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Chapter 17 adversely affect the public health, safety, which it is related, and which is located on the same convenience, general welfare, and impair the tax lot as that of the principal structure or use. base. (3) BASEMENT: Any enclosed area of a building having its floor subgrade, i.e., below ground level, 17.03 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE. To regulate on all sides.2 development in flood hazard areas to protect life, (4) BUILDING: See STRUCTURE. 1 health and property the county board declares the (5) [reserved for future use.] purpose of these rules to be to (6) CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE: A (1) Protect life, health and property; certification issued by the zoning administrator (2) Minimize expenditures of public monies for stating that the construction and the use of land or a costly flood control projects; building, the elevation of fill or the lowest floor of a (3) Minimize rescue and relief efforts, generally structure is in compliance with all of the provisions undertaken at the expense of the tax paying public; of this ordinance. (4) Minimize business interruptions which (7) CHANNEL: A natural or artificial usually result in the loss of local incomes; watercourse with definite bed and banks to confine (5) Minimize damage to public facilities on the and conduct normal flow of water. floodplains such as water mains, sewer lines, streets (7m) COMV1ITTEE: The Zoning and Natural and bridges; Resources Committee of the County Board of (6) Minimize the occurrence of future flood Supervisors of the County of Dane. blight areas on floodplains; (7n) COUNTY:The County of Dane. (7) Discourage the victimization of unwary land (8) CRAWLWAYS or CRAWL SPACE: An and home buyers;and enclosed area below the first usable floor of a (8) Prevent increases in regional flood heights building, generally less than five (5) feet in height, that could increase flood damage and may result in used for limited access to plumbing and electrical conflicts or litigation between property owners. utilities.3 (9) DEPARTMENT: The Wisconsin Department 17.04 TITLE. This ordinance shall be known as of Natural Resources. the Floodplain Zoning Ordinance for Dane County, (10) DEVELOPMENT: Any artificial change to Wisconsin. improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, the construction of buildings, 17.05 DEFINITIONS. (intro.) Unless specifically structures or accessory structures;the construction of defined below, words and phrases used in this additions or substantial improvements to buildings, ordinance shall have the same meaning as they have structures or accessory structures; the placement of at common law and to give this ordinance its most buildings or structures; mining, dredging, filling, reasonable application. Words used in the present grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations; tense include the future, the singular number and the storage, deposition or extraction of includes the plural and the plural number includes materials, public or private sewage disposal systems the singular. The word "may" is permissive, "shall" or water supply facilities. - is mandatory and not discretionary. (11) DRYLAND ACCESS: A vehicular access (1) A ZONES: Those areas shown on the Official route which is above the regional flood elevation and Floodplain Zoning Map which would be inundated which connects land located in the floodplain to land by the regional flood.' These areas may be outside the floodplain, such as a road with its surface numbered or unnumbered A Zones. The A Zones above regional flood elevation and wide enough for may or may not be reflective of flood profiles, wheeled rescue and relief vehicles. depending on the availability of data for a given (12) ENCROACHMENT: Any fill, structure, area. building,use or development in the floodway. (2) ACCESSORY STRUCTURE or USE: A (13) EXISTING MOBILE HOME PARK OR ' detached subordinate structure or a use which is SUBDIVISION: A parcel or contiguous parcels of clearly incidental to and customarily found in land divided into two or more mobile home lots for connection with the principal structure or use to rent or sale on which the construction of facilities for 1The term Official Floodplain Zoning Map is ZAnnotation: July 1991. defined in s. 17.05(42). The term regional flood is defined in 8.17.05(48). 3Annotation: July 1991. Page 74