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• G I / moo/ �ke /s/ — Tr nizy j i i SECTION 11.06 SHORELAND-WETLAND DISTRICT: (1) PURPOSE: This ordinance is adopted to maintain safe and healthful conditions, to pre- vent water pollution, to protect fish spawning grounds and wildlife habitat, to pre- serve shore cover and natural beauty and to control building and development in wetlands whenever possible. When development is permitted in a wetland, the development should occur in a manner that minimizes adverse impacts upon the wetland. (2) DESIGNATION: This district shall include all shorelands which are designated as wetlands of five acres or more in area on the Wisconsin Wetland Inventory Maps, stamped "final March 22, 1983", that are hereby adopted and made a part of this ordinance. Said maps are on file in the office of the Dane County Zoning Administrator. Wetlands in a shore- land area that extend across the corporate limits of an adjacent municipality or across the shoreland boundary shall be included if the total contiguous wetland area is five acres or more in area. ION 11.0A USES WHICH ARE A .TLPND DIST UBJECT TO THE ISSU ZONING (LAND USE) PERMIT: (3) The establishment and development of public and private parks and recreation areas, boat access sites, natural and outdoor education a , historic aiscientific areas, wildlife refuges, game preserves and private habitat areas provided that: (a) Any private recreation or wildlife habita . area must be WOOWexclusively for that purpose; (b) No filling is to be done; and ( Ditching, excavating, dredging, dike and dam construe p may done in s, ves and private wildli itat a , bu y for th pr ife habitat or to oth enhanc lan ues. SECTION 11.09 PROHIBITED USES: Any use not listed in Sections 11.07 and 11.08 is prohibited, unless the wetland or a portion of the wetland has been re-zoned by amendment of this Ordinance in accordance with Section 11.10 of this Ordinance. . SECTION 11.10 RE-ZONING OF LANDS IN THE SHORELAND-WETLAND ZONING DISTRICT: (1) Re-zone of a wetland or portion of a wetland shall be by an amendment to this ordinance and the related wetland maps in accordance with the requirements of Section 59.97 (5) (e) , Wisconsin Statutes, Chapter NR 115, Wisconsin Administrative Code and Section 11.10 (2), following.. (2) A wetland, or a portion thereof, in the shoreland-wetland district shall not be re-zoned if the proposed re-zoning may result in a significant adverse impact upon any of the following: (a) Storm and flood water storage capacity; (b) Maintenance of dry season stream flow the discharge of groundwater to a wetland, the recharge of groundwater from a wetland to another area, or the flow of groundwater through a wetland; (c) Filtering or storage of sediments, nutrients, heavy metals or organic compounds that would otherwise drain into navigable waters; (d) Shoreline protection against soil erosion; (e) Fish spawning, breeding, nursery or feeding grounds; (f) Wildlife habitat; or (g) Areas of special recreational, scenic or scientific interest, including scarce wet- land types. (3) For all proposed text and map amendments to the shoreland-wetland district, the appro- priate district office of the Department of Natural Resources •shall be provided with the following: - (a) A copy of every petition for a text or map amendment to the shoreland-wetland dis- trict, within 5 days of the filing of such petition with the County Clerk; (b) Written notice of the public hearing to be held on a proposed amendment, at least 10 days prior to such hearing; (c) A copy of the County Zoning Agency's findings and recommendations on each proposed amendment, within 10 days after the submission of those findings and recommendations to the County Board; and (d) Written notice of the County Board's decision on the proposed amendment, within 10 days after it is issued. (4) If the Department of Natural Resources has notified the County Zoning Agency that a pro- posed amendment to the shoreland-wetland district may have a significant adverse impact upon any of the criteria listed in Section 11.10 (2) of this Ordinance, that amendment, if approved by the County Board, shall contain the following provision: "This amendment shall not take effect until more than 30 days have elapsed since written notice of the County Board's approval of this amendment was mailed to the Department of Natural Resources. During that 30-day period the Department of Natural Resources may notify the County Board that it will adopt a superseding shoreland ordinance for the County under Section 59.971 (6) of the Wisconsin Statutes. If the Department does so notify the County Board, the effect of this amendment shall be stayed until the sec- tion 59.971 (6) adoption procedure is completed or otherwise terminated."