling units
provided.
A detached building designed, arranged or used for and occupied
exclusively by one family, whether attached, detached or semiattached.
Shall include specially designed buildings covered by earth and manufactured
homes.
A detached building containing two separate dwelling (or
living) units, designed for occupancy by not more than two families.
A building or portion thereof used exclusively for human
habitation, including single-family, two-family and multifamily dwellings,
but not including hotels, motels or lodging houses.
Public or private enclosures designed to protect people from
aerial, radiological, biological or chemical warfare, fire, flood,
windstorm, riots or invasions.
Services provided by public and private utilities necessary
for the exercise of the principal use or service of the principal
structure. These services include underground, surface, or overhead
gas, electrical, steam, water, sanitary sewerage, stormwater drainage,
and communication systems and accessories thereto, such as poles,
towers, wires, mains, drains, vaults, culverts, laterals, sewers,
pipes, catch basins, water storage tanks, conduits, cables, fire alarm
boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, pumps, lift stations, and
hydrants, but not including buildings.
One or more persons living together in a single dwelling
unit as a traditional family or the functional equivalent of a traditional
family. It shall be a rebuttable presumption that four or more persons
living together in a single dwelling unit who are not related by blood,
adoption or marriage do not constitute the functional equivalent of
a traditional family. In determining the functional equivalent of
a traditional family, the following criteria shall be present:
[Amended 3-13-2013]
The group shares the entire dwelling unit.
The group lives and cooks together as a single housekeeping
unit.
The group shares expenses for food, rent, utilities or other
household expenses.
The group is permanent and stable and not transient or temporary
in nature.
Any other factor reasonably related to whether the group is
the functional equivalent of a family.
Land consisting of five acres or more on which produce, crops,
livestock or flowers are grown primarily for off-premises consumption,
use or sale.
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors
of a dwelling unit, exclusive of porches, balconies, garages, basements
and cellars, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls
or from the center lines of walls or partitions separating dwelling
units. For uses other than residential, the floor area shall be measured
from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center lines
of walls or partitions separating such uses and shall include all
floors, lofts, balconies, mezzanines, cellars, basements and similar
areas devoted to such uses.
See "grocery store."
[Added 8-13-2014]
The primary domicile of a foster parent which is for four
or fewer foster children and which is licensed under § 48.62,
Wis. Stats., and amendments thereto.
The smallest dimension of a lot abutting a public street
measured along the street line.
A building or portion thereof used exclusively for parking
or temporary storage of self-propelled vehicles.
A building other than a private or storage garage used for
the care, repair or storage of self-propelled vehicles or where such
vehicles are left for remuneration, hire or sale. This includes premises
commonly known as gasoline stations or service stations.
Any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used
for the sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle fuel and oil and other
lubricating substances and sale of motor vehicle accessories and which
may include facilities used or designed to be used for polishing,
greasing, washing, spraying, dry cleaning or otherwise cleaning or
servicing such vehicles.
Retail stores where items such as art, antiques, jewelry,
books, and notions are sold.
A facility for the retail sale of food and other items used
in the home.
[Added 8-13-2014]
Any facility operated by a person required to be licensed
by the State of Wisconsin under § 48.62, Wis. Stats., for
the care and maintenance of five to eight foster children.
A facility in which persons reside for an extended period
of time (normally three to 12 months) to undertake a program of social
rehabilitation or other similar program. Such uses shall provide room
and board, and this may include recreational, counseling, vocational
and other rehabilitative services. This definition includes facilities
for sex offenders, alcoholics or the chemically dependent and residents
of state, federal, or local correction facilities.
[Added 8-13-2014]
Retail stores where items such as plumbing, heating, and
electrical supplies, sporting goods and paints are sold.
A facility that offers health services for body and mind,
typically skin care services and body services such as fitness, personal
training, and nutrition counseling. Sometimes includes alternative
services such as chiropractic, acupuncture, or holistic medicine.
[Added 8-13-2014]
A usually private club that offers facilities for exercise
and physical conditioning, with rooms for weight lifting, massage,
etc.; courts for handball, racquetball, etc.; and often a swimming
pool, sauna, etc.
[Added 8-13-2014]
A commercial establishment offering health and beauty treatment
through such means as steam baths, exercise equipment, and massage.
[Added 8-13-2014]
An establishment that is primarily engaged in the retail
sale of health, vitamin, and other related products.
[Added 8-13-2014]
A certified agency using an interdisciplinary team to meet
the needs of patients being cared for in out-of-hospital settings
such as private homes, boarding homes, hospices, shelters, etc.
[Added 8-13-2014]
Any business or profession carried on only by a member of the immediate family residing on the premises, carried on wholly within the principal building, and meeting the standards of § 635-39.
[Amended 3-13-2013]
A program or facility that provides palliative care and attends
to the emotional, spiritual, social and financial needs of terminally
ill patients at a facility or at a patient's home.
[Added 8-13-2014]
An institution providing physical or mental health services,
inpatient or overnight accommodations, and medical or surgical care
of the sick or injured.
[Added 8-13-2014]
A building in which lodging, with or without meals, is offered
to transient guests for compensation and in which there are more than
five sleeping rooms with no cooking facilities in any individual room
or apartment.
A non-self-propelled vehicle containing living or sleeping
accommodations which is designed and used for highway travel.
That part of any parcel which is located within 1,000 feet
of the outer right-of-way boundary of Interstate Highway 94 and within
1/2 mile east/west of State Highway 63, north of Interstate Highway
94.
[Added 6-11-2008; amended 10-14-2015]
An open space where waste, used or secondhand materials are
bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled,
including but not limited to scrap iron and other metals, paper, rags,
rubber, tires and bottles. "Junkyard" also includes an auto wrecking
yard but does not include uses established entirely within enclosed
buildings.
A completely off-street space or berth on the same lot for
the loading or unloading of freight carriers having adequate ingress
and egress to a public street or alley.
See "boardinghouse."
A parcel of land having frontage on a public street, or other
officially approved access, occupied or intended to be occupied by
a principal structure or use, and sufficient in size to meet the lot
width, lot frontage, lot area, yard, parking area and other open space
provisions of this chapter.
A lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection,
provided that the corner of such intersection shall have an angle
of 135° or less, measured on the lot side.
A lot situated on a single street which is bounded by adjacent
lots along each of its other lines.
The peripheral boundaries of a parcel of land and the total
area lying within such boundaries.
A platted lot of a recorded subdivision, certified survey
map, or parcel of land for which the deed, prior to the adoption of
this chapter, is on record with the St. Croix County Register of Deeds
and which exists as described therein.
A corner lot, the street side lot line of which is substantially
a continuation of the front lot line of the first lot to its rear.
A parcel of land held in separate ownership having frontage
on a public street, or other officially approved access, occupied
or intended to be occupied by a principal building or structure, together
with accessory buildings and uses, having insufficient size to meet
the lot width, lot area, yard, off-street parking area, or other open
space provisions of this chapter.
A lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two or more
parallel public streets and which is not a corner lot. On a through
lot, both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
The width of a parcel of land measured at the setback line.
A single tract of land located within a single block which,
at the time of filing for a building permit is designated by its owner
or developer as a tract to be used, developed, or built upon as a
unit under single ownership or control.
Shops where lathes, presses, grinders, shapers, and other
wood and metal working machines are used, such as blacksmith, tinsmith,
welding, and sheet metal shops, and plumbing, heating and electrical
repair and overhaul shops.
Any of the following:
[Amended 3-13-2013]
A structure that is designed to be used as a dwelling with or
without a permanent foundation and that is certified by the federal
department of housing and urban development as complying with the
standards established under 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 to 5425.
A mobile home, unless a mobile home is specifically excluded
under the applicable statute.
As defined in § 635-52.
[Amended 3-13-2013]
An educational institution offering courses of study focused
on the knowledge and skills required for the prevention and treatment
of disease, such as physicians, nurses, dentists, and allied health
care professionals. The facility is comprised of but not limited to
classrooms, simulation and skills labs, and anatomy labs.
[Added 8-13-2014]
A facility for the retail sale or rental of medical equipment
which provides therapeutic benefits or enables the individual to perform
certain tasks that he/she is unable to undertake otherwise due to
certain medical conditions or illnesses, for use in the home or to
complete activities of daily living.
[Added 8-13-2014]
A facility providing therapy and training for rehabilitation;
the center may offer occupational therapy, physical therapy, vocational
training and special training such as speech therapy.
[Added 8-13-2014]
Any small, movable accessory erection or construction, such
as birdhouses, tool houses, pet houses, play equipment, arbors, and
walls and fences under four feet in height.
A vehicle manufactured or assembled before June 15, 1976,
designed to be towed as a single unit or in sections upon a highway
by a motor vehicle and equipped and used, or intended to be used,
primarily for human habitation, with walls of rigid uncollapsible
construction, which has an overall length in excess of 45 feet. "Mobile
home" includes the mobile home structure, its plumbing, heating, air
conditioning and electrical systems, and all appliances and all other
equipment carrying a manufacturer's warranty.
[Amended 3-13-2013]
A parcel of land for the placement of a single mobile home
and the exclusive use of its occupants.
A parcel of land which has been developed for the placement
of mobile homes and is owned by an individual, a firm, trust, partnership,
public or private association, or corporation. Individual lots within
a mobile home park are rented to individual mobile home users.
A building containing lodging rooms having adjoining individual
bathrooms and where each lodging has a doorway opening directly to
the outdoors and more than 50% of the lodging rooms are for rent to
transient tourists for a continuous period of less than 30 days.
A building or area in which freight brought by motor truck
is assembled and/or stored for routing in intrastate and interstate
shipment by motor truck.
Any passenger vehicle, truck, truck-trailer, trailer or semitrailer
propelled or drawn by mechanical power.
Any structure, use of land, use of land and structure in
combination, or characteristic of use (such as yard requirement or
lot size) which was existing at the time of the effective date of
this chapter or amendments thereto. Any such structure conforming
in respect to use but not in respect to frontage, width, height, area,
yard, parking, loading, or distance requirements shall be considered
a nonconforming structure and not a nonconforming use.
Any building or lot, or portion thereof, used for the cultivation
or growing of plants and including all accessory buildings.
Any building used routinely for the daytime care and education
of preschool age children and including all accessory buildings and
play areas, other than the child's own home or the homes of relatives
or guardians.
Any building used for the continuous care, on a commercial
or charitable basis, of persons who are physically incapable of caring
for their own personal needs.
See "health store."
[Added 8-13-2014]
A private road or easement extending from a private property
to a component of the public street system which the Village Plan
Commission or Village Board has approved as a primary means of access.
An open area other than a street, alley or place used for
temporary parking of more than four self-propelled vehicles and available
for public use, whether free, for compensation, or as an accommodation
for clients or customers.
A structure or premises containing 10 or more parking spaces
open to the public.
An off-street space available for the parking of a motor
vehicle and which is exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant
thereto and giving access thereto.
[Amended 3-13-2013]
Includes all abutting property owners, all property owners
within 100 feet, and all property owners of opposite frontages.
A wall containing no opening which extends from the elevation
of building footings to the elevation of the outer surface of the
roof or above and which separates contiguous buildings but is in joint
use for each building.
A facility for the retail sale and dispensing of drugs or
medicines which are compounded by or under the direct supervision
of a registered pharmacist. This definition includes the sale of allied
health care products such as walking aids, support bandages and braces,
and similar medical products.
[Added 8-13-2014]
An open unoccupied space, other than a street or alley, permanently
reserved as the principal means of access to abutting property.
Shall have the same meaning as the definition in § 620-5.
Residences of doctors of medicine, practitioners, dentists, clergymen, architects, landscape architects, professional engineers, registered land surveyors, lawyers, artists, teachers, authors, musicians or other recognized professions used to conduct their professions where the office does not exceed the standards in § 635-39 and only one nonresident person is employed.
The lines bounding a platted lot as defined herein.
Any sidewalk, street, alley, highway or other public thoroughfare.
A strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for
track operation, but not including freight depots or stations, loading
platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car or locomotive shops, or car
yards.
A residential establishment that provides special care for
convalescents and aged or infirmed persons.
[Added 8-13-2014]
A school limited to special instruction such as business,
art, music, trades, handicraft, dancing or riding.
An elementary or intermediate school other than a parochial
school giving regular instruction capable of meeting the requirements
of state compulsory education laws and approved as such and operating
at least five days a week for a normal school year and supported by
other than public funds, but not including a school for the mentally
handicapped or a college or other institution of higher learning.
Furniture upon which to sit having a linear measurement not
less than 24 inches across the surface used for sitting.
A multi- or single-residence housing facility intended for
senior citizens, comprised of individual apartment-style units or
single-family units plus facilities for meals, gatherings, recreation
activities, and some form of health or hospice care.
[Added 8-13-2014]
An open space on the same lot with a structure, unoccupied
and unobstructed from the ground upward, except for vegetation as
permitted. The front and rear yards extend the full width of the lot.
A side setback which adjoins a public street.
A setback extending along the full length of the front lot
line between the side lot lines.
A side setback which is located immediately adjacent to another
zoning lot or to an alley separating such setback from another zoning
lot.
A setback extending along the full length of the rear lot
line between the side lot lines.
A setback extending along a side lot line from the front
yard to the rear yard.
The minimum horizontal distance between the street line and
the nearest point of a building or any projection thereof, excluding
uncovered steps. Where the street line is an arc, the street setback
shall also be measured from the arc. In some ordinances, the street
setback is also called a "front setback" or "street yard."
That setback which must be provided on a zoning lot in a
business district which adjoins a zoning lot in a residential district
or that setback which must be provided on a zoning lot in an industrial
district which adjoins a zoning lot in either a residential or business
district.[1]
See "health spa."
[Added 8-13-2014]
A dwelling unit type consisting of a single-family residence which is in complete compliance with the State of Wisconsin One- and Two-Family Dwelling Code and which is attached on one side to other single-family residences within a four-family building. A minimum fire separation complying with § SPS 321.08, Wis. Adm. Code, providing a vertical separation of all areas from the lowest level to flush against the underside of the roof is required between each dwelling unit. The four residences shall be located on individual lots. The split four-family dwelling is distinguished from the typical four-unit dwelling merely by having each unit located on an individual lot. This dwelling unit type may not be split into additional residences. All units must be located within a development which conforms to the requirements of § 635-17B(2).
A dwelling unit type consisting of a single-family residence which is in complete compliance with the State of Wisconsin One- and Two-Family Dwelling Code and which is attached on one side to another single-family residence within a three-family building. A minimum fire separation complying with § SPS 321.08, Wis. Adm. Code, providing a vertical separation of all areas from the lowest level to flush against the underside of the roof is required between each dwelling unit. The three residences shall be located on individual lots. The split three-family dwelling is distinguished from the typical three-unit dwelling merely by having each unit located on an individual lot. This dwelling unit type may not be split into additional residences. All units must be located within a development which conforms to the requirements of § 635-17B(2).
A dwelling unit type consisting of a single-family residence which is in complete compliance with the State of Wisconsin One- and Two-Family Dwelling Code and which is attached on one side to another single-family residence. A minimum fire separation complying with § SPS 321.08, Wis. Adm. Code, providing a vertical separation of all areas from the lowest level to flush against the underside of the roof is required between each dwelling unit. The two residences shall be located on individual lots. The split two-family dwelling is distinguished from the typical two-unit dwelling merely by having each unit located on an individual lot. This dwelling unit type may not be split into additional residences. All units must be located within a development which conforms to the requirements of § 635-17B(2).
That portion of a principal building included between the
surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above, or if
there is no floor above, the space between the floor and the ceiling
next above. A basement shall not be counted as a story.
A story which is situated in a sloping roof, the floor area
of which does not exceed 2/3 of the floor area of the story immediately
below it, and which does not contain an independent dwelling unit.
A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal
means of access to abutting property.
The public right-of-way boundary line.
Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such
as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
Any erection or construction, such as buildings, towers,
masts, poles, booms, signs, decorations, carports, machinery and equipment.
A licensed facility providing outpatient treatment, counseling
or similar services to individuals who are dependent on legal and/or
illegal drugs, opiates, alcohol, or other similar substances. It is
not a medical clinic or methadone treatment clinic or facility.
[Added 8-13-2014]
Any lot on which are parked two or more house trailers or
mobile homes for longer than 48 hours.
Shall have the same meaning as "split two-family dwelling."
The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon
is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or
maintained, and shall include any manner of standards of this chapter.[2]
A use which may be lawfully established in a particular district
or districts, provided that it conforms to all requirements, regulations
and performance standards, if any, of such districts.
The main use of land or building as distinguished from a
subordinate or accessory use.
Public and private facilities, such as water wells, water
and sewage pumping stations, water storage tanks, electrical power
substations, static transformer stations, telephone and telegraph
exchanges, microwave radio relays, and gas regulation stations, but
not including sewage disposal plants, municipal incinerators, warehouses,
shops, storage yards and power plants.
A retail business device, electrically or manually operated,
used by the general public to obtain dairy products, cigarettes, foodstuffs
or other merchandise without entering a public shop, store, market
or other such building.
The Village of Baldwin, St. Croix County, Wisconsin.
An area or areas within the corporate limits for which the
regulations and requirements governing use, lot and bulk of buildings
and premises are uniform.
[1]
Editor's Note: The original definitions of "Sign, awning,"
"sign copy," "sign face," "sign, ground," "sign, portable," "sign,
projecting," "sign, roof," "sign, wall," and "sign, window," which
immediately followed this definition, were repealed 3-13-2013.
[2]
Editor's Note: The original definitions of "use, accessory"
and "use, nonconforming," which immediately followed this definition,
were repealed 3-13-2013.
