For the purpose of this title, the city is divided into the following zoning districts:

(Ord. No. 1914A, 2-18-2016)

A.

Boundaries of all districts shall be as shown on the map entitled "Zoning Map, City of Whitewater, Wisconsin," which accompanies and is a part of the ordinance codified in this title. The district boundaries in all districts, except the C-1 shoreland wetland district, the C-2 nonshoreland wetland district, FW floodway district, the FWW floodway/wetland district, and the FFO floodplain fringe overlay district, shall be construed to follow: corporate limits; U.S. Public Land Survey lines; lot or property lines; centerlines of streets, highways, alleys, easements, and railroad rights-of-way or such lines extended.

B.

Boundaries of the FW floodway district and boundaries of the FFO floodplain fringe overlay district shall be determined by the floodland limits shown on the map entitled, "Flood Hazard Investigation—Whitewater Creek, Spring Brook-City of Whitewater," dated May 1979, which accompanies and is made a part of the ordinance codified in this title, and are superseded by more current versions of that map. The flood stages, under floodway conditions, contained in the flood hazard investigation map were developed from technical data contained in the "Flood Insurance Study—City of Whitewater, Walworth County, Wisconsin," published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and dated December 1, 1981, and are superseded by more current versions of that map. The information contained in the flood insurance study is further illustrated in FEMA "Floodway and Flood Boundary Map" and "Flood Insurance Rate Map," both maps dated June 1, 1982, and are superseded by more current versions of that map. Where a conflict exists between the floodland limits as shown on the flood hazard investigation map and actual field conditions, the elevations from the one hundred year recurrence interval flood profile shall be the governing factor in locating the regulatory floodland limits.

Boundaries of the C-1 shoreland wetland district, the C-2 nonshoreland wetland district, and the FWW floodway/wetland district are based on the Wisconsin Wetland Inventory Maps for the City of Whitewater, dated July 2, 1987, and stamped "FINAL." The C-1 district includes all shoreland wetlands, five acres or greater in area shown on those maps.

(Ord. No. 1914A, 2-18-2016)

Vacation of public streets and alleys shall cause the land vacated to be automatically placed in the same district as the abutting side to which the vacated land reverts.

(Ord. No. 1914A, 2-18-2016)

A.

Annexations to or consolidations with the city subsequent to June 24, 1982, the effective date of the ordinance codified in this title shall be placed in the AT agricultural transition district, unless the annexation ordinance temporarily places the land in another district. Within one year, the city plan commission shall evaluate and recommend a permanent classification to the common council.

B.

Annexations containing floodlands and shorelands shall be governed in the following manner:

1.

Annexations containing floodlands shall be governed by the provisions of the Walworth County Floodplain Zoning Ordinance until such time that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) certifies that amendments to the city of Whitewater Zoning Ordinance meet the requirements of Chapter NR 116 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.

2.

Annexations Containing Shorelands. Pursuant to Wisconsin Statutes 59.692, any annexation of land after May 7, 1982, which lies within shorelands, as defined in this title, shall be governed by the provisions of the Walworth County Shoreland Zoning Ordinance until such time that the city of Whitewater adopts an ordinance which is at least as restrictive as the Walworth County Shoreland Zoning Ordinance. Said regulations shall be administered and enforced by the city of Whitewater Building Inspector.

(Ord. No. 1914A, 2-18-2016)

A certified copy of the zoning map shall be adopted and approved with the text as part of this title, and shall bear upon its face the attestation of the city manager and city clerk and shall be available to the public in the office of the city clerk. Changes thereafter to the districts shall be entered and attested on this certified copy.

(Ord. No. 1914A, 2-18-2016)