This chapter is adopted under the authority granted by §§ 61.35 and 62.23(7), Wis. Stats.
This chapter shall be known as, referred to or cited as the "Zoning Code, Village of Sullivan, Wisconsin."
The purpose of this chapter is to promote the health, safety, prosperity, aesthetics and general welfare of the Village of Sullivan.
It is the general intent of this chapter to regulate and restrict the use of all structures, lands and waters and to:
A. 
Regulate lot coverage and the size and location of all structures so as to prevent overcrowding and to provide adequate sunlight, air, sanitation, and drainage;
B. 
Regulate population density and distribution so as to avoid sprawl or undue concentration and to facilitate the provision of adequate public service and utilities;
C. 
Regulate parking, loading and access so as to lessen congestion in and promote the safety and efficiency of streets and highways;
D. 
Secure safety from fire, flooding, pollution, contamination, and other dangers;
E. 
Stabilize and protect existing and potential property values;
F. 
Preserve and protect the beauty of the Village of Sullivan;
G. 
Prevent and control erosion, sedimentation, and other pollution of the surface and subsurface waters;
H. 
Further the maintenance of safe and healthful water conditions;
I. 
Provide for and protect a variety of suitable commercial and industrial sites;
J. 
Protect the traffic-carrying capacity of existing and proposed arterial streets and highways;
K. 
Implement those municipal, county, watershed, and regional comprehensive plans or components of such plans adopted by the Village of Sullivan;
L. 
Provide for the administration and enforcement of this chapter; and
M. 
To provide penalties for the violation of this chapter.
It is not intended by this chapter to repeal, abrogate, annul, impair or interfere with any existing easements, covenants, deed restrictions, agreements, ordinances, rules, regulations or permits previously adopted or issued pursuant to law. However, wherever this chapter imposes greater restrictions, the provisions of the chapter shall govern.
In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements and shall be liberally construed in favor of the Village of Sullivan and shall not be deemed a limitation or repeal of any other power granted by the Wisconsin Statutes.
This chapter shall be originally effective after a public hearing, adoption by the Village Board and publication or posting as provided by law.
A. 
General interpretation. The following rules of construction apply to this chapter: words used in the present tense include the future tense; words in the singular number include the plural number; and words in the plural number include the singular number; the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory. The word "person" includes individuals, all partnerships, associations, and bodies political and corporate. The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel" or "tract." The word "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land or building shall be construed to include the words "intended," "arranged," or "designed to be used or occupied."
B. 
Definitions. The following terms, for purpose of this chapter, shall have the meanings stated below:
ABUTTING
Have a common property line or district line.
ACCESSORY APARTMENT
A separate complete housekeeping unit that is substantially contained within the structure of a single-family dwelling, but can be isolated from it.
ACCESSORY USE OR STRUCTURE
A use or detached structure subordinate to the principal use of a structure, land, or water and located on the same lot or parcel serving a purpose customarily incidental to the principal use or the principal structure.
ACRE, NET
The actual land devoted to the land use, excluding public streets, public lands or unusable lands, and school sites contained within 43,560 square feet.[1]
ALLEY
A special public right-of-way affording only secondary access to abutting properties.
APARTMENT
A suite of rooms or a room in a multiple dwelling which suite or room is arranged, intended, or designed to be occupied as a residence of a single family, individual, or group of individuals, with separate facilities and utilities which are used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
APARTMENT HOUSE
See "dwelling, multiple."
ARTERIAL STREET
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.
AUTHORITY
A person, committee, or board to whom the power to issue a permit or make a determination, decision, or judgment has been delegated.
AUTOMOBILE WRECKING OR SALVAGE YARD
Any premises on which two or more self-propelled vehicles not in running order or operating condition are stored in the open.
BASEMENT or CELLAR
A story partly underground but having at least 1/2 of its height, or five or more feet, below the mean level of the adjoining ground. See Chs. SPS 320, 321 and 322, Wis. Adm. Code.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
BED-AND-BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENT
An owner-occupied, single-family dwelling unit at which overnight sleeping accommodations are offered to travelers by the owner.
BOARDINGHOUSE
A building other than a hotel or restaurant where meals or lodging are regularly furnished by prearrangement for compensation for four or more persons not members of a family, but not exceeding 12 persons and not open to transient customers.
BUFFER ZONE
A designated neutral area designed to separate conflicting land uses. A natural vegetative screening of trees, shrubs or other plantings is usually employed in such a designated area.
BUILDABLE LOT AREA
The portion of a lot remaining after required yards have been provided.
BUILDING
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, equipment, machinery or materials.
BUILDING AREA
The total area bounded by the exterior walls of a building at the floor levels, but not including basement, utility rooms, garages, porches, breezeways and unfinished attics.
BUILDING, ALTERATIONS OF
Any change or rearrangement of the supporting members such as bearing walls, beams, columns or girders of a building, an addition to a building, or movement of a building from one location to another.
BUILDING, DETACHED OR ACCESSORY
A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
BUILDING, FRONT LINE OF
A line parallel to the street intersecting the foremost point of the building, excluding uncovered steps.
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF
The vertical distance from the mean elevation of a finished grade along the front of the building to the highest point of a flat roof, or to the deckline of a mansard roof, or to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip or gambrel roofs.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
A building in which the principal use of the lot on which it is located is conducted.
BUSINESS
An occupation, employment, or enterprise which occupies time, attention, labor and materials, or wherein merchandise is exhibited or sold, or where services are offered, other than home occupations.
CARPORT
An automobile shelter having one or more sides open.
CLINIC
A building used by a group of doctors for the medical examination or treatment of persons on an outpatient or nonboarding basis only.
CLOTHING REPAIR SHOPS
Shops where clothing is repaired, such as shoe repair shops, seamstress shops, tailor shops, shoe shine shops, clothes pressing shops, but not employing over five persons.
CLOTHING STORES
Retail stores where clothing is sold, such as department stores, dry goods and shoe stores, dress, hosiery and millinery shops.
CLUB
A building owned, leased or hired by an association of persons who are bona fide members, the use of which is restricted to said members and their guests.
COMMERCIAL FEEDLOT
Confinement of 200 or more head of livestock on a farm or other site for the purpose of intensive feeding prior to slaughter or shipment in such concentration that ground vegetation is substantially destroyed, where:
(1) 
The farm or site does not produce a minimum of 60% of the feed necessary to sustain the herd.
(2) 
The farm or site is insufficient in size to provide for the disposal of all animal wastes in a manner that they will not run off, seep, percolate, or wash into surface or subsurface waters.
COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENT
The following facilities licensed or operated or permitted under the authority of Wisconsin Statutes: child welfare agencies under § 48.60, Wis. Stats., group homes under § 48.02(7), Wis. Stats., and community-based residential facilities under § 50.01, Wis. Stats.; but does not include nursing homes, general hospitals, special hospitals, prisons and jails. The establishment of a community living arrangement shall be in conformity with applicable sections of the Wisconsin Statutes, including §§ 46.03(22), 62.23(7)(i), and 62.23(7a), Wis. Stats., and amendments thereto, and also the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
CONDITIONAL USES
Uses of a special nature as to make impractical their predetermination as a principal use in a district, allowed only under conditions specified under this chapter.
CONFORMING USE
Any lawful use of a building or lot which complies with the provisions of this chapter.
COURT
An open, unoccupied space other than a yard, on the same lot with a building, and which is bounded on two sides by the building.
CURB BREAK
Any interruption or break in the line of a street curb in order to connect a driveway to a street or otherwise to provide vehicular access to abutting property.
CURB LEVEL
The level of the established curb in the front of the building measured at the center of such front.
DAY-CARE CENTER
A place or home which provides care for four or more children under the age of seven years for less than 24 hours a day and is licensed as provided for in § 48.65, Wis. Stats.
DEVELOPMENT
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to construction of or additions or substantial improvements to building, other structures, or accessory uses, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, or disposition of materials.
DISTRICT
A part or parts of the Village for which the regulations of this chapter governing the use and location of land and buildings are uniform.
DISTRICT, BASIC
A part or parts of the Village for which the regulations of this chapter governing the use and location of land and building are uniform.
DISTRICT, OVERLAY
Overlay districts, also referred to herein as "regulatory areas," provide for the possibility of superimposing certain additional requirements upon a basic zoning district without disturbing the requirements of the basic district. In the instance of conflicting requirements, the more strict of the conflicting requirements shall apply.
DOUBLE-WIDE MOBILE HOME
A mobile home consisting of two mobile home sections combined horizontally at the site while still retaining their individual chassis for possible future movement.
DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT
An establishment used for the sale, dispensing or serving of food, refreshments, or beverages in or on disposable plates and cups, including those establishments where customers may serve themselves and may eat and drink the food, refreshments, and beverages on or off the premises.
DWELLING
A building designed or used as a residence or sleeping place, but does not include boardinghouses or lodging houses, motels, hotels, tents, cabins, or mobile homes.
DWELLING UNIT
A building or portion thereof used exclusively for human habitation, including single-family, two-family and multifamily dwellings, but not including hotels, motels or lodging houses.
DWELLING, EFFICIENCY
A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room with no separate sleeping rooms.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE
A building or portion thereof used or designated as a residence for three or more families as separate housekeeping units, including apartments, attached townhouses and condominiums, with the number of families in residence not to exceed the number of dwelling units provided.
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY
A detached building designed, arranged or used for and occupied exclusively by one family, whether attached, detached or semiattached. Shall include specially designed buildings covered by earth and manufactured homes.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A detached building containing two separate dwelling (or living) units, designed for occupancy by not more than two families.
EMERGENCY SHELTERS
Public or private enclosures designed to protect people from aerial, radiological, biological or chemical warfare; fire; flood; windstorm; riots; or invasions.
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
Services provided by public and private utilities, necessary for the exercise of the principal use or service of the principal structure. These services include underground, surface, or overhead gas, electrical, steam, water, sanitary sewerage, stormwater drainage, and communication systems and accessories thereto, such as poles, towers, wires, mains, drains, vaults, culverts, laterals, sewers, pipes, catch basins, water storage tanks, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, pumps, lift stations, and hydrants, but not including buildings.
FAMILY
One or more persons, related by blood, adoption or marriage, living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit, or a number of persons living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit though not related by blood, adoption or marriage.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
FARM
Land consisting of five acres or more on which produce, crops, livestock or flowers are grown primarily for off-premises consumption, use or sale.
FLOOR AREA
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a dwelling unit, exclusive of porches, balconies, garages, basements and cellars, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center lines of walls or portions separating dwelling units. For uses other than residential, the floor area shall be measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center line of walls or partitions separating such uses, and shall include all floors, lofts, balconies, mezzanines, cellars, basements and similar areas devoted to such uses.
FLOOR AREA (BUSINESS AND MANUFACTURING BUILDINGS)
For the purpose of determining off-street parking and off-street loading requirements, the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the floors of the building, or portion thereof, devoted to a use requiring off-street parking or loading. This area shall include elevators and stairways, accessory storage areas located within selling or working space occupied by counters, racks or closets and any basement floor area devoted to retailing activities, to the production or processing of goods, or to business or professional offices. However, floor area, for the purposes of determining off-street parking spaces, shall not include floor area devoted primarily to storage purposes except as otherwise noted herein.
FOSTER FAMILY HOME
The primary domicile of a foster parent which is for four or fewer foster children and which is licensed under § 48.62, Wis. Stats., and amendments thereto.
FRONTAGE
The smallest dimension of a lot abutting a public street measured along the street line.
GARAGE
A building or portion thereof used exclusively for parking or temporary storage of self-propelled vehicles.
GARAGE, PUBLIC
A building other than a private or storage garage used for the care, repair or storage of self-propelled vehicles or where such vehicles are left for remuneration, hire or sale. This includes premises commonly known as "gasoline stations" or "service stations."
GASOLINE STATION
Any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used for the sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle fuel and oil and other lubricating substances or the sale of motor vehicle accessories and which may include facilities used or designed to be used for polishing, greasing, washing, spraying, dry cleaning or otherwise cleaning or servicing such vehicles.
GIFT STORES
Retail stores where items such as art, antiques, jewelry, books, and notions are sold.
GRADE
When used as a reference point in measuring height of building, the "grade" shall be the average elevation of the finished ground at the exterior walls of the main building.
GROUP FOSTER HOME
Any facility operated by a person required to be licensed by the State of Wisconsin under § 48.62, Wis. Stats., for the care and maintenance of five to eight foster children.
HARDWARE STORES
Retail stores where items such as plumbing, heating, and electrical supplies, sporting goods and paints are sold.
HOME OCCUPATION
Any business or profession carried on only by a member of the immediate family residing on the premises, carried on wholly within the principal building thereto and meeting the standards of § 485-42.
HOTEL
A building in which lodging, with or without meals, is offered to transient guests for compensation and in which there are more than five sleeping rooms with no cooking facilities in any individual room or apartment.
HOUSE TRAILER
A non-self-propelled vehicle containing living or sleeping accommodations, which is designed and used for highway travel.
JUNKYARD
An open space where waste, used or secondhand materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including, but not limited to, scrap iron and other metals, paper, rags, rubber, tires and bottles. A junkyard also includes an auto wrecking yard, but does not include uses established entirely within enclosed buildings.
LOADING AREA
A completely off-street space or berth on the same lot for the loading or unloading of freight carriers having adequate ingress and egress to a public street or alley.
LODGING HOUSE
See "boardinghouse."
LOT
A parcel of land having frontage on a public street, or other officially approved access, occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal structure or use, and sufficient in size to meet the lot width, lot frontage, lot area, yard, parking area and other open space provisions of this chapter. No land included in any street, highway or railroad right-of-way shall be included in computing lot area.
LOT LINES AND AREA
The peripheral boundaries of a parcel of land and the total area lying within such boundaries.
LOT OF RECORD
A platted lot of a recorded subdivision, certified survey map, or parcel of land for which the deed, prior to the adoption of this chapter, is on record with the Jefferson County Register of Deeds and which exists as described therein.
LOT WIDTH
The width of a parcel of land measured at the setback line.
LOT, CORNER
A lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection, provided that the corner of such intersection shall have an angle of 135° or less, measured on the lot side.
LOT, INTERIOR
A lot situated on a single street which is bounded by adjacent lots along each of its other lines.
LOT, REVERSED CORNER
A corner lot, the street side lot line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the first lot to its rear.
LOT, SUBSTANDARD
A parcel of land held in separate ownership having frontage on a public street, or other officially approved 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 chapter.
LOT, THROUGH
A lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two or more parallel public streets and which is not a corner lot. On a through lot, both street lines shall be deemed "front lot lines."
LOT, ZONING
A single tract of land located within a single block which, at the time of filing for a building permit, is designated by its owner or developer as a tract to be used, developed, or built upon as a unit under single ownership or control.
MACHINE SHOPS
Shops where lathes, presses, grinders, shapers, and other wood- and metal-working machines are used, such as blacksmith, tinsmith, welding and sheet metal shops; plumbing; heating and electrical repair and overhaul shops.
MANUFACTURED DWELLING
A dwelling structure or component thereof as is defined in Ch. SPS 320, Wis. Adm. Code, bearing insignia certifying that it has been inspected and found to be in compliance with Subchapter V of said chapter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
MANUFACTURED HOME
A dwelling structure or component thereof fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility for installation at the building site and certified and labeled as a manufactured home under 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 to 5426, which, when placed on the site:
(1) 
Is set on an enclosed continuous foundation in accordance with Ch. SPS 321, Subchapters III, IV, and V, Wis. Adm. Code, or is set on a comparable enclosed continuous foundation system approved by the Building Inspector, who may require a plan for such foundation to be certified by a registered architect or engineer to ensure proper support for such structure;
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
(2) 
Is installed in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions;
(3) 
Is properly connected to utilities;
(4) 
Has an area of at least 800 square feet of living space, with a minimum of 24 square feet in width in its smallest horizontal dimension, exclusive of attached garage, carport or open deck, and is used exclusively as a single-family residence; and
(5) 
Meets other applicable standards of this chapter, including § 485-16B.[2]
MINOR STRUCTURES
Any small, movable accessory erection or construction, such as birdhouses, toolhouses, pet houses, play equipment, arbors, and walls and fences under four feet in height.
MOBILE HOME
A transportable factory-built structure designed for long-term occupancy built prior to enactment of the Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, which became effective June 14, 1976.[3]
MOBILE HOME LOT
A parcel of land for the placement of a single mobile home and the exclusive use of its occupants.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel of land which has been developed for the placement of mobile homes and is owned by an individual, a firm, trust, partnership, public or private association, or corporation, and where individual lots are rented to individual mobile home users. A mobile home park is also any lot on which two or more mobile homes are parked for the purpose of permanent habitation, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodation, and including any associated service, storage, recreation and other community service facilities designed for the exclusive use of park occupants.
MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISION
A land subdivision, as defined by Ch. 236, Wis. Stats., and Chapter 478, Subdivision of Land, with lots intended for the placement of individual mobile home units. Individual home sites are in separate ownership as opposed to the rental arrangements in mobile home parks.
MOTEL
A building containing lodging rooms having adjoining individual bathrooms, and where each lodging has a doorway opening directly to the outdoors, and more than 50% of the lodging rooms are for rent to transient tourists for a continuous period of less than 30 days.
MOTOR FREIGHT TERMINAL
A building or area in which freight brought by motor truck is assembled and/or stored for routing in intrastate and interstate shipment by motor truck.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any passenger vehicle, truck, truck-trailer, trailer or semitrailer propelled or drawn by mechanical power.
NONCONFORMING USES OR STRUCTURES
Any structure, use of land, use of land and structure in combination, or characteristic of use (such as yard requirement or lot size) which was existing at the time of the effective date of this chapter or amendments thereto. Any such structure conforming in respect to use but not in respect to frontage, width, height, area, yard, parking, loading, or distance requirements shall be considered a nonconforming structure and not a nonconforming use.
NURSERY
Any building or lot, or portion thereof, used for the cultivation or growing of plants and including all accessory buildings.
NURSERY SCHOOL
Any building used routinely for the daytime care and education of preschool-age children and including all accessory buildings and play areas other than the child's own home or the homes of relatives or guardians.
NURSING HOME
Any building used for the continuous care, on a commercial or charitable basis, of persons who are physically incapable of caring for their own personal needs.
OTHER OFFICIALLY APPROVED ACCESS
A private road or easement extending from a private property to a component of the public street system which the Village Plan Commission or Village Board has approved as a primary means of access.
PARKING AREA, SEMIPUBLIC
An open area other than a street, alley or place used for temporary parking of more than four self-propelled vehicles and available for public uses, whether free, for compensation, or as an accommodation for clients or customers.
PARKING LOT
A structure or premises containing 10 or more parking spaces open to the public.
PARKING SPACE
An off-street space available for the parking of a motor vehicle and which is exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto and giving access thereto.
PARTIES IN INTEREST
Includes all abutting property owners, all property owners within 100 feet, and all property owners of opposite frontages.
PARTY WALL
A wall containing no opening which extends from the elevation of building footings to the elevation of the outer surface of the roof or above, and which separates contiguous buildings but is in joint use for each building.
PLACE
An open unoccupied space other than a street or alley, permanently reserved as the principal means of access to abutting property.
PLACES OF ASSEMBLY
Places where people gather or congregate for amusement, worship, learning, etc. This includes schools, churches, theaters, playgrounds, etc.
PLANNED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
A tract of land which contains or will contain two or more principal buildings, developed under single ownership or control, the development of which is unique and of a substantially different character than that of surrounding areas.
PROFESSIONAL HOME OFFICES
Residences of doctors of medicine, practitioners, dentists, clergymen, architects, landscape architects, professional engineers, registered land surveyors, lawyers, artists, teachers, authors, musicians or other recognized professions used to conduct their professions where the office does not exceed the standards in § 485-42 and only one nonresident person is employed.
PROPERTY LINES
The lines bounding a platted lot as defined herein.
PUBLIC WAY
Any sidewalk, street, alley, highway or other public thoroughfare.
RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY
A strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for track operation, but not including freight depots or stations, loading platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car or locomotive shops, or car yards.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
Any vehicle or structure designed and used for temporary, seasonal human living quarters which meets all of the following qualifications:
(1) 
Is not used as the permanent residence of the owner or occupant;
(2) 
Is used for temporary living quarters by the owner or occupant while engaged in recreation or vacation activities; and
(3) 
Is towed or self-propelled on public streets or highways incidental to such recreation or vacation activities.
Examples of such vehicles include van campers, tent camping trailers, self-contained travel trailers, pickup campers, camping buses, and self-contained, self-propelled truck-chassis-mounted vehicles providing living accommodations.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE CAMP
A part, court, campsite, lot, parcel or tract of land designed, maintained or intended for the purpose of supplying the location or accommodations for any recreational vehicles as defined herein, and upon which said recreational vehicles are parked.
ROADSIDE STAND
A structure having a ground area of not more than 300 square feet, not permanently fixed to the ground, readily removable in its entirety, not fully enclosed and to be used solely for the sale of farm products produced on the premises.
SCHOOL, COMMERCIAL
A school limited to special instruction such as business, art, music, trades, handicraft, dancing or riding.
SCHOOL, PRIVATE
An elementary or intermediate school other than a parochial school giving regular instruction capable of meeting the requirements of state compulsory education laws and approved as such and operating at least five days a week for a normal school year and supported by other than public funds, but not including a school for the mentally handicapped or a college or other institution of higher learning.
SEAT
Furniture upon which to sit, having a linear measurement not less than 24 inches across the surface used for sitting.
SETBACK
The minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and the nearest point of the building or structure. Uncovered steps shall not be included in measuring the setback.[4]
SIGN
See § 485-53 of this chapter for signage-related definitions.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
STORY
That portion of a principal building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above, or if there is no floor above, the space between the floor and the ceiling next above. A basement shall not be counted as a story.
STORY, HALF
A story which is situated in a sloping roof, the floor area of which does not exceed 2/3 of the floor area of the story immediately below it, and which does not contain an independent dwelling unit.
STREET
A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.
STREET YARD
The minimum horizontal distance between the street line and the nearest point of a building or any projection thereof excluding uncovered steps. Where the street line is an arc, the street yard shall be measured from the arc. In some ordinances, the street yard is also called a "setback."
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS
Any change in the supporting members of a structure such as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
STRUCTURE
Any erection or construction, such as buildings, towers, masts, poles, booms, signs, decorations, carports, machinery and equipment.
TEMPORARY STRUCTURE
A movable structure not designed for human occupancy nor for the protection of goods or chattels and not forming an enclosure, such as billboards.
TRAILER PARK
Any lot on which are parked two or more house trailers or mobile homes for longer than 48 hours.
USE
The use of property is the purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained, and shall include any manner of standards of this chapter.
USE, ACCESSORY
A subordinate use on the same lot which is incidental and customary in connection with the principal use.
USE, NONCONFORMING
Any use of a building or premises which the effective date of this chapter does not, even though lawfully established, comply with all of the applicable use regulations of the zoning district in which such building or premises is located.
USE, PERMITTED
A use which may be lawfully established in a particular district or districts, provided it conforms with all requirements, regulations and performance standards, if any, of such districts.
USE, PRINCIPAL
The main use of land or building, as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory use.
UTILITIES
Public and private facilities, such as water wells, water and sewage pumping stations, water storage tanks, electrical power substations, static transformer stations, telephone and telegraph exchanges, microwave radio relays, and gas regulation stations, but not including sewage disposal plans, municipal incinerators, warehouses, shops, storage yards and power plants.
VENDING MACHINE
A retail business device, electrically or manually operated, used by the general public to obtain dairy products, cigarettes, foodstuffs or other merchandise without entering a public shop, store, market or other such building.
VILLAGE
The Village of Sullivan, Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
VISION SETBACK AREA
An unoccupied triangular space at the intersection of highways or streets with other highways or streets or at the intersection of highways or streets or at the intersection of highways or streets with railroads. Such vision clearance triangle shall be bounded by the intersecting highway, street or railroad right-of-way lines and a setback line connecting points located on such right-of-way lines by measurement from the intersection as specified in this chapter.
YARD
An open space on the same lot with a structure, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except for vegetation as permitted. The front and rear yards extend the full width of the lot.
YARD, CORNER SIDE
A side yard which adjoins a public street.
YARD, FRONT
A yard extending along the full length of the front lot line between the side lot lines.
YARD, INTERIOR SIDE
A side yard which is located immediately adjacent to another zoning lot or to an alley separating such yard from another zoning lot.
YARD, REAR
A yard extending along the full length of the rear lot line between the side lot lines.
YARD, SIDE
A yard extending along a side lot line from the front yard to the rear yard.
YARD, STREET
Yard abutting a street.
YARD, TRANSITIONAL
That yard which must be provided on a zoning lot in a business district which adjoins a zoning lot in a residential district, or that yard which must be provided on a zoning lot in an industrial district which adjoins a zoning lot in either a residential or business district.
ZERO LOT LINE
The concept whereby two respective dwelling units within a building shall be on separate and abutting lots and shall meet on the common property line between them, thereby having zero space between said units.
ZONING DISTRICT
An area or areas within the corporate limits for which the regulations and requirements governing use, lot and bulk of buildings and premises are uniform.
[1]
Editor's Note: The original definitions of "advertising sign, outdoor" and "advertising structure, outdoor," which immediately followed this definition, were repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III); see now § 485-53.
[2]
Editor's Note: The original definition of "marquee or canopy," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III); see now § 485-53.
[3]
Editor's Note: See 42 U.S.C. § 5401 et seq.
[4]
Editor's Note: The original definitions of "sign, awning," "sign copy," "sign face," "sign, ground," "sign, portable," "sign, projecting," "sign, roof," "sign, wall" and "sign, window," which immediately followed this definition, were repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III); see now § 485-53.