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DANE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE <br /> • <br /> BEING CHAPTER 10 OF THE ORDINANCES OF-DANE COUNTY <br /> An ordinance to 'alter, supplement and change the boundaries and regulations contained <br /> in that certain ordinance adopted by the Dane County Board of Supervisors on July 20, <br /> 1938, as amended to and including October 25, 1949 which said ordinance is entitled <br /> "A zoning ordinance enacted pursuant to the provisions of Sections 59.97 and 59.99 of <br /> the. statutes and providing _penalties for the violation of its-provisions". <br /> The Dane County Board of' Supervisors does ordain as follows: <br /> Section 1. That certain ordinance adopted. by the County Board of Supervisors of Dane <br /> County of July 20, 1938, as amended, the title to which is recited in the title to this <br /> ordinance, shall hereafter be known and numbered as Chapter 10,. Dane County Ordinances; <br /> and as so entitled and numbered said title is amended to read as follows: <br /> An ordinance, to be'known .as Chapter 10, Dane County Ordinances, regulating, restricting <br /> and determining the location of trades and industries, the location, height, bulk, <br /> number of stories, and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot <br /> which may be occupied, the size. of yards and other open spaces, the density of. popu <br /> lation, the location of buildings designed for specific uses; the areas along natural <br /> water courses, streams and creeks in which trades and industries and the location of <br /> buildings for specific uses may be prohibited; establishing setback lines;' and est- <br /> ablishing districts Of such number, shape and area deemed best suited to carry out the <br /> purposes of this ordinance as it appes to lands outside the limits of incorporated_ <br /> cities and villages in Dane County; and providing penalties, pursuant to the author- <br /> ization of Section 59.97 and 59.99, Wisconsin' Statutes. <br /> Section 2. Section 1 of the ordinance of July 20, 1938, the title to which is recited <br /> in the title to this ordinance, is renumbered to be Section 10.01, Dane County Ordi <br /> nances, 'as so renumbered is amended to read: • <br /> 10.01 DEFINITIONS: For the purposes of this ordinance certain terms used herein are. de- <br /> fined as follows: any words not defined herein shall be construed as defined in the <br /> Wisconsin Building Code: <br /> (1) Accessory Building: A subordinate or supplemental building, the use of which is in- <br /> cidental to that of. the main building on the same lot:or the use of the premises on <br /> which it .is located. . <br /> (2) ' Accessory Use: A use customarily 'incident and accessory to the' principal. use..of a_ • <br /> lot or parcel, or building or structure on the same lot or parcel as the principal use. <br /> (3) Apartment House: A building containing accomodations for more than two families <br /> living_ independently of each other. <br /> (4) Apartment House Complex: A group. of apartment houses,, located on a single parcel of <br /> land with certain facilities, such as ,driveways, parking spaces and the like, common to <br /> the buildings in the complex. Apartment house complexes comprised of one hundred or <br /> more units may include a restaurant, grocery store, drug store, personal service shop <br /> and the like for the convenience of residents -in the complex. <br /> (5) Bearings: For the purpose of property descriptions in this ordinance, when the -. <br /> bearings north, South, East and west are used, they shall be construed as relative 'or <br /> approximate,, and construed as following section lines, quarter section lines, quarter <br /> quarter section lines, or lines parallel. to or at right. angles to such lines, or follow- <br /> ing mapped property lines or highway' lines running approximately in the direction indi- <br /> cated. Where exact bearings ,are, critical or significant to the description the 'exact <br /> bearing will be used. <br /> (6) Block: That property abutting on one side of .a street between the nearest inter- <br /> secting street, railroad right of way-. or other natural barriers; providing, however, <br /> that where a street curves so that any two chords thereof form an angle of one hundred <br /> - 1 - <br /> • <br />