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17-5 <br /> to occur on a particular lake, river or stream once inconsistent with dimensional standards (not uses) <br /> in every 100 years. contained in the floodplain zoning ordinance. <br /> (49) STRUCTURE: Any manmade object with • (53) WATERSHED: The entire region or area <br /> form, shape and utility, either permanently or contributing runoff or surface water to a particular <br /> temporarily attached to, placed upon or set into the watercourse or body of water. <br /> ground, stream bed or lake bed, including, but not (54) WATER SURFACE PROFILE: A graphical <br /> limited to, roofed and walled buildings, gas or representation showing the elevation of the water <br /> • liquid storage tanks, bridges, dams and culverts. , surface of a watercourse for each position along a <br /> (50) SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT: Any reach of river or stream at a certain flood flow. A <br /> structural repair, reconstruction, or improvement of water surface profile of the regional flood is used in <br /> a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds regulating floodplain areas. <br /> fifty percent (50%) of the present equalized (55) WELL: An excavation opening in the ground <br /> assessed value of the structure either before the made by digging, boring, drilling, driving or other <br /> improvement or repair is started, or if the structure methods, to obtain groundwater regardless of its <br /> has been damaged, and is being restored, before intended use. <br /> the damage occurred. The term does not, • <br /> however, include any of the following: [17.06- 17.09 reserved for future use.] <br /> (a) Any project for improvement of a structure <br /> to comply with existing state or local health, SUBCHAPTER <br /> sanitary, or safety 'code specifications which GENERAL PROVISIONS <br /> existed before the improvement began, was <br /> identified by a county official and which is 17.10 AREAS TO BE REGULATED. Areas <br /> necessary to assure safe living condition; regulated by this ordinance include all areas within <br /> (b) Any alteration of a designated historic the limits of the county that would be covered by <br /> structure' or site documented as deserving the regional flood and include floodplain islands <br /> preservation by the Wisconsin State Historical designated on the official map where emergency <br /> Society, or listed on the National Register of rescue and relief routes would be inundated by the <br /> Historic Places provided the alteration will not regional flood. <br /> preclude the structure's continued designation as 17.11 OFFICIAL MAP. (intro.) The boundaries of <br /> an historic structure;e the floodplain districts, including the floodway, <br /> (c) Ordinary maintenance repairs are not floodfringe, and other floodplain districts, are those <br /> considered structural repairs, modifications or areas designated as floodplains or A-Zones on the <br /> additions. Such ordinary maintenance repairs maps listed below and the revisions in the Dane <br /> include internal and external painting, decorating, County Floodplain Appendix at the end of this <br /> paneling, and the replac6ment of doors, windows, ordinance. These official maps and revisions are <br /> and other nonstructural components. "Substantial on file in the office of the Zoning Administrator, <br /> improvement" begins when the first alteration of Dane County. If more than one map or revision is <br /> any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of referenced, the most current approved information <br /> the building commences, whether or not that shall apply. <br /> alteration affects the external dimensions of the (1) Flood insurance Rate Maps (FIRM), panel <br /> structure. numbers 0050A, 0100A, 0300A, 0325A, 0375A, <br /> (51) UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP: Where special 0400A, 425A, 0475A, 0500A, dated September <br /> conditions affecting a particular property, which 28, 1978; panel numbers 0025C, 0075C, 0150C, <br /> were not self-created, have made strict conformity 0175C, 0200C, 0275C, dated August 19, 1987; <br /> with restrictions governing areas, setbacks, panel numbers 0350B, 0450B, dated June 16, <br /> frontage, height or density unnecessarily 1993. Annotated FIRM Maps, panel numbers <br /> burdensome or unreasonable in light of the 0125, 0225, 0250, dated January 24, 1990. <br /> purposes of the ordinance. (2) Floodway Maps, panel numbers 0025, 0075, <br /> (52) VARIANCE: An authorization by the board 0150, 0175, 0200, dated Augsut 19, 1987. <br /> of adjustment for the construction or maintenance Annotated floodway maps, panel numbers 0125, <br /> of a building or structure in a manner which is 0225, 0250, dated Janaury 24, 1990. <br /> See s. 17.05 (33) for the definition of historic structure. <br /> 8 Annotation: As set forth in rev. federal rule, Oct. 1990. <br /> _; Unofficial Text Dane County Code of Ordinances <br /> rev. 043095 <br />