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11-4 pond, lake or similar waterway which is within 11.06 SHORELAND-WETLAND AND 300 feet of the ordinary high-water mark of a INLAND-WETLAND DISTRICTS. (1) Purpose: navigable body of water or where the purpose is This ordinance is adopted to maintain safe and the ultimate connection with a navigable body of healthful conditions, to prevent water pollution, to water. protect fish spawning grounds and wildlife habitat, (f) Any deposition of dredged spoils in areas to preserve shore cover and natural beauty, to described as per(a) through (d) above. conserve inland wetland areas occurring (4) Permit conditions: In considering a special throughout the unincorporated areas of Dane exception permit the board of adjustment shall County, and to control building and development evaluate the effect of the proposal as to possible in wetlands whenever possible. When water pollution, including erosion and development is permitted in a wetland, the sedimentation, harmful changes to fish life or development should occur in a manner consistent aquatic plants, maintenance of safe and healthful with state and federal law that minimizes adverse conditions: impacts upon the wetland. (a) In granting a special exception permit, the (2) Designation: (a) The shoreland-wetland board of adjustment shall attach the following district shall include all shorelands which are conditions where appropriate: designated as wetlands of two acres or more in 1. The smallest amount of bare ground shall be area on the Wisconsin Wetland Inventory Maps of exposed for as short a time as feasible. 1986 (or subsequent appropriate year) applicable 2. Temporary ,ground cover (such as mulch) to Dane County. shall be used and permanent cover(seeding or sod) (b) The inland-wetland district shall include all shall be planted. non-shoreland wetlands, as shown on the 3. _ Diversion, silting basin, terraces and other Wisconsin Wetland Inventory Maps, which are two methods shall be used to trap sediment. acres or more in area and located in the 4. Lagooning shall be conducted in such a unincorporated territory of Dane County. manner as to avoid creation of fish trap conditions. (c) The Wisconsin Wetland Inventory Maps are 5. Fill shall be stabilized according to accepted incorporated herein by reference and are on file in engineering standards. the office of - the Dane County Zoning 6. Fill shall not restrict a floodway or destroy Administrator. Wetlands that extend across the the storage capacity of a flood plain. corporate limits of an adjacent municipality or 7. Sides of a channel or artificial water course across the shoreland boundary shall be included in shall be stabilized to prevent slumping. the appropriate wetland district if the total 8. Sides of channels or artificial watercourses contiguous wetland area is two acres or more in shall be constructed with slopes (side) of 2 units area. horizontal distance to one unit vertical or flatter, (4) Discrepancies: When an apparent discrepancy unless bulkheads or rip-rapping are provided. exists between the shoreland-wetland district 9. Other specifications found in the USDA—SCS shown on the official wetlands inventory maps and Technical Guide may be required by the board of actual field conditions at the time the maps were adjustment. adopted, involving an area of five acres or more in (5) Department of Natural Resources: (a) size, the zoning administrator shall contact the Written notice shall be given to the appropriate appropriate field office of the Department to district office of the department of natural determine if the shoreland-wetland district as resources at least 10 days prior to hearing on mapped is in error. If the department staff concur proposed shoreland variances, special exceptions with the zoning administrator that a particular area (conditional uses), appeals for map or text of five acres or more in size was incorrectly interpretations, and map or text amendments. mapped as a wetland, the zoning administrator (b) Copies of decisions on shoreland variances, shall have the authority to immediately grant or special exceptions (conditional uses), appeals for deny a land use permit in accordance with the map or text interpretations, and map or text a regulations applicable to the correct zoning district. amendments shall be submitted to the appropriate (5) In order to correct wetland mapping errors district office of the department of natural„ shown on the official zoning map, the zoning resources within 10 days after they are granted or administrator shall initiate a shoreland-wetland or denied. inland-wetland map amendment within a reasonable period of time. Unofficial Text Dane County Code of Ordinances rev. 043095