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jChapter 17 <br /> r- ground, stream bed or lake bed, including, but not (53) WATERSHED: The entire region or area <br /> limited to,roofed and walled buildings, gas or liquid contributing runoff or surface water to a particular <br /> storage tanks,bridges,dams and culverts. , watercourse or body of water. <br /> (50) SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT: Any (54) WATER SURFACE PROFILE: A graphical <br /> structural repair, reconstruction, or improvement of representation showing the elevation of the water <br /> 1 a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty surface of a watercourse for each position along a <br /> percent (50%) of the present equalized assessed reach of river or stream at a certain flood flow. A <br /> r value of the structure either before the improvement water surface profile of the regional flood is used in <br /> or repair is started, or if the structure has been regulating floodplain areas. <br /> damaged, and is being restored, before the damage (55) WELL: An excavation opening in the ground <br /> _, occurred. The term does not, however, include any made by digging, boring, drilling, driving or other <br /> of the following: methods, to obtain groundwater regardless of its <br /> { = (a) Any project for improvement of a intended use. <br /> structure to comply with existing state or local <br /> `. health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which [17.06-17.09 reserved for future use.] <br /> existed before the improvement began,was identified <br /> by a county official and which is necessary to assure SUBCHAPTER I <br /> ,- safe living condition; GENERAL PROVISIONS <br /> (b) Any alteration of a designated historic <br /> structure' or site documented as deserving 17.10 AREAS TO BE REGULATED. Areas <br /> _ preservation by the Wisconsin State Historical regulated by this ordinance include all areas within <br /> Society,or listed on the National Register of Historic the limits of the county that would be covered by the <br /> Places provided the alteration will not preclude the regional flood and include floodplain islands <br /> structure's continued designation as an historic designated on the official map where emergency <br /> - structure;8 rescue and relief routes would be inundated by the <br /> (c) Ordinary maintenance repairs are not regional flood. <br /> considered structural repairs, modifications or 17.11 OFFICIAL MAP. (intro.) The boundaries <br /> __ additions. Such ordinary maintenance repairs of the floodplain districts, including the floodway, <br /> include internal and external painting, decorating, floodfringe, and other floodplain districts, are those <br /> paneling, and the replacement of doors, windows, areas designated as floodplains or A-Zones on the <br /> and other nonstructural components. "Substantial maps listed below and the revisions in the Dane <br /> improvement"begins when the first alteration of any County Floodplain Appendix at the end of this <br /> wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of the ordinance. These official maps and revisions are on <br /> building commences, whether or not that alteration file in the office of the Zoning Administrator, Dane <br /> affects the external dimensions of the structure. County. If more than one map or revision is <br /> 1 (51) UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP: Where special referenced, the most current approved information <br /> conditions affecting a particular property, which shall apply. <br /> were not self-created, have made strict conformity (1) Flood insurance Rate Maps (FIRM), panel <br /> r with restrictions governing areas, setbacks,frontage, numbers 0050A, O100A, 0300A, 0325A, 0375A, <br /> - height or density unnecessarily burdensome or 0400A, 425A, 0475A, 0500A, dated September 28, <br /> unreasonable in light of the purposes of the 1978;panel numbers 0025C, 0075C, 0150C, 0175C, <br /> ordinance. 0200C, 0275C, dated August 19, 1987; panel <br /> 1 (52) VARIANCE: An authorization by the board of " numbers 0350B, 0450B, dated June 16, 1993. <br /> adjustment for the construction or maintenance of a Annotated FIRM Maps, panel numbers 0125, 0225, <br /> -, building or structure in a manner which is 0250, dated January 24, 1990. Flood Insurance Rate <br /> 1 inconsistent with dimensional standards (not uses) Maps,panels 0125D, 0225B, 0250B, 0327C, 0329C, <br /> contained in the floodplain zoning ordinance. 0331c, 0350C, 0450C, 0500 dated March 10, 1995 <br /> and corresponding flood profiles published in the <br /> i t Dane County Flood Insurance Study, dated March <br /> ` <br /> t 10, 1995. <br /> "see s. 17.05(33) for the definition of historic (2) Floodway Maps, panel numbers 0025, 0075, <br /> structure. 0150, 0175, 0200, dated Augsut 19, 1987. <br /> Annotated floodway maps, panel numbers 0125, <br /> 8Annotation: As set forth in rev. federal rule, 0225,0250,dated Janaury 24, 1990. <br /> Oct.iggo. <br /> Page 77 <br /> i' <br />