For the purposes of this chapter, the following
definitions shall be used. Words used in 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 directory.
[Amended by Ord. No. 885-99]
For the purpose of this chapter, the following
words shall have the following meanings:
A use or detached structure subordinate to the principal
use of a structure, land or water and located on the same lot or parcel
serving a purpose customarily incidental to the principal use or the
principal structure.
A special public right-of-way affording only secondary access
to abutting properties.
Any livestock or poultry operation involving the raising,
feeding or holding of 300 or more animal units for a period of 30
days or more.
The equivalent of the following: one dairy cow, one mature
steer or bull, one horse, two head of heifers or immature steers,
two calves (veal or replacement), two sows with litters, two butcher
hogs, five sheep, five goats, 50 turkeys, 50 ducks, 50 geese, 50 laying
hens, or 50 broilers.
A public street or highway used or intended to be used primarily
for fast or heavy through traffic.
That portion of any structure located partly below the average
adjoining lot grade.
A building other than a hotel or restaurant where meals or
lodging is regularly furnished by prearrangement for compensation
for four or more persons not members of a family, but not exceeding
12 persons and not open to transient customers.
Any structure having a room supported by columns or walls
used, or intended to be used, for the shelter or enclosure of persons,
animals, equipment, machinery or materials.
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.
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 deckline of mansard roofs.
[Amended 3-8-2004 by Ord. No. 951-2004[1]]
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.
Shops where clothing is repaired, such as shoe repair shops,
seamstresses, tailor shops, shoe-shine shops, and clothes-pressing
shops, but none employing over five persons.
Retail stores where clothing is sold, such as department
stores; dry goods and shoe stores; and dress, hosiery, and millinery
shops.
A 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 in the facility. A community-based
residential facility is subject to state-level licensing and operational
limitations as set forth in Ch. 50, Wis. Stats.
[Added 4-12-2004 by Ord. No. 955-2004]
The following facilities, licensed and operated or permitted
under authority of Wisconsin Statutes: child welfare agencies under
§ 48.60, Wis. Stats., group foster homes for children under
§ 48.02(6), Wis. Stats., and community-based residential
facilities under § 50.01, Wis. Stats., but does not include
day-care centers, nursing homes, general hospitals, special hospitals,
prisons or jails. The establishment of community living arrangements
is governed by §§ 46.03(22), 59.69(15), 60.63 and 62.23(7)(i),
Wis. Stats.
[Amended 4-12-2004 by Ord. No. 955-2004]
Uses of a special nature so as to make impractical their
predetermination as a principal use in a district.
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 part or parts of the City for which the regulations of
this chapter governing the use and location of land and buildings
are uniform.
A detached 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 group of rooms constituting all or part of a dwelling which
are arranged, designed, used, or intended for use exclusively as living
quarters for one family.
A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room with no
separate sleeping room.
Public or private enclosures designed to protect people from
aerial, radiological, biological or chemical warfare, fire, flood,
windstorm, riots, and invasions.
Services provided by public and private utilities necessary
for the exercise of the principal use or service of the principal
structure. These services include underground, surface or overhead
gas, electrical, steam, water, sanitary sewerage, stormwater drainage,
and communication systems and accessories thereto, such as poles,
towers, wires, mains, drains, vaults, culverts, laterals, sewers,
pipes, catch basins, water storage tanks, conduits, cables, traffic
signals, pumps, lift stations, and hydrants, but not including buildings.
Any number of persons living together as a single family
or housekeeping unit and using certain housekeeping facilities and
rooms in common.[2]
The smallest dimension of a lot abutting a public street
measured along the street line.
Retail stores where items such as art, antiques, jewelry,
books, and notions are sold.
Retail stores where items such as plumbing, heating and electrical
supplies, sporting goods, and paints are sold.
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.
Any occupation for gain or support conducted entirely within
buildings by resident occupants which is customarily incidental to
the principal use of the premises, does not exceed 25% of the area
of any floor, and uses only household equipment and where no stock-in-trade
is kept or sold except that made on the premises. A household occupation
includes uses such as baby-sitting for up to three unrelated children
under the age of seven, millinery dressmaking, canning, laundering
and crafts but does not include the display of any goods nor such
occupations as barbering, beauty shops, dance schools or photographic
studios.
[Amended 4-12-2004 by Ord. No. 955-2004]
Any zoning committee established in accordance with § 62.23(7a),
Wis. Stats.[3]
All rooms within a dwelling except closets, foyers, storage
areas, utility rooms and bathrooms.
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.
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.
The peripheral boundaries of a parcel of land and the total
area lying within such boundaries.
A parcel of land held in separate ownership having frontage
on a public street, occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal
building or structure together with accessory buildings and uses,
having insufficient size to meet the lot width, lot area, yard, off-street
parking area, or other open space provisions of this chapter.
A lot which has a pair of opposite lot lines along two substantially
parallel 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 rear of the
specified street yard.
Shops where lathes, presses, grinders, shapers, and other
woodworking and metalworking machines are used, such as blacksmith,
tinsmith, welding, and sheet metal shops and plumbing, heating, and
electrical repair and overhaul shops.
Any small, movable accessory erection or construction, such
as birdhouses, toolhouses, pet houses, play equipment, playhouses,
tree houses, arbors, and walls and fences under four feet in height.
A series of attached, semi-attached, or detached sleeping
units for the accommodation of transient guests.
Any structure, land or water lawfully used, occupied or erected
at the time of adoption or amendment of this chapter.[4]
All abutting property owners, all property owners within
100 feet, and all property owners of opposite frontages.
Residences of doctors of medicine, practitioners, dentists,
clergymen, architects, landscape architects, professional engineers,
registered land surveyors, lawyers, insurance salesmen, artists, teachers,
authors, musicians, real estate brokers and salesmen, or other recognized
professions used to conduct their 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.
The use of a building for an adult bookstore, an adult motion-picture theater, an adult mini motion-picture theater, or a cabaret. The terms "adult bookstore," "adult motion-picture theater," "adult mini motion-picture theater" and "cabaret" are defined in § 430-67 of this chapter.
A building where lodging only is provided for compensation
for not more than three persons.
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 right-of-way not less than 50 feet wide providing
primary access to abutting properties.
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.
The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon
is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied or
maintained.
Public and private facilities such as water wells, water
pumping 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.
An open space on the same lot with a structure which is unoccupied
and unobstructed from the ground upward except for vegetation. The
street and rear yards extend the full width of the lot.
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 street yard
or opposite one of the street yards on a corner lot.[6]
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 line parallel thereto through the nearest
point of the principal street.
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.
