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13.01 -END CHAPTER 13 minimum standards program throughout the MINIMUM STANDARDS county along with procedures established to FOR WATER QUALITY achieve this program's purposes and goals. (3) The commission and its staff shall act 13.01 Purpose. pursuant to the authority provided in ss. 33.445 13.02 Authority. and 33.45, Wis. Stats., and s. 15.265, Dane Co. 13.03 Short Title. Ords. 13.04 Definitions. 13.05 Administration. 13.06 APPLICABILITY. (1) Each Dane County 13.06 Applicability. city and village is directed to adopt or amend its [13.07- 13.10 reserved.] municipal ordinances to contain at minimum 13.11 Wetland Zoning; Minimum Standards. those water quality standards specified in this [13.12- 13.99 reserved.] chapter, to be consistent with the minimum standards now in effect throughout all of Dane County. 13.01 PURPOSE. This chapter serves the (2) These minimum standards shall apply to purpose to protect public health, safety and any city or village partially or totally within the welfare to protect and rehabilitate the water county, consistent with s. 33.455(3)(b), Wis. quality of the surface waters and groundwaters Stats. of Dane County by establishing county minimum standards to also be implemented by cities and [13.07- 13.10 reserved.] villages enactment of regulations and ordinances to achieve water-related environmental control of 13.11 WETLAND ZONING; MINIMUM land surfaces to be applicable throughout all of STANDARDS. (1) County wetlands shall Dane County, and maintenance requirements for hereafter include all officially designated, property owned, administered or maintained by a mapped wetlands located in Dane County of two municipality, including public ways and or more acres in size and shall be controlled, shorelands. managed, preserved and regulated accordingly. All cities and villages partially or totally located 13.02 AUTHORITY. This chapter is enacted within Dane County shall enforce their zoning pursuant to the authority of s. 33.455,Wis. Stats. ordinances consistent with this two or more acre minimum standard for wetlands located within • 13.03 SHORT TITLE. This chapter shall be the county. known as and may be cited as the Dane County (2) Each city and village located partially or Lakes and Watershed Minimum Standards totally within the county is directed to zone by Ordinance. ordinance or regulation all unfilled wetlands, as per ss. 62.231 and 61.351, and that zoning shall 13.04 DEFINITIONS. (1) Board shall mean the include all wetlands two or more acres in size Dane County Board of Supervisors. . which are shown on the final wetland inventory (2) Commission shall mean the Dane County maps prepared by the Department for the city or Lakes and Watershed Commission. village under s.23.32, Wis. Stats. (3) County shall mean the County of Dane. (3) This ordinance shall not be construed or (4) Department shall mean the Wisconsin administered to limit or prohibit federally Department of Natural Resources. approved wetlands mitigation projects imple- mented pursuant to applicable federal and state 13.05 ADMINISTRATION. (1) The commission requirements. shall perform general advisory functions includ- [This standard would extend zoning to include ing proposals for minimum standards to be wetlands not required to be zoned under current implemented and enforced on a countywide state law, i.e., wetlands between two and five basis in accordance to objectives provided in this acres and all non-shoreland wetlands.] ordinance and may periodically make recom- mendations to the board consistent with these [13.12- 13.99 reserved.] objectives. (2) Commission staff will exercise, as [History: Ch.13 cr.,Sub.1 to OA 20,1993-94,pub.09/30/94.] necessary, day to day supervision of this Page 13-1 rev. 073102