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Coloma Village City Zoning Code

§ 480-1

Word usage; definitions.

[Amended 11-16-2017 by Ord. No. 17-02; 6-30-2022 by Ord. No. 22-02]
Application. In the construction of this chapter, the rules and definitions contained in this section shall be observed and applied, except when the context clearly indicates otherwise.
Rules. Words used in the present tense shall include the future tense; the singular number shall include the plural number and the plural number the singular number. The word "building" shall include the word "structure." The word "shall" is mandatory and not directory; the word "may" is permissive.
Definitions.
Having a common property line or district line.
A use or detached structure subordinate to the principal use of a structure, land or water and which is located on the same lot serving a purpose customarily incidental to the principal use or the principal structure.
To lie near or close to; in the neighborhood or vicinity of.
Touching or contiguous, as distinguished from lying near or adjacent.
The growing of crops, plants, vines, trees or shrubs for commercial sale and accessory uses customarily incidental to such activities. (Also see "garden.")
A public right-of-way, with a width of not more than 24 feet, which affords a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting properties. A street shall not be considered an alley.
A change in size, shape, or use of a building or structure. (See also "structural alteration.")
Land or buildings devoted to the care, feeding, or examination of animals by a veterinarian or person charged with the responsibility of caring for impounded animals.
A room or suite of rooms in a multiple-family structure which is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a single housekeeping unit. Complete kitchen facilities, permanently installed, must always be included for each apartment.
The term "land area," when referring to a required area per dwelling unit, means "net land area," the area exclusive of public rights-of-way and other public open space.
A public street or highway used or intended to be used primarily for large volume or heavy through traffic. "Arterial streets" shall include freeways and expressways as well as arterial streets, highways and parkways.
A building or portion thereof containing facilities for washing more than two motor vehicles, using production-line methods.
A building or portion thereof or premises used for offering for sale at retail to the public of fuels, lubricating oil, grease, tires, batteries and accessories for motor vehicles, where repair service is incidental. When such dispensing, sale or offering for sale is incidental to the conduct of a public garage, the premises are classified as a public garage. Automobile service stations do not include open sales lots.
See "junkyard."
Land or buildings devoted to the welding, reconstruction, motor overhaul, re-upholstery, painting or repainting of vehicles.
A roof-like mechanism, retractable in operation, which projects from the wall of a building.
A story having part but not more than half of its floor to clear-ceiling height below grade. When a basement is used for storage, parking, or other facilities for the common use of occupants of the rest of the building, it shall not be counted as a story in determining building height. (See also "cellar.")
Any place of lodging that provides eight or fewer rooms for rent to no more than a total of 20 tourists or other transients 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.[1]
See "sign, advertising."
A tract of land bounded by streets, or by a combination of streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, or other lines of demarcation. A block may be located in part beyond the boundary lines of the corporate limits of the Village of Coloma.
See "rooming house."
A strip of land, generally adjacent to a property line, in which a screen of plantings is installed. Such screen shall be planted with deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs in any combination deemed appropriate which is dense enough and high enough to be a visual buffer between properties.
That portion of a lot remaining when all required yard space has been excluded.
Any structure which is built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or movable property of any kind and which is permanently affixed to land.
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, pierced only by windows and normal entrance and exit doors.
A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
The vertical distance from the curb level, or its equivalent, opposite the center of the front of a building to the highest point of the top side of the roof, in case of a flat roof; to the deckline of a mansard roof; and to the mean level of the underside of the rafters, between the eaves and the ridge of a gable or gambrel roof.
See "principal building."
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.
The officer or other designated authority charged with the administration and enforcement of this chapter, or his/her duly authorized representative.
Used to indicate the size and setback of buildings or structures, and the location of same with respect to one another, and includes the following:
Size and height of buildings;
Location of exterior walls;
Floor area ratio;
Open space allocated to buildings; and
Lot area and lot width.
An occupation, employment, or enterprise which occupies time, attention, labor, and materials; or wherein merchandise is exhibited or sold, or where services are offered.
A camp exclusive of buildings.
Any public or private premises established for day and overnight habitation by persons using equipment designed for the purpose of temporary camping.
A roofed automobile shelter, with two or more open sides.
A space having more than 1/2 of its floor to clear-ceiling height below average finished grade. A cellar is not counted as a story in determining building height. For purposes of this chapter, a dwelling unit designed to be partially underground shall not be considered as a cellar space. (See also "basement.")
Those flood lands normally occupied by a stream of water under average annual high-water flow conditions while confined within generally well-established banks.
A building or portion thereof, the principal use of which is for offices of physicians, chiropractors or dentists, or both, for examination and treatment of persons on an outpatient basis.
A nonprofit association of persons, who are bona fide members paying dues, which owns, hires or leases a building, or portion thereof; the use of such premises being restricted to members and their guests.
Development of one-family dwellings on lots which are smaller than would customarily be permitted by this chapter; where the density of development is no greater than would otherwise be permitted by conventional lot regulations; and where residual land produced by the smaller lot size is used for common recreation and open space.
A use of structure, building or land devoted to one or more of the following uses: tavern, bar, supper club or similar use.
The following facilities licensed or operated or permitted under the authority of the Wisconsin State Statutes: child welfare agencies under § 48.60, group homes under § 48.02(7) and community-based residential facilities under § 50.01, but does not include day-care centers, nursing homes, general hospitals, special hospitals, prisons and jails. The establishment of a community living arrangement shall be in conformance with applicable sections of the Wisconsin State Statutes, including §§ 46.03(22), 59.69(15), 62.23(7)(i) and 62.23(7a), and amendments thereto, the Wisconsin Administrative Code, and the provisions of this chapter.[2]
A structure devoted to the sale of confections, snacks or other light meals and providing no inside seating nor drive-in service for the customers.
A building which:
Is designed or intended for a permitted or conditional use as allowed in the district in which it is located; and
Complies with all the regulations of this comprehensive amendment or of any amendment thereof governing bulk of the district in which said building or structure is located.
In actual contact.
The condition in which the right of owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons to access, light, air or view in connection with an arterial street is fully or partially controlled by public authority.
Certified survey map.
A licensed facility for the care and supervision of children for less than 24 hours a day.
A licensed facility for the care and supervision of up to eight children for less than 24 hours a day in any one-family dwelling in a residential district.
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to construction of or additions or substantial improvements to buildings, other structures, or accessory uses, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations or disposition of materials.
A part or parts of the Village of Coloma for which the regulations of this chapter governing the use and location of land and building are uniform.
Overlay districts, also referred to herein as "regulatory areas," provide for the possibility of superimposing certain additional requirements upon a 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.
An establishment or part thereof in which are provided facilities for serving patrons sitting in automobiles on the premises.
A building or portion thereof designed, used or intended to be used exclusively for residential purposes, including efficiency, duplex, single-family, two-family, multiple-family, mobile home, and townhouse dwelling units but not including trailers or lodging rooms in hotels, motels, or lodging houses.
A group of rooms constituting all or part of a dwelling, which are arranged, used or intended for use exclusively as living quarters for one family and not more than an aggregate of two roomers, and which includes complete kitchen facilities permanently installed.
A residential building which is entirely surrounded by open space on the same lot.
A residential building containing two dwelling units.
A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room, an individual bath, kitchen facilities and an independent entrance and not less than 200 square feet nor more than 400 square feet in net floor area, exclusive of halls and entryways.
A building containing three or more dwelling units.
A residential building containing one dwelling unit.
A dwelling containing three or more dwelling units, each of which has one or two side walls in common with side walls of adjoining dwelling units, and are party or lot line walls. May provide rental or sales housing.
A terminal at which electric energy is received from the transmission system and is delivered to the distribution system only.
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.
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.
A place of business carrying on a business operation, the ownership or management of which is separate and distinct from any other place of business located on the same or other lot.
Any unincorporated area within 1.5 miles of the corporate limits of the Village of Coloma. [See §  62.23(7a), Wis. Stats.]
An accessory building and use which incorporates the fundamentals for fallout protection (shielding mass, ventilation, and space to live) and which is constructed of such materials, in such a manner, as to afford to the occupants substantial protection from radioactive fallout. Such shelter may also be a part of the principal building.
One or more persons living together in a single dwelling unit as a traditional family or the functional equivalent of a traditional family. It shall be a rebuttable presumption that four or more persons living together in a single dwelling unit who are not related by blood, adoption or marriage do not constitute the functional equivalent of a traditional family. In determining the functional equivalent of a traditional family, the following criteria shall be present:
The group shares the entire dwelling unit.
The group lives and cooks together as a single housekeeping unit.
The group shares expenses for food, rent, utilities or other household expenses.
The group is permanent and stable and not transient or temporary in nature.
Any other factor reasonably related to whether the group is the functional equivalent of a family.
This definition is not intended to prohibit group homes or community living arrangements that are determined to be protected by the Federal Fair Housing Law, provided that such facilities are licensed and permitted under the authority of the State Department of Health Services or the State Department of Children and Families or other state department or agency.
"General farming" shall include floriculture, forest and game management orchards, raising of grain, grass, mint and seed crops, raising of fruits, nuts and berries, sod farming and vegetable farming. "General farming" includes the operating of such an area for one or more of the above uses with the necessary accessory uses for treating or storing the produce; provided, however, that the operation of any such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of the normal farming activities.
A single-family residential structure located on a parcel of land, which primary land use is associated with agriculture.
A structure which is a barrier and used as a boundary or means of protection or confinement.
A fence including gates which has, for each one-foot-wide segment extending over the entire length and height of the fence, 50% of the surface area in open spaces which afford a direct view through the fence.
A fence, including gates, which conceals from view from adjoining properties, streets, or alleys, activities conducted behind it.
The elevation of the highest flood level as designated by the Village Engineer.
The land adjacent to a body of water which is subject to periodic overflow therefrom.
The channel of a stream and such adjacent portions of the floodplain as are required to accommodate flood flows.
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 entire building. All horizontal dimensions shall be taken from the exterior of the walls.
The primary domicile of a foster parent which has four or fewer foster children and which is licensed under § 48.62, Wis. Stats., and amendments thereto.
A foundation for a structure based on concrete footings prescribed by Wisconsin Uniform Dwelling Code or other state statute or code.
All the property abutting on one side of a street between two intersecting streets or all of the property abutting on one side of a street between an intersection street and the dead end of a street.
A yard extending along the full width off the principal structure and between the principal structure and the edge of the street.
A tract of land or buildings devoted in whole or part to the raising of fur-bearing animals for commercial purposes.
A building, not attached to a dwelling, designed and used for the storage of vehicles owned and used by the occupants of the dwelling to which it is accessory. Not more than one such vehicle may be a commercial vehicle of not more than 1 1/2 ton capacity.
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.
A building or portion thereof designed or used or land used exclusively for storage of motor vehicles, and in which motor fuels and oils are not sold, and motor vehicles are not equipped, repaired, hired or sold.
Growing of fruit, vegetables and flowers which are not to be sold commercially.
The established grade of the street or sidewalk is as prescribed by the Village of Coloma.
The required elevation of the finished surface of the ground adjoining the exterior walls of a building and at all portions of a parcel as shown on the approved grading/drainage plan.
A commercial establishment where animals are bathed, clipped, plucked or otherwise groomed, except that no animals shall be kept, boarded, etc., overnight.
The ratio between total number of dwelling units on a lot and total lot area in acres, the area to include all the land within the lot boundaries including any private roads, recreation areas and drainageways.
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.
A person who occupies or has the right to occupy a lodging house, rooming house, boardinghouse, hotel, apartment hotel or motel accommodation as his domicile and place of permanent residence.
A gainful occupation conducted by members of the family only, within their place of residence; provided that no article is sold or offered for sale on the premises except such as is produced by such occupation, that no stock-in-trade is kept or sold, that no mechanical equipment is used other than such as is permissible for purely domestic purposes and that no person other than a member of the immediate family living on the premises is employed.
A building containing lodging rooms, a common entrance lobby, halls and stairway; where each lodging room does not have a doorway opening directly to the outdoors, except for emergencies, and where more than 50% of the lodging rooms are for rent to transient guests, with or without meals, for a continuous period of less than 30 days.
A building occupied by a nonprofit corporation wholly for public or semipublic use.
Any scrap, waste, reclaimable material or debris, whether or not stored or used in conjunction with dismantling, processing, salvage, storage, baling, disposal or other use or disposition. "Junk" includes, but is not limited to, vehicles, tires, vehicle parts, equipment, paper, rags, metal, glass, building materials, household appliances, brush, wood and lumber.
An open area where waste or scrap 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" includes a wrecking yard, but does not include uses established entirely within enclosed buildings.
An establishment wherein any person is engaged in the business of boarding, breeding, buying, letting for hire, training for a fee, or selling dogs.
See "research laboratory."
The placing and compacting of dirt and rubble in any area that requires filling so as to be usable for a permitted land use activity. A special permit for a landfilling operation must be obtained from the Coloma Village Board. The normal placement and grading of fill around the foundation of a structure or placement of less than one foot of topsoil for lawns and landscaping areas around a structure is not considered to be landfill as used in this chapter.
A business that provides coin-operated self-service-type washing, drying, dry-cleaning, and ironing facilities, providing that no pickup or delivery service is maintained.
A building such as a shed which is attached to one larger building and has a sloping roof and three enclosed sides. Materials used to be aesthetically similar to primary structure. A lean-to shall be classified as an accessory use structure.
A space within the principal building or on the same lot as the principal building providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks and with access to a street or alley.
A building originally built for use as a one- or two-family dwelling, all or a portion of which contain lodging rooms which are available to accommodate persons who are not members of the keeper's family. Facilities are available for providing lodging or meals or both for compensation for at least three but not more than 10 persons.
A room or suite of rooms rented as sleeping and living quarters, with or without an individual bathroom but without cooking facilities.
A parcel of land, whether legally described or subdivided as one or more lots or parts of lots, and which is occupied or intended for occupancy by one principal building or principal use, together with any accessory buildings and such open spaces as are required by this chapter and having its principal frontage upon a street or road.
The area of contiguous land bounded by lot lines, exclusive of land provided for public thoroughfares.
A lot situated at the intersection of two streets, the interior angle of such intersection not exceeding 135°.
A lot other than a corner lot, reversed corner lot, or through lot.
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.
A parcel of land held in separate ownership having frontage on a public street, or other approved means of access, occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal building or structure, together with accessory buildings and uses, having insufficient size to meet the lot width, lot area, yard, off-street parking areas or other open space provisions of this chapter as pertaining to the district wherein located.
A lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two more or less parallel public streets, and which is not a corner lot.
The part or percent of the lot occupied by buildings or structures, including accessory buildings or structures. (See "floor area," for determining percentage of lot covered.)
The mean horizontal distance measured between the front and rear lot lines.
That boundary of a lot which abuts a street line. On a corner lot, the lot line having the shortest length abutting a street line shall be the front lot line.
A lot line which does not abut a street.
That boundary of a lot which is most distant from and is, or 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.
Any boundary of a lot which is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.
A lot which is part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Waushara County, Wisconsin; or a parcel of land, the deed of which was recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Waushara County, Wisconsin, prior to the effective date of this chapter.
The horizontal distance between the side lot lines of a lot, measured at the narrowest width within the first 30 feet of lot depth from the street line.
That portion of a building or structure which is parallel or nearly parallel to the abutting street. For buildings which front on two or more streets, the main building facade shall contain the main entrance to such building.
An establishment, the principal use of which is manufacturing, fabricating, processing, assembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing or testing of materials, goods, or products.[3]
A roof-like structure of a permanent nature which projects from the wall of a building.[4]
A land subdivision, as defined by Ch. 236, Wis. Stats., and Chapter 420, Subdivision of Land, of the Code of the Village of Coloma, with lots intended for the placement of individual mobile home units. Individual home sites are in separate ownership as opposed to the rental arrangements in mobile home parks.
A building or series of buildings in which lodging only is offered for compensation and which may have more than five sleeping rooms or units for this purpose and which is distinguished from a hotel primarily by reason of providing direct independent access, and adjoining parking, for each rental unit.
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.
See "dwelling, multiple-family."
A sign indicating the name and address of a building, or the name of an occupant thereof, and the practice of any permitted occupation therein.
A strip of land within and along a rear lot line of a through lot adjoining a street which is designated on a recorded subdivision plat or property deed as land over which motor vehicular travel shall not be permitted.
Any use of land, buildings or structures, lawfully existing at the time of adoption of or amendment to this chapter, which does not comply with all of the regulation of this chapter or of any amendment hereto governing use for the zoning district in which such use is located.[5]
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.
A licensed facility for the care and supervision of nine or more children for less than 24 hours a day in a one-family dwelling, church, school, hospital or similar building.
A home for aged, chronically ill, care of children, infirm, or incurable persons, or a place of rest for those persons suffering bodily disorders, in which three or more persons, not members of any family residing on the premises, are received and provided with food, shelter and 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.
The Official Map of the Village of Coloma.
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.
That part of the lot area not used for buildings, parking, or service. "Open space" may include lawns, trees, shrubbery, garden areas, footpaths, play areas, pools, watercourses, wooded areas and paved surfaces used as access drives but not used for vehicular parking of any kind.[6]
A structure or premises containing five or more parking spaces open to the public.
An area, enclosed in a building or unenclosed, reserved for the off-street parking of one motor vehicle and which is accessible to and from a street or alley.
A common wall which extends from its footing below grade to, or through, the roof and divides buildings.
A criteria established to control smoke and particulate matter, noise, odor, toxic or noxious matter, vibration, fire and explosion hazards, glare or heat, or radiation hazards generated by or inherent in uses of land or buildings.
A building or facility where personal services are available, for profit, including such services as dry cleaning, laundromat, barbershop, beauty parlor, health spa, or tailor.
Any person, partnership or corporation, whether operated separately or in connection with another business enterprise, except for a licensed kennel, which buys, sells, or boards any species of animal.
The Plan Commission of the Village of Coloma, Wisconsin.
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. This type of development may be conditionally allowed in residential districts to achieve greater design flexibility.[7]
A nonaccessory building in which the principal use permitted on the lot is conducted.
Any airport which complies with the definition contained in § 114.002(18m), Wis. Stats., or any airport which serves or offers to serve common carriers engaged in air transport.[8]
A lot or land or part thereof, used for the purpose of extracting stone, sand, gravel, topsoil and similar material as an industrial or commercial operation, and exclusive of the process of excavation and grading in preparation for the construction of a duly authorized building, park or highway.
A recreation area including park, playground, ball field, ski hill, sport field, swimming pool, golf course, riding stables or riding academies or other facilities and areas constructed for recreational activities and open for use by public or private organizations.
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.
Those off-street parking spaces allocated for temporary standing of automobiles awaiting entrance to a particular establishment.
A structure or structures devoted to the housing of the aged, infirm or physically handicapped on an organized basis. For purposes of this chapter, "rest home" shall include nursing home.
The sale of goods or merchandise in small quantities to the consumer.
Includes retail stores and shops which offer goods and services similar, but not necessarily limited to the following: shoe shops, clothing shops, gift shops, hardware stores, barbershops, beauty parlors or drugstores.
A farm building used or intended to be used solely by the owner or tenant of the farm on which such building is located for the sale of farm products.
That portion of a street which is used or intended to be used for the travel of motor vehicles.
A building other than a hotel or motel where meals or lodging are furnished for compensation for three or more persons not members of a family, but not exceeding 12 persons. For purposes of this chapter, "rooming house" shall include boardinghouse and tourist home.
See "junkyard."
A method of disposing of refuse by spreading and covering such refuse with earth to a depth of two feet on the top surface and one foot on the sides of the bank, which sides shall have a least 1:2 slope.
The minimum horizontal distance between the foundation line of a building or structure and the property line.
A name, identification, illustration, description, display or device, or anything else, illuminated or not, which is affixed to a building or sign structure and which directs attention to, promotes or identifies a product, place, name, activity, person, institution or type of business. For purposes of removal, signs shall also include sign structures.
Any sign portraying information which promotes or directs attention to a person, place, business, product, service, entertainment or other activity not related to a use on the lot on which such sign is located. A billboard or off-premises sign.
Any sign whose message may be changed by electronic process, including such messages as copy, art, graphic, time, date, temperature, weather, or information concerning civic, charitable or the advertising of products or services for sale on the premises. This also includes traveling or segmented message displays.
An illuminated sign on which the artificial light is not maintained constant or stationary in intensity or color at all times when such sign is in use. Time-temperature signs are not flashing signs as considered in this chapter.
Any sign which is supported by structures or supports in or upon the ground and independent of support from any building. (Also referred to as "freestanding sign.")
Any sign portraying information which promotes or directs attention to a person, place, business, product, service, entertainment or other activity located on the same lot where the sign is installed and maintained.
Any sign not permanently attached to the ground or a building.
Any sign extending more than 12 inches, but less than three feet from the face of a wall or building.
A sign erected on, against or above a roof and extending above the highest point of the roof. If the sign does not extend above the highest point of the roof, and is single faced, it is considered a wall sign.
Any structure or material which supports, has supported or is intended to support or help maintain a sign in a stationary position, including any decorative covers or roofs or embellishments extending above such sign.
A single-faced sign which is affixed to the wall of any building or structure and projects in a plane parallel to such wall by 12 inches or less.
A sign installed inside a window for purposes of viewing from outside the premises.
That plan as outlined in § 480-3O(2) including all specifications as listed or as required by the Plan Commission.[9]
Space outside any building or roofed area and used for the keeping of goods, supplies, raw material or finished products.
That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there be no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. The floor of a story may have split levels, provided that there are not more than five feet difference in elevation between the different levels of the floor. A mezzanine floor shall be counted as a story when it covers over 1/3 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. See also "basement" and "cellar."
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 of his family, or by a family occupying the floor immediately below it, shall be deemed a full story.
Any right-of-way in excess of 24 feet in width containing a roadway which affords the primary means of vehicular access to abutting properties. When such right-of-way is not an existing or dedicated public street, it shall be not less than 40 feet in width, unless otherwise herein regulated. A driveway shall not be considered a street.
Property fronting on one side of street/alley between two intersecting streets/alley, or along one side of a dead-end street/alley between an intersecting street/alley and the end of the cul-de-sac.
A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and contiguous street.
Any change in the supporting members of a building or any substantial change in the roof structure or in the exterior walls.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires permanent location on the ground.
A detached structure subordinate to the principal structure, located on the same lot serving a purpose customarily incidental to the principal structure.
The act of dividing a lot or parcel into three or more lots or building sites; the resulting plat from such a division of lot or parcel.
An establishment where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises but not including restaurants where the principal business is the serving of food.
A movable structure not designed for human occupancy nor for the protection of goods or chattels and not forming an enclosure, such as billboards.
A dwelling in which overnight accommodations are provided for no more than 12 transient paying guests.
A vehicle designed exclusively for the transportation of one boat of less than ten-foot beam and thirty-foot length or, if used for the hauling of cargo, not over 70 square feet in cargo floor area.
Any vehicle or portable structure constructed for use as an accessory building or structure in the conduct of business, trade, or occupation, and which may be used as a conveyance on streets and highways, by its own or other motive power.
A trailer designed and constructed for temporary dwelling purposes which does not contain built-in sanitary facilities and has a gross floor area of less than 130 square feet.
A trailer designed and constructed for temporary dwelling purposes which may contain cooking, sanitary and electrical facilities, and has a gross floor area of 130 square feet or more, but less than 220 square feet. A recreation vehicle.
Space suitable for recreation, gardens, or household service activities, such as clothes drying. Such space must be at least seventy-five-percent open to the sky, free of automobile traffic, parking, and undue hazards, and readily accessible by all those for whom it is intended.
The purpose or activity for which the land, or building thereon, is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained.
A use subordinate to the principal use of a structure, land or water, and which is located on the same lot serving a purpose customarily incidental to the principal use.
A use, either public or private, which because of its unique characteristics cannot be properly classified as a permitted use in any particular district or districts. After due consideration in each case of the impact of such use upon neighboring land and of the public need for the particular use at the particular location, such conditional use may or may not be granted.
A use which may be lawfully established in a particular district or districts provided it conforms with all requirements, regulations, and standards of such district.
The dominant use of land or buildings as permitted by this chapter and as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory use.
Public and private facilities such as water wells, water and sewage pumping stations, water storage tanks, electric power substations, static transformer stations, telephone and telegraph exchanges, microwave radio relays, and gas regulation stations, but not including sewage disposal plants, municipal incinerators, warehouses, shops and storage yards.
An authorization granted by the Board of Appeals to construct, alter or use a building or structure in a manner that deviates from the dimensional standards of the chapter.
Any passenger vehicle, truck, truck-trailer, trailer, or semitrailer propelled or drawn by mechanical power.
Vehicle sales, service, washing and repair stations shall not include "automotive heavy repair and upholstery" as defined.
A machine for dispensing merchandise or services designed to be operated by the customer.
Village of Coloma, Wisconsin.
An area intended to be maintained in a manner which does not significantly obstruct a motorist's vision of an intersecting street.
Those areas where water is at, near or above the land surface long enough to support aquatic or hydrophytic vegetation and which have soils indicative of wet conditions.
An open space on a lot which is unoccupied and unobstructed from its lowest level to the sky. A yard extends along a line and at right angles to such lot line to a depth or width specified in the yard regulations for the zoning district in which such lot is located.
A yard extending along the full width of the front lot line between side lot lines.
The front yard from the corners of the principal structure to the side lot lines.
The portion of the yard on the same lot with the principal building, located between the rear line of the building and the rear lot lines and extending for the full width of the lot.
A yard extending along the side lot line between the front and rear yards.
An imaginary line on a lot which is parallel to the lot line along which a required yard extends and which is not nearer to said lot line than the required yard width or depth as set forth in this chapter.
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.
A Coloma Village Board Trustee, or committee thereof, appointed by the President, or an individual or business contracted by the Coloma Village Board to administer the regulations set forth in this chapter.
The districts into which the Village of Coloma has been divided for zoning regulations as set forth on the Zoning District Map.
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
[2]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
[3]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
[4]
Editor's Note: The definition of "mineral extraction," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
[5]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
[6]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
[7]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
[8]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
[9]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).