One animal unit shall be defined as being one steer, one dairy cow, one horse, four swine, ten sheep, 100 chickens or 100 turkeys.

A building or premises where meals or meals and lodging are offered for compensation for five but not more than 12 persons and where no more than five sleeping rooms are provided for such purpose. An establishment where meals are served for compensation for more than 12 persons shall be deemed a restaurant. An establishment with more than five sleeping rooms shall be deemed a hotel or motel.

Any structure located on the same lot as the principal building and used for protecting or storing of boats used for noncommercial purposes in conjunction with a residence.

That part of the lot bounded by the required building setback, side and rear yard lines.

Any structure used, designed, or intended for the protection, shelter, or roofed enclosure of persons, animals, or property.

Any building except the principal building or buildings on a lot. In the case of a house and detached garage on a lot, the accessory building is the garage.

The vertical distance measured from the average established street grade in front of the lot or the finished grade at the building line, whichever is higher, to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, to the deckline of a mansard roof, or to the average height between eaves of the highest gable of a gable, gambrel, hip, or shed roof.

A privately or municipally owned site designated, maintained, intended or used for the purpose of supplying a location for major recreational equipment/vehicles, open tents to the public for free or paying camping purpose, and used for transient trade.

A canvas or folding structure mounted on wheels and designed for temporary living and housekeeping purposes, and for the purposes of this chapter a camping trailer is considered as being under 50 feet in length.

A business that deals in a product, produce and/or service for profit, including professional services.

A County zoning committee authorized by § 59.69, Wis. Stats.

A building designed or used exclusively as the living quarters for one or more families.

A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively by one family. This shall include a primary housing unit as described in § 340.01(29), Wis. Stats.

A building or portion thereof with rooms arranged, designed, or used for comfortable, independent human habitation, which includes a sanitary facility and a kitchen facility. Guest houses or garage lofts with kitchen and bathroom facilities are considered to be dwelling units.

One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit as a single, nonprofit housekeeping unit, who are living together as a bona fide stable and committed living unit, being a traditional family or the functional equivalent thereof, exhibiting the generic character of a traditional family.[1]

A permanent roofed and walled structure used in conjunction with the raising of livestock and/or crops as a primary source of income.

The production of field or truck crops or the raising of livestock and livestock products for commercial gain.

The production and management of trees as a crop.

The area within the outer lines of the exterior walls of a building at the top of the foundation or basement wall, provided that the floor area of a dwelling shall not include space not usable for living quarters such as attics, utility or unfinished basement rooms, garages, breezeways, and unenclosed porches or terraces.

A structure primarily intended for and used for the enclosed storage or shelter of the private motor vehicles of the families resident upon the premises. Carports are considered garages.

Any garage other than a private garage.

The elevation of the finished street at the center line or curb as fixed by such authority as shall be designated by law to determine such an elevation.

A gainful occupation, conducted by a member of the family, within his or her place of residence, where the space used is incidental to residential use and no article is sold or offered for sale except such as is produced by such home occupation.

A home occupation that may involve persons other than the resident family, and such occupation may be carried on other than within the confines of the home. An expanded home occupation shall not have more than five persons other than family members working at the site.

A business which employs six or more persons in the manufacture of products and/or processes produced for resale.

A parcel or tract of land described in a recorded plat or by deed and abutting on a public street.

Includes travel trailers, pickup campers or coaches, motorized dwellings, tent trailers, boat and boat trailers, snowmobiles and snowmobile trailers, and the like.

A unit capable of long-term occupancy which does not require substantial on-site fabrication and which is, or was as originally constructed, designed to be transported by any motor vehicle upon a public highway and designed, equipped, and used primarily for sleeping, eating, and living quarters, or is intended to be so used, and which can be moved on its own axle and wheels or by similar means to a site, parcel, or lot and, for the purpose of this chapter, is at least 32 feet long.

Any tract of land upon which three or more mobile homes are located for temporary or permanent habitation.

A dwelling on one lot containing separate living quarters for three or more families.[2]

An area containing one or more permanent buildings used periodically for the accommodation of members of associations or groups for recreational purposes.

A farm building used or intended to be used solely by the owner or tenant of the farm on which such building is located for the sale of farm products raised on said farm.

Any structure or natural object or part thereof or device attached thereto or printed or represented thereon which is intended to attract attention to any object, product, place, activity, person, institution, organization, or business or which shall display or include any letter, word, model, banner, flag, pennant, insignia, device, or representation used as or which is in the nature of an announcement, direction, or advertisement.

That part of a building included between the surface of a floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or, if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. A basement or cellar having 1/2 or more of its height above grade shall be deemed a story for purposes of height regulations.

Anything constructed or erected.

A structure placed on or in the ground or attached to another structure in a fixed position and intended to remain in place for a period of more than nine months. This includes motor homes and trailers.

Management of forested lands to provide annual or periodic crops or forest products.

A building in which lodging, with or without meals, is offered to transient guests for compensation, provided that there are no more than five sleeping rooms for such purpose and no cooking facilities are provided in the individual rooms or apartments.[3]

A use customarily incidental to the principal use and on the same lot as the principal use.

The primary use of a property or structure.

That point on the bank or shore up to which the presence and action of the water are so continuous as to leave a distinct mark, either by erosion, destruction of terrestrial vegetation, or other easily recognized characteristics.

An area periodically used for recreational purposes and containing one or more permanent buildings used to accommodate primarily youth members of associations or groups.