Except where specifically defined herein, all
words used in this chapter shall carry their customary meanings. Words
used in the present tense include the future, and the plural includes
the singular; the word "shall" is intended to be mandatory.
One animal unit shall be defined as being one steer, one
dairy cow, one horse, four swine, ten sheep, 100 chickens or 100 turkeys.
A building or premises where meals or meals and lodging are
offered for compensation for five but not more than 12 persons and
where no more than five sleeping rooms are provided for such purpose.
An establishment where meals are served for compensation for more
than 12 persons shall be deemed a restaurant. An establishment with
more than five sleeping rooms shall be deemed a hotel or motel.
Any structure located on the same lot as the principal building
and used for protecting or storing of boats used for noncommercial
purposes in conjunction with a residence.
That part of the lot bounded by the required building setback,
side and rear yard lines.
Any structure used, designed, or intended for the protection,
shelter, or roofed enclosure of persons, animals, or property.
Any building except the principal building or buildings on
a lot. In the case of a house and detached garage on a lot, the accessory
building is the garage.
The vertical distance measured from the average established
street grade in front of the lot or the finished grade at the building
line, whichever is higher, to the highest point of the coping of a
flat roof, to the deckline of a mansard roof, or to the average height
between eaves of the highest gable of a gable, gambrel, hip, or shed
roof.
A privately or municipally owned site designated, maintained,
intended or used for the purpose of supplying a location for major
recreational equipment/vehicles, open tents to the public for free
or paying camping purpose, and used for transient trade.
A canvas or folding structure mounted on wheels and designed
for temporary living and housekeeping purposes, and for the purposes
of this chapter a camping trailer is considered as being under 50
feet in length.
A business that deals in a product, produce and/or service
for profit, including professional services.
A County zoning committee authorized by § 59.69,
Wis. Stats.
A building designed or used exclusively as the living quarters
for one or more families.
A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively
by one family. This shall include a primary housing unit as described
in § 340.01(29), Wis. Stats.
A building or portion thereof with rooms arranged, designed,
or used for comfortable, independent human habitation, which includes
a sanitary facility and a kitchen facility. Guest houses or garage
lofts with kitchen and bathroom facilities are considered to be dwelling
units.
[Amended 6-15-2004 by Res. No. 6128]
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 or the
functional equivalent thereof, exhibiting the generic character of
a traditional family.[1]
A permanent roofed and walled structure used in conjunction
with the raising of livestock and/or crops as a primary source of
income.
[Amended 2-13-2001 by Res. No. 5908]
The production of field or truck crops or the raising of
livestock and livestock products for commercial gain.
The production and management of trees as a crop.
The area within the outer lines of the exterior walls of
a building at the top of the foundation or basement wall, provided
that the floor area of a dwelling shall not include space not usable
for living quarters such as attics, utility or unfinished basement
rooms, garages, breezeways, and unenclosed porches or terraces.
A structure primarily intended for and used for the enclosed
storage or shelter of the private motor vehicles of the families resident
upon the premises. Carports are considered garages.
Any garage other than a private garage.
The elevation of the finished street at the center line or
curb as fixed by such authority as shall be designated by law to determine
such an elevation.
A gainful occupation, conducted by a member of the family,
within his or her place of residence, where the space used is incidental
to residential use and no article is sold or offered for sale except
such as is produced by such home occupation.
A home occupation that may involve persons other than the
resident family, and such occupation may be carried on other than
within the confines of the home. An expanded home occupation shall
not have more than five persons other than family members working
at the site.
A business which employs six or more persons in the manufacture
of products and/or processes produced for resale.
Any premises in which more than one automotive vehicle, not
in running or operating condition, is stored in the open.
Any premises on which there is an accumulation of scrap metal,
paper, rags, scrap lumber or other scrap materials stored or considered
stored for salvage or sale, unless such accumulation shall be housed
in a completely enclosed building.
A parcel or tract of land described in a recorded plat or
by deed and abutting on a public street.
Includes travel trailers, pickup campers or coaches, motorized
dwellings, tent trailers, boat and boat trailers, snowmobiles and
snowmobile trailers, and the like.
A unit capable of long-term occupancy which does not require
substantial on-site fabrication and which is, or was as originally
constructed, designed to be transported by any motor vehicle upon
a public highway and designed, equipped, and used primarily for sleeping,
eating, and living quarters, or is intended to be so used, and which
can be moved on its own axle and wheels or by similar means to a site,
parcel, or lot and, for the purpose of this chapter, is at least 32
feet long.
Any tract of land upon which three or more mobile homes are
located for temporary or permanent habitation.
A dwelling on one lot containing separate living quarters
for three or more families.[2]
An area containing one or more permanent buildings used periodically
for the accommodation of members of associations or groups for recreational
purposes.
A farm building used or intended to be used solely by the
owner or tenant of the farm on which such building is located for
the sale of farm products raised on said farm.
Any structure or natural object or part thereof or device
attached thereto or printed or represented thereon which is intended
to attract attention to any object, product, place, activity, person,
institution, organization, or business or which shall display or include
any letter, word, model, banner, flag, pennant, insignia, device,
or representation used as or which is in the nature of an announcement,
direction, or advertisement.
That part of a building included between the surface of a
floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or, if there is
no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling
next above it. A basement or cellar having 1/2 or more of its height
above grade shall be deemed a story for purposes of height regulations.
Anything constructed or erected.
A structure placed on or in the ground or attached to another
structure in a fixed position and intended to remain in place for
a period of more than nine months. This includes motor homes and trailers.
Management of forested lands to provide annual or periodic
crops or forest products.
A building in which lodging, with or without meals, is offered
to transient guests for compensation, provided that there are no more
than five sleeping rooms for such purpose and no cooking facilities
are provided in the individual rooms or apartments.[3]
A use customarily incidental to the principal use and on
the same lot as the principal use.
The primary use of a property or structure.
That point on the bank or shore up to which the presence
and action of the water are so continuous as to leave a distinct mark,
either by erosion, destruction of terrestrial vegetation, or other
easily recognized characteristics.
An area periodically used for recreational purposes and containing
one or more permanent buildings used to accommodate primarily youth
members of associations or groups.
