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 use or the principal structure.

A special public right-of-way affording only secondary access to abutting properties.

Any livestock or poultry operation involving the raising, feeding or holding of 300 or more animal units for a period of 30 days or more.

The equivalent of the following: one dairy cow, one mature steer or bull, one horse, two head of heifers or immature steers, two calves (veal or replacement), two sows with litters, two butcher hogs, five sheep, five goats, 50 turkeys, 50 ducks, 50 geese, 50 laying hens, or 50 broilers.

A public street or highway used or intended to be used primarily for fast or heavy through traffic.

That portion of any structure located partly below the average adjoining lot grade.

A building other than a hotel or restaurant where meals or lodging is regularly furnished by prearrangement for compensation for four or more persons not members of a family, but not exceeding 12 persons and not open to transient customers.

Any structure having a room supported by columns or walls used, or intended to be used, for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, equipment, machinery or materials.

The total living area bounded by the exterior walls of a building at the floor levels, but not including basements, utility rooms, garages, porches, breezeways, and unfinished attics.

The vertical distance measured from the mean elevation of the finished lot grade along the street yard face of the structure to the highest point of flat roofs; to the mean height level between the eaves and ridges of gable, gambrel, hip and pitch roofs; or to the deckline of mansard roofs.

An occupation, employment, or enterprise which occupies time, attention, labor and materials, or wherein merchandise is exhibited or sold, or where services are offered, other than home occupations.

Shops where clothing is repaired, such as shoe repair shops, seamstresses, tailor shops, shoe-shine shops, and clothes-pressing shops, but none employing over five persons.

Retail stores where clothing is sold, such as department stores; dry goods and shoe stores; and dress, hosiery, and millinery shops.

A place where three or more unrelated adults reside in which care, treatment, or services above the level of room and board, but not including nursing care, are provided in the facility. A community-based residential facility is subject to state-level licensing and operational limitations as set forth in Ch. 50, Wis. Stats.

The following facilities, licensed and operated or permitted under authority of Wisconsin Statutes: child welfare agencies under § 48.60, Wis. Stats., group foster homes for children under § 48.02(6), Wis. Stats., and community-based residential facilities under § 50.01, Wis. Stats., but does not include day-care centers, nursing homes, general hospitals, special hospitals, prisons or jails. The establishment of community living arrangements is governed by §§ 46.03(22), 59.69(15), 60.63 and 62.23(7)(i), Wis. Stats.

Uses of a special nature so as to make impractical their predetermination as a principal use in a district.

A lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection, provided that the corner of such intersection shall have an angle of 135° or less measured on the lot side.

A part or parts of the City for which the regulations of this chapter governing the use and location of land and buildings are uniform.

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.

A group of rooms constituting all or part of a dwelling which are arranged, designed, used, or intended for use exclusively as living quarters for one family.

A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room with no separate sleeping room.

Public or private enclosures designed to protect people from aerial, 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, 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, traffic signals, pumps, lift stations, and hydrants, but not including buildings.

Any number of persons living together as a single family or housekeeping unit and using certain housekeeping facilities and rooms in common.[2]

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

Retail stores where items such as art, antiques, jewelry, books, and notions are sold.

Retail stores where items such as plumbing, heating and electrical supplies, sporting goods, and paints are sold.

A building in which lodging, with or without meals, is offered to transient guests for compensation and in which there are more than five sleeping rooms with no cooking facilities in any individual room or apartment.

Any occupation for gain or support conducted entirely within buildings by resident occupants which is customarily incidental to the principal use of the premises, does not exceed 25% of the area of any floor, and uses only household equipment and where no stock-in-trade is kept or sold except that made on the premises. A household occupation includes uses such as baby-sitting for up to three unrelated children under the age of seven, millinery dressmaking, canning, laundering and crafts but does not include the display of any goods nor such occupations as barbering, beauty shops, dance schools or photographic studios.

Any zoning committee established in accordance with § 62.23(7a), Wis. Stats.[3]

All rooms within a dwelling except closets, foyers, storage areas, utility rooms and bathrooms.

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, 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, yard, parking area and other open space provisions of this chapter.

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

A parcel of land held in separate ownership having frontage on a public street, occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal building or structure together with accessory buildings and uses, having insufficient size to meet the lot width, lot area, yard, off-street parking area, or other open space provisions of this chapter.

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.

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

Shops where lathes, presses, grinders, shapers, and other woodworking and metalworking machines are used, such as blacksmith, tinsmith, welding, and sheet metal shops and plumbing, heating, and electrical repair and overhaul shops.

Any small, movable accessory erection or construction, such as birdhouses, toolhouses, pet houses, play equipment, playhouses, tree houses, arbors, and walls and fences under four feet in height.

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 adoption or amendment of this chapter.[4]

All abutting property owners, all property owners within 100 feet, and all property owners of opposite frontages.

Residences of doctors of medicine, practitioners, dentists, clergymen, architects, landscape architects, professional engineers, registered land surveyors, lawyers, insurance salesmen, artists, teachers, authors, musicians, real estate brokers and salesmen, or other recognized professions used to conduct their professions where the office does not exceed 1/2 the area of only one floor of the residence and only one nonresident person is employed.

The use of a building for an adult bookstore, an adult motion-picture theater, an adult mini motion-picture theater, or a cabaret. The terms "adult bookstore," "adult motion-picture theater," "adult mini motion-picture theater" and "cabaret" are defined in § 430-67 of this chapter.

A building where lodging only is provided for compensation for not more than three persons.

See § 430-77 of this chapter.[5]

That portion of a principal building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above or, if there is no floor above, the space between the floor and the ceiling next above. A basement shall not be counted as a story.

A story which is situated in a sloping roof, the floor area of which does not exceed 2/3 of the floor area of the story immediately below it, and which does not contain an independent dwelling unit.

A public right-of-way not less than 50 feet wide providing primary access to abutting properties.

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

Any erection or construction, such as buildings, towers, masts, poles, booms, signs, decorations, carports, machinery and equipment.

The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained.

Public and private facilities such as water wells, water pumping 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.

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

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 street yard or opposite one of the street yards on a corner lot.[6]

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 line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal street.

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.