For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
shall be used:
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.
A portion of a residential or commercial building used as
a separate housing unit.
See "dwelling, multiple."
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.
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 are 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 roof supported by columns or walls
used, or intended to be used, for the shelter or enclosure of persons,
animals, equipment, machinery or materials.
Any change or rearrangement of the supporting members, such
as bearing walls, beams, columns or girders, of a building, an addition
to a building, or movement of a building from one location to another.
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.
A geographic line along a reach of a navigable stream that has been adopted by a municipal ordinance and approved by the Department of Natural Resources pursuant to Ch. 30, Wis. Stats., and which allows complete filling on the landward side, except where floodway regulations of this chapter would prohibit such filling.
See "garage."
Use of a special nature as to make impractical their predetermination
as a principal use in a district.
Any lawful use of a building or lot which complies with the
provisions of this chapter.
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 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.
A building or portion thereof used or designated as a residence
for three or more families as separate housekeeping units, including
apartments, attached townhouses and condominiums.
A detached building designed, arranged or used for and occupied
exclusively by one family, and shall include a manufactured home.
A building designed, arranged or used for, or occupied exclusively
by, two families living independently of each other.
A building or portion thereof used exclusively for human
habitation, including single-family, two-family and multifamily dwellings,
but not including hotels, motels or lodging houses.
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 sewage, 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, pumps, lift stations and hydrants, but
not including buildings.
One or more persons living together in a single dwelling
unit as a traditional family or the functional equivalent of a traditional
family. It shall be a rebuttable presumption that four or more persons
living together in a single dwelling unit who are not related by blood,
adoption or marriage do not constitute the functional equivalent of
a traditional family. In determining the functional equivalent of
a traditional family, the following criteria shall be present:[1]
The group shares the entire dwelling unit.
The group lives and cooks together as a single housekeeping
unit.
The group shares expenses for food, rent, utilities or other
household expenses.
The group is permanent and stable and not transient or temporary
in nature.
Any other factor reasonably related to whether the group is
the functional equivalent of a family.
Land consisting of 10 acres or more on which produce, crops,
livestock or flowers are grown primarily for off-premises consumption,
use or sale.
The floor area of a building is the sum of the gross horizontal
area of the several floors of the building measured from the exterior
face of the exterior walls, or from the center line of the walls separating
the building, but not including the basement, utility rooms, garages,
porches, breezeways and unfinished attics.
The smallest dimension of a lot abutting a public street
measured along the street line.
A building or portion thereof used exclusively for parking
or temporary storage of self-propelled vehicles.
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 20% of the area
of any floor, uses only household equipment, and no stock-in-trade
is kept or sold except that made on the premises. A household occupation
includes uses such as babysitting, millinery, dressmaking, canning,
laundering and crafts, but does not include the display of any goods
nor such occupations as barbering, beauty shops, dance schools, gift
stores, real estate brokerage or photographic studios. Door-to-door
sales persons may temporarily store stock-in-trade on the premises,
provided that no stock-in-trade is displayed or sold on the premises
and no customer pickups are made.
A building in which lodging, with or without meals, is offered
to transient guests for compensation and in which there are sleeping
rooms with or without cooking facilities in any individual room or
apartment.
[Amended by Ord. No. 97-4; Ord. No. 08-4]
An open space where waste, used or secondhand materials are
bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, parked, disassembled or handled,
including, but not limited to, scrap iron and other metals, paper,
rags, rubber, tires and bottles. A "junkyard" also includes an auto
wrecking yard, but does not include uses established entirely within
enclosed buildings.
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 and parking
areas, and other open space provisions of this chapter.
The peripheral boundaries of a parcel of land and the total
area lying within such boundaries.
The horizontal distance between the side lot lines.
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.
A structure certified and labeled as a manufactured home
under 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 to 5426, which, when placed
on a site:
Mobile units or modified mobile units, including units with
or without wheels or means of mobility designed to be transported
to a site and designed for permanent living, sleeping or commercial
purposes.
Any lot on which two or more mobile homes are parked for
the purpose of temporary or permanent habitation.
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 use.
A structure or premises containing 10 or more parking spaces
open to the public.
A graded and surfaced area not less than nine feet wide and
20 feet long, either enclosed or open, for the parking of a motor
vehicle and having adequate ingress and egress to a public street
or alley.
Includes all abutting property owners, all property owners
within 100 feet and all property owners of opposite frontage.
A permitted use is a use which may be lawfully established
in a particular district or districts, provided it conforms with all
requirements, regulations and standards of such district.
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 used to conduct their professions
where the office does not exceed 1/2 of the area of only one floor
of the residence and only one nonresident person is employed.
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 one of the street yards on a corner lot.
The minimum horizontal distance between the street right-of-way
line or rear lot line and the nearest point of a building or any projection
thereof, excluding uncovered steps.
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 structure.
Any words, letters, figures, numerals, phrases, sentences,
emblems, devices, designs, trade names or trade marks 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 is visible from any public street or highway.
That portion of a building included between the surface of
the floor next above it or the space between the floor and the ceiling
next above it, if there be no floor above it. A basement or cellar
having 1/2 or more of its height above grade is a story for purposes
of height regulations.
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.
Public and private facilities, such as water wells, sewage
pumping stations, 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, unoccupied
and unobstructed from the ground upward except for vegetation. The
street and rear yards extend the full width of the lot.
