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 Argyle, Wisconsin."
The purpose of this chapter is to promote the health, safety,
prosperity, aesthetics and general welfare of the Village of Argyle.
It is the general intent of this chapter to regulate and restrict
the use of all structures, lands and waters and to:
A.
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.
Regulate population density and distribution so as to avoid sprawl
or undue concentration and to facilitate the provision of adequate
public service and utilities;
C.
Regulate parking, loading and access so as to lessen congestion in
and promote the safety and efficiency of streets and highways;
D.
Secure safety from fire, flooding, pollution, contamination, and
other dangers;
E.
Stabilize and protect existing and potential property values;
F.
Preserve and protect the beauty of the Village of Argyle;
G.
Prevent and control erosion, sedimentation, and other pollution of
the surface and subsurface waters;
H.
Further the maintenance of safe and healthful water conditions;
I.
Provide for and protect a variety of suitable commercial and industrial
sites;
J.
Protect the traffic-carrying capacity of existing and proposed arterial
streets and highways;
K.
Implement those municipal, county, watershed and regional comprehensive
plans or components of such plans adopted by the Village of Argyle;
L.
Provide for the administration and enforcement of this chapter; and
M.
To 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 the 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.
A.
General interpretation. The following rules of construction apply
to this chapter: Words used in the present tense include the future;
words in the singular number include the plural number; and words
in the plural number include the singular number. The word "shall"
is mandatory and not directory. The word "person" includes individuals,
all partnerships, associations, and bodies political and corporate.
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel" or "tract." The
word "used" or "occupied," as applied to any land or building, shall
be construed to include the words "intended," "arranged" or "designed
to be used or occupied."
B.
ABUTTING
ACCESSORY APARTMENT
ACCESSORY USE OR STRUCTURE
ACRE, NET
ADVERTISING SIGN, OUTDOOR
ADVERTISING STRUCTURE, OUTDOOR
ALLEY
APARTMENT
APARTMENT HOUSE
AREA VARIANCE
ARTERIAL STREET
AUTHORITY
AUTOMOBILE WRECKING/SALVAGE YARD
BASEMENT or CELLAR
BED-AND-BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENT
BOARDINGHOUSE
BUILDING
BUILDING, ALTERATIONS OF
BUILDING AREA
BUILDING, DETACHED OR ACCESSORY
BUILDING, FRONT LINE OF
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
BUFFER ZONE
BUILDABLE LOT AREA
BUSINESS
CARPORT
CLINIC
CLOTHING REPAIR SHOPS
CLOTHING STORES
CLUB
COMMERCIAL FEEDLOT
COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENT
CONDITIONAL USES
CONFORMING USE
COURT
CURB BREAK
CURB LEVEL
DAY CARE CENTER
DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT
DISTRICT, BASIC
DISTRICT, OVERLAY
DOUBLE WIDE MOBILE HOME
DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT
DWELLING
DWELLING, EFFICIENCY
DWELLING, MULTIPLE
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
DWELLING UNIT
EMERGENCY SHELTERS
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
FAMILY
FARM
FLOOR AREA
FLOOR AREA (BUSINESS AND MANUFACTURING BUILDINGS)
FOSTER FAMILY HOME
FRONTAGE
GARAGE
GARAGE, PUBLIC
GASOLINE STATION
GIFT STORES
GRADE
GROUP FOSTER HOME
HARDWARE STORES
HOME OCCUPATION
HOTEL
HOUSE TRAILER
JUNKYARD
LOADING AREA
LODGING HOUSE
LOT
LOT, CORNER
LOT, INTERIOR
LOT LINES AND AREA
LOT OF RECORD
LOT, REVERSED CORNER
LOT, SUBSTANDARD
LOT, THROUGH
LOT WIDTH
LOT, ZONING
MACHINE SHOPS
MANUFACTURED HOME
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
MARQUEE or CANOPY
MINOR STRUCTURES
MOBILE HOME
MOBILE HOME LOT
MOBILE HOME PARK
MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISION
MOTEL
MOTOR FREIGHT TERMINAL
MOTOR VEHICLE
NONCONFORMING USES OR STRUCTURES
NURSERY
NURSERY SCHOOL
NURSING HOME
OTHER OFFICIALLY APPROVED ACCESS
PARKING AREA, SEMIPUBLIC
PARKING LOT
PARKING SPACE
PARTIES IN INTEREST
PARTY WALL
PLACE
PLACES OF ASSEMBLY
PLANNED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
PROFESSIONAL HOME OFFICES
PROPERTY LINES
PUBLIC WAY
RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
(1)
(2)
(3)
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE CAMP
ROADSIDE STAND
SCHOOL, COMMERCIAL
SCHOOL, PRIVATE
SEAT
SETBACK
SIGN, AWNING
SIGN, COPY
SIGN, FACE
SIGN, GROUND
SIGN, PORTABLE
SIGN, PROJECTING
SIGN, ROOF
SIGN, WALL
SIGN, WINDOW
STORY
STORY, HALF
STREET
STREET YARD
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS
STRUCTURE
SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
TEMPORARY STRUCTURE
TOURIST ROOMING HOUSE
TRAILER PARK
USE
USE, ACCESSORY
USE, NONCONFORMING
USE, PERMITTED
USE, PRINCIPAL
USE VARIANCE
UTILITIES
VENDING MACHINE
VILLAGE
VISION SETBACK AREA
YARD
YARD, CORNER SIDE
YARD, FRONT
YARD, INTERIOR SIDE
YARD, REAR
YARD, SIDE
YARD, STREET
YARD, TRANSITIONAL
ZERO LOT LINE
ZONING DISTRICT
Definitions. The following terms, for purpose of this chapter, shall
have the meanings stated below:
Have a common property line or district line.
A separate complete housekeeping unit that is substantially
contained within the structure of a single-family dwelling but can
be isolated from it.
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.
The actual land devoted to the land use, excluding public
streets, public lands or unusable lands, and school sites, contained
within 43,560 square feet.
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 suite of rooms or a room in a multiple dwelling which suite
or room is arranged, intended or designed to be occupied as a residence
of a single family, individual or group of individuals, with separate
facilities and utilities which are used or intended to be used for
living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
See "dwelling, multiple."
A modification to a dimensional, physical, or locational
requirement, such as a setback, frontage, height, bulk, or density
restriction for a structure, that is granted by the Board of Appeals
under this Code.
[Added 5-29-2018]
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 person, committee or board to whom the power to issue a
permit or make a determination, decision or judgment has been delegated.
Any premises on which two or more self-propelled vehicles
not in running order or operating condition are stored in the open.
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.
An owner-occupied, single-family dwelling unit at which overnight
sleeping accommodations are offered to travelers by the owner, or
as defined by § 254.61(1), Wis. Stats.
[Amended 4-6-2022 by Ord. No. 4-2022]
A building other than a hotel or restaurant where meals or
lodging are 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 building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
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 deckline 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.
A designated neutral area designed to separate conflicting
land uses. A natural vegetative screening of trees, shrubs or other
plantings is usually employed in such a designated area.
The portion of a lot remaining after required yards have
been provided.
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.
An automobile shelter having one or more sides open.
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, clothes pressing shops,
but not employing over five persons.
Retail stores where clothing is sold, such as department
stores, dry goods and shoe stores, 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., group foster homes for children,
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, 62.23(7)(i), and 62.23(7a), and amendments thereto, and also
the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
A use allowed under a conditional use permit, special exception,
or other special zoning permission issued by the Village, but does
not include a variance.
[Amended 5-29-2018]
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 building, 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 part or parts of the Village for which the regulations
of this chapter governing the use and location of land and building
are uniform.
Overlay districts, also referred to herein as regulatory
areas, provide for the possibility of superimposing certain additional
requirements upon a basic zoning district without disturbing the requirements
of the basic district. In the instance of conflicting requirements,
the more strict of the conflicting requirements shall apply.
A double wide mobile home is 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.
A building designed or used exclusively as a residence or
sleeping place, but does not include boardinghouses 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 communications 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 immediately related by blood, marriage,
adoption or guardianship and living as a single housekeeping unit
in one dwelling unit shall constitute a family, or not to exceed more
than four persons if not related by blood, marriage, adoption or guardianship.
A person shall be considered to be related for the purpose of this
chapter if he is dwelling for the purpose of adoption or for a foster
care program.
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 portions 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 line
of walls or partitions separating such uses, and shall include all
floors, lofts, balconies, mezzanines, cellars, basements and similar
areas devoted to such uses.
For the purpose of determining off-street parking and off-street
loading requirements, the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the
floors of the building or portion thereof devoted to a use requiring
off-street parking or loading. This area shall include elevators and
stairways, accessory storage areas located within selling or working
space occupied by counters, racks or closets and any basement floor
area devoted to retailing activities, to the production or processing
of goods, or to business or professional offices. However, floor area,
for the purposes of determining off-street parking spaces, shall not
include floor area devoted primarily to storage purposes except as
otherwise noted herein.
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 or the 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.
When used as a reference point in measuring height of building,
the "grade" shall be the average elevation of the finished ground
at the exterior walls of the main building.
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.
Retail stores where items such as plumbing, heating and electrical
supplies, sporting goods and paints are sold.
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 thereto and meeting the standards of § 715-40.
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.
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. A "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. No land included in any street, highway
or railroad right-of-way shall be included in computing lot area.
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 Lafayette 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 areas, 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; plumbing; heating and electrical repair
and overhaul shops.
A structure certified and labeled as a manufactured home
under 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 to 5426, which, when placed
on the site:
Is set on an enclosed continuous foundation in accordance with § 70.043(1),
Wis. Stats., and Ch. SPS 321, Subchapters III, IV, and V, Wis. Adm.
Code, or is set on a comparable enclosed continuous foundation system
approved by the Building Inspector, who may require a plan for such
foundation to be certified by a registered architect or engineer to
ensure proper support for such structure;
Is installed in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions;
Is properly connected to utilities;
Has an area of at least 864 square feet of living space, with
a minimum of 24 feet in width, and is used exclusively as a single-family
residence; and
Meets other applicable standards of this chapter.
A roof-like structure of permanent nature which projects
from the wall of a building.
Any small, movable accessory erection or construction, such
as birdhouses; toolhouses; pet houses; play equipment; arbors; and
walls and fences under four feet in height.
A manufactured home that is HUD certified and labeled under
the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act
of 1974 (U.S.C. Title 42, Chapter 70, 42 U.S.C. § 5401).
A mobile home is a structure which is or was originally constructed,
designed to be transportable in one or more sections, which, in traveling
mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet in length
or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is
built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling
with or without permanent foundation when connected to the required
utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and
electrical systems contained therein and any additions, attachments,
annexes, foundations and appurtenances. Excluded from this definition
are certified manufactured homes.
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, and where individual
lots are rented to individual mobile home users. A mobile home park
is also any lot on which two or more mobile homes are parked for the
purpose of permanent habitation, regardless of whether or not a charge
is made for such accommodation, and including any associated service,
storage, recreation and other community service facilities designed
for the exclusive use of park occupants.
A land subdivision, as defined by Ch. 236, Wis. Stats., and
any Village land division ordinance,[1] with lots intended for the placement of individual mobile
home units. Individual home sites are in separate ownership as opposed
to the rental arrangements in mobile home parks.
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.
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.
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.
An open unoccupied space other than a street or alley, permanently
reserved as the principal means of access to abutting property.
Places where people gather or congregate for amusement, worship,
learning, etc. This includes schools, churches, theaters, playgrounds,
etc.
A tract of land which contains or will contain two or more
principal buildings, developed under single ownership or control,
the development of which is unique and of a substantially different
character than that of surrounding areas.
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 § 715-40 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.
Any vehicle or structure designed and used for temporary,
seasonal human living quarters which meets all of the following qualifications:
Is not used as the permanent residence of the owner or occupant;
Is used for temporary living quarters by the owner or occupant
while engaged in recreation or vacation activities; and
Is towed or self-propelled on public streets or highways incidental
to such recreation or vacation activities. Examples of such vehicles
include van campers, tent camping trailers, self-contained travel
trailers, pickup campers, camping buses, and self-contained, self-propelled
truck-chassis-mounted vehicles providing living accommodations.
A park, court, campsite, lot, parcel or tract of land designed,
maintained or intended for the purpose of supplying the location or
accommodations for any recreational vehicles, as defined herein, and
upon which said recreational vehicles are parked.
A structure having a ground area of not more than 300 square
feet, not permanently fixed to the ground, readily removable in its
entirety, not fully enclosed and to be used solely for the sale of
farm products produced on the premises.
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.
The minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and
the nearest point of the building or structure. Uncovered steps shall
not be included in measuring the setback.
A sign that is mounted or painted on or attached to an awning,
canopy or marquee.
The message or advertisement and any other symbols on the
face of a sign.
The area or display surface used for the message.
Any sign placed upon or supported by the ground independent
of any other structure.
A sign that is not permanent or affixed to a building, structure
or to the ground. Such sign may be mounted on wheels to make it transportable.
A sign that is wholly or partly dependent upon a building
for support and which projects more than 12 inches from such building.
A sign that is mounted on the roof of a building or which
is wholly dependent upon a building for support and which projects
above the point of a building with a flat roof, the eave line of a
building with a gambrel, gable or hip roof, or the deckline of a building
with a mansard roof.
A sign fastened to or painted on the wall of a building or
structure in such a manner that the wall becomes the supporting structure
for or forms the background surface of the sign, and which does not
project more than 12 inches from such building or structure.
A sign that is applied or attached to the exterior or interior
of a window or located in such manner within the building that it
can readily be seen from the exterior of the building through a window.
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 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 yard
shall be measured from the arc. In some ordinances, the street yard
is also called a setback.
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.
Facts and information, other than merely personal preferences
or speculation, directly pertaining to the requirements and conditions
an applicant must meet to obtain a conditional use permit and that
reasonable persons would accept in support of a conclusion.
[Added 5-29-2018]
A movable structure not designed for human occupancy nor
for the protection of goods or chattels and not forming an enclosure,
such as billboards.
All lodging places and tourist cabins and cottages, other
than hotels and motels, in which sleeping accommodations are offered
for pay to tourists or transients. It does not include private boarding
or rooming houses not accommodating tourists or transients, or bed-and-breakfast
establishments regulated under Ch. ATCP 73, Wis. Adm. Code.
[Added 4-6-2022 by Ord. No. 4-2022]
Any lot on which are parked two or more house trailers or
mobile homes for longer than 48 hours.
The use of property is 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.
A subordinate use on the same lot which is incidental and
customary in connection with the principal use.
Any use of a building or premises which on the effective
date of this chapter does not, even though lawfully established, comply
with all of the applicable use regulations of the zoning district
in which such building or premises is located.
A use which may be lawfully established in a particular district
or districts, provided it conforms with 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.
An authorization by the Board of Appeals under this Code
for use of land for a purpose that is otherwise not allowed or is
prohibited by this Zoning Code.
[Added 5-29-2018]
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 Argyle, Lafayette County, Wisconsin.
An unoccupied triangular space at the intersection of highways
or streets with other highways or streets or at the intersection of
highways or streets with railroads. Such vision clearance triangle
shall be bounded by the intersecting highway, street or railroad right-of-way
lines and a setback line connecting points located on such right-of-way
lines by measurement from the intersection as specified in this chapter.
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 yard which adjoins a public street.
A yard extending along the full length of the front lot line
between the side lot lines.
A side yard which is located immediately adjacent to another
zoning lot or to an alley separating such yard from another zoning
lot.
A yard extending along the full length of the rear lot line
between the side lot lines.
A yard extending along a side lot line from the front yard
to the rear yard.
Yard abutting a street.
That yard which must be provided on a zoning lot in a business
district which adjoins a zoning lot in a residential district, or
that yard which must be provided on a zoning lot in an industrial
district which adjoins a zoning lot in either a residential or business
district.
The concept whereby two respective dwelling units within
a building shall be on separate and abutting lots and shall meet on
the common property line between them, thereby having zero space between
said units.
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.
