Within the A-1 Farmland Preservation Zoning District means any of the following land uses on a farm:

A use or detached structure subordinate to the principal use of a structure, land, or water and located on the same lot or parcel serving a purpose customarily incidental to the principal structure.

See Article IX, Adult-Oriented Establishments.[1]

Any of the following activities conducted for the purpose of producing an income or livelihood:

An agricultural equipment dealership, facility providing agricultural supplies, facility for storing or processing agricultural products, or facility for processing agricultural wastes. In addition, any use that the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection identifies by rule as an agriculture-related use.

Any livestock or poultry operation with 500 or more animal units that are used in the production of food, fiber, or other animal products or that will be fed, confined, maintained, or stabled for a total of 45 days or more in any twelve-month period.

Has the following meaning that was given in § NR 243.03(3), Wis. Adm. Code, as of April 27, 2004:[2] "Animal unit" means a unit of measure used to determine the total number of single animal types or combination of animal types, as specified in § NR 243.11, Wis. Adm. Code, which are fed, confined, maintained or stabled in an animal feeding operation. The total number of animal units for a given type of animal shall be calculated by multiplying the number of animals for each animal type by the appropriate equivalency factor from the following table and summing the products. The number of combined animal units shall be the sum of the number of animal units for each animal type. For animal types not listed in the following table, the equivalency to animal units shall be based on live animal weights. In these cases, 1,000 pounds of live weight is equivalent to one animal unit. As referenced to livestock outside the agricultural districts, an animal unit is defined as one bovine or equine over the age of six months, five swine, 10 sheep, 10 goats or 100 fowl.

A public street or highway used or intended to be used primarily for fast or heavy through traffic. Arterial streets and highways shall include freeways and expressways as well as arterial streets, highways, and parkways.

All land, whether one parcel or two or more contiguous parcels, that is in the A-1 Farmland Preservation Zoning District and that is part of a single farm on October 19, 2010, regardless of any subsequent changes in the size of the farm. Alternatively, any other tract that the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection by rule defines as a base farm tract. For the purposes of this definition, when determining the boundaries of the base farm tract, the term "contiguous parcel" includes those commonly owned parcels that are abutting or touching at more than one point and those commonly owned parcels that are separated only by a waterway or a transportation or utility right-of-way.[3]

A space having half or more of its floor-to-ceiling height below the average level of the adjoining ground and with a floor-to-ceiling height of not less than 6.5 feet.

Total ground coverage in square feet of all buildings and structures, including garages, carports, and other attached or accessory structures.

The measurement of the vertical line segment starting at the lowest point of any exposed wall and its intersect with the ground (Point A in the following diagram) to a line horizontal to the highest point of a structure (Point B in the following diagram), unless specified under other sections of this chapter.

A farmland preservation plan that is certified as determined under § 91.12, Wis. Stats.

A zoning ordinance that is certified as determined under § 91.32, Wis. Stats.

Uses of a special nature as to make impractical their predetermination as a permitted use in a district. Conditional uses as used in the A-1 Farmland Preservation Zoning District must meet the requirements of § 91.01(10), Wis. Stats.

A lot abutting two or more streets at their intersections.

Number of living units per acre allowable under Article III of this chapter.[4]

A dwelling containing two dwelling units.

A detached building designed or used exclusively as a residence or sleeping place, but does not include boardinghouses or lodging houses, motels, hotels, tents, cabins, or mobile homes except mobile homes with the wheel assembly and hitch removed and located on and anchored to a four-foot footing or basement.

A dwelling containing three or more units.

A dwelling containing one dwelling unit.

One or more rooms which are arranged, designed, or used as living quarters for one family only.

Public or private enclosures designed to protect people from arterial, radiological, biological, or chemical warfare, fire, flood, windstorm, riots, and invasions.

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, electricity, 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 divided arterial street or highway with full or partial control of access and with or without grade-separated intersections.

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.[5]

All land under common ownership that is primarily devoted to agricultural use.

The size of a farm in acres. "Farm acreage" does not include nonfarm residential acreage.

A single-family residence that is the only residential structure on the farm or is occupied by any of the following:

Area in square feet of all floors in a building, including elevators and stairways, measured by perimeter of outside walls multiplied by the number of floors, including basements which are used in the primary function of the building.

An expressway with full control of access and with fully grade-separated intersections,

The smallest dimension of a lot abutting a public street measured along the street line.

Gross receipts from agricultural use of a farm, excluding rent receipts, less the cost or other basis of livestock or other agricultural items purchased for resale which are sold or otherwise disposed of during the taxable year.

Any occupation for gain or support conducted entirely within buildings by resident occupants, which is clearly incidental to the principal use of the premises and does not exceed 25% of the area of any floor.

Dogs, cats, song birds and other small animals, provided that they are not raised or reared for commercial resale or as a source of staple supplement. Household pets shall not include horses, chickens, cows, goats, sheep, hogs or other animals.

A grade-separated intersection with one or more turning lanes for travel between intersection legs.

The use of land, with related buildings or structures, for the commercial breeding, rearing, or boarding of more than four dogs.

Bovine animals, equine animals, goats, poultry, sheep, swine, farm-raised deer, farm-raised game birds, camelids, ratites, and farm-raised fish.

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 road or alley.

A contiguous and continuous quantity of land in possession of, owned by, or recorded as property of the same claimant, person, persons, or company and having frontage on a public road, occupied by a principal structure or use, and sufficient in size to meet the lot width, lot frontage, lot area, yard, parking area, and other space provisions of this chapter. For zoning purposes, tax parcel identification numbers shall not be used in defining a lot.

The peripheral boundaries of a parcel of land and the total area lying within such boundaries.

The width of a parcel of land measured at the rear of the specified street yard.

A structure which is 100 square feet in area or less and is accessory to the principal use of the lot.

A transportable, single-family dwelling unit suitable for year-round occupancy and containing the same water supply, waste disposal, and electric conveniences as immobile housing.

A series of attached, semi-attached, or detached sleeping units for the accommodation of transient guests.

Any structure, land, or water lawfully used, occupied, or erected at the time of the effective date of this chapter which does not conform to the regulations of this chapter. Any such structure conforming in respect to use but not in respect to frontage, width, height, area, yard, parking, loading, or distance requirements shall be considered a nonconforming structure and not a nonconforming use.

A single-family residence other than a farm residence.

The total number of acres of all parcels on which nonfarm residences are located. If a nonfarm residence is located on one of two or more adjoining parcels owned by the same person, the adjoining parcels are also considered "nonfarm residential acreage" unless clearly devoted to nonresidential use other than open space use.

An area with a Class I or II land capability classification as identified by the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the federal Department of Agriculture or land that is identified as prime farmland in a certified farmland preservation plan. Prime farmland soils are not necessarily associated with the boundaries of the A-1 Farmland Preservation Zoning District.

A structure in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is located.

Residence of a doctor of medicine, practitioner, dentist, clergyman, architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, professional land surveyor, accountant, attorney, artist, teacher, author, musician, or other recognized professional person used to conduct his or her profession where the office does not exceed 1/2 the area of only one floor of the residence and no more than one nonresident person is employed.[6]

Land that is located in the A-1 Farmland Preservation Zoning District, is covered by a farmland preservation agreement, or is otherwise legally protected from nonagricultural development.

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 nearest point of any structure and the lot line.

Any words, letters, figures, numerals, phrases, sentences, emblems, devices, designs, trade names, or trademarks by which anything is made known and which are used to advertise or promote an individual, firm, association, corporation, profession, business, commodity, or product and which are visible from any public street or highway.

A public right-of-way not less than 40 feet wide providing primary access to abutting properties.

A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the existing or proposed street or highway line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure. Corner lots shall have two such yards.

Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.

Any construction, excluding fills, or any production or piece of work artificially built or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner having form, shape and utility.

Any structure, portable or permanent, containing a body of water 36 inches or more in depth, intended for recreational purposes, but not including an ornamental reflecting pool or fish pond or similar type pool, located and designed so as not to create a hazard or to be used for swimming. "Swimming pool" does not include temporary, portable blowup pools, wading pools, or kiddie pools.[7]

A parcel of land in a travel trailer parking area for the placement of a single trailer and the exclusive use of its occupants.

A vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis and designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation.

An existing or proposed connecting roadway between two arterial streets or between an arterial street and any other street. Turning lanes include grade-separated interchange ramps.

Space suitable for recreation, gardens, or household service activities, such as clothes drying. Such space must be at least 75% open to the sky, free of automobile traffic, parking, and undue hazards, and readily accessible by all those for whom it is intended.

Public and private facilities such as water wells, water and sewage pumping stations, water storage tanks, power and communication transmission lines, electrical 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.

Equipment that converts and then stores or transfers energy from the wind into usable forms of energy and includes all of the land, buildings, structures and equipment used by the wind energy system and its support facilities, including the wind turbine, tower, access roads, control and office facilities, meteorological towers, maintenance and all power collection and transmission systems.

An open space on the same lot with a structure unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except for vegetation. The street and rear yards extend the full width of the lot.

The Zoning Administrator for the Town of Herman or such person or firm designated to perform the duties of the Zoning Administrator.