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uses. The Dane County Zoning Ordinance goes further, however, <br />by requiring mineral extraction operations to be registered <br />with the Dane County Zoning Administrator. The Dane County <br />Zoning Ordinance also recognizes the intermittent nature of <br />mineral extraction operations where actual use is dependent <br />upon many factors, including the proximity of the mineral <br />extraction operations site to construction projects and the <br />level of construction activity generally. As intermittent <br />uses, mineral extraction operations are allowed to continue if <br />registered, without regard to whether they are in fact <br />actively worked. <br />Armed with this knowledge of the industry, the Dane <br />County Board of Supervisors created an ordinance which did two <br />things: made future mineral extraction operations conditional <br />uses and gave to existing operations a variation of <br />nonconforming status, allowing these to continue without <br />active use provided they were registered with the Dane County <br />Zoning Administrator. Given -,the intermittent nature of these <br />operations, this special status obviously has a rational <br />basis. <br />C. The Special Treatment Afforded Mineral Extraction <br />Operations by the Dane County Zoning Ordinance is <br />Consistent With the Zoning Laws of This State. <br />Relators -Plaintiffs, as the parties attacking the <br />validity of this ordinance, have the burden of showing its <br />invalidity. <br />"It is a basic maxim of statutory construction that <br />ordinances, like statutes, enjoy a presumption of <br />validity." State ex. rel. Grand Bazaar v. Milwaukee, <br />105 Wis. 2d 203, 208 (1982). <br />and <br />"...the party challenging an ordinance bears the <br />frequently insurmountable task of demonstrating beyond <br />