Specific words and phrases. As used in this chapter, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ACCESSORY USE OR STRUCTURE
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.
ALLEY
A special public right-of-way affording only secondary access
to abutting properties.
ANTENNA/DISH, COMMERCIAL
A communications device designed to receive or send a broadcast
as part of a commercial operation.
ARBORETUM
A place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated
for scientific and educational purposes.
BASEMENT
That portion of any structure that is located below lot grade
or a room(s) with a ceiling that is less than four feet above lot
grade. Basement floor areas shall not be used to compute minimum floor
areas as required by this chapter.
BILLBOARD
An off-premises advertising sign, other than directional
signs as defined herein.
BLOCK
A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of
one or more streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way,
bulkhead lines, shorelines of waterways, or corporate boundary lines.
BOARDINGHOUSE
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.
BUILDING
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls.
BUILDING AREA
The total 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.
BUILDING FACADE
The exterior wall of a building exposed to public view or
that wall viewed by persons not within the building.
BUILDING FASCIA
A relatively narrow vertical surface which is projected,
cantilevered or supported on columns or element other than a wall
below.
BUILDING HEIGHT
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 the roof. On a corner lot, the height is the
mean vertical distance from the average natural grade at the building
line from the higher of the two grades.
BUILDING PERMIT
A permit issued by the Building Inspector/Zoning Administrator,
or designated person, for construction, moving, alteration, or addition
to any use, structure, or structure and use in combination upon compliance
with the provisions of this chapter.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
The building or structure on a lot in which is conducted
the principal use as permitted on such lot by the regulations of the
district in which it is located.
CARPORT (BUILDING)
An open-sided permanent shelter for a vehicle usually consisting
of a roof built out from the side or projecting from the side of a
building and supported by posts.
[Added 5-26-2015]
CARTAGE FACILITY
A warehouse or terminal used to implement the transport of
goods.
CERTIFIED SURVEY MAP
A map of a land division, not a subdivision, prepared in
accordance with Ch. 236, Wis. Stats., and in full compliance with
the applicable provisions of this chapter. A certified survey map
has the same legal force and effect as a subdivision plat.
CHANNEL
A natural or man-made watercourse of perceptible extent,
with a definite bed and banks to convey and conduct continuously or
periodically flowing water. Channel flow is that water which is flowing
within the limits of the defined channel.
COMMISSION
The Planning and Zoning Commission of the Village of Rothschild.
COMMON OPEN SPACE
A parcel or parcels of land or an area of water or a combination
of land and water within the site designated for a planned unit development
and designed and intended for the use or enjoyment of residents of
the planned unit development. Common open space may contain such complementary
structures and improvements as are necessary and appropriate for the
benefit and enjoyment of residents of the planned unit development.
Common open space shall not be publicly owned.
CONDITIONAL USES
Uses of a special nature as to make impractical their predetermination
as a principal use in a district.
CONDOMINIUM
A form of real property ownership under which a declaration
of condominium has been recorded pursuant to Ch. 703, Wis. Stats.
COUNTY
Marathon County, Wisconsin.
CUL-DE-SAC
Minor street closed at one end with turnaround provided.
DAY-CARE CENTER
An establishment providing care and supervision for four
or more persons under the age of seven and licensed by the State of
Wisconsin pursuant to § 48.65, Wis. Stats.
DISTRICT, BASIC
A part or parts of the Village for which the regulations
of this chapter governing the use and location of land and buildings
are uniform.
DISTRICT, OVERLAY
Overlay districts provide for the possibility of superimposing
certain additional requirements upon a basic zoning district without
disturbing the requirements of the basic district.
DRIVE-IN ESTABLISHMENT
A type of use that offers goods or services directly to customers
waiting in parked motor vehicles.
DRIVEWAY
That portion of a parcel or property intended to be used
for delineated access, paved or unpaved, from the abutting access
street.
DWELLING
A 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.
DWELLING UNIT
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.
EASEMENT
An interest that entitles its holder to a specific limited
use on land owned by another person.
ELDERLY HOUSING
Residential development designed to meet the needs of and
reserved exclusively for senior citizens.
ELECTROPLATING
The process of plating with an adherent continuous coating
by electrodeposition.
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
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
electrical, gas, 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, fire alarm
boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, pumps, lift stations, and
hydrants.
EXTRACTIVE OPERATION
The removal of rock slate, gravel, sand, topsoil, or other
natural material from the earth by excavation, stripping, leveling
or other process.
FAMILY
One or more persons related by blood or marriage, or not
more than four unrelated persons, occupying the premises and living
together as a single household unit. This definition also includes
children placed in foster homes pursuant to Ch. 48, Wis. Stats., as
being treated as if they were related by blood or marriage to other
members of the family unit.
FENCE, BARBED WIRE
An enclosing or dividing framework for land, yards, or gardens
consisting of two or more wires twisted together with sharp hooks
or points, or single wire furnished with barbs.
FENCE, MESH
An enclosing or dividing framework for land, yards, or gardens
consisting of a network of cloth, metal wires, or the like.
FENCE, OPEN
A structure of rails, planks, stakes, strung wire, or similar
material erected as an enclosure, barrier, or boundary. Open fences
are those with more than 50% of their surface area open for free passage
of light and air. Examples of such fences include chain link, picket,
and rail fences.
FENCE, SOLID
A structure of rails, planks, stakes, strung wire, or similar
material erected as an enclosure, barrier, or boundary. Solid fences
are those with 50% or less of their surface area open for free passage
of light and air. Examples of such fences are stockade, board-on-board,
board and batten, basket weave, and louvered fences.
FILL OPERATION
The addition of rock slate, gravel, sand, topsoil, or other
natural material from the earth.
FLOOD
Refer to Chapter
572, Floodplain Zoning.
FLOOR AREA
The total area of all floors of a building as measured to
the outside surfaces of exterior walls and including halls, stairways,
elevator shafts, attached garages, porches, and balconies. Basement
floor areas shall not be used in computing floor areas.
FREEWAY
An expressway with full control of access and with fully
grade-separated intersections. Abutting property has no direct access,
such as Interstate Highway 39/51 and Highway 29.
FRONTAGE
The smallest dimension of a lot abutting a public street
measured along the street right-of-way line. For lots abutting a lake
or stream, the smallest dimension measured along the shoreline.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
A structure primarily intended and used for the enclosed
storage or shelter of the private motor vehicles of the families resident
upon the premises. Carports are considered garages.
HOME OCCUPATION
An occupation, profession, activity, or use that is clearly
a customary, incidental, and secondary use of a residential dwelling
unit and which does not alter the exterior of the property or affect
the residential character of the neighborhood.
HORTICULTURE
The science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers
or ornamental plants.
LANDSCAPED AREA
The area of a site which is planted and continually maintained
in vegetation, including grasses, flowers, herbs, garden plants, native
or introduced ground covers, shrubs, bushes, and trees.
LITHOGRAPHING
The process of printing from a plane surface (as a smooth
stone or metal plate) on which the image to be printed is ink-receptive
and the blank area ink-repellant.
LOT
A parcel of land on which a principal building and its accessory
buildings may be placed, together with the required open spaces, provided
that no such lot shall be bisected by a public street, and shall not
include any portion of a public right-of-way. No lands dedicated to
the public or reserved for roadway purposes shall be included in the
computation of lot size for the purposes of this chapter. (See also
"parcel.")
LOT, CORNER
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.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE
A parcel of land, other than a corner lot, with frontage
on more than one street or with frontage on a street and a navigable
body of water. Double frontage lots, for the purpose of this chapter,
shall be deemed to have two front yards and no rear yard.
LOT WIDTH
The mean horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured
within the lot boundaries or the minimum distance between the side
lot lines within the buildable area of the lot.
MANUFACTURED HOUSING
A factory-build single-family structure that is built to
the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards
Act of 1974. It is transportable in one or more sections and is used
as a place of human habitation but is not constructed with a permanent
hitch or other device allowing transport of the unit, other than for
the purpose of delivery to a permanent site, and does not have wheels
or axles permanently attached to its body or frame.
MASTER PLAN
A plan or elements thereof for guiding and shaping the growth
or development of the Village and which has been adopted by the Village
of Rothschild and whose preparation is authorized by the Wisconsin
Statutes. Devices for the implementation of these plans, such as zoning,
official maps, subdivision control ordinances, and capital improvement
programs, shall also be considered a part of the Master Plan.
MOBILE HOME
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which
is built on a permanent chassis and is designed to be used with or
without a permanent foundation when connected to required utilities.
For the purpose of this chapter, it does not include recreational
vehicles or travel trailers.
MOTEL
A series of attached, semiattached, or detached sleeping
units for the accommodation of transient guests.
MOTHER TRACT
A parcel of land that is, or at any time in the previous 20 years was, in the same ownership. Contiguous parcels in the same ownership are considered to be one parcel for the purposes of this definition, even though the separate parcels may have separate tax identification numbers or were acquired at different times or from different persons. See §
590-164E for further discussion of "in the same ownership."
NONCONFORMING USE OR STRUCTURE
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
structure and not a nonconforming use.
OPERABLE VEHICLE
A motorized transport which is functional, licensed and registered
with the State of Wisconsin.
ORDINARY HIGH-WATER MARK
The point on the bank or shore up to which the presence and
action of surface water are 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. The high-water mark, being the highest discernible
watermark, shall mark the point of jurisdiction and regulation on
rivers, lakes and streams.
OUTLOT
A parcel of land, other than a lot or block, so designated
on a plat or certified survey map but not presently deemed either
of standard lot size or suitability.
PARCEL
A land ownership upon which one or more structures may be
placed, together with the required open spaces.
PARKING LOT
A ground surface area containing six or more parking spaces
open to the public. Such spaces may be for rent or a fee.
PARKING STRUCTURE
A structure containing six or more parking spaces open to
the public. Such spaces may be for rent or a fee.
PARTIES IN INTEREST
Includes all abutting property owners, property owners of
opposite frontages, and other persons who express interest.
PERSON
An individual, group of individuals, partnership, firm, corporation,
association, state, county, village, township, sanitary district,
or other government corporation.
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT
An area of land controlled by a single owner, corporation,
or any other legal entity to be developed as a single entity for a
number of buildings. The plan is unique in its mixture of land uses
and open spaces and not specifically provided for by applying customary
block, lot, and density requirements of this chapter or Village subdivision
or zoning ordinances.
PLANTING SCREEN
A combination of plants that cover at least 50% of the face
surface area between the ground and five feet high when planted.
PLAT
The map and related documents, which are intended to be recorded
with and referenced, of a subdivision or minor land division showing
the division of the land into lots, blocks, outlots, streets or other
required information.
PLAT, FINAL
The map or plat which is prepared for recordation in the
Register of Deeds' office.
PLAT, PRELIMINARY
A map showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision
submitted to an approving authority for purposes of preliminary consideration.
[Amended 5-22-2017; 8-28-2017]
POLE OR POST-FRAME
The method of building construction whereby a building has
sides consisting of corrugated metal panels supported by vertical
poles secured in the ground to serve as both the foundation and framework
of the building. For purposes of this Code, post-frame shall be considered
the same as pole construction.
[Added 5-22-2017; amended 8-28-2017]
PRINCIPAL STRUCTURE
The building or structure on a lot in which is conducted
the principal use as permitted on such lot by the regulations of the
district in which it is located.
PROFESSIONAL HOME OFFICES
Residences of clergymen, architects, landscape architects,
professional engineers, registered land surveyors, lawyers, real estate
agents, artists, teachers, authors, musicians, or other recognized
professions used to conduct their professions.
PUBLIC UTILITY AND SERVICE USES
Uses include Village, county and state structures not permitted
or regulated elsewhere in this Code, emergency service facilities,
such as fire stations, wastewater treatment plants, electric utility
substations, municipal water reservoirs, booster stations, wells or
treatment facilities, telephone exchanges, communication towers, and
related utility and public service land uses.
[Added 11-2-2006]
REAR YARD
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.
REPLAT
The process of changing, or the map or plat which changes,
the boundaries of a recorded subdivision plat or part thereof. The
legal dividing of a large block, lot, or outlot within a recorded
subdivision plat without changing exterior boundaries of said block,
lot, or outlot is not a replat.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
The process of studious inquiry or examination combined with
the act, process, or result of developing.
SETBACK
The minimum horizontal distance from the right-of-way of
the traveled way or the right-of-way line, as specified, and the nearest
point of a building or proposed building, or any projection thereof,
including uncovered steps.
SHORELANDS
All lands, water and air located within the following distances
from the normal high-water elevation of navigable waters as defined
in § 281.31(2)(d), Wis. Stats.: 1,000 feet from a lake,
pond or flowage; 300 feet from a river or stream or to the landward
side of the floodplain, whichever distance is greater.
SIGN
Any words, letters, figures, numerals, phrases, sentences,
emblems, devices, designs, trade names, or trademarks 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 are visible from any public street or highway. The
sign structure is considered as part of the sign.
SIGN, ABANDONED
A sign is abandoned or discontinued if for a period of 12
months or longer it is composed of obsolete advertising matter or
is without advertising matter or is in need of substantial repair,
or the name of the owner or business does not appear thereon.
SIGN, AUXILIARY
A sign which provides special information, such as price,
hours of operation, or warning, and which does not include brand names
or information regarding product lines or services. It may contain
a business logo. Examples of such signs include directories of tenants
in buildings, "No Trespassing" signs, menu boards, and signs which
list prices of gasoline, up to one price listing sign per type of
fuel, which must be displayed on a single structure.
SIGN, AWNING
A type of building-mounted sign that projects from the building.
SIGN, CANOPY/MARQUEE
Any sign attached to or constructed in, on or under a canopy
or marquee sheltering the entrance and/or entrance approaches of a
theater, auditorium, fairground, museum or other use which advertises
present and scheduled events.
SIGN, CHANGEABLE MESSAGE
A sign whereby copy change is accomplished by means of manual,
electric or electronic devices, such as time and temperature signs
or message center signs. A changeable message sign may be included
as part of another sign.
SIGN, COMMUNITY INFORMATION
A sign which may have changeable copy and which is limited
to the display of information of interest to the general community
regarding scheduled public events and public activities.
SIGN CONTRACTOR
Any person, partnership or corporation engaged in whole or
in part in the business of construction, erection and/or maintenance
of signs.
SIGN CONTRACTOR, ELECTRIC
A person, partnership, or corporation which, in the normal
course of business, frequently installs and maintains electric signs.
SIGN COPY AREA
The entire geometric area in square feet within a single,
continuous perimeter, composed of squares or rectangles, which encloses
the extreme limits of the advertising message, announcement, or decoration,
except for incidental artistic extension.
SIGN, DOUBLE-FACED
A sign with copy on two faces that are back to back, facing
in opposite directions. Two back-to-back reader board signs are also
double-faced signs.
SIGN, ELECTRIC
Any sign containing internal electrical wiring which is attached
to or intended to be attached to an electrical energy source.
SIGN, FLASHING
Any sign which contains an intermittent or flashing light
by means of animation or externally mounted intermittent light source,
not including changeable message signs.
SIGN, FREESTANDING
A totally or partially independent sign resting on or supported
by means of poles, standards, or any other type of base on the ground.
This type of sign includes monument signs and pylon signs.
SIGN, GROUND/MONUMENT
A sign erected on its own foundation at ground grade rather
than one or more freestanding supports or uprights and not attached
to any building.
SIGN, GROUP OR DIRECTORY
A sign displaying the collective name of a group of uses,
such as the title of a shopping center, office park, or industrial
park and its tenants. No sales or price information shall be permitted.
Portions of the sign containing names of individual tenants shall
be considered as part of the area of a group sign. Group signs shall
only be permitted within developments serving two or more nonresidential
tenants.
SIGN HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the average grade where
the sign is to be viewed to the highest point on the sign.
SIGN INSPECTOR
The Building Inspector/Zoning Administrator, or designated
person, of the Village of Rothschild shall be charged with the responsibly
to see that the signage in the Village is installed and maintained
in compliance with this chapter.
SIGN, LEGAL NONCONFORMING
A sign that met the regulations of this chapter when it was
originally erected but no longer conforms to these regulations.
SIGN, NONCONFORMING
A sign that does not meet code regulations now or when it
was originally erected.
SIGN, OFF-PREMISES
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity,
service, or entertainment conducted, sold, or offered elsewhere than
upon the premises where the sign is displayed. Off-premises advertising
signs include billboards.
SIGN, ON-PREMISES
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity,
service, or entertainment conducted, sold, offered, or manufactured
upon the premises where the sign is located.
SIGN, PORTABLE
Any sign, with or without wheels, not attached to the ground
or permanently attached to a building or structure.
SIGN, PROJECTING
A type of building-mounted sign, other than a wall sign,
which is attached to and projects more than one foot generally perpendicular
from a structure or building face. A sign, normally double-faced,
which is attached to a building facade. The area of a projecting sign
shall be calculated on the basis of each square foot within the total
area of all faces of the sign viewable from one direction of travel.
SIGN, ROOF
A sign erected upon, against or above a roof.
SIGN, SANDWICH
A hinged or unhinged A-frame portable sign which is generally
temporary in nature and placed near the roadway.
SIGN STRUCTURE
Any device or material which supports, has supported, or
is capable of supporting a sign in a stationary position, including
decorative covers.
SIGN, SWINGING
A sign installed on an arm, mast or spar that is not permanently
fastened to an adjacent wall or upright pole.
SIGN, TEMPORARY
A sign or advertising display intended to be displayed for a certain period of time (as permitted by §
590-173). Included in the definition of "temporary sign" are retailers' signs temporarily displayed for the purpose of informing the public of a sale or special offer. If a sign display area is permanent but the message displayed is subject to periodic changes, that sign shall not be considered as temporary.
SIGN, WALL/BUILDING
A type of building-mounted sign mounted parallel to a building
facade or other vertical building surface.
SIGN, WINDOW
A sign installed on a window for the purpose of viewing from
outside the premises.
STORY
That portion 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 surface between the floor and the ceiling
next above it. A basement having 1/2 or more of its height above grade
shall be deemed a story for the purposes of height regulation.
STREETS
Public ways for vehicular or pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
(1)
ARTERIAL STREETS AND HIGHWAYSRoadways which provide for rapid movement of concentrated volumes of traffic over relatively long distances between activity areas (i.e., freeways and expressways).
(a)
PRINCIPAL ARTERIALSStreets serving the major interstate and interregional traffic corridors. These routes provide the highest level of mobility under a high degree of access control.
(b)
PRIMARY ARTERIALSStreets serving major regions or connecting several significant cities and intercommunity corridors within the metropolitan area. These routes provide for a high degree of mobility under a high degree of access control.
(c)
STANDARD ARTERIALSStreets which most commonly provide for intermediate-length trips, thus serving through traffic to the primary and principal arterials from lower activity areas not served by such routes.
(2)
COLLECTOR STREETSStreets which provide for moderate speed movements within large areas. They are basically local streets which usually, because of more directness of routing and higher usage than other local streets, receive higher volumes of traffic to be distributed from or collected toward nearby arterial streets.
(a)
CONNECTORSStreets which perform a semiarterial function as well as serving as distribution and land access streets.
(b)
DISTRIBUTORSStreets which gather and distribute traffic from and to the local streets and adjacent lands.
(3)
LOCAL STREETSStreets designed for low speeds and volumes which provide access from low traffic generating areas to collector and arterial streets.
(5)
ALLEYSSpecial rights-of-way affording only secondary access to abutting properties.
STREET YARD or SETBACK
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 proposed or existing structure. Corner lots
shall have two such yards.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS
Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such
as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.
STRUCTURE
Any erection or construction, such as buildings, towers,
masts, poles, booms, signs, decorations, carports, machinery, pools,
decks, satellite dishes, fences, and equipment.
[Amended 5-22-2017; 8-28-2017; 8-24-2020]
STRUCTURE, TEMPORARY
Any erection or construction of an original design or intent
for use in a temporary manner. Temporary structures include but are
not limited to: a steel or plastic framed and fabric-material-covered
building, a metal-covered open-walled structure, hoop shed, hoop house,
hoop barn, hoop shelter, canvas building, tarp shed, arch building,
fabric tensioned structure, tent, tent garage, or metal carport.
[Added 5-22-2017; amended 8-28-2017]
SUBDIVIDER
Any person or persons engaged in the act of subdividing land.
SUBDIVISION
(1)
A division of a lot, parcel, or tract of land by the owner thereof,
or the owner's agent, for the purpose of transfer of ownership or
building development where the act of division creates:
(a)
Five or more lots, parcels, or building sites of 40 acres each
or less in area; or
(b)
Five or more lots, parcels, or building sites of 40 acres each
or less in area by successive divisions of the same "mother tract"
within a period of five years.
(2)
All area calculations are to be exclusive of any dedications,
right-of-way easements, or reservations (see also "land division").
SURETY BOND
A bond guaranteeing performance of a contract or obligation
through forfeiture of the bond if said contract or obligation is unfulfilled
by the subdivider.
SWALE
A lower lying or depressed and often wet stretch of land.
TOWER
A ground-mounted communications device designed to receive
and/or send broadcasts.
TURNING LANE
An existing or proposed connecting roadway between two arterial
streets or between an arterial street and any other street. Turning
lanes include grade-separated interchange ramps.
USE, PRINCIPAL
The main or primary use of property or structures as permitted
on such lot by the regulations of the district in which it is located.
UTILITIES
Public and private facilities such as water wells, water
and sewage pumping stations, water storage tanks, water lines, mains
and pipes, sanitary sewer lines, mains, and pipes, storm sewer mains,
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.
UTILITY EASEMENT
An easement to place, replace, maintain, or move utility
facilities.
WATER DRAINAGE CHANNEL
A watercourse of perceptible extent, with definite bed and
banks to confine and conduct continuously or periodically flowing
water. Channel flow thus is that water which is flowing within the
limits of the defined channel.
WETLANDS
Those areas where water is at, near, or above the land surface
long enough to be capable of supporting aquatic or hydrophytic vegetation
and which have soils indicative of wet conditions.
WISCONSIN ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
The rules of administrative agencies having rule-making authority
in Wisconsin, published in a loose-leaf, continual revision system
as directed by § 35.93 and Ch. 227, Wis. Stats., including
subsequent amendments to those rules.
WOODLANDS
Land covered with woody vegetation.
YARD
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.
ZONING PERMIT
A permit issued by the Village Building Inspector/Zoning
Administrator, or designated person, for construction, moving, alteration,
or addition to any use, structure, or structure and use in combination
upon compliance with the provisions of this chapter.