A. 
For the purpose of administering and enforcing this chapter, the terms or words used herein shall be interpreted as follows: 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, not permissive. All distances, unless otherwise specified, shall be measured horizontally.
B. 
The following terms or words used in this chapter mean:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE OR USE
A detached subordinate structure or a use which is clearly incidental to, and customarily found in connection with, the principal structure or use to which it is related, and which is located on the same lot as the principal structure or use.
AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE
As defined in § 281.16(1)(b), Wisconsin Stats, beekeeping; commercial feedlots; dairying; egg production; floriculture; fish or fur farming; grazing; livestock raising; orchards; 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 USC 3831 to 3836; and vegetable raising.
BOATHOUSE
(1) 
Any permanent structure designed solely for the purpose of protecting or storing boats and related equipment for noncommercial purposes.
(2) 
As defined in § 30.121(1), Wis. Stats., a permanent structure used for the storage of watercraft and associated materials, including all such structures, which are totally enclosed, have roofs or walls, or have any combination of structural parts.
BROWN COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
The administrating agency of the Brown County Sewage Plan and Subdivision Ordinance as appointed by the Brown County Board of Supervisors.
BUILDING
See "structure."
BULKHEAD LINE
A geographic line along a reach of navigable water which has been specified by adoption of a municipal ordinance and approved by the Department of Natural Resources pursuant to § 30.11 of Wis. Stats., and which allows limited filling between such line and the original high-water mark, except where such filling is prohibited by the floodway provisions of Chapter 204, Municipal Ordinances.
CHANNEL
A natural or artificial watercourse with definite bed and banks to confine and conduct normal flow of water.
DEPARTMENT
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
DEVELOPMENT
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, the construction of buildings, structures, or accessory structures; the construction of additions or substantial alterations to buildings, structures or accessory structures; the placement of mobile homes; ditching, lagooning, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, and the deposition or extraction of earthen materials.
DISABLED
Having a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.
DRAINAGE SYSTEM
One or more artificial ditches, tile drains or similar devices which collect surface runoff or groundwater and convey it to a point of discharge.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL FACILITY
Any facility, temporary or permanent, which is reasonably expected to abate, reduce, or aid in the prevention, measurement, control, or, monitoring of noise, air, or water pollution, or solid waste, thermal, radiation, or other pollutants, including facilities installed principally to supplement or replace existing property or equipment not meeting or allegedly not meeting acceptable pollution control standards or which are to be supplemented or replaced by other pollution control facilities.
ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Any natural resource feature such as lakes, rivers, streams, floodlands, wetlands, and steep slopes exceeding twelve-percent slope adjacent to the aforementioned areas, which, if developed, could result in a significant adverse water quality impacts such as nonpoint pollution resulting from agricultural or construction site erosion, stormwater runoff from road, parking lots, and other impervious surfaces, or the incremental grading or filling of wetlands and floodlands.
FLOODPLAIN
The land which has been or may be hereafter covered by floodwater during the regional flood as shown on the county's official floodplain zoning maps. The regional flood is based upon a statistical analysis of stream flow records available for the watershed or an analysis of rainfall and runoff characteristics in the general watershed region, or both. The flood frequency of the regional flood is once in every 100 years. In any given year, there is a one-percent chance that the regional flood may occur.
FLOODWAY
Defined in Wisconsin Administrative Code NR 116.03(22) to mean "the channel of a river or stream, and those portions of the floodplain adjoining the channel required to carry the regional flood discharge."
HEARING NOTICE
A publication or posting meeting the requirements of Chapter 985, Wis. Stats. A Class 1 notice is required (at a minimum) for appeals and must be published once at least one week (seven days) prior to the public hearing. A Class 2 notice is required (at a minimum) for all zoning ordinances and amendments to such ordinances and must be published twice, once each week consecutively, the last publication at least one week (seven days) prior to the public hearing. Local ordinances or bylaws may require additional notice exceeding these minimums.
LAND USE
Any nonstructural use of improved or unimproved real estate. (See "development.")
NAVIGABLE WATERS
(1) 
Has the meaning found in § 281.31, Wis. Stats., which defines "navigable water" or "navigable waters" to mean "Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, all natural inland lakes within this state and all streams, ponds, flowages and other waters within the territorial limits of this state, including the Wisconsin portion of the boundary waters, which are navigable under the laws of this state." (Note: In Muench v. Public Service Commission, 261 Wis. 492 [1952], the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that a stream is navigable in fact if it is capable of floating any boat, skiff, or canon, of the shallowest draft used for recreational purposes. In DeGayner and Co. v. Department of Natural Resources, 70 Wis. 2d 936 [1975], the court also held that a stream need not be navigable in its normal or natural condition to be navigable in fact. The DeGayner opinion indicates that it is proper to consider artificial conditions, such as beaver dams, where such conditions have existed long enough to make a stream useful as a highway for recreation or commerce, and to consider ordinarily recurring seasonal fluctuations, such as spring floods, in determining the navigability of a stream.)
(2) 
Section 281.31(2m), Wis. Stats., also provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law or administrative rule, a shoreland zoning ordinance required under § 59.692, Wis. Stats., does not apply to lands adjacent to farm drainage ditches if:
(a) 
Such lands are not adjacent to a natural navigable stream or river;
(b) 
Those parts of the drainage ditches adjacent to these lands were nonnavigable, streams before ditching; and
(c) 
Such lands are maintained in nonstructural agricultural use."
NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE
An existing lawful structure or building which is not in conformity with the dimensional or structural requirements of this chapter for the area of the shoreland area which it occupies.
NONCONFORMING USE
Any existing lawful use or accessory use which is not in conformity with the permitted, special exception, or accessory use requirements of this chapter for the area of the shoreland area which it occupies.
ORDINARY HIGH-WATER MARK
The point on the bank or shore up to which the presence and action of surface water is so continuous as to leave a distinctive mark, such as by erosion, destruction, or prevention of terrestrial vegetation, predominance of aquatic vegetation, or other easily recognized characteristics.
PERSON
An individual, group of individuals, corporation, partnership, association, municipality, or state agency.
PLAN COMMISSION
The Village of Wrightstown Plan Commission.
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
Allowing a disabled person to deviate from the strict requirements of the Village's zoning ordinances if an accommodation is necessary and reasonable, in order not to unlawfully discriminate against the disabled person and to allow them equal housing opportunity. (Note: Federal courts have interpreted the "reasonable accommodations" requirement in the Federal Fair Housing Act to mean that an accommodation is reasonable "if it does not cause any undue hardship or fiscal or administrative burdens on the municipality, or does not undermine the basic purpose that the zoning ordinance seeks to achieve." Oxfod House, Inc. v. Town of Babylon, 819 F. Supp. 1179, 1186 [E.D.N.Y. 1993].)
REGIONAL FLOOD
A flood determined to be representative of large floods known to have generally occurred in Wisconsin and which because of a particular stream's physical characteristics, has a one-percent chance of occurring in any one year. Also known as the "one-hundred-year flood."
SHORELANDS and SHORELAND ZONE
Have the meaning found in § 59.692(1)(b), Wis. Stats., which defines "shorelands" to mean "the area within the following distances from the ordinary high-water mark of navigable waters, as defined under § 281.31(2)(d), Wis. Stats.
(1) 
One thousand feet from a lake, pond or flowage. If the navigable water is a glacial pothole lake, this distance shall be measured from the ordinary high-water mark of the lake.
(2) 
Three hundred feet from a river or stream or to the landward side of the floodplain, whichever distance is greater."
SHORELAND-WETLAND DISTRICT
The zoning district, created as a part of this Shoreland Zoning Ordinance, comprised of shorelands that are designated as wetlands on the Wetland Maps which have been adopted and made a part of this chapter.
SPECIAL EXCEPTION
A use which is permitted by this chapter, provided that certain conditions specified in the chapter, are met and that a permit is granted by the Board of Appeals.
STRUCTURE
Any man-made object with form, shape and utility, that is constructed or otherwise erected, attached to or permanently or temporarily placed, either upon the ground, a river bed, stream bed or lake bed or upon another structure. For the purpose of this chapter, the term "structure" includes camping units, swimming pools, hot tubs, patios, decks and retaining walls, but does not include landscaping or earthwork including graded areas, filled areas, ditches, berms, or earthen terraces. The term "structure" does not include small objects that are easily moved by hand, such as canoes, kayaks, lawn chairs, portable grills, portable picnic tables, temporary snow fences, small temporary fences around individual plants or small groups of plants to prevent animal herbivory, bird feeders, birdhouses and birdbaths.
UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP
That circumstance where special conditions, which were not self-created, affect a particular property and make strict conformity with restrictions governing area, setbacks, frontage, height or density unnecessarily burdensome or unreasonable in light of the purposes of this chapter. Also see note in definition of "reasonable accommodation."
VARIANCE
An authorization granted by the Board of Appeals to construct, alter or use a building or structure in a manner that deviates from the dimensional standards of this chapter.
VILLAGE BOARD
The Village Board of the Village of Wrightstown, Wisconsin.
VILLAGE ZONING ADMINISTRATOR
That person or agency created or designated by the Village Board to act in all matters pertaining to Village planning and zoning.
WETLAND
Has the meaning found in § 23.32(1), Wis. Stats., which defines wetland to mean an area where water is at, near, or above the land surface long enough to be capable of supporting aquatic or hydrophytic vegetation and which has soils indicative of wet conditions.
WETLAND ALTERATION
Any construction, filling, flooding, draining, dredging, ditching, tiling, excavation, temporary water level stabilization, dike construction, or dam construction in a wetland area.