Rice Lake City Zoning Code

The purpose of this permanent extraterritorial zoning article is to promote the public health, safety, morals and general welfare and to preserve existing controls over land uses, uses of land and improvements within the area in which the governing body of the city, by resolution adopted on September 24, 1968, determined to exercise the extraterritorial zoning powers granted by § 62.23(7a), Wisconsin Statutes, and it is the intention of this article to make permanent such zoning uses, controls and regulations as the Extraterritorial Zoning Committee has recommended and to make these regulations extend to all land specifically described hereafter.

The restrictions and requirements imposed by this article shall be deemed to be minimum requirements necessary to conserve the value of land and buildings and encourage the most appropriate use of land to lessen congestion in the streets, secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers, promote health and general welfare, provide adequate light and air, prevent overcrowding of land, avoid undue concentration of population and facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks and other public requirements. Whenever the provisions of this article shall conflict with any state statute, local ordinance or regulation or any existing easement, covenant or agreement or any permit previously issued pursuant to law applicable to the use of any land or structure in the area specified in § 260-109, the more stringent law, ordinance, regulation, restriction or requirement shall govern.

The zoning districts and regulations applicable in the territory described in § 260-109 by ordinances of the Town of Rice Lake, Barron County, and this chapter of the Code of the City of Rice Lake, Barron County, shall govern all uses of property in such territory, except as such regulations and uses may be modified by the City Zoning Board of Appeals in accordance with town ordinances, Municipal Code and § 62.23(7) and (7a), Wisconsin Statutes.

The Official Zoning Map of the City of Rice Lake shall include the territory described in § 260-109 and shall be maintained as an integral part of said Zoning Map for the City of Rice Lake. Said map shall be kept at the Community Development Department and copies thereof shall be provided to the Town of Rice Lake when each and every revision is enacted in accordance with this article and § 62.23(7) and (7a), Wisconsin Statutes.

No person shall erect, alter, repair or remove any building or structure or commence use of any building or structure or premises within the area set forth in § 260-109 without having been issued a valid building permit by the Building Inspector of the Town of Rice Lake and approved as to zoning occupancy and compliance with this article by the Community Development Department.

No person shall erect, alter, repair or move any building or structure within the area described in § 260-109 until a valid building permit approved as to zoning occupancy as provided in Subsection A has been posted in a prominent place on the premises.

All applications for zoning occupancy approval and building permits shall be accompanied by a plat, in duplicate, drawn to scale, showing the actual dimensions of the lot to be built upon, the size of the building or addition to be erected, its location on the lot and such other information as the Community Development Department shall deem necessary to provide for the enforcement of this article. A record of such applications and plats and the action taken by the Community Development Department shall be maintained by the department.

Forfeitures. Any person who shall erect, construct, reconstruct, alter, convert or maintain any building or structure or use any building, structure or land in violation of any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction of such violation, be subject to the general penalty provisions of Chapter 1, General Provisions, § 1-20 of this Code.

Bond. Any person filing notice of appeal regarding extraterritorial zoning to the Extraterritorial Zoning Committee shall deposit with the City Clerk-Treasurer a bond of $200, and any person making request for a change of zoning shall pay a fee as set forth in the fee schedule adopted as part of the annual budget document for costs of publication and hearings.

Other remedies and penalties. The enforcement and remedies provided by § 62.23(8), Wisconsin Statutes, shall apply to violations or threatened violations of the provisions of this article, and the City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed to institute appropriate legal proceedings to enjoin, abate, remove or prevent any such violations.