Dane County Code of Ordinances (2)

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10 - 37 writing that he or she has made diligent inquiry (d) The Zoning Committee shall use plans and of the applicability of any official map to the maps developed by individual towns and approved applicant's lands; that no such official map is by the County Board as criteria for zoning applicable, or if such map is applicable, the recommendations to the County Board. approval of the appropriate city or village has (e) In considering land use issues for areas been obtained; that the applicant understands adjacent to local municipalities, notice shall be the possible adverse consequences of erecting a sent by certified mail to the affected municipality structure within an officially mapped area or municipalities. The notice shall include the without the proper approval of the city or village location, description of use, requested zoning or involved; and that the applicant has not relied permit and the date, time and place of the county upon any statements of county employees in public hearing. The notice shall state that it shall giving such written assurances. be incumbent upon the affected municipality to _ • (c) If an applicant seeks a zoning permit for inform the county zoning agency of any concerns, lands located within an official mapped area, a potential problems or questions relative to the zoning permit may be issued only after a permit impact of the proposed use on a wellhead from the appropriate city or village has been protection area. issued under section 62.23(6)(d) of the (2) Conditional Uses. (a) Statement of Wisconsin Statutes. Purposes. The development and execution of this (d) Any zoning permit issued under this ordinance is based upon the division of the county • chapter shall be void if applicable to lands into districts, within which districts the use of land located within an officially mapped area for and buildings, and bulk and location of buildings which the applicant has not obtained the proper and structures in relation to the land are mutually permit from the appropriate city or village. In the compatible, and substantially uniform. However, event of an error in any application or any there are certain uses which, because of their misstatement in any application, the zoning unique characteristics, cannot be properly administrator shall issue stop work orders if the classified as unrestricted permitted uses in any • administrator.discovers any official map to be particular district or districts, without applicable to the lands in question. consideration, in each case, of the impact of those [ History: 10.25(5)(a) am., Sub. 2 to O.A. 12, uses upon neighboring land or public facilities, and 1989-90, pub. 11/13/89.] of the public need for the particular use at a particular location. Such uses, nevertheless, may 10.255 ZONING COMMITTEE. (1) Duties. (a) be necessary or desirable to be allowed in a The Zoning Committee shall be created and particular district provided that due consideration constituted by the County Board and have the is given to location, development, and operation of duties as prescribed by subsection (b) hereof. such uses. Such uses are classified as conditional (b) It shall be the duty of the Zoning uses and are uses entirely private in character, but Committee to supervise the administration of the of such an unusual nature that their operation may zoning ordinance, to hold hearings on proposed give rise to unique problems with respect to their amendments to this ordinance and to make impact upon neighboring property or public recommendations thereon to the County Board, facilities. The following provisions are then to approve plats for record in accordance with established to regulate those conditional uses the provisions of section 236(10)(b) of the which require special consideration. Statutes; and to perform such other duties in (b) Authority. The zoning committee, after a connection with zoning as may be delegated to it public hearing, shall within a reasonable time, by the County Board. grant or deny any application for conditional use. (c) Effect of denial of a petition to change the Prior to granting or denying a conditional use, the zoning district boundaries: no petition for a committee shall make findings of fact based on change in the zoning district boundaries which evidence presented, that the standards herein has been denied by the Dane County Board of prescribed will either be complied with or not Supervisors shall be resubmitted for a period of complied with. No permit shall be granted when one year from the date of said denial, except on the committee determines that the standards will the grounds of new evidence or proof of change not be met, nor shall a permit be denied when the of conditions found to be valid by the Zoning committee determines that the standards will be Committee. met. rev. 043094 •