Village of Salem Lakes, WI Introduction

Is or will be subordinate to and serves a principal building or principal use;

Is or will be subordinate in area, extent or purpose to the principal building or principal use served;

Contributes to the comfort, convenience or necessity of occupants of the principal building or principal use;

AIRPORT, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE

Is or will be located on the same zoning lot as the principal building or principal use; and

(5)

Is detached from the principal structure.

ACCESSORY LIVING UNIT

A separate living area established within and clearly subordinate to a single-family dwelling being part of the same structure, provided it is occupied by a resident related through blood, marriage or adoption to the resident occupant of the single-family dwelling.

ADDITION

Any construction which increases the size of a building, such as a porch, attached garage or carport, or a new room or wing. An addition is a form of alteration.

ADJACENT GRADE

The natural elevation of the ground surface prior to construction next to the proposed walls of a structure.

ADJACENT; ADJOINING

Nearby, but not necessarily touching.

Any airport which complies with the definition contained in § 114.002(7), Wis. Stats., or any airport which serves or offers to serve common carriers engaged in air transport.

AIRSTRIP or LANDING FIELD

Any land intended for the landing or takeoff of aircraft.

ALLEY

A public highway which is a narrow way, less in size than a street, and which is not designed for general travel, which is used primarily as a means of access to the rear of residences and business establishments and which, generally, affords only a secondary means of access to the property abutting along its length.

ALTERATION

A physical change in a building or an addition to it. As applied to a building or structure, means a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the exit facilities or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side, by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another.

AMENITY

Aesthetic or other characteristics of a development that increase its desirability to a community or its marketability to the public. It may include such things as a unified building design, recreational facilities, such as swimming pools or tennis courts, security systems, views, landscaping or tree preservation, or attractive site design.

ANIMAL HOSPITAL

A building or premises for the medical or surgical treatment of domestic animals or pets, including dog, cat and veterinary hospitals.

ANIMAL UNIT

One animal unit shall be defined as being the equivalent of the following: one one-thousand-pound steer, one dairy cow, four swine, 10 sheep, 100 laying hens, 100 broilers, one horse, or 100 turkeys.

APARTMENT

A room or suite of rooms in a multiple dwelling intended to be designed for use as a residence by a single family.

APARTMENT, EFFICIENCY

A dwelling unit of not more than one room in addition to kitchen and bath and intended primarily as a residence for a single person.

APARTMENT HOTEL

A building or portion thereof used for or containing both individual guest rooms and dwelling units designed for more or less permanent occupancy.

APARTMENT HOUSE

A building or that portion thereof containing more than four dwelling units or efficiency apartments.

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE

The characteristic form and detail of building design based on a particular historic period.

AREA

Synonymous with the word "tract," which is "a piece of land capable of being described with such definiteness that its location may be established and boundaries definitely ascertained."

ASSESSED VALUE

The full market value placed upon the structure or lot by the Village of Salem Lakes Assessor as of the date that the nonconformity came into being, that is, the effective date of this chapter or amendment thereto. Such valuation by the Village Assessor shall be prima facie evidence of the assessed value of the structure or lot.

AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARD

Any place where two or more motor vehicles not in running condition, or parts thereof, are stored in the open and are not being restored to operation, or any land, building or structure used for wrecking or storing of such motor vehicles or farm machinery, or parts thereof, stored in the open and not being restored to operating condition, and including the commercial salvaging of any other goods, articles or merchandise.

AWNING

A movable hood or cover which projects from the wall of the building, which can be retracted, folded or collapsed against the face of a supporting structure.

BACK LOT DEVELOPMENT

Back lot development, also known as "lot pyramiding," "keyhole development," and "development funneling," is the practice whereby a lot, outlot or common open space is used for waterfront access by a large number of parcels built away from the water body. In many cases, a common road or drive leads to a pier or beach. This practice is viewed by many as crowding more development onto a body of water than would otherwise occur with individual waterfront lots, thus altering the appearance and quality of development on the body of water.

BALCONY

A platform extending from a wall at a non-ground-floor level without ground supports.

BASEMENT

An area below the first floor, having part but no more than 1/2 of its height above grade.

BAY/BOX/BOW WINDOW

A window structure projecting from the wall of a building which does not add floor space to the building and which does not have a foundation.

BED-AND-BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENT

Any place of lodging that provides eight or fewer rooms for rent to no more than a total of 20 tourists or other transients for more than 10 nights in a twelve-month period, is the owner's personal residence, is occupied by the owner at the time of rental, and in which the only meal served to guests is breakfast.

BENCH MARK

Identification symbols from which differences of elevation are measured.

BILLBOARD

A structure used for an outdoor display for the purpose of making anything known.

BOARDINGHOUSE

A building, other than a hotel, where lodging and meals for five or more persons are served for compensation. A boardinghouse may also include the dwelling unit occupied by the owner or operator.

BOATHOUSE

Any permanent accessory building used for the storage of watercraft and water-associated materials and includes all structures which are totally enclosed, have roofs or walls or any combination of these structural parts. A boathouse is a nonhabitable structure and shall be designed and used exclusively for marine equipment; no fireplaces, patio doors, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, cooking facilities or other features inconsistent with the use of the structure exclusively as a boathouse shall be allowed.

BUILDING

Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the housing or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels. When any portion thereof is completely separated from every other portion thereof by a division wall without openings then each such portion shall be deemed to be a separate building.

BUILDING AREA

See "floor area."

BUILDING ENVELOPE

The three-dimensional space within which a structure is built.

BUILDING LINE

A line between which and any street line no building or parts of buildings may be erected, altered or maintained, except as otherwise provided for in this chapter; equivalent to a "setback line."

BUILDING SETBACK LINE

The line nearest the street and across a lot establishing the minimum open space to be provided between buildings and specified structures and street lines.

BUILDING, FRONT OF

That side of a building which faces the principal road, street, highway or way serving the same.

BUILDING, NONCONFORMING

A legally existing building which fails to comply with the regulations (for height, number of stories, size, area, yards and location) set forth in this chapter applicable to the district in which this building is located.

BUILDING, PRINCIPAL

A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is situated.

BUSINESS; BUSINESS USE

Necessarily imply employment of one or more persons for the purpose of earning a livelihood; activities of persons to improve their economic conditions and desires; and generally relate to commercial and industrial engagements.

CAMPGROUND

Any area or tract of land used to accommodate two or more camping parties, including cabins, tents, house trailers, or other camping outfits.

CAMP LAKE/CENTER LAKE AREA

That portion of Kenosha County located within the following U.S. Public Land Survey Quarter-Sections of Township 1 North, Range 20 East:

Quarter-Sections	Section
NE, NW, SW	15
SE	16
SE	20
NE, NW, SE, SW	21
NW	22
NE, NW, SE, SW	28
NE, NW, SE, SW	29
NE, NW, SE, SW	32
NE, NW, SE, SW	33

CANOPY

Any structure of canvas, other fabric, plastic, metal or wood or other material, which is permanently attached to any exterior building wall in any manner, intended to shield any wall, window, door, sidewalk or roadway from sun, rain or any other element, and which is not retractable, such as an awning.

CARPORT

A structure having a roof, with or without supporting walls, posts or columns, used, designed or intended to be used for the protection or shelter of private motor vehicles. For the purpose of this chapter, a carport shall be considered to be the equivalent of a garage.

CAR WASH

Any facility used for the washing of vehicles requiring the installation of special equipment or machinery and plumbing affixed to or affixed separate of a structure.

CEMETERY

Land used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbaria, crematories, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE

A certification that the construction and the use of land or a building, the elevation of fill or the lowest floor of a structure is in compliance with all of the provisions of this chapter.

CHANGEABLE COPY

A sign designed so that characters, letters or illustrations can be changed or rearranged by mechanical, electronic or manual means without altering the face or surface of the sign. For the purpose of this chapter, a sign containing changeable copy shall not be considered a flashing sign.

CHANNEL

A natural or artificial watercourse with definite bed and banks to confine and conduct normal flow of water.

CHANNELING

The act or action which results in an interconnection of two bodies of water, usually navigable by surface craft.

CHILD-CARE CENTER

Any establishment which provides shelter, care, activity and supervision (with or without academic instruction) for five or more unrelated children or children who are not the legal wards or foster children of the attendant adult between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

CHURCH

A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons regularly assemble for religious worship, and which building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship.

CLINIC

A place for the medical or similar examination and treatment of persons as outpatients.

CLOSED CUP FLASH POINT

The lowest temperature at which a combustible liquid under prescribed conditions will give off a flammable vapor which will propagate a flame. The Tag closed cup tester shall be authoritative for liquids having a flash point below 175° F. The Pensky-Martens tester shall be authoritative for liquids having flash points between 175° F. and 350° F.

CLUB or LODGE

Buildings and facilities owned or operated by a corporation, association, person or persons for a social, educational or recreational purpose, to which membership is required for participation and not operated primarily for profit nor to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.

CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT

A form of residential development that concentrates buildings or lots in one or more parts of the site to allow the remaining lands to be used for common open space, recreation and preservation of environmentally sensitive features. The concentration of lots is facilitated by a reduction in lot size. A cluster development will consist of one or more cluster groups surrounded by common open space.

CLUSTER GROUP

A group of single-family detached dwellings within a cluster development, surrounded by common open space. The outer boundary of a cluster group is defined by the lot lines of the lots within the group, including the street fronting on and providing access to those lots.

COLONIAL ARCHITECTURAL STYLE

Style of residence of which one of the features is to have an eave less than 12 inches. "Colonial" includes Cape Cod Colonial, Colonial Revival, Georgian Colonial, Neo-Colonial, New England Colonial, Salt Box Colonial and Southern Colonial.

COMMERCIAL WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES

Licensed commercial wireless telecommunication services, including cellular, personal communications services (PCS), specialized mobilized radio (SMR), enhanced specialized mobilized radio (ESMR), paging and similar services that are marketed to the general public.

COMMON ELEMENT

The common facilities in a condominium.

COMMON FACILITIES

All the real property and improvements set aside for the common use of and enjoyment of the residents of a cluster development, including, but not limited to, buildings, open space, private streets, parking areas, walkways, trails, recreation areas, drainage easements, and any utilities that service more than one unit, such as sewerage and water supply facilities, and which are designated in the master deed as common elements.

COMMON OPEN SPACE

Undeveloped land within a cluster development that has been designated, dedicated, reserved or restricted in perpetuity from further development. Common open space shall not be part of individual residential lots and shall be substantially free of structures, but may contain such recreational facilities for residents as are shown on the approved development plan.

COMMUNICATION TOWER

Any structure, whether freestanding or attached to an existing building or structure, that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers or monopole towers. The term includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, alternative tower structures, and the like.

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

A condominium or homeowners' association

COMMUNITY CENTER

A building, together with lawful accessory buildings and uses, used for recreational and cultural activities, etc., and not operated for profit.

COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS

Any facility falling within the definition of § 46.03(22), Wis. Stats.

CONDITIONAL USE

Uses of a special nature as to make impractical their predetermination as a principal use in a district.

CONDOMINIUM

Property subject to a condominium declaration established in accordance with the requirements of the Condominium Ownership Act, Chapter 703 of the Wisconsin Statutes. "Condominium": is a legal form of ownership of real estate and not a specific building type or style.

CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION

A community association, incorporated or unincorporated, whose membership consists of owners of dwelling units in a condominium, which combines individual unit ownership with shared use and ownership of common property or facilities. The association is responsible for maintaining the common facilities and delivering services, but does not own the common facilities.

CONSERVATION STANDARDS

Guidelines and specifications for soil and water conservation practices and management enumerated in the technical guide prepared by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service for Kenosha County, adopted by the County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors, and containing suitable alternatives for the use and treatment of land based upon its capabilities, from which the landowner selects that alternative which best meets his needs in developing his soil and water conservation plan.

CONVERSION

Any modification or change to an existing dwelling which is intended to or actually does increase the number of dwelling or room units.

COURT

An open space, which may or may not have street access and around which is arranged a single building or group of related buildings.

COURT, INNER

That portion of a lot unoccupied by any part of a building, surrounded on all sides by walls, or by walls and a lot line.

COURT, OUTER

That portion of a lot unoccupied by any part of a building, opening onto a street, alley or yard.

DAY-CARE CENTER

See "child-care center."

DAY NURSERY

See "child-care center."

DECIBEL

A unit of measurement of the intensity (loudness) of sound. Sound-level meters which are employed to measure the intensity of sound are calibrated in "decibels."

DECK

A structure being a level surface(s) consisting of wood, constructed with or without footings, provided that no fixed walls or roof shall be erected on or over any deck that is located in a required yard.

DEED RESTRICTION

A restriction upon the use of a property set forth in the deed.

DENSITY (GROSS) (FOR USE IN § 490-30.5 ONLY)

The number of dwelling units per acre resulting from taking the number of dwelling units to be built upon a tract of land and dividing it by the total number of acres. Gross density makes no allowance or accounting for infrastructure, such as streets, parks and other nonresidential uses, upland primary environmental corridors, or unbuildable lands, such as floodplains, wetlands, and lands having slopes of 20% or greater.

DENSITY (NET) (FOR USE IN § 490-30.5 ONLY)

The number of dwelling units per acre resulting from taking the number of dwelling units to be built upon a tract of land and dividing it by the total number of acres, excluding street rights-of-way, nonresidential uses, upland primary environmental corridors, isolated natural areas and all lands having slopes of 20% or greater.

DEVELOPABLE NET ACRE

Those lands within a development parcel remaining after the deletion of floodplains, wetlands, land densely covered with trees and shrub growth on slopes of 12% or greater, all lands having slopes of 20% or greater, and all lands proposed for commercial or business land uses.

DEVELOPMENT

Any artificial 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 alterations to buildings, structures or accessory structures; the repair of any damaged structure or the improvement or renovation of any structure, regardless of percentage of damage or improvement; the placement of buildings or structures; subdivision layout and site preparation; mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations; the storage, deposition or extraction of materials or equipment; and the installation, repair or removal of public or private sewage disposal systems or water supply facilities.

DIRECTLY OPPOSITE

Those tracts of land on opposite sides of the street with only the street intervening.

DISTRICT

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, 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 (such as the residential, commercial, and industrial district classifications).

DISTRICT, OVERLAY

Overlay districts allow for superimposing certain additional requirements or uses upon a basic zoning district which are compatible with the basic district. If there are conflicting requirements, those which are stricter shall apply.

DITCHING

The process of excavation for purposes of surface water drainage and removal; a shallow channel, not navigable, used for the conductance of waters.

DNR

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

DOMESTIC SERVANT

A person who lives in the family of another, paying no rent for such occupancy and paying no part of the cost of utilities therefor, performing household duties and working solely within the house for the upkeep thereof and for the care and comfort and convenience of the family and occupants thereof. No person, and no member of the family of any person, who pays rent for himself or his family, shall be deemed the domestic servant of the person to whom such rent is paid.

DORMITORY

A building or portion thereof used for sleeping purposes in connection with a school, college or other institution.

DOUBLE FRONTAGE LOT

A lot which has a front line abutting on a public right-of-way and a back or rear line abutting another public right-of-way. A corner lot shall not be considered a double frontage lot.

DRAIN

A surface ditch or underground tile line constructed for the purpose of lowering the water table so that land may be farmed or used for other purposes.

DRAIN TILE LANE

The placement of tile for the purpose of removing excess waters from the soil, either for agricultural purposes or for the removal of waters around the building foundations.

DRAINAGE BASIN

The geographic area the general configuration of which causes surface waters to flow in a specified direction; the area, contained by a naturally defined watershed, draining all surface waters.

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.

DRAINAGEWAY

Any natural or artificial watercourse, including but not limited to streams, rivers, creeks, ditches, channels, canals, conduits, culverts, streams, waterways, gullies, ravines or washes, in which waters flow in a definite direction or course, either continuously or intermittently, and including any area adjacent thereto which is subject to inundation by reason of overflow or floodwater.

DREDGING

The process of which bottom materials are removed from bodies of water for the purposes of deepening the body of water.

DRIVE-IN

A term used to describe an establishment designed or operated to serve a patron while seated in an automobile parked in an off-street parking space.

DUMP

A lot or land or part thereof used primarily for the disposal by abandonment, dumping, burial, burning or any other means, and for whatever purpose, of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded machinery, vehicles or parts thereof, or waste material of any kind.

DUPLEX

A building designed and/or used exclusively for residential purposes and containing two dwelling units separated by a common party wall or otherwise structurally attached.

DUSTFALL

The rate that particulate matter collects in an open jar for a thirty-day period, expressed as tons per square mile per month. Procedures and equipment for the measurement of such shall be as standardized by the American Society for Testing and Materials.

DWELLING GROUP

A single-family dwelling and one or more other single-family or duplex dwellings located on a lot.

DWELLING UNIT

Consists of one or more rooms, including a bathroom and complete kitchen facilities, which are arranged, designed or used as living quarters for one family or household.

DWELLING, ATTACHED

A dwelling with two or more party walls, or one party wall in the case of a dwelling at the end of a group of attached dwellings.

DWELLING, DETACHED

A dwelling which is designed to be and is substantially separate from any other structure or structures except accessory buildings.

DWELLING, MULTIPLE

A building or portion thereof used for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other and doing their own cooking in the building, including apartments, group houses, and row houses.

DWELLING, RESIDENTIAL

A building or portion thereof used exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family, two-family and multiple dwellings, but not including hotels, motels, lodging houses, boardinghouses or tourist homes.

DWELLING, ROW HOUSE OR TOWNHOUSE

One of a series of three or more attached dwelling units separated from one another by continuous vertical party walls without openings from basement floor to roof.

DWELLING, SEMIDETACHED

A dwelling having a party wall in common with another dwelling but which otherwise is designed to be and is substantially separate from any other structure or structures except accessory buildings.

DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY

A residential dwelling consisting of one dwelling unit designed for, converted to, and/or occupied by one family and not attached to another dwelling unit. For the purposes of this chapter, a single-family dwelling shall include conventional site-built, modular and manufactured homes (not located in a Mobile Home/Manufactured Home Park/Subdivision Residential District) and shall comply with the building, height, area and design standards delineated in the single-family residential districts. For the purposes of this chapter, a "single-family dwelling" does not include a mobile home or a manufactured home (located in a Mobile Home/Manufactured Home Park/Subdivision Residential District).

DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY

A detached or semidetached building used for residential occupancy by two families living independently of each other.

EARNS A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF HIS OR HER LIVELIHOOD FROM THE FARM OPERATION

Twenty-five percent of the annual gross income is earned from direct farm labor.

EARTHMOVING

Any process which physically alters the existing topography by means of mechanical or hydraulic equipment and the voiding of soils of vegetated cover so as to make the same soil susceptible to erosion.

EARTH REMOVAL

The removal or extraction of any stone, sand, gravel, loam, topsoil or other earth or earth product from a lot or parcel of land, except where such removal is for the purpose of grading a lot upon which a building is to be erected, a roadway is to be built, or a platting thereof is to be made.

EARTHBORNE VIBRATIONS

Describes a cyclic movement of the earth due to energy propagation.

EASEMENT

A right given by the owner of land to another party for specific limited use of that land.

EASEMENT OF RECORD

An access easement for ingress and egress to a parcel recorded in the County Register of Deeds office prior to the effective date of this chapter.

EASEMENT, CONSERVATION

The grant of a property right or interest from one property owner to another person, agency, unit of government, or other organization, stipulating that the described land shall remain in its natural, scenic, open or wooded state, precluding future or additional development.

EAVE

The projecting lower edges of a roof, not including the roof gutter, overhanging the vertical wall of a building.

EGG PRODUCTION, COMMERCIAL

An animal confinement facility used or designed for the raising of poultry for egg production, having a capacity of 200 or more animal units.

ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTER

A type of changeable copy sign that utilizes computer-generated messages or some other electronic means of changing copy, but not including video. These signs include displays using incandescent lamps, LEDs, LCDs or a flipper matrix.

EMERGENCY SHELTER

Public or private enclosures designed to protect people from aerial, radiological, biological or chemical warfare, fire, flood, windstorm, riots and invasions.

ENLARGEMENT OF QUARRY OR NONMETALLIC MINING OPERATION

Any vertical or horizontal increase in the mined area or the area occupied by or utilized in connection with any of the operations or related activities.

ENLARGEMENT or TO ENLARGE

An "enlargement" is an addition to the floor area of an existing building, an increase in the size of any other structure, or an increase in that portion of a tract of land occupied by an existing use. "To enlarge" is to make an enlargement.

EROSION

The process by which the ground surface is worn away by action of wind or water.

ESSENTIAL SERVICES

Services provided by public and private utilities, necessary for the exercise of the principal, accessory or conditional use or service of the principal, accessory or conditional structure. These services include underground, surface or overhead gas, electrical, steam, water, sanitary sewage, stormwater drainage, and communications 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.

EXCAVATION

The act by which soil, earth, sand, gravel, rock or any similar material is cut into, dug, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced, relocated or bulldozed and shall include the conditions resulting therefrom.

EXCEPTION

The use of property, including the use and location of buildings, the size of lots and the dimensions of required yards, otherwise not allowable under the terms of this chapter, which is permissible by reason of special provisions of this chapter, or for which a special permit may be issued by the Planning and Development Administrator or the Zoning Board of Appeals under conditions specified in this chapter. Same as a "conditional use."

EXISTING DEVELOPMENT PATTERN

Principal structures exist within 250 feet of a proposed principal structure in both directions along the shoreline.

EXPRESSWAY

A divided arterial street or highway with full or partial control of access and with or without grade-separated intersections.

EXTEND

Implies increase or amplification as distinguished from inception.

EXTENSION or TO EXTEND

An increase in the amount of existing floor area used for an existing use within an existing building. "To extend" is to make an extension.

EXTERIOR WALL SURFACE

The most exterior part of a wall, sun screen or any screening or material covering a building.

FAMILY

One person or two or more persons, related by blood, foster relationship, marriage or adoption, and one or more persons who need not be so related, and, in addition, domestic servants or gratuitous guests thereof, who are living together in a single, nonprofit dwelling unit and maintaining a common household with single cooking facilities. A roomer, boarder or lodger shall not be considered a member of the family.

FARM

A zoned area which is used for the growing of the usual farm products, such as vegetables, fruit trees, and grain, etc., and their storage on the area, as well as for raising thereon the usual farm poultry and farm animals, such as horses, cattle, sheep and swine, etc.

FARM OPERATOR

Any person who owns land and raises crops or livestock on that land; or a person who rents land to another for agricultural purposes and lives on the land, having day-to-day contact with the farm operation; or a person who lives on the land that he or she has historically farmed. For the purpose of this chapter, any person who has farmed land for five consecutive years is deemed to have farmed it historically.

FARMING

The business of cultivating land or employing it for the purposes of husbandry; the cultivation and fertilization of the soil as well as caring for and harvesting the crops.

FARMSTEAD

A group of existing buildings with accessory structures used for agricultural purposes, such as barns, silos, storage sheds, cribs and coops, and which may or may not include a dwelling.

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

The federal agency which administers the National Flood Insurance Program. This agency was formerly known as the Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) and was part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

FEEDLOT, COMMERCIAL

The following facilities shall be considered feedlots:

(a)

Any tract of land or structure wherein any type of fowl or the by-products thereof are raised for sale at wholesale or retail;

(b)

Any structure, pen or corral wherein cattle, horses, sheep, goats and swine are maintained in close quarters for the purpose of fattening such livestock for final shipment to market.

(c)

The raising of swine under any conditions.

FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP (FIRM)

An animal confinement facility used or designed for the feeding or holding of 500 or more animal units for a period of 30 days or more.

FENCE

A structure for enclosure or screening.

FILL (CLEAN)

Clean fill is "uncontaminated soil, rock, sand, gravel, concrete, asphaltic concrete, cinder blocks, brick, for fill, reclamation or other beneficial use." Concrete containing wire mesh or rebar may be considered as clean fill. However, exposed rebar should be removed to the maximum extent possible (any rebar or wire mesh sticking out of the concrete must be shorter than two inches) before use in order to prevent a public nuisance or health and safety hazard. Broken concrete placed in the shoreland must be buried with soil capable of establishing permanent vegetation.

FILLING

Any act by which soil, earth, sand, gravel, rock or any similar material is deposited, placed, pushed, pulled or transported, and shall include the condition resulting therefrom.

FLOATING ZONE

A special detailed use district of undetermined location; a district in which the proposed kind, location, size and form of structures must be preapproved and which, like a special exception use, is legislatively deemed compatible with the areas in which it may thereafter be located on a particular application, provided that specified standards are satisfied and actual incompatibility is not revealed. Same as "overlay district."

A map of a community on which the Federal Insurance Administration has delineated both the floodplain and the risk premium zones applicable to the community. This map can only be amended by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

FLOOD or FLOODING

A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas caused by one of the following conditions:

The overflow or rise of inland waters;

The rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source;

The inundation caused by waves or currents of water exceeding anticipated cyclical levels along the shore of Lake Michigan or Lake Superior; or

FLOOD PROTECTION ELEVATION

The sudden increase caused by an unusually high water level in a natural body of water, accompanied by a severe storm, or by an unanticipated force of nature, such as a seiche, or by some similarly unusual event.

A point two feet above the water surface elevation of the one-hundred-year recurrence interval flood. This safety factor, also called "freeboard," is intended to compensate for the many unknown factors that contribute to flood heights greater than those computed. Such unknown factors may include ice jams, debris accumulation, wave action, and obstructions of bridge openings.

FLOOD STAGE

The elevation of the floodwater surface above an officially established datum plane. In Southeastern Wisconsin, it is recommended that the datum plane used be Mean Sea Level, 1929 Adjustment.

FLOOD STORAGE

Those floodplain areas where storage of floodwaters has been taken into account during analysis in reducing the regional flood discharge.

FLOODPLAIN

Land which has been or may be covered by floodwater during the regional flood. It includes the floodway and the flood-fringe and may include other designated floodplain areas for regulatory purposes.

FLOODPROOFING

Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions, changes or adjustments which reduce or eliminate flood damage to unimproved and improved real estate, water and sanitary sewer facilities, structures and their contents. (See also § 490-10.15 of this chapter.)

FLOODWAY

The channel of a river or stream and those portions of the floodplain adjoining the channel required to carry the regional flood discharge.

FLOOR AREA

The sum of the areas of the several floors of the structure, as measured from the exterior faces of the walls, including fully enclosed porches and the like as measured from the exterior limits thereof, but excluding garage space which is in the basement of a building or, in the case of garage space accessory to a dwelling, is at grade; basement and cellar areas devoted exclusively to uses accessory to the operation of the structure; and areas elsewhere in the structure devoted to housing mechanical equipment customarily located in the basement or cellar, such as heating and air-conditioning equipment, plumbing, electrical equipment, laundry facilities, and storage facilities. See also "ground floor area."

FLOOR AREA (BUSINESS, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS)

For the purpose of determining off-street parking and off-street loading requirements, the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of the building, or portion thereof, devoted to a use requiring off-street parking or loading. This area shall include accessory storage areas located within selling or working space, such as counters, racks or closets, and any basement floor area devoted to retail activities, to the production or processing of goods, or to business or professional offices. However, "floor area," for the purposes of determining off-street parking spaces, shall not include floor area devoted primarily to storage purposes, except as otherwise noted herein.

FLOOR AREA, GROSS

The sum of the gross horizontal areas of all floors measured in square feet, not including the basement floor, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center line of walls separating two buildings. The gross floor area of a building includes elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor, floor space used for mechanical equipment (except equipment, open or closed, located on a roof or basement), penthouses, attic space having a head room of seven feet 10 inches or more, interior balconies and mezzanines, enclosed porches, and floor area devoted to accessory uses.

FLOOR AREA RATIO

The total floor area on a zoning lot divided by the lot area of that zoning lot.

FOOTCANDLE

Unit of illuminance equal to one lumen per square foot.

FOSTER HOME

Any home licensed as such by the State Department of Health Services.

FRATERNITY

A body of men associated for their common interest, business or pleasure.

FRATERNITY OR SORORITY HOUSE

A building containing no more than one dwelling unit and more than two rooming units or guest rooms. Such rooming units or guest rooms shall be for residential purposes only.

FREE BURNING

Implies a rate of combustion described by a material which burns actively and easily supports combustion.

FREEBOARD

A flood protection elevation requirement designed as a safety factor which is usually expressed in terms of a certain amount of feet above a calculated flood level. Freeboard compensates for the effects of any factors that contribute to flood heights greater than those calculated. These factors include, but are not limited to, ice jams, debris accumulation, wave action, obstruction of bridge openings and floodways, the effects of urbanization on the hydrology of the watershed, loss of flood storage areas due to development and aggradation of a river bed or streambed.

FREEWAY

An expressway with full control of access and with fully grade-separated intersections.

FREIGHT FORWARDING SERVICE

Establishments primarily engaged in undertaking the transportation of goods from shippers to receivers for a charge covering the entire route, which may involve the use of multiple carriers and transportation establishments in effecting delivery. A freight forwarding service may provide for temporary storage of goods in a delivery vehicle while such vehicle awaits pickup by another carrier.

FREQUENCY

Signifies the number of oscillations per second in a sound wave and is an index of the pitch of the resulting sound.

FRONT; FRONTAGE

That side of a lot abutting on a street or way and ordinarily regarded as the front of the lot, but it shall not be considered as the ordinary side of a corner lot.

FUELING STATION

Includes not only the building provided for repair work, the storage of supplies, and the use and shelter of the operatives, but also tanks, pumps, structures and filling stations for business purposes and the supplying of gas, fuel and oil for automobiles of the general public. It also includes, of necessity, suitable approaches and exits at substantially the level of the street.

FULL CUTOFF (SHIELDED) LUMINAIRE

A luminaire emitting no light above the horizontal plane.

FULLY SHIELDED LIGHT FIXTURE

A lighting fixture constructed in such a manner that all light emitted by the fixture, either directly from the lamp or a diffusing element, or indirectly by reflection or refraction from any part of the luminaire, is projected below the horizontal as determined by photometric test or certified by the manufacturer. Any structural part of the light fixture providing this shielding must be permanently affixed.

FUNERAL HOME

A dwelling or other structure used and occupied by a professional licensed mortician for burial preparation and funeral services.

FUR FARM

Any property comprising land or buildings, or both, used for the purpose of raising or harboring fur-bearing animals, including those defined in § 29.001(30), Wis. Stats., and also including chinchillas and other fur-bearing animals, if any, whether the animals are kept for breeding or slaughtering or pelting purposes.

GARAGE

A building for the storing of motor vehicles.

GARAGE, ATTACHED

A private garage which has a roof or wall, or a major portion of a roof or wall, in common with a dwelling. Where the garage is attached to a dwelling in this manner, it shall be subject to all yard requirements of the main building.

GARAGE, PARKING

A building or portion thereof designed or used for the temporary storage of motor driven vehicles, with or without the retail dispensing, sale or offering for sale of motor fuels, lubricants and tires, or indoor car washing, minor motor adjustment and flat tire repair, when such operations are incidental to the storage of motor-driven vehicles.

GARAGE, PRIVATE

A detached accessory building or portion of a main building used for the storage of self-propelled vehicles, where the capacity does not exceed three vehicles or not more than one per family housed in the building to which such garage is accessory, whichever is the greater, and not more than 1/3 the total number of vehicles stored in such garage shall be commercial vehicles. Storage space for not more than three vehicles may be rented for vehicles of other than occupants of the building to which such garage is accessory.

GARAGE, PUBLIC

A building or portion thereof used for the housing of motor vehicles or where such vehicles are equipped for operation, repaired or kept for remuneration, hire or sale, not including exhibition or showroom for model cars.

GARAGE, STORAGE

Any building or premises used for the storage only of motor-driven vehicles, pursuant to previous arrangements and not to transients, and where no equipment, parts, fuel, grease or oil is sold and vehicles are not equipped, serviced, repaired, hired or sold. No commercial motor vehicle exceeding five tons' capacity shall be stored in any storage garage.

GARDEN APARTMENT

A multiple-family dwelling which shall not exceed four stories in height.

GAZEBO

An accessory structure no larger than 150 square feet, which may be covered by a roof and enclosed with screening, intended to be used for outdoor living activities.

GREEK REVIVAL ARCHITECTURAL STYLE

A freestanding structure (similar to a detached open patio cover), with a pitched roof design, having a maximum height of 12 feet and a maximum area of 150 square feet, and designed for recreational use only and not for habitation.

GIFT STORES

Retail stores where items such as art, antiques, jewelry, books and notions are sold.

GLARE

A light ray emanating directly from a lamp, reflector or lens such that it falls directly on the eye of the observer.

GOLF COURSE

A comparatively large unobstructed acreage involving enough room over which to walk or ride, point to point, over a generally prescribed course, and to strive to send a ball long distances with variable accuracy, all without unreasonably endangering other players or intruding upon them.

GRADE

In cases where all walls of the principal building are more than five feet from the nearest street line, the mean elevation of the ground adjoining the building on all sides; in all other cases, the mean elevation of the nearest sidewalk.

GRADING

Any stripping, excavating, filling, stockpiling, or any combination thereof, including the land in its excavated or filled condition.

Style of residence of which one of the features is to have an eave less than 12 inches.

GROUND FLOOR AREA

The square foot area of a building within its largest outside dimensions, exclusive of open porches, breezeways, terraces, garages, exterior stairways, and secondary stairways.

GROUND SIGNS

Includes billboard signs and any other sign secured to the ground and not to a building, except tower signs.

GROUP HOME

Any home licensed as such by the State Department of Health Services.

GUESTHOUSE

Living quarters within a detached accessory building located on the same premises with the main building, for use by temporary guests of the occupants of the premises, such quarters not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.

GUEST ROOM

A room in a hotel, motel or tourist home offered to the public for compensation, in which room no provision is made for cooking and which room is used only for transient occupancy.

HABITABLE BUILDING/STRUCTURE/MOBILE HOME/MANUFACTURED HOME

Any building, or portion thereof, used for human habitation (living, sleeping, eating or cooking).

HALFWAY HOUSE; GROUP HOME

A residential facility for five or more adults who have been institutionalized for various reasons and released, or who have or have had physical or social disabilities which make operation in society difficult and require the protection of a group setting to facilitate the transition to a functional member of society (e.g., former convicts, alcoholics, drug addicts, mental patients, etc.); shelter, supervision and residential rehabilitative services are provided, and the home is licensed to operate as such by the State Department of Health Services.

HEARING NOTICE

Publication or posting meeting the requirements of Ch. 985, Wis. Stats. For appeals, a Class 1 notice, published once at least one week (seven days) before the hearing, is required. For all zoning ordinances and amendments, a Class 2 notice, published twice, once each week consecutively, the last at least a week (seven days) before the hearing, is required. Local ordinances or bylaws may require additional notice, exceeding these minimums.

HEIGHT OF BUILDING

The vertical distance from the average elevation of the finished lot grade to the highest point of the roof.

[Amended 8-9-2021 by Ord. No. 2021.08-39]

HELIPORT

An area used or to be used for landing or takeoff of helicopters or other steep-gradient aircraft capable of hovering, and may include any or all of the area or buildings which are appropriate to accomplish these functions.

HISTORIC STRUCTURE

Any structure that is either:

Listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National Register;

Certified or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as contributing to the historical significance of a registered historic district or a district preliminarily determined by the Secretary to qualify as a registered historic district;

Individually listed on a state inventory of historic places in states with historic preservation programs which have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior; or

HOME FOR THE AGED/HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY

Individually listed on a local inventory of historic places in communities with historic preservation programs that have been certified either by an approved state program, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, or by the Secretary of the Interior in states without approved programs.

A facility, however named, which is designed, staffed and equipped for the care of individuals who are not in need of hospital or nursing care but who are in need of assistance due to age with everyday activities of living in a protected environment.

HOME OCCUPATION OR PROFESSION

Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the occupants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof, and in connection with which there is no display, no stock-in-trade and no outside storage of equipment upon the premises.

HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION (HOA)

A community association, incorporated or unincorporated, combining individual home ownership with shared use or ownership of common property or facilities. The association is responsible for maintaining the common facilities and delivering services, but may or may not own the common facilities.

HOSPITAL

An institution providing health services, primarily for inpatients, and medical or surgical care of the sick or injured, including as an integral part of the institution such related facilities as laboratories, outpatient departments, training facilities, central service facilities, and staff offices.

HOTEL

A building containing 20 or more individual sleeping rooms or suites, a private bathroom attached thereto, for the purpose of providing overnight lodging facilities to the general public for compensation with or without meals, excluding accommodations for employees, and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is made through an inside office or lobby supervised by a person in charge at all hours. Where a hotel is permitted as a principal use, all uses customarily and historically accessory thereto for the comfort, accommodation and entertainment of the patrons, including the service of alcoholic beverages, shall be permitted.

HOUSE TRAILER

A vehicular portable dwelling unit designed especially for short-term occupancy, such as travel trailers, campers, houseboats, converted buses and other similar units, whether self-propelled, pulled or hauled, and designed primarily for highway travel.

HUSBANDRY

The cultivation or production of plants and animals (livestock) and/or the by-products thereof.

ILLEGAL USE

Any use, whether of a building or other structure, or of a tract of land or body of water, in which a violation of any provision of this chapter has been committed or shall exist.

IMPACT NOISE

A short-duration sound which is incapable of being accurately measured on a sound level meter.

IMPERVIOUS SURFACE

An area that releases as runoff all or a majority of the precipitation that falls on it. "Impervious surface" excludes frozen soil but includes rooftops, sidewalks, driveways, parking lots and streets, unless specifically designed, constructed and maintained to be pervious. Roadways as defined in § 340.01(54), Wis. Stats., or sidewalks as defined in § 340.01(58), Wis. Stats., are not considered impervious surfaces.

IMPROVEMENT

Any building, structure, place, work of art, or other object constituting a physical betterment of real property, or any part of such betterment, including street grading and surfacing with or without curbs and gutter, sidewalks, crosswalks, water mains, sanitary and storm sewers, culverts, bridges, streets and trees.

IMPULSIVE NOISE

A sound which is no longer than two seconds in duration, followed by no less than a two-second rest.

INCREASE IN REGIONAL FLOOD HEIGHT

A calculated upward rise in the regional flood elevation greater than 0.00 foot, based on a comparison of existing conditions and proposed conditions, which is directly attributable to development in the floodplain but not attributable to manipulation of mathematical variables such as roughness factors, expansion and contraction coefficients, and discharge.

INDOOR RIDING ARENA (PRIVATE)

See "riding stable (private)."

INDOOR RIDING ARENA (PUBLIC)

See "riding stable (public)."

INSTITUTION

A nonprofit establishment for public use.

INSTITUTIONAL HOME

A place for the care of babies, children, pensioners or the elderly.

INTENSE BURNING

Implies a rate of combustion described by a material that burns with a high degree of activity and is consumed rapidly.

INTERCHANGE

A grade-separated intersection with one or more turning lanes for travel between intersection lanes.

INTERSECTING STREET

Any street or public way or court, 30 feet or more in width, which joins another at an angle, whether or not it crosses the other.

JUNK

Includes without limitation due to enumeration scrap iron, scrap tin, scrap brass, scrap copper, scrap lead or scrap zinc and all other scrap metals and their alloys and bones, rags, used cloth, used rubber, used rope, used tinfoil, used bottles, old or used machinery, used tools, used appliances, used fixtures, used utensils, used lumber, used boxes or crates, used pipe or pipe fittings, used automobile or airplane tires, and other manufactured goods that are so worn, deteriorated or obsolete as to make them unusable in their existing condition.

JUNK MERCHANT

Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, exchanging or dealing in old junk, metals, bottles, siphons, old rope, old iron, brass, copper, tin or lead, secondhand plumbing materials, secondhand gas and electric fixtures, old rubber tires or other used or old articles commonly designated as "junk," and having a store, stand or place of business.

JUNKYARD

A place where junk, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled, wrecked or dismantled, or handled, including automobile wrecking yards, house wrecking, and structural steel materials and equipment, but not including the purchase or storage of used furniture and household equipment, used cars in operable condition, or used or salvaged materials as part of manufacturing operations.

KENNEL

Any lot or premises on which four or more dogs or cats, or both, at least four months of age are kept, boarded or trained, whether in special structures or runways or not.

KITCHEN

Any room used, intended to be used or designed to be used either wholly or partly for cooking and/or the preparation of food.

KITCHEN, EFFICIENCY

A small kitchen, also referred to as a "kitchenette," usually consisting of a refrigerator, microwave or hotplate and sink.

LABORATORY

A building or part of a building devoted to the testing and analysis of any product or animal (including humans) or to the development of and fabrication of preliminary or pilot models. Also includes a laboratory which provides bacteriological, biological, medical, x-ray, pathological and similar analytical or diagnostic services to doctors or dentists. No fabricating is conducted on the premises, except the custom fabrication of dentures. No manufacturing is conducted on the premises, except for experimental or testing purposes.

LAGOON

A water body in a depression of an off-shore bar, a beach ridge, or shore dune, with those geomorphic features, either natural or man-made, acting as barriers or dams. Also, a shallow pond, channel or impoundment connected to a larger body of water.

LAGOONING

The act of creating a lagoon.

LAND LINE

Section lines, half-section lines, quarter-section lines, and other property lines established by metes and bounds outside the boundaries of reported land subdivision plats.

LAND USE

Any nonstructural use made of unimproved or improved real estate. (Also see "development.")

LANDFILL

See "sanitary landfill."

LANDSCAPED AREA

An area that is permanently devoted and maintained to the growing of trees, shrubbery, grass and other plant material.

LANDSCAPING

The improvement of a lot, parcel or tract of land with grass and shrubs and/or trees. Landscaping may include pedestrian walks, flowerbeds, ornamental objects such as fountains, statuary and other similar natural objects designed and arranged to produce an aesthetically pleasing effect.

LAUNDROMAT

A business that provides washing, drying and/or ironing machines for hire to be used by customers on the premises.

LEAST RESTRICTIVE DISTRICT

Agricultural districts are less restrictive than residential districts.

Residential districts are less restrictive than business districts.

Business districts are less restrictive than manufacturing districts.

LETTER OF MAP AMENDMENT (LOMA)

Manufacturing districts are less restrictive than institutional districts.

(5)

Institutional districts are less restrictive than conservancy districts.

(6)

Conservancy districts are less restrictive than overlay districts.

LEGALLY EXISTING

See § 490-32.2.

Official notification from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that a Flood Hazard Boundary Map or Flood Insurance Rate Map has been amended.

LETTER OF MAP REVISION (LOMR)

Official notification from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that a municipality's Flood Hazard Boundary Map or Flood Insurance Rate Map has been amended. A LOMR is issued when the revised map is not republished.

LIBRARY

A place in which books, manuscripts, musical scores or other literary and artistic materials are kept for use and only incidentally for sale.

LIVESTOCK–ANIMAL

Animals of any kind kept or raised for sale, resale, agricultural field production or pleasure, excluding fur-bearing animals.

LIVING QUARTERS

One or more rooms in a building designed for occupancy by one or more persons for living and/or sleeping.

LIVING ROOMS

All rooms within a dwelling except closets, foyers, storage areas, utility rooms and bathrooms.

LOADING AREA

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.

LOADING SPACE

An off-street space, at least 10 feet by 50 feet with a minimum height clearance of 14 feet, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials, and which abuts on a street or other appropriate means of access.

LODGING HOUSE

A building other than a hotel, where lodging, without meals, for five or more persons is provided for compensation.

LOT

For the purpose of this Village of Salem Lakes Zoning Ordinance, a lot shall be defined as a tract of land on which a principal building and its accessory building(s) are or may be placed, together with the required open spaces. No lands dedicated to the public or reserved for roadway purposes shall be included in the computation of lot area except in the A-1, A-2, A-3 and A-4 Agricultural Districts.

LOT AREA

The area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side and rear lot lines. No lands dedicated to the public or reserved for roadway purposes shall be included in the computation of lot area except in the A-1, A-2, A-3 and A-4 Agricultural Districts.

LOT AREA, BUILDABLE

The portion of a lot remaining after required yards have been provided.

LOT COVERAGE

That percentage of a lot which, when viewed directly from above, would be covered by a structure or structures, or any part thereof, excluding projecting roof eaves.

LOT DEPTH

The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.

LOT LINE, FRONT

The line separating the lot from the street.

LOT LINE, REAR

The line which most nearly qualifies as the line most distant and opposite from the front lot line; where the lot is irregularly shaped, a line perpendicular to the mean direction of the side lot lines and at least 10 feet in length within the lot.

LOT LINE, SIDE

Any lot line other than a front lot line or a rear lot line.

LOT LINES

The lines bounding a lot.

LOT LINES AND AREA

The peripheral boundary of a parcel of land and the total area lying within such boundaries.

LOT OF RECORD

A lot which is part of a recorded subdivision or a parcel of land which has been recorded at the Kenosha County Register of Deeds Office and which has been assigned a property parcel number.

LOT WIDTH

The width of a parcel of land measured at the rear of the specified street yard.

LOT, BUILDING

Land occupied or to be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, or by a dwelling group and its accessory buildings, together with such open spaces as are required under the provisions of this chapter, having not less than the minimum area and width required by this chapter for a lot in the district in which such land is situated, and having its principal frontage on a street or on such other means of access as may be determined in accordance with the provisions of the law to be adequate as a condition of the issuance of a building permit for a building on such land.

LOT, CORNER

A lot which occupies the interior angle at the intersection of two street lines which make an angle of less than 135° with each other.

LOT, INTERIOR

A lot other than a corner lot.

LOT, SUBSTANDARD

A parcel of land having frontage on a public street, easement of record or other officially approved means of access, occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal building or structure together with accessory buildings and uses, having insufficient size to meet the lot width, lot area, yard, off-street parking area, or other open space provisions of this chapter.

LOT, THROUGH

A lot, other than a corner lot, having frontage on more than one street.

LOWEST FLOOR

The lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement). An unfinished or flood-resistant enclosure, usable solely for parking of vehicles, building access or storage, in an area other than a basement area is not considered a building's lowest floor, provided that such enclosure is not built so as to render the structure in violation of the applicable non-elevation design requirements of 44 CFR 60.3.

LUMINAIRE (LIGHT FIXTURE)

A complete lighting unit consisting of one or more electric lamps, the lamp holder, any reflector or lens, ballast (if any), and any other components and accessories.

LUMINANCE

The brightness of an object, expressed in terms of foot-lamberts, determined from other premises or from the street's public right-of-way, whichever is closer to the sign.

MACHINE SHOPS

Includes, without limitation due to enumeration, shops with lathes, presses, grinders, shapers, and other wood and metal working machines, such as blacksmith, tinsmith, welding and sheet metal shops, plumbing, heating and electrical repair and overhaul shops.

MAINTENANCE

Includes internal and external painting, decorating, and the replacement of doors, windows, siding, roofing shingles and other nonstructural components, and the maintenance, repair or replacement of existing private sewage or water supply systems or connections to public utilities.

MANUFACTURED HOME

A residential dwelling for one family as is defined in § 101.91(2), Wis. Stats., fabricated in an off-site facility for installation or assembly at the building site, bearing a HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) label or insignia certifying that it is built in compliance with the Federal Manufactured Housing Construction Standards under 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 to 5425, and built after June 14, 1976. A manufactured home shall be considered a single-family dwelling for the purposes of this chapter only where it meets the building, height, area and design standards delineated in the single-family residential districts and is located in the single-family residential districts. When located in the single-family residential districts, all wheels, axles, transportation lights, and other related towing apparatuses shall be removed. For the purposes of this chapter, a manufactured home shall be considered a dwelling unit when located in the Mobile Home/Manufactured Home Park/Subdivision Residential District.

MANUFACTURING

The processing and converting of raw, unfinished or finished materials or products, or any of these, into an article or substance of different character, or for use for a different character, or for use for a different purpose; also industries furnishing labor in the case of manufacturing or the refinishing of manufactured articles.

MARINA

A place for docking or storage of pleasure boats or providing services to pleasure boats and the occupants thereof, including minor servicing and repair to boats while in the water, sale of fuel and supplies, or provision of lodging, food, beverages and entertainment as accessory uses. A yacht club shall be considered a marina, but a hotel, motel or similar use, where docking of boats and provision of services thereto is incidental to other activities, shall not be considered a marina, nor shall boat docks accessory to a multiple dwelling where no boat-related services are rendered.

MATERIAL MODIFICATION

With respect to quarrying and nonmetallic mining operations, "material modification" means any change in the approved plan of operations or the approved plan of reclamation which is significant in terms of the concerns addressed by § 490-33.8B(110) of this chapter, including, without limitation, any nonapproved enlargement.

MICRON

A unit of length equal to 0.001 millimeter.

MINI WAREHOUSING

Establishments used for the dead storage of customers' goods and wares, where individual stalls or lockers are rented out to different tenants for storage and where one or more of the stalls or lockers is less than 500 square feet in area.

MITIGATION

Balancing measures that are designed, implemented and function to restore natural functions and values that are otherwise lost through development and human activities.

MOBILE HOME

A transportable factory-built structure as is defined in § 101.91(10), Wis. Stats., designed for long-term occupancy by one family and built prior to June 15, 1976, the effective date of the Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act. For the purposes of this chapter, a mobile home is considered to be a dwelling unit and is not considered to be a type of single-family dwelling, two-family dwelling, three-family dwelling or multifamily dwelling. All mobile homes shall be located in a Mobile Home/Manufactured Home Park/Subdivision Residential District.

MOBILE HOME LOT

A parcel of land in a mobile home/manufactured home park/subdivision for the placement of a single mobile home or a single manufactured home and the exclusive use of its occupants.

MOBILE HOME/MANUFACTURED HOME PARK/SUBDIVISION

A parcel of land or subdivision used for the placement of two or more mobile homes and/or manufactured homes. Manufactured home developments and subdivisions shall not be included under this definition where all manufactured homes meet the regulations in each zoning district for a residential dwelling.

MODERATE BURNING

Implies a rate of combustion described by a material which supports combustion and is consumed slowly as it burns.

MODULAR HOME

A structure transported in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent foundation and meets the minimum requirements of the Wisconsin Uniform Dwelling Code.

MORGUE

A place where the unidentified and derelict dead are at all times received and kept and exposed to public view for the purposes of identification.

MOTEL or TOURIST CABIN

A building or group of buildings, which:

Contains sleeping accommodations, each unit having a private bathroom attached thereto;

Has individual entrances from outside the building to serve each such sleeping unit;

Is furnished by the owner prior to occupancy; and

NAVD or NORTH AMERICAN VERTICAL DATUM

Is leased on a daily rate for transient occupancy.

NAMEPLATE SIGN

A sign indicating the name and/or occupation of a person or persons residing on the premises or legally occupying the premises, or indicating a home occupation legally existing on the premises.

Elevations referenced to mean sea level datum, 1988 adjustment.

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 § 59.692, Wis. Stats., and Ch. NR 115, Wis. Adm. Code, do not apply to lands adjacent to:

(a)

Farm drainage ditches, where such lands are not adjacent to a natural navigable stream or river and such lands were not navigable streams before ditching; and

(b)

Artificially constructed drainage ditches, ponds or stormwater retention basins that are not hydrologically connected to a natural navigable water body.

OFFICIAL LETTER OF MAP CHANGE (LOMC)

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 DeGayner 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 the state though it may be dry during other seasons.

NET RESIDENTIAL AREA

That portion of a project site designated for residential lots and common open space areas.

NIGHTCLUB

An establishment which shall include, in addition to the serving of food and entertainment, the provision for dancing and sale of malt beverages to the public.

NONCOMFORMING LOT

See § 490-3.2.

NONCOMFORMING USE

See § 490-3.2.

NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE

See § 490-3.2.

NOXIOUS MATTER

Material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical reaction or is capable of causing detrimental effects upon the physical or economic well-being of individuals.

NUISANCE

Anything that interferes with the use or enjoyment of property, endangers personal health or safety or is offensive to the senses.

NURSERY

Any land used to raise trees, shrubs, flowers and other plants for sale or for transplanting.

NURSERY SCHOOL

A place where three or more children are kept for the purpose of providing supplemental parental care, including day nursery, day-care home for children, and kindergarten.

NURSING HOME

An institution for the care of children or the aged or infirm, or a place of rest for those suffering bodily disorders, but not including facilities for surgical care. See also "retirement home" and "home for the aged."

OBSTRUCTION TO FLOW

Any development which physically blocks the conveyance of floodwaters such that this development by itself or in connection with any future similar development will cause an increase in regional flood height.

OCCUPY

To take or enter upon possession of.

OCTAVE BAND

A prescribed interval of sound frequencies which permits classifying sound according to its pitch.

ODOR THRESHOLD

The lowest concentration of odorous matter in the air that will produce a response in the normal human nose.

ODOROUS MATTER

Any matter or material that yields an odor which is offensive in any way or any matter or material that produces a response in the normal human nose.

OFFICE

A room or building in which a person transacts his business or carries on his stated occupation.

OFFICE BUILDING

A building designed or used only for office purposes.

A letter which reflects an official revision to an effective National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) map. Letters of map change are issued in place of the physical revision and republication of the effective map. Different types of letters of map change include the following:

A Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) is an official amendment, by letter, to an effective NFIP map. A LOMA establishes a property's location in relation to the special flood hazard area (SFHA); or

A Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) is an official revision, by letter, to an effective NFIP map. A LOMR may change flood insurance risk zones, floodplain and/or floodway boundary delineations, planimetric features, and/or BFE; or

OFFICIALLY APPROVED MEANS OF ACCESS

A Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill (LOMR-F) is an official revision, by letter, to an effective NFIP map. A LOMR-F provides FEMA's determination concerning whether a structure or parcel has been elevated on fill above the BFE and excluded from the SFHA.

Those roads that have never been formally dedicated but are maintained by the state, county or Village.

ON-SITE SEWAGE DISPOSAL ABSORPTION SYSTEM

Includes a state-approved septic or mound system for collection of sanitary waste and eventual absorption of such waste into the surrounding soils.

OPEN SPACE

That ground area and the space above which is unimpeded from the ground to the sky by any main structure, except that the area may be used for landscaping or recreational purposes such as for swimming, shuffleboard, tennis, etc. Parking lots and storage areas for vehicles and material shall be considered as open space.

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.

PARK

A pleasure ground set apart for recreation of the public to promote its health and enjoyment.

PARK, AMUSEMENT

An area, publicly or privately owned, containing amusement and recreation facilities and devices, whether operated for profit or not.

PARK, PUBLIC

An area owned by the Village or county or a municipality within the county, operated for the convenience and recreation of the public, and containing such facilities as the owning municipality shall see fit.

PARKING AREA

An off-street area containing one or more parking spaces, with passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto. In general, there shall be an average of at least 350 square feet of parking area per parking space to ensure adequate aisle widths.

PARKING AREA, PRIVATE

An open area, other than a street or alley, used for the parking of the automobiles of occupants of a dwelling.

PARKING AREA, PUBLIC

An area other than a private parking area, street or alley, used for the parking of automobiles and available for public or quasi-public use.

PARKING LOT

An open area other than a street used for the parking of more than four automobiles and available for public use, whether free, for compensation, or as an accommodation for clients or customers.

PARKING SPACE

A surfaced area, enclosed or unenclosed, sufficient in size to store one automobile not less than nine feet wide and 20 feet long, together with a driveway connecting the parking space with a street, road or alley and permitting ingress and egress of that automobile without the necessity of moving any other automobile.

PARTICULATE MATTER

Dust, smoke or any other form of airborne pollution in the form of minute separate particles.

PARTIES IN INTEREST

Includes all abutting property owners, all property owners within 300 feet of a parcel and all property owners of opposite frontages and of properties that may be directly and immediately affected by a proposed change in this chapter.

PARTY WALL

A wall containing no opening which extends from the elevation of building footings to the elevation of the outer surface of the roof or above, and which separates continuous buildings but is in joint use for each building.

PATIO

A level surface consisting of concrete, paving brick or stone constructed for recreational purposes, without footings, extending not more than six inches above the average level of the ground at its margins, provided that no fixed walls or roof shall be erected on or over any patio or similar structure that is located in a required yard.

PERFORMANCE STANDARD

A criterion established for the purposes of assigning proposed industrial uses to proper districts and making judgments in the control of noise, odor, smoke, toxic matter, vibration, fire and explosive hazards, or glare generated by, or inherent in, uses of land or buildings.

PERMANENT OCCUPANCY

The rental of housing accommodations or rooms on a week-to-week, month-to-month or year-to-year basis with a fixed rent for each period of occupancy.

PERSON

An individual, firm, copartnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate or other group or combination acting as a unit.

PETS, HOUSEHOLD

Animals commonly found in residences as pets, such as dogs, cats, songbirds and other small animals, provided that they are not raised or reared for commercial resale or as a source of staple supplement. "Household pets" shall not include horses, chickens, cows, goats, sheep, hogs, snakes or other animals not commonly found in residences.

PIERHEAD LINE

A boundary line established along any section of the shore of any navigable waters by a municipal ordinance approved by the State Department of Natural Resources pursuant to § 30.13, Wis. Stats. Piers and wharves are only permitted to the landward side of such pierhead line unless a permit has been obtained pursuant to § 30.12, Wis. Stats.

PLACE

The establishment of a building or structure in a particular location, whether by original construction or erection or by moving a building or structure to a particular location.

POLE OR POST COVER/ENCLOSURE

A cover or enclosure consisting of painted metal, brick, decorative masonry, natural and decorative stone, or masonry with a stucco finish, which encloses and is permanently attached to a sign pole, post or pylon that supports the sign. No additional sign copy or lettering is permitted on the cover or enclosure, except for street address numbers.

PORCH, OPEN/ENCLOSED

A roof partially or wholly supported by columns and/or wall sections, including sunrooms, three-season porches, screen porches, etc.

PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED

A lot or parcel that was developed with a structure legally placed upon it.

PRIMARY STREET YARD

A yard normally including the driveway access, extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the existing street right-of-way line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure. Corner lots shall have one primary street yard and one secondary street yard.

PRINCIPAL USE

The primary purpose or function that a lot serves or is intended to serve.

PRIVATE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM or POWTS

A sewage treatment and disposal system serving a single structure with a septic tank and soil absorption field located on the same parcel as the structure. This term also means an alternative sewage system approved by the Department of Safety and Professional Services, including a substitute for the anaerobic treatment tank or dispersal cell, a holding tank, a system serving more than one structure or a system located on a different parcel than the structure. A POWTS may be owned by the property owner or by a special purpose district.

PROFESSIONAL HOME OFFICES

Residences of doctors of medicine, practitioners, dentists, clergymen, architects, landscape architects, lawyers, professional engineers, professional land surveyors, artists, teachers, authors, musicians or other recognized professions used to conduct their professions, where the office does not exceed 1/2 the area of only one floor of the residence and where only one nonresident person is employed.

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE

The office of a person engaged in any occupation, vocation or calling, not purely commercial, mechanical or agricultural, in which a professed knowledge or skill in some department of science or learning is used by its practical application to the affairs of others, either advising or guiding them in serving their interest or welfare through the practice of an act founded thereon.

PUBLIC ENTRANCE

An architecturally enhanced entrance to an establishment which is provided primarily for use by the patrons or customers of the establishment and not for delivery purposes.

PUBLIC UTILITIES

Those utilities using underground or overhead transmission lines, such as electric, telephone and telegraph, and distribution and collection systems, such as water, sanitary sewer and storm sewer.

QUARRY

A place, cavern or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit.

QUARRY OR NONMETALLIC MINING REFUSE

Waste soil, rock, mineral, liquid, vegetation and other waste material resulting from a quarry or other nonmetallic mining operation. This term does not include merchantable by-products resulting directly from or displaced by the quarry or other nonmetallic mining operation, provided that the operator intends to market such by-products and the operation is active.

QUARRY OR NONMETALLIC MINING SITE

The location where a quarry or other nonmetallic mining operation is proposed to be conducted or is conducted, including, without limitation, all areas where minerals are proposed to be or are removed, processed or stored, and all areas which are proposed to be or are disturbed or improved in connection with the operations (but not including public streets, highways or other public improvements), and all setback areas surrounding the operations.

QUARRY OR OTHER NONMETALLIC MINING OPERATION

All of the activities undertaken for the purpose of extracting from the earth, for sale or use by the operator or any person affiliated or related to the operator, or any person with whom the operator has a contractual relationship, mineral aggregates such as stone, sand and gravel and other nonmetallic minerals such as asbestos, beryl, clay, feldspar, peat, talc and topsoil, and all related activities and processes on the site, including, without limitation, stripping, drilling, shooting, excavating, dredging, grading, scalping, dewatering, crushing, screening, washing, blending, loading, hauling, stockpiling and selling.

QUARRYING

The digging out of stone or slate from an open excavation.

RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY

A strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for track operation, but not including freight depots or stations, loading platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car or locomotive shops, or car yards.

REACH

A longitudinal segment of a stream generally including those floodplains which in flood stages are primarily and commonly controlled by the same man-made or natural obstructions to flow.

REAR YARD

An open space, including driveways and parking areas, unoccupied other than by permitted accessory buildings or uses, extending from the rear building line of a principal building to the rear lot line, between the side building lines, projected to the rear lot line.

RECLAMATION

With respect to quarrying and nonmetallic mining operations, "reclamation" means the rehabilitation of a quarry or other nonmetallic mining site, including, but not necessarily limited to, removal of quarry or other nonmetallic mining refuse, grading of the site, modification of sheer rock walls for purposes of safety and utility, replacement of topsoil, stabilization of soil and rock conditions, establishment of vegetative cover, landscaping, control of surface water and groundwater, prevention and remediation of environmental pollution, construction of fences, returning the site to a safe, useful and aesthetically pleasing condition, and, if practical, restoration of plant, fish and wildlife habitat.

RECREATIONAL CAMP

An area containing one or more permanent buildings used occasionally or periodically for the accommodation of members or guests of associations or groups for recreational, educational or religious purposes.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV)

A vehicular-type unit initially designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, which either has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle. The basic types of recreational vehicles are:

TRAVEL TRAILERA vehicular unit, mounted on wheels, of such size or weight as not to require special highway movement permits when drawn by a motorized vehicle, initially designed and constructed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, and a body length of no more than 35 feet and a body width of no more than eight feet six inches, when factory-equipped for the road.

TRUCK CAMPERA portable unit, designed to be loaded onto or affixed to the bed or chassis of a truck, constructed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use.

MOTOR HOMEA vehicular unit built on a self-propelled motor vehicle chassis, initially designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV) PAD

CAMPING TRAILERA vehicular unit mounted on wheels and constructed with collapsible partial sidewalls, which fold for towing by another vehicle and unfold at the campsite, and is initially designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use.

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Vans, buses and other vehicles when equipped for camping purposes, designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use.

A location on an RV lot or campground site constructed of gravel, asphalt or concrete designed to provide proper drainage for placement of an RV and, where possible, having amenities such as sewer, water and electrical connections.

REGIONAL FLOOD

A flood determined to be representative of large floods known to have occurred in Wisconsin. A regional flood is a flood with a one-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year, and if depicted on the FIRM, the RFE is equivalent to the BFE.

RENDERING PLANT

A plant for reduction of dead animals or slaughtered animals not suitable for human consumption to by-products, such as hide, skin, grease, bones, glue and soap, and for the storage of such by-products.

REPLACEMENT OF TOPSOIL

The replacement of the topsoil which was removed and disturbed by a quarry or other nonmetallic mining operation or the provision and placement of soil which is at least as adequate, in the opinion of the Village of Salem Lakes Plan Commission, as the topsoil which was removed or disturbed, for the purposes of providing adequate vegetative cover and stabilization of soil conditions.

RESORT

A hotel or motel that serves as a destination point for visitors. A resort generally provides recreational facilities for persons on vacation. A resort shall be self-contained and provide personal services customarily furnished at hotels, including the serving of meals.

REST HOME

An agency, organization or individual providing care for three or more sick or aged persons not related by blood or marriage to the operator.

RESTAURANT

A public eating establishment in which the primary function is the preparation and serving of food on the premises.

RESTAURANT WITH DRIVE-IN SERVICE

An establishment designed, in whole or part, to cater to or accommodate the consumption of food and/or beverage in automobiles on the premises of such establishment.

RESTRICTIVE COVENANT

See "deed restriction."

RETIREMENT HOME

A building or institution for the accommodation of elderly persons, with or without nursing or medical care, provided that, if such nursing or medical care is to be provided on a continuing basis for at least three persons for not less than 72 hours per week, such building or institution shall be classified as a nursing home. See also "nursing home" and "home for the aged."

RIDING STABLE

A building or premises used for the rent or lease of horses or animals for riding.

RIDING STABLE (PRIVATE)

A principal agricultural building and/or land use that is designed, arranged, used or intended to be used for the keeping of equines for the private use of the occupants of a principal dwelling and their boarders and/or guests. Breeding, boarding or training of equines may also be conducted. These facilities are not open to the public.

RIDING STABLE (PUBLIC)

A principal building and/or land use in or on which equines are kept for sale or hire to the public. Breeding, livery, boarding, riding lessons, or training of equines may also be conducted.

RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE

The dividing line between a highway and the abutting lots or other divisions of land.

RINGELMANN CHART

One which is described in the U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 6888 or its successor, and on which are illustrated graduated shades of grey for use in estimating the light-obscuring capacity of smoke.

RINGELMANN NUMBER

The number appearing in the Ringelmann Chart ascribed by the observer to the density of the smoke emission. Where the density or light-obstructing capacity of the smoke as observed falls between two consecutive Ringelmann Numbers, the lowest Ringelmann Number shall be considered the density of the smoke observed.

ROUTINE MAINTENANCE OF VEGETATION

Normally accepted horticultural practices that do not result in the loss of any layer of existing vegetation and do not require earth disturbance.

ROW HOUSE

One of a group of three or more houses sharing a common or party wall on one or both side lot lines.

SANITARIUM

A health station or retreat; an institution for the recuperation and treatment of persons suffering from physical or mental disorders.

SANITARY LANDFILL

A type of land disposal operation involving the disposal of solid waste on land without creating nuisances or hazards to public health or safety by utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the solid waste to the smallest practical area, to reduce it to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with a layer of earth at the conclusion of each day's operation or at such more frequent intervals as may be necessary.

SCHOOL

A place for systematic instruction in any branch or branches of knowledge.

SECONDARY STREET YARD

A yard normally not including the driveway access, extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the existing street right-of-way line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure. Corner lots shall have one primary street yard and one secondary street yard.

SEDIMENT

Soils or other surficial materials transported by winds or surface waters as a product of erosion.

SEPARATION DISTANCE

The required distance between the outer boundary of a cluster group and another specified feature of the development.

SERVICE STATION

See "fueling station."

SETBACK

The distance between a street line and the front building line of a principal building or structure, projected to the side lines of the lot, and including driveways and parking areas, except where otherwise restricted by this chapter.

SHED

A subordinate structure or building used primarily for storage purposes, of a height no greater than 12 feet, and the total square footage of which does not exceed 150 square feet.

SHELTER, FALLOUT

A structure or portion of a structure intended to provide protection to human life during periods of danger to human life from nuclear fallout, air raids, storms or other emergencies.

SHORE YARD

A yard extending across the full width or depth of a lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between a line intersecting both side lot lines at the same angle and containing the point of the ordinary high-water mark of a pond, stream, lake or wetland nearest the principal structure and a line parallel thereto containing the point of the principal structure nearest the high-water line.

SHORELAND SETBACK (also known as the "shoreland setback area")

An area in a shoreland that is within a certain distance of the ordinary high-water mark, in which the construction or placement of structures has been limited or prohibited under an ordinance enacted under § 59.692, Wis. Stats.

SHORELAND WETLAND DISTRICT

A zoning district, created as a part of a Village zoning ordinance, comprised of shorelands that are designated as wetlands on the Wisconsin wetland inventory maps prepared by the Department of Natural Resources.

SHORELANDS

All land, water and air located within the following distances from the ordinary high-water mark 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. If the navigable water is a glacial pothole lake, the distance shall be measured from the high-water mark thereof.

SHORELINES

The intersection of the land surfaces abutting lakes, ponds, streams, flowages and wetlands with the ordinary high-water mark.

SIDE YARD

An open unoccupied space within the lot between a side lot line and the parts of the building, structure or outbuilding nearest thereto. Such side yard shall extend on both sides of the lot through from the street line to the rear line of said lot.

SIGN

Any advertisement, announcement, direction or communication produced in whole or in part by the construction, erection, affixing or placing of a structure on any land or on any other structure, or produced by painting on or posting or placing any printed, lettered, pictured, figured or colored material or impression on any building, structure or surface. Signs placed or erected by governmental agencies or nonprofit civic associations or public or private institutions for a public purpose in the public interest shall not be included herein, nor shall this include signs which are a part of the architectural design of a building.

SIGN AREA

The total square or rectangular area of space needed for advertising purposes, including the spaces between open-type letters and figures, including the background structure or other decoration or addition which is an integral part of the sign. Sign supports shall be excluded in determining the area of a sign. A double-faced sign shall have twice the total area of a single-faced sign.

SIGN REFACING

Repainting or replacing the advertising surface of a sign without moving, reconstructing, extending, enlarging, converting or making structural changes to the sign.

SIGN, AWNING

A sign affixed to the surface of an awning, provided that the sign does not extend vertically or horizontally beyond the limits of such awning.

SIGN, BLADE

A small, pedestrian-oriented sign that projects perpendicular from a structure or is hung beneath an awning or canopy.

SIGN, BULLETIN BOARD

Sign erected by a charitable, educational or religious institution, or a public body, which is erected upon the same property as said institution, for the purpose of notification to the public of an event or occurrence of public interest, such as a church service, political rally, civic meeting or other similar event.

SIGN, BUSINESS

A sign which directs attention to a business, product, service or activity conducted or sold on the premises where the sign is displayed.

SIGN, CANOPY

A sign affixed to the surface of a canopy, provided that the sign does not extend vertically or horizontally beyond the limits of such canopy.

SIGN, DILAPIDATED

A sign where elements of the display area or panel are visibly cracked, broken or discolored, where the support structure or frame members are visibly corroded, bent, broken, torn or dented, or where the message can no longer be read under normal viewing conditions.

SIGN, FLASHING

Any illuminated sign, whether stationary, revolving or rotating, which exhibits changing light or color effects, provided that revolving or rotating signs which exhibit no changing light or color effects other than those produced by revolution or rotation shall be deemed flashing signs only if they exhibit sudden or marked changes in such light or color effects.

SIGN, FREESTANDING

A sign anchored directly to the ground or supported by one or more posts, columns or other vertical structures or supports and not attached to or dependent for support from any building.

SIGN, ILLUMINATED

A sign designed to give forth any artificial light or reflect such light from an artificial source.

SIGN, INFLATABLE

A freestanding or moored sign or advertising medium expanded or inflated with air or another gas, such as, but not limited to, an air dancer or balloon, which may or may not rise and float above the ground and may or may not be imprinted with a product name or logo. Types of inflatables included within this definition are, but are not limited to: air dancers, air tubes, crazy tubes, tube dancers, dancing inflatables, giant inflatables, inflatable product replicas, rotatable inflatables, inflatable costumes, tethered balloons or blimps, or inflatable mascots, figures and characters.

SIGN, MENU BOARD

A freestanding sign displaying the type and price of food and beverages sold in connection with permitted outdoor dining, or a freestanding sign permanently affixed to the ground in connection with drive-through restaurant service.

SIGN, MONUMENT

A sign mounted on a solid-appearing decorative base or platform which supports a minimum of 75% of the horizontal dimension of the sign display and which encloses the structural members that support the sign with brick, decorative masonry, natural or decorative stone or painted metal with the bottom of the sign face at or within a few feet of the base at grade.

SIGN, OBSOLETE

A sign which no longer correctly advertises a bona fide business, owner, landlord/tenant, product or activity conducted or product available on the premises where the sign is displayed.

SIGN, OFF-PREMISES (BILLBOARD)

Any sign advertising goods, products or services not located or sold on the premises on which the sign is located.

SIGN, ON-SITE INFORMATIONAL

A sign which provides special information, such as price, hours of operation, or parking regulations and information, and which does not include brand names or information regarding product lines or services. It may contain a business logo, if the logo is under one square foot in area. Examples of such signs include: signs that give direction regarding parking and traffic, such as "enter" or "exit" or "employee parking" or "customer parking" or "do not enter," or signs that direct traffic to a specific area such as "drive-through."

SIGN, PORTABLE

Any sign not permanently attached to the ground, a building or other immovable object. Such sign shall include any sign attached to, or displayed on, a vehicle that is used for the expressed purpose of advertising a business establishment, product, service or entertainment when that vehicle is parked adjacent to the public right-of-way and/or in a manner as to attract attention of motoring or pedestrian traffic.

SIGN, PROJECTING

Any sign that is attached in a plane approximately perpendicular to the surface of a building or other structure.

SIGN, REAL ESTATE

A sign pertaining to the sale or lease of the lot or tract of land on which the sign is located or to the sale or lease of one or more structures or a portion thereof located on such lot or tract of land.

SIGN, ROOF

A sign erected, constructed or maintained on the roof of a building or structure above the eaves, or above mansards, parapets or other similar architectural features of buildings or structures which are capable of supporting signs.

SIGN, SUSPENDED

A sign that is suspended from the underside of a horizontal plane surface and is supported by such surface.

SIGN, UNIFIED BUSINESS CENTER

A monument sign which identifies multiple tenants located on multiple parcels within a commercial development or business/industrial park.

SIGN, WALL

Any sign attached to, erected on or painted on the wall of a building or structure, with the exposed face of the sign in a plane approximately parallel to and projecting not more than 12 inches from the face of the wall. Wall-mounted signs shall not extend above the top of the parapet wall (if one exists) or soffit-fascia line (if one exists) of a building. A wall sign may be of either one-piece construction or of individual connected or related letters or symbols. The sides of architectural projections do not constitute a wall per this definition.

SIGN, WINDOW

Any permanent or temporary sign, including any decal or graphic, that is legible from the outside, including plazas, public streets, and parking lots, and that is placed on the inside face of a window or mounted within two feet of the inside face of the window.

SILT

Soil particles, intermediate in size between sand and clay, which are readily transported by inflowing streams or surface waters into a body of water.

SITE

See "lot."

SLAUGHTERHOUSE

Any building or premises used for the killing or dressing of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses or poultry and the storage, freezing and curing of meat and preparation of meat products.

SLOW-BURNING OR INCOMBUSTIBLE

Implies materials which do not in themselves constitute an active fuel for the spread of combustion. A material which will not ignite, nor actively support combustion during an exposure for five minutes to a temperature of 1,200° F., shall be designated "incombustible."

SMOKE

Small gasborne particles other than water that form a visible plume in the air.

SMOKE UNIT

The number obtained when the smoke density in its Ringelmann Number is multiplied by the time of emission in minutes. For the purpose of this calculation, a Ringelmann density reading shall be made at least once a minute during the period of observation; each reading is then multiplied by the time in minutes during which it was observed. The various products are then added together to give the total number of smoke units observed during the entire observation period.

SOIL

Any earth, sand, gravel, rock or any similar material.

SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM

A device, array of devices, or structural design feature, the purpose of which is to provide for generation of electricity, the collection, storage and distribution of solar energy for space heating or cooling, daylight for interior lighting, or water heating.

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SOLID WASTE

Garbage, refuse and all other discarded or salvageable solid materials, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations and from domestic use and public service activities, but does not include solids or dissolved material in wastewater effluent or other common water pollutants.

SOUND LEVEL

The sound level of an operation or use is the intensity of sound, measured in decibels, produced by such operation or use.

SOUND LEVEL METER

An instrument standardized by the American Standards Association for measurement of intensity of sound.

SPECIAL EXCEPTION

See "conditional use."

START COMMENCEMENT

The doing of some act upon the ground on which the building is to be erected, and in pursuance of a design to erect, the result of which act would make known to a person viewing the premises, from observation alone, that the erection of a structure on that land had been commenced.

START OF CONSTRUCTION

The date the building permit was issued, provided the actual start of construction, repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, placement or other improvement was within the time limits as specified in § 490-3.3. The actual start means either the first placement of permanent construction on a site, such as the pouring of slab or footings, the installation of pilings, the construction of columns, or any work beyond initial excavation, or the placement of a manufactured home on a foundation. Permanent construction also includes land preparation, such as clearing, grading and filling. For an alteration, the actual start of construction means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor or other structural part of a building, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the building.

STEEP SLOPE

A slope over 12% grade, which is characterized by increased runoff, erosion and sediment hazards.

STORAGE

Holding or safekeeping goods in a warehouse or other depository to await the happening of some future event or contingency which will call for the removal of the goods.

STORAGE CAPACITY

The volume of space available above a given cross-section of a floodplain for the temporary storage of floodwater. The storage capacity will vary with stage.

STORE

A use devoted exclusively to the retail sale of a commodity or commodities.

STORY

That portion of a building included between a floor and the floor or roof next above it. A basement is not to be counted as a story unless the ceiling height exceeds four feet above the grade or unless more than 40% of the basement is for living purposes.

STORY, HALF

A story which is situated in a sloping roof, the floor area of which does not exceed 2/3 of the floor area of the story immediately below it, and which does not contain an independent dwelling unit.

STREET

A public thoroughfare, avenue, road, highway, boulevard, parkway, way, drive, lane, court or private easement providing, generally, the primary roadway to and egress from the property abutting along its length.

STREET LINE

A dividing line between a lot and a street right-of-way.

STREET YARD

A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the existing right-of-way line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure. Through lots (double frontage lots) shall have two such yards.

STREET YARD, PRIMARY

See "primary street yard."

STREET YARD, SECONDARY

See "secondary street yard."

STREET, ARTERIAL

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.

STRIPPING

Any activity which removes the vegetated surface cover, including tree removal, clearing, grubbing and storage or removal of topsoil.

STRUCTURAL ALTERATION

Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams or girders, or any substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls.

STRUCTURAL REPAIRS

Any repair to the supporting members of a structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders. Ordinary maintenance repairs, such as interior or exterior painting, decorating, paneling, replacing doors and windows, and replacing roof tiles or shingles, are not considered structural repairs.

STRUCTURALLY ALTERED

The making of such a substantial change in the construction, identity and use of the present building.

STRUCTURE

Any production or piece of work, artificially built up or composed of parts and joined together in some definite manner and form. Structures may include, but are not limited to, a principal structure or any accessory structure or a garage, shed, boathouse, sidewalk, walkway, patio, deck, retaining wall, porch or firepit.

STRUCTURE, MINOR

Any small, movable accessory erection or construction, such as birdhouses, tool houses, play equipment, arbors and walls and fences under four feet in height, meeting all street, side, rear and shore yard setback requirements.

STRUCTURE, TEMPORARY

A movable structure not designed for human occupancy nor for the protection of goods or chattels and not forming an enclosure.

SUBLOT

A subordinate and integral part of a lot, which lot is identified on a subdivision recorded in the maps and plats records of the Kenosha County Register of Deeds.

SUBDIVISION

Has the meaning given in § 236.02(12), Wis. Stats.

SUBDIVISION ROAD

A Village road or other officially approved means of access providing primary access to interior lots located within a subdivision as defined in the Village of Salem Lakes Land Division Ordinance.

SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE

Damage sustained by a structure whereby the cumulative cost of repairing or restoring the structure to its pre-damaged condition, over the life of the structure, would equal or exceed 50% of the equalized assessed value at the time the structure became nonconforming.

SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT

Any repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition or improvement of a building or structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the equalized assessed value at the time the structure became nonconforming. If the structure has sustained substantial damage, any repairs are considered substantial improvement regardless of the work performed. The term does not, however, include either any project for the improvement of a building required to correct existing health, sanitary or safety code violations identified by the Building Inspector and that are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions, or any alteration of a historic structure, provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure's continued designation as a historic structure.

SWIMMING POOL

Any structure, portable or permanent, containing a body of water 18 inches or more in depth, intended for recreational purposes, including a wading pool, but not including an ornamental reflecting pool or fish pond or similar type pool, located and designed so as not to create a hazard or to be used for swimming or wading.

TEMPORARY USE

A use of land, buildings or structures not intended to be of permanent duration and not located on a parcel for more than 12 months.

THEATER

A structure used for dramatic, operatic, motion picture, or other performance, for admission to which entrance money is received and no audience participation or meal service allowed.

TOWNHOUSE

A building that has one-family dwelling units erected in a row as a single building on adjoining lots, each being separated from the adjoining unit or units by a party wall or walls extending from the basement floor to the roof along the dividing lot line, and each such building being separated from any other building by space on all sides.

TOXIC MATTER

Those materials which are capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical means when present in relatively small amounts.

TRAFFIC LANE

A strip of roadway intended to accommodate a single line of moving vehicles.

TRANSIENT

A person who travels to a location away from his or her permanent address for a short period of time for vacation, pleasure, recreation, culture, business or employment.

TRUCK FARMING

A farm devoted to the production of vegetables for the market.

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.

UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP

The circumstance where special conditions, which were not self-created, affect a particular property and make strict conformity with restrictions governing dimensional standards (such as lot area, lot width, setbacks, yard requirements, or building height) unnecessarily burdensome or unreasonable in light of the purposes of this chapter. Unnecessary hardship is present only where, in the absence of a variance, no feasible use can be made of the property.

UNOBSTRUCTED OPEN SPACE

Land not covered by buildings or structures.

USE

Any purpose for which a building or other structure or a tract of land may be designed, arranged, intended, maintained or occupied; or