For the purpose of administering and enforcing this chapter,
the terms or words used herein shall be interpreted as follows:
The following terms used in this chapter mean:
A detached subordinate structure or a use which is clearly
incidental to, and customarily found in connection with, the principle
structure or use to which it is related and which is located on the
same lot as that of the principle structure or use.
As defined in § 30.01(1d), Wis. Stats., a structure
used for the storage of watercraft and associated materials which
has one or more walls or sides.[1]
Publication of a public hearing notice under Ch. 985, Wis.
Stats., in a newspaper of circulation in the affected area. Publication
is required on two consecutive weeks, the last at least seven days
prior to the hearing.
A use which is permitted by this chapter provided that certain
conditions specified in this chapter are met and that a permit is
granted by the Board of Appeals or, where appropriate, the Plan Commission
designated by the municipal governing body.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
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 buildings or structures; ditching, lagooning, dredging,
filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations; and the
deposition or extraction of earthen materials.
One or more artificial ditches, tile drains or similar devices
which collect surface runoff or groundwater and convey it to a point
of discharge.
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 pollutants, solid waste and thermal
pollution, radiation or other pollutants, including facilities installed
principally to supplement or to 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.
As defined in § 30.121, Wis. Stats., a structure
not actually used for navigation which extends beyond the ordinary
high-water mark of a navigable waterway and is retained in place either
by cables to the shoreline or by anchors or spudpoles attached to
the bed of the waterway.
Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, all natural inland lakes within
Wisconsin, and all streams, ponds, sloughs, flowages and other waters
within the territorial limits of this state, including the Wisconsin
portion of boundary waters, which are navigable under the laws of
this state. Under § 281.31(2m), Wis. Stats., notwithstanding
any other provision of law or administrative rule promulgated thereunder,
shoreland ordinances required under § 61.351 or 62.231,
Wis. Stats., and Ch. NR 117, Wis. Adm. Code, do not apply to lands
adjacent to farm drainage ditches if:
Wisconsin's Supreme Court has declared navigable bodies of water
that have a bed differentiated from adjacent uplands and levels or
flow sufficient to support navigation by a recreational craft of the
shallowest draft on an annually recurring basis [Muench v. Public
Service Commission, 261 Wis. 492 (1952) and DeGaynor and Co., Inc.,
v. Department of Natural Resources, 70 Wis. 2d 936 (1975)]. For example,
a stream which is navigable by skiff or canoe during normal spring
high water is navigable, in fact, under the laws of this state though
it may be dry during other seasons.
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
characteristic.
[2]Lands within the following distances from the ordinary high-water
mark of navigable waters: 1,000 feet from a lake, pond or flowage;
and 300 feet from a river or stream or to the landward side of the
floodplain, whichever distance is greater.
The zoning district, created in this shoreland-wetland zoning
chapter, comprised of shorelands that are designated as wetlands on
the wetlands inventory maps which have been adopted and made a part
of this chapter.
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.
An authorization granted by the Board of Appeals to construct
or alter a building or structure in a manner that deviates from the
dimensional standards of this chapter.
Any filling, flooding, draining, dredging, ditching, tiling,
excavating, temporary water level stabilization measures or dike and
dam construction in a wetland area.
Those areas where water is at, near or above the land surface
long enough to support aquatic or hydrophytic vegetation and which
have soils indicative of wet conditions.
