Unless the context otherwise requires, the following
definitions shall be used in the interpretation of this chapter. If
questions arise as to the interpretation of common usage terms, the
Zoning Administrator should refer to the definitions contained in
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary or subsequent editions.
Interpretations of land use activities should be based on the 1987
Standard Industrial Classification Manual, Executive Office of the
President, Office Management and Budget, or subsequent editions. Interpretations
of terms related to structures should be based on State of Wisconsin
Uniform Building Code.
ACCESSORY USE OR STRUCTURE
A use or structure subordinate to the principal use of a
building or to the principal use of land and which is located on the
same parcel and serving a purpose customarily incidental to the use
of the principal building or land use. Accessory uses or structures
to residential principal uses may include garages, carports, other
parking spaces, swimming pools, tennis courts, and toolsheds. Accessory
uses in residential districts shall not involve the conduct of any
business, trade, or industry, except as defined as a home occupation,
and shall not include the commercial boarding of animals or the keeping
of fowl or farm animals.
ADMINISTRATOR
The Zoning Administrator who is designated as the enforcement
officer of this chapter.
AGRICULTURAL SERVICES
Establishments engaged in providing services to agricultural
establishments and landowners, including soil preparation, crop services,
veterinary services, farm management, and landscape and horticultural
services. SIC Group 07.
AGRICULTURE
The use of land for agricultural purposes, including farming,
dairying, pasturage, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, and
animal and poultry husbandry and the necessary accessory uses for
packing, treating, or storing the produce; provided, however, that
the operation of any such accessory uses shall be secondary to that
of normal agricultural activities. SIC Group 01 and 02.
AIRPORT
The Lodi Lakeland Airport located in the Town of Lodi, Columbia
County, Wisconsin.
AIRPORT HAZARD
Any structure, object, natural growth, or use of land that
obstructs the air space required for the flight of aircraft in landing
or taking off at an airport or is otherwise hazardous to such landing
and taking off.
ALLEY
A thoroughfare less than 80 feet in width and for the purpose
of providing access to the rear of buildings in a platted City block.
AMUSEMENT AND RECREATION SERVICES
Establishments, not defined elsewhere, engaged in providing
indoor and outdoor amusement, entertainment, and recreation to the
general public. Includes both indoor and outdoor activities. SIC Group
79.
AREA VARIANCE
Variance from the conditions of this chapter dealing with
area setbacks, frontage, height, bulk and density.
[Added 10-16-2007 by Ord. No. A-381]
ARTISAN RETREAT FACILITY
Establishments providing not more than six guest rooms for
lodging on a less than weekly basis, potentially in a converted single-unit
residence, to be used as a retreat for the exchange of ideas between
artisans or persons associated with applied arts and crafts, including
the incidental instruction of classes, which may provide meeting and
working space as well as living and dining facilities for participants.
[Added 9-17-2013 by Ord. No. A-460; amended 3-21-2023 by Ord. No. A-561]
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR AND SERVICES
General repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of engines,
motor vehicles, or trailers; collision services, including body, frame,
or fender straightening or repair; overall painting or paint shop;
and vehicle steam cleaning. Automotive services include car washes,
except for single-stall car washes incidental to the sale of gasoline.
SIC Group 75.
AUTOMOTIVE, IMPLEMENT AND RECREATIONAL VEHICLE SALES
An open area, other than a street, used for the display,
sale, or rental of new or used motor vehicles, implements or trailers
in operable condition and where no repair work is done. SIC Codes
551, 552, 555, 556, 557 and 559.
BASEMENT
That portion of a building between the floor and ceiling
having at least 1/2 of its height below grade.
BED-AND-BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENT
Any place of lodging that provides eight 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. SIC Code
7011.
BLOCK
The property abutting a street between the two nearest intersecting
or intercepting streets. A railroad right-of-way, the boundary line
of unsubdivided acreage, or a body of water shall be regarded the
same as an intersecting or intercepting street for the purpose of
defining a block.
BOARD
The Zoning Board of Appeals of the City.
BOARDING HOME
A dwelling or part therefor occupied by a single housekeeping
unit where meals and lodging are provided for three or more persons
not related to the owner for compensation by previous arrangement,
excluding transients. SIC Code 702.
BUILDABLE LOT AREA
That part of the lot not included within the open space areas
required by this chapter.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance from the grade level at the front wall
of the building to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof
or to the deckline of a mansard roof, or to the mean height level
between eaves and ridge for gable, hip, or gambrel roofs.
BUILDING SUPPLY STORES
Retail establishments engaged primarily in the selling of
lumber and other building materials. SIC Group 521.
CAMPGROUNDS
Establishments primarily engaged in providing overnight or
short-term sites for recreation vehicles, trailers, campers and tents.
SIC Code 7033.
CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS
A permit for restoration or change of a landmark, landmark
site, or historic preservation district site that shall accompany
a building or demolition permit and is issued upon direction of the
Plan Commission.
CHAIR
The Chair of the Plan Commission or the Chair of the Zoning
Board of Appeals as the context requires.
CHANNEL
A natural or artificial watercourse of perceptible extent,
with definite bed and banks to confine and conduct continuously or
periodically flowing water. Channel flow is that water which is flowing
within the limits of the defined channel.
CITY
The incorporated City of Lodi, Columbia County, State of
Wisconsin.
CIVIC USES
Community center, public library, public museum, public art
gallery, public recreation, post office, fire station, public botanical
garden, and similar public uses, each without outdoor storage. SIC
Codes 823, 83, 841, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 and 97.
CLUB and ASSOCIATION
A nonprofit association of persons who are bona fide members,
paying regular dues, and are organized for some common purpose, but
not including a group organized solely or primarily to render a service
customarily carried on as a commercial enterprise. SIC Code 86.
COMMISSION
The City Plan Commission of Lodi, Wisconsin.
COMMUNITY-BASED RESIDENTIAL FACILITY
A place where three or more unrelated adults reside in which
care, treatment, or services above the level of room and board, but
not including nursing care, are provided to persons residing in the
facility as a primary function of the facility. Same as the definition
of "community-based residential facility" (CBRF) defined in § 50.01(1g),
Wis. Stats.
COMMUNITY RECREATION FACILITIES
Public or privately owned recreation facilities that provide
sites for large public gatherings, such as fairgrounds, zoos, race
tracks, and golf courses. SIC Codes 794, 7996, 7997 and 842.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The long-range master plan for the desirable use and development
of land in the City as officially adopted and as amended from time
to time by the Plan Commission and certified to the Common Council.
CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT
A document signed by the Zoning Administrator specifying
the requirements for which a conditional use may be permitted within
a parcel. A conditional use is a use permitted within a district other
than a permitted use.
CONDOMINIUM
An estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest
in common with other purchases in a portion of a parcel of real property,
together with separate interest in space. A condominium may include,
in addition, separate interest in other portions of such property.
CONTRACTORS - BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
General and special trade contractors who undertake activities
related to building construction, including general construction,
electrical work, painting, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, roofing,
and sheet metal work. SIC Groups 15 and 17.
CONTRACTORS - HEAVY CONSTRUCTION
General contractors engaged in heavy construction other than
buildings, such as highways, bridges, sewers, railroads, and airports.
SIC Group 16.
CONVENIENCE STORE
Any retail establishment serving primarily the surrounding
neighborhood and offering for sale prepackaged food products, household
items, and other goods commonly associated with the same and having
a gross floor area less than 5,000 square feet. Convenience stores
do not include the sale of gasoline. SIC Group 541 (under 5,000 square
feet).
COUNCIL
The Common Council of the City of Lodi, Wisconsin.
COURT
An open, unoccupied and unobstructed space, other than a
yard, on the same lot with a building or group of buildings.
DAY-CARE CENTER
A licensed facility where a person other than a relative
or guardian provides care and supervision for four or more children
under seven years of age, for less than 24 hours a day and for compensation.
Same as definition in § HFS 55.04(10), Wis. Adm. Code. SIC
Code 835.
C.
ADULT DAY-CARE CENTEREstablishments primarily engaged in the care of seniors citizens or infirm or impaired individuals, where medical care or delinquency correction is not a major element.
D.
NIGHT-CARE CENTERA group day-care center or family day-care center which operates during any period of time between 7:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
DENSITY
The number of dwelling units per net acre of land after land
for streets and other public purposes is removed.
DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS
The part of a zoning ordinance that applies to setback, height,
lot coverage and side yard.
[Added 8-21-2012 by Ord. No. A-434]
DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT
A retail outlet where food or beverages are sold to a substantial
extent for consumption in parked motor vehicles.
DWELLING, MULTIUNIT
A building containing three dwelling units or more. Any multiunit
dwelling where units are available for rental periods of less than
one week shall be considered a hotel, boardinghouse, or guest house.
[Amended 3-21-2023 by Ord. No. A-561]
DWELLING, TOWNHOUSE
A townhouse consists of three to five attached single-unit
residences, each having a private individual access with no shared
internal access. Each dwelling unit shares at least one common wall,
not over 25 feet in height, with one or more adjacent dwelling units.
Each townhouse unit may share the same lot or be located on a separate
lot via a zero-lot-line. Zero-lot-line townhouses include interior
units that share common walls with up to two adjacent units and have
two side yards with zero setbacks. Zero-lot-line townhouses are possible
under the R-3 Multiple-unit Zoning District, with City approval of
a Certified Survey Map.
[Amended 4-16-2013 by Ord. No. A-451; 8-20-2013 by Ord. No. A-459; 3-21-2023 by Ord. No. A-561]
DWELLING, TWO-UNIT
A building containing two dwelling units.
[Amended 3-21-2023 by Ord. No. A-561]
DWELLING UNIT
Any structure, or portion thereof, that has independent living
facilities that include provisions for living, sleeping, cooking,
eating, sanitation, and a separate entrance that is designed for residential
occupancy by one or more persons who maintain a single household for
a weekly or longer basis as distinguished from an artisan retreat
facility, bed-and-breakfast, club, boardinghome, community-based residential
facility, fraternity or sorority house, group home, guest home, hotel,
model home, motel, nursing home, tourist home or other similar structure
or facility.
[Amended 3-21-2023 by Ord. No. A-561]
DWELLING, ZERO-LOT-LINE DUPLEX
A lot created with no side yard setback on one side of the
lot to create a shared building envelope between two lots sharing
a single structure. The shared building envelope shall only be used
to build or divide a duplex where the common wall between the two
lots is built, or determined to be, the common boundary line between
the two separate attached single-unit lots. No zero-lot-line can have
more than one side yard with a zero setback. Zero-lot-line land divisions
are permitted within the R-2 and R-3 Residential Zoning Districts,
with City approval of a Certified Survey Map.
[Added 4-16-2013 by Ord. No. A-451; amended 8-20-2013 by Ord. No.
A-459; 3-21-2023 by Ord. No. A-561]
ENCLOSED INDOOR AREA
All space between a floor and a ceiling that is bounded by
walls, doors or windows, whether open or closed, covering more than
50% of the combined surface area of the vertical planes constituting
the perimeter of the area. A wall includes any retractable divider,
garage door or other physical barrier, whether temporary or permanent.
A 0.011-gauge screen with a mesh count of 18 by 16 is not a wall.
[Added 9-6-2011 by Ord. No. A-422]
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by
public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies of underground
and overhead lines and pipes for gas, electric, telephone, communications,
cable television, steam, public water supply, sanitary sewage collection,
stormwater conveyance, or other comparable utilities. Essential services
include such above-surface facilities as poles, guide wires, fire
alarm boxes, water hydrants, utility posts, police call boxes, and
standpipes. Essential services do not include larger utility facilities
such as electric substations, wastewater treatment plants, well houses,
water reservoirs, and microwave and telecommunication towers. Essential
services are permitted in all zoning districts without permits.
EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Circumstances or conditions which are unique to the parcel
and do not extend more than 200 feet in any direction from the boundaries
of the parcel. The circumstances or conditions must be natural and
not caused by the actions or inaction of the property owner.
[Added 10-16-2007 by Ord. No. A-381]
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
This group includes the mining, quarrying, excavation, processing,
storing, separating, cleaning, or marketing of natural resources such
as sand, gravel, earth, peat, coal, minerals, gas, and oil. SIC Codes
Major Groups 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14.
FAMILY
See "dwelling, unit."
[Amended 3-21-2023 by Ord. No. A-561]
FAMILY HOME
See "day-care center — family day-care center."
FLOOD
A temporary rise in stream flow or stage that results in
inundation of the areas adjacent to the channel.
FLOODPLAIN
The areas adjoining a watercourse which have been or hereafter
may be covered with the regional flood.
FLOODPROOFING
A combination of structural provisions, changes, or adjustments
to properties and structures subject to flooding primarily for the
reduction or elimination of flood damages.
FLOODWAY
The channel of a stream and those portions of the floodplain
adjoining the channel that are required to carry and discharge the
floodwater or flood flows of any river or stream, including but not
limited to flood flows associated with the regional flood.
FLOOR AREA
For the purpose of determining the floor area ratio, the
floor area of a building is the sum of the gross horizontal areas
of the several floors of the building measured from the exterior faces
of the exterior walls or from the center line of walls separating
two buildings. The floor area of a building shall include the occupied
or usable floor area in a building but not including space occupied
by columns, walls, partitions, mechanical shafts or ducts.
FLOOR AREA RATIO (FAR)
The ratio of the total floor area of both principal and accessory
buildings to the area of the lot.
FORESTRY
Establishments engaged primarily in the operation of timber
tracts, tree farms, forest nurseries, and related activities. SIC
Group 08.
FOSTER HOME
A state-licensed facility providing care and supervision
in a home setting for four or fewer children under the age of 18 or
older adults.
FRONTAGE
All the property abutting on one side of a street between
intersecting or intercepting streets, or between a street and a right-of-way,
waterway, end of a dead-end street, or City boundary measured along
the street line. An intercepting street shall determine only the boundary
of the frontage on the side of the street which it intercepts.
GARAGE
An accessory building or portion of a building in which one
but not more than four motor vehicles, boats, or trailers are housed.
GARDEN SUPPLY STORES
Establishments engaged primarily in the sale of lawn and
garden supplies, including plant materials, fertilizers, garden tools,
and garden supplies.
GAS STATION
A place where gasoline, kerosene or any other motor fuel,
lubricating oil, or grease for operating motor vehicles is offered
for sale and delivered directly into motor vehicles, including greasing,
oiling, and single-stall car washes incidental to the sale of gasoline.
SIC Code 554.
[Added 10-20-2020 by Ord. No. S-137]
GROUP HOME
A state-licensed facility located in a residential community
providing shelter and/or rehabilitation for five or more children
under the age of 18 years or older adults who, for various reasons,
cannot reside in their natural home.
GUEST HOME
A dwelling or part thereof occupied by a single housekeeping
unit where meals and/or lodging is provided for transient guests for
compensation by previous arrangements.
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE
Any material that substantially reduces or prevents the infiltration
of stormwater into previously undeveloped land. Impervious surfaces
include roofed structures, paved and graveled driveways and parking
areas, sidewalks, other paved, compacted sand, or gravel-surfaced
areas, and areas with protective impervious subsurface liners.
INDUSTRIAL PARK
A planned, coordinated development of a tract of land with
two or more separate industrial buildings. Such development is planned,
designed, constructed, and managed on an integrated and coordinated
basis with special attention given to on-site vehicular circulation,
parking, utility needs, building design, and orientation.
INSTITUTION
A nonprofit organization of a public character, or a building
occupied by such organization.
JUNKYARD
An open area where waste or secondhand materials are bought
and sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled, or handled,
including but not limited to scrap iron and other metals, paper, rags,
rubber tires, used lumber and bottles. "Junkyard" includes automobile
wrecking yards and used implement storage yards and includes any area
of more than 200 square feet for storage, keeping or abandonment of
junk but excludes uses established entirely within enclosed buildings
in nonresidential districts. It also excludes establishments for the
sale or purchase of used operable automobiles and the processing of
used, discarded, or salvaged materials as part of those manufacturing
operations which conform to this chapter.
KENNEL, COMMERCIAL
Any premises or building in which four or more dogs or cats
over six months of age are kept commercially for board, propagation,
or sale.
LAND
The earth, water, and air above, below, or on the surface,
and includes any improvements or structures regarded as land.
LANDMARK
Any identified improvement which has a special character
or special historic interest or cultural value as part of the heritage
of the City.
LANDMARK SITE
Any parcel of historic significance having value in tracing
the history of aboriginal man or upon which a historical event has
occurred and which has been designated as a landmark site pursuant
to this chapter. A landmark site includes the parcel upon which a
landmark has been built.
LOT
A piece or parcel of land occupied or intended to be occupied
by a principal building or a group of such buildings and accessory
buildings, or utilized for a principal use and uses accessory thereto,
together with such open space as required by this chapter and having
frontage on a public street.
LOT, CORNER
A lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection
or upon two parts of the same street, such streets or parts of the
same street forming an interior angle of less than 135°. The point
of intersection of the street lines is the "corner."
LOT DEPTH
The mean horizontal distance between the front and the rear
lot lines.
LOT LINE, REAR
The lot line opposite and most distant from the front lot
line.
LOT LINE, SIDE
Any lot line other than a front or rear lot line. A side
lot line separating a lot from a street is called a "side street lot
line." A side lot line separating a lot from another lot or lots is
called an "interior side lot line."
LOT OF RECORD
A lot which is part of a subdivision, the plat or certified
survey map of which has been recorded in the office of the Register
of Deeds of Columbia County.
[Amended 10-10-2006 by Ord. No. A-361]
LOT, THROUGH
A lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel
streets.
LOT WIDTH
The mean width of the lot measured at right angles to its
depth.
MAJOR STREET
A highway, road, or street designated on the Official Master
Street Plan of the City.
MANUFACTURED HOME
A generic term for single-unit detached structures manufactured
all or in part off site and transported to the site in one or more
sections that are built to the National Manufactured Home Construction
and Safety Standards.
[Amended 3-21-2023 by Ord. No. A-561]
MANUFACTURED HOME DEALER
An establishment engaged in the sale and service of manufactured
and mobile homes. SIC Group 527.
MANUFACTURING
Establishments engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformation
of material or substances into new products. SIC Groups 20 through
39.
MANUFACTURING, HEAVY
A use engaged in the basic processing and manufacturing of
materials or products predominantly from extracted raw materials or
a use engaged in storage of or manufacturing processes using flammable
or explosive materials or storage or manufacturing processes that
potentially involve hazardous or commonly recognized offensive conditions.
MANUFACTURING, LIGHT
A use engaged in the manufacture, predominantly from previously
prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing,
fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, incidental storage, sales,
and distribution of such products, but exclusively basic industrial
processing.
MODEL HOME
A dwelling manufactured, prefabricated, or otherwise erected
or installed upon a lot for purposes of temporarily exhibiting the
same as a sample, rather than for occupancy as a residence.
NONCONFORMING LOT
A lot that does not comply with the minimum lot area or width
requirements of the district in which it is located.
NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE
A dwelling or other building that existed lawfully before
the current zoning ordinance was enacted or amended, but that does
not conform to one or more of the development regulations in the current
zoning ordinance.
[Amended 8-21-2012 by Ord. No. A-434]
NONCONFORMING USE OF LAND
Any use of a lot that does not conform to the applicable
use regulations of the district in which it is located.
NURSING HOME
A facility designed and licensed to provide care for aged
or infirm persons requiring or receiving personal care or custodial
care complying with the standards established by the Wisconsin Department
of Health and Family Services. SIC Code 805.
OBJECTIONABLE ELEMENT
Any use operated in the manner described under the performance
standards of this chapter.
OPEN SPACE, COMMON
An area of land or water or a combination of land and water
within the site designated for a planned unit development and designed
and intended for the use or enjoyment of residents.
OPEN SPACE, PUBLIC
An area of land or water or both on the Comprehensive Plan
or Official Map designated as park, beautification, or land to be
kept free of development.
PARCEL
"Parcel of land" means any contiguous quantity of land capable
of being described with such definiteness that its location and boundaries
may be established, that is designated by its owner or developer as
land to be used or developed as a unit, or that has been used or developed
as a unit. "Parcel" includes an easement supporting or related to
a primary parcel, and a condominium unit. Only one such designation
by the owner shall be allowed under this chapter.
PLANNER
The City Planner designated to advise and assist the Commission
and Common Council on land use and development matters.
PUBLIC WORKS YARDS
Municipal, county, state, and federal administrative buildings;
warehouses; garages; storage yards; and shops that are owned and operated
by a governmental unit.
RAILROADS
Railroad rights-of-way but not including terminals and transfer
and storage tracks not accessory structures except those incidental
to minor communications and switching equipment.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
All types of recreation vehicles or devices normally used
by adults, including but not limited to such items as travel homes,
camper trailers, pickup camper attachments, all-terrain vehicles,
snowmobiles, boats, flotation devices, and motor bikes, and including
go-carts and stock cars.
REGIONAL FLOOD
A flood determined by the Department of Natural Resources
that is representative of large floods known to have occurred generally
in Wisconsin and reasonably characteristic of what can be expected
to occur on a particular stream. The regional flood generally has
an average frequency in the order of the one-hundred-year recurrence
interval flood determined from an analysis of floods on a particular
stream and other streams in the same general region.
REHABILITATION CENTER
A home in which persons live while receiving therapy and
counseling for the following purposes: to assist them to recuperate
from the effects of drugs or alcohol; to assist them to adjust to
living with the handicaps of emotional or mental disorder, or mental
retardation; to assist them to adjust to living with the handicaps
of physical disability; or to assist them to be housed under supervision
while under the constraints of alternatives to imprisonment, including
but not limited to prerelease, work release, and probationary programs,
provided that the number of occupants shall not exceed 20 at any one
time, and where the home is managed by an organization operating a
program that is approved by the state, and which is also approved
by the appropriate governmental entity having authority under law
to license or authorize the operation.
REPAIR SHOPS
Establishments engaged in miscellaneous repair of household
items and smaller business equipment for the general public and businesses.
SIC Group 76.
RETAIL TRADE
Establishment engaged primarily in selling merchandise for
personal or household consumption and rendering service incidental
to the sale of goods.
A.
Includes:
(1)
General merchandisers (SIC Group 53).
(2)
Hardware stores (SIC Group 525).
(3)
Paint, glass and wallpaper stores (SIC Group
523).
(4)
Food stores (SIC Group 54).
(5)
Apparel stores (SIC Group 56).
(6)
Home furnishings and equipment stores (SIC Group
57).
(7)
Eating and drinking places (SIC Group 58).
(8)
Miscellaneous retail (SIC Group 59).
B.
For purposes of enforcement of this chapter,
"retail trade" excludes:
(1)
Building supply stores (SIC Group 521).
(2)
Garden and lawn supply stores (SIC Group 526).
(3)
Manufactured home dealers (SIC Group 527).
(4)
Automotive dealers and service stations (SIC
Group 55).
SCHOOLS, PUBLIC
Public, parochial and other private schools offering educational
courses, Standard Industrial Classification (hereinafter SIC) Codes
7911, 8211 and 8249.
[Amended 9-17-2013 by Ord. No. A-461]
SERVICES, BUSINESS
Establishments engaged primarily in rendering services to
business establishments, such as advertising agencies, mailing services,
employment agencies, and computer software companies. SIC Group 73.
SERVICES, PERSONAL
Establishments engaged in providing services primarily to
individuals and households, such as laundry, dry cleaning, copy shops,
and beauty shops. SIC Group 72.
SERVICES, PROFESSIONAL
Establishments engaged in providing the general public and
businesses with professional services in an office setting. Includes:
A.
Security and commodity brokers (SIC Group 62).
B.
Insurance agents and brokers (SIC Group 64).
C.
Real estate services (SIC Group 65).
D.
Holding and other investment offices (SIC Group
67).
E.
Professional health services (SIC Groups 801,
802, 803, 804, 807, 808 and 809).
F.
Legal services (SIC Group 81).
G.
Engineering, accounting, research, management,
and related services (SIC Group 87).
H.
Educational services (SIC Code 824).
SETBACK
The minimum horizontal distance between the front line of
the building, excluding steps and unenclosed porches, and the street
line.
SHOPPING CENTER
A preplanned group of retail stores with common use areas
for access, pedestrian, auto and service circulation, common parking,
and landscaping.
SIC GROUP
The statistical classification standards for businesses and
industries that appear in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual,
published by the United States Office of Management and Budget.
SIGN
Any letter, symbol, number, or combination of these that
can be seen from the right-of-way of a street or highway. Signs include
all outdoor advertising but do not include buildings or ornamental
wall murals approved by the Commission and other official public information
signs.
SIGN, ON-SITE
A sign relating in its subject matter to the premises on
which it is located, or to products, accommodations, services, or
activities on the premises. On-site signs do not include street graphics
erected by the outdoor advertising industry in the conduct of the
outdoor advertising business or the provision of outdoor displays
or display space on a lease or rental basis only.
SIGN, TRAILER
A motor vehicle or trailer with a street graphic mounted
thereon. It may be double-faced.
SLOPE
An incline from the horizontal expressed in an arithmetic
ratio of horizontal magnitude to vertical magnitude. (Example: 3:1
slope is three feet horizontal and one foot vertical.)
STANDARD PERFORMANCE
A criterion established in the interest of protecting the
public health and safety for the control of noise, odor, smoke, noxious
gases, and other objectionable or dangerous elements generated by
and inherent in or incidental to land use.
STATE
The State of Wisconsin, United States of America.
STREET
A public right-of-way more than 30 feet in width, approved
and accepted by public authority, which provides a primary means of
public access to abutting property. The term "street" shall include
avenue, drive, circle, road, parkway, boulevard, highway, thoroughfare
or any other similar term.
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed, installed or portable, the use of which
requires a location on a parcel of land or attachment to something
having a permanent location on the ground. It includes a movable structure,
fences, billboards, swimming pools, poles, pipelines, transmission
lines, tracks, and street graphics.
TOURIST HOME
A rooming house operated in conjunction with a bed-and-breakfast
establishment licensed under Ch. HFS 197, Wis. Adm. Code, that is
located at its nearest point no more than 100 feet away from the building
housing the bed-and-breakfast.
UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP
A condition which exists when compliance with the strict
letter of the restrictions would unreasonably prevent the owner from
using the property for a permitted use or would render conformity
with such restrictions unnecessarily burdensome.
[Added 10-16-2007 by Ord. No. A-381]
USE
The purpose for which land or a building or structure is
arranged, designed, or intended or for which either land or a building
or structure is, or may be, occupied or maintained.
USE, PRINCIPAL
The main use to which a parcel is devoted and the main purpose
for which the premises exists.
UTILITY FACILITIES
Utility equipment, including but not limited to electric
utility substations, water reservoirs, treatment plants, transformer
stations, booster stations, transmitters, and other comparable utility
facilities.
VARIANCE
A relaxation of the terms of this chapter where such variance
will not be contrary to the public interest and where, owing to conditions
peculiar to the property and not the result of the actions of the
applicant, a literal enforcement of the chapter would result in unnecessary
and undue hardship.
VISUAL SCREEN
A permanent fence or wall that permits no view into the area
to be screened, or plantings or vegetation that permits no view into
the area to be screened and that admits a maximum penetration of light
through no more than an evenly distributed 25% of its vertical surface
during any season of the year.
WAREHOUSE
A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials.
WAREHOUSE, SELF-STORAGE
Warehouses serving primarily the general public with separate
access for each storage stall, one story, and less than 10,000 square
feet per building and total area less than 60,000 square feet. SIC
Code 4225.
WHOLESALE TRADE
Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in
selling merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional,
farm, construction contractors, and professional business users; or
to other wholesalers, or acting as agents or brokers in buying merchandise
for or selling merchandise to such persons or companies. SIC Groups
50 and 51.
YARD
An open space, other than a court, on a lot unoccupied and
unobstructed from the ground upward except as otherwise provided in
this chapter.
YARD, FRONT
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth
of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the front line
and a line parallel thereto on the lot.
YARD, REAR
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth
of which is the minimum distance between the rear lot line and a line
parallel thereto on the lot.
YARD, SIDE
A yard extending from the front yard to the rear yard, the
width of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the side
lot line and a line parallel thereto on the lot.