Fredonia Village City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XV
Definitions
§ 575-123 Word usage.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall be used, unless a different definition is specifically provided for a section. Words used in the present tense include the future; the singular number includes the plural number; and the plural number includes the singular number. The word "shall" is mandatory and not permissive.
§ 575-124 Terms defined.
[Amended 2-21-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-01; 9-20-2025 by Ord. No. 2025-04]
As used in this chapter, the following terms, which are divided into "general definitions" and "use definitions," shall have the meanings indicated in this section:
A. ABUTTING ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE(1) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (2) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) ACRE, NET ALLEY APARTMENT ARTERIAL STREET AWNING BASEMENT BLOCK BOARD OF APPEALS/ADJUSTMENT BUILDABLE LOT AREA BUILDING BUILDING HEIGHT BUILDING LINE BUILDING SETBACK LINE BUILDING, COMPLETELY ENCLOSED BUILDING, DETACHED BUILDING, PRINCIPAL BULK(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) BUSINESS CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE COMMERCIAL FEED LOT CONDITIONAL USE CONFORMING BUILDING OR STRUCTURE CONSERVATION STANDARDS CONTROLLED ACCESS ARTERIAL STREET CORNER LOT CURB LEVEL DECORATIVE FENCE DENSITY DEPARTMENT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT, BASIC DISTRICT, OVERLAY DWELLING DWELLING SIZE DWELLING UNIT DWELLING, ATTACHED DWELLING, DETACHED DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY DWELLINGS, BI-LEVEL AND TRI-LEVEL EMERGENCY SHELTER ENVIRONMENTAL CORRIDOR ESSENTIAL SERVICES ESTABLISHMENT, BUSINESS FAMILY FARMING, GENERAL FENCE FLOOR AREA(1) (2) (3) FLOOR AREA RATIO FRONTAGE GARAGE, PRIVATE GARAGE, PUBLIC GREENSPACE GROSS DENSITY GUEST, PERMANENT HEARING NOTICE HOME OCCUPATION HOTEL HOUSEHOLD HUMAN HABITATION JUNK JUNKYARD LAND USE LOADING AREA LOT LOT AREA LOT COVERAGE (EXCEPT RESIDENTIAL) LOT COVERAGE (RESIDENTIAL) LOT DEPTH LOT LINE LOT LINE, FRONT LOT LINE, REAR LOT LINE, SIDE LOT LINES LOT LINES AND AREA LOT OF RECORD LOT WIDTH LOT, CORNER LOT, INTERIOR LOT, SUBSTANDARD LOT, THROUGH LOT, ZONING MOBILE HOME MODEL HOME MUNICIPALITY or MUNICIPAL NAMEPLATE NATURAL RESOURCE PRESERVATION REQUIREMENTS NET DENSITY NGVD or NATIONAL GEODETIC VERTICAL DATUM NONCONFORMING BUILDING OR STRUCTURE NONCONFORMING USE NONFAMILY HOUSEHOLDS NURSING HOME OPEN SPACE USE PARKING LOT PARKING SPACE PARTIES IN INTEREST PARTY WALL PERSON PRIVATE SEWAGE SYSTEM PRIVATE STREET PUBLIC UTILITIES PUBLIC WAY RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY RETAIL ROADSIDE STAND RUMMAGE SALE SATELLITE LOT SCREENING SETBACK SHOREYARD SETBACK SIGNS SOLAR COLLECTOR STORY STORY, HALF STREET STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS STRUCTURES SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS(1) (2) TEMPORARY STRUCTURES TRAILER UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP USABLE OPEN SPACE USE USE, ACCESSORY USE, CONDITIONAL USE, PERMITTED USE, PRINCIPAL UTILITIES UTILITY ROOM VARIANCE VISION CLEARANCE WATERSHED WELL WETLAND SETBACK WOODLANDS and FORESTS YARD YARD, FRONT YARD, REAR YARD, SIDE YARD, STREET ZERO LOT LINE ZONING PERMIT
General definitions.[1]
Have a common property line or district line.
A detached subordinate structure or a use which is clearly incidental to and customarily found in connection with the principal structure or use to which it is related and which is located on the same lot as that of the principal structure or use.
An accessory building or use is one which:
Is customary and clearly incidental to the principal building or principal use;
Serves exclusively the principal building or principal use;
Is subordinate in area, extent or purpose to the principal building or principal use;
Contributes to the comfort, convenience, or necessity of occupants of the principal building or principal use served; and
Is located on the same zoning lot as the principal use served, with exception of such accessory off-street parking facilities as are permitted to locate elsewhere than on the same zoning lot as the building or use served.
An accessory building or use includes, but is not limited to, the following:
A children's playhouse, garden house or private greenhouse;
A garage, carport, shed or building for storage incidental to a permitted use;
Incinerators incidental to a permitted use;
Storage of goods used in or permitted manufacturing activities on the same zoning lot with such activities, unless such storage is excluded by the district regulations;
The production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair or storage of merchandise normally incidental to a permitted retail service or business use if conducted by the same ownership as the principal use;
Off-street motor vehicle parking areas and loading facilities;
Signs, as permitted and regulated in each district incorporated in this chapter; and
Earth station dish antennas over three feet in diameter, which are ground-mounted or building-mounted.
The actual land devoted to the land use, excluding public streets, public lands or unusable lands, and school sites contained within 43,560 square feet.
A public way not more than 24 feet wide which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.
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.
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.
An awning is a retractable, roof-like cover, temporary in nature, which projects from the wall of a building.
That portion of any structure located partly below the average adjoining lot grade which is not designed or used primarily for year-around living accommodations.
A block is a tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad right-of-way, bulkhead lines or shorelines of waterways. A block may be located in part beyond the boundary lines of corporate limits of the Village.
The portion of a lot remaining after required yards have been provided.
A building is any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattel or movable property of any kind and which is affixed to the land. When any portion thereof is completely separated from every other portion by masonry or fire wall without any window, which wall extends from the ground to the roof, then such portion shall be deemed to be a separate building.
Building height is a vertical distance from the curb level or the approved ground level opposite the center of the front of a building to the highest point of the roof in the case of a flat roof, to the deck line of a mansard roof, and to the mean-height level between eaves and ridges of a gable, hip or gambrel roof. No building or parts of a building shall exceed the maximum building height of the zoning district in which it is situated.
A line parallel to a lot line and at a specified minimum distance from the lot line to comply with the building setback requirements of the Village Zoning Ordinance.
See "building line."
A completely enclosed building is 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 or exit doors.
A detached building is a building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
A building in which the principal use of the lot on which it is located is conducted.
Bulk is the term used to indicate the size and setbacks of buildings or structures and the location of such buildings or structures with respect to one another and includes the following:
Size and height of buildings;
Location of exterior walls at all levels in relations to lot lines, streets or to other buildings;
Gross floor area of buildings in relation to lot area (floor area ratio);
All open spaces allocated to buildings; and
Amount of lot area provided per dwelling unit or lodging room.
An occupation, employment or enterprise which occupies time, labor and materials, or wherein merchandise is exhibited or sold, or where services are offered.
A certification by the Zoning Administrator stating that the construction and the use of land or a building, the elevation of fill or the lowest floor of a structure is in compliance with all the provisions of this chapter.
Confinement of 200 or more head of livestock on a farm or other site for the purpose of intensive feeding prior to slaughter or shipment in such concentration that ground vegetation is substantially destroyed where:
A use allowed under a conditional use permit, special exception, or other special zoning permission issued by the Village, but does not include a variance.
A conforming building or structure is any building or structure which:
Guidelines and specifications for soil and water conservation practices and management enumerated in the Technical Guide, prepared by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service for Ozaukee County, adopted by the County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors, and containing suitable alternatives for the use and treatment of land based upon its capabilities from which the landowner selects that alternative which best meets his needs in developing his soil and water conservation.
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.
See "lot, corner."
The curb level for any building is the level of the established curb in front of such building measured at the center of such front.
A fence that does not restrict access to the yard.
The number of residential dwelling units allowed per acre of land.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Any artificial change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, construction of buildings, structure or accessory structures; the construction of additions or substantial improvements to buildings, structures or accessory structures; the placement of buildings or structures; mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations; and the storage, deposition or extraction of materials, public or private sewage disposal systems or water supply facilities. 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 deposition of materials.
A part or parts of the Village for which the regulations of this chapter governing the use and location of land and building are uniform.
Overlay districts 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.
A building or part of a building containing one or more dwelling units and also containing other directly associated elements such as hallways, storage areas or common laundry facilities.
Dwelling size shall be measured from outside wall to outside wall, and shall only include interior living area finished at time of occupancy. In the case where unfinished area is on the same floor with finished area, such as a lower level containing a basement and a walk-out finished area, the finished area calculation shall be measured to the outside of any exterior wall of the dwelling to the inside wall of the finished area abutting the unfinished area. The square footage requirements shall exclude garages (attached or detached), porches, breezeways, decks, utility rooms and any other accessory structure.
An area within a dwelling that is designed, occupied or intended to be occupied by a family (or by a nonfamily household as permitted by this chapter) as separate living quarters, with private kitchen, sanitary, sleeping and living quarters within the unit.
A dwelling separated from another dwelling unit and having any portion of any roof, wall or floor in common with another dwelling unit.
A detached dwelling is one which is entirely surrounded by open space on the same lot.
A multiple-family dwelling is a building, or portion thereof, containing three or more dwelling units.
A single-family dwelling is a building containing one dwelling unit only.
A two-family dwelling is a building containing two dwelling units only.
Dwellings with horizontally offset levels shall be considered to be bi-level and tri-level type construction.
Public or private enclosures designed to protect people from aerial radiological, biological, or chemical warfare; fire, flood, windstorm, riots, and invasions.
An area in the landscape containing especially high value natural, scenic, historic, scientific, or recreational features. The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission or approved equivalent shall delineate boundaries of the area. Residential development shall be permitted at very low densities not to exceed one dwelling unit per five acres. The five-acre parcel shall be under single ownership with an appropriate deed restriction to protect and preserve the area or outlot not designated as a home site. At least 85% of the environmental corridor's natural qualities shall be retained. No more grading, filling or vegetative removal is allowed except that which is minimally necessary to accommodate the proposed building.
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 or wireless communication facilities.
A business establishment is a place of business carrying on operations which are physically separate and distinct from those of any other place of business located on the same zoning lot.
One or more persons, related by blood, adoption or marriage, living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit, or a number of persons living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit though not related by blood, adoption or marriage.
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. General farming does not include operation of a commercial feed lot.
A barrier intended to prevent intrusion or to make a boundary. Such a barrier is constructed of posts and boards or rails, or posts and wire mesh.
(For determining off-street parking and off-street loading requirements.) Floor area when prescribed as a basis of measurement for off-street parking spaces and loading berths for any use shall mean the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of the building or buildings devoted to such use, including accessory storage areas located within selling or working space, such as counters, racks or closets, and any basement floor area devoted to retailing activities, to the production or processing of goods, or to business or professional offices. However, floor area for the purpose of measurement for off-street parking spaces shall not include:
Floor area devoted primarily to storage purposes, except as otherwise noted herein.
Floor area devoted to indoor parking or loading facilities.
Basement floor area, other than area devoted to retailing activities or to the production or processing of goods or to business or professional offices.
An intensity measured as a ratio derived by dividing the total gross floor area of a building, structure or group of buildings or structure, including any accessory structure, by the total lot or parcel area, excluding any right-of-way.
The smallest dimension of a lot abutting a public street measured along the street line.
A detached accessory building or portion of the principal building, designed, arranged, used or intended to be used for storage of automobiles belonging to or used by the occupant of the premises.
Any building or portion thereof, not accessory to a residential building or structure, used for equipping, servicing, repairing, leasing or public parking of motor vehicles.
The required open space to be provided on the site, normally planted with grass and landscape materials, as measured perpendicular from the nearest property line to any structure, pavement or hard surface, or man-made impediment. The greenspace may be bisected by a perpendicular ingress/egress drive, and a sidewalk system to connect the site to the right-of-way. Any stormwater management and/or water quality basin shall not be permitted within the minimum greenspace setback. Wetlands shall not be counted toward the greenspace requirement.
The number of residential dwelling units allowed per acre of land minus any existing right-of-way on the land prior to subdivision or development approval.
A permanent guest is a person who occupies or has the right to occupy on a monthly or longer basis a hotel or apartment hotel accommodation as his domicile and place of permanent residence.
Publication or posting meeting the requirements of Ch. 985, Wis. Stats.; Class 1 notice is the minimum required for appeals: Published once at least one week (seven days) before the hearing. Class 2 notice is the minimum required for all zoning ordinances and amendments, including map amendments, published twice, once each week consecutively, the last at least a week (seven days) before the hearing, with the day of the hearing not counting toward the seven-day requirement. Local ordinances or bylaws may require additional notice, exceeding these minimums.
Any business, trade, services, or gainful occupation or profession performed within a residential dwelling unit or upon any property zoned for residential use.
A facility containing more than five sleeping rooms with private or semiprivate bathroom facilities offered overnight lodging to the public for compensation and catering primarily to the traveling public. A hotel shall offer services such as maid, telephone, desk and vending services. It may offer a restaurant, recreational facilities and meeting facilities.
A family or nonfamily group living in a nontransient manner in a single dwelling unit.
A human residence or dwelling.
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.
A junkyard is an open area where waste or scrap materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handles, including, but not limited to, scrap iron and other metals, paper, rags, rubber tires and bottles. A junkyard includes an automobile wrecking or dismantling yard, but does not includes uses established entirely within enclosed buildings.
Any nonstructural use made of unimproved or improved real estate. (Also see "development.")
A completely off-street space or berth on the same lot for the loading or unloading of freight carriers, having adequate ingress and egress to a public street or alley.
A parcel of land having frontage on a public street, or other officially approved means of access, occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal structure or use and sufficient in size to meet the lot width, lot frontage, lot area and other open space provisions of this Code as pertaining to the district wherein located.
The lot area is the area of a horizontal plane contained within the exterior or peripheral boundaries or lot lines of a lot excluding streets and land under navigable bodies of water.
The area of a lot occupied by the principal building or buildings and accessory buildings, including any driveways, parking areas, loading areas, storage areas and walkways.
The area of a lot occupied by the principal building or buildings and accessory building.
The lot depth is the mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line of a lot measured within the lot boundaries.
A property boundary line of any lot held in single or separate ownership, except that where any portion of the lot extends into the abutting street or alley, the lot line shall be deemed to be the abutting street or alley right-of-way line.
The front lot line, in the case of a lot abutting upon only one street, shall mean the line separating such lot from such street.
The lot line opposite to and most distant from the front lot line. In the case of an irregular, triangular or gore-shaped lot, the rear lot line shall be an imaginary line, parallel to and farthest from the front lot line, not less than 10 feet long and wholly within the lot. In cases where neither of these definitions are applicable, the Zoning Administrator shall designate the rear lot line.
A side lot line shall mean any lot line that is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.
Lot lines shall mean the property lines bounding the lot.
The peripheral boundaries of a parcel of land and the total area lying within such boundaries.
A lot of record is a lot which is part of a subdivision or a certified survey map which has been recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Ozaukee County or a parcel of land, the deed to which was recorded in the Office of said Register of Deeds prior to the effective date of this chapter. Any lot or parcel of land created through a violation of any other applicable laws or ordinances of the State of Wisconsin and the Village of Fredonia shall not, in this instance, be considered a lot of record.
The lot width is the horizontal distance between the side lot lines of a lot, measured at right angles to the lot depth, said measurement to be made at the rear line of the required front yard.
A corner lot is a lot of which at least two adjacent sides abut for their full lengths upon a street, provided that the interior angle at the intersection of such two sides is less than 135°. A lot abutting upon a curved street or streets shall be considered a corner lot if the tangents to the curve at its points of beginning within the lot or at the points of intersection of the side lot lines with the street line intersect at an interior angle of less than 135°. Corner lots shall meet front yard setback requirements for all street sides.
A lot situated on a single street which is bounded by adjacent lots along each of its other lines and is not a corner lot.
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 depth, lot area, yard, off-street parking areas or other space provisions of this Code pertaining to the district wherein located.
A lot which has a pair of opposite lot lines along two substantially parallel streets and which is not a corner lot. On a through lot, both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
A zoning lot or lots is a single tract of land located within a single block which, at the time of filing for a building permit, is designated by its owner or developer as a tract to be used, developed or built upon as a unit under single ownership or control. Therefore, a zoning lot or lots may or may not coincide with a lot of record.
A manufactured home that is HUD-certified and labeled under the national Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974. A mobile home is a transportable structure, being eight feet or more in width (not including the overhang of the roof), built on a chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities. For the purpose of this chapter, it does not include recreational vehicles or travel trailers.
A model home is a residential structure used for display, advertising and selling of homes.
The Village governmental units enacting, administering and enforcing this chapter.
A nameplate is a sign indicating the name and address of a building, or the name of an occupant thereof, and the practice of a permitted occupation therein.
The minimum protection of resources on a site, which may include wetlands, floodplains, lakes, ponds, streams, creeks, brooks, stormwater management basins, woodlands, forests, and poor soil conditions, archaeological sites, etc. An assessment of on-site natural resources shall be presented to the Planning Commission with any development application. Where a primary environmental corridor, secondary environmental corridor or isolated natural area exists on a site proposed for development, the Village may require, in the public interest, increased preservation standards above those stated in this chapter.
The number of residential dwelling unit allowed per acre of land minus any existing right-of-way on the land prior to subdivision or development and minus the acres of natural areas of the land to be preserved, including wetlands, floodplains, woodlands and forests, also including stormwater management basins.
Elevations referenced to mean sea level datum, 1929 adjustment.
An existing lawful structure or building which is not in conformity with the dimensional or structural requirements of this chapter for the area which it occupies. A nonconforming building or structure is any building or structure which:
A nonconforming use is any use of land, buildings or structures which does not comply with all the regulations of this chapter or of any amendment hereto governing uses for the zoning district in which such use is located (such as a residence in the floodway).
A group of individuals, not exceeding five in number, who do not constitute a "family" as defined herein and who live as a single household in a dwelling unit.
A place where five or more persons who are not related to the operator or administrator reside, receive care or treatment and, because of their mental or physical condition, require access to twenty-four-hour nursing services, including limited nursing care, intermediate level nursing care and skilled nursing services, as defined in § 50.01, Wis. Stats.
Those uses having a relatively low flood damage potential and not involving structures.
A structure or premises containing five or more parking spaces.
A graded and surfaced area of not less than 180 square feet.
Includes all abutting property owners, all property owners within 100 feet, and all property owners of opposite frontage.
A wall containing no opening which extends from the elevation of building footings to the elevation of the outer surface of the roof or above and which separates contiguous buildings but is in joint use for each building.
An individual, or group of individuals, corporation, partnership, association, municipality or state agency.
A sewage treatment and disposal system serving a single structure with a septic tank and soil absorption field located on the same parcel as the structure. This term also means an alternative sewage system approved by the State of Wisconsin, including a substitute for the septic tank or soil absorption field, a holding tank, a system serving more than one structure or a system located on a different parcel than the structure.
A street owned and maintained by a private individual, organization, or company rather than by the Village of Fredonia, Ozaukee County, State of Wisconsin or the United States of America. Consequently, unauthorized use of the street may be considered trespassing, and some of the usual rules of streets may not apply. The most common type of private streets are residential streets maintained by a homeowners' association, housing co-op, or other group of individual homeowners.
Those utilities using underground or overhead transmission lines such as electric, telephone and telegraph, and distribution and collection systems such as water, sanitary sewer and storm sewer.
A public way is any sidewalk, street, alley, highway or other public thoroughfare.
A railroad right-of-way is a strip of land containing railroad tracks and customary auxiliary facilities only for track operation. For the purpose of this chapter, a railroad right-of-way does not include land used or intended to be used for switching, spur, lead, team or siding tracks, freight depots or stations, loading platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car or locomotive shops, car yards or classification yards.
The sale of goods or merchandise in small quantities to the consumer.
A roadside stand is a temporary structure which is not permanently affixed to the ground and is readily removable in its entirety, which is used solely for the display or sale of farm products produced on the premises upon which such roadside stand is located. No roadside stand shall be more than 300 square feet in ground area and there shall not be more than one roadside stand on any one premises.
Also known as garage sale or yard sale. A sale conducted for a maximum of 18 days or less per year, with no sale lasting more than three consecutive days, excluding the Village-wide rummage sale, for the sale of personal household possessions, with no overnight outside display of items. Not for any commercial venture. No permit required.
A confined designated area, either subdivided or in common ownership with adjacent areas, containing a single use building that is designed as an integral part of a unified commercial/retail center or business center.
Screening is a hedge, wall or fence to provide a visual separator and physical barrier not less than four feet nor more than six feet in height, unless otherwise provided for in this chapter.
The minimum horizontal distance between the front lot line and the nearest point of the foundation of that portion of the building to be enclosed. The overhang cornices shall not exceed 24 inches. Any overhang of the cornice in excess of 24 inches shall be compensated by increasing the setback by an amount equal to the excess of cornice over 24 inches. Uncovered steps shall not be included in measuring the setback.
The minimum distance, measured perpendicular from the nearest point from a structure, road, driveway or parking surface to a delineated wetland boundary that is within or part of a State of Wisconsin defined shoreland-wetland corridor, generally 300 feet from the ordinary high-water mark of a navigable stream or 1,000 feet of the ordinary high-water mark of a body of water.
Any medium, including its structure, words, letters, figures, numerals, phrases, sentences, emblems, devices, designs, trade names or trademarks, by which anything is made known and which is used to advertise or promote an individual, firm, association, corporation, profession, business, commodity or product and which is visible from any public street or highway.
A device, structure or part of a device or structure a substantial purpose of which is to transform solar energy into thermal, mechanical or electrical energy.
That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. Any portion of a story exceeding 14 feet in height shall be considered as an additional story for each 14 feet or fraction thereof. A basement having 1/2 or more of its height above grade shall be deemed a story for purpose of height regulation.
That portion of a building under a gable, hip or mansard roof, the wall plates of which, on at least two opposite exterior walls, are not more than 4 1/2 feet above the finished floor of such story. In the case of one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings and multifamily dwellings less than three stories in height, a 1/2 story in a sloping roof shall not be counted as a story for the purposes of this Code.
A public right-of-way not less than 50 feet wide.
Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
Any man-made object with form, shape and utility, either permanently or temporarily attached to, placed upon or set into the ground, stream bed or lake bed, which includes, but is not limited to, such objects as roofed and walled buildings, gas or liquid storage tanks, bridges, dams and culverts. Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a permanent location on the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground.
Facts and information, other than merely personal preferences or speculation, directly pertaining to the requirements and conditions an applicant must meet to obtain a conditional use permit and that a reasonable person would accept in support of a conclusion.
Any repair, reconstruction or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the present equalized assessed value of the structure either before the improvement or repair is started or if the structure has been damaged, and is being restored, before the damage occurred. The term does not, however, include either:
Any project for improvement of a structure to comply with existing state or local health, sanitary or safety code specifications which are solely necessary to assure safe living conditions; or
Any alteration of a structure or site documented as deserving preservation by a Wisconsin State Historical Society or listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Ordinary maintenance repairs are not considered structural repairs, modifications or additions; such ordinary maintenance repairs include internal and external painting, decorating, paneling and the replacement of doors, windows and other nonstructural components. (For purposes of this definition, "substantial improvement" is considered to occur when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor or other structural part of the building commences, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the structures.)
A movable structure not designed for human occupancy nor for the protection of goods or chattels and not forming an enclosure.
A trailer is any structure which is or may be mounted upon wheels for moving about and is propelled by its own or drawn by other motive power and which is used as a dwelling or as an accessory building or structure in the conduct of a business, trade or occupation or used for hauling purposes.
A development that results in land division or multiple buildings to be constructed.
Those circumstances which are special conditions affecting a particular property, which are not self-created, have made strict conformity with restrictions governing areas, setbacks, frontage, height or density unnecessarily burdensome or unreasonable in light of the purposes of this chapter.
Usable open space is that part of the ground level of a zoning lot, other than in a required front or corner side yard, which is unoccupied by principal or accessory building, service driveways, off-street parking spaces and/or loading berths and is unobstructed to the sky. This space of minimum prescribed dimensions shall be available to all occupants of the buildings and shall be usable for greenery, drying yards, recreational space and other leisure activities normally carried on outdoors. To the extent prescribed in these regulations, balconies and roof areas designed and improved for outdoor activities may also be considered as usable open space. "Ground level" for this purpose may include open terraces above the average level of the adjoining ground, but not including a permanently roofed-over terrace or porch.
The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereof is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained.
A subordinate building or use which is located on the same lot on which the principal building or use is situated and which is reasonably necessary and incidental to the conduct of the primary use of such building or main use, when permitted by district regulations.
A conditional use is a use which, because of its unique or varying characteristics, cannot be properly classified as a permitted use in a particular district. After due consideration, as provided for in this chapter, of the impact of such use upon neighboring land and of the public need for the particular use at a particular location, such conditional use may or may not be granted.
A permitted use is a use which may be lawfully established in a particular district or districts, provided it conforms with all requirements and regulations of such district in which such use is located.
The main use of land or building as distinguished from subordinate or accessory use.
Public and private facilities, such as water wells, water and sewage pumping stations, water storage tanks, electrical power substations, static transformer stations, telephone and telegraph exchanges, microwave radio relays and gas regulation stations, inclusive of associated transmission facilities, but not including sewage disposal plants, municipal incinerators, warehouses, shops, storage yards, power plants or wireless telecommunications facilities.
A room that contains any one or a combination of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment, water treatment devices, and contained water heating devices.
An authorization granted by the Zoning Board of Appeals to construct, alter or use a structure in a manner which is inconsistent with the dimensional standards contained in this chapter.
An unoccupied triangular space at the street corner of a corner lot which is bounded by the street lines and a setback line connecting points specified by measurement from the corner on each street line.
The entire region or area contributing runoff or surface water to a particular watercourse or body of water.
An excavation opening in the ground made by digging, boring, drilling, driving or other methods for the purpose of obtaining groundwater regardless of its intended use.
The minimum distance, measured perpendicular from the nearest point, from a structure, road, driveway or parking surface to a delineated wetland boundary that is not part of a State of Wisconsin defined shoreland corridor. The setback shall be measured to the back of any curb and gutter; however, pavement or hard surface as part of a planned pedestrian and/or bicycle trail system may be allowed within the setback. This required setback shall also be defined as an ordinary high-water mark of a stormwater management basin, or the ordinary high-water mark of a stream or creek not defined as navigable by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
The sum total of a wooded or forested ecosystem on a site, measured by the area surrounding the exterior tree canopy of a site, and any isolated trees on a site that are either eight inches or greater in caliper for deciduous trees or taller than eight feet in height above adjacent ground level for coniferous trees. When both conditions exist on the site, the 70% protection standards shall mean 70% of the ecosystem shall be preserved and, independently, 70% of the isolated trees shall be preserved.
An open space on the same lot with a structure, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except the vegetation. The street and rear yards extend the full width of the lot.
A yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the front line of the lot and the nearest line of the building. The side where the address is shall be considered the front yard.
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure. This yard shall be opposite the side of the dwelling containing the "front door" or main entryway on a corner lot.
A yard extending from the street yard to the rear yard of the lot, the width of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the side lot line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure.
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the existing street or highway right-of-way line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure. Corner lots shall have two street yards.
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 permit issued by the Zoning Administrator to certify that the lands, structures, air and water subject to this chapter are or shall be used in accordance with the provisions of said chapter.
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Editor's Note: Definitions related to floodplain zoning, which can be found in § 306-37 of the Code, were removed from this section 2-21-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-01.
B.
Use definitions.
(1) DAY-CARE CENTER
Educational uses.
An establishment in which the operator is provided with compensation in return for providing one or more individuals with care for less than 24 hours at a time. The term includes, but is not limited to, a day nursery, nursery school, adult day-care center or other supplemental care facility. This term does not include a family day-care home.
(2) ARTIST STUDIO BANK or OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTION BROADCASTING OR RECORDING STUDIO CURRENCY EXCHANGE GARDEN SUPPLY OR LANDSCAPING CENTER HOME IMPROVEMENT CENTER OFFICE, GENERAL OFFICE, GOVERNMENT OUTDOOR MERCHANDISE SALES PLANT NURSERY or GREENHOUSE RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT, ADULT RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT, GENERAL SECONDHAND STORE
Commercial and office uses.
Work space for one or more artists or artisans, including the accessory sale of art produced on the premises.
An establishment providing retail banking, credit and mortgage services. This term does not include a currency exchange, a payday loan agency or a title loan agency.
An establishment containing one or more broadcasting studios for over-the-air, cable or satellite delivery of radio or television programs, or studios for the audio or video recording or filming of musical performances, radio or television programs or motion pictures. This term does not include a transmission tower.
In accordance with § 218.05, Wis. Stats., any person except banks incorporated under the laws of this state and national banks organized pursuant to the laws of the United States and any credit union operating under Ch. 186, Wis. Stats., which obtains a certificate of authority from the Wisconsin Commissioner of Credit Unions, engaged in the business of and providing facilities for cashing checks, drafts, money orders and all other evidences of money acceptable to such community currency exchange for a fee, service charge or other consideration. This term does not include any person engaged in the business of transporting for hire, bullion, currency, securities, negotiable or nonnegotiable documents, jewels or other property of great monetary value nor any person engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property at retail nor any person licensed to practice a profession or licensed to engage in any business in this state, who in the course of such business or profession and, as an incident thereto, cashes checks, drafts, money orders or other evidences of money.
An establishment providing the retail sale of plants and the sale or rental of garden and landscape materials and equipment. This term includes outdoor storage of plants, materials or equipment. See "plant nursery or greenhouse."
An establishment providing the sale or rental of building supplies, construction equipment or home decorating fixtures and accessories. This term includes a lumber yard or a contractors' building supply business and may include outdoor storage or tool and equipment sales or rental. This term does not include an establishment devoted exclusively to retail sales of paint, wallpaper or hardware or activities classified under vehicle/equipment sales and services, including vehicle towing services.
Use of a building for business, professional or administrative offices. A general office is characterized by a low proportion of vehicle trips attributable to visitors or clients in relationship to employees. Examples include, but are not limited to, offices of firms or organizations providing architectural, computer software consulting, data management, engineering, interior design, graphic design, real estate, insurance, investment or legal services. This term does not include a bank or other financial institution or the office of a physician, dentist, optometrist or chiropractor.
An administrative, clerical or public contact office of a government agency, including a postal facility, together with incidental storage and maintenance of the agency's vehicles.
Retail sale of produce, other foodstuffs or other products, primarily outside an enclosed structure, for more than 90 days in any calendar year. This term shall not include a motor vehicle sales facility, garden supply or landscaping center, lumber yard, building supply or home improvement center, or Christmas tree lot.
An establishment engaged in growing crops of any kind within or under a greenhouse, cold frame, cloth house or lath house, or growing nursery stock, annual or perennial flowers, vegetables or other garden or landscaping plants. This term does not include a garden supply or landscaping center. See "garden supply or landscaping center."
An establishment in which 10% or more of the gross public floor area is devoted to, or 10% or more of the stock-in-trade consists of, the following: books, magazines and other periodicals, movies, videotapes, compact discs, digital versatile discs, novelty items, games, greeting cards and other materials which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matters depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities: human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse, oral copulation or sodomy; fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals (pubic region), buttocks or female breasts; or specified anatomical areas.
An establishment providing retail sale of new products to the public and rendering services incidental to the sale of such products, including, but not limited to, sales of: art supplies and picture frames, art works, auto parts, baked goods, bicycles, books, newspapers and magazines, collectibles, dry goods, notions and novelties, flowers and plants, food and beverages, furniture and floor coverings, hardware, hobbies, toys and games, household goods, jewelry, luggage, major appliances, music, records, compact discs and tapes, paint and wallpaper, pets, pharmaceutical products, photo equipment and processing, sewing apparatus, sporting goods, stationery, tobacco products and wearing apparel. This term includes, but is not limited to, a grocery store, specialty food store, antique store, liquor store, butcher shop, delicatessen, portrait studio, furniture or appliance rental establishment or video rental or sales business. This term does not include an adult bookstore, lumber yard, building supply or home improvement center, garden center or secondhand store.
An establishment in which used merchandise is sold at retail. This term includes a pawn shop but does not include an antique or collectibles store or other general retail establishment.
(3) HEALTH CLINIC HOSPITAL MEDICAL OFFICE MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY MEDICAL SERVICE FACILITY SOCIAL SERVICE FACILITY
Health care and social assistance.
A group of associated offices for four or more physical or mental health care professionals who provide specialized diagnostic, testing, physical therapy or treatment services, including clerical and administrative services, to persons for periods of less than 24 hours. This term does not include a medical office or hospital.
A state-licensed institution providing primary health services and medical, psychiatric, or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity and other physical or mental conditions, and, as an integral part of the institution, related accessory uses or facilities, including, but not limited to, laboratories, central service facilities for inpatient or outpatient treatment, as well as training, research and administrative services for patients and employees. Also included are health services and care, and services and functions which support health services and care, which are shared with other hospitals or other health care providers.
An establishment providing diagnostic and outpatient medical care on a routine basis, but which is unable to provide prolonged inpatient medical or surgical care. Such facility may be staffed by up to three doctors, dentists, ophthalmologists, optometrists, chiropractors, physical therapists or similar practitioners licensed for practice by the state. This term includes a medical or dental laboratory incidental to the medical office use. See also "health clinic."
An establishment providing medical or dental laboratory services or photographic, analytical or testing services for medical or medical research purposes. This term does not include a research and development facility that primarily serves an educational or industrial establishment.
An establishment operated such that physicians are present during less than 50% of normal business hours and which provides medical services for the specialized diagnosis, testing and treatment of alcoholism, chemical substance abuse, mental illness or sexually transmitted diseases. This term includes, but is not limited to, a facility offering methadone treatment programs, a prison parole or probation drug treatment distribution center, or a facility where components of human blood are removed and purchased for use in research or the manufacture of consumer or industrial products.
A facility operated by an organization which provides services such as training, counseling, health or the distribution of food or clothing. This term includes, but is not limited to, a facility offering life skills training, substance abuse counseling, housing services or a neighborhood recovery center. This term does not include an emergency residential shelter.
(4)
Service uses.
(a) BUILDING MAINTENANCE SERVICE BUSINESS SERVICE CATERING SERVICE DRY CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT FUNERAL HOME FURNITURE AND APPLIANCE RENTAL AND LEASING HOUSEHOLD MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR SERVICE LAUNDROMAT PERSONAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT TOOL/EQUIPMENT RENTAL FACILITY
General service uses.
An establishment providing routine maintenance of buildings. This term includes, but is not limited to, window washing, building cleaning, pest extermination or disinfecting service.
An establishment providing services to business establishments on a fee or contract basis, including, but not limited to, advertising services, business equipment and furniture sales or rental or protective services. This term includes, but is not limited to, an employment agency, photocopy center, commercial photography studio or mailing service. This term does not include maintenance, repair and office uses such as accounting, advertising, architectural design, city planning, environmental analysis, insurance, interior design, investment, landscape design, law, management consulting, title research and real estate.
An establishment providing the processing, assembly and packaging of food into servings for consumption off-premises without provision for on-site pickup or consumption. This term includes, but is not limited to, the preparation of meals by a catering business or by a nonprofit organization operating a meal program.
An establishment which launders or dry cleans articles dropped off on the premises directly by the customer or where articles are dropped off, sorted and picked up but where laundering or cleaning is done elsewhere.
An establishment providing services involving the care, preparation or disposition of human dead. This term includes, but is not limited to, a crematorium or a mortuary.
An establishment providing the rental or leasing of furniture, electronics, small appliances, major appliances or other household items. This term includes incidental storage and maintenance of such items.
An establishment providing the repair or servicing of household goods, furniture, appliances or lawn and garden equipment.
An establishment providing washing, and/or drying machines on the premises for rental use to the general public for laundering purposes.
An establishment providing services which are of a recurring and personal nature to individuals. This term includes, but is not limited to, a barber shop, beauty salon, shoe repair shop, seamstress, tailor, fortune teller, tanning salon, massage establishment, body piercing establishment or tattoo establishment. This term does not include a portrait studio, dry cleaning establishment, laundromat, photocopy center, health club or repair shop for household items.
An establishment providing the rental of tools, lawn and garden equipment, party supplies and similar goods and equipment, including storage and incidental maintenance. This term does not include a motor vehicle rental facility.
(b) ANIMAL BOARDING FACILITY ANIMAL GROOMING OR TRAINING FACILITY ANIMAL HOSPITAL/CLINIC KENNEL, ANIMAL
Animal services.
An establishment in which more than three dogs or three cats, or any combination thereof, over the age of five months may be kept for boarding, breeding, safekeeping, convalescence, humane disposal, placement, sale or sporting purposes.
An establishment providing bathing, trimming or training services for domestic animals on a commercial basis.
An establishment providing medical and surgical treatment of domestic animals, including grooming and boarding for not more than 30 days if incidental to the medical care. This term also includes an animal crematorium.
An animal kennel is any premises, or portion thereof, where dogs, cats and other household pets are maintained, boarded, bred or cared for in return for remuneration, or are kept for the purpose of sale.
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Motor vehicle uses.
(a) CAR WASH DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITY FILLING STATION
General motor vehicle.
An establishment providing washing, waxing or cleaning of light motor vehicles, including access and queuing lanes.
A facility which is used for dispensing services or products to customers in motor vehicles. Such facility may include access lanes, signing, lighting and audio systems. This term does not include a drive-in theater.
An establishment providing retail sale of fuel for motor vehicles, but not motor vehicle maintenance or repair work on the premises. This term includes accessory retail sales, such as convenience stores and fast food restaurants.
(b) LIGHT MOTOR VEHICLE BODY SHOP LIGHT MOTOR VEHICLE LIMITED WHOLESALE FACILITY LIGHT MOTOR VEHICLE RENTAL FACILITY LIGHT MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR FACILITY LIGHT MOTOR VEHICLE SALES FACILITY
Light motor vehicle.
An establishment providing the repair or rebuilding of light motor vehicle bodies by the replacement, smoothing, sanding or painting of the exterior surfaces of such vehicles within an enclosed building.
An office for wholesale trade in light motor vehicles where no more than three vehicles to be sold are stored on the premises.
An establishment where contracts are prepared or reservations accepted for the rental or leasing of light motor vehicles. This term includes incidental storage of vehicles, but does not include on-premises maintenance of vehicles or a tool/equipment rental facility.
An establishment providing the repair or servicing of light motor vehicles, including the sale, installation and servicing of related equipment and parts, where all such work is performed within an enclosed building. This term includes, but is not limited to, the repair or servicing of batteries, tires, mufflers, brakes, shocks, transmissions, engines or upholstery. This term includes, but is not limited to, an auto repair shop, wheel and brake shop, tire sales and installation, or upholstery shop. This term does not include vehicle dismantling or salvage, tire re-treading or recapping, or body bumping and painting.
An establishment providing wholesale and retail sale of light motor vehicles, including incidental storage and maintenance. This term does not include a light motor vehicle limited wholesale facility.
(c) HEAVY MOTOR VEHICLE BODY SHOP HEAVY MOTOR VEHICLE RENTAL FACILITY HEAVY MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR FACILITY HEAVY MOTOR VEHICLE SALES FACILITY
Heavy motor vehicle.
An establishment providing the repair or rebuilding of heavy motor vehicle bodies by the replacement, smoothing, sanding or painting of the exterior surfaces of such vehicles within an enclosed building.
An establishment where contracts are prepared or reservations accepted for the rental or leasing of heavy motor vehicles. This term includes incidental storage of vehicles, but does not include on-premises maintenance of vehicles or a tool/equipment rental facility.
An establishment providing the repair or servicing of heavy motor vehicles, including the sale, installation and servicing of related equipment and parts, where all such work is performed within an enclosed building. This term includes, but is not limited to, the repair or servicing of batteries, tires, mufflers, brakes, shocks, transmissions, engines or upholstery. This term does not include vehicle dismantling or salvage, tire retreading or recapping, or body bumping and painting.
An establishment providing retail sale of heavy motor vehicles, including incidental storage and maintenance.
(d) PARKING LOT, ACCESSORY USE PARKING LOT, PRINCIPAL USE
Parking.
Surface parking spaces for five or more light motor vehicles, adjacent access drives and aisles, where the parking spaces are not located in a structure and the parking of motor vehicles is not the principal use of the premises. This term does not include commercial parking operations, which shall be considered a principal use, or the parking of heavy motor vehicles.
Surface parking spaces for five or more light motor vehicles, and adjacent access drives and aisles, where the parking spaces are not located in a structure and the parking of motor vehicles is the principal use of the premises. This term includes both commercial parking operations and private surface parking lots, but does not include the parking of heavy motor vehicles.
(6) ASSEMBLY HALL BED-AND-BREAKFAST HOTEL RESTAURANT, FAST-FOOD/CARRY-OUT RESTAURANT, SIT-DOWN TAVERN
Accommodation and food service uses.
An establishment providing meeting space for social gatherings, including, but not limited to, wedding receptions, graduation parties and business or retirement functions. This term includes, but is not limited to, a banquet hall, rental hall, nonalcoholic social club, nondenominational chapel or a meeting space for a club or membership organization. This term does not include a convention center.
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.
An establishment in which at least five rooms or units or at least 70% of the accommodations, whichever is greater, are regularly used or available for occupancy for periods of less than 30 days or are available for more than 30 days but are not the primary residences of the occupants. This classification includes, but is not limited to, a motor lodge, motel or extended-stay hotel.
A restaurant other than a sit-down restaurant where the manner of preparation, packaging and serving of food or beverages encourages their consumption outside the building. This term does not include a tavern.
An establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of prepared food and drinks for consumption on the premises. Caterers and institutional food service establishments are included. The term shall not apply to churches, religious, fraternal, youths' or patriotic organizations, service clubs and civic or union organizations which occasionally prepare or serve or sell meals to transients or the general public, nor shall it include any public or private school lunchroom. This term does not include a tavern.
An establishment providing alcohol beverages by the drink to the public, where food or packaged alcohol beverages may be served or sold only as accessory to the primary use. This term does not include an assembly hall or a recreation facility.
(7) CLUBS and LODGES CONVENTION AND EXPOSITION CENTER ENTERTAINMENT ESTABLISHMENT, ADULT HEALTH CLUB OUTDOOR RACING FACILITY SPORTS AND RECREATION FACILITY, INDOOR SPORTS AND RECREATION FACILITY, OUTDOOR THEATER
Entertainment and recreation uses.
A nonprofit association of persons who are bona fide members paying annual dues which owns, hires or leases a building or portion thereof, the use of such premises being restricted to members and their guests. The affairs and management of such "private club or lodge" are conducted by a board of directors, executive committee or similar body chosen by the members at their annual meeting. It shall be permissible to serve food and meals on such premises, provided adequate dining room space and kitchen facilities are available. Where properly licensed under existing Village ordinance, the consumption of intoxicating beverages by members of such club or lodge or their guests may be permitted.
A commercial facility used for assemblies or meetings of the members or representatives of groups, including exhibition space. This term does not include banquet halls, clubs, lodges or other meeting facilities of private or nonprofit groups that are primarily used by group members.
An establishment for the conduct of indoor sports and exercise activities, along with related locker and shower rooms, offices and classrooms, where use of such establishment is offered on a membership basis.
An establishment engaged in operating a track for racing, including, but not limited to, the racing of motor vehicles, dogs or horses.
A facility for the indoor conduct, viewing or participation in recreational activities. This term includes, but is not limited to, an indoor driving range, volleyball court, bowling alley, ice or roller skating rink, billiard hall, video game center, archery or shooting range, soccer field or basketball court, but does not include a "health club" as defined herein.
A facility for the outdoor conduct, viewing or participation in recreational activities. Such a facility may include one or more structures. This term includes, but is not limited to, a golf facility, tennis, basketball or volleyball court, soccer, baseball or football field, or amusement park or water park.
An establishment or facility for presenting motion pictures or live performances for observation by patrons. This term includes an outdoor stage, band shell or amphitheater, but does not include an adult-oriented establishment, as defined in § 468-1 and licensed under § 468-4 of Fredonia Village ordinances.
(8) MIXED-WASTE PROCESSING FACILITY RECYCLING COLLECTION FACILITY STORAGE FACILITY, INDOOR STORAGE FACILITY, OUTDOOR WHOLESALE AND DISTRIBUTION FACILITY, INDOOR WHOLESALE AND DISTRIBUTION FACILITY, OUTDOOR
Storage, recycling and wholesale trade uses.
An establishment engaged in the processing, separating and sorting of recyclable materials from non-hazardous waste streams or from commingled consumer recyclable materials, such as paper, plastics, beverage cans or household metals.
A facility for the deposit, sorting or batching, but not processing, of post-consumer recyclable materials. This term includes, but is not limited to, a residential, self-help, drop-off facility or a transfer station which receives residential solid waste collected by city forces or deposited by city residents.
An establishment providing indoor storage of materials, vehicles or goods. This term does not include a hazardous materials storage facility or an indoor wholesale and distribution facility. This term includes, but is not limited to, a mini warehouse, self-storage facility, cold storage, or heated storage.
An establishment providing outdoor storage of materials or goods. This term does not include a hazardous materials storage facility, an indoor wholesale and distribution facility or light or heavy motor vehicle outdoor storage.
An establishment providing indoor storage and sale of factory-direct merchandise and bulk goods. This term includes, but is not limited to, mail-order and catalog sales, importing, wholesale or retail sale of goods received by the establishment, and wholesale distribution, but does not include sale of goods for individual consumption.
An establishment providing outdoor storage and sale of factory-direct merchandise and bulk goods. This term includes, but is not limited to, mail-order and catalog sales, importing, wholesale or retail sale of goods received by the establishment, and wholesale distribution, but does not include sale of goods for individual consumption.
(9) AMBULANCE SERVICE GROUND TRANSPORTATION SERVICE(a) (b) (c) (d) HELICOPTER LANDING FACILITY PUBLIC PASSENGER VEHICLE(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) RAILROAD SWITCHING, CLASSIFICATION YARD, OR FREIGHT TERMINAL TRUCK FREIGHT TERMINAL
Transportation uses.
A privately owned facility for the dispatch, storage and maintenance of emergency medical care vehicles.
An establishment providing the storage, maintenance or dispatching of:
"Public passenger vehicles," as defined in this Subsection B(9).
Vehicles licensed or otherwise regulated as human service vehicles by the State of Wisconsin and used for the transportation of elderly or handicapped persons.
School buses, as described in § 341.26(2)(d) and (dm), Wis. Stats.
Tow trucks, as defined in § 340.01(67n), Wis. Stats.
A facility used for the takeoff and landing of helicopters, including, but not limited to, any heliport, helipad or helistop. Accessory features such as hangars, parking pads, terminals and service areas are also part of such a facility.
A vehicle which is used to the transportation of passengers for hire, including human service vehicle, horse and surrey livery, limousine, pedicab, motorcycle used for tours, shuttle vehicle and taxicab. "Public passenger vehicle" does not include:
A vehicle operated on fixed routes pursuant to authority granted by the county, state or federal government.
A vehicle which is rented to be driven by the renter or an agent.
A vehicle operated solely as a funeral car.
A vehicle used in a carpool operated by private individuals.
A commercial motor vehicle as defined under § 340.01(8), Wis. Stats., as amended.
A facility for the operation of a line-haul or short-line freight railroad.
A facility for truck-based freight service and operations, including, but not limited to, local pickup, local sorting and terminal operations, line-haul loading and unloading, destination sorting and terminal operations and local delivery.
(10) CONTRACTOR'S SHOP CONTRACTOR'S YARD MANUFACTURING, HEAVY MANUFACTURING, LIGHT MANUFACTURING, MEDIUM(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Industrial uses.
An establishment used for the indoor repair, maintenance or storage of a contractor's vehicles, equipment or materials, and may include the contractor's business office.
An establishment used for the outdoor repair, maintenance or storage of a contractor's vehicles, equipment or materials.
An establishment engaged in manufacturing, assembly, fabrication, packaging or other industrial processing of products primarily from extracted or raw materials or the bulk storage and handling of such products and materials, where such activity involves the use or production of explosives, highly flammable liquids or gases, or toxic or hazardous materials or produces toxic, hazardous or noxious odors, fumes or dust.
An establishment engaged in the indoor manufacturing, assembly, fabrication, packaging or other industrial processing of finished parts or products, primarily from previously prepared materials, or the indoor provision of industrial services, where there are few external effects across property lines. This term includes, but is not limited to, a business engaged in the processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment or packaging of food, textile, leather, wood, paper, chemical, plastic or metal products, but does not include basic industrial processing from raw materials.
An establishment engaged in manufacturing, assembly, fabrication, packaging or other industrial processing of products primarily from extracted or raw materials or the bulk storage and handling of such products and materials, or an industrial establishment having potential to produce noise, dust, glare, odors or vibration beyond its property line. This term includes, but is not limited to:
Processing and packaging of alcohol beverages.
Chemical manufacturing.
Stonework or concrete product manufacturing.
Fabrication of metal products.
Manufacturing of agricultural, construction or mining machinery.
Motor vehicle manufacturing.
Lumber milling.
Ship or boat construction.
An establishment which conducts research, development or controlled production of high-technology electronic, industrial, or scientific products or commodities for sale or laboratories conducting educational or medical research or testing. This term includes, but is not limited to, a biotechnology firm or a manufacturer of nontoxic computer components.
(11) SUBSTATION/DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT, INDOOR SUBSTATION/DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT, OUTDOOR TRANSMISSION TOWER
Utility and public service uses.
A facility, other than a transmission tower and contained entirely within a building, which performs either of the following functions:
A facility, other than a transmission tower and not contained entirely within a building, which performs either of the following functions:
A structure designed to support one or more reception/transmissions systems. This term includes, but is not limited to, a radio tower, television tower, telephone exchange/microwave relay tower or cellular telephone transmission/personal communications systems tower.
(12) CONCRETE/BATCH PLANT, TEMPORARY LIVE ENTERTAINMENT SPECIAL EVENT SEASONAL MARKET TEMPORARY REAL ESTATE SALES OFFICE
Temporary uses.
A temporary facility that produces or processes concrete or asphalt only for use in a particular construction project and only for the duration of that project.
A concert, carnival, circus, fair or similar event lasting less than 15 days.
A temporary facility used to conduct retail trade for a period not exceeding 90 days in a calendar year.
A temporary office, including a manufactured building or model home, for marketing, sales or rental of residential, commercial or industrial development for a maximum period of one year from the date of permit approval.
(13) COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENT FAMILY DAY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOME GROUP FOSTER HOME
Miscellaneous uses.
The following facilities licensed or operated or permitted under the authority of the Wisconsin Statutes: Child welfare agencies under § 48.60, group foster homes for children 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 Statutes, including §§ 46.03(22), 62.23(7)(i) and 62.23(7a), and amendments thereto, and also the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
The provision of day care for children for compensation within a dwelling whether or not licensed by the State, including educational services so long as the care and services are taking place within a dwelling.
The primary domicile of a foster parent which is for four or fewer foster children and which is licensed under § 48.62. Wis. Stats., and amendments thereto.
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.