Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following
terms shall have the meaning indicated:
ACCESSORY BUILDING
A detached subordinate building, or a portion of a principal
building, the use of which is incidental to that of the dominant use
of the principal building.
ACTIVELY MARKETED
1) proactive measures are being taken to connect and engage
with potential customers, which may include listing with a real estate
agent, publishing advertisements in a newspaper or other print publications,
or engaging in online advertising activities, such as posting on a
website; and 2) these actions are repeated, updated, and modified
regularly to continue to seek engagement with potential purchasers.
The mere fact of placing a sign on a lot does not itself demonstrate
that the property is being actively marketed.
[Added 10-16-2018 by Ord.
No. 899]
ADJACENT
To lie near or close to; in the neighborhood or vicinity
of.
ADJOINING
Touching or contiguous as distinguished from lying near or
adjacent.
AGRICULTURE
The use for the pursuit of agriculture of a parcel of land
10 acres or more in area under unified ownership or control and when
within the perimeter of such a parcel there is no intervening street
or land in other ownership or control. The pursuit of agriculture
includes farming, dairying, pasturage, apiculture, horticulture, floriculture,
viticulture and animal and poultry husbandry and accessory uses customarily
incidental to normal agricultural activities, including but not limited
to the farm dwelling, dwellings for tenants and full-time hired farm
workers and lodging rooms in a dwelling for seasonal workers.
AIRCRAFT
Any contrivance used for or designed for navigation of or
flight in the air.
AIRPORT
Any area of land or water which is used or intended for use
for the landing and takeoff of aircraft and any appurtenant areas
which are used or intended for use as airport buildings or other airport
structures or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and
structures located thereon.
ALLEY
Any right-of-way with a width of not less than 16 feet nor
more than 24 feet which affords a secondary means of vehicular access
to abutting properties. An alley shall not be considered a street.
ALTERATION
Any change in size, shape, occupancy or use of a building
or structure.
ANIMAL HOSPITAL
A building or portion thereof designed or used for the care,
observation or treatment of domestic animals.
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION
A building or portion thereof or premises used for dispensing
or offering for sale at retail gasoline, when stored only in underground
tanks, kerosene, lubricating oil or grease for operation of motor
vehicles and where tires, batteries and similar automobile accessories
may be offered for sale on the premises at retail; including minor
services and installations customarily incidental thereto, and facilities,
other than an automobile laundry, for washing cars, only if enclosed
in a building. Automobile service stations do not include open sales
lots or a public garage as defined herein.
BASEMENT
A story having part but not more than half of its floor-to-clear-ceiling
height below the average finished ground grade adjoining the building
walls. When a basement is used for storage garages for use of occupants
of the building, or facilities common for the operations of the rest
of the building, other than facilities for dwelling or lodging, it
shall not be counted as a story.
BED-AND-BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENT
Any place of lodging that satisfies all of the following:
[Added 7-17-2012 by Ord. No. 860]
(a)
Provides two or fewer bedrooms for rent to no more than a total
of six tourists or transients at any time.
(b)
Provides no meals other than breakfast and provides the breakfast
only to renters of the place.
(c)
Is the owner's personal residence.
(d)
Is occupied by the owner at the time of rental and continuously
thereafter.
(e)
Was originally built and occupied as a single-family residence,
or, prior to use as a place of lodging, was converted to use and occupied
as a single-family residence.
(f)
Provides a minimum of two off-street parking spaces on the premises
to accommodate the tourists or transients. Said two off-street parking
spaces shall be in addition to those required by the Village Zoning
Code to accommodate the single-family residential use.
BLOCK
A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of
streets and public parks, cemeteries or other recognized lines of
demarcation. A block may be located in part beyond the boundary lines
of the corporate limits of the Village.
BUILDABLE AREA
For the purpose of measuring lot width, the narrowest width
within the 30 feet of lot depth immediately in back of the front yard
setback line.
BUILDING
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls
and intended for the shelter, housing or enclosure of any person,
animal or chattel. When any portion thereof is completely separated
from any other portion by a party wall, such portion shall be deemed
to be a separate building.
BUILDING, COMPLETELY ENCLOSED
A building separated on all sides from the adjacent open
space or from other buildings or structures by a permanent roof and
by exterior walls or party walls, pierced only by windows and normal
entrance and exit doors.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the finished grade (as
determined by the Village Engineer) to the highest point of the roof
for a flat or slant roof, to the deckline of a mansard roof, or to
the mean height level between eaves and ridge of a gable, or hip,
or gambrel roof. Chimneys, towers, spires, elevator penthouses, cooling
towers, and similar projections (other than signs) shall not be included
in calculating building height.
[Amended 6-7-2005 by Ord. No. 816]
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
A nonaccessory building in which is conducted the principal
use of the lot.
BUILDING, TEMPORARY
Any building not designed to be permanently located at the
place where it is or where it is intended to be temporarily placed
or affixed.
BULK
The term used to indicate the size and setback of buildings
or structures and the location of the same with respect to one another
and includes the following:
(a)
Size and height of buildings.
(b)
Location of exterior walls at all levels in
relation to lot lines, streets or other buildings.
(d)
All open space allocated to buildings.
(e)
Amount of lot area and lot width provided per
dwelling unit.
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.
CAPACITY IN PERSONS
The maximum number of persons that can avail themselves of
the services or goods of an establishment or use at any one time,
with reasonable comfort and safety.
CARPORT
A roofed automobile shelter with two or more open sides.
CAR WASH
A building or portion thereof containing facilities for washing
more than two motor vehicles using production line methods.
[Added 9-19-2023 by Ord. No. 954]
CELLAR
A story having more than half of its floor-to-clear-ceiling
height below the average finished ground grade at the building walls.
A cellar shall not be included in computing the number of stories
for the purposes of height measurement.
CLINIC, MEDICAL OR DENTAL
A building or portion thereof the principal use of which
is for offices of an organization or group of physicians or dentists,
or both, and contains facilities for examination and treatment of
patients but without facilities for overnight lodging.
CLOSED-CUP FLASH POINT
The lowest temperature at which a combustible liquid under
the most favorable conditions shall give off a flammable vapor which
shall burn momentarily.
CLUB OR LODGE, PRIVATE
A nonprofit association of persons who are bona fide members
which owns, hires or leases a building or portion thereof in which
there are facilities for use only by members of such association and
their guests. The sale of alcoholic beverages to members and their
guests shall be allowed, provided that it is secondary and incidental
to the principal use and further provided that such sale of alcoholic
beverages is in compliance with the applicable federal, state, county
and Village laws.
CONFORMING BUILDING OR STRUCTURE
Any building or structure which complies with all the regulations
of this chapter or of any amendment hereto governing the bulk of the
zoning district in which such building or structure is located or
which lawfully existed on the effective date of this chapter (April
8, 1964) even though the building or structure does not conform to
the regulations of this chapter or any amendment hereto governing
bulk of the zoning district in which such building or structure is
located.
CURB LEVEL
The level of the established roadway pavement curb edging
in front of a building measured at the center of such front and, where
no curb level has been established, the pavement elevation at the
street center line similarly measured. The Zoning Administrator may
designate the curb level as the average elevation of the finished
ground grades immediately adjacent to the building walls in locations
of unusual topographical conditions.
CUSTOMER/CLIENT
For the purposes of calculating visits to home occupation
premises, any one person receiving the services of a home occupation
on the premises of the home occupation.
[Added 10-5-2010 by Ord. No. 853]
DAILY
Every day of the week, including Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
[Added 10-5-2010 by Ord. No. 853]
DECIBEL
A unit of measurement of the intensity (loudness) of sound.
Sound-level meters, which are employed to measure the intensity of
sound, are calibrated in decibels.
DENSITY, NET (ND)
The quotient of the total number of dwelling units divided
by the net buildable site area of a site. (See also the definition
of "site area, net buildable.")
[Added 12-21-2010 by Ord. No. 854]
DISTRICT
A portion of the corporate area of the Village within which
certain uniform regulations and requirements or various combinations
thereof apply under the provisions of this chapter.
DOMESTIC PET SERVICE
An establishment where clipping, bathing and other services,
except those of a veterinary nature, are rendered to dogs, cats and
domestic pets. No boarding shall be permitted.
DRIVE-IN ESTABLISHMENT
An establishment or part thereof in which are provided facilities
where serving or consuming commodities, or both, is intended to occur
primarily in patrons' automobiles parked on the premises.
DRIVEWAY
That part of a lot constructed with a hard surface providing
access from a public right-of-way to a parking space.
DWELLING
A building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively
for residential purposes, including single-family, two-family and
multiple-family dwellings, but not including lodging rooms in hotels,
motels or lodging houses.
DWELLING, ATTACHED
A dwelling joined to two other dwellings by party walls,
cavity walls or other aboveground, physically unifying, horizontal
structural elements.
DWELLING, DETACHED
A dwelling which is surrounded on all sides by open space
on the same lot.
DWELLING, SEMIDETACHED
A dwelling joined to one other dwelling by a party wall,
cavity wall or other aboveground, physically unifying, horizontal
structural element.
DWELLING UNIT
One or more rooms which are arranged, designed or used as
living quarters for one family only. Individual bathrooms and complete
single kitchen facilities, permanently installed to serve the entire
family, shall always be included within each dwelling unit.
EFFICIENCY UNIT
A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room, exclusive
of bathroom, kitchen, hallway, closets or dining alcove directly off
the principal room, provided that such dining alcove does not exceed
90 square feet in area.
E.I.F.S.
Exterior insulation and finish systems for buildings which
are multilayered exterior wall systems that are used on both commercial
buildings and residential buildings.
[Added 12-21-2010 by Ord. No. 854]
ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION CENTER
A terminal at which electric energy is received from the
transmission system and is delivered to the distribution system only.
ELECTRIC SUBSTATION
A terminal at which electric energy is received from the
transmission system and is delivered to other elements of the transmission
system and, generally, to the local distribution system.
EMERGENCY SHELTER
A public or private enclosure designed to protect people
from aerial bombardment, radiological, biological, or chemical warfare,
fire, flood, windstorm, riots and invasions.
[Amended 5-20-2008 by Ord. No. 840]
ENGINEER, VILLAGE
A Village official duly appointed and designated as the Village
Engineer.
FAMILY
One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit as a single,
nonprofit housekeeping unit, who are living together as a bona fide
stable and committed living unit, being a traditional family or the
functional equivalent thereof, exhibiting the generic character of
a traditional family.
[Amended 5-20-2008 by Ord. No. 840]
FENCE
A structure which is a barrier and used as a boundary or
means of protection or confinement.
FENCE, DECORATIVE
A particular type of fence, including entrance and exit gates,
that exhibits the following qualities: is composed of a material that
has the appearance of wood; is white; is a picket-style, open fence;
and is no more than four feet in height.
[Added 12-7-2021 by Ord. No. 935]
FENCE, OPEN
A fence, including entrance and exit gates, where each one-foot-wide
segment for the full length and height of the fence contains at least
70% open space which affords a direct view through the fence.
FENCE, SOLID
A fence, including gates, which conceals from view from adjoining
properties, streets or alleys activities conducted behind it.
FLOOR AREA (for determining floor area ratio)
(a)
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the
several floors, including also the basement floor of a building, measured
from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center lines
of walls separating two buildings. The floor area shall also include
the horizontal areas on each floor devoted to:
1.
Elevator shafts and stairwells.
2.
Mechanical equipment, except if located on the
roof, when either open or enclosed, i.e., bulkheads, water tanks and
cooling towers.
3.
Habitable attic space as permitted by the Building
Code.
4.
Interior balconies and mezzanines.
(b)
The floor area of structures used for bulk storage
of materials, including but not limited to grain elevators and petroleum
storage tanks, shall be determined on the basis of the height of such
structures, with one floor for each 10 feet of structure height, and
if a structure measures more than five feet over such floor equivalent
it shall be construed to have an additional floor.
FLOOR AREA (for determining off-street parking and off-street
loading requirements)
Floor area when prescribed as the basis of measurement for
off-street parking spaces and off-street loading spaces for any use
shall be the sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors
of the building, excluding areas used for accessory off-street parking
facilities and the horizontal areas of the basement and cellar floors
that are devoted exclusively to uses accessory to the operation of
the building. All horizontal dimensions shall be taken from the exterior
faces of the exterior walls or from the center lines of walls separating
two buildings.
FLOOR AREA RATIO
The numerical value obtained by dividing the floor area within
a building or buildings on a lot by the area of such lot. The floor
area ratio requirement as designated for each zoning district when
multiplied by the lot area in square feet shall determine the maximum
permissible floor area for the building or buildings on the lot.
FREE BURNING
The rate of combustion described by a material which burns
actively and easily supports combustion.
FREQUENCY
Signifies the number of oscillations per second in a sound
wave and is an index of the pitch of the resulting sound.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
An accessory building designed and used for the storage of
motor vehicles owned and used by the occupants of the building to
which it is accessory and in which no occupation or business for profit
is carried on. Not more than one of the motor vehicles may be a commercial
vehicle of not more than two tons' capacity.
GARAGE, PUBLIC
A building or portion thereof, other than a private or storage
garage, designed or used for equipping, servicing or repairing motor
vehicles. Hiring, selling or storing of motor vehicles may be included.
GARAGE, STORAGE
A building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively
for storage of motor vehicles and in which motor vehicles are not
equipped, repaired, hired or sold, except that fuel, grease or oil
may be dispensed within the building for vehicles stored therein.
GROUND FLOOR AREA
The lot area covered by a principal building, measured at
the average finished ground grade at the building walls, from the
exterior faces of the exterior walls, but excluding open porches,
terraces, garages or carports.
GUEST, PERMANENT
A person who occupies or has the right to occupy a rooming
house, boardinghouse, hotel, apartment hotel or motel accommodation
as his domicile and place of permanent residence.
HOME OCCUPATION
Any gainful occupation or profession conducted entirely within
a dwelling by a member of the family residing in the dwelling and
when such home occupation is incidental and secondary to the use of
the dwelling for dwelling purposes and when the operation of the home
occupation is not objectionable due to dust, smoke, odor, noise, excessive
vehicular and pedestrian traffic or other causes which could prove
detrimental to the surrounding residential area.
HOTEL
An establishment which is open to transient guests, in contradiction
to a boardinghouse or a rooming house, and is commonly known as a
hotel in the community in which it is located and which provides customary
hotel services, such as maid service; furnishing and laundering of
linens; telephone, secretarial and desk service; the use and upkeep
of furniture; and bellboy service.
HOTEL, APARTMENT
A hotel, except that at least 80% of the hotel accommodations
are occupied or reserved for occupancy by permanent guests, securing
such accommodations by prearrangement for a continuous period of 30
days or more, and cooking facilities may be provided in any individual
room or suite of rooms for occupancy only by permanent guests.
INSTITUTION
A building occupied by a nonprofit corporation for public
or semipublic use.
INTENSE BURNING
The rate of combustion described by a material that burns
with a high degree of activity and is consumed rapidly.
JUNKYARD
An open area of land and any accessory building or structure
thereon which is used primarily for buying, selling, exchanging, storing,
baling, packing, disassembling or handling waste or scrap materials,
including vehicles, machinery and equipment not in operable condition
or parts thereof and other metals, paper, rags, rubber tires and bottles.
KENNEL
Any premises or portion thereof on which more than two dogs,
cats or other household domestic animals over four months of age are
kept or on which more than one such animal is maintained, boarded,
bred or cared for in return for remuneration or kept for the purpose
of sale.
LAUNDERETTE
A business that provides self-service-type washing, drying,
dry-cleaning and ironing facilities, provided that not more than four
persons, including owners, are employed on the premises and no pickup
or delivery service is maintained.
LOADING SPACE
A space within the principal building or on the same lot
providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks and with
access to a street or alley.
LODGING HOUSE
A dwelling where lodging, or lodging and meals, is provided
for compensation to three or more persons by prearrangement for definite
periods.
LODGING ROOM
A room or suite of rooms rented as sleeping and living quarters
but without cooking facilities and with or without an individual bathroom.
In a suite of rooms without cooking facilities, each room which provides
sleeping accommodations shall be counted as a lodging room for the
purpose of this chapter.
LOT
A single parcel of land which may be legally described as
such or may be one or more numbered lots or parts of lots in a recorded
subdivision plat, located within a single block and occupied by or
intended for occupancy as the site for a principal building or a principal
use, together with accessory buildings and uses, yards and other open
spaces as required by this chapter and having its principal frontage
on a street.
LOT AREA
The area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side
and rear lines of a lot.
LOT, CORNER
A lot located at the intersection of two streets or a lot
bounded on two sides by a curving street and any two chords of which
form an angle of 120° or less measured on the lot side.
LOT COVERAGE
The part or percent of the lot occupied by buildings or structures,
including accessory buildings or structures.
LOT DEPTH
The mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and
the rear lot line of a lot measured within the lot boundaries.
LOT LINE, FRONT
That lot line of a lot which adjoins the right-of-way line
of a street. On a corner lot, the lot line having the shortest length
abutting a street shall be the front lot line.
LOT LINE, INTERIOR
A lot line which is not a rear lot line and which does not
adjoin a street right-of-way line.
LOT LINE, REAR
That boundary of a lot which is most distant from and is
most nearly parallel to the front lot line, and in the case of an
irregular, triangular or gore-shaped lot, a line 10 feet in length
within the lot, parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front
lot line.
LOT LINE, SIDE
Any boundary of a lot which is not a front lot line or a
rear lot line.
LOT OF RECORD
A lot which has been recorded in the office of the Register
of Deeds of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
LOT, REVERSED CORNER
A corner lot where the side lot line adjoining a street is
substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the first lot
to its rear.
LOT, THROUGH
A lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two more
or less parallel streets and which is not a corner or reversed corner
lot. Each lot line adjoining a street shall be deemed a front lot
line.
LOT WIDTH
The minimum horizontal distance between the side lot lines
of a lot measured at the narrowest width within the buildable area.
MAJOR RECREATIONAL FACILITY
Any structure constructed, assembled or erected facilitating
the recreational use of the property and accessory to the permitted
residential use, the recreational use of which might prove to be injurious
to the peaceful use and enjoyment of other property in the immediate
vicinity for purposes already permitted or might prove to substantially
diminish or impair property values of the same, including, but without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, swimming pools and tennis
courts.
MICRON
A unit of length equal to 0.001 millimeter.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel or tract of land developed with facilities for locating
three or more mobile homes, provided that each mobile home contains
a kitchen, flush toilet and shower or bath and a mobile home park
shall be for use only by nontransient dwellers remaining continuously
for more than one month, whether or not a charge is made. It shall
not include a sales lot in which motor vehicles or unoccupied trailers
are parked for the purpose of inspection or sale.
MODERATE BURNING
Implies a rate of combustion described by material which
supports combustion and is consumed slowly as it burns.
MOTEL
An establishment consisting of a group of attached or detached
lodging rooms with bathrooms, located on a single parcel within a
block and designed for use by transient automobile tourists. A motel
furnishes customary hotel services such as maid service and laundering
of linen, telephone and secretarial or desk service, and the use and
upkeep of furniture. In a motel, less than 50% of the living and sleeping
accommodations are occupied or designed for occupancy by persons other
than transient automobile tourists. A motel shall not include cooking
facilities in any of its lodging rooms.
MOTOR FREIGHT TERMINAL
A building or area in which freight brought by motor truck
is assembled or stored for routing in intrastate or interstate shipment
by motor truck.
NAMEPLATE
A sign indicating the name and address of a building or name
of an occupant thereof and the practice of a permitted occupation
therein. Nameplates are tantamount to government signs, to assist
in identification of property and in the provision of emergency services.
[Amended 10-16-2018 by Ord. No. 899]
NET ACRE
An acre of land, excluding public street rights-of-way and
other publicly dedicated land areas such as parks, open space, floodplains,
wetlands, and stormwater detention and retention facilities.
[Added 12-21-2010 by Ord. No. 854]
NOXIOUS MATTER OR MATERIAL
A material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms
by chemical reaction or is capable of causing detrimental effects
on the physical or economic well-being of individuals.
NURSERY, CHILD-CARE
An establishment for the part-time care of five or more children
of the pre-elementary school age in addition to the members of the
family residing therein.
NURSING HOME
A home for the aged or chronically ill, care of children
or infirm or incurable persons, or a place of rest for those suffering
bodily disorders, in which three or more persons not members of the
immediate family residing on the premises are received, kept or provided
with food and shelter or care, but not including hospitals, clinics
or similar institutions devoted primarily to the diagnosis and treatment
of disease or injury, maternity cases or mental illness.
OCTAVE BAND
A method of dividing the range of sound frequencies into
octaves in order to classify sound according to pitch.
OCTAVE BAND FILTER
An electrical frequency analyzer designed according to standards
formulated by the American Standards Association and used in conjunction
with a sound-level meter to take measurements in specific octave intervals.
ODOR THRESHOLD
The minimum concentration of odorous matter in the air that
can be detected as an odor.
OPEN SALES LOT
Land used or occupied for the purpose of buying, selling
or renting merchandise stored or displayed out of doors prior to sale.
Such merchandise includes automobiles, trucks, motor scooters, motorcycles,
boats or similar commodities.
OPEN SPACE
Any site, parcel, lot, area, or outlot of land or water essentially
unimproved and set aside, dedicated, designated, or reserved for the
public or private use or enjoyment or for the use and enjoyment of
owners and occupants of land adjoining or neighboring such open space.
Land that is to be used primarily for resource protection, agriculture,
recreational purposes, or otherwise left undisturbed and specifically
excluding road rights-of-way and lots. Open space land shall not be
occupied by nonrecreational buildings, roads, drives, public rights-of-way,
or off-street parking areas for nonrecreational uses. Land located
within the yards or lots of residential and/or nonresidential properties
is not considered open space unless it is deed restricted for open
space protection or natural resource features protection. Where lots
are above the minimum sizes required and the excess lot area is deed
restricted to open space uses, said excess lot area may be counted
as open space.
[Added 12-21-2010 by Ord. No. 854]
PARKING SPACE
A designated area, either enclosed in a building or in the
open, which is reserved for the parking of one motor vehicle and which
has access from a street, alley or other public way.
PARTICULATE MATTER
Finely divided solid or liquid matter, other than water,
which is released into the atmosphere.
PARTY WALL
A common wall which extends from its footing below grade
to the underside of the roof and divides buildings.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD
A criteria established to control smoke and particulate matter,
noise, odor, toxic or noxious matter, vibration, fire and explosive
hazards or glare or heat generated by or inherent in uses of land
or buildings.
PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT
Equipment fabricated to be utilized by children in play or
sport. Basketball hoops, backboards and poles upon which they are
attached are excluded from this definition.
[Added by Ord. No. 647]
PYROPHORIC DUST
A dust in a finely divided state that is spontaneously combustible
in air.
QUALIFYING NONPROFIT COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION[Added 10-16-2018 by Ord. No. 899]
(a)
An organization that meets one of the following requirements:
1.
An organization specified in § 70.11(12)(a), Wis.
Stats., that is located within the Village.
2.
An educational, religious, community service, or benevolent
institution that is located within the Village of Greendale and is
specifically dedicated to public services and/or activities within
the Village of Greendale as demonstrated by its articles of incorporation,
bylaws, or other similar organizational documents to satisfy the Village
Manager.
(b)
The Village Manager shall have the authority to determine whether
an organization is a qualifying nonprofit community-based organization
as described herein; provided, however, that the Village Manager and/or
any applicant may request the Village Board review of a decision by
the Village Manager regarding the matter, within 30 days of the decision.
Such determination is final and cannot be appealed to the Board of
Appeals nor the Administrative Review Board.
RADIATION HAZARDS
The deleterious and harmful effects of all ionizing radiation,
which shall include all radiations capable of producing ions in their
passage through matter. Such radiations shall include, but are not
limited to, electromagnetic radiations such as X-rays and gamma rays
and particulate radiations such as electrons or beta particles, protons,
neutrons and alpha particles.
RESEARCH LABORATORY
A building or group of buildings in which are located facilities
for scientific research, investigation, testing or experimentation,
but not facilities for the manufacture or sale of products, except
as incidental to the main purpose of the laboratory.
RESERVOIR STANDING SPACES
Those off-street parking spaces allocated for temporary standing
of occupied automobiles awaiting entrance to a particular establishment.
RINGELMANN CHART
The chart described in the United States Bureau of Mines
Information Circular 6888 on which are illustrated graduated shades
of grey for use in estimating the light-obscuring capacity of smoke
(smoke density).
RINGELMANN NUMBER
The designation of the area on the Ringelmann Chart that
coincides most nearly with the visual density of emission or the light-obscuring
capacity of smoke.
ROADWAY
That portion of a street between the regularly established
curblines or that portion of a street which is used or intended to
be used for vehicular travel, whether or not such portion is improved
or unimproved with a pavement surface.
SETBACK
The minimum horizontal distance between the setback line
and the lot line abutting a street or the center line of a thoroughfare.
SETBACK, ESTABLISHED BUILDING
When 40% or more of the lots fronting on one side of a street
within a block are improved, the existing building setbacks of such
improved lots shall be the established building setback for determining
the required setbacks for the remainder of the lots along such street
frontage, as regulated in this chapter.
SETBACK LINE
A line on a lot that extends for the full length of a lot
line adjoining a street or thoroughfare and which is not nearer at
any point to a lot line abutting a street than the depth or width
of the required yard or to the center line of an abutting thoroughfare
than the required setback from the center line of a thoroughfare.
No building, structure or other obstruction shall encroach into the
area between a setback line and the lot line adjoining a street or
thoroughfare except obstructions in yards permitted herein.
SIGN
A name, identification, description, display or illustration
which is affixed to or painted or represented directly or indirectly
upon a building, structure or piece of land and which directs attention
to an object, product, place, activity, person, institution, organization
or business. A sign shall not include any display of official court
or public office notices, the flag, emblem or insignia of a nation,
political unit, school or religious group or a sign located completely
within an enclosed building, except such signs located behind window
areas for the purpose of being viewed from outside the building. Each
display surface of a sign shall be considered to be a sign. Official
court or public office notices, and the foregoing flags, emblems and
insignia are excluded from this definition for the observance of the
applicable institutions of our participatory democracy.
[Amended 10-16-2018 by Ord. No. 899]
SIGN, BUSINESS
A sign which directs attention to a business or profession
conducted or to a commodity, service or entertainment sold or offered
upon the premises where such sign is located or to which it is affixed.
SIGN, FLASHING
An illuminated sign on which the artificial light is not
maintained stationary or constant in intensity and color at all times
when such sign is in use. A revolving sign or any moving part of an
advertising device that is illuminated shall be considered a flashing
sign.
SIGN, GOVERNMENT
Any sign that is owned, operated, or required by a governmental
entity having jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, the signs
designated in this chapter as government signs, and signs that are
required by applicable laws. Such signs include signs on municipally
owned vehicles, official traffic, fire and police signs, signals,
devices, and markings of the State of Wisconsin and the Village or
other public authorities, or posted notices required by law.
[Added 10-16-2018 by Ord.
No. 899]
SIGN, GROSS AREA OF
The entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing
the extreme limits of the actual surface of a single-face sign. It
does not include any structural elements lying outside the limits
of such sign and not forming an integral part of the display. A double-face
or V-type sign erected on a single supporting structure where the
interior angle does not exceed 135° shall be considered and measured
as a single-face sign for the purpose of computing square foot area.
SIGN, NEON
A sign or display constructed of varying sizes and shapes
of tubed material filled with either powder or gas which illuminates
in various colors when electrified.
[Added 6-16-1998 by Ord. No. 757]
SIGN, OFF-PREMISES
A sign which is not appurtenant to the use of the property
or to a product sold or a service offered upon the property where
the sign is located, and which does not identify the property where
the sign is located as a purveyor or source of the merchandise or
services advertised upon the sign.
[Added 10-16-2018 by Ord.
No. 899]
SIGN, SIDEWALK SANDWICH
A sign which is movable and not secured or attached directly or indirectly to the ground, structure, or building; which use is limited to special events of special sales; and which meets all the requirements of §
17.19(6)(i), titled "Sidewalk sandwich signs," of the Village of Greendale Zoning Code.
[Added 10-7-2008 by Ord. No. 844]
SIGN, TEMPORARY
A sign constructed of cloth, canvas, wood, light fabric,
cardboard, wallboard, plastic or other light materials, with or without
frames, and any type of sign not permanently attached to the ground,
wall or building which is permitted for display for a limited period
of time only.
[Added 10-16-2018 by Ord.
No. 899]
SITE AREA, NET BUILDABLE
The entire land area within the boundaries of a site, less
the area of all land required or proposed for public use, open space,
or natural resource preservation or protection (floodplains and wetlands).
[Added 12-21-2010 by Ord. No. 854]
SMOKE
The visible discharge from a chimney, stack, vent, exhaust
or combustion process which is made up of particulate matter.
SMOKE UNITS, NUMBER OF
The number obtained when the smoke density in the 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 is observed
and the various products are then added together to give the total
number of smoke units observed during the entire observation period.
SOUND LEVEL
The intensity of sound of an operation or use as measured
in decibels.
SOUND-LEVEL METER
An instrument standardized by the American Standards Association
for measurement of the intensity of sound.
STORY
That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the floor next above or, if there is
no floor above, the space between the floor and the ceiling next above
it, and in the case of a split-level story, the surface of the floors
at different elevations and the ceilings next above such floors, provided
that there is not more than four feet difference in elevation between
the levels of the floors of such a story. A mezzanine floor, if it
covers over 1/3 of the area of the floor next below it or if the vertical
distance from the floor next below it to the floor next above it is
24 feet or more or a basement, shall be considered a story, and a
cellar is not a story.
STORY, HALF
A partial story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall
plates of which on at least two opposite exterior walls are not more
than three feet above the floor of such story, except that any partial
story used for residence purposes, other than for a janitor or caretaker
or his family or by a family occupying the floor immediately below
it, shall be deemed a full story.
STREET
Any right-of-way containing a roadway, whether dedicated
as a public street or, when permitted by this chapter and other ordinances
of the Village, a private street or recorded easement, which provides
the primary means of vehicular access to abutting properties.
STREET FRONTAGE
All of the property fronting on one side of a street between
two intersecting streets or, in the case of a dead-end street, all
of the property along one side of the street between an intersecting
street and the end of such dead-end street.
STREET LINE
The street right-of-way line which is contiguous with a property
line of a lot, parcel or tract.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION
Any change in the number and width of exits or in the supporting
members of a building, such as bearing walls or partitions, columns,
beams or girders, or any substantial change in the roof.
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed or erected the use of which requires
more or less permanent location on the ground or attached to something
having a permanent location on the ground, including, but without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, advertising signs, backstops
for tennis courts and pergolas.
SWIMMING POOL
Any depression in the ground, either temporary or permanent,
or a container of water, either temporary or permanent and either
above or below the ground, in which water of more than 24 inches in
depth at any point is contained and which is used primarily for the
purpose of wading, swimming or bathing.
[Amended 5-20-2008 by Ord. No. 840]
THOROUGHFARE
A street designated as a thoroughfare by the Village or other
governmental authority having jurisdiction which has a high degree
of continuity and serves as an arterial trafficway between the various
districts of the Village or the areas beyond. Thoroughfares classified
as freeways or other types of limited access routes shall serve as
primary means of access to abutting properties only when frontage
roads are provided within such thoroughfare rights-of-way.
TOURIST HOME
"Tourist home establishment" means any property that is defined
or regulated by §§ 66.1014(2)(d)2 or 97.01(15k), Wis.
Stats., as a tourist rooming house.
[Amended 11-20-2018 by Ord. No. 904]
TOWNHOUSE
A single-family dwelling unit constructed in a group of three
or more attached units in which each unit extends from foundation
to roof and with a yard or public way on at least two sides.
[Added 12-21-2010 by Ord. No. 854]
TRAILER or MOBILE HOME
That which is, or was as originally constructed, designed
to be transported by any motor vehicle upon a public highway and designed,
equipped and used primarily for sleeping, eating and living quarters,
or is intended to be so used, and includes any additions, attachments,
annexes, foundations and appurtenances.
[Amended 5-20-2008 by Ord. No. 840]
TRAILER, TRAVEL
A trailer designed and constructed for travel and temporary
lodging purposes and which does not exceed a gross weight of 4,500
pounds when factory equipped for the road and which is intended for
use only for camping, recreational travel or vacation use.
TRIP
A single or one-direction vehicle movement with either the
origin or the destination (exiting or entering) inside a lot or parcel
of land. For trip generation purposes, the total trip ends for a land
use over a given period of time are the total of all trips entering
plus all trips exiting a lot or parcel of land during any twenty-four-hour
time period.
[Added 10-5-2010 by Ord. No. 853]
USE
The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon
is designed, arranged or intended or for which it is occupied or maintained,
which shall include any manner of performance of such activity with
respect to the performance standards of this chapter.
USE, ACCESSORY
One which is incidental to the dominant use of the premises.
USE, LAWFUL
The use of any building, structure or land that conforms
to all of the use regulations of the ordinances of the Village, county
and state and any existing building, structure or land conforming
in respect to use but not in respect to all the regulations of this
chapter or of any amendment hereto governing bulk of the zoning district
in which such use is located.
USE, PERMITTED
Any use which may be lawfully established in a particular
district or districts, provided that it conforms to all requirements,
regulations and performance standards, if any, of such district.
USE, PRINCIPAL
The dominant use of land or buildings as distinguished from
a subordinate or accessory use.
USE, SPECIAL
A use which, because of its unique characteristics, cannot
be properly classified as a permitted use in a particular district
or districts, but when such use is herein listed as a special use
in a district or districts it may be allowed therein after approval
in each case by the Village President and Village Board in accordance
with procedures set forth in § 62.23(7)(d), Wis. Stats.
VEHICLE, MOTOR
Any passenger vehicle, truck, truck-trailer, trailer or semitrailer
propelled or drawn by mechanical power.
VEHICLE, RECREATIONAL
A trailer, mobile home, boat, snowmobile and any other vehicles
used for recreational purposes upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a road, street or highway.
Excluded from this definition shall be passenger motor vehicles or
vehicles which cannot be licensed as a motor vehicle and which are
used for racing or other competitive or commercial purposes.
[Amended by Ord. No. 734]
VENDING MACHINES
Machines for dispensing merchandise or services designed
to be operated by the customer.
VIBRATION
The periodic displacement, measured in inches, of earth at
designated frequency (cycles per second).
YARD
An open area on a lot which is unobstructed from its lowest
level to the sky, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
YARD, FRONT
A yard extending along the front lot line which is bounded
by the side lot lines, front lot line and the front yard line.
YARD, INTERIOR SIDE
A side yard which adjoins another lot or an alley, separating
such side yard from another lot.
YARD LINE
A line in a lot that is parallel to the lot line along which
the applicable yard extends and which is not nearer to such lot line
at any point than the required depth or width of the applicable yard.
A building, structure or other obstruction shall not encroach into
the area between the yard line and such adjacent lot line, except
for such permitted obstructions in yards as set forth in this chapter.
YARD, REAR
A yard extending along the rear lot line which is bounded
by the side lot lines, rear lot line and the rear yard line.
YARD, SIDE
A yard extending along a side lot line which is bounded by
the rear yard line, front yard line, side yard line and side lot line.
ZONING DISTRICTS
The districts into which the Village has been divided for
zoning regulations and requirements.