[Amended 8-24-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-030]
With respect to quarrying and nonmetallic mining operations,
"abandonment" means the cessation of quarrying or other nonmetallic
mining operations for more than 240 consecutive days, except when
the cessation is specifically provided for in the operator's permit,
or in an operations plan approved and incorporated by reference in
the permit, or by written order issued by the Village Plan Commission
upon good cause shown. Abandonment does not include any period of
cessation of operations due to labor strikes, natural disasters or
other similar extraordinary causes beyond the control of the operator
(but this exception does not include business reversals, competitive
forces, market conditions, shortage of cash, or other similar reasons).
Property owners having a common boundary or property owners
on either side of a public thoroughfare.
A way of approaching or entering a property. Access also
includes ingress, the right to enter, and egress, the right to leave.
A strip of vegetated land that allows safe pedestrian access
to the shore through the vegetative buffer zone.
A building or use which:
Is or will be subordinate to and serves a principal building
or principal use;
Is or will be subordinate in area, extent, or purpose to the
principal building or principal use served;
Contributes to the comfort, convenience or necessity of occupants
of the principal building or principal use; and
Is or will be located on the same zoning lot as the principal
building or principal use.
Is detached from the principal structure.
A separate living area established within the clearly subordinate
to a single-family dwelling being part of the same structure provided
it is occupied by a resident related through blood, marriage or adoption
to the resident occupant of the single-family dwelling.
Any construction which increases the size of a building,
such as a porch, attached garage or carport, or a new room or wing.
An addition is a form of alteration.
The natural elevation of the ground surface prior to construction
next to the proposed walls of a structure.
Nearby, but not necessarily touching.
Any airport which complies with the definition contained
in § 114.013(3),[1] Wis. Stats., or any airport which serves or offers to
serve common carriers engaged in air transport.
Any land intended for the landing or takeoff of aircraft.
A public highway which is a narrow way, less in size than
a street, and which is not designed for general travel; which is used
primarily as a means of access to the rear of residences and business
establishments and which, generally, affords only a secondary means
of access to the property abutting along its length.
A physical change in a building or an addition to it. As
applied to a building or structure, means a change or rearrangement,
in the structural parts or in the exit facilities or an enlargement,
whether by extending on a side, by increasing in height, or the moving
from one location or position to another.
Aesthetic or other characteristics of a development that
increase its desirability to a community or its marketability to the
public. It may include such things as a unified building design, recreational
facilities, such as swimming pools or tennis courts, security systems,
views, landscaping or tree preservation, or attractive site design.
A building or premises for the medical or surgical treatment
of domestic animals or pets, including dog, cat, and veterinary hospitals.
One animal unit shall be defined as being the equivalent
of the following: one 1,000-pound steer; one dairy cow; four swine;
10 sheep; 100 laying hens; 100 broilers; one horse; or 100 turkeys.
A room or suite of rooms in a multiple dwelling intended
to be designed for use as a residence by a single family.
A building or portion thereof used for or containing both
individual guest rooms and dwelling units designed for more or less
temporary occupancy.
A building or that portion thereof containing more than four
dwelling units or efficiency apartments.
A dwelling unit of not more than one room in addition to
kitchen and bath and intended primarily as a residence for a single
person.
The characteristic form and detail of building design based
on a particular historic period.
Synonymous with the word "tract," which is "a piece of land
capable of being described with such definiteness that its location
may be established and boundaries definitely ascertained."
The full market value placed upon the structure or lot by
the Village Assessor as of the date that the nonconformity came into
being, that is, the effective date of this ordinance or amendment
thereto. Such valuation by the Village Assessor shall be prima facie
evidence of the assessed value of the structure or lot.
Any place where two or more motor vehicles not in running
condition, or parts thereof, are stored in the open and are not being
restored to operation, or any land, building or structure used for
wrecking or storing of such motor vehicles or farm machinery, or parts
thereof, stored in the open and not being restored to operating conditions;
and including the commercial salvaging of any other goods, articles
or merchandise.
A movable hood or cover which projects from the wall of a
building, which can be retracted, folded or collapsed against the
face of a supporting structure.
Back lot development, also known as "lot pyramiding," "keyhole
development," and "development funneling" is the practice whereby
a lot, outlot, or common open space is used for waterfront access
by a large number of parcels built away from the water body. In many
cases, a common road or drive leads to a pier or beach. This practice
is viewed by many as crowding more development onto a body of water
than would otherwise occur with individual waterfront lots, thus altering
the appearance and quality of development on the body of water.
A platform extending from a wall at a non-ground-floor level
without ground supports.
An area below the first floor, having part but no more than
1/2 of its height above grade.
A window structure projecting from the wall of a building
which does not add floor space to the building and which does not
have a foundation.
Any place of lodging that provides four or fewer rooms for
rent 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.
Identification symbols from which differences of elevation
are measured.
A structure used for an outdoor display for the purpose of
making anything known.
A building other than a hotel, where lodging and meals for
five or more persons are served for compensation. A boardinghouse
may also include the dwelling unit occupied by the owner or operator.
Any permanent accessory building used for the storage of
watercraft and water-associated materials and includes all structures
which are totally enclosed, have roofs or walls or any combination
of these structural parts. A boathouse is a nonhabitable structure
and shall be designed and used exclusively for marine equipment, no
fireplaces, patio doors, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, cooking
facilities or other features inconsistent with the use of the structure
exclusively as a boathouse shall be allowed.
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls
for the housing or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels. When
any portion thereof is completely separated from every other portion
thereof by a division wall without openings then each such portion
shall be deemed to be a separate building.
See "floor area."
The three-dimensional space within a structural is built.
A line between which and any street line, no building or
parts of buildings may be erected, altered, or maintained except as
otherwise provided for in this ordinance equivalent to a setback line.
The line nearest the street and across a lot establishing
the minimum open space to be provided between buildings and specified
structures and street lines.
That side of a building which faces the principal road, street,
highway or way serving the same.
A legally existing building which fails to comply with the
regulations (for height, number of stories, size, area, yards, and
location) set forth in this ordinance applicable to the district in
which this building is located.
A building in which is conducted the principal use of the
lot on which it is situated.
A boundary line established along any section of the shore
of any navigable waters by a municipal ordinance approved by the State
Department of Natural Resources, pursuant to § 30.11 of
the Wisconsin Statutes. Filling and development is only permitted
between the bulkhead line and the original ordinary high water mark.
Necessarily imply employment of one or more persons for the
purpose of earning a livelihood, activities of persons to improve
their economic conditions and desires, and generally relate to commercial
and industrial engagements.
Any area or tract of land used to accommodate two or more
camping parties, including cabins, tents, house trailers, or other
camping outfits.
A structure of canvas, other fabric, plastic, metal or wood
or other material, which is permanently attached to any exterior building
wall in any manner, intended to shield any wall, window, door, sidewalk
or roadway from sun, rain or any other element, and which is not retractable
such as an awning.
A structure having a roof, with or without supporting walls,
posts or columns, used, designed or intended to be used for the protection
or shelter of private motor vehicles. For the purpose of this ordinance,
a carport shall be considered to be the equivalent of a garage.
Any facility used for the washing of vehicles requiring the
installation of special equipment or machinery and plumbing affixed
to or affixed separate of a structure.
Land used for the burial of the dead, and dedicated for cemetery
purposes, including columbaria, crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries
when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such
cemetery.
A certification that the construction and the use of land
or a building, the elevation of fill or the lowest floor of a structure
is in compliance with all of the provisions of this ordinance.
A natural or artificial watercourse with definite bed and
banks to confine and conduct normal flow of water.
The act or action which results in an interconnection of
two bodies of water, usually navigable by surface craft.
Any establishment which provides shelter, care, activity
and supervision (with or without academic instruction) for five or
more unrelated children or children who are not the legal wards or
foster children of the attendant adult between the hours of 7:00 a.m.
and 7:00 p.m.
A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses,
where persons regularly assemble for religious worship, and which
building together with its accessory buildings and uses, is maintained
and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship.
A place for the medical or similar examination and treatment
of persons as outpatients.
The lowest temperature at which a combustible liquid under
prescribed conditions will give off a flammable vapor which will propagate
a flame. The Tag closed cup tester shall be authoritative for liquids
having a flash point below 175° F. The Pensky-Martens tester shall
be authoritative for liquids having flash points between 175°
F. and 350° F.
Buildings and facilities, owned or operated by a corporation,
association, person or persons, for a social, educational, or recreational
purpose, to which membership is required for participation and not
operated primarily for profit nor to render a service which is customarily
carried on as a business.
A form of residential development that concentrates buildings
or lots in one or more parts of the site to allow the remaining lands
to be used for common open space, recreation, and preservation of
environmentally sensitive features. The concentration of lots is facilitated
by a reduction in lot size. A cluster development will consist of
one or more cluster groups surrounded by common open space.
A group of single-family detached dwellings within a cluster
development, surrounded by common open space. The outer boundary of
a cluster group is defined by the lot lines or the lots within the
group, including the street fronting on and providing access to those
lots.
Style of residence of which one of the features is to have
an eave less than 12 inches. Colonial includes Cape Cod Colonial,
Colonial Revival, Georgian Colonial, Neo-Colonial, New England Colonial,
Salt Box Colonial and Southern Colonial.
Licensed commercial wireless telecommunication services including
cellular, personal communication services (PCS), specialized mobilized
radio (SMR), enhanced specialized mobilized radio (ESMR), paging,
and similar services that are marketed to the general public.
The common facilities in a condominium.
All the real property and improvements set aside for the
common use of and enjoyment of the residents of a cluster development,
including, but not limited to, buildings, open space, private streets,
parking areas, walkways, trails, recreation areas, drainage easements,
and any utilities that service more than one unit, such as sewerage
and water supply facilities, and which are designated in the master
deed as common elements.
Undeveloped land within a cluster development that has been
designated, dedicated, reserved, or restricted in perpetuity from
further development. Common open space shall not be part of individual
residential lots, and shall be substantially free of structures, but
may contain such recreational facilities for residents as are shown
on the approved development plan.
Any structure, whether freestanding or attached to an existing
building or structure, that is designed and constructed primarily
for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including self-supporting
lattice towers, guy towers, or monopole towers. The term includes
radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common-carrier
towers, cellular telephone towers, alternative tower structures, and
the like.
A condominium or homeowners' association.
A building, together with lawful accessory buildings and
uses, used for recreational and cultural activities, etc., and not
operated for profit.
Any facility falling within the definition of § 46.03(22),
Wis. Stats.
Uses of a special nature as to make impractical their predetermination
as a principal use in a district.
Property subject to a condominium declaration established
in accordance with the requirements of the "Condominium Ownership
Act," Chapter 703 of the Wisconsin Statutes. Condominium is a legal
form of ownership of real estate and not a specific building type
or style.
A community association, incorporated or unincorporated,
whose membership consists of owners of dwelling units in a condominium,
which combines individual unit ownership with shared use and ownership
of common property or facilities. The association is responsible for
maintaining the common facilities and delivering services, but does
not own the common facilities.
Guidelines and specifications for soil and water conservation
practices and management enumerated in the technical guide prepared
by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service for Kenosha Village,
adopted by the Village Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors,
and containing suitable alternatives for the use and treatment of
land based upon its capabilities from which the landowner selects
that alternative which best meets his needs in developing his soil
and water conservation plan.
Any modification or change to an existing dwelling which
is intended to or actually does increase the number of dwelling or
room units.
An open space which may or may not have street access, and
around which is arranged a single building or group of related buildings.
That portion of a lot unoccupied by any part of a building,
surrounded on all sides by walls, or by walls and a lot line.
That portion of a lot unoccupied by any part of a building,
opening onto a street, alley, or yard.
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.
See "child-care center."
See "child-care center."
A unit of measurement of the intensity (loudness) of sound.
Sound level meters which are employed to measure the intensity of
sound are calibrated in "decibels."
An uncovered and unenclosed exterior structure with no roof
or walls and primarily constructed of wood or composite material,
with or without footings, which allows the infiltration of precipitation
through spaces between individual floor boards.
A restriction upon the use of a property set forth in the
deed.
The number of dwelling units per acre resulting from taking
the number of dwelling units to be built upon a tract of land and
dividing it by the total number of acres. Gross density makes no allowance
or accounting for infrastructure, such as streets, parks and other
nonresidential uses, upland primary environmental corridors; or unbuildable
lands, such as floodlands, wetlands, and lands having slopes of 20%
or greater.
The number of dwelling units per acre resulting from taking
the number of dwelling units to be built upon a tract of land and
dividing it by the total number of acres excluding street rights-of-way,
nonresidential uses, upland primary environmental corridors, isolated
natural areas and all lands having slopes of 20% or greater.
Those lands within a development parcel remaining after the
deletion of floodlands, wetlands, land densely covered with trees
and shrub growth on slopes of 12% or greater, all lands having slopes
of 20% or greater, and all lands proposed for commercial or business
land uses.
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.
Those tracts of land on opposite sides of the street with
only the street intervening.
A part or parts of the Village for which the regulations
of this ordinance governing the use and location of land and buildings
are uniform.
A part or parts of the Village for which the regulations
of this ordinance governing the use and location of land and buildings
are uniform (such as the residential, commercial, and industrial district
classifications).
Overlay districts allow for superimposing certain additional
requirements or uses upon a basic zoning district which are compatible
with the basic district. If there are conflicting requirements, those
which are stricter shall apply.
The process of excavation for purposes of surface water drainage
and removal; a shallow channel, not navigable, used for the conductance
of waters.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
A facility for the keeping or boarding of more than four
dogs over six months of age.
A person who lives in the family of another, paying no rent
for such occupancy and paying no part of the cost of utilities therefor,
performing household duties and working solely within the house for
the upkeep thereof and for the care and comfort and convenience of
the family and occupants thereof. No person, and no member of the
family of any person, who pays rent for himself or his family shall
be deemed the domestic servant of the person to whom such rent is
paid.
A building or portion thereof used for sleeping purposes
in connection with a school, college or other institution.
A surface ditch or underground tile line constructed for
the purpose of lowering the water table so that land may be farmed
or used for other purposes.
The placement of tile for the purpose of removing excess
waters from the soil, either for agricultural purposes or for the
removal of waters around the building foundations.
The geographic area the general configuration of which causes
surface waters to flow in a specified direction, the area, contained
by a naturally defined watershed, draining all surface waters.
One or more artificial ditches, tile drains or similar devices
which collect surface runoff or groundwater and convey it to a point
of discharge.
Any natural or artificial watercourse, including but not
limited to streams, rivers, creeks, ditches, channels, canals, conduits,
culverts, streams, waterways, gullies, ravines or washes in which
waters flow in a definite direction or force, either continuously
or intermittently and including any area adjacent thereto which is
subject to inundation by reason of overflow or floodwater.
The process of which bottom materials are removed from bodies
of water for the purposes of deepening the body of water.
A term used to describe an establishment designed or operated
to serve a patron while seated in an automobile parked in an off-street
parking space.
A lot or land or part thereof used primarily for the disposal
by abandonment, dumping, burial, burning, or any other means and for
whatever purpose, of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded
machinery, vehicles or parts thereof, or waste material of any kind.
A building designed and/or used exclusively for residential
purposes and containing two dwelling units separated by a common party
wall or otherwise structurally attached.
The rate that particulate matter collects in an open jar
for a thirty-day period, expressed as tons per square mile per month.
Procedures and equipment for the measurement of such shall be as standardized
by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
Consists of one or more rooms, including a bathroom and complete
kitchen facilities, which are arranged, designed or used as living
quarters for one family or household.
A dwelling with two or more party walls, or one party wall
in the case of a dwelling at the end of a group of attached dwellings.
A dwelling which is designed to be and is substantially separate
from any other structure or structures except accessory buildings.
A single-family dwelling and one or more other single-family
or duplex dwellings located on a lot.
A building or portion thereof used for occupancy by three
or more families living independently of each other, and doing their
own cooking in the building including apartments, group houses, and
row houses.
A building or portion thereof, used exclusively for residential
occupancy, including one-family, two-family and multiple dwellings,
but not including hotels, motels, lodging houses, boardinghouses or
tourist homes.
One of a series of three or more attached dwelling units
separated from one another by continuous vertical party walls without
openings from basement floor to roof.
A dwelling having a party wall in common with another dwelling
but which otherwise is designed to be and is substantially separate
from any other structure or structures except accessory buildings.
A residential dwelling consisting of one dwelling unit designed
for, converted to, and/or occupied by one family and not attached
to another dwelling unit. For the purposes of this chapter, a single-family
dwelling shall include conventional site built, modular and manufactured
homes (not located in a Mobile Home/Manufactured Home Park/Subdivision
District) and shall comply with the building, height, area and design
standards delineated in the single-family residential districts. For
the purposes of this chapter, a single-family dwelling does not include
a mobile home or a manufactured home (located in a Mobile Home/Manufactured
Home Park/Subdivision District).
A detached or semidetached building used for residential
occupancy by two families living independently of each other.
Twenty-five percent of the annual gross income is earned
from direct farm labor.
Any process which physically alters the existing topography
by means of mechanical or hydraulic equipment and the voiding of soils
of vegetated cover so as to make the same soil susceptible to erosion.
The removal or extraction of any stone, sand, gravel, loam,
topsoil, or other earth or earth product from a lot or parcel of land,
except where such removal is for the purpose of grading a lot upon
which a building is to be erected, a roadway to be built, or a platting
thereof to be made.
Describes a cyclic movement of the earth due to energy propagation.
A right given by the owner of land to another party for specific
limited use of that land.
An access easement for ingress and egress to a parcel recorded
in the Kenosha Village Register of Deeds office prior to the effective
date of this ordinance.
The grant of a property right or interest from one property
owner to another person, agency, unit of government, or other organization
stipulating that the described land shall remain in its natural, scenic,
open or wooded state, precluding future or additional development.
The projecting lower edges of a roof, not including the roof
gutter, overhanging the vertical wall of a building.
A dwelling unit of not more than one room in addition to
a kitchen, bath and intended primarily as a residence for a single
person.
A small kitchen, also referred to as a kitchenette, usually
consisting of a refrigerator, microwave or hotplate and sink.
An animal confinement facility used or designed for the raising
of poultry for egg production having a capacity of 200 or more animal
units.
A type of changeable copy sign that utilizes computer-generated
messages or some other electronic means of changing copy, but not
including video. These signs include displays using incandescent lamps,
LEDs, LCDs or a flipper matrix.
Public or private enclosures designed to protect people from
aerial, radiological, biological, or chemical warfare, fire, flood,
windstorm, riots, and invasions.
Any vertical or horizontal increase in the mined area or
the area occupied by or utilized in connection with any of the operations
or related activities.
An "enlargement" is an addition to the floor area of an existing
building, an increase in the size of any other structure, or an increase
in that portion of a tract of land occupied by an existing use. "To
enlarge" is to make an enlargement.
The process by which the ground surface is worn away by action
of wind or water.
Services provided by public and private utilities, necessary
for the exercise of the principal, accessory or conditional use or
service of the principal, accessory or conditional structure. These
services include underground, surface, or overhead gas, electrical,
steam, water, sanitary sewage, stormwater drainage, and 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.
The act by which soil, earth, sand, gravel, rock or any similar
material is cut into, dug, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced,
relocated or bulldozed and shall include the conditions resulting
therefrom.
The use of property, including the use and location of buildings,
the size of lots and the dimensions of required yards, otherwise not
allowable under the terms of this ordinance, which is permissible
by reason of special provisions of this ordinance, or for which a
special permit may be issued by the Department of Planning and Development
or the Board of Adjustment, under conditions specified in this ordinance.
Same as a conditional use.
Means that principal structures exist within 250 feet of
a proposed principal structure in both directions along the shoreline.
A divided arterial street or highway with full or partial
control of access and with or without grade separated intersections.
Implies increase or amplification as distinguished from inception.
An increase in the amount of existing floor area used for
an existing use within an existing building. "To extend" is to make
an extension.
The most exterior part of a wall, sun screen or any screening
or material covering a building.
One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit and living
as a single, nonprofit housekeeping unit based on an intentionally
structured relationship providing organization and stability; provided
that a group of more than four persons who are not related by blood,
marriage, adoption or guardianship shall not be deemed to constitute
a family. This does not exclude community living arrangements or foster
family homes in conformance with all state statutory requirements.
A zoned area which is used for the growing of the usual farm
products such as vegetables, fruit trees, and grain, etc., and their
storage on the area, as well as for raising thereon the usual farm
poultry and farm animals, such as horses, cattle, sheep and swine,
etc.
Any person who owns land and raises crops or livestock on
that land; or a person who rents land to another for agricultural
purposes and lives on the land having day-to-day contact with the
farm operation; or a person who lives on the land that he or she has
historically farmed. For the purpose of this ordinance, any person
who has farmed land for five consecutive years is deemed to have farmed
it historically.
The business of cultivating land, or employing it for the
purposes of husbandry; the cultivation and fertilization of the soil
as well as caring for and harvesting the crops.
A group of existing buildings with accessory structures used
for agricultural purposes, such as barns, silos, storage sheds, cribs,
and coops, and which may or may not include a dwelling.
The federal agency which administers the National Flood Insurance
Program. This agency was formerly known as the Federal Insurance Administration
(FIA) and was part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD).
The following facilities shall be considered feedlots: 1)
any tract of land or structure wherein any type of fowl or the by-products
thereof are raised for sale at wholesale or retail; 2) any structure,
pen, or corral wherein cattle, horses, sheep, goats, and swine are
maintained in close quarters for the purpose of fattening such livestock
for final shipment to market; 3) the raising of swine under any conditions.
An animal confinement facility used or designed for the feeding or
holding of 500 or more animal units for a period of 30 days or more.
A structure for enclosure or screening.
Any act by which soil, earth, sand, gravel, rock or any similar
material is deposited, placed, pushed, pulled or transported and shall
include the condition resulting therefrom.
Clean fill is "uncontaminated soil, rock, sand, gravel, concrete,
asphaltic concrete, cinder blocks, brick, for fill, reclamation or
other beneficial use." Concrete containing wire mesh or rebar may
be considered as clean fill. However, exposed rebar should be removed
to the maximum extent possible (any rebar or wire mesh sticking out
of the concrete must be shorter than two inches before use in order
to prevent a public nuisance or health and safety hazard). Broken
concrete placed in the shoreland must be buried with soil capable
of establishing permanent vegetation.
Any act by which soil, earth, sand, gravel, rock or any similar
material is deposited, placed, pushed, pulled or transported and shall
include the condition resulting therefrom.
A special detailed use district of undetermined location,
a district in which the proposed kind, location, size, and form of
structures must be preapproved, and which, like a special exception
use, is legislatively pre-deemed compatible with the areas in which
it may thereafter be located on a particular application, provided
specified standards are gratified and actual incompatibility is not
revealed. Same as overlay district.
A map of a community on which the Federal Insurance Administration
has delineated both the floodplain and the risk premium zones applicable
to the community. This map can only be amended by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
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
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.
For the purpose of this ordinance, the floodlands are all
lands contained in the "regional flood" or 100-year recurrence interval
flood.
The sum of the areas of the several floors of the structure,
as measured by the exterior faces of the walls, including fully enclosed
porches and the like as measured by the exterior limits thereof, but
excluding: a) garage space which is in the basement of a building
or, in the case of garage space accessory to a dwelling, is at grade;
b) basement and cellar areas devoted exclusively to uses accessory
to the operation of the structure; and c) areas elsewhere in the structure
devoted to housing mechanical equipment customarily located in the
basement or cellar such as heating and air-conditioning equipment,
plumbing, electrical equipment, laundry facilities, and storage facilities.
See also "ground floor area."
The total floor area on a zoning lot, divided by the lot
area of that zoning lot.
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of all floors measured
in square feet, not including the basement floor, measured from the
exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center line of walls
separating two buildings. The gross floor area of a building includes
elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor, floor space used for
mechanical equipment, (except equipment-open or closed-located on
a roof or basement), penthouses, attic space having a head room of
seven feet 10 inches or more, interior balconies and mezzanines, enclosed
porches, and floor area devoted to accessory uses.
For the purpose of determining off-street parking and off-street
loading requirements, the sum of the gross horizontal areas of several
floors of the building, or portion thereof, devoted to a use requiring
off-street parking or loading. This area shall include accessory storage
areas located within selling or working space, such as counters, racks
or closets and any basement floor area devoted to 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.
A unit of illumination. Technically, the illumination at
all points one foot distant from a uniform point source of one candle
power.
Any home licensed as such by the State Department of Health
and Social Services.
A body of men associated for their common interest, business,
or pleasure.
A building containing no more than one dwelling unit and
more than two rooming units or guest rooms. Such rooming units or
guest rooms shall be for residential purposes only.
Implies a rate of combustion described by a material which
burns actively, and easily supports combustion.
An expressway with full control of access and with fully
graded separated intersections.
Establishments primarily engaged in undertaking the transportation
of goods from shippers to receivers for a charge covering the entire
route, which may involve the use of multiple carriers and transportation
establishments in effecting delivery. A freight forwarding service
may provide for temporary storage of goods in a delivery vehicle while
such vehicle awaits pickup by another carrier.
Signifies the number of oscillations per second in a sound
wave and is an index of the pitch of the resulting sound.
That side of a lot abutting on a street or way and ordinarily
regarded as the front of the lot, but it shall not be considered as
the ordinary side of a corner lot.
A dwelling or other structure used and occupied by a professional
licensed mortician for burial preparation and funeral services.
Any property comprising land or buildings or both, used for
the purpose of raising or harboring fur-bearing animals including
those defined in § 29.01(3)(c),[2] Wis. Stats., and also including chinchillas and other
fur-bearing animals, if any, whether the animals are kept for breeding
or slaughtering or pelting purposes.
A building for the storing of motor vehicles.
A private garage which has a roof or wall, or a major portion
of a roof or wall, in common with a dwelling. Where the garage is
attached to a dwelling in this manner, it shall be subject to all
yard requirements of the main building.
A building or portion thereof designed or used for the temporary
storage of motor-driven vehicles, with or without the retail dispensing,
sale, or offering for sale of motor fuels, lubricants, and tires,
or indoor car washing, minor motor adjustment, and flat tire repair
when such operations are incidental to the storage of motor-driven
vehicles.
A detached accessory building or portion of a main building,
used for the storage of self-propelled vehicles where the capacity
does not exceed three vehicles, or not more than one per family housed
in the building to which such garage is accessory, whichever is the
greater, and not more than 1/3 the total number of vehicles stored
in such garage shall be commercial vehicles. Storage space for not
more than three vehicles may be rented for vehicles of other than
occupants of the building to which such garage is accessory.
A building or portion thereof used for the housing of motor
vehicles or where such vehicles are equipped for operation, repaired
or kept for remuneration, hire or sale, not including exhibition or
showroom for model cars.
Any building or premises used for the storage only of motor-driven
vehicles, pursuant to previous arrangements and not to transients,
and where no equipment, parts, fuel, grease or oil is sold and vehicles
are not equipped, serviced, repaired, hired or sold. No commercial
motor vehicle exceeding five tons' capacity shall be stored in any
storage garage.
A multiple family dwelling which shall not exceed four stories
in height.
Includes not only the building provided for repair work,
the storage of supplies, and the use and shelter of the operatives,
but also tanks, pumps, structures, and filling stations for business
purposes and the supplying of gas, fuel, and oil for automobiles of
the general public. It also includes, of necessity, suitable approaches
and exits at substantially the level of the street.
A freestanding structure (similar to a detached open patio
cover), with a pitched roof design, having a maximum height of 15
feet, and maximum area of 150 square feet, and shall be designed for
recreational use only and not for habitation.
Retail stores where items such as art, antiques, jewelry,
books and notions are sold.
A comparatively large unobstructed acreage involving enough
room over which to walk or ride, point to point, over a generally
prescribed course, and to strive to send a ball long distances with
variable accuracy, all without unreasonably endangering other players
or intruding upon them.
In cases where all walls of the principal building are more
than five feet from the nearest street line, the mean elevation of
the ground adjoining the building on all sides; and in all other cases,
the mean elevation of the nearest sidewalk.
Any stripping, excavating, filling, stockpiling, or any combination
thereof, including the land in its excavated or filled condition.
Style of residence of which one of the features is to have
an eave less than 12 inches.
The square foot area of a building within its largest outside
dimensions, exclusive of open porches, breezeways, terraces, garages,
exterior stairways, and secondary stairways.
Includes billboard signs and any other sign secured to the
ground and not to a building except tower signs.
Any home licensed as such by the State Department of Health
and Social Services.
Living quarters within a detached accessory building located
on the same premises with the main building, for use by temporary
guests of the occupants of the premises; such quarters not rented
or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.
A room in a hotel, motel, or tourist home offered to the
public for compensation in which room no provision is made for cooking
and which room is used only for transient occupancy.
Any building, or portion thereof, used for human habitation.
A room in a dwelling unit designed to be used for living,
sleeping, eating, or cooking, excluding bathrooms, toilet compartments,
closets, halls, storage, and similar space.
A residential facility for five or more adults who have been
institutionalized for various reasons and released, or who have or
have had physical or social disabilities which make operation in society
difficult and require the protection of a group setting to facilitate
the transition to a functional member of society (e.g., former convicts,
alcoholics, drug addicts, mental patients, etc.); shelter, supervision
and residential rehabilitative services are provided and the home
is licensed to operate as such by the State Department of Health and
Social Services.
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 1 notice, published once, at least
a week (seven days) before the hearing. Local ordinances or bylaws
may require additional notice, exceeding these minimums.
The vertical distance from the grade at the front of a building
to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof between the eaves
and a ridge or to the deck line of a mansard roof or the average height
between the plate and ridge of a gable, hip, or gambrel roof.
An area used or to be used for landing or takeoff of helicopters
or other steep-gradient aircraft capable of hovering, and may include
any or all of the area or buildings which are appropriate to accomplish
these functions.
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 facility, however named, which is designed, staffed and
equipped for the care of individuals who are not in need of hospital
or nursing care but who are in need of assistance due to age with
everyday activities of living in a protected environment.
Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling
and carried on by the occupants thereof, which use is clearly incidental
and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and
does not change the character thereof, and in connection with which
there is no display, no stock in trade and no outside storage of equipment
upon the premises.
A community association, incorporated or unincorporated,
combining individual home ownership with shared use or ownership of
common property or facilities. The association is responsible for
maintaining the common facilities and delivering services, but may
or may not own the common facilities.
An institution providing health services, primarily for in-patients,
and medical or surgical care of the sick or injured, including as
an integral part of the institution, such related facilities as laboratories,
out-patient departments, training facilities, central service facilities,
and staff offices.
A building containing 20 or more individual sleeping rooms
or suites, having each a private bathroom attached thereto, for the
purpose of providing overnight lodging facilities to the general public
for compensation with or without meals, excluding accommodations for
employees, and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is
made through an inside office or lobby supervised by a person in charge
at all hours. Where a hotel is permitted as a principal use, all uses
customarily and historically accessory thereto for the comfort, accommodation
and entertainment of the patrons, including the service of alcoholic
beverages, shall be permitted.
A vehicular portable dwelling unit designed especially for
short-term occupancy; such as travel trailers, campers, house boats,
converted buses and other similar units whether self propelled, pulled
or hauled and are designed primarily for highway travel.
The cultivation or production of plants and animals (livestock)
and/or the by-products thereof.
As any use, whether of a building or other structure, or
of a tract of land, or body of water in which a violation of any provision
of this ordinance has been committed or shall exist.
A short-duration sound which is incapable of being accurately
measured on a sound level meter.
An area that releases as runoff all or a majority of the
precipitation that falls of it. "Impervious surface" excludes frozen
soil but includes rooftops, sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, and
streets unless specifically designed, constructed, and maintained
to be pervious. Roadways as defined in Wis. Stats., § 340.01(54),
Wis. Stats., or sidewalks as defined in § 340.01(58), Wis.
Stats., are not considered impervious surfaces.
Any building, structure, place, work of art, or other object
constituting a physical betterment of real property, or any part of
such betterment including street grading and surfacing with or without
curbs and gutter, sidewalks, crosswalks, water mains, sanitary and
storm sewers, culverts, bridges, streets, and trees.
A sound which is no longer than two seconds in duration,
followed by no less than a two-second rest.
A principal building or area used for recreational activities
such as bowling alleys, firearm ranges, skating rinks, athletic and
health clubs, tennis, racquetball and handball courts and swimming
pools.
See "riding stable (private)."
See "riding stable (public)."
A nonprofit establishment for public use.
A place for the care of babies, children, pensioners or the
elderly.
Implies a rate of combustion described by a material that
burns with a high degree of activity and is consumed rapidly.
A grade separated intersection with one or more turning lanes
for travel between intersection lanes.
Any street or public way or court, 30 feet or more in width,
which joins another at an angle, whether or not it crosses the other.
Includes without limitation due to enumeration scrap iron,
scrap tin, scrap brass, scrap copper, scrap lead or scrap zinc and
all other scrap metals and their alloys and bones, rags, used cloth,
used rubber, used rope, used tinfoil, used bottles, old or used machinery,
used tools, used appliances, used fixtures, used utensils, used lumber,
used boxes or crates, used pipe or pipe fittings, used automobiles
or airplane tires, and other manufactured goods that are so worn,
deteriorated or obsolete as to make them unusable in their existing
condition.
Any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business
of buying, selling, exchanging, or dealing in old junk, metals, bottles,
siphons, old rope, old iron, brass, copper, tin or lead, secondhand
plumbing materials, secondhand gas and electric fixtures, old rubber
tires or other used or old articles commonly designated as "junk,"
and having a store, stand, or place of business.
A place where junk, waste, discarded, or salvaged materials
are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled,
wrecked or dismantled, or handled, including automobile wrecking yards,
house wrecking, and structural steel materials and equipment, but
not including the purchase or storage of used furniture and household
equipment, used cars in operable condition, used or salvaged materials
as part of manufacturing operations.
Any lots or premises on which four or more dogs or cats,
or both, at least four months of age are kept, boarded, or trained,
whether in special structures or runways or not.
Any room used for the preparation of foods and containing
all of the following equipment: sink, stove/oven and refrigerator.
A building or part of a building devoted to the testing and
analysis of any product or animal (including humans) or to the development
of and fabrication of preliminary or pilot models. Also includes a
laboratory which provides bacteriological, biological, medical, x-ray,
pathological and similar analytical or diagnostic services to doctors
or dentists. No fabricating is conducted on the premises, except the
custom fabrication of dentures. No manufacturing is conducted on the
premises except for experimental or testing purposes.
A water body in a depression that of an off-shore bar, a
beach ridge, or shore dune, with those geomorphic features, either
natural or man-made, acting as barriers or dams. Also, a shallow pond,
channel, or impoundment connected to a larger body of water.
The act of creating a lagoon.
Section lines, half-section lines, quarter-section lines,
and other property lines established by meets and bounds outside the
boundaries of reported land subdivision plats.
Any nonstructural use made of unimproved or improved real
estate. (Also see "development.")
See "sanitary landfill."
An area that is permanently devoted and maintained to the
growing of trees, shrubbery, grass and other plant material.
The improvement of a lot, parcel of tract of land with grass
and shrubs and/or trees. Landscaping may include pedestrian walks,
flowerbeds, ornamental objects such as fountains, statuary, and other
similar natural objects designed and arranged to produce an aesthetically
pleasing effect.
A business that provides washing, drying, and/or ironing
machines for hire to be used by customers on the premises.
Agricultural Districts are less restrictive than Residential
Districts.
Residential Districts are less restrictive than Business
Districts.
Business Districts are less restrictive than Manufacturing
Districts.
Manufacturing Districts are less restrictive than Institutional
Districts.
Institutional Districts are less restrictive than Conservancy
Districts.
Conservancy Districts are less restrictive than Overlay Districts.
See § ZN 5.02(2)(b).
Official notification from the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) that a Flood Hazard Boundary Map or Flood Insurance
Rate Map has been amended.
Official notification from the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) that a municipality's Flood Hazard Boundary Map or Flood
Insurance Rate Map has been amended. A LOMR is issued when the revised
map is not republished.
A place in which books, manuscripts, musical scores or other
literary and artistic materials are kept for use and only incidentally
for sale.
Animals of any kind kept or raised for sale, resale, agricultural
field production or pleasure, excluding fur-bearing animals.
One or more rooms in a building designed for occupancy by
one or more persons for living and/or sleeping.
All rooms within a dwelling except closets, foyers, storage
areas, utility rooms and bathrooms.
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 public street or alley.
An off-street space, at least 10 feet by 50 feet with a minimum
height clearance of 14 feet, for the temporary parking of a commercial
vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials, and which
abuts on a street or other appropriate means of access.
A building other than a hotel, where lodging, without meals,
for five or more persons is provided for compensation.
For the purpose of the Village Zoning Ordinance, a lot shall
be defined as a tract of land on which a principal building and its
accessory building(s) are or may be placed, together with the required
open spaces.
The area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side,
and rear lot lines. No lands dedicated to the public or reserved for
roadway purposes shall be included in the computation of lot area
except in the A-1, A-2, A-3 and A-4 Agricultural Districts.
The portion of a lot remaining after required yards have
been provided.
That percentage of a lot which, when viewed directly from
above, would be covered by a structure or structures, or any part
thereof, excluding projecting roof eaves.
The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines, measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.
The line separating the lot from the street
The line which most nearly qualifies as the line most distant
and opposite from the front lot line; where the line is irregularly
shaped, a line perpendicular to the mean direction of the side lot
lines, and at least 10 feet in length within the lot.
Any lot line other than a front lot line or a rear lot line.
The lines bounding a lot.
The peripheral boundary of a parcel of land and the total
area lying within such boundaries.
A lot which is part of a recorded subdivision or a parcel
of land which has been recorded at the Kenosha Village Register of
Deeds Office and which has been assigned a property parcel number.
The width of a parcel of land measured at the rear of the
specified street yard.
Land occupied or to be occupied by a building and its accessory
buildings, or by a dwelling group and its accessory buildings, together
with such open spaces as are required under the provisions of this
ordinance, having not less than the minimum area and width required
by this ordinance for a lot in the district in which such land is
situated, and having its principal frontage on a street or on such
other means of access as may be determined in accordance with the
provisions of the law to be adequate as a condition of the issuance
of a building permit for a building on such land.
A lot which occupies the interior angle at the intersection
of two street lines which make an angle of less than 135° with
each other.
A lot other than a corner lot.
A parcel of land having frontage on a public street, easement
of record or other officially approved means of access, occupied or
intended to be occupied by a principal building or structure together
with accessory buildings and uses having insufficient size to meet
the lot width, lot area, yard, off-street parking areas, or other
open space provisions of this ordinance.
A lot, other than a corner lot, having frontage on more than
one street.
The brightness of an object, expressed in terms of foot-lamberts,
determined from other premises or from the street's public right-of-way,
whichever is closer to the sign.
Includes without limitation due to enumeration shops with
lathes, presses, grinders, shapers, and other wood and metalworking
machines, such as blacksmith, tinsmith, welding and sheetmetal shops;
plumbing, heating and electrical repair and overhaul shops.
Includes internal and external painting, decorating, and
the replacement of doors, windows, siding, roofing shingles and other
nonstructural components and the maintenance, repair or replacement
of existing private sewage or water supply systems or connections
to public utilities.
A residential dwelling for one family as is defined in § 101.91(2),
Wis. Stats., fabricated in an off-site facility for installation or
assembly at the building site, bearing a HUD (U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development) label or insignia certifying that it is built
in compliance with the Federal Manufactured Housing Construction Standards
under 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 to 5425, and built after June
14, 1976. A manufactured home shall be considered a single-family
dwelling for the purposes of this chapter only where it meets the
building, height, area and design standards delineated in the single-family
residential districts and is located in the single-family residential
districts. When located in the single-family residential districts,
all wheels, axles, transportation lights, and other related towing
apparatuses shall be removed. For the purposes of this chapter, a
manufactured home shall be considered a dwelling unit when located
in the Mobile Home/Manufactured Home Park/Subdivision District.
The processing and converting of raw, unfinished, or finished
materials or products, or any of these into an article or substance
of different character, or for use for a different character, or for
use for a different purpose; also industries furnishing labor in the
case of manufacturing or the refinishing of manufactured articles.
A place for docking or storage of pleasure boats or providing
services to pleasure boats and the occupants thereof, including minor
servicing and repair to boats while in the water, sale of fuel and
supplies, or provision of lodging, food, beverages, and entertainment
as accessory uses. A yacht club shall be considered a marina, but
a hotel, motel, or similar use, where docking of boats and provision
of services thereto, is incidental to other activities shall not be
considered a marina, nor shall boat docks accessory to a multiple
dwelling where no boat-related services are rendered.
With respect to quarrying and nonmetallic mining operations,
"material modification" means any change in the approved plan of operations
or the approved plan of reclamation which is significant in terms
of the concerns addressed by § ZN 5.03(8)(b)96a of this
ordinance, including, without limitation, any nonapproved enlargement.
A unit of length, equal to one thousandth part of one millimeter
(0.001 millimeter).
Establishments used for the dead storage of customers' goods
and wares where individual stalls or lockers are rented out to different
tenants for storage where one or more of the stalls or lockers is
less than 500 square feet in area.
Balancing measures that are designed, implemented and function
to restore natural functions and values that are otherwise lost through
development and human activities.
A transportable factory built structure as is defined in
§ 101.91(2)(a), Wis. Stats., designed for long-term occupancy
by one family and built prior to June 15, 1976, the effective date
of the Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards
Act.[3] For the purposes of this chapter a mobile home is considered
to be a dwelling unit and is not considered to be a type of single-family
dwelling, two-family dwelling, three-family dwelling or multifamily
dwelling. All mobile homes shall be located in a Mobile Home/Manufactured
Home Park/Subdivision Residential District.
A parcel of land, in a mobile home/manufactured home park/subdivision,
for the placement of a single mobile home or a single manufactured
home and the exclusive use of its occupants.
A parcel of land or subdivision used for the placement of
two or more mobile homes and/or manufactured homes. Manufactured home
developments and subdivisions shall not be included under definition
where all manufactured homes meet the regulations in each zoning district
for a residential dwelling.
Implies a rate of combustion described by a material which
supports combustion and is consumed slowly as it burns.
A structure transported in one or more sections, which is
built on a permanent foundation and meets the minimum requirements
of the Wisconsin Uniform Dwelling Code.[4]
A place where the unidentified and derelict dead are at all
times received and kept and exposed to public view for the purposes
of identification.
A building or group of buildings which: a) contains sleeping
accommodations, each unit having a private bathroom attached thereto;
b) has individual entrances from outside the building to serve each
such sleeping unit; c) is furnished by the owner prior to occupancy;
and d) is leased on a daily rate for transient occupancy.
A sign indicating the name and/or occupation of a person
or persons residing on the premises or legally occupying the premises,
or indicating a home occupation legally existing on the premises.
Elevations referenced to mean sea level datum, 1988 adjustment.
Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, all natural inland lakes within
Wisconsin and all streams, ponds, sloughs, flowages and other waters
within the territorial limits of the state, including the Wisconsin
portion of boundary waters which are navigable under the laws of the
state. Under § 144.26(2)(d),[5] Wis. Stats., notwithstanding any other provision of the
law or administrative rule promulgated thereunder, shoreland ordinances
required under § 59.971,[6] Wis. Stats., and Wis. Adm. Code Ch. NR 115 do not apply
to lands adjacent to farm drainage ditches if:
Wisconsin's Supreme Court has declared navigable bodies of water
that have a bed differentiated from adjacent uplands and levels or
flow sufficient to support navigation by a recreational craft of the
shallowest draft on an annually recurring basis [Muench v. Public
Service Commission, 261 Wis. 492 (1952) and DeGayner and Co., Inc.
v. Department of Natural Resources, 70 Wis. 2d 936 (1975)]. For example,
a stream which is navigable by skiff or canoe during normal spring
high water is navigable in fact under the laws of the state though
it may be dry during other seasons.
That portion of a project site designated for residential
lots and common open space areas.
An establishment which shall include, in addition to the
serving of food and entertainment, the provision for dancing and sale
of malt beverages to the public.
See § ZN 5.02(2)(c).
See § ZN 5.02(2)(d).
See § ZN 5.02(2)(e).
Material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms
by chemical reaction or is capable of causing detrimental effects
upon the physical or economic well-being of individuals.
Anything that interferes with the use or enjoyment of property,
endangers personal health or safety or is offensive to the senses.
Any land used to raise trees, shrubs, flowers, and other
plants for sale or for transplanting.
A place where three or more children are kept for the purpose
of providing supplemental parental care, including day nursery, day-care
home for children, and kindergarten.
An institution for the care of children or the aged or infirm,
or a place of rest for those suffering bodily disorders; but not including
facilities for surgical care. See also "retirement home" and "home
for the aged."
To take or enter upon possession of.
A prescribed interval of sound frequencies which permits
classifying sound according to its pitch.
The lowest concentration of odorous matter in the air that
will produce a response in the normal human nose.
Any matter or material that yields an odor which is offensive
in any way or any matter or material that produces a response in the
normal human nose.
A room or building in which a person transacts his business
or carries on his stated occupation.
A building designed or used only for office purposes.
That map, adopted and made part of this ordinance, as described
in § ZN 1.02(13), which has been approved by the DNR and
FEMA.
LOMC is a letter which reflects an official revision to an
effective National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) map. LOMCs are issued
in place of the physical revision and republication of the effective
map. Different types of LOMCs may include: a letter of map amendment
(LOMA) is an official amendment, by letter, to an effective NFIP map.
A LOMA establishes a property's location in relation to the SFHA or
a letter of map revision (LOMR) is an official revision, by letter,
to an effective NFIP map. A LOMR may change flood insurance risk zones,
floodplain and/or floodway boundary delineations, planimetric features,
and/or BFE or a letter of map revision based on fill (LOMR-F) is an
official revision, by letter, to an effective NFIP map. A LOMR-F provides
FEMA's determination concerning whether a structure or parcel has
been elevated on fill above the BFE and excluded from the SFHA.
Those roads that have never been formally dedicated but are
maintained by the state, Village or town.
Includes a state-approved septic or mound system for collection
of sanitary waste and eventual absorption of such waste into the surrounding
soils.
That ground area and the space above which is unimpeded from
the ground to the sky by any main structure except that the area may
be used for landscaping, recreational purposes such as for swimming,
shuffleboard, tennis, etc. Parking lots and storage areas for vehicles
and material shall be considered as open space.
The point on the bank or shore up to which the presence and
action of surface water is so continuous as to leave a distinctive
mark such as by erosion, destruction or prevention of terrestrial
vegetation, predominance of aquatic vegetation, or other easily recognized
characteristics.
A pleasure ground set apart for recreation of the public
to promote its health and enjoyment.
An area, publicly or privately owned, containing amusement
and recreation facilities and devices, whether operated for profit
or not.
An area owned by the Village, operated for the convenience
and recreation of the public, and containing such facilities as the
owning municipality shall see fit.
An off-street area containing one or more parking spaces,
with passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto. In general, there
shall be an average of at least 350 square feet of parking area per
parking space to insure adequate aisle widths.
An open area, other than a street or alley, used for the
parking of the automobiles of occupants of a dwelling.
An area other than a private parking area, street or alley,
used for the parking of automobiles and available for public or quasi-public
use.
An open area other than a street used for the parking of
more than four automobiles and available for public use whether free,
for compensation, or as an accommodation for clients or customers.
A surfaced area, enclosed or unenclosed, sufficient in size
to store one automobile not less than nine feet wide and 18 feet long,
together with a driveway connecting the parking space with a street,
road or alley and permitting ingress and egress of that automobile
without the necessity of moving any other automobile.
Dust, smoke, or any other form of airborne pollution in the
form of minute separate particles.
Includes all abutting property owners, all property owners
within 300 feet of a parcel and all property owners of opposite frontages
and of properties that may be directly and immediately affected by
a proposed change in this ordinance.
A wall containing no opening which extends from the elevation
from building footings to the elevation of the outer surface of the
roof or above, and which separates continuous buildings but is in
joint use for each building.
An uncovered and unenclosed surface with no roof or walls,
primarily constructed of concrete, brick or other masonry material,
which is not elevated above the average level of the ground by more
than six inches and primarily intended for outdoor living and recreational
purposes.
A criterion established for the purposes of: 1) assigning
proposed industrial uses to proper districts; and 2) making judgments
in the control of noise, odor, smoke, toxic matter, vibration, fire
and explosive hazards, or glare generated by, or inherent in, uses
of land or buildings.
The rental of housing accommodations or rooms on a week-to-week,
month-to-month or year-to-year basis with a fixed rent for each period
of occupancy.
An individual, firm, copartnership, joint venture, association,
social club, fraternal organization, corporation, estate, trust, business
trust, receiver, syndicate, or other group or combination acting as
a unit.
Animals commonly found in residences as pets, such as dogs,
cats, songbirds, and other small animals, providing that they are
not raised or reared for commercial resale or as a source of stable
supplement. Household pets shall not include horses, chickens, cows,
goats, sheep, hogs, snakes or other animals not commonly found in
residences.
A boundary line established along any section of the shore
or any navigable waters by a municipal ordinance approved by the State
Department of Natural Resources, pursuant to § 30.13, Wis.
Stats. Piers and wharves are only permitted to the landward side of
such pierhead line unless a permit has been obtained pursuant to § 30.12(2),
Wis. Stats.
The establishment of a building or structure in a particular
location, whether by original construction or erection or by moving
a building or structure to a particular location.
A cover or enclosure consisting of painted metal, brick,
decorative masonry, natural and decorative stone, or masonry with
a stucco finish which encloses and is permanently attached to a sign
pole, post or pylon that supports the sign. No additional sign copy
or lettering is permitted on the cover or enclosure, except for street
address numbers.
A roof partially or wholly supported by columns and/or wall
sections including sunrooms, three-season porches, screen porches,
etc.
Style of residence of which one of the features which may
include horizontal rather than vertical plane, and typically features
flat or shallow rooflines.
[Added 4-26-2022 by Ord.
No. 2022-003]
A lot or parcel that was developed with a structure legally
placed upon it.
A yard normally including the driveway access extending across
the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum
horizontal distance between the existing street right-of-way line
and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal
structure. Corner lots shall have one primary street yard and one
secondary street yard.
The primary purpose or function that a lot serves or is intended
to serve.
A sewage treatment and disposal system serving a single structure
with a septic tank and soil absorption field located on the same parcel
as the structure. This term also means an alternative sewage system,
approved by the Department of Commerce, including a substitute for
the anaerobic treatment tank or dispersal cell, a holding tank, a
system serving more than one structure or a system located on a different
parcel than the structure. A POWTS may be owned by the property owner
or by a special purpose district.
Residences of doctors of medicine, practitioners, dentists,
clergymen, architects, landscape architects, lawyers, professional
engineers, registered land surveyors, artists, teachers, authors,
musicians or other recognized professions used to conduct their professions
where the office does not exceed 1/2 the area of only one floor of
the residence and only one nonresident person is employed.
The office of a person engaged in any occupation, vocation,
or calling, not purely commercial, mechanical, or agricultural in
which a professed knowledge or skill in some department of science
or learning is used by its practical application to the affairs of
others, either advising or guiding them in serving their interest
or welfare through the practice of an act founded thereon.
An architecturally enhanced entrance to an establishment
which is provided primarily for use by the patrons or customers of
the establishment and not for delivery purposes.
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.
A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock
or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a
stone pit.
Waste soil, rock, mineral, liquid, vegetation, and other
waste material resulting from a quarry or other nonmetallic mining
operation. This term does not include merchantable by-products resulting
directly from or displaced by the quarry or other nonmetallic mining
operation, provided that the operator intends to market such by-products
and the operation is active.
The location where a quarry or other nonmetallic mining operation
is proposed to be conducted or is conducted, including, without limitation,
all areas where minerals are proposed to be or are removed, processed
or stored, and all areas where are proposed to be or are disturbed
or improved in connection with the operations (but not including public
streets, highways, or other public improvements), and all setback
areas surrounding the operations.
All of the activities undertaken for the purpose of extracting
from the earth, for sale or use by the operator or any person affiliated
or related to the operator, or any person with whom the operator has
a contractual relationship, mineral aggregates such as stone, sand
and gravel, and other nonmetallic minerals such as asbestos, beryl,
clay, feldspar, peat, talc and topsoil, and all related activities
and processes on the site, including, without limitation, stripping,
drilling, shooting, excavating, dredging, grading, scalping, dewatering,
crushing, screening, washing, blending, loading, hauling, stockpiling,
and selling.
The digging out of stone or slate from an open excavation.
A strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for
track operation, but not including freight depots or stations, loading
platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car or locomotive shops, or car
yards.
A longitudinal segment of a stream generally including those
floodlands where in flood stages are primarily and commonly controlled
by the same man-made or natural obstructions to flow.
An open space, including driveways and parking areas, unoccupied
other than by permitted accessory buildings or uses, extending from
the rear building line of a principal building to the rear lot line,
between the side building lines, projected to the rear lot line.
With respect to quarrying and nonmetallic mining operations,
"reclamation" means the rehabilitation of a quarry or other nonmetallic
mining site, including, but not necessarily including, and not limited
to, removal of quarry or other nonmetallic mining refuse, grading
of the site, modification of sheer rock walls for purposes of safety
and utility, replacement of topsoil, stabilization of soil and rock
conditions, establishment of vegetative cover, landscaping, control
of surface water and groundwater, prevention and remediation of environmental
pollution, construction of fences, returning the site to a safe, useful,
and aesthetically pleasing condition, and, if practical, restoration
of plant, fish, and wildlife habitat.
An area containing one or more permanent buildings used occasionally
or periodically for the accommodation of members or guests of associations
or groups for recreational, educational or religious purposes.
A vehicular type unit initially designed as a temporary living
quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, which either has
its own motive power or mounted on or drawn by another vehicle. The
basic types of recreational vehicles are:
Travel trailers. A vehicular unit, mounted on wheels, of such
size or weight as not to require special highway movement permits
when drawn by a motorized vehicle, initially designed and constructed
to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or
travel use, and a body length of no more than 35 feet and a body width
of no more than eight feet and six inches when factory equipped for
the road.
Truck camper. A portable unit, designed to be loaded onto or
affixed to, the bed or chassis of a truck, constructed to provide
temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use.
Motor homes. A vehicular unit built on a self-propelled motor
vehicle chassis, initially designed to provide temporary living quarters
for recreational, camping or travel use.
Camping trailer. A vehicular unit mounted on wheels and constructed
with collapsible partial sidewalls which fold for towing by another
vehicle and unfolds at the campsite and is initially designed to provide
temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use.
Vans, buses, and other vehicles when equipped for camping purposes,
designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping
or travel use.
A location on an RV lot or campground site constructed of
gravel, asphalt or concrete designed to provide proper drainage for
placement of an RV and, where possible, having amenities such as sewer,
water and electrical connections.
A plant for reduction of dead animals, or slaughtered animals
not suitable for human consumption, to by-products, such as hide,
skin, grease, bones, glue and soap for the storage of such by-products.
The replacement of the topsoil which was removed and disturbed
by a quarry or other nonmetallic mining operation or the provision
and placement of soil which is at least as adequate, in the opinion
of the Village Administrator, as the topsoil which was removed or
disturbed, for the purposes of providing adequate vegetative cover
and stabilization of soil conditions.
A hotel or motel that serves as a destination point for visitors.
A resort generally provides recreational facilities for persons on
vacation. A resort shall be self-contained and provide personal services
customarily furnished at hotels, including the serving of meals.
An agency, organization or individual providing care for
three or more sick or aged persons not related by blood or marriage
to the operator.
A public eating establishment in which the primary function
is the preparation and serving of food on the premises.
An establishment designed, in whole or part, to cater to
or accommodate the consumption of food and/or beverage in automobiles
on the premises of such establishment.
See "deed restriction."
A building or institution for the accommodation of elderly
persons, with or without nursing or medical care; provided that if
such nursing or medical care is to be provided on a continuing basis
for at least three persons for not less than 72 hours per week, such
building or institution shall be classified as a nursing home. See
also "nursing home" and "home for the aged."
A building or premises used for the rent or lease of horses
or animals for riding.
A principal agricultural building and/or land use that is
designed, arranged, used, or intended to be used for the keeping of
equines for the private use of the occupants of a principal dwelling
and their boarders and/or guests. Breeding, boarding, or training
of equines may also be conducted. These facilities are not open to
the public.
A principal building and/or land use in or on which equines
are kept for sale or hire to the public. Breeding, livery, boarding,
riding lessons, or training of equines may also be conducted.
The dividing line between a highway and the abutting lots
or other divisions of land.
One which is described in the U.S. Bureau of Mines Information
Circular 6888 or its successor, and on which are illustrated graduated
shades of grey for use in estimating the light-obscuring capacity
of smoke.
The number appearing in the Ringelmann Chart ascribed by
the observer to the density of the smoke emission. Where the density
or light-obstructing capacity of the smoke as observed falls between
two consecutive Ringelmann numbers, the lowest Ringelmann number shall
be considered the density of the smoke observed.
Normally accepted horticultural practices that do not result
in the loss of any layer of existing vegetation and do not require
earth disturbance.
One of a group of three or more houses sharing a common or
party wall on one or both side lot lines.
A health station or retreat; an institution for the recuperation
and treatment of persons suffering from physical or mental disorders.
Sanitary landfill is a type of land disposal operation involving
the disposal of solid waste on land without creating nuisances or
hazards to public health or safety by utilizing the principals of
engineering to confine the solid waste to the smallest practical area,
to reduce it to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with
a layer of earth at the conclusion of each day's operation or at such
more frequent intervals as may be necessary.
A place for systematic instruction in any branch or branches
of knowledge.
A yard normally not including the driveway access extending
across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the
minimum horizontal distance between the existing street right-of-way
line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the
principal structure. Corner lots shall have one primary street yard
and one secondary street yard.
Soils or other surficial materials transported by winds or
surface waters as a product of erosion.
The required distance between the outer boundary of a cluster
group and another specified feature of the development.
See "gasoline station."
The distance between a street line and the front building
line of a principal building or structure, projected to the side lines
of the lot, and including driveways and parking areas, except where
otherwise restricted by this ordinance.
A subordinate structure or building used primarily for storage
purposes, of a height no greater than 15 feet and the total square
ootage of which does not exceed 150 square feet.
A structure or portion of a structure intended to provide
protection to human life during periods of danger to human life from
nuclear fallout, air raids, storms, or other emergencies.
Trailers manufactured primarily for conveyance of goods and
property; reusable transportation box intended for use in unitized
freight handling; trailers and/or shipping containers manufactured
with or without axles and wheels; cargo containers, railroad cars,
truck vans, converted mobile homes, trailers, recreational vehicles,
bus bodies, cargo containers, steel cargo containers, shipping containers,
freight containers, cargo boxes, sea vans, vehicles and similar prefabricated
items and structures originally built for purposes other than the
storage of goods and materials.
[Added 9-12-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-031]
A yard extending across the full width or depth of a lot,
the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between
a line intersecting both side lot lines at the same angle and containing
the point of the ordinary high water mark of a pond, stream, lake
or wetland nearest the principal structure and a line parallel thereto
containing the point of the principal structure nearest the high water
line.
An area in a shoreland that is within a certain distance
of the ordinary high water mark in which the construction or placement
of structures has been limited or prohibited under an ordinance enacted
under § 59.692, Wis. Stats.
A zoning district created as a part of a Village zoning ordinance,
comprised of shorelands that are designated as wetlands on the Wisconsin
wetland inventory maps prepared by the department.
All land, water and air located within the following distances
from the ordinary high water mark of navigable waters as defined in
§ 144.26(2)(d),[7] Wis. Stats.: 1,000 feet from a lake, pond or flowage;
300 feet from a river or stream or to the landward side of the floodplain,
whichever distance is greater. If the navigable water is a glacial
pothole lake, the distance shall be measured from the high water mark
thereof.
The intersection of the land surfaces abutting lakes, ponds,
streams, flowages and wetlands with the ordinary high water mark.
An open unoccupied space within the lot between a side lot
line and the parts of the building, structure, or outbuilding nearest
thereto. Such side yard shall extend on both sides of the lot through
from the street line to the rear line of said lot.
Any advertisement, announcement, direction, or communication
produced in whole or in part by the construction, erection, affixing,
or placing of a structure on any land or on any other structure, or
produced by painting on or posting or placing any printed, lettered,
pictured, figured, or colored material or impression on any building,
structure, or surface. Signs placed or erected by governmental agencies
or nonprofit civic associations or public or private institutions
for a public purpose in the public interest shall not be included
herein, nor shall this include signs which are a part of the architectural
design of a building.
The total square or rectangular area of space needed for
advertising purposes, including the spaces between open-type letters
and figures, including the background structure or other decoration
or addition which is an integral part of the sign. Sign supports shall
be excluded in determining the area of a sign. A double-faced sign
shall have twice the total area of a single-faced sign.
Repainting or replacing the advertising surface of a sign
without moving, reconstructing, extending, enlarging, converting or
making structural changes to the sign.
A sign affixed to the surface of an awning provided that
the sign does not extend vertically or horizontally beyond the limits
of such awning.
A small, pedestrian-oriented sign that projects perpendicular
from a structure or is hung beneath an awning or canopy.
Sign erected by a charitable, educational or religious institution,
or a public body, which is erected upon the same property as said
institution, for the purpose of notification to the public of an event
or occurrence of public interest, such as a church service, political
rally, civic meeting or other similar event.
A sign which directs attention to a business, product, service
or activity conducted or sold on the premises where the sign is displayed.
A sign affixed to the surface of a canopy provided that the
sign does not extend vertically or horizontally beyond the limits
of such canopy.
A sign designed so that characters, letters, or illustrations
can be changed or rearranged by mechanical, electronic or manual means
without altering the face or surface of the sign. For the purpose
of this ordinance, a sign containing changeable copy shall not be
considered a flashing sign.
A sign where elements of the display area or panel are visibly
cracked, broken, or discolored, where the support structure or frame
members are visibly corroded, bent, broken, torn, or dented, or where
the message can no longer be read under normal viewing conditions.
A sign that includes a message, image or any other component
that intermittently flashes on and off or varies in intensity or color,
with intermittent bursts of light, brightness, color or other feature
of any kind which produces a visual flashing effect.
A sign anchored directly to the ground or supported by one
or more posts, columns, or other vertical structures or supports and
not attached to or dependent for support from any building.
A sign designed to give forth any artificial light or reflect
such light from an artificial source.
A freestanding or moored sign or advertising medium expanded
or inflated with air or another gas, such as, but not limited to,
an air dancer or balloon, which may or may not rise and float above
the ground and may or may not be imprinted with a product name or
logo. Types of inflatables included within this definition are, but
are not limited to: air dancers, air tubes, crazy tubes, tube dancers,
dancing inflatables, giant inflatables, inflatable product replicas,
rotatable inflatables, inflatable costumes, tethered balloons or blimps,
or inflatable mascots, figures and characters.
A freestanding sign displaying the type and price of food
and beverages sold in connection with permitted outdoor dining, or
a freestanding sign permanently affixed to the ground in connection
with drive-through restaurant service.
A sign mounted on a solid-appearing decorative base or platform
which supports a minimum of 75% of the horizontal dimension of the
sign display and which encloses the structural members that support
the sign with brick, decorative masonry, natural or decorative stone
or painted metal with the bottom of the sign face at or within a few
feet of the base at grade.
A sign which no longer correctly advertises a bona fide business,
owner, landlord/tenant, product or activity conducted, or product
available on the premises where the sign is displayed.
Any sign advertising goods, products or services not located
or sold on the premises on which the sign is located.
A sign which provides special information such as price,
hours of operation, or parking regulations and information and which
does not include brand names, or information regarding product lines
or services. It may contain a business logo if the logo is under one
square foot in area. Examples of such signs include: signs that give
direction regarding parking and traffic, such as "enter" or "exit"
or "employee parking" or "customer parking" or "do not enter" or signs
that direct traffic to a specific area such as "drive-through."
Any sign not permanently attached to the ground, a building,
or other immovable object. Such sign shall include any sign attached
to, or displayed on, a vehicle that is used for the expressed purpose
of advertising a business establishment, product, service or entertainment,
when that vehicle is parked adjacent to the public right-of-way and/or
in a manner as to attract attention of motoring or pedestrian traffic.
Any sign that is attached in a plane approximately perpendicular
to the surface of a building or other structure.
A sign pertaining to the sale or lease of the lot or tract
of land on which the sign is located or to the sale or lease of one
or more structures or a portion thereof located on such lot or tract
of land.
A sign erected, constructed or maintained on the roof of
a building or structure above the eaves, or above mansards, parapets,
or other similar architectural features of buildings or structures
which are capable of supporting signs.
A sign that is suspended from the underside of a horizontal
plane surface and is supported by such surface.
A monument sign which identifies multiple tenants located
on multiple parcels within a commercial development or business/industrial
park.
Any sign attached to, erected on or painted on the wall of
a building or structure, with the exposed face of the sign in a plane
approximately parallel to and projecting not more than 12 inches from
the face of the wall. Wall-mounted signs shall not extend above the
top of the parapet wall (if one exists) or soffit-fascia line (if
one exists) of a building. A wall sign may be of either one-piece
construction or of individual connected or related letters or symbols.
The sides of architectural projections do not constitute a wall per
this definition.
Any permanent or temporary sign, including any decal or graphic,
that is legible from the outside, including plazas, public streets,
and parking lots, and that is placed on the inside face of a window
or mounted within two feet of the inside face of the window.
Soil particles, intermediate in size between sand and clay,
which are readily transported by inflowing streams or surface waters
into a body of water.
See "lot."
Any building or premises used for the killing or dressing
of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, or poultry and the storage,
freezing and curing of meat and preparation of meat products.
Implies materials which do not in themselves constitute an
active fuel for the spread of combustion. A material which will not
ignite, nor actively support combustion during an exposure for five
minutes to a temperature of 1,200° Farenheit, shall be designated
"incombustible."
Small gasborne particles other than water that form a visible
plume in the air.
The number obtained when the smoke density in Ringelmann
number is multiplied by the time of emission in minutes. For the purpose
of this calculation, a Ringelmann density reading shall be made at
least once a minute during the period of observation; each reading
is then multiplied by the time in minutes during which it was observed.
The various products are then added together to give the total number
of smoke units observed during the entire observation period.
Any earth, sand, gravel, rock or any similar material.
Garbage, refuse and all other discarded or salvageable solid
materials, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial,
commercial, and agricultural operations and from domestic use and
public service activities, but does not include solids or dissolved
material and waste water effluent or other common water pollutants.
An operation or use is the intensity of sound, measured in
decibels, produced by such operation or use.
An instrument standardized by the American Standards Association
for measurement of intensity of sound.
See "conditional use."
The doing of some act upon the ground on which the building
is to be erected, and in pursuance of a design to erect, the result
of which act would make known to a person viewing the premises, from
observation alone, that the erection of a structure on that land had
been commenced.
A slope over 12% grade, which is characterized by increased
runoff, erosion and sediment hazards.
Holding or safekeeping goods in a warehouse or other depository
to await the happening of some future event or contingency which will
call for the removal of the goods.
The volume of space available above a given cross section
of a floodplain for the temporary storage of floodwater. The storage
capacity will vary with stage.
A use devoted exclusively to the retail sale of a commodity
or commodities.
That portion of a building included between a floor and the
floor or roof next above it. A basement is not to be counted as a
story unless the ceiling height exceeds four feet above the grade
or unless more than 40% of the basement is for living purposes.
A story which is situated in a sloping roof, the floor area
of which does not exceed 2/3 of the floor area of the story immediately
below it, and which does not contain an independent dwelling unit.
A public thoroughfare, avenue, road, highway, boulevard,
parkway, way, drive, lane, court or private easement providing, generally,
the primary roadway to and egress from the property abutting along
its length.
A dividing line between a lot and a street right-of-way.
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth
of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the existing
right-of-way line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest
point of the principal structure. Through lots (double frontage lots)
shall have two such yards.
See "primary street yard."
See "secondary street yard."
A public street or highway used or intended to be used primarily
for fast or heavy through traffic. Arterial streets and highways shall
include freeways and expressways, as well as arterial streets, highways
and parkways.
Any activity which removes the vegetated surface cover, including
tree removal, clearing, rubbing and storage or removal of topsoil.
Any change in the supporting members of a building, such
as bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams or girders, or any
substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls.
Any repair to the supporting members of a structure, such
as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders. Ordinary maintenance
repairs such as interior or exterior painting, decorating, paneling,
replacing doors and windows, and replacing roof tiles or shingles
are not considered structural repairs.
The making of such a substantial change in the construction,
identity, and use of the present building.
Any production or piece of work, artificially built up or
composed of parts and joined together in some definite manner and
form. Structures may include, but are not limited to, a principal
structure or any accessory structure or a garage, shed, boathouse,
sidewalk, walkway, patio, deck, retaining wall, porch or firepit.
Any small, movable accessory erection or construction, such
as birdhouses; tool houses; play equipment arbors and walls and fences
under four feet in height meeting all street, sides, rear and shore
yard setback requirements.
A movable structure not designed for human occupancy nor
for the protection of goods or chattels and not forming an enclosure.
Has the meaning given in § 236.02(12), Wis. Stats.
A Village road or other officially approved means of access providing primary access to interior lots located within a subdivision as defined in Chapter 18 of the Village Ordinances.
A subordinate and integral part of a lot which lot is identified
on a subdivision recorded in the maps and plats records of the Kenosha
Village Register of Deeds.
Any structure, portable or permanent, containing a body of
water 18 inches or more in depth, intended for recreational purposes,
including a wading pool, but not including an ornamental reflecting
pool or fish pond or similar type pool, located and designed so as
not to create a hazard or to be used for swimming or wading.
A use of land, buildings or structures not intended to be
of permanent duration and not located on a parcel for more than 12
months.
A structure used for dramatic, operatic, motion pictures,
or other performance, for admission to which entrance money is received
and no audience participation or meal service allowed.
A building that has one-family dwelling units erected in
a row as a single building on adjoining lots, each being separated
from the adjoining unit or units by a party wall or walls extending
from the basement floor to the roof along the dividing lot line, and
each such building being separated from any other building by space
on all sides.
Those materials which are capable of causing injury to living
organisms by chemical means when present in relatively small amounts.
A strip of roadway intended to accommodate a single line
of moving vehicles.
A person who travels to a location away from his or her permanent
address for a short period of time for vacation, pleasure, recreation,
culture, business or employment.
A farm devoted to the production of vegetables for the market.
An existing or proposed connecting roadway between two arterial
streets or between an arterial street and any other street. Turning
lanes include grade-separated interchange ramps.
The circumstance where special conditions, which were not
self-created, affect a particular property and make strict conformity
with restrictions governing dimensional standards (such as lot area,
lot width, setbacks, yard requirements, or building height) unnecessarily
burdensome or unreasonable in light of the purposes of this ordinance.
Unnecessary hardship is present only where, in the absence of a variance,
no feasible use can be made of the property.
Land not covered by buildings or structures.
One which is restricted to the occupants of a lot or building,
together with their guests, where compensation for such use is not
received and where no business or commercial activity is associated
with such use or building.
A lot or group of contiguous lots, used for the display and
sale of used automobiles and where no repair work is done, except
the necessary reconditioning of the cars to be displayed and sold
on the premises.
An authorization granted by the Zoning Board of Adjustments
to construct or alter a building or structure in a manner that deviates
from the dimensional standards of this ordinance. A variance may not
permit the use of a property that is otherwise prohibited by the ordinance
or allow floodland construction that is not protected to the flood
protection elevation.
An area of dense vegetation intended to slow runoff and trap
sediment. Vegetative buffers are commonly referred to as filter or
buffer strips. See Vegetative Buffer for Construction Sites (1054)
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Conservation Practice Standard.
A recording of moving visual images.
The failure of a structure or other development to be fully
compliant with the provisions of this or any other Village 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 structure or part of a structure, for storing goods, wares,
and merchandise, whether for the owner or for others, and whether
it is a public or private warehouse.
Establishments used generally for large-scale dead storage
of goods and wares. A general warehouse may or may not include maintenance
facilities for shipping vehicles.
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.
Those areas where water is at, near or above the land surface
long enough to be capable of supporting aquatic or hydrophytic vegetation
and which have soils indicative of wet conditions.
Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in
selling merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional,
or professional business users, or to other wholesalers; or acting
as agents or brokers and buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise
to, such individuals or companies.
A dimension measured from side to side at right angles to
length.
See "junk yard."
An open space, other than a court, on the same lot with a
building, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
An area within which certain uses of land and buildings are
permitted and certain others are prohibited, yards and other open
spaces are required, lot areas, building height limits, and other
requirements are established, all of the foregoing being identical
for the zone in which they apply.
[1]
Editor's Note: Section 114.013, Wis. Stats., was renumbered
as § 114.002 by L. 1969, c. 500, § 21m.
[2]
Editor's Note: See now § 29.001, Wis. Stats.
[3]
Editor's Note: See 42 U.S.C. § 5401 et seq.
[4]
Editor's Note: See Ch. SPS 320-325, Wis. Adm. Code.
[5]
Editor's Note: Section 144.26, Wis. Stats., was renumbered
as § 281.31 by 1995 Act 227, § 432, effective
1-1-1997.
[6]
Editor's Note: Section 59.971, Wis. Stats., was renumbered
as § 59.692 by 1995 Act 201, §§ 475, 476,
effective 9-1-1996.
[7]
Editor's Note: Section 144.26, Wis. Stats., was renumbered
as § 281.31 by 1995 Act 227, § 432, effective
1-1-1997.
