A.Â
For the purpose of this chapter, words used in the present tense
shall include the future; words used in the singular shall include
the plural number and the plural the singular.
B.Â
The word "shall" is mandatory and not discretionary.
C.Â
The word "may" is permissive.
D.Â
The word "lot" shall include the words "piece," "parcel" and "plats";
the word "building" includes all other structures of every kind, regardless
of similarity to buildings; and the phrase "used for" shall include
the phrases "arranged for," "designed for," "intended for," "maintained
for" and "occupied for."
E.Â
Any words not herein defined shall be construed as defined in other
respective state, county and Town codes.
Certain words and terms in this chapter are to be interpreted
as defined herein:
A building or use which is:
A place where adults who are not related to the operator
reside and receive care, treatment or services that are above the
level of room and board and that may include up to seven hours per
week of nursing care per resident. Adult family homes can admit and
provide services to people of advanced age, persons with dementia,
developmental disabilities, mental health problems, physical disabilities,
traumatic brain injury, AIDS, alcohol and other drug abuse, correctional
clients, pregnant women needing counseling and/or the terminally ill.
Adult family homes are licensed under Ch. DHS 88, Wis. Adm. Code.
Any liquid material from the production area directly or
indirectly used in the operation of animal feeding operation that
results from any or all of the following:
Spillage or overflow from animal or poultry watering systems.
Washing, cleaning, or flushing pens, barns, manure pits, or
other animal feeding operation facilities.
Direct contact swimming, washing, or spray cooling of animals
or dust control.
Water that comes into contact with any raw materials or animal
byproducts including manure, feed, milk, eggs or bedding.
A second farm residence or dwelling unit which is occupied
by a person who, or a family at least one member of which, earns a
majority of his or her livelihood from the farm operation. No lot
split shall be required for a second farm residence located anywhere
on any operating farm subject to setback, height, and other dimensional
requirements.
Beekeeping; commercial feedlots; dairying; egg production;
floriculture; fish or fur farming; forest and game management; grazing;
livestock raising; orchards; plant greenhouses and nurseries; poultry
raising; raising of grain, grass, mint and seed crops; raising of
fruits, nuts and berries; sod farming; placing land in federal programs
in return for payments in kind; owning land, at least 35 acres of
which is enrolled in the conservation reserve program under 16 U.S.C.
§§ 3831 to 3836; participating in the milk production
termination program under 7 U.S.C. § 1446(d); and vegetable
raising.
A facility located on a farm or farmstead that has at least
one of the following as a primary and not merely incidental purpose:
Providing agricultural supplies, agricultural equipment, agricultural
inputs or agricultural services directly to farms.
Storing, processing or handling raw agricultural commodities
obtained directly from farms.
Slaughtering livestock from farms.
Marketing livestock to or from farms.
Processing agricultural by-products or wastes received directly
from farms.
Any area of land or water which is used or intended for use
for the landing and taking off of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas
which are used or intended for use for airport buildings or other
airport facilities or rights-of-way, including all necessary taxiways,
aircraft storage and tie-down areas, hangars and other necessary buildings
and open spaces.
A public or private right-of-way primarily designed to serve
as secondary access to abutting properties.
A public or nonprofit operation in which unwanted animals
are temporarily housed.
An apartment house which furnishes services for the use of
its tenants which are ordinarily furnished by hotels.
Buildings or portions thereof used or intended to be used
by three or more families living independently in separate apartment
units. Also referred to as a "multiple-family dwelling."
A man-made body of water utilized for recreational or conservational
purposes.
A personal care home which offers a range of accommodations
that range from independent residential housing options to housing
options with personal services. Personal services include but are
not limited to individual assistance with or supervision of self-administered
medication and essential activities of daily living such as bathing,
feeding, grooming, dressing and toileting. A residential use, which
could otherwise be classified as multifamily, is to be considered
to be an assisted living facility if it registered with or licensed
by the State of Wisconsin as an assisted living home. Community-based
residential facilities (CBRFs) and adult day cares are types of assisted
living facilities.
Any premises on which more than one automotive vehicle not
in running or operating condition is stored in the open.
Means one of the following:
[Added 12-17-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-24]
All land, whether one parcel or two or more contiguous parcels,
that is in a Farmland Preservation Zoning District and that is part
of a single farm on the date that the department under § 91.36
(1) first certifies the farmland preservation zoning ordinance covering
the land or on an earlier date specified in the farmland preservation
zoning ordinance, regardless of any subsequent changes in the size
of the farm.
Any other tract that the department by rule defines as a base
farm tract.
That portion of any structure located partly underground
and having more than 1/2 of its height below the finished lot grade.
Any place of lodging that provides two or fewer rooms for
rent for more than 10 nights in a twelve-month period, is the owner's
personal residence, is occupied by the owner at the time of rental
and in which the only meal served to guests is breakfast. The maximum
stay of any one guest shall not exceed seven days per stay.
A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of
streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad right-of-way, shorelines
of waterways or municipal boundary lines.
A building or premises, other than a hotel, containing lodging
rooms accommodating for compensation four or more persons not of the
keeper's family. Lodging may be provided with or without meals.
Any structure built, used, designed or intended for the support,
shelter, protection or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or
property of any kind and which is permanently affixed to the land.
When a building is divided into separate parts by unpierced fire or
party walls extending continuously from the ground through all stories
to and above the roof, each part shall be deemed a separate building.
The maximum horizontal projected area within the perimeter
of the outside surface of walls or supports of the building or structure.
Exterior cantilever open balconies are not included.
The horizontal linear dimension designated as the primary
facade of that portion of a building occupied by a single use or occupancy.
A corner tenant will be permitted to use the secondary facade to determine
the building frontage.
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the finished lot grade at the front of the building to the highest
point of a ceiling in the case of a flat roof, to the deckline of
a mansard roof and to the average height between the eaves and the
ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof.
A line located a stated distance from and parallel with a
lot line or street right-of-way for the purpose of defining limits
within which buildings and structures may not be constructed.
A subordinate building or portion of a principal building,
the use of which is incidental and customary to that of the principal
building, where an accessory building shall comply in all respects
with the requirements of this chapter applicable to the principal
building.
One which is joined to another dwelling at one or more sides
by a party wall or walls.
One which is entirely surrounded by open space on the same
lot.
A detached storage building on a residential property measuring more than 100 square feet in area. A residential accessory building is located on the same parcel as the principal residential structure and is clearly incidental to the principal residential structure. See § 135-11G for regulations.
Any building not designed to be permanently located in the
place where it is, or where it is intended to be placed or affixed.
Manufactured homes used as residences shall not be classified as temporary
buildings. (They are further defined in the definition of "manufactured
home.")
A tract or parcel of land on which space is provided for
camping; includes day and overnight camping.
Wheeled vehicles not exceeding 26 feet in length, either
motorized or nonmotorized, capable of being moved by their own power
or transported by another vehicle, including, without limitation,
all classes of motor homes, recreational vehicles, travel trailers,
pop-up campers, and such other vehicles which are built and/or manufactured
for being readily located to and from temporary recreational facilities
and which are designed for human habitation.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B]
A roof-like structure projecting from a wall and supported
in whole or in part by vertical supports from the ground and erected
primarily to provide shelter from the weather.
The maximum number of persons that can avail themselves of
the services (or goods) of such establishment at any one time, with
reasonable safety and comfort, as determined by the Building Code
or as may be determined by the Zoning Administrator or designee.
Any person that is or holds itself out to be established
for any benevolent, philanthropic, patriotic, educational, humane,
scientific, public health, environmental conservation, civic, or other
eleemosynary purpose or for the benefit of law enforcement personnel,
firefighters, or other persons who protect the public safety.
An organization of specializing physicians or dentists, or
both, who have their offices in a common building. A clinic shall
not include inpatient care.
An association of persons for some common purpose, but not
including groups organized primarily to render a service which is
customarily carried on as a business.
An agriculture enterprise where livestock is purchased and
raised and then sold to a buyer, feedlot or slaughterhouse.
Any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer designed or used
to carry freight, passengers for a fee, or merchandise in the furtherance
of any commercial enterprise and having a gross weight of more than
10,000 pounds.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B; amended 5-3-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-05]
For purposes of the Farmland Preservation Ordinance, ownership
by the same person or persons. "Common ownership" includes land owned
by the same individual, married couple, joint tenants, tenants in
common, corporation, LLC, partnership, estate or trust. Solely for
purposes of this definition, a parcel owned by one member of a married
couple is deemed to be owned by the married couple.
A building to be used as a place of meeting, recreation or
social activity and not operated for profit.
A community living arrangement, commonly referred to as a
"community-based residential facility" (CBRF), is a place where adults
who are not related to the operator or administrator reside and receive
care, treatment or services that are above the level of room and board
and that may include up to three hours per week of nursing care per
resident. Adults residing in a CBRF should not require care above
intermediate-level nursing care. CBRFs can admit and provide services
to people of advanced age, persons with dementia, developmental disabilities,
mental health problems, physical disabilities, traumatic brain injury,
AIDS, alcohol and other drug abuse, correctional clients, pregnant
women needing counseling and/or the terminally ill (hospice). A CBRF
is a type of assisted living facility, and is licensed under Ch. DHS
83, Wis. Adm. Code.
A place where three or more unrelated adults reside, in which
care, treatment or services above the level of room and board, but
not including nursing care, are provided to persons residing in the
facility as a primary function of the facility and licensed by the
Department of Health and Family Services under § 50.01,
Wis. Stats.
See the definition of "use, conditional."
The drainage that has come through or across a feed storage
or manure storage area. Contaminated runoff includes the liquid and
any sediment, manure, feed, or other material carried in the liquid.
Contaminated runoff contains lower concentrations of contaminants
than agricultural leachate from feed or manure.
Adjacent to or sharing a common boundary. Contiguous land
includes land that is separated only by a river, stream, section line,
public road, private road, railroad, pipeline, transmission line,
or transportation or transmission right-of-way. Parcels are not contiguous
if they meet only at a single point.
A yard extending along a side lot line from front yard to
rear yard when said side lot line is parallel with a street right-of-way
line.
A day program that provides the elderly and other adults
with services when their caregivers are at work or need relief. An
adult day-care center provides services for part of a day in a group
setting to adults who need assistance with activities of daily living
(ADLs), supervision and/or protection. Services may include personal
care and supervision, provision of meals, medical care, medication
administration, transportation, and activities designed to meet physical,
social, and leisure time needs. Adult day care may be provided in
family homes, freestanding centers, and multiuse facilities such as
churches, schools and senior centers. Adult day-care centers generally
operate programs during normal business hours five days a week. Some
programs offer services in the evenings and on weekends. Adult day
care is a type of assisted living. In Wisconsin, adult day-care centers
are not licensed but may be certified.
A facility providing care and supervision for four or more
children under the age of seven for less than 24 hours a day as licensed
as a child-care center from the Wisconsin Department of Children and
Families, § 48.65, Wis. Stats. Does not apply to anyone
caring for one to three children in the provider's own home.
The division of land into two or more parcels; adjustment
of lot lines between two or more abutting parcels; the construction,
reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement
of any structure; any mining, excavation, landfill or land disturbance;
or any use or extension of use of land.
[Added 2-19-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-02]
An establishment with street access which provides no interior
seating or service; or an establishment which allows for interior
seating or service, but the majority of its business is conducted
in the following manner:
An unobstructed private way providing a vehicular connection
between the public right-of-way of the street and the garage, parking
space, parking pad, or other structure of a private or public property.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B; amended 5-3-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-05]
A building or portion of a building designed exclusively
for residential occupancy, including single-family dwellings, two-family
dwellings and multiple-family dwellings with individual sleeping,
toilet and cooking facilities, but not including buildings intended
for use by transients. Dwellings shall include manufactured homes.
One or more rooms which are arranged, designed or used as
living quarters for one family only. Individual bathrooms and complete
kitchen facilities, permanently installed, shall always be included
for each dwelling unit.
A building or portion thereof containing three or more dwelling
units.
A building designed for and occupied exclusively by one family.
A building designed for and occupied exclusively by two families.
A mound of earth graded, shaped and improved with landscaping
in such a fashion as to provide a visual and/or audible screen and
transition between uses or activities of differing intensity. Rock
or concrete rubble may be included in a berm if completely covered
with topsoil.
Any area of land reserved for public utilities, drainage,
sanitation or other specific uses having limitations, the title to
which shall remain in the property owner's name subject to the right
of use designated in the reservation of servitude.
An institution or corporation created for or devoted to charitable
purposes. Private corporations, incorporated for the administration
of the public charity which is endowed by private benefactions from
such persons as bestow them.
A nonautomotive vehicle designed to be hauled over the road
as a vehicle for transporting something and is enclosed on all sides.
This definition includes all types of trailers that are used to transport
miscellaneous cargo and material but not suitable for human conveyance
or habitation. For the purpose of this chapter, this is inclusive
of enclosed trailers and not utility trailers as defined in this section.
Enclosed trailers are not to exceed 20 feet in length.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B]
A place of business carrying out operations, the ownership
and management of which are separate and distinct from those of any
other place of business located on the same zoning lot.
The portion of any exterior elevation on the building extending
from grade to top of parapet, wall, or eaves and the entire width
of the building elevation.
One or more persons living together in one dwelling unit
as a single housekeeping entity.
An establishment licensed as a day-care center by the Department
of Health and Family Services under § 48.65, Wis. Stats.,
where care is provided for not more than eight children and the establishment
is not the principal residence of the provider.
All land under common ownership that is primarily devoted
to agricultural use. For purposes of this definition, land is deemed
to be primarily devoted to agricultural use if any of the following
apply:
The sale of farm acreage to another adjacent farm or owner
of a farm located within a close proximity or the acquisition of farm
acreage from an adjacent farm owner or from a farm within close proximity.
A man-made body of water utilized for farm purposes.
The only single-family residence on the farm.
[Amended 12-17-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-24; 12-20-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-20]
An occasional or periodic market held in an open area or
in a structure where groups of individual sellers offer for sale to
the public such items as fresh produce, seasonal fruits, fresh flowers,
arts and crafts items, and food and beverages (but not to include
secondhand goods) dispensed from booths located on-site.
The nonfarmed area of a farm which typically contains the
original farm dwelling and other buildings which are used for farming
operations or activity. In some instances, minor amounts of tilled
acreage or pastureland would be contained within the farmstead, but
tilled land and pastureland is generally separate from the farmstead
itself.
A system of facilities or practices to contain, divert, retard,
treat, or otherwise control the discharge of leachate and contaminated
runoff from livestock feed storage areas.
A lot or building or combination of lots and buildings intended
for the confined feeding, breeding, raising or holding of animals
and specifically designed as a confinement area where the concentration
of animals is such that a vegetative cover cannot be maintained within
the enclosure. Pastures shall not be considered animal feedlots under
these rules.
Any artificially constructed barrier of any material or combination
of materials erected to enclose or screen areas of land.
All permanent fences six feet or less that are designed and
installed to demarcate and/or provide a visual barrier.
[Added 9-20-2022 by Ord.
2022-25]
All temporary or permanent fences greater than six feet in
height that enclose a specific area and are designed for exclusion
or protection of property/goods.
[Added 9-20-2022 by Ord.
2022-25]
Any artificially constructed barrier of any material or combination
of materials erected to enclose or screen areas of land which does
not allow any item situated inside the barrier to be seen from the
outside.
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors
of the building or portion thereof, devoted to such use, including
accessory storage areas, located within selling or working space,
such as 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 measurement for off-street parking spaces shall not include
floor area devoted primarily to storage purposes (except as otherwise
noted herein); floor area devoted to off-street parking or loading
facilities, including aisles, ramps and maneuvering space; or basement
floor area other than area devoted to retailing activities, to the
production or processing of goods or to business or professional offices.
The length of the property line of a lot, lots or tract of
land abutting a public street. On a curved street, such length may
be measured along the cord length at the building setback line.
The length of all the property of such zoning lot fronting
on a street, measured between side lot lines.
Agricultural operation, where the major income is derived
from the selling or sale of fur-bearing animals and/or pelts.
An accessory to the main building, which provides for the
storage of motor vehicles and in which no occupation, business or
service for profit is carried on.
Any building or premises, other than a private garage, where
motor-driven vehicles are equipped, repaired, serviced, hired, sold
or stored.
Parking on the streets of the Town is authorized April 1
through October 31. Parking on the streets of the Town is prohibited
from November 1 through March 31. These general standards are subject
to modification and are modified where parking or no parking signage
is installed.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B]
The average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent
to the exterior walls of the building or structure.
Gross receipts from agricultural uses, less the cost or other
basis of livestock or other agricultural items purchased for resale
which are sold or otherwise disposed of during the taxable year. "Gross
farm revenue" includes receipts accruing to a renter but does not
include rent paid to the landowner.
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors
of a building or buildings measured from the exterior faces of exterior
walls or from the center line of party walls separating two buildings.
A dwelling or establishment licensed as a day-care center
by the Department of Health and Family Services under § 48.65,
Wis. Stats., where care and supervision are provided for nine or more
children.
Any facility operated by a person required to be licensed
by the Department of Health and Family Services under § 48.625,
Wis. Stats., for care and maintenance of five to eight children, with
or without transfer of legal custody.
A driveway, parking lot or pad, or storage area surfaced
with concrete, blacktop, porous pavement, bituminous paving, paving
brick, patio block, or other like materials which is sufficient to
support the size and weight of the item to be parked or stored.
[Amended 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B; 5-3-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-05]
Institutions or organizations which provide specialized inpatient
or outpatient medical and dental care.
A dense row of shrubs, etc., forming a boundary, fence or
barrier.
Any property that is residential or agricultural in use that
includes a secondary business or commercial use that is managed/operated
by the primary resident. The business activity may occur out of the
home or other structures on the property.
[Amended 2-6-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-03]
An institution providing primary health services and medical
or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from
illness, disease, injury, deformity and other abnormal physical or
mental conditions and including, as an integral part of the institution,
related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, training
facilities, medical offices and staff residences.
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 or without cooking facilities in any individual
room or apartment.
A special or exclusive type of planned industrial area designed
and equipped to accommodate a community of industries, providing them
with all necessary facilities and services in attractive surroundings
among compatible neighbors. Industrial parks may be promoted or sponsored
by private developers, community organizations or government organizations.
An area where waste or scrap materials are bought, sold,
exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including
but not limited to scrap iron and other metals, rubber tires and recyclable
materials. A junk or salvage yard includes an auto wrecking yard,
but does not include uses established entirely within enclosed buildings.
A lot or building in which three or more dogs or four or
more cats or other animals at least two months of age are kept commercially
for board and/or propagation, training or sales, or other uses, all
of which are conducted on the property itself.
Materials used to make a plot of ground more attractive and/or
stable. These materials may include but are not limited to trees,
grasses, ground cover, vines, flowers, earthen berms, earth stabilization
materials, rocks and stones and wood chips.
Bovine animals, equine animals, goats, poultry, sheep, swine,
farm-raised deer, farm-raised game birds, camelids, ratites and farm-raised
fish.
A feedlot, dairy farm or other operation where livestock
are or will be fed, confined, maintained or stabled for a total of
45 days or more in any twelve-month period. A "livestock facility"
includes all of the tax parcels of land on which the facility is located,
but does not include a pasture or winter grazing area. Related livestock
facilities are collectively treated as a single livestock facility
for purposes of this chapter.
A parcel of land having a width and depth sufficient to provide
the space necessary for one principal building and its accessory building,
together with the open spaces required by this chapter, and abutting
on a public street.
The area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side
and rear lot lines, but not including any area occupied by the waters
of a duly recorded lake or river and/or public right-of-way.
The average of the finished lot elevation upon completion
of construction and landscaping between the street right-of-way line
and a perpendicular point on the front yard setback line.
That boundary of a lot which is along an existing or dedicated
public street, or where no public street exists along a public way.
That boundary of a lot which is most distant from and is,
or is most nearly, parallel to the front lot line.
Any boundary of a lot which is not a front lot line or a
rear lot line.
A lot which is part of a subdivision, the plat of which has
been recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Brown County;
or a parcel of land, the deed to which was recorded in the office
of said Register of Deeds prior to the adoption of this chapter, and
certified survey maps approved and recorded in the Register of Deeds
office of Brown County.
The horizontal distance between the side lot lines of a lot,
measured at the narrowest width within the first 30 feet of lot depth
immediately in back of the front yard setback line.
A lot located at the intersection of two streets, the interior
angle of such intersection not exceeding 135°.
The mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and
the rear lot line of a lot measured within the lot boundaries.
A lot other than a corner or reversed corner lot.
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 lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two more
or less parallel public streets and which is not a corner lot. On
a through lot, both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
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 foundation in accordance with § 70.043(1),
Wis. Stats., and Subchapters III, IV and VIII of ILHR 21[1] of the Wisconsin Administrative Code, or is set on a comparable
enclosed foundation system approved by the Zoning Administrator or
designee. The Zoning Administrator or designee may require a plan
to be certified by a registered architect or engineer to ensure proper
support for the home.
Is installed in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.
Is properly connected to utilities.
A contiguous parcel of land containing two or more manufactured
homes.
Establishment consisting of a group of attached or detached
living or sleeping accommodations with bathroom and closet space,
located on a single zoning lot and designed for use by transient guests;
and where there is no permanent occupancy of any unit, except by the
owner, his/her agent or his/her employees.
a self-propelled device used or intended to be used for the
transportation of freight or passengers upon a street or highway or
off road.
[Amended 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B]
A building lawfully erected at the time of the enactment
of this chapter which does not conform to the height, setback, yard,
parking or other bulk requirements of this chapter or any amendment
thereto governing the zoning district in which such building is located.
Any use of land, buildings or structures lawful at the time
of the enactment of this chapter which does not comply with all of
the regulations of this chapter or of any amendment hereto governing
use for the zoning district in which such use is located.
A single-family or multifamily residence other than a farm
residence located on lands in a Farmland Preservation Zoning District.
[Added 12-17-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-24]
A facility for which arrangements have been made for continuous
medical supervision and which maintains the services and facilities
for skilled nursing care, rehabilitative nursing care, and has a satisfactory
agreement with a physician and dentist who will be available for any
medical and/or dental emergency and who will be responsible for the
general medical and dental supervision of the home. No personal care
home, assisted living facility, rehabilitation center or any other
type of facility may be permitted under this part as a nursing home
unless it meets the definition of "nursing home" set forth in the
Wisconsin Administrative Code and is licensed by the State of Wisconsin
under Ch. DHS 132, Wis. Adm. Code.
Land and water areas retained for use as active or passive
recreation areas or for resource protection in an essentially undeveloped
state. Open space is exclusive of buildings, roads, and parking areas.
A parcel on which no buildings, other than hunting blinds
or small sheds, have been constructed or approved for construction.
Ordinary and routine actions necessary to continue or restore
the safe and healthy use of a structure, which has been damaged or
has deteriorated through natural aging and wear, and which do not
result in substantial structural improvements or a significant increase
in value. Such actions may include, but are not limited to, painting,
staining, and the repair of the following: exterior windows, skylights,
doors, vents, siding, installation, shutters, gutters, flooring, shingles,
roofing materials, walls or the foundation, internal improvements
within the structural envelope without doing a structural alteration.
Vehicles and equipment encompassed by this article must be
owned, commercially leased, or commercially rented by a person who
is a permanent resident at the subject address, and such permanent
resident must, upon demand by any law enforcement officer or authorized
agent of the Town, produce satisfactory documentary evidence thereof.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B]
An individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
governmental agency, or combination thereof holding legal title and/or
otherwise owning the particular vehicle and/or equipment in question.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B]
A hard-surfaced area designed for the temporary parking or
storage of vehicles or trailers, constructed on a residential parcel,
which is often attached or adjacent to a driveway but does not provide
direct access to a garage or road.
[Added 5-3-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-05]
A graded and surfaced area of not less than 200 square feet
in area, either enclosed or open, for the parking of a motor vehicle,
having adequate ingress and egress to a public street or alley, exclusive
of passageways, driveways or other means of circulation or access.
A wall constructed between two attached units or rooms which
may or may not be separately owned.
See the definition of "use, permitted."
An individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability
company (LLC), trust, estate or other legal entity.
See "day-care facility, adult" for definition.
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 intended to permit diversification
and variation in the relationship of uses and structures and open
space for developments conceived and implemented as comprehensive
and unified projects.
Land division created by the recording of a subdivision plat
or certified survey map as per the requirements of the Brown County
Subdivision and Platting Regulations, Brown County Code of Ordinances.
All of the following:
An area with a class I or class II land capability classification
as identified by the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the
United States Department of Agriculture.
Land, other than land described in Subsection A, which is identified as prime farmland in the county's certified farmland preservation plan.
The office of a member of a recognized health care profession
licensed by Chs. 441 and 446 to 449, Wis. Stats. Administrative duties
only; no manufacturing, shipping or receiving.
Licensed as appropriate and/or required and mechanically
and/or functionally operable for the purposes intended, to include,
without limitation, tires inflated and properly working safety equipment
as intended by the manufacturer. No vehicles and/or equipment subject
to this chapter may have the wheels removed and placed upon block,
except for repair purposes which shall be accomplished as expeditiously
as reasonably practicable.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B]
Land that is any of the following:
Located in a Farmland Preservation Zoning District certified under Ch. 91, Wis. Stats.
Covered by a farmland preservation agreement under Ch. 91, Wis. Stats.
Covered by an agricultural conservation easement under § 93.73,
Wis. Stats.
Otherwise legally protected from nonagricultural development.
Any place designed or operated for the use and discharge of firearms, bow and arrow, or other weapons regulated under Chapter 129 of the Code of the Town of Ledgeview.
A wheeled vehicle primarily used for leisure activities and
not exceeding 26 feet in length, either motorized or nonmotorized,
capable of being moved by its own power or transported by another
vehicle, including, without limitation, all classes of motor homes,
recreational vehicles, travel trailers, pop-up/tow-behind campers,
and such other vehicles which are built and/or manufactured for being
readily located to and from temporary recreational facilities and
which are designed for human habitation.
[Amended 5-3-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-05]
A facility providing on-site rehabilitative services, whether
operated for profit or not-for-profit. On-site rehabilitative services
include counseling services and/or therapeutic services offered as
a part of any organized program for the mental, psychological, substance
abuse recovery, and occupational or physical rehabilitation of any
person.
A viewshed is the geographical area that is visible from
a location. A residential viewshed is the viewable area generally
located between the residence and the public right-of-way (street),
necessary to maintain an unobstructed view of the residence from the
street. The primary residential viewshed is defined as the line parallel
to the front entrance extending from the sides of the residence to
the public right-of-way. The secondary residential viewshed is determined
by extending a line from the widest part of the footprint of the residence
to the right-of-way, parallel to the parcel. Accessory structures
are prohibited from being located in either the primary or secondary
residential viewshed.
[Amended 10-18-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-31]
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Sale of commodities and services directly to customers when
such commodities and services are used or consumed by the customer
and not purchased primarily for purpose of resale.
Retail dependent on both a large flow of traffic and convenient
access. It includes such uses as motels, fast-food restaurants, and
automobile service stations.
Retail that is designed with a primary emphasis on the street
sidewalk or connecting walkway access to the site and building, rather
than on auto access and parking lots.
A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied for a special
use. Rights-of-way intended for streets, crosswalks, water mains,
sanitary sewers, storm drains or any other use involving maintenance
by a public agency shall be dedicated to public use by the maker of
the plat on which such right-of-way is established.
The usage of the term "right-of-way" for land platting purposes
shall mean that every right-of-way hereafter established and shown
on a final plat is to be separate and distinct from the lot or parcels
adjoining such right-of-way and not included within the dimension
or areas of such lots or parcels.
A structure not permanently fixed to the ground that is readily
removable in its entirety, covered or uncovered and not wholly enclosed,
and used solely for the sale of farm products produced on the premises.
No such roadside stand shall be more than 300 square feet in ground
area and limited to 10 feet maximum height.
A device incorporating a reflective surface that is solid,
open mesh or bar configured and is in the shape of a shallow dish,
cone, horn or cornucopia. Such device shall be used to transmit and/or
receive radio or electromagnetic waves between terrestrially and/or
orbitally based uses. This definition is meant to include but not
be limited to what are commonly referred to as "satellite earth stations,"
"TVROs" and "satellite microwave antennas."
Trailers designed for the storage and transport of watercraft,
motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B]
The minimum horizontal distance between the building or use
and the lot line.
Lines established adjacent to lot lines or street right-of-way
lines for the purpose of defining limits within which any or certain
buildings, structures or uses may not be constructed, maintained or
carried on, except as shown herein.
The minimum horizontal distance between the side line of
the building or use that runs perpendicular to a fronting street and
the side right-of-way line perpendicular to the fronting street.
The minimum horizontal distance between the front line of
the building or use and the street right-of-way line.
The minimum horizontal distance between the back line of
the building or use and the rear lot lines.
The minimum horizontal distance between the side line of
the building or use and the side lot lines, unless the side line of
the building or use is parallel to a street, in which case it shall
be a corner side yard setback.
A structure equal to or less than 100 square feet in area,
which is accessory to the residential use of the property and used
for incidental storage. Sheds shall not exceed 10 feet in overall
height to the highest point of the roof. Such sheds must be located
to the rear of the front line of the principal structure and set back
a minimum of three feet from side and rear property lines.
A promotional sales event conducted outside the confines
of the commercial or manufacturing structure in which such business
is normally conducted and which occurs on a paved or concrete area
on the same lot as the structure.
A section of the yard that extends between the front line
setback of the main building and the rear line setback of the main
building and from the side of the main building to the side lot line.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B]
A name, identification, description, display or illustration which is affixed to, or represented directly or indirectly upon, a building, structure or piece of land, and which directs attention to an object, product, place, activity, person, institution, organization or business. (See Article XX for additional sign definitions.)
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity,
service or entertainment not exclusively related to the premises where
such sign is located or to which it is affixed.
A sign which directs attention to a business or profession
conducted, or to a commodity, service or entertainment sold or offered,
upon the premises where such sign is located or to which it is affixed.
An agricultural operation, usually nondairying in nature,
where livestock is raised to the required age or weight for slaughterhouse
purposes or for sale to commercial feedlots.
That part of a building between any floor and the floor next
above and, if there be no floor above, then the ceiling above. A basement
is a story if its ceiling is five feet or more above the level from
which the height of the building is measured, or if it is used for
business purposes, or if it contains any dwelling units other than
one dwelling unit for the caretaker of the premises.
A public or private right-of-way which affords a primary
means of vehicular access to abutting property, whether designated
as a street, avenue, highway, road, boulevard, lane, throughway or
however otherwise designated, but does not include driveways to buildings.
An area that may either abut or be contained within the public
or private street right-of-way or accessway that may contain sidewalks,
street furniture, landscaping or trees, and similar features.
Any activity not considered ordinary maintenance and repair
which results in a change to the integral framework or exterior silhouette
or footprint of a structure.
With respect to additions, "structurally attached" means:
At least 50% of the surface area of the adjoining wall of the
addition and the principal structure is common to both structures.
The foundation of the addition is similar to that of the principal
structure.
The height of the addition does not exceed the height of the
principal structure.
The type of construction and materials used in the addition
are substantially similar to those used in the principal structure
with respect to texture, color and general appearance.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
a permanent location on the ground or attachment to something having
permanent location on the ground.
The Town of Ledgeview.
The governing body of the Town of Ledgeview.
Horticultural practice of growing one or more vegetable crops
on a large scale for shipment to distant markets. Crops are typically
harvested directly to a truck for immediate shipment.
Where special conditions affecting a particular property,
which were not self-created and nonfinancial in nature, have made
strict conformity with restrictions governing areas, setbacks, frontage,
height or density unnecessarily burdensome or unreasonable in light
of the purposes of this chapter.
A use, either public or private, which, because of its unique
characteristics, cannot be properly classified as a permitted use
in a particular district or districts. After due consideration in
each case of the impact of such use upon neighboring land, and of
the public need for the particular use of the particular location,
such conditional use may or may not be granted, subject to the terms
of this chapter and any conditions attached by the Town Board to the
use.
A use which may be lawfully established in a particular district
or districts, provided that it conforms with all requirements, regulations
and standards of such district.
The main use of land or buildings as distinguished from a
subordinate or accessory use. A principal use may be permitted, conditional
or nonconforming.
An unenclosed nonmotorized wheeled piece of equipment with
a cargo surface, not exceeding 10 feet in length and six feet in width,
designed to be hauled over the road and which is used periodically
and on a temporary basis to transport brush, equipment, cargo and
other materials, and which is not used for the permanent or semipermanent
storage of the same, and which is not suitable for human conveyance
or habitation.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B]
A departure from the terms of this chapter as applied to
a specific building, structure or parcel of land which the Board of
Appeals may permit when the Board finds that a literal enforcement
of the provisions of this section will result in practical difficulty
or unnecessary hardship, owing to circumstances unique to the individual
property on which the variance is sought, or a literal application
of such regulation will effect a limitation on the use of the property
which does not generally apply to other properties in the same district.
In no case shall a variance be granted to permit any use not permitted
in a particular zone.
A place where animals, other than household pets, such as
horses, cows, pigs, sheep, etc., are given medical care and the boarding
of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to the hospital
use.
A place where household pets are given medical care and the
boarding of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to the
hospital use. (If veterinary hospital is for small and large animals,
large animal zoning applies.)
Any boat, vessel or craft designed specifically for movement
on the surface of the water.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04B]
An open space on the same lot with a building or structure,
unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except for vegetation.
A yard extends along a lot line, and to a depth or width specified
in the yard requirements for the zone the lot is located in.
A yard extending along the full length of the front lot line
between the side lot lines.
A yard extending along a side lot line from the front yard
to the rear yard.
A space, unoccupied except by an accessory building or accessory
use as herein permitted, extending for the full width of the lot between
the principal building and the rear lot line. A rear yard adjoining
a public street is considered a corner side yard, except in a through
lot.
A two-family dwelling situated so that a common wall is located
on a side lot line.
The Town official(s) charged with administration and enforcement
of this chapter.
The Zoning and Planning Committee of the Town of Ledgeview.
The Town of Ledgeview Zoning Board of Appeals.
Divisions of the Town, each area being accurately defined
to boundaries and locations on the Official Zoning Map and in this
chapter, for which the regulations and requirements governing use,
lot and bulk of buildings and premises are uniform.
An area within a single tract of land, under single ownership,
having a specific zoning district. A zoning lot may, therefore, not
coincide with the lot of record and may be located on a parcel of
land with two or more zoning districts.
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Editor's Note: See now Ch. SPS 321, Wis. Adm. Code.
