A. 
Words used in the present tense include the future; the singular number includes the plural number; and the plural number includes the singular number. The word "shall" is mandatory and not optional.
B. 
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall be used:
ABUTTING
Having a common property line or district line.
ACCESSORY USE OR STRUCTURE
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 and, in the case of a building, which does not occupy more than 30% of the required rear yard.
ALLEY
A special public right-of-way affording only secondary access to abutting properties.
APARTMENT
A portion of a multiple dwelling used as a separate housing unit and having cooking facilities and a private bath.
ARTERIAL STREET
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.
BASEMENT
That portion of any structure located partly below the average adjoining lot grade which is not designed or used primarily for year-round living accommodations. Space partly below grade which is designed and finished as habitable space is not defined as basement space.
BILLBOARD
An advertising device, either freestanding or attached to a building, which is used to display information not related to the use or ownership of the establishment or the property upon which it is located.
BLOCK
A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of streets and public parks or other recognized lines of demarcation.
BOARDINGHOUSE
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 six persons and not open to transient customers.
BUILDING
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.
BUILDING AREA
The total living area bounded by the exterior walls of a building at the floor levels, but not including basements, utility rooms, garages, porches, breezeways, and unfinished attics.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the mean elevation of the finished lot grade along the street yard face of the structure to the highest point of flat roofs; to the mean height level between the eaves and ridges of gable, gambrel, hip and pitch roofs; or to the deck line of mansard roofs.
BUILDING LINE, FRONT
A line parallel to the street, intersecting the foremost point of the building, excluding uncovered steps.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
A building in which is conducted the main use of the lot on which said building is located.
BUSINESS
A commercial establishment engaged in the purchase and sale of goods and services for a profit (not including manufacturing or industrial establishments).
CANOPY OR MARQUEE
A roof-like structure, of a permanent nature, which projects from the wall of a building.
CELLAR
A portion of a building located partly or wholly underground and having 2/3 or more of its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground. (See definition of "basement.")
CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY
A written statement issued by the Director of Public Works which permits the use of a building or lot, or a portion of a building or lot, and which certifies compliance with the provisions of this chapter for the specified use and occupancy.
[Amended 6-13-2001]
CLINIC
A building used by a group of doctors or dentists for the examination or treatment of persons on an out-patient or non-boarding basis only.
CLOTHING REPAIR SHOPS
Shops where clothing is repaired, such as shoe repair shops, seamstress, tailor shops, shoeshine shops and clothes-pressing shops, but none employing over five persons.
CLOTHING STORES
Retail stores where clothing is sold, such as department stores, dry goods and shoe stores and dress, hosiery and millinery shops.
CLUB
A building owned, leased or hired by a nonprofit association of persons who are bona fide members paying dues, the use of which is restricted to said members and their guests.
COLLECTOR HIGHWAY
Serves as a linkage between local roads and arterials. "High" collectors serve communities exceeding 200 population and significant recreational centers. "Low" collectors de-emphasize mobility and carry generally low traffic volumes.
CONDITIONAL USES
Uses of a special nature as to make impractical their predetermination as a principal use in a district.
CONFORMING USE
Any lawful use of a building or lot which complies with the provisions of this chapter.
CORNER LOT
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.
CURB GRADE
The level of the established curb in the front of the building, measured at the center of such front. Where no curb has been established, the Village Board shall authorize and approve the establishment of such curb level or its equivalent for the purpose of this chapter.
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
The employee of the Village of Webster, Wisconsin, officially designated to administer the building and zoning ordinances.
DWELLING
A detached 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.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE
A building or portion thereof used or designated as a residence for three or more families as separate housekeeping units, including apartments, apartment hotels and group houses.
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY
A detached building designed, arranged or used for, and occupied exclusively by, one family.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A building designed, arranged or used for, or occupied exclusively by, two families living independently of each other.
DWELLING UNIT
One or more rooms designed as a unit for occupancy by not more than one family for living and sleeping purposes.
EFFICIENCY
A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room with no separate sleeping rooms.
EMERGENCY SHELTER
Public or private enclosures designed to protect people from aerial, radiological, biological or chemical warfare, fire, flood, windstorm, riots and invasions.
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
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, lift stations and hydrants, but not including buildings.
EXPRESSWAY
A divided principal or primary arterial highway with full or partial control of access and with or without grade-separated intersections.
FAMILY
One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit as a single, nonprofit housekeeping unit, who are living together as a bona fide stable and committed living unit, being a traditional family unit or the functional equivalent thereof, exhibiting the generic character of a traditional family.
[Amended 6-13-2001]
FARM
Land consisting of two or more acres on which produce, crops, livestock or flowers are grown primarily for off-premises consumption or use.
FLOOR AREA
(1) 
For residential uses, the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a dwelling unit, exclusive of porches, balconies, garages and basements, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center lines of walls or partitions separating dwelling units.
(2) 
For uses other than residential, the area measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls, or from the center lines of walls or partitions separating such uses, including all floors, lofts, balconies, mezzanines, cellars, basements and similar areas devoted to such uses.
FREEWAY
An expressway with full control of access and with fully graded separated intersections.
FRONTAGE
The smallest dimension of a lot abutting a public street measured along the street line.[1]
FRONT YARD
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the existing or proposed street or highway line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure. Corner lots shall have two such yards.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
An accessory building or portion of the principal building used for vehicular storage only and having a capacity of not more than three automobiles or not more than one automobile per family housed in the building to which such garage is accessory, whichever is the greater, and in which space may be used for not more than one commercial vehicle, and in which space may be rented for not more than three vehicles of others not occupants of the building to which such garage is accessory. The term also includes a carport and, when related to the context, shall relate to the storage of one or more vehicles.
GIFT STORES
Retail stores where items such as art, antiques, jewelry, books and notions are sold.
HARDWARE STORES
Retail stores where items such as plumbing, heating and electrical supplies, sporting goods and paints are sold.
HOTEL
An establishment for transient guests having more than six sleeping rooms without individual cooking facilities.
HOUSEHOLD OCCUPATIONS
Any occupation or profession for gain or support conducted entirely within buildings by resident occupants which is customarily incidental to the principal use of the premises. It shall include residences of baby-sitters, milliners, dressmakers, launderers, crafts and canners, but does not include the display of any goods nor such occupations as barbering, beauty shops, dance schools, real estate brokerage or photographic studios. It shall not exceed 25% of the gross floor area of the dwelling nor include the display of goods visible from outside the premises.
INTERCHANGE
A grade-separated intersection with one or more turning lanes for travel between intersection legs.
JOINT EXTRATERRITORIAL ZONING COMMITTEE
Any zoning committee established in accordance with § 62.23(7a), Wis. Stats.
JUNKYARD
An area consisting of buildings, structures or premises where junk, waste, discarded or salvage materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including automobile wrecking yards, house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment yards, but not including the purchase or storage of used furniture and household equipment or used cars in operable condition.
LIVING ROOMS
All rooms within a dwelling except closets, foyers, storage areas, utility rooms and bathrooms.
LOADING AREA
A complete 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.
LOCAL HIGHWAY
Roads which are intended to move vehicles from individual parcels to the higher order road systems and should not carry through traffic. Local roads carry low traffic volumes.
LOT
A parcel of land having frontage on a public street, 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.
LOT AREA
The total area in a horizontal plane within the peripheral boundaries of a lot.
LOT, CORNER
A lot abutting intersecting streets at their intersection.
LOT COVERAGE
The percent of the area of a lot occupied by buildings or structures, including accessory buildings or structures.
LOT LINES AND AREA
The peripheral boundaries of a parcel of land and the total area lying within such boundaries.
LOT, REVERSED CORNER
A corner lot which is oriented such that it has its rear lot line coincident with or parallel to the side lot line of the interior lot immediately to its rear.
LOT, THROUGH
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 public streets shall be deemed front lot lines.
LOT WIDTH
The width of a parcel of land measured at the rear of the specified street yard.
LOT, ZONING
A single tract of land located within a single block which at 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.
MACHINE SHOPS
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.
MANUFACTURED HOME
[Added 9-8-1994]A structure certified and labeled as a manufactured home under 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 to 5426 which, when placed on the site:
(1) 
Is set on an enclosed continuous foundation in accordance with § 70.043(1), Wis. Stats., and Chapter ILHR 21, Subchapters III, IV and V, Wis. Adm. Code, or is set on a comparable enclosed continuous foundation system approved by the Director of Public Works, who may require a plan for such foundation to be certified by a registered architect or engineer to ensure proper support for such structure;
(2) 
Is installed in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions;
(3) 
Is properly connected to utilities; and
(4) 
Meets other applicable standards of this chapter.
MINOR STRUCTURES
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.
MOBILE HOME
A one-family dwelling unit of vehicular design, built on a chassis and originally designed to be moved from one site to another, and used without permanent foundation.
MOBILE HOME PARK
Any lot on which two or more mobile homes are parked for the purpose of temporary or permanent habitation.
MOTEL
A series of attached, semi-attached or detached sleeping units for the accommodation of transient guests.
NONCONFORMING USES OR STRUCTURES
Any structure, land or water lawfully used, occupied or erected at the time of the effective date of this chapter or amendments thereto which does not conform to the regulations 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.
NURSERY SCHOOL
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.
NURSING HOME
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.
PARKING FACILITY/LOT
A structure or an open space other than a street or alley used for temporary parking of more than four self-propelled vehicles and available for public uses, whether free, for compensation or as an accommodation for clients or customers.
PARKING SPACE
A graded and surfaced area of not less than 180 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.
PARTIES IN INTEREST
Includes all abutting property owners, all property owners within 100 feet and all property owners of opposite frontages.
PLANNED AREA DEVELOPMENT
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.
PRIMARY ARTERIAL HIGHWAY
Serves long trips with high mobility; connects regions or important cities; serves communities with over 5,000 population by 1990; provides a continuous system in combination with principal arterials; and provides high level of service with only slight variation.
PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL HIGHWAY
Serves longest trips with highest mobility; connects states, regions or metropolitan areas; serves cities with over 50,000 population by 1990; and provides a continuous, interconnected system with uninterrupted maximum level of services.
PROFESSIONAL HOME OFFICES
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 where the office does not exceed 1/2 the area of only one floor of the residence and only one nonresident person is employed.
RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY
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.
REAR YARD
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure. This yard shall be opposite the front yard or one of the front yards on a corner lot.
SETBACK
The minimum horizontal distance between the front lot line and a structure.
SHOPPING CENTER
A group of stores planned and designed for the site on which it is built, functioning as a unit, with off-street parking provided on the property as an integral part of the unit. (See "planned area development.")
SIDE YARD
A yard extending from the street yard to the rear yard of the lot, the width of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the side lot line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal street.
SIGNS
Any words, letters, figures, numerals, phrases, sentences, emblems, devices, designs, trade names or trademarks by which anything is made known and which are used to advertise or promote an individual, firm, association, corporation, profession, business, commodity or product and which are visible from any public street or highway.
SMOKE UNIT
The number obtained when the smoke density in Ringelmann number is multiplied by the time of emission in minutes.
STANDARD ARTERIAL HIGHWAY
Serves long trips with good mobility; has intra-regional and inter-community connections; serves communities with over 1,000 population; is a generally continuous system in combination with principal and primary arterials; and provides good level of service under varying operating conditions.
STORY
That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there is no floor above it, then the space between such floor and the ceiling next above it.
STORY, HALF
A story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plates of which, on at least two exterior walls, are not more than two feet above the floor of such story.
STREET
A public or private thoroughfare which may either provide the principal means of pedestrian and/or vehicular access to abutting property or may provide for the movement of pedestrian and/or vehicular traffic, or both.
STREET YARD
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the existing or proposed street or highway line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure. Corner lots shall have two such yards.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS
Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
STRUCTURE
Any erection or construction, such as buildings, towers, masts, poles, booms, signs, decorations, carports, machinery and equipment.
TRAVEL TRAILER
A vehicular portable structure, built on a chassis and designed to be used for temporary occupancy for travel, recreational or vacation use, limited in weight or length to either a maximum weight of 4,500 pounds or a maximum length of 28 feet.
TURNING LANE
An existing or proposed connecting roadway between two arterial highways or between an arterial highway and any other highway. Turning lanes include grade-separated interchange ramps.
USE
The use of a 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.
UTILITIES
Public and private facilities such as water wells, water and sewage pumping stations, water storage tanks, power and communication transmission lines, 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 and storage yards.
YARD
An open space on the same lot with a structure, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except for vegetation. The street and rear yards extend the full width of the lot.
ZONING DISTRICT
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.
ZONING PERMIT
A permit stating that the purpose for which a building or land is to be used is in conformity with the uses permitted and all other requirements under this chapter for the zone in which it is to be located.
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Editor's Note: The former definition of "frontage, lot," which immediately followed this definition, was deleted 6-13-2001.