Principal land uses permitted by right. Principal land uses listed as permitted by right (designated by the letter “P” in Section 18-54) are permitted per the general land use requirements of this Article; per the density, intensity, and bulk regulations of the specific zoning district in which they are located; per any additional requirements imposed by applicable overlay districts; per all other applicable requirements of this Chapter; and per any and all other applicable City, county, state, and federal regulations. In some instances, permitted uses may be considered accessory uses as determined by the Zoning Administrator.

Principal land uses permitted as conditional uses. Principal land uses allowed only with a conditional use permit (designated by the letter “C” in Section 18-54) may be permitted subject to all the requirements applicable to uses permitted by right as listed in Subsection (1), above, plus any additional requirements applicable to that particular land use imposed as part of the conditional use permit process established in Section 18-161. Each application for, and instance of, a conditional use shall be considered a unique situation and shall not be construed as precedence for similar requests. Except for uses approved under a general development plan and specific implementation plan in a planned development (see Section 18-167), all uses requiring a conditional use permit shall comply with the procedural requirements of Section 18-161.

Accessory land uses. Accessory land uses are allowed subject to all the requirements and exemptions applicable to principal land uses permitted by right as listed in Subsection (1), above. Accessory land uses allowed only with a conditional use permit are subject to all the requirements and exemptions applicable to principal land uses requiring a conditional use permit as listed in Subsection (2), above. Accessory land uses shall also comply with the regulations listed in Section 18-65. No accessory use shall be established on any lot prior to the establishment of an allowable principal use, unless otherwise stated in this Chapter. City parks are exempt from this requirement. With the exception of an in-home suite or Accessory Dwelling Units, in no instance shall an accessory building, cellar, basement, tent, or recreational trailer to be used as a residence.

Temporary land uses. Temporary land uses permitted by right (designated by the letter “P” in the Table of Land Uses in Section 18-54) are permitted on a temporary basis subject to permitting requirements of Section 18-162. Temporary land uses permitted only with a conditional use permit (designated by the letter “C” in the Table of Land Uses) may be permitted subject to temporary use and conditional use permitting requirements of Sections 18-162 and 18-161.

Land use regulations and requirements. All uses of land shall comply with all the regulations and requirements of this Chapter. Such regulations directly relate to the protection of the health, safety, and general welfare of the residents of the City of Marshfield.

Density, intensity, and bulk regulations and requirements. All development and use of land shall comply with all the applicable requirements of Articles II and IV of this Chapter.

Overlay zoning district requirements. All land use and/or development of land shall comply with all the regulations and requirements any applicable Overlay Zoning District (see Article VI).

Performance standards. All development of land shall comply with all applicable requirements established in Article VII.

Landscape regulations. All new development of land shall comply with all the regulations and requirements of Article VIII pertaining to the provision of landscaping and bufferyards. Such requirements address issues such as minimum required landscaping of developed land and minimum required provision of bufferyards between abutting zoning districts; which are directly related to the effective bulk of a structure.

Signage regulations. Except within the Campus Development District, all land use and/or development of land shall comply with all requirements of Chapter 24 Sign Code, pertaining to the type and amount of signage permitted on property. Such requirements address issues such as the maximum area of permitted signage and the number and types of permitted signage.

Number of buildings per lot. Only one principal building shall be permitted on any one lot, with the following exceptions:

Accessory uses and structures. Accessory uses and structures may be allowed where they comply with the requirements of Section 18-65.

Group and large development requirements. A Group or Large Development may include any of the land uses in this Chapter. All uses and/or development of land within a Group or Large Development shall comply with all requirements of Section 18-114.

Planned development requirements. All uses and/or development of land within a planned development shall comply with all requirements of Sections 18-43 and 18-167.

Nonconforming lots, uses, structures, and site requirements. Land uses not in conformance with the requirements of the applicable zoning district shall be subject to the special limitations and exceptions as established in Article V. Land uses located on substandard lots or on nonconforming lots or in nonconforming structures shall comply with all the regulations and requirements of Article V. Substandard lots are buildable, provided the structures meet all other requirements of this Chapter.

Outlots. Outlots approved prior to January 1, 2013, the effective date of this Chapter, that do not have access to a public right of way are not intended for development.

Site plan review required. All uses are subject to site plan review and approval in accordance with Section 18-164.

Filling. Filling shall be in accordance with the following:

Procedural regulations and requirements. All land use and/or development of land shall comply with all requirements of Article X pertaining to the procedures necessary to secure review and approval of land use and/or development. Such regulations and restrictions address both procedural and technical requirements.

Single Family: A dwelling designed for and occupied by not more than one family and having no roof, wall, or floor in common with any other dwelling unit. This dwelling unit type consists of a fully detached single family residence which is located on an individual lot. Regulations:

Two Flat: This dwelling unit type consists of a single structure with two separate residences each having a private individual access and no shared internal access other than a common hallway. Two Flats are attached units within a two story structure with one unit above the other, possibly with a shared front porch. Regulations:

Twin-House: This dwelling unit type consists of two separate residences, each having a private individual access and no shared internal access. Similar to Duplexes, Twin-Houses are attached side-by-side units, each with a ground floor and roof. Unlike Duplexes, Twin-Houses are located on separate lots. Regulations:

Duplex: This dwelling unit type consists of two separate residences, each having a private individual access, and no shared internal access. Duplexes are attached side-by-side units located on one lot, each with a ground floor and roof. Regulations:

Townhouse: A Townhouse consists of attached, two story residences, each having a private, individual access. This dwelling unit type may be located on its own lot or within a group development. Each dwelling unit shares at least one common wall with an abutting dwelling unit.

Multiplex: This dwelling unit type consists of three or more individual attached dwelling units which have private, individual exterior entrances. Regulations:

Apartment: This dwelling unit type consists of a single structure with three or more individual attached dwelling units which take access from a shared entrance or hallway. Regulations:

Mobile Home and Manufactured Homes: A Mobile Home dwelling unit type consisting of a fully detached, single family residence, which has not received a Federal Manufactured Housing Certificate and was manufactured prior to June 15, 1976. A Manufactured Home is a one- or two family home certified and labeled as a manufactured home under 42 USC 5401-5426 which when placed on the site is set on an enclosed foundation in accordance with §70.043(1) Wis. Stats. and subchapters III, IV, and V, and XI of chapter SPS 321 of the Wis. Adm. Code, or a comparable foundation as approved by the local building services supervisor. Regulations:

Mobile Home Subdivision: This land use is a form of residential development which is exclusively reserved for individually sold lots containing Mobile Homes and Manufactured Homes. Each Mobile Home and Manufactured Home must meet the requirements listed under Subsection (8), above. Regulations:

Mobile Home Park: This land use is a form of residential development which is exclusively reserved for individually sold or rented air right pads containing Mobile Homes or Manufactured Homes. Each Mobile Home or Manufactured Home must meet the requirements listed under Subsection (8), above. Regulations:

Mixed Use Dwelling Unit(s): One or more residential dwellings within a mixed use structure (i.e. a single building containing more than one type of land use). Mixed Use Dwelling Unit(s) are permitted on the ground floor of a building used for an office, commercial, or institutional land use, except in the DMU district. Regulations:

Cultivation: Operations primarily oriented to the on-site, outdoor raising of plants for commercial purposes. Cultivation includes the raising of trees as a crop to be replaced with more trees after harvesting, such as in nursery or Christmas tree operations. The raising of plants for consumption by farm animals is considered Cultivation if said plants are consumed by animals which are located offsite. This land use excludes Community Garden and Market Garden. Regulations:

Husbandry: All operations primarily oriented to the on-site raising and/or use of animals at an intensity of less than one animal unit per acre. This includes horses, cattle, sheep, goats, llamas (and related species), deer, antelope, swine, foul (including chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, peacocks, guinea hens, game birds), aquatic species (including fish, shellfish, crustaceans, echinoderms, plants, and algae), and any animals typically hunted or trapped. This excludes animals typically kept as pets and commonly available at commercial pet stores (e.g., domestic dogs and cats, fish, small rodents, reptiles, amphibians, tropical/exotic birds). Apiaries are also considered Husbandry land uses. Regulations:

Intensive Agriculture: All operations primarily oriented to the on-site raising and/or use of animals at an intensity equal to or exceeding one animal unit per acre and/or agricultural activities requiring structures, equipment and/or infrastructure specific to one operation rather than to farming in general. Examples of such land uses include feed lots, hog farms, poultry operations, aquaculture, and certain other operations meeting this criterion. Regulations:

On-Site Agricultural Retail: The sale of agricultural products grown exclusively on the site. The sale of products grown or otherwise produced off-site shall not be permitted within On-Site Agricultural Retail operations; such activity constitutes Indoor Sales or Service (see Section 18-58 (4)). Regulations:

Agricultural Service: Operations pertaining to the sale, handling, transport, packaging, storage, or disposal of agricultural equipment, products, by-products, or materials primarily used or produced by agricultural operations. Examples of such land uses include, but not limited to, agricultural implement sales, storage, or repair operations; feed and seed stores; agricultural chemical dealers and/or storage facilities; animal feed storage facilities; commercial dairies; food processing facilities; canning and other packaging facilities; and agricultural waste disposal facilities (except commercial Composting uses, see Section 18-63(2)). Regulations:

Community Garden: Community Garden areas for cultivation and related activities divided into one or more plots to be cultivated by more than one operator or member. These areas may be on public or private lands and may be principle or accessory uses. Regulations:

Market Garden: An area for cultivation and related activities divided into one or more plots to be cultivated by more than one operator or member. These areas may be on public or private lands, with on-site sales of crops grown on-site permitted, and may be principle or accessory uses. Market Gardens shall adhere to the following listed regulations.

Small Scale Indoor Institutional: Small scale indoor institutional uses of 10,000 gross square feet or less including indoor public and not for profit recreational facilities (such as gyms, swimming pools, libraries, museums, and community centers), municipal facilities, clinics, pre-K through high schools, college or trade schools, churches, nonprofit clubs, nonprofit fraternal organizations, funeral homes, and similar land uses. Small Scale Indoor Institutional uses have less impact on surrounding properties than Large Scale Indoor Institutional uses. Regulations:

Large Scale Indoor Institutional: Large scale indoor institutional uses with greater than 10,000 gross square feet including, indoor public and not for profit recreational facilities (such as gyms, swimming pools, libraries, museums, and community centers), municipal facilities, hospitals, large scale clinics, pre-K through high schools, college or trade schools, churches, nonprofit clubs, nonprofit fraternal organizations, convention centers, funeral homes, and similar land uses, and outdoor facilities ancillary to such uses (such as sports fields and outdoor gathering spaces). Regulations:

Correctional Institutional: A facility for the detention, confinement, treatment, or rehabilitation of persons arrested or convicted for the violation of the law including adult detention centers, juvenile delinquency centers, jails, prisons, and similar land uses. Regulations:

Outdoor Open Space Institutional: Cemeteries, privately held permanently protected green space areas, open grassed areas not associated with any particular active recreational land use, and similar land uses. Regulations:

Passive Outdoor Recreation: Recreational land uses which involve passive recreational activities, such as arboretums, natural areas, wildlife areas, hiking trails, bike trails, cross country ski trails, horse trails, picnic areas, picnic shelters, botanical gardens, fishing areas, and similar land uses. Regulations:

Active Outdoor Recreation: Recreational land uses which involves active recreational activities. Such land uses include tennis courts, basketball courts, ball diamonds, football fields, soccer fields, neighborhood parks, playgrounds, tot lots, outdoor swimming pools, swimming beach areas, fitness courses, golf courses, and similar land uses. Regulations:

Essential Services: The erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance by public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies, of underground and overhead lines and pipes for gas, electric, telephone, communications, cable television, steam, public water supply, sanitary sewage collection, stormwater conveyance, or other comparable utilities. Essential Services include such above-surface facilities as poles, guide wires, fire alarm boxes, water hydrants, pump houses, well houses, lift stations, utility posts, police call boxes, and standpipes. Essential Services do not include larger utility facilities included under Public Services and Utilities, such as electric substations, wastewater treatment plants, and water towers. Essential services are exempt from density, intensity, and bulk regulations.

Small Scale Public Services and Utilities: Small scale City, county, state, and federally owned facilities such as light stations, water towers, public and/or private utility substations, utility and public service related distribution facilities, and similar land uses. This does not include uses listed under Essential Services or Large Scale Public Services and Utilities. Regulations:

Large Scale Public Services and Utilities: Large scale City, county, state, and federally owned facilities such as public works facilities and garages, wastewater treatment plants, potable water treatment plants, public and/or private utility substations, utility and public service related distribution facilities, and similar land uses. This does not include uses listed under Essential Services or Small Scale Public Services and Utilities. Regulations:

Institutional Residential: Residential development designed to accommodate Institutional Residential land uses, such as senior housing, retirement homes, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospices, convents, monasteries, dormitories, nursing homes, convalescent homes, limited care facilities, physical rehabilitation centers, transitional housing (housing and supportive services for homeless persons that is designed to facilitate the movement of homeless persons to independent living), and similar land uses not considered to be Community Living Arrangements (see separate listings). Regulations:

Community Living Arrangement (1-8 Residents): Facilities including community living arrangements for adults (per Wisconsin Statutes 46.03(22)), community living arrangements for children (per Wisconsin Statutes 48.743), and community based residential facilities (per Wisconsin Statutes 50.01(1g)). Community Living Arrangements do not include Group Daycare Centers, nursing homes, hospitals, prisons, or jails. Community Living Arrangement facilities are regulated depending upon their capacity as provided for in Wisconsin Statutes 62.23(7)(i), provided any such regulations do not violate federal or state housing or anti-discrimination laws. Regulations:

Community Living Arrangement (9-15 Residents): See description under Subsection (11), above. Regulations:

Community Living Arrangement (16+ Residents): See description under Subsection (11), above. Regulations:

Office: Indoor Offices where the primary function is the handling of information or administrative services. Office uses do not typically provide services directly to customers on a walk-in basis. Regulations:

Personal or Professional Service: Indoor service land uses where the primary function is the provision of services directly to an individual on a walk-in or on-appointment basis. Examples of such uses include establishments where customers make an appointment, such as professional services, insurance or financial services, realty offices, small scale walk-in medical offices and clinics, veterinary clinics, barber shops, beauty shops, tattoo parlors, and related land uses including ancillary on site production of items used in the provision of such services. Personal and Professional Services do not include hospitals which are regulated under Large Scale Indoor Institutional. Regulations:

Artisan Studio: A building or portion thereof used for the preparation, display and sale of individually crafted artwork, jewelry, furniture, sculpture, pottery, leathercraft, hand-woven articles, and related items, as either a principal use or accessory use.

Indoor Sales or Service: The sale and/or display of merchandise or equipment or non-personal or non-professional services, entirely within an enclosed building. Includes general merchandise stores, grocery stores, butcher, sporting goods stores, antique stores, gift shops, laundromats, bakeries, pawn shops, payday lenders, and a number of other uses meeting this definition. Regulations:

Outdoor Display: Land uses where sales and display merchandise or equipment is conducted outside of an enclosed building. Examples include, but are not limited to, outdoor garden centers, outdoor recreation equipment sales, monument sales, lumber, vehicle rental, truck/trailer rental, and manufactured and mobile housing sales. If a land use displays for sale or rent only a limited amount of product outside of an enclosed building, such use may instead be considered incidental to Indoor Sales or Service under Section 18-58(4). Regulations:

Indoor Commercial Entertainment: Land uses which provide entertainment services entirely within an enclosed building. Such activities often have operating hours that extend significantly later than most other commercial land uses. Examples of such land uses include, but are not limited to, restaurants, taverns, theaters, health or fitness centers, training studios (dance, art, martial arts, etc.), bowling alleys, arcades, roller rinks, and pool halls. Regulations:

Outdoor Commercial Entertainment: Land uses which provide entertainment services partially or wholly outside of an enclosed building. Such activities often have the potential to be associated with nuisances related to noise, lighting, dust, trash, and late operating hours. Examples of such land uses include outdoor eating and drinking areas, outdoor food vendors and related seating used longer than 30 days, outdoor assembly areas, volleyball courts, horse shoes, and outdoor swimming pools associated with a lodging facility. Regulations:

Intensive Outdoor Recreation: Recreational land uses, that require intensive lighting and generate regional traffic and noise beyond property lines and require intensive lighting. Such land uses include, but are not limited to, race tracks, stadiums, fair grounds, batting cages, driving ranges, outdoor commercial swimming pools, miniature golf facilities, amusement parks, drive-in theaters, water parks, and similar land uses. Regulations:

In-Vehicle Sales or Service: Land uses where sales and/or services are conducted to persons in vehicles, or to vehicles which may or may not be occupied at the time of such activity (except vehicle repair and maintenance services). Such land uses often have traffic volumes which exhibit their highest levels concurrent with peak traffic flows on adjacent roads. Examples of such land uses include, but are not limited to, drive-in facilities, drive-through facilities, fuel stations, and car washes. Regulations:

Bed and Breakfast: Bed and Breakfasts are places of lodging that provide rooms for rent for more than 10 nights during a 12-month period, are the owner’s personal residence, and are occupied by the owner at the time of rental. Regulations:

Commercial Indoor Lodging: Facilities where overnight housing in individual rooms or suites of rooms is provided, with each room or suite having a private bathroom. Such land uses may provide in-room or in-suite kitchens and may also provide indoor recreational facilities for the exclusive use of their customers. Restaurant, lounge, fitness centers, and other on-site facilities available to non-lodgers are considered ancillary uses and therefore do not require review as a separate land use. Regulations:

Boarding House: Boarding Houses include any residential use with shared bathroom, living, and/or kitchen facilities. Regulations:

Campground: Campgrounds include any facilities designed for overnight accommodation of persons in tents, travel trailers, or other mobile or portable shelters or recreational vehicles. Regulations:

Group Daycare Center (9+ Children): Facilities where qualified persons provide childcare services for 9 or more children. Such land uses may be operated on a for-profit or a not-for-profit basis. Such land uses may be operated in conjunction with another principal land use on the same environs, such as a church, school, business, or civic organization. In such instances, group day care centers are considered an accessory use and require review as a separate land use. Regulations:

Animal Boarding: Facilities where short-term and/or long-term animal boarding is provided, including commercial kennels, commercial stables, and animal shelters. Exercise yards, fields, training areas, and trails associated with such land uses are considered accessory to and do not require separate consideration. Regulations:

Indoor Maintenance Service: Facilities where maintenance service is provided, including repair, and operations (except loading) are located entirely within an enclosed building. This shall not include Vehicle Sales, Vehicle Service, or Vehicle Repair land uses. Regulations:

Outdoor Maintenance Service: Facilities where maintenance service is provided, including repair, and where all or any portion of the operation is located outside of an enclosed building. This shall not include Vehicle Sales, Vehicle Service, or Vehicle Repair land uses. Regulations:

Vehicle Sales: The sale and display of vehicles for sale or rent outside of an enclosed building. Such land uses also include an ancillary repair shop associated with the vehicle display lot and sales building. Regulations:

Vehicle Service: Facilities where vehicle service is provided entirely within an enclosed building, such as an oil change shop. This shall not include Vehicle Sales or Vehicle Repair. Regulations:

Vehicle Repair: Facilities where vehicle repair is provided entirely within an enclosed building including unlicensed or inoperable vehicles used for spare parts. This shall not include Vehicle Sales or Vehicle Service. Regulations:

Sexually-Oriented Land Uses: Any facility oriented to the display of sexually-oriented materials such as videos, movies, photos, books, or magazines; or actual persons displaying and/or touching sexually specified areas; including the provision of body piercing or tattooing services to “sexually specified areas.” For the purpose of this Chapter, “sexually specified areas” includes any of the following: genitals, anal area, female areola or nipple. “Sexually-oriented material” includes any media which displays sexually specified area(s). Establishments which sell or rent sexually-oriented materials shall not be considered sexually-oriented if the area devoted to sale of said materials is less than 5 percent of the sales area devoted to non-sexually-oriented materials and if such materials are placed in generic covers or otherwise obscured areas. Regulations:

Low Intensity Production: Facilities that include light manufacturing, product assembly, printing, and other relatable activities that may be used in conjunction with another permitted commercial use. Activities shall be less intensive than Light Industrial uses, fit in with the surrounding land uses, and not present any detrimental impacts (noise, vibration, odor, etc.) at the property line. Some examples of this use include medical manufacturing, microbreweries, product assembly, food production, artisanal products, printing, or similar uses as determined by the Zoning Administrator. Regulation:

Light Industrial: Facilities where all operations, with the exception of loading, are conducted entirely within an enclosed building. Such land uses are not associated with nuisances such as odor, noise, heat, vibration, and radiation which are detectable at the property line, and do not pose a significant safety hazard (such as danger of explosion). Light Industrial land uses may include ancillary office space and may conduct indoor sales as an accessory use provided that the use complies with the requirements of Section 18-65 (18). Regulations:

Heavy Industrial: Industrial activities that may be wholly or partially located outside of an enclosed building; may have the potential to create certain nuisances which are detectable at the property line; and may involve materials which pose a significant safety hazard. Examples include, but are not limited to: meat product producers; paper, pulp or paperboard producers; chemical and allied product producers (except drug producers) including poison or fertilizer producers; petroleum and coal product producers; asphalt, concrete or cement producers; tanneries; stone, clay, or glass product producers; primary metal producers; heavy machinery producers; electrical distribution equipment producers; electrical industrial apparatus producers; transportation vehicle producers; commercial sanitary sewage treatment plants; railroad switching yards; recycling facilities not involving the on-site storage of salvage materials; and large-scale alcoholic beverage producers exceeding the production limits in Chapter 125, Wisconsin Statutes. Regulations:

Research, Development, and Related Manufacturing: Research and development and the manufacturing of items for testing and for sale that are associated with the research and development conducted on-site. All operations, with the exception of loading, shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed building. Such land uses shall not be associated with or result in nuisances such as odor, noise, heat, vibration, and radiation which are detectable at the property line, and do not pose a significant safety hazard (such as danger of explosion). Regulations:

Production Greenhouse: Any business whose principal activity is the growing and wholesaling of plants or plant by-products (not including fruits and vegetables) that are either grown or stored within an enclosed building or structure constructed chiefly of glass or glass-like material, cloth, or other permanent material. Such uses also often involve the seasonal display of plants and related products outdoors. Regulations:

Indoor Food Production: Any business whose principal activity is the production and wholesaling of plants or plant by-products (including fruits and vegetables) that are grown on-site within an enclosed building or structure constructed chiefly of glass or glass-like material, cloth, or other permanent material. Such uses also often involve the seasonal display of plants and related products outdoors. Indoor Food Production also includes the farming of aquatic organisms (plants and animals) under controlled conditions, and which is located entirely within an enclosed building and utilizes recirculating (closed) system technology. Such operations may also incorporate aquaponics, which is the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic organisms in a recirculating system. Regulations:

Indoor Storage and Wholesaling: Land uses primarily oriented to the receiving, holding, and shipping of packaged materials for a single business or a single group of businesses. With the exception of loading and parking facilities, such land uses are contained entirely within an enclosed building. Examples of this land use include conventional warehouse facilities, long-term indoor storage facilities, and joint warehouse and storage facilities. Retail outlets associated with this use shall be considered accessory uses per Section 18-65 (18). Regulations:

Outdoor Storage and Wholesaling: Land uses primarily oriented to the receiving, holding, and shipping of packaged materials for a single business or a single group of businesses. Such a land use, in which any activity beyond loading and parking is located outdoors, is considered an Outdoor Storage and Wholesaling land use. Examples of this land use include, but are not limited to, storage yards, equipment yards, lumber yards, and coal yards. Regulations:

Personal Storage Facility: Also known as “mini-warehouses,” these land uses oriented to the indoor storage of items entirely within partitioned buildings having an individual access to each partitioned storage area. Such storage areas may be available on either a condominium or a rental basis. This land use may include multiple buildings, shall be regulated as a conditional use, and shall not be considered a Group Development. Regulations:

Transit Center: A building, structure, and/or area designed and used for the purpose of loading, unloading, or transferring passengers or accommodating the movement of passengers from one mode of transportation to another. Examples include, but are not limited to, bus stations, train stations, and park and ride stations. Regulations:

Distribution Center: Facilities oriented to the short-term indoor storage and possible repackaging and reshipment of materials involving the activities and products of a single user. Retail outlets associated with this use shall be considered accessory uses per Section 18-65 (18). Regulations:

Freight Terminal: Land and buildings representing either end of one or more truck carrier line(s) which may have some or all of the following facilities: yards, docks, management offices, storage sheds, buildings and/or outdoor storage areas, freight stations, and truck maintenance and repair facilities, principally serving several or many businesses requiring trans-shipment. Regulations:

Airport: Transportation facilities providing takeoff, landing, servicing, storage, and other services to any type of air transportation. The operation of any type of air vehicle (including ultralight aircraft, hang gliders, parasails, and related equipment) within the jurisdiction of this Chapter shall occur only in conjunction with an approved Airport. Regulations:

Heliport: An area designed to be used for the landing or takeoff of helicopters including operations facilities, such as maintenance, loading and unloading, storage, fueling, or terminal facilities. Regulations:

Off-Site Parking: Off-Site Parking lots are any areas used for the temporary parking of vehicles which are fully registered, licensed, and operable. See also Section 18-103 for additional parking regulations. Regulations:

Satellite Dish: A bowl-shaped antenna with which signals are transmitted to or received from a communications satellite. This land use applies to dishes for personal use and private businesses (e.g. taverns and restaurants). Regulations:

Personal Antenna or Tower: Devices used for the transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves, external to or attached to the exterior of any building or structure. This definition includes the structure, supports, antennas, and equipment buildings. This land use applies to antenna and towers for personal use. Examples include amateur radio antenna and personal television antenna. Regulations:

Communication Antenna: Devices used for the transmission or reception of electromagnetic , radio signals used in the provision of mobile services, attached to a Communication Tower, building, or alternative tower structures, including equipment buildings/cabinets. Regulations:

Communication Tower: A communication tower is a freestanding structure (referred to as a mobile service support structure in 66.0404, Wis. Stat.) designed to support a mobile service facility. A mobile service facility includes the set of equipment and network components, including antennas, transmitters, receivers, base stations, power supplies, cabling, and associated equipment, that is necessary to provide mobile service to a discrete geographic area. Regulations:

Extraction: Land uses involving the removal of soil, clay, sand, gravel, rock, minerals, peat, or other material in excess of that required for approved on-site development or agricultural activities. Regulations:

Composting: Land uses devoted to the collection, storage, processing, and/or disposal of vegetation. Regulations:

Recycling and Waste Disposal: Recycling facilities not involving the on-site storage of salvage materials. Waste disposal facilities are any facilities and/or areas used for the disposal of solid wastes including those defined by Wisconsin Statutes 289.01(33), but not including Composting operations. Regulations:

Salvage or Junkyard: Land or structure used for a salvaging operation including but not limited to: the above-ground, outdoor storage and/or sale of waste paper, rags, scrap metal, and any other discarded materials intended for sale or recycling; and/or the collection, dismantlement, storage, or salvage of unlicensed and/or inoperable vehicles intended for scraping or recycling. Recycling facilities involving on-site outdoor storage of salvage materials are included in this land use. This shall not include Vehicle Repair. Regulations:

Sand and Mineral Processing: Land or structure used for processing sand or minerals, extracted onsite or transported to the site, that remove the desired product from the mineral or enhance the characteristics of the sand or mineral. Regulations:

Small Wind Energy Systems: A wind energy conversion system consisting of a wind turbine, a tower and associated control or conversion electronics which will be used primarily to reduce on-site consumption of utility power. A small wind energy system shall not exceed a rated capacity of 60 kW. Regulations:

Solar Energy System: An energy system which converts solar energy to usable thermal, mechanical, chemical, or electrical energy. Regulations:

Minor Home Occupation: Economic activities performed within a residence. Examples include personal and professional services. Minor Home Occupations are intended to provide a means to accommodate a small home-based family or professional business without the necessity of a Conditional Use Permit or rezoning from a residential to a business district. Minor Home Occupations are limited to low intensity service-oriented businesses and businesses with a minimal number of short customer visits. Regulations:

Conditional Home Occupation: Conditional Home Occupations are intended to provide greater flexibility than Minor Home Occupations in terms of number of employees, number of customer visits, and allowable occupations. For example, retail trade may be conducted in a Conditional Home Occupation, whereas Minor Home Occupations are limited to service-oriented businesses and businesses that do not generate customer visits. Regulations:

In-Home Daycare: Occupied residences in which a qualified person or persons provide childcare for 4 to 8 children. The care of less than 4 children is not subject to the regulations of this Chapter.[1]

In-Family Suite: An area within a dwelling unit that may contain separate kitchen, dining, bathroom, laundry, living, and sleeping areas, including exterior porches, patios, and decks. In addition to the required internal physical connection, separate outdoor access or separate access to the garage may be provided. However, external stairs serving as the primary access to the In-Family Suite are prohibited. Regulations:

Accessory Dwelling Unit: Residential dwelling unit located on the same lot as a single family dwelling unit, either in the same building as the single family dwelling unit or in a detached building. Regulations:

Farm Residence: A Farm Residence is a single family detached dwelling unit located on the same property as any of the principal agricultural land uses listed in Section 18-56.

Migrant Employee Housing: Migrant Employee Housing includes any facility subject to the regulation of Wisconsin Statutes, Section 103.90(3)(a). Regulations:

Residential Accessory Structure: Structures primarily used to shelter parked vehicles (including garages and carports) or to store residential maintenance equipment of the subject property (such as a shed). Other examples may include personal greenhouse, lean-to, pool house, personal recreation area, and workshop. Regulations:

Nonresidential Accessory Structure: Structures subordinate to the principal building and/or use as determined by the Zoning Administrator. Some examples include gas station canopies and building or structures used to shelter business vehicles, store equipment, and showcase and store materials that are sold on site. Accessory structures and uses for public facilities are exempt from the regulations listed below. Regulations:

Recreational Facility: This land use includes all active outdoor recreational facilities. Common examples include swing sets, tree houses, play houses, basketball courts, tennis courts, swimming pools, recreation-type equipment, pavilions, and other recreational facilities in public parks. Regulations:

Deck: A structure that has no roof or walls and is considered part of a building or structure. Setbacks shall be measured from the post of the deck. Regulations:

Landscape Feature: This land use includes features such as little libraries, ponds, gazebos, pergolas, patios, retaining walls, and other manmade lawn and landscaping elements. Regulations:

Residential Kennel: An enclosed structure designed for the keeping of dogs and/or cats that is accessory to a residential use. Regulations:

Residential Stable: An accessory building that is designed for the keeping of equines for the private use of the occupants of the principal dwelling and their guests, but in no event for hire. Regulations:

Outdoor Wood Boiler: An outdoor accessory structure designed to heat air or liquid through a wood fire and then transmit that heated air or water to the principal building for direct use and/or heating the principal building. Regulations:

On-Site Parking: On-Site Parking lots are any areas located on the same site as the principal land use which are used for the temporary parking of vehicles which are fully registered, licensed, and operable. Regulations:

Company Cafeteria: A food service operation which provides food only to company employees and their guests. Regulations:

Onsite Ancillary Use: Uses incidental to the principal uses, including the sale and display of merchandise or equipment outside of an enclosed building, indoor sales, concession stands, and light industrial activities. Regulations:

Short-Term Rental: A residential dwelling unit that is offered for rent for a fee and for fewer than 29 consecutive days, as defined in Wis. Stat. Sec. 66.0615(1)(dk)

Temporary Farm Product Sales: This land use includes the temporary outdoor display and sales of farm products, typically from a roadside stand. Regulations:

Temporary Outdoor Sales: Includes the display of any items outside the confines of a building, which is not otherwise permitted as a permitted or conditional use, or a special event otherwise regulated by the Municipal Code. Examples of this land use include, but are not limited to, sidewalk sales, seasonal garden shops, tent sales, Christmas tree sales, fireworks sales, and outdoor food vendors for 30 days or less. Regulations:

Temporary Outdoor Assembly: Includes any organized temporary outdoor assembly such as outdoor weddings, wedding receptions, tent meetings, or public gatherings. Regulations:

Temporary Shelter Structure: These structures are typically supported by poles, have a fabric or plastic roof and/or sides, do not have a foundation, and do not comply with Chapter 15 Buildings and Building Regulations of the City of Marshfield Code of Ordinances. Such structures are often advertised for the outdoor storage of vehicles and other personal property. Such structures do not include camping tents, temporary gazebos, permanent Residential Accessory Buildings (including car ports, sheds, and garages), and temporary structures associated with permitted Temporary Outdoor Assembly. Regulations:

Temporary Storage Container: These containers are portable storage containers designed and used primarily for the temporary storage of household goods and other such materials for use on a limited basis on residential property. Regulations:

Temporary On-Site Construction Storage: Includes any structure or outdoor storage area designed for the on-site storage of construction equipment and/or materials for an active construction project. Regulations:

Temporary contractor’s project office. Includes any structure containing an on-site construction management office for an active construction project. Regulations:

Temporary on-site real estate sales office. Includes any building which serves as an on-site sales office for a development project. Regulations:

Temporary Relocatable Building: Includes any manufactured building which serves as a temporary building for less than 6 months. Regulations:

Garage or estate sale (auction). Garage or Estate Sales include the sale or offering for sale of miscellaneous used items commonly associated with residential use. Regulations:

Farmer’s market. Farmer’s Markets include the temporary or occasional outdoor retail sales of farm produce, plants and flowers, bakery goods, and/or crafts from vehicles or temporary stands located within a parking lot or public right of way. Food trucks are permitted with property owner signature and applicable City of Marshfield licenses. Regulations: