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• <br /> • <br /> ∎,1 Dane County Planning & Development <br /> ' ,i Room 116, City-County Building, Madison, Wisconsin 53709 Land Division Review <br /> 5% - 608/266-9086 <br /> Property Listing <br /> 608/266-4120 <br /> Surveyor <br /> 608/266-4252 <br /> Zoning <br /> 608/266-4266 <br /> July 31, 1997 <br /> Attorney Bruce Kaufmann <br /> Jenswold, Studt, Hanson, & Gennrich <br /> 16 North Carroll Street <br /> Madison, WI. 53709 <br /> RE: Zoning Administrator's interpretation of zoning parcels. <br /> Dear Attorney Kaufmann: <br /> You have requested my interpretation as to whether or not a single parcel of land divided <br /> by a public road, constitutes a single zoning parcel. As you know the position of our <br /> department on this issue over the last twenty years has been that contiguous lands under <br /> common ownership, divided by a public road have been considered as one parcel for <br /> zoning purposes. <br /> The current definition of zoning lot was incorporated into the Dane County Zoning <br /> Ordinance in February of 1981. Section 10.01(36a) provides that a zoning lot is "[a] <br /> parcel of land under single ownership occupied or intended to be occupied by one main <br /> building and buildings and uses customarily accessory or incidental thereto, including such <br /> open spaces as are provided or are intended to be used in connection therewith or are <br /> required by the ordinance. A zoning lot may or may not coincide with a lot of <br /> record."Based upon my review, I conclude this definition was created to deal with issues <br /> pertaining to the farmland preservation tax credit and to allow the owner of lands to <br /> receive tax credits on his or her total holdings. <br /> This interpretation of this definition pertains to the A-1 Exclusive Agricultural lands and <br /> the A-3 Agricultural lands under one ownership where there is at least cne contiguous <br /> area of a minimum of 35 acres and other parcels of any size under the same ownership and <br /> within Dane County are to be included in the zoning lot. Therefore the total holdings, <br /> including parcels under 35 acres can qualify for the tax credit. It was and is the position of <br /> the Department and that of the Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer <br /> Protection that without the interpretation of this definition of zoning lot, parcels of less <br /> than 35 acres (under the same ownership where there is a least one contiguous area of <br /> Zonepar/729/97/jeg <br />