The following terms 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.
BOATHOUSE
A structure used for the storage of watercraft and associated
materials which has one or more walls or sides.
CONDITIONAL USE
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 or, where appropriate, the Planning and Zoning
Commission or Village Board.
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.
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.
FLOODPLAIN
The land which has been or may be hereafter covered by flood
water during the regional flood. The floodplain includes the floodway
and the flood fringe as those terms are defined in Ch. NR 116, Wis.
Adm. Code.
NAVIGABLE WATERS
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(2)(d), Wis. Stats, notwithstanding
any other provision of law or administrative rule promulgated thereunder,
shoreland ordinances required under §§ 61.35 and 62.23,
Wis. Stats, and Ch. NR 115, Wis. Adm. Code, do not apply to lands
adjacent to farm drainage ditches if:
(1)
Such lands are not adjacent to a natural navigable stream or
river.
(2)
Those parts of such drainage ditches adjacent to such lands
were not navigable streams before ditching; and
(3)
Such lands are maintained in nonstructural agricultural use.
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.
REGIONAL FLOOD
A flood determined to be representative of large floods known
to have generally occurred in Wisconsin and which may be expected
to occur on a particular stream because of like physical characteristics,
once in every 100 years.
SHORELANDS
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.