These regulations are adopted under the authority granted by
§§ 60.62, 61.35, and 62.23(7), Wis. Stats., and amendments
thereto.
This chapter shall be known as, referred to or cited as the
"Zoning Ordinance, Town of Barton, Wisconsin."
The purpose of this chapter is to promote the health, safety,
morals, prosperity, aesthetics, and general welfare of the Town of
Barton, Washington County, Wisconsin.
It is the general intent of this chapter to regulate and restrict
the use of all structures, lands, and waters so as to:
A. Regulate and restrict lot coverage and the size and location of all
structures so as to prevent overcrowding and to provide adequate sunlight,
air, sanitation, and drainage;
B. Regulate population density and distribution so as to avoid sprawl
or undue concentration and to facilitate the provision of adequate
public service and utilities;
C. Regulate parking, loading, and access so as to lessen congestion
on, and promote the safety and efficiency of, the streets and highways;
D. Secure safety from fire, flooding, pollution, contamination, panic,
and other dangers;
E. Stabilize and protect existing and potential property values;
F. Encourage compatibility between different land uses and protect the
scale and character of existing development from the encroachment
of incompatible development;
G. Further the wise use, conservation, protection, and proper development
of the Town's natural resources, including soils, topography and steep
slopes, water, floodlands, shorelands, drainageways, wetlands and
shoreland wetlands, woodland and forests, and wildlife resource features
and attain a proper adjustment of land use and development to the
supporting and sustaining natural resource base;
H. Preserve and protect the beauty of the Town of Barton, Wisconsin,
and environs;
I. Further the orderly layout and appropriate use of land;
J. Prevent and control erosion, sedimentation, and other pollution of
the surface and subsurface waters;
K. Further the maintenance of safe and healthful water conditions;
L. Prevent flood damage to persons and property and to minimize expenditures
for flood relief and flood-control projects;
M. Provide for and protect a variety of suitable commercial and industrial
sites;
N. Protect the traffic-carrying capacity of existing and proposed arterial
streets, highways, and collector streets;
O. Facilitate adequate provision for housing, transportation, water
supply, stormwater, wastewater, schools, parks, playgrounds, and other
public facilities and services;
P. Restrict building sites in areas covered by poor soils or in other
areas poorly suited for development due to natural resource features
or other characteristics;
Q. Implement those municipal, county, watershed, or regional comprehensive
or master plans or their components adopted by the Town and in general
facilitate enforcement of those development standards as set forth
in the adopted regional, county, and municipal comprehensive master
plans, master plan, Comprehensive Plan, neighborhood plans, planning
district plans, adopted plan components, this chapter, and Building
Code of the Town of Barton, Wisconsin;
R. Provide for the administration and enforcement of this chapter; and
S. Provide penalties for the violation of this chapter.
It is not intended by this chapter to repeal, abrogate, annul,
impair, or interfere with any existing easements, covenants, deed
restrictions, agreements, ordinances, rules, regulations, or permits
previously adopted or issued pursuant to laws. However, wherever this
chapter imposes greater restrictions, the provisions of this chapter
shall govern.
In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this
chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements and shall be liberally
construed in favor of the Town and shall not be deemed a limitation
or repeal of any other power granted by the Wisconsin Statutes.
The Town of Barton does not guarantee, warrant, or represent
that only those areas delineated as floodlands, wetlands or drainageways
from tests and/or mapping required by this chapter will be subject
to periodic inundation, nor does the Town of Barton guarantee, warrant,
or represent that the soils shown to be suited or unsuited for a given
land use from tests and/or mapping required by this chapter are the
only suited or unsuited soils within the jurisdiction of this chapter,
and thereby asserts that there is no liability on the part of the
Town of Barton, Town Board, Plan Commission, its agencies or contractors,
or employees for flooding problems, sanitation problems, or structural
damages that may occur as a result of reliance upon, and conformance
with, this chapter.
The Town of Barton Zoning Ordinance adopted on March 25, 1986,
and subsequent amendments thereto, relating to the zoning of land
is hereby repealed, and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances
of the Town of Barton inconsistent or conflicting with this chapter,
to the extent of the inconsistency only, are hereby repealed.