A.
All provisions, terms, phrases, and expressions contained in the
UDC shall be construed according to the stated purpose and intent
of the UDC.
B.
Words used in the present tense include the future; the singular
number includes the plural number; and the plural number includes
the singular number.
C.
The word "shall" is mandatory and not permissive.
D.
In any instance where a gender specific pronoun is used (e.g., he,
his/her), it is gender neutral.
E.
Unless otherwise specifically indicated, list of items or examples
that use terms such as including, such as, or similar language are
intended to provide examples and not to be exhaustive lists of all
possibilities.
F.
Whenever a reference is made to an ordinance, statute, regulation,
or document, that reference shall be construed as referring to the
most recent edition of such unless otherwise expressly stated.
G.
In the case of any difference in meaning between the text of the
UDC and any caption or illustration, the text shall control.
H.
Words and phrases not otherwise defined in this UDC shall be construed
according to the common and approved usage of American English.
A.
ABUTTING
ACRE, NET
ALLEY
AQUIFER
BLOCK
BUILDING CORNICE
BUILDING FACADE
BUILDING FACADE ARTICULATION
BUILDING HEIGHT
BUILDING PARAPET
BUILDING ROOF RIDGE LINE
BUILDING STEPBACK
BUILDING STREET FRONTAGE
BUILDING TRANSPARENCY
BUILDING, DETACHED
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
BUSINESS
COMMISSION
COMMUNITY EVENT
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
CONE OF DEPRESSION
CONSERVATION STANDARDS
CONSTRUCTION AREA
CRITICAL ROOT ZONE
DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT, BASE
DISTRICT, OVERLAY
DIVISION OF LAND
DWELLING
DWELLING UNIT
DWELLING, EFFICIENCY
EASEMENT
EXPOSURE, PRIMARY
EXPOSURE, SECONDARY
EXTRATERRITORIAL PLAT APPROVAL JURISDICTION
FAMILY
FORESTER
FOSTER FAMILY HOME
FRONTAGE
GARAGE, PRIVATE
GARAGE, PUBLIC
GROSS FLOOR AREA
GROUP FOSTER HOME
JUNK
LANDMARK TREE
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
LOADING AREA
LOT
LOT, AREA
LOT, BUILDABLE AREA
LOT, CORNER
LOT, COVERAGE
1.
2.
LOT, INTERIOR
LOT, LINE
LOT, REVERSED-CORNER
LOT, SUBSTANDARD
LOT, THROUGH
LOT, WIDTH
MEDICAL CAMPUS
MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOME SPACE
MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOME UNIT
MOBILE HOME LOT
MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISION
MODULAR UNIT
MULTI-MODAL PATH
MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY
NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE, LOT OR USE
NURSERYMAN
OPERATING STANDARDS
OWNER
PARK
PARK, CAPITAL COSTS
PARK, DEVELOPMENT FEES
PARK, NEEDS ASSESSMENT
PARK, SERVICE AREA
PARK, SERVICE STANDARD
PARK, SERVICE UNIT
PARKING LOT
PARTIES OF INTEREST
PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY
PERSON
PLAT
PLAT, FINAL
PLAT, PRELIMINARY
PROTECTIVE COVENANTS
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
RECHARGE AREA
REGULATED SUBSTANCES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
REPLAT
SHORELAND
1.
2.
SPECIMEN TREE(S) OR STAND
STORY
STORY, HALF
STREET
STREET, ARTERIAL
STREET, COLLECTOR
STREET, CONTROLLED ACCESS ARTERIAL
STREET, CUL-DE-SAC
STREET, FRONTAGE
STREET, LOCAL
STREET, MAJOR THOROUGHFARE
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION
STRUCTURE
STRUCTURE, MINOR
SUBDIVIDER
SUBDIVISION
1.
2.
SUBDIVISION, MINOR
TIME OF TRAVEL, FIVE-YEAR
TIME OF TRAVEL, THIRTY-DAY
TREE DIAMETER-AT-BREAST-HEIGHT
TREE DRIP LINE
UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP
UTILITIES
VEGETATIVE BUFFER
WELL FIELD
WETLANDS
WISCONSIN ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
YARD
YARD, REAR
YARD, SETBACK
YARD, SIDE
YARD, STREET
ZONE OF SATURATION
For the purposes of this Title, the following general definitions
shall be used:
Have a common property line or district line.
The actual land devoted to the land use, excluding public
streets, public lands, or unusable lands, and school sites contained
within 43,560 square feet.
A public way that affords only a secondary means of access
to abutting property.
A saturated, permeable geologic formation that contains and
will yield significant quantities of water.
A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of
streets and public parks or other recognized lines of demarcation.
A projecting horizontal decorative molding along the top
of the principal front wall of a building.
The exterior elevation of a building or structure extending
from the ground to the top of the wall, cornice, parapet, or eaves
and the entire width of the building elevation.
A recess or projection in the building facade that gives
texture to the building surface, creates the impression that one building
is two or more buildings, incorporates a unique building element,
and improves the building's overall composition and aesthetic. Minimum
requirements for a building break are a depth of two feet and a width
of four feet.
The vertical distance from the average curb level in front
of the lot or the average finished grade at the building line, whichever
is higher, to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, to the
deck line of a mansard roof or to the average height of the highest
gable of a gambrel, hip or pitched roof. See Figure 13.06.12-1.
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Figure 13.06.12-1 Building Height
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A low wall or protective barrier that extends vertically
above the roof line of a building.
The line which marks the highest point of a pitched roof.
A setback of a building's upper floor(s) in order to reduce
the building's bulk, articulate the base of the building, ensure a
more comfortable street environment, and provide light and air at
street level.
The proportion of a lot's frontage on a public street that
is occupied by a building as measured at the required maximum front
yard setback. Corner lots must meet maximum front yard setback requirements
for both public street frontages.
Openings in the street-facing facade of a building that are
transparent, including windows and doors, which enable increased physical
and/or visual interaction between street/sidewalk/plaza activities
and a building's interior uses and activities.
A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
A building in which the principal use of the lot on which
it is located is conducted.
An occupation, employment or enterprise that occupies time,
labor and materials, or wherein merchandise is exhibited or sold,
or where services are offered.
The Plan Commission created by the Common Council pursuant
to § 62.23, Wis. Stats., as may be amended.
An event in the Onalaska region that is sponsored by a social,
religious, fraternal, nonprofit, or governmental organization that
benefits the larger society, a charitable cause, or acts a fund-raiser
for the sponsor.
A Comprehensive Plan prepared by the City indicating the
general locations recommended for the various functional classes of
land use, places and structures, and for the general physical development
of the City and includes any unit or part of such plan separately
adopted and any amendment to such plan or parts thereof.
The area around a well, in which the water level has been
lowered at least 1/10 of one foot by pumping of the well.
Guidelines and specifications for soil and water conservation
practices and management enumerated in the Technical Guide, prepared
by the USDA Soil Conservation Service for La Crosse 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 their needs in developing their soil
and water conservation.
Any area in which movement of earth, alteration of topography,
soil compaction, disruption of vegetation, changes in soil chemistry,
or any change in the natural character of the land occurs as a result
of site preparation, grading, building construction or any other construction
activity.
The area of tree roots within the crown drip line. This zone
is generally defined as a circle with a radius extending from a tree's
trunk to a point no less than the furthest crown drip line. Disturbances
within this zone will directly affect a tree's chance for survival.
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including but not limited to construction of, or additions or substantial
improvements to, buildings, other structures, or accessory uses, mining,
dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations
or disposition of materials.
A part or parts of the City for which the regulations of
this Title governing the use and location of land and building are
uniform.
Overlay districts, also referred to herein as regulatory
areas, provide for the possibility of superimposing certain additional
requirements upon a base zoning district without disturbing the requirements
of the base district. In the instance of conflicting requirements,
the stricter of the conflicting requirements shall apply with the
exception of the Planned Unit Development Overlay District or Planned
Commercial Industrial District, which may supersede the requirements
of the underlying base district as specifically approved by the Common
Council.
Where the title or any part thereof is transferred by the
execution of a land contract, an option to purchase, an offer to purchase
and acceptance, a deed, or a certified survey.
A building designed or used exclusively as a residence or
sleeping place, but does not include boarding or lodging houses, motels,
hotels, tents, cabins or mobile homes.
A group of rooms constituting all or part of a dwelling,
which are arranged, designed, used or intended for use exclusively
as living quarters for one family.
A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room with no
separate sleeping rooms.
The area of land set aside or over or through which a liberty,
privilege or advantage in land, distinct from ownership of the land,
is granted to the public or some particular person/entity or part
of the public.
Open areas adjacent to the front wall (or main entrance)
of a dwelling unit.
Open areas adjacent to side and rear walls of a dwelling
unit.
The unincorporated area within 1 1/2 miles of a fourth
class City or a village and within three miles of all other cities.
The body of persons who live together in one dwelling unit
as a single housekeeping entity.
A person holding a Bachelor's degree in forestry from an
accredited four-year college of forestry.
The primary domicile of a foster parent which is four or
fewer foster children and which is licensed under § 48.62,
Wis. Stats., as may be amended.
All the property abutting on one side of a street between
two intersecting streets or all of the property abutting on one side
of a street between an intersecting street and the dead end of a street.
A detached accessory building or portion of the principal
building, designed, arranged, used or intended to be used primarily
for storage of automobiles of the occupant of the private premises.
Any building or portion thereof, not accessory to a residential
building or structure, used primarily for equipping, servicing, repairing,
leasing or public parking of motor vehicles.
For the purpose of determining off-street parking and off-street
loading requirements, the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the
floors of the building, or portion thereof, devoted to a use requiring
off-street parking or loading. This area shall include elevators and
stairways, accessory storage areas located within selling or working
space occupied by counters, racks or closets and any basement floor
area devoted to retailing 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.
Any facility operated by a person required to be licensed
by the State of Wisconsin under State Stats. Section 48.62 for the
care and maintenance of five to eight foster children.
Any scrap, waste, reclaimable material or debris, whether
or not stored or used in conjunction with dismantling, processing,
salvage, storage, baling, disposal or other use or disposition. "Junk"
includes, but is not limited to, vehicles, tires, vehicle parts, equipment,
paper, rags, metal, glass, building materials, household appliances,
brush, wood and lumber.
A tree designated because it is one of the largest or oldest
of a species located in the City; it has a historic significance due
to an association with a historic building, site, street, person,
or event; or it is a defining landmark or significant outstanding
feature of a neighborhood.
A person who practices architecture and is registered or
licensed with the State of Wisconsin in accordance with Ch. 443, Wis.
Stats.
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.
A parcel of land having frontage on a public street, or other
officially approved means of access, occupied or intended to be occupied
by a principal structure or use and sufficient in size to meet the
lot width, lot frontage, lot area and other open space provisions
of the UDC as pertaining to the district wherein located.
The area contained within the exterior boundaries of a lot
excluding streets and land under navigable bodies of water.
The portion of a lot remaining after required yards have
been provided.
A lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection
provided that the corner of such intersection shall have an angle
of 135° or less, measured on the lot side.
NONRESIDENTIALThe area of a lot occupied by the principal building or buildings and accessory buildings including any driveways, parking areas, loading areas, storage areas and walkways.
RESIDENTIALThe area of a lot occupied by the principal building or buildings and accessory buildings.
A lot situated on a single street which is bounded by adjacent
lots along each of its other lines and is not a corner lot.
A property boundary line of any lot held in single or separate
ownership, except that where any portion of the lot extends into the
abutting street or alley, the lot line shall be deemed to be the abutting
street or alley right-of-way line.
A corner lot which is oriented so that it has its rear lot
line coincident with or parallel to the side lot line of the interior
lot immediately to its rear.
A parcel of land held in separate ownership having frontage
on a public street, or other 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 areas or other open
space provisions of this the UDC as pertaining to the district wherein
located.
A lot that has a pair of opposite lot lines along two substantially
parallel streets and which is not a corner lot. On a through lot,
both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured
at the building setback line.
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Figure 13.06.12-2 Types of Lots
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A group of establishments, in one or more buildings, on one
parcel of at least five contiguous developable acres and additional
developable land adjacent or separated by public right-of-way parcels
under common ownership designed as a coherent group to concentrate
outpatient or short-term inpatient medical care and in a single location
and offer a variety of medical services to promote the practice, teaching,
and progress of medicine and care of patients.
A plot of ground within a manufactured or mobile home community,
designed for the accommodation of one manufactured or mobile home.
A single manufactured or mobile home.
A parcel of land for the placement of a single mobile home
and the exclusive use of its occupants.
A land subdivision, as defined by Chapter 236 of the Wis.
Stats. and any City land division ordinance, with lots intended for
the placement of individual mobile home units. Individual home sites
are in separate ownership as opposed to the rental arrangements in
mobile home parks.
A modular unit is a factor fabricated transportable building
unit designed to be used by itself or to be incorporated with similar
units at a building site into a modular structure to be used for residential,
commercial, educational or industrial purposes.
A path physically separated from motorized vehicular traffic
that may be used for activities such as walking, jogging, and bicycling.
The municipal water supply of the City of Onalaska.
Any structure, lot, use of land, or any combination thereof
which was existing at the time of the effective date of this UDC or
amendments thereto and which is not in conformance with this UDC.
Any such structure conforming in respect to use but not in respect
to frontage, width, height, area, yard, parking, loading or distance
requirements shall not be considered a nonconforming use but shall
be considered nonconforming with respect to those characteristics.
A person licensed by the State of Wisconsin as a nurseryman.
Regulations that apply to land use activities/business practices
within a designated Wellhead Protection Overlay District.
Includes the plural as well as the singular and may mean
a natural person, firm, association, partnership, private corporation,
public or quasi-public corporation, or combination of these.
Parks, playgrounds and open space for recreational enjoyment.
The term "park" does not include facilities owned by a school district.
The cost to construct, expand or improve public park facilities,
including the cost of land, and including legal, engineering and design
costs to construct, expand or improve public park facilities, except
that not more than 10% of capital costs may consist of legal, engineering
and design costs unless the City can demonstrate that its legal, engineering
and design costs which relate directly to the public park improvement
for which the impact fees were imposed exceed 10% of capital costs.
Cash contributions, contributions of land or interest in
land or any other items of value that are imposed on a developer.
New public facilities or improvements or expansions of existing public facilities as relate to parks that are required because of land development for which impact fees will be imposed are those which are identified in this Section 13.04.44 and in parks needs assessment report prepared prior to the adoption of Section 13.04.44 and any amendments hereto. The needs assessment that forms the basis of any development fees imposed by the City by this Title shall be kept on file in the office of the City Clerk. The needs assessment report shall remain on file in the office of the City Clerk for the entire period during which development fees arising out of a specific report and Section 13.04.44 are collected prior to expenditure, and such report shall, after expenditure of all development fees, be maintained as a public record for such time period as required by law.
A geographic area delineated by the Common Council for which
the City provides public facilities.
A certain quantity or quality of public facilities relative
to a certain number of persons, parcels of land or other appropriate
measure, as specified by the City.
Residential or nonresidential development that benefits from
the City's park system.
A structure or premises containing five or more parking spaces
open to the public.
Includes all abutting property owners, all property owners
within 100 feet, and all property owners of opposite frontages.
A public way, usually running at right angles to streets,
which is intended for the convenience of pedestrians only; it may
also provide public right-of-way for utilities.
Person means an individual, partnership, association, corporation,
municipality or state agency, or other legal entity.
The map, drawing or chart on which the applicant's plat of
subdivision is presented to the City for approval.
The final plat map, drawing or chart on which the applicant's
plan of subdivision is presented for approval and which, if approved,
will be recorded at the office of the La Crosse County Register of
Deeds.
The preliminary plat map, drawing or chart indicating the
proposed layout of the subdivision to be submitted for its consideration
as to compliance with the Comprehensive Plan and these regulations
along with required supporting data.
Contracts entered into between private parties or between
private parties and public bodies pursuant to § 236.293,
Wis. Stats., which constitute a restriction on the use of all private
or platted property within a subdivision for the benefit of the public
or property owners and to provide mutual protection against undesirable
aspects of development which would tend to impair stability of values.
Any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, open channel, water main,
roadway, intersection controls, park, parkway, public access, sidewalk,
pedestrianway, planting strip or other facility for which the City
may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
The area which encompasses all areas or features that, by
surface infiltration of water, reaches the zone of saturation of an
aquifer and supplies groundwater to a well.
Chemicals and chemical mixtures that are health hazards.
Health hazards for chemicals and chemical mixtures are typically identified
on Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) available from the substance
manufacturer or supplier. Substances packaged for consumption for
humans or animals are not considered regulated substances. Regulated
substances include but are not limited to:
Chemicals for which there is scientific evidence that acute
or chronic health effects may result from exposure including carcinogens,
toxic and highly toxic agents, irritants, corrosives, sensitizers,
hepatotoxins, agents that act on the hematopoietic system, reproductive
toxins, and agents which damage the lungs, skin, eyes, or mucous membranes
as defined in 29 CFR 1910.1200, Appendix A, Health Hazard Definitions
(Mandatory).
Mixtures of chemicals which have been tested as a whole and
have been determined to be a health hazard.
Mixtures of chemicals which have not been tested as a whole
but which contain any chemical which has been determined to be a health
hazard and comprises 1% or greater of the composition on a weight-per-unit-weight
basis.
Mixtures of chemicals which include a carcinogen if the concentration
of the carcinogen in the mixture is 1/10 of 1% or greater of the composition
on a weight-per-unit-weight basis.
Ingredients of mixtures prepared within the Groundwater Protection
Overlay District in cases where such ingredients are health hazards
but comprise more than 1/10 of 1% of the mixture on a weight-per-unit-weight
basis if carcinogenic, or more than 1% of the mixture on a weight-per-unit-weight
basis if noncarcinogenic.
Petroleum and nonsolid petroleum derivatives (except non-PCB
dielectric fluids used in equipment or for transmission of electric
power to homes and businesses).
The process of changing, or a map or plat which changes the
boundaries of a recorded subdivision plat or part thereof. The legal
dividing of a large block, lot or outlot within a recorded subdivision
plat without changing exterior boundaries of said block, lot or outlot
is not a replat.
The area within the following distances from the ordinary
high-water mark of navigable waters, as defined under § 281.31(2)(d),
Wis. Stats.:
One thousand feet from a lake, pond or flowage. If the navigable
water is a glacial pothole lake, this distance shall be measured from
the high-water mark of the lake; or
Three hundred feet from a river or stream or to the landward
side of the floodplain, whichever distance is greater, § 59.692(1)(b),
Wis. Stats.
Any tree or grouping of trees which has been determined to
be of high value because of its type, size, age, or other professional
criteria, and has been so designated.
That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, or if there
is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling
next above it. Any portion of a story exceeding 14 feet in height
shall be considered as an additional story for each 14 feet or fraction
thereof. A basement having 1/2 or more of its height above grade shall
be deemed a story for purposes of height regulation.
That portion of a building under a gable, hip or mansard
roof, the wall plates of which, on at least two opposite exterior
walls, are not more than 4 1/2 feet above the finished floor
of such story. In the case of one family dwellings, two-family dwellings
and multifamily dwellings less than three stories in height, a 1/2
story in a sloping roof shall not be counted as a story for the purposes
of this Title.
Property other than an alley or private thoroughfare or travelway
which is subject to public easement or right-of-way for use as a thoroughfare
and which is 21 feet or more in width.
A public street or highway used or intended to be used primarily
for large volume or heavy through traffic. Arterial streets shall
include freeways and expressways as well as arterial streets, highways
and parkways.
A street which collects and distributes internal traffic
within an urban area such as a residential neighborhood, between arterial
and local streets. It provides access to abutting property.
The condition in which the right of owners or occupants of
abutting land or other persons to access, light, air or view in connection
with an arterial street is fully or partially controlled by public
authority.
A short street having but one end open to traffic and the
other end being permanently terminated in a vehicular turnaround.
A minor street auxiliary to and located on the side of an
arterial street for control of access and for service to the abutting
development.
A street of little or no continuity designed to provide access
to abutting property and leading into collector streets.
A street used or intended to be used primarily for fast or
heavy through traffic. Major thoroughfares shall include freeways,
expressways and other highways and parkways, as well as arterial streets.
Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such
as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
a permanent location on the ground or attached to something having
a permanent location on the ground.
Any small, movable accessory erection or construction such
as birdhouses, tool houses, pet houses, play equipment, arbors and
walls.
Any person, firm or corporation, or any agent thereof, dividing
or proposing to divide land resulting in a subdivision, minor subdivision
or replat.
The division of a lot, outlot, parcel, or tract of land by
the owner thereof or their agent for the purpose of transfer of ownership
or development:
Where the act of division creates five or more parcels or building
sites, all of which are five acres or less in area; or
Where the act of division creates five or more parcels or building
sites, all of which are five acres or less in area, by successive
divisions within a period of five years, whether done by the original
owner or a successor owner.
The division of land by the owner or their agent resulting
in the creation of not more than four parcels or building sites.
The five year time of travel is the recharge area upgradient
a well, including the cone of depression, the outer boundary from
which it is determined or estimated that groundwater will take five
years to reach a pumping well.
The thirty-day time of travel is the recharge area of a well,
or its cone of depression, the outer boundary of which it is determined
or estimated that groundwater will take 30 days to reach a pumping
well.
A standard measure of tree size, and is a tree trunk diameter
measured in inches at a height of 4 1/2 feet above the ground.
If a tree splits into multiple trunks below 4 1/2 feet, the trunk
is measured at its most narrow point beneath the split.
An imaginary vertical line that extends from the outermost
branches of a tree's canopy to the ground.
An unusual or extreme decrease in the adaptability of the
property to the uses permitted by the zoning district which is caused
by facts, such as rough terrain or good soil conditions, uniquely
applicable to the particular piece of property as distinguished from
those applicable to most or all property in the same zoning district.
Public and private facilities, such as water wells, water
and sewage pumping stations, water storage tanks, electrical power
substations, static transformer stations, telephone and telegraph
exchanges, microwave radio relays and gas regulation stations, fiber
cables, inclusive of associated transmission facilities, but not including
sewage disposal plants, municipal incinerators, warehouses, shops,
storage yards and power plants.
A protective vegetated zone located adjacent to a natural
resource such as a water body or a vegetated area used to screen or
partially screen a use or property from another use or property or
to shield or mitigate noise, lights, or other impacts.
A parcel of land used primarily for the purpose of locating
wells to supply a municipal water system.
An area where water is at, near or above the land surface
long enough to be capable of supporting aquatic or hydrophytic vegetation
and which has soils indicative of wet conditions as defined by § 23.32(1),
Wis. Stats..
The rules of administrative agencies having rule-making authority
in Wisconsin published in a loose-leaf, continual revision system,
as directed by § 35.93 and Chapter 227, Wis. Stats., including
subsequent amendments to those rules.
An open space on the same lot with a structure, unoccupied
and unobstructed from the ground upward except vegetation.
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth
of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the rear
lot line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of
the foundation of the principal structure. This yard shall be opposite
the street yard or one of the street yards on a corner lot. See Figure 13.06.12-3.
The minimum horizontal distance between the front lot line
and the nearest point of the foundation of that portion of the building
to be enclosed. The overhang cornices shall not exceed 24 inches.
Any overhang of the cornice in excess of 24 inches shall be compensated
by increasing the setback by an amount equal to the excess of cornice
over 24 inches.
A yard extending from the street yard to the rear yard of
the lot, the width of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance
between the side lot line and a line parallel thereto through the
nearest point of the foundation of the principal structure. See Figure 13.06.12-3.
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth
of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the existing
street or highway right-of-way line and a line parallel thereto through
the nearest point of the foundation of the principal structure. Corner
lots shall have two street yards. See Figure
13.06.12-3
The saturated zone is the area of unconsolidated, fractured
or porous material that is saturated with water and constitutes groundwater.
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Figure 13.06.12-3 Yard Designation
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A.
ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
ACCESSORY USE
ADULT USE
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
AGRICULTURE
AIRPORT
ANIMAL BOARDING, SHELTER, OR DAY-CARE CENTER
ANIMAL/VETERINARY CLINIC OR HOSPITAL
AUTOMOBILE FUELING AND SERVICE STATION
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR AND SERVICE, MAJOR
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR AND SERVICE, MINOR
AUTOMOBILE SALES, LEASING, AND SERVICE
BED-AND-BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENT
BREWERY
BREWPUB
BUILDING
CEMETERY
CHILD-CARE CENTER, LICENSED
CHILD-CARE CENTER, LICENSED GROUP
CHILD CARE PROVIDER, CERTIFIED FAMILY
CLINIC
CLUB, LODGE, OR MEETING PLACE OF A NONCOMMERCIAL NATURE
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR YARD
DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITY
DWELLING, APARTMENT
DWELLING, APARTMENT MIXED-USE
DWELLING, ATTACHED TOWNHOUSE OR ROW HOUSE
DWELLING, FARMSTEAD
DWELLING, SENIOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
DWELLING, ZERO-LOT-LINE
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
FENCE
HELIPAD or HELISTOP
HOME OCCUPATION
HOSPITAL
HOTEL/MOTEL
INDOOR RECREATIONAL FACILITY, COMMERCIAL
INDOOR RECREATIONAL FACILITY, PUBLIC
MAKERSPACE
MANUFACTURED HOME
MANUFACTURED OR MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY
MANUFACTURING, HEAVY
MANUFACTURING, LIGHT
OUTDOOR DINING AREA
OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL FACILITY, COMMERCIAL
OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL FACILITY, PUBLIC
OUTDOOR SALES DISPLAY
PLACE OF WORSHIP
PRINCIPAL USE
PRIVACY SCREEN
PROVISIONAL USE
RETAIL STORE
1.
2.
3.
SATELLITE EARTH STATION
SENIOR CARE FACILITY
SHOPPING CENTER
1.
2.
SHORT-TERM VACATION RENTAL
SMOKE SHOP
STORAGE YARD
SWIMMING POOL
TEMPORARY PRODUCE TENT/STAND
USE
For the purposes of this Title, the following definitions shall be
used to define land uses within the City:
A dwelling unit that is located on the same lot as a principal
residential structure to which it is accessory.
A detached structure subordinate to the principal use of
a structure, parcel of land or water and located on the same lot or
parcel serving a purpose incidental to the principal use or the principal
structure. Examples of accessory structures include, but are not limited
to, detached garages, detached decks, storage sheds, gazebos, greenhouses,
pergolas, outdoor saunas, solar equipment, children's play structures
that are permanently anchored to the ground with earth screws/foundations/etc.,
swimming pools greater than 18 feet in diameter, and other similar
accessory structures.
A subordinate use which is located on the same lot on which
the principal building or use is situated and which is reasonably
necessary and incidental to the conduct of the primary use of such
building or main use, when permitted by district regulations.
ADULT MINI THEATER DEVICESuch device shall mean any coin- or slug-operated or electrically or electronically or mechanically controlled machine or device that dispenses or effectuates the dispensing of entertainment, that is intended for the viewing of one or more but less than 100 persons in exchange for any payment of any consideration. The term "mini-theater device" shall not include any conventional motion-picture screen or projection area designed to be viewed in a room containing tiers or rows of seats with a viewer seating capacity of 100 or more persons.
ADULT BOOKSTORE OR VIDEO STOREAn establishment that has a substantial portion (more than 50%) of its stock-in-trade and offers for sale, for any form of consideration, any one or more of the following: books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter, or photographs, film, motion pictures, electronic media, or other visual representations that are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction of or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; or instruments, devices or paraphernalia that are designed for use in connection with specified sexual activities.
ADULT MOTION-PICTURE THEATER/MINI-MOTION-PICTURE THEATER/ARCADEAn establishment where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, electronic media, or similar photographic reproductions are shown, in which a substantial portion of the total presentation is devoted to the showing of material characterized by an emphasis on the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
ADULT ORIENTED ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESSAn adult video or bookstore, adult motion-picture theater, arcade, adult massage parlor, adult sauna, adult entertainment center, adult cabaret, adult steam room/bathhouse facility or any other business whose primary business activity is characterized by emphasis on matters depicting, describing or relating to nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement or sadomasochistic abuse as defined herein.
CABARETSA nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar establishment that regularly features live performances that are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities, or films, motion pictures, electronic media, or other photographic reproductions in which more than 10% of the total presentation time is devoted to the showing of material that is characterized by any emphasis upon the depiction of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
MASSAGE PARLORAn establishment which restricts minors by reason of age, and which provides the services of massage, if such service is distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas. This definition does not include an athletic club, health club, school, gymnasium, reducing salon, spa or similar establishment where massage or similar manipulation of the human body is offered as an incidental or accessory service.
NUDITYThe showing of the human male or female genitals or pubic areas with less than a fully opaque covering or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly erect state and/or the appearance of bare buttocks, anus or female breast, excluding the act of breast-feeding an infant or child.
SADOMASOCHISTIC ABUSEThe flagellation or torture by or upon a person clad in undergarments, a mask or bizarre costume, or the condition of being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on the part of the person so clothed.
SEXUAL CONDUCTActs of masturbation, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's unclothed genitals, pubic areas, buttocks, or if such person be a female, her breast.
SEXUAL EXCITEMENTThe condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREASLess than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttock, and female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola.
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIESHuman genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse or sodomy; fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttock or female breast.
The use of land for the growing and/or production of field
crops, livestock, and livestock products for income generation, including
but not limited to floriculture, forest and game management, orchards,
raising of grain, grass, mint and seed crops, raising of fruits, nuts
and berries, sod farming and vegetable farming. Livestock products
include but are not limited to milk, butter, cheese, eggs, honey and
fur. Agriculture includes the operating of such an area for one or
more of the above uses with the necessary accessory uses for treating
or storing the produce; provided, however, that the operation of any
such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of the normal farming
activities.
Any airport which complies with the definition contained
in § 114.002(7), Wis. Stats., or any airport that serves
or offers to serve common carriers engaged in air transport.
Any structure or premises on which three or more dogs or
cats over six months of age are temporarily or permanently boarded,
including animal day-care/spa facilities.
A facility for the diagnosis, treatment, or hospitalization
of small animals, including dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, and other
animals of similar nature. Facility may also provide boarding for
animals as part of medical services.
A place where gasoline, kerosene or any other motor fuel
or lubricating oil or grease for operating motor vehicles is offered
for sale to the public and deliveries are made directly into motor
vehicles, including greasing, oiling and vehicle washing on the premises.
General repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of engines,
motor vehicles or trailers; collision services including body, frame,
or fender straightening or repair; overall painting or paint shop;
vehicle steam cleaning.
Incidental body or fender work, or other minor repairs, painting
and upholstering, replacement of parts and motor service to passenger
cars and trucks not exceeding 1.5 tons' capacity, but not including
any operation named under "automobile repair, major," or any other
similar thereto.
An open area, other than a street, used for the display,
sale or rental of new or used motor vehicles in operable condition
and where no repair work is done.
Any place of lodging that provides eight or fewer rooms for
rent to no more than a total of 20 tourists 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.
A facility used for the manufacture of fermented malt beverages
or a fermented malt beverage manufacturer with a mechanized bottling
capability.
An establishment that operates a restaurant and manufactures
up to 10,000 barrels of fermented malt beverages per calendar year
on premises for consumption either on or off premises in hand-capped,
machine-capped or sealed containers in quantities up to 1/2 barrel
or 15 1/2 gallons sold directly to the consumer. The establishment
shall hold a Class "B" liquor license issued by the state if, in addition
to offering for sale fermented malt beverages manufactured on the
premises, it also offers for sale fermented malt beverages manufactured
by a brewer other than the establishment.
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls
used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons,
animals, equipment, machinery or materials. When a building is divided
into separate parts by unpierced fire walls extending from the ground
up, each part shall be deemed a separate building.
Land used or intended to be used exclusively for the burial
of the human dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including,
mausoleums, if operated in connection with and within the boundaries
of such cemetery.
A dwelling unit licensed as a licensed family child-care
center by the State of Wisconsin, pursuant to § 48.65, Wis.
Stats., and Chapter DCF 250 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code,
where a resident of the dwelling is providing care for less than 24
hours at a time for between four and eight children who are unrelated
to the provider.
A facility licensed as a group child-care center by the State
of Wisconsin, pursuant to § 48.65 Wis. Stats., and Chapter
DCF 251 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code, where the operator is
providing care for less than 24 hours at a time for more than eight
children. This term includes, but is not limited to, the following:
day-care center, nursery school, or preschool. The term shall not
include the exceptions identified in § DCF 251.03. This
term also includes a child-care center that is accessory to another
use and that is intended for use by the employees of the principal
uses and their immediate family for more than three hours of care
and supervision a day. This term does not include certified family
child-care provider, as defined below, in which the operator resides.
A dwelling unit certified under the Department of Children
and Families Chapter 202, Wis. Adm. Code, where a resident of the
dwelling is providing care for less than 24 hours at a time for one
to three children under the age of seven who are unrelated to the
provider.
Any entity that is not a hospital or residence that is used
primarily for the provision of outpatient nursing, medical, podiatric,
dental, chiropractic, optometric or mental health care and treatment
or an entity which is required to be certified under the Department
of Health Services in order to receive reimbursement for outpatient
health services to clients.
A nonprofit association of persons who are bona fide members,
paying regular dues, and are organized for some common purpose, but
not including a group organized solely or primarily to render a service
customarily carried on as a commercial enterprise.
A lot or portion of a lot or parcel used to store and maintain
construction equipment and other materials customarily required in
the building trades by a construction contractor. This definition
includes architects, engineers, surveyors, real estate sign placement
services, showrooms and shops for the display and sale of electrical,
plumbing, heating, air conditioning, sheet metal and other materials
in connection with contracting services.
A business establishment which includes on its site the opportunity
for a patron to receive a service or product while seated in their
vehicle, including the receiving or a service or product after ordering
at a menu board and being parked in a designated parking stall. A
drive-through facility shall not include a designated pickup area
for a retail store, a walk-up window, or a drive-up restaurant whereby
there is a canopy under which vehicles are parked and food served.
A residential building designed for or occupied by three
or more dwelling units with a joint entrance from the outside.
A building designed for or used by one or more families or
dwelling units as well as nonresidential uses that are permitted in
the zoning district to be located on the ground story, with all dwelling
units sharing a joint entrance from the outside.
A building designed for or used exclusively for five or more
families or dwelling units, which are attached horizontally by at
least one common wall extending from the foundation to the roof, and
providing separate entrances from the outside for each unit.
A single-family residential structure located on a parcel
of land for which the primary land use is associated with agriculture.
Any facility which provides independent living opportunities
for senior citizens, typically age 55 and up, such as garden apartments,
group housing, and apartments.
A detached building designed for occupancy by one family.
A detached building containing two separate dwelling (or
living) units, designed for occupancy by not more than two families.
The concept whereby two respective dwelling units within
a building shall be on separate and abutting lots and shall meet on
the common property line between them, thereby having zero space between
said units.
Services provided by public and private utilities, necessary
for the exercise of the principal use or service of the principal
structure. These services include underground, surface or overhead
gas, electrical, steam, water, sanitary sewerage, stormwater drainage,
and communication systems and accessories thereto, such as poles,
towers, wires, mains, drains, vaults, culverts, laterals, sewers,
pipes, catch basins, water storage tanks, conduits, cables, fire alarm
boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, pumps, lift stations and
hydrants, but not including buildings.
An artificially constructed barrier for the purpose of separating
property or for screening, enclosing or protecting the property within
its perimeter.
[Added 1-11-2022 by Ord.
No. 1721-2022]
Any area of land or building, other than an airport, which
is made available for the landing and takeoff of helicopters or other
aircraft used in emergency situations and which does not include refueling,
maintenance, repair or storage of helicopters.
An occupation, profession, or activity, whether conducted
for profit or not for profit, that is carried on by a resident of
the dwelling in a manner that the use is limited in extent and secondary
to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes. An occupation,
profession, or activity shall not be considered a home occupation
if the resident is performing administrative, clerical, or research
work in their home for a licensed entity located elsewhere. A certified
family child-care provider or licensed family child-care center are
not considered home occupations.
Any building, structure or institution that meets the definition
of a hospital under § DHS 124.02(6), Wis. Adm. Code.
A building in which lodging, with or without meals, is offered
to transient guests for compensation and in which there are more than
five sleeping rooms.
Facilities operated as a business and which are open to the
public for a fee that shall include, but is not limited to, billiard
parlors, skating rinks, indoor swimming pools, bowling alleys, movie
theaters, arcades, tennis courts, and other similar businesses. Such
businesses may also provide a snack bar, restaurant, retails sales
of related items, and other support facilities.
Municipal-, county-, state-, or federal-owned recreation
facilities not accessory to a public park or school/university campus.
An establishment where hand tools, mechanical tools and electronic
tools are shared or individually used for the manufacture of artisan-finished
products or parts including design, processing, fabrication, assembly,
treatment, and packaging of products; as well as the incidental storage,
sales and distribution of such products. Typical artisan manufacturing
uses include, but are not limited to: electronic goods; food and bakery
products; nonalcoholic beverages; printmaking; household appliances;
leather products; jewelry and clothing/apparel; metal work; furniture;
glass or ceramic production; paper manufacturing.
A manufactured home that is HUD certified and labeled under
the National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of
1974. A mobile home is a transportable structure, being eight feet
or more in width (not including the overhang of the roof), built on
a chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without permanent
foundation when connected to the required utilities.
A parcel of land which has been developed for the placement
of mobile homes and is owned by an individual, a firm, trust, partnership,
public or private association, or corporation. Individual lots within
a mobile home community are rented to individual mobile home users.
An establishment or use of land that manufactures, assembles,
or fabricates using processes that generally create odor, noise, vibration,
illumination or particulates that may impact surrounding properties.
This category shall also include any use of land that needs large
unscreened outdoor structures or storage that cannot be incorporated
into the building. Examples include but are not limited to the following:
large-scale food and bottling operations; lumber, milling and planning
facilities; grain milling; aggregate, concrete, and asphalt plants;
foundries, forge shops, and other intensive metal fabrication; and
chemical manufacturing.
An establishment or use of land for the assembly or processing
of previously processed components or manufactured parts using processes
that do not create significant amounts of noise, vibration, illumination,
or particulates that may impact surrounding properties. Odors produced
on-site shall not negatively affect other businesses or properties
in the area. Examples include but are not limited to the following:
food; pharmaceuticals; clothes; furniture (where wood is milled off-site);
hardware; toys; light sheet-metal products; mechanical components;
printing; small vehicle assembly; and computer software.
An area for eating and drinking that is associated with an
adjacent food or beverage service principal use.
Land or facilities operated as a business and which are open
to the general public for a fee that shall include, but is not limited
to, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, amusement parks, and other
similar businesses. Such facility may also provide a snack bar, restaurant,
retail sales of related items, and other support facilities.
Municipal, county, state, or federally owned recreation facilities
not accessory to a public park or school/university campus.
An outdoor arrangement of objects, items, products, and other
materials, typically not in a fixed position and capable of rearrangement,
designed and used for the purpose of selling product that is typically
sold within the associated principal use.
Building(s) or structure(s) which by design, construction,
and/or adaptation are primarily intended for the conducting of organized
religious services and associated accessory uses.
The main use of land or building as distinguished from subordinate
or accessory use.
An artificially constructed visual barrier for the purpose
of obscuring patios, deck, courtyards, and other similar outdoor features
from observation by persons outside the perimeter of the property.
[Added 1-11-2022 by Ord.
No. 1721-2022]
Land use or development that either by design or operation
requires additional technical or regulatory review and permitting
in order to exist within defined areas of a Wellhead Protection Overlay
District.
An establishment that engages in retail sales of merchandise
or food to the general public for direct consumption and not for wholesale.
RETAIL STORE, HIGH-INTENSITYA retail establishment of 75,000 gross square feet or greater.
RETAIL STORE, MEDIUM-INTENSITYA retail establishment of 15,000 to 75,000 gross square feet.
RETAIL STORE, LOW-INTENSITYA retail establishment containing no more than 15,000 gross square feet.
An apparatus capable of receiving communications from a transmitter
or a transmitter relay located in a planetary orbit. They are also
commonly referred to as disks, satellite communications systems or
home earth stations.
An establishment used as a dwelling place by the aged, infirm,
chronically ill or incurably afflicted, in which not less than three
persons live or are kept or provided for on the premises for compensation,
excluding clinics and hospitals and similar institutions devoted to
the diagnosis, treatment or the care of the sick or injured.
Commercial sites that consist of primarily retail establishments
with two or more separate businesses managed as a total entity and
sharing common access, circulation, and pedestrian and parking areas
so that a public right-of-way does not need to be used to get from
one business to another.
SHOPPING CENTER, COMMUNITYA shopping center that provides a limited number of frequently or recurrently needed retail or personal services for residents in the community that generally has up to 30,000 square feet of gross leasable area.
SHOPPING CENTER, REGIONALA shopping center that provides a wide range of retail or personal service needs for residents in the region that generally contains greater than 30,000 square feet of gross leasable area and two or more anchor stores.
A place where the entire house or limited rooms in an individual's
house are rented to travelers for one or more nights, and include
renting of rooms or properties through internet sites such as or similar
to Craigslist, airbnb.com, vbro.com, homeaway.com, and flipkey.com.
A person or business who furnishes, offers to furnish, or
advertises to furnish cigarettes [as defined in § 139.30(1m),
Wis. Stats.], tobacco products [as defined in § 139.75(12),
Wis. Stats.,] other than premium cigars, CBD products (as defined
in 2017 Wisconsin Act 100), electronic smoking device (as defined
in Section 11.04.21.A), nicotine product (as defined in Section 11.04.21.A),
or tobacco products (as defined in Section 11.04.21.A), and smoking
devices that include the smoking of any substance as a business purpose
and that derives more than twenty-five percent (25%) of any sales
revenue from sales of such products. "Premium cigar" means any cigar
that is hand-constructed, has a wrapper made entirely from whole tobacco
leaf, has a filler that is made entirely of tobacco, and has a wholesale
price of no less than $2. A person that sells premium cigars but does
not furnish cigarettes, tobacco products other than premium cigars,
electronic nicotine delivery systems, or nonnicotine vapor products,
is not a smoke shop.
[Added 4-9-2024 by Ord. No. 1781-2024]
A place other than a construction contractor yard where materials
and/or equipment utilized in commercial or industrial applications
are stored outside, including scrap or salvage yards where waste,
discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, baled,
packed, disassembled, handled, or stored outside.
An outdoor accessory structure containing a body of water
in a receptacle or other container having a depth for water at any
point greater than 1 1/2 feet located above or below the surface
of ground elevation, used or intended to be used solely by the owner,
operator or lessee thereof and their family, and by friends invited
to use it, and includes all structural facilities, appliances and
appurtenances, equipment and other items used and intended to be used
for the operation and maintenance of a swimming pool.
A temporary structure at which agricultural products such
as raw vegetables, fruits, plants, nuts, honey, eggs, etc. are sold.
The purpose or activity, for which the land or building thereof
is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or
maintained.
A.
A ZONES
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE OR USE
AH ZONE
ALTERATION
AO ZONE
AREA OF SHALLOW FLOODING
BASE FLOOD ELEVATION (BFE)
BASEMENT
BUILDING
BULKHEAD LINE
CAMPGROUND
CAMPING UNIT
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
CHANNEL
CRAWLWAYS or CRAWL SPACE
DECK
DEPARTMENT
DEVELOPMENT
DRY LAND ACCESS
ENCROACHMENT
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA)
FLOOD FREQUENCY
FLOOD HAZARD BOUNDARY MAP
FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP (FIRM)
FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY (FIS)
FLOOD or FLOODING
1.
2.
3.
4.
FLOOD PROFILE
FLOOD PROTECTION ELEVATION
FLOOD STORAGE
FLOOD FRINGE
FLOODPLAIN
FLOODPLAIN ISLAND
FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
FLOODPROOFING
FLOODWAY
FREEBOARD
HABITABLE STRUCTURE
HEARING NOTICE
HIGH FLOOD DAMAGE POTENTIAL
HIGHEST ADJACENT GRADE
HISTORIC STRUCTURE
1.
2.
3.
4.
INCREASE IN REGIONAL FLOOD HEIGHT
LAND USE
LOWEST ADJACENT GRADE
LOWEST FLOOR
MAINTENANCE
MANUFACTURED HOME
MOBILE RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
MOBILE/MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OR SUBDIVISION
MOBILE/MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OR SUBDIVISION, EXISTING
MOBILE/MANUFACTURED HOME PARK, EXPANSION TO EXISTING
MODEL, CORRECTED EFFECTIVE
MODEL, DUPLICATE EFFECTIVE
MODEL, EFFECTIVE
MODEL, EXISTING (PRE-PROJECT)
MODEL, REVISED (POST-PROJECT)
MUNICIPALITY or MUNICIPAL
NATIONAL GEODETIC VERTICAL DATUM (NGVD)
NEW CONSTRUCTION
NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE
NONCONFORMING USE
NORTH AMERICAN VERTICAL DATUM (NAVD)
OBSTRUCTION TO FLOW
OFFICIAL FLOODPLAIN ZONING MAP
OPEN SPACE USE
ORDINARY HIGH-WATER MARK
PERSON
PRIVATE SEWAGE SYSTEM
PUBLIC UTILITIES
REASONABLY SAFE FROM FLOODING
REGIONAL FLOOD ELEVATION (RFE)
START OF CONSTRUCTION
STRUCTURE
SUBDIVISION
SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE
SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT
UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP
VARIANCE
VIOLATION
WATER SURFACE PROFILE
WATERSHED
WELL
The following definitions have been established as part of the Floodplain
Protection Overlay District:
Those areas shown on the Official Floodplain Zoning Map which
would be inundated by the regional flood. These areas may be numbered
or unnumbered A Zones. The A Zones may or may not be reflective of
flood profiles, depending on the availability of data for a given
area.
A facility, structure, building or use which is accessory
or incidental to the principal use of a property, structure or building.
See "area of shallow flooding" definition.
An enhancement, upgrading or substantial change or modifications
other than an addition or repair to a dwelling or to electrical, plumbing,
heating, ventilating, air conditioning and other systems within a
structure.
See "area of shallow flooding" definition.
A designated AO, AH, AR/AO, AR/AH, or VO zone on a Community's
Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) with a 1% or greater annual chance
of flooding to an average depth of one foot to three feet where a
clearly defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding
is unpredictable, and where velocity flood may be evident. Such flooding
is characterized by ponding or sheet flow.
The flood having a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded
in any given year, as published by Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) as part of a Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and depicted on a
FIRM.
Any enclosed area of a building having its floor subgrade,
i.e., below ground level, on all sides.
See "structure" definition.
A geographic line along a reach of navigable water that has been adopted by a municipal ordinance and approved by the Department pursuant to § 30.11, Wis. Stats., and which allows limited filling between this bulkhead line and the original ordinary high-water mark, except where such filling is prohibited by the floodway provisions of Section 13.02.41.
Any parcel of land which is designed, maintained, intended
or used for the purpose of providing sites for nonpermanent overnight
use by four or more camping units, or which is advertised or represented
as a camping area.
Any portable device, no more than 400 square feet in area,
used as a temporary shelter, including but not limited to a camping
trailer, motor home, bus, van, pickup truck, or tent that is fully
licensed, if required, and ready for highway use.
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 Section 13.02.41.
A natural or artificial watercourse with definite bed and
banks to confine and conduct normal flow of water.
An enclosed area below the first usable floor of a building,
generally less than five feet in height, used for access to plumbing
and electrical utilities.
An unenclosed exterior structure that has no roof or sides,
but has a permeable floor which allows the infiltration of precipitation.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR).
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.
A vehicular access route which is above the regional flood
elevation and which connects land located in the floodplain to land
outside the floodplain, such as a road with its surface above regional
flood elevation and wide enough for wheeled rescue and relief vehicles.
Any fill, structure, equipment, use or development in the
floodway.
The federal agency that administers the National Flood Insurance
Program.
The probability of a flood occurrence which is determined
from statistical analyses. The frequency of a particular flood event
is usually expressed as occurring, on the average, once in a specified
number of years or as a percent chance of occurring in any given year.
A map designating approximate flood hazard areas. Flood hazard
areas are designated as unnumbered A Zones and do not contain floodway
lines or regional flood elevations. This map forms the basis for both
the regulatory and insurance aspects of the National Flood Insurance
Program (NFIP) until superseded by a Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and
a Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM).
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 FEMA.
A technical engineering examination, evaluation, and determination
of the local flood hazard areas. It provides maps designating those
areas affected by the regional flood and provides both flood insurance
rate zones and base flood elevations and may provide floodway lines.
The flood hazard areas are designated as numbered and unnumbered A
Zones. FIRM that accompany the FIS form the basis for both the regulatory
and the insurance aspects of the NFIP.
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
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 graph or a longitudinal profile line showing the relationship
of the water surface elevation of a flood event to locations of land
surface elevations along a stream or river.
An elevation of two feet of freeboard above the water surface
profile elevation designated for the regional flood. (See "freeboard.")
Those floodplain areas where storage of floodwaters has been
taken into account during analysis in reducing the regional flood
discharge.
That portion of the floodplain outside of the floodway which
is covered by floodwaters during the regional flood and associated
with standing water rather than flowing water.
Land which has been or may be covered by flood water during
the regional flood. It includes the floodway and the flood fringe,
and may include other designated floodplain areas for regulatory purposes.
A natural geologic land formation within the floodplain that
is surrounded, but not covered, by floodwater during the regional
flood.
Policy and procedures to insure wise use of floodplains,
including mapping and engineering, mitigation, education, and administration
and enforcement of floodplain regulations.
Any combination of structural provisions, changes or adjustments
to properties and structures, water and sanitary facilities and contents
of buildings subject to flooding, for the purpose of reducing or eliminating
flood damage.
The channel of a river or stream and those portions of the
floodplain adjoining the channel required to carry the regional flood
discharge.
A safety factor expressed in terms of a specified number
of feet above a calculated flood level. Freeboard compensates for
any factors that cause flood heights greater than those calculated,
including ice jams, debris accumulation, wave action, obstruction
of bridge openings and floodways, the effects of watershed urbanization,
loss of flood storage areas due to development and aggregation of
the river or stream bed.
Any structure or portion thereof used or designed for human
habitation.
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.
Damage that could result from flooding that includes any
danger to life or health or any significant economic loss to a structure
or building and its contents.
The highest natural elevation of the ground surface prior
to construction next to the proposed walls of a 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
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 calculated upward rise in the regional flood elevation
greater than zero feet, 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.
Any nonstructural use made of unimproved or improved real
estate. (See "development" definition.)
Elevation of the lowest ground surface that touches any of
the exterior walls of a building.
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.
The act or process of restoring to original soundness, including
redecorating, refinishing, nonstructural repairs, or the replacement
of existing fixtures, systems or equipment with equivalent fixtures,
systems or structures.
A structure transportable in one or more sections, which
is built on a permanent chassis and is designed to be used with or
without a permanent foundation when connected to required utilities.
The term "manufactured home" includes a mobile home but does not include
a "mobile recreational vehicle."
A vehicle which is built on a single chassis, 400 square
feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection, designed
to be self-propelled, carried or permanently towable by a licensed,
light-duty vehicle, is licensed for highway use if registration is
required and is designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling,
but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel
or seasonal use. Manufactured homes that are towed or carried onto
a parcel of land, but do not remain capable of being towed or carried,
including park model homes, do not fall within the definition of "mobile
recreational vehicles."
A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land, divided into two
or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.
A parcel of land, divided into two or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale, on which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots is completed before the effective date of Section 13.02.41. At a minimum, this would include the installation of utilities, the construction of streets and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads.
The preparation of additional sites by the construction of
facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes
are to be affixed. This includes installation of utilities, construction
of streets and either final site grading, or the pouring if concrete
pads.
A hydraulic engineering model that corrects any errors that
occur in the Duplicate Effective Model, adds any additional cross
sections to the Duplicate Effective Model, or incorporates more detailed
topographic information than that used in the current effective model.
A copy of the hydraulic analysis used in the effective FIS
and referred to as the effective model.
The hydraulic engineering model that was used to produce
the current effective FIS.
A modification of the Duplicate Effective Model or Corrected
Effective Model to reflect any man-made modifications that have occurred
within the floodplain since the date of the effective model but prior
to the construction of the project for which the revision is being
requested. If no modification has occurred since the date of the effective
model, then this model would be identical to the Corrected Effective
Model or Duplicate Effective Model.
A modification of the Existing or Pre-Project Conditions
Model, Duplicate Effective Model or Corrected Effective Model to reflect
revised or post-project conditions.
The City enacting, administering and enforcing Section 13.02.41.
Elevations referenced to mean sea level datum, 1929 adjustment.
For floodplain management purposes, "new construction" means
structures for which the start of construction commenced on or after
the effective date of floodplain zoning regulations adopted by this
community and includes any subsequent improvements to such structures.
For the purpose of determining flood insurance rates, it includes
any structures for which the start of construction commenced on or
after the effective date of an initial FIRM or after December 31,
1974, whichever is later, and includes any subsequent improvements
to such structures.
An existing lawful structure or building which is not in conformity with the dimensional or structural requirements of Section 13.02.41 for the area of the floodplain which it occupies. (For example, an existing residential structure in the flood-fringe district is a conforming use. However, if the lowest floor is lower than the flood protection elevation, the structure is nonconforming.)
An existing lawful use or accessory use of a structure or building which is not in conformity with the provisions of Section 13.02.41 for the area of the floodplain which it occupies. (Such as a residence in the floodway.)
Elevations referenced to mean sea level datum, 1988 adjustment.
Any development which blocks the conveyance of floodwaters
such that this development, alone or together with any future development,
will cause an increase in regional flood height.
That map, adopted and made part of Section 13.02.41 which has been approved by the Department and FEMA.
Those uses having a relatively low flood damage potential
and not involving structures.
The point on the bank or shore up to which the presence and
action of surface water is so continuous as to leave a distinctive
mark such as by erosion, destruction or prevention of terrestrial
vegetation, predominance of aquatic vegetation, or other easily recognized
characteristic.
An individual or group of individuals, corporation, partnership,
association, municipality or state agency.
A sewage treatment and disposal system serving one structure
with a septic tank and soil absorption field located on the same parcel
as the structure. It also means an alternative sewage system approved
by the Department of Safety and Professional Services, including a
substitute for the septic tank or soil absorption field, a holding
tank, a system serving more than one structure or a system located
on a different parcel than the structure.
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.
That base flood waters will not inundate the land or damage
structures to be removed from the floodplain and that any subsurface
waters related to the base flood will not damage existing or proposed
buildings.
A flood determined to be representative of large floods known
to have occurred in Wisconsin. A regional flood is a flood with a
1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year, and if depicted
on the FIRM, the RFE is equivalent to the BFE.
The date the building permit was issued, provided the actual
start of construction, repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition,
placement, or other improvement was within 180 days of the permit
date. 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 piles, the construction of columns, or any work beyond
initial excavation, or the placement of a manufactured home on a foundation.
Permanent construction does not include land preparation, such as
clearing, grading and filling, nor does it include the installation
of streets and/or walkways, nor does it include excavation for a basement,
footings, piers or foundations or the erection of temporary forms,
nor does it include the installation on the property of accessory
buildings, such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units
or not part of the main structure. 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.
Any man-made object with form, shape and utility, either
permanently or temporarily attached to, placed upon or set into the
ground, streambed or lake bed, including, but not limited to, roofed
and walled buildings, gas or liquid storage tanks, bridges, dams and
culverts.
Has the meaning given in § 236.02(12), Wis. Stats.
Damage of any origin sustained by a structure, whereby the
cost of restoring the structure to its pre-damaged condition would
equal or exceed 50% of the equalized assessed value of the structure
before the damage occurred.
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 of the structure before the improvement
or repair is started. 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 Official
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.
Where special conditions affecting a particular property, which were not self-created, have made strict conformity with restrictions governing areas, setbacks, frontage, height or density unnecessarily burdensome or unreasonable in light of the purposes of Section 13.02.41.
An authorization by the Board of Zoning Appeals for the construction
or maintenance of a building or structure in a manner which is inconsistent
with dimensional standards (not uses) contained in the floodplain
zoning ordinance.
The failure of a structure or other development to be fully
compliant with the floodplain zoning ordinance. A structure or other
development without required permits, lowest floor elevation documentation,
floodproofing certificates or required floodway encroachment calculations
is presumed to be in violation until such time as that documentation
is provided.
A graphical representation showing the elevation of the water
surface of a watercourse for each position along a reach of river
or stream at a certain flood flow. A water surface profile of the
regional flood is used in regulating floodplain areas.
The entire region contributing runoff or surface water to
a watercourse or body of water.
An excavation opening in the ground made by digging, boring,
drilling, driving or other methods, to obtain groundwater regardless
of its intended use.
A.
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE OR USE
AIR TRAFFIC (FAA FAR SEC. 1.1)
AIRPORT (FAA FAR. SEC. 152.3)
AIRPORT ELEVATION
AIRPORT ENVIRONS
AIRPORT HAZARD (FAA FAR SEC. 152.3)
AIRPORT LAYOUT PLAN (ALP) (FAA FAR SEC. 152.3)
AIRPORT MASTER PLAN
AIRPORT OVERLAY ZONES
1.
2.
3.
4.
AIRPORT REFERENCE CODE (ARC)
AIRPORT REFERENCE POINT (ARP)
AIRPORT ZONING PERMIT
AIRSIDE
AIRSPACE
ALTERATION
APPLICANT
APPROACH SLOPES (FAR PART 77)
1.
2.
3.
APPROACH SURFACE
AVIATION EASEMENT
BUILDING
BUILDING CODES
BUILDING HEIGHT
COMMERCIAL LEASE
COMPATIBILITY
CONSTRUCTION
DENSITY
DEVELOPMENT
EASEMENT
EXISTING USE
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (FAA)
FEDERAL AVIATION REGULATIONS (FAR) (FAA FAR)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
GENERAL AVIATION AIRPORT
GROWTH
HEIGHT
IMAGINARY SURFACES (FAA FAR PART 77.25)
1.
2.
3.
4.
INCOMPATIBLE LAND USE (FAA FAR SEC. 150.7)
INDUSTRIAL, WHOLESALE TRADE, AND STORAGE USES
1.
2.
INSTRUMENT APPROACH PROCEDURE (FAA PILOT/COORDINATOR GLOSSARY)
INSTRUMENT LANDING SYSTEM (ILS) (FAA PILOT/COORDINATOR GLOSSARY)
ITINERANT OPERATION
LAND USE
LAND USE COMPATIBILITY
LIGHTING AND MARKING OF HAZARDS TO AIR NAVIGATION
LOT
MITIGATION
NAVIGABLE AIRSPACE
NAVIGATION AIDS (NAVAID)
NOISE EXPOSURE CONTOURS
NOISE IMPACT
NOISE-SENSITIVE AREA
NONCONFORMING USE
OBJECT
OBSTACLE-FREE ZONE (OFZ)
OBSTRUCTION
OFF-AIRPORT PROPERTY
ON-AIRPORT PROPERTY
ORDINANCE
OVERLAY ZONE
OWNER
PERMIT REQUIRED USE
PERMITTED USE
PRIMARY RUNWAY
PRIMARY SURFACE
PRINCIPAL USE
PUBLIC ASSEMBLY USE
PUBLIC USE AIRPORT
RESIDENTIAL AND ACCOMMODATION USES
1.
2.
RUNWAY
RUNWAY PROTECTION ZONE (RPZ)
RUNWAY SAFETY AREA
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION
STRUCTURE
SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT
TREE
USE
UTILITY RUNWAY
VARIANCE
1.
2.
WETLAND
WILDLIFE ATTRACTANTS
WILDLIFE HAZARDS
The following definitions have been established as part of the Airport
Overlay Zoning District (AOZD), which is established by the City of
La Crosse, Wisconsin. The City of Onalaska uses these definitions
solely in its authority to administrate the AOZD for those areas of
the AOZD which fall within the City of Onalaska corporate limits.
A detached subordinate structure or a use which is clearly
incidental to and customarily found in connection with the principal
structure or use to which it is related, and which is located on the
same lot as that of the principal structure or use.
Aircraft operating in the air or on an airport surface, exclusive
of loading ramps and parking areas.
The La Crosse Regional Airport owned by the City of La Crosse.
Any area of land or water that is used or intended to be used for
the landing and takeoff of aircraft. Any appurtenant areas that are
used or intended for use for airport buildings, other airport facilities,
or rights-of-way; and all airport buildings and facilities located
on the areas specified in this definition.
The highest point on the usable landing area of an airport
that is measured in feet from mean sea level (MSL).
The land use and people in the areas surrounding an airport
which can be directly affected by the operation of the airport.
Any structure or object of natural growth located on or in
the vicinity of a public airport, or any use of land near a public
airport that obstructs the airspace required or is otherwise hazardous
for the flight of aircraft landing or taking off at the airport.
The plan of an airport that shows the layout of existing
and proposed airport facilities.
The La Crosse Regional Airport Master Plan Report.
A zone intended to place additional land use conditions on
land impacted by the airport while retaining the existing underlying
zone. The FAR Part 77 Surfaces and Runway Protection Zones (RPZs)
have been combined to create five airport overlay zones. The five
specific zones create a comprehensive area focused on maintaining
compatible land use around airports:
ZONE AIs intended to provide a clear area that is free of aboveground obstructions and structures. This zone is closest to the individual runway ends.
ZONES B1, B2, and B3Reflect the approach and departure areas for each runway at an airport. The size of Zone B is predicated upon the type of approach (visual, non-precision, or precision) that a specific runway has and the type/size of aircraft that utilize the runway.
ZONE CIncludes those areas that are parallel to the runway pavement and extend 1,050 feet from the edge of the primary surface.
ZONE DEncompasses the horizontal surface (innermost area) and the conical surface (outermost area), which make up the three-mile jurisdictional boundary delineated at the La Crosse Regional Airport.
The ARC is an FAA coding system used to relate airport design
criteria to the operational and physical characteristics of the airplanes
intended to operate at the airport. (FAA website www.faa.gov)
The latitude and longitude of the approximate center of the
airport.
A zoning/building permit that allows new development or alteration
or expansion of a permit required use.
The portion of an airport facility that includes aircraft
movements, airline operations, and areas that directly serves the
aircraft, such as taxiway, runway, maintenance, and fueling areas.
(FAA website www.faa.gov)
The space lying above the earth or above a certain area of
land or water that is necessary to conduct aviation operations. (FAA
website www.faa.gov)
Any construction which would result in a change in height
or lateral dimensions of an existing structure or object.
The owner of the land or their representative.
The ratios of horizontal to vertical distance that indicate
the degree of inclination of the approach surface. The various ratios
include:
20:1 ratio: for all utility and visual runways extended from
the primary surface a distance of 5,000 feet.
34:1 ratio: for all non-precision instrument runways extended
from the primary surface for a distance of 10,000 feet.
50:1/40:1 ratio: for all precision instrument runways extended
from the primary surface for a distance of 10,000 feet at an approach
slope of 50:1 and an additional 40,000 feet beyond this at a 40:1
approach slope.
A surface that is longitudinally centered on the extended runway center line and extends outward and upward from the end of the primary surface at the same slope as the approach zone height limitation slope set forth in Section 13.02.36. In plain view, the perimeters of the approach surface and approach zone coincide.
A grant of a property interest in land over which a right
of unobstructed flight in the airspace is established. (FAA website
www.faa.gov)
Any structure used, designed, or intended for the protection,
shelter, enclosure, or support of persons, animals, or property.
Codes, either local or state, that control the functional
and structural aspects of buildings and/or structures. Local ordinances
typically require proposed buildings to comply with zoning requirements
before building permits can be issued under the building codes.
The vertical distance from the top of the building roof to
the top of the basement or to the foundation, whichever is less.
Land uses or activities that involve the production, processing,
manufacturing, or sale of goods or services for financial gain, including
uses that provide merchandise to the general public. Accessory uses
may include offices, storage, food service, or other amenities primarily
for the use of employees and parking.
The degree to which land uses or types of development can
coexist or integrate.
The erection or alteration of any structure or object of
either a permanent or temporary nature.
The number of living units per acre.
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including but not limited to the construction of buildings, structures,
or accessory structures; the construction of additions or substantial
improvements to buildings, structures, or accessory structures; the
placement of manufactured homes (mobile homes); mining, dredging,
filling, grading, paving, excavation, or drilling operations; and
the deposition or extraction of materials.
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another
and for specified purpose of any designed part of their property.
Any use of land lawfully in existence at the time of the effective date of Section 13.02.36 or amendment thereto becomes effective.
A federal agency charged to regulate air commerce in order
to promote its safety and development; encourage and develop civil
aviation, air traffic control, air navigation; and promote the development
of a national system of airports.
Regulations established and administered by the FAA that
govern civil aviation and aviation-related activities:
FAR Part 36 (FAA FAR Sec. 36.1): establishes noise standards
for the civil aviation fleet.
FAR Part 91 (FAA FAR Sec. 91.1): pertains to air traffic and
general operating rules, including operating noise limits.
FAR Part 150 (FAA FAR Sec. 150.1): pertains to airport noise
compatibility planning.
FAR Part 161 (FAA FAR Sec. 161.1): pertains to notice and approval
of airport noise and access restrictions.
Establishes standards to determine obstructions in navigable
airspace;
Defines the requirements for notice to the FAA Administrator
of certain proposed construction or alteration;
Provides for aeronautical studies of obstructions to air navigation
to determine their effect on the safe and efficient use of airspace;
Provides for public hearings on the hazardous effect of proposed
construction or alteration on air navigation; and
Provides for establishing antenna farm areas.
Any airport that is not an air carrier airport or military
facility.
Any object of natural growth that includes trees, shrubs,
or foliage. Excludes farm crops, which are cut at least once a year.
Height is utilized for the purpose of determining the height limits in all zones set forth in Section 13.02.36 and shown on the Height Limitations Zoning Map, La Crosse Regional Airport, La Crosse, Wisconsin; height shall be the highest point of a structure, tree, or other object of natural growth and measured from the mean sea level elevation, unless specified otherwise.
Those areas established in relation to the airport and to
each runway consistent with FAR Part 77, in which any object extending
above these imaginary surfaces, by definition, is an obstruction:
APPROACH SURFACELongitudinally centered on the extended runway center line and extends outward and upward from the end of the runway primary surface. The approach slope of a runway is a ratio of 20:1, 34:1, or 50:1, depending on the approach type. The length of the approach surface depends on the approach type and varies from 5,000 feet to 50,000 feet.
CONICAL SURFACEExtends upward and outward from the periphery of the horizontal surface at a slope of 20 feet horizontally for every one foot vertically (20:1) for a horizontal distance of 4,000 feet.
HORIZONTAL SURFACEHorizontal plane located 150 feet above the established airport elevation and encompasses an area from the transitional surface to the conical surface. The perimeter is constructed by generating arcs from the center of each end of the primary surface and connecting the adjacent arcs by lines tangent to those arcs.
TRANSITIONAL SURFACEExtends outward and upward at right angles to the runway center line and at a slope of seven feet horizontally for each one foot vertically (7:1) from the sides of the primary and approach surfaces. The transitional surfaces extend to the point at which they intercept the horizontal surface at a height of 150 feet above the established airport elevation.
Land use that is typically unable to coexist with aircraft
and airport operations.
A use category that includes:
Industrial development or uses involved in the research, design,
manufacturing, processing, fabrication, packaging, or assembly of
goods. Natural, man-made, raw, secondary, or partially completed materials
may be used. Products may be finished or semi-finished and are generally
made for the wholesale market, for transfer to other plants, or to
order for firms or customers. Goods are generally not displayed or
sold on site, but if so, they are a subordinate part of sales (typically
10% or less of the total gross floor area). Relatively few customers
come to the site.
Industrial, manufacturing, wholesale trade, and warehouse/storage
uses and includes those that produce goods from raw or finished materials,
distribute goods in large quantities to primarily wholesale customers,
or provide for storage or warehousing of goods, either in enclosed
buildings or outdoors. Few customers, especially the general public,
come to the site. Accessory activities may include sales, offices,
parking, and storage.
A series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer
of an aircraft under instrument flight conditions from the beginning
of the initial approach to a landing or to a point from which a landing
may be made visually. It is prescribed and approved for a specific
airport by competent authority.
A precision instrument approach system which normally consists
of the following electronic components and visuals aids: localizer,
glide slope, outer marker, middle marker, and approach lights.
Aircraft takeoff or landing operations that occur from one
airport to another and involves a trip of at least 20 miles. Local
operations are excluded.
Any nonstructural use made of unimproved or improved real
estate.
Land uses that can coexist with an airport and airport-related
activities.
Installation of appropriate lighting fixtures, painted markings,
or other devices to objects or structures that constitute hazards
to air navigation.
A parcel of land described in a recorded plat or deed.
The avoidance, minimization, reduction, elimination, or compensation
for adverse effects of a proposed action.
The airspace above minimum altitude for safe flight that
includes the airspace needed to ensure safety in landing or takeoff
of aircraft.
Any facility used by an aircraft for guiding or controlling
flight in the air or the landing or takeoff of an aircraft.
Lines drawn around a noise source that indicates a constant
energy level of noise exposure. Day-night sound level (DNL) is the
measurement used to describe community exposure to noise.
A condition that exists when the noise levels that occur
in an area exceed a level identified as appropriate for the activities
in that area.
Defined as an area where noise interferes with normal activities
associated with the use of the area.
Any structure or tree which does not conform to a regulation prescribed in Section 13.02.36 or an amendment thereto, as of the effective date of such regulation.
Includes, but is not limited to, above ground structures,
NAVAIDs, people, equipment, vehicles, natural growth, terrain, and
parked aircraft.
The three-dimensional area of airspace that provides clearance
protection for aircraft during landing or takeoff operations and for
missed approaches. The area encompasses 150 feet above the established
airport elevation and along the runway and extended runway center
line. The OFZ is required to be clear of all objects, except for the
frangible visual NAVAIDs, the location of which is fixed by function.
Any structure, growth, or other object, including a mobile
object, which exceeds a limiting height that is specific to its geographic
location relative to the runway/airport.
Property that is beyond the boundary of land owned by the
airport sponsor (the City of La Crosse).
Property that is within the boundary of land owned by the
airport sponsor (the City of La Crosse).
Any legislative action, however nominated, of a local government
which has the force of law, including any amendment or repeal of any
ordinance.
A mapped zone that imposes a set of requirements, in addition
to those of the underlying zoning district.
Any person, group of persons, firm or firms, corporation
or corporations, or any other legal entity having legal title to or
sufficient proprietary interest in the land.
Those land uses that shall be permissible following the issuance
of a zoning/building permit. The permit, which may include development
and use-related conditions, along with a signed affidavit (Applicant's
Recorded Affidavit Accepting Mitigation Responsibilities), notifies
applicants of their responsibilities and required mitigation for any
construction, alteration, location or use of land to minimize potential
hazardous impacts to the La Crosse Regional Airport, aircraft, airport
operational areas, and aircraft overflight areas, as well as nearby
residents.
Those land uses generally considered compatible within a
particular zone of the AOZD. Compatible land uses do not impact or
create hazardous conditions for aircraft, airport operational areas,
or aircraft overflight areas, and are considered reasonably safe for
La Crosse County residents.
The runway used for the majority of airport operations. Large,
high-activity airports may operate two or more parallel primary runways.
A surface longitudinally centered on a runway. When the runway
has a specially prepared hard surface, the primary surface extends
200 feet beyond each end of that runway; for military runways or when
the runway has no specially prepared hard surface, or planned hard
surface, the primary surface ends at each end of that runway. The
width of the primary surface is set forth in FAR Part 77. The elevation
of any point on the primary surface is the same as the elevation of
the nearest point on the runway center line.
The use of primary importance or permitted use on a parcel
of land, in contrast to those which are accessory or of secondary
importance.
A structure or outdoor facility where concentrations of people
gather for purposes such as deliberation, education, shopping, business,
entertainment, amusement, sporting events, or similar activities,
but excluding air shows. Public assembly use does not include places
where people congregate for relatively short periods of time, such
as parking lots and bus stops, or uses approved by the FAA in an adopted
airport master plan.
A public or private-owned airport that is open for public
use.
A use category that includes the following:
Residential: provide living accommodations, including sleeping,
eating, cooking, and sanitary facilities, to one or more persons.
Tenancy typically lasts longer than 30 days.
Accommodation: characterized by visitor-serving facilities that
provide temporary lodging in guest rooms or guest units, for compensation.
The average length of stay of less than 30 days. Accessory uses may
include pools and other recreational facilities for the exclusive
use of guests, limited storage, restaurants, bars, meeting facilities,
and offices.
A portion of the airport having a surface specifically developed
and maintained for the landing and taking off of airplanes.
An area off the runway end designed to enhance the protection
of people and property on the ground.
A defined surface surrounding the runway that is prepared
or suitable to reduce the risk of damage to airplanes in the event
of an overshoot or excursion from the runway.
Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such
as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders, or any
substantial change in the roof structure or in the exterior or interior
walls.
Any man-made object with form, shape, and utility that is
permanently or temporarily attached to, placed upon, or set into the
ground, streambed, or lake bed. Examples include, but are not limited
to, roofed and walled buildings, gas or liquid storage tanks, or television
dishes.
Any structural repair, reconstruction, or improvement of
a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the present
equalized assessed value of the structure either before the improvement
or repair is started, or if the structure has been damaged, and is
being restored, before the damage occurred. The term does not include
any project for improvement of a structure to comply with existing
state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which
are solely necessary to assure safe living conditions, or any alteration
of a structure or site documented as deserving preservation by the
Wisconsin State Historical Society or listed on the National Register
of Historic Places. Ordinary maintenance repairs are not considered
structural repairs, modifications or additions. Such ordinary maintenance
repairs include internal and external painting, decorating, paneling,
and the replacement of doors, windows, and other nonstructural components.
(For purposes of this definition, "substantial improvement" is considered
to occur when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or
other structural part of the building commences, whether or not that
alteration affects the external dimensions of the structure.)
Any object of natural growth that shall not exceed the zoning
height restrictions. This does not include shrubs, bushes or plants
which do not grow to a height of more than 20 feet.
That which is customarily or habitually done, may include seasonal uses, and need not extend to the entire tract of land at the time of the adoption of Section 13.02.36 (see "land use").
A runway constructed for and intended to be used by propeller-driven
aircraft of 12,500 pounds gross weight or less.
Authority granted to the owner to use their property in a
manner that is prohibited by the UDC. A departure from the terms of
the zoning ordinance where it is shown that unique physical circumstances
that are applied to a land parcel can, has, or will cause a hardship
to the owner, and that the condition permitted by the departure will
be in fundamental harmony with surrounding uses:
AREA VARIANCEOne which does not involve a use that is prohibited by the UDC. Area variances involve matters such as setback lines, frontage requirements, lot-size restrictions, density, density regulations, and yard requirements. Height limitation variances shall not be granted under Section 13.02.36.
USE VARIANCEOne which permits a use of land other than what is prescribed by the UDC. It is primarily a grant to erect, alter, or use a structure for a permitted use in a manner other than that prescribed by Section 13.02.36. Use variances shall not be granted under Section 13.02.36.
Those areas where water is at, near, or above the land surface
long enough to support aquatic or hydroponic vegetation and which
have soils indicative of wet conditions.
Any man-made structure, land use practice, or man-made or
natural geographic feature that can attract or sustain hazardous wildlife
within the landing or departure airspace or the air operations area
of an airport. Attractants include, but are not limited to, architectural
features, landscaping, waste disposal sites, wastewater treatment
facilities, agricultural or aquaculture activities, surface mining,
or wetlands.
Feral or domesticated animals that are associated with aircraft
strikes are capable of causing structural damage to airport facilities,
or act as attractants to other wildlife that pose a strike hazard.
